AIM To compare the performance characteristics and clinical application of two different technologies for quantifying serum hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA levels. METHODS HCV RNA was quantified by Amplicor HCV Monitor assay (Amplicor) and Quantiplex HCV RNA 2.0 assay (bDNA-2) in 119 sera from 107 HCV infected patients. RESULTS Both assays had similar sensitivity (79.4% for Amplicor; 86.0% for ...

the log damage and value loss were examined by felling and bucking function, species, and damage type, in kheyrud forest in namkhaneh district in the hyrcanian forest of iran. in order to calculate the wood value following tree felling and bucking, 250 trees and 167 logs consisting of beech and hornbeam species were measured. there were five types of damage recorded following the tree felling o...

Personal name recognition is an important part of named entity recognition in Web search query logs. An unsupervised method for Chinese personal name recognition in queries is proposed using search session. Based on seed personal names which are produced automatically by introducing Chinese surnames, a local expansion method is proposed by using search sessions in query logs;and by modeling the...

Activity logs can be used for intrusion detection; however, most previous work on intrusion detection examines only activity logs from a single component. Doing so fails to take advantage of the naturally existing correlations among activities in different types of logs, such as network logs and system call logs. This paper explores correlation for intrusion detection. Specifically, we propose ...

The quality of grey alder logs (Alnus incana) was studied by sawing sample logs from two different forests in November 1995–February 1996. For grading of grey alder logs and sawn timber the proposed system of Keinänen and Tahvanainen (1995) plus the reject -grade was used. In general, grey alder logs have knots from the base to the top. All types of knots appear, and the length of the knot-free...

Wood cockroaches (Blattaria: Blattellidae) are important prey of the red-cockaded woodpecker, Picoides borealis Wilson (Piciformes: Picidae), an endangered species inhabiting pine (Pinus spp.) forests in the southern United States. These woodpeckers forage on the boles of live pine trees, but their prey consists of a high proportion ofwood cockroaches, Parcoblatta spp., that aremore commonly as...