Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis, the infectious agent of caseous lymphadenitis (CLA), is responsible for substantial economic losses in goat and sheep production. Molecular characterization of C. pseudotuberculosis isolates by enterobacterial repetitive intergenic consensus (ERIC)-PCR has shown promising results in genotyping strains isolated from sheep with CLA. We evaluated the geneti...

American foulbrood is the most destructive honeybee bacterial disease. The etiological agent, Paenibacillus larvae, has been classified into four genotypes by a repetitive-element PCR (ERIC I-IV) and 21 sequence types by multilocus sequence typing (ST1-21). In this study, we genotyped Japanese P. larvae isolates for the first time and revealed the presence of three genotypes (ERIC I-ST2, ERIC I...

Biographical note: Eric Pardede received the Master of Information Technology degree and PhD degree in Computer Science from La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, in 2002 and 2006, respectively. He is currently a Lecturer with the Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, La Trobe University. He has published more than 50 research articles in books, journals and conference p...

In this book Dr. Miho Iwakuma, who has the perspective of a person who navigates the world from a wheelchair, introduces the reader to the world of people with disabilities (PWDs) generally and more specifically in Japan. The populations of the countries with the wealthiest economies are aging. This is an unprecedented event in human history, certainly in modern history. Countries such as Germa...

The good ship ‘ICAME’ is sailing on. Not only are the proceedings of the annual conferences usually published; but there have recently also been a number of festschrifts and other collections devoted to corpus linguistics in general and work by ICAME regulars in particular. So the body of literature which the present volume − essentially the proceedings of the twelfth ICAME conference staged at...

Title:Influence of early goal-directed therapy using arterial waveform analysis on major complications after high-risk, abdominal surgery: study protocol for a multi-center, randomized controlled, superiority trial.

also argued that politicians should do more to counter the danger posed by climate change “ravaging” the biosphere. He called for massive investment in technological solutions such as biofuels. “They deserve a priority and commitment from government akin to that accorded to the Manhattan project to build the first atom bomb or the Apollo moon landing project in the 60s.” Also at the festival, f...