BACKGROUND The main goal of this study was to evaluate the diagnostic efficacy of melanoma-associated antigen (MAGE) A1-6 reverse transcriptase-nested polymerase chain reaction (RT-nested PCR) of bronchial washing fluid for the detection of lung cancer invisible by bronchoscopy. PATIENTS AND METHODS To determine the expression of MAGE A1-6 gene in 75 lung carcinomas diagnosed by conventional ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the value of applying MultiVane to liver T2-weighted imaging (T2WI) compared with conventional T2WIs with emphasis on detection of focal liver lesions. MATERIALS AND METHODS Seventy-eight patients (43 men and 35 women) with 86 hepatic lesions and 20 pancreatico-biliary diseases underwent MRI including T2WIs acquired using breath-hold (BH), respiratory-triggered (RT), and M...

Weed infestation of durum wheat was determined in the systems of conventional tillage(CT), reduced tillage (RT) and herbicide tillage (HT). Cultivations measures performed after theharvest of the previous crop included shallow ploughing (at a depth of 10-12 cm) and pre-winterploughing (25-30 cm) in the CT system; only field cultivation (10-15 cm) in the RT system; andspraying with glyphosate (R...

Koblitz curves have been a nice subject of consideration for both theoretical and practical interests. The window τ -adic algorithm of Solinas (window τNAF) is the most powerful method for computing point multiplication for Koblitz curves. Precomputation plays an important role in improving the performance of point multiplication. In this paper, the concept of optimal pre-computation for window...

BACKGROUND In this study, we evaluated the analytical performance and clinical potential of a one-step multiplex real-time PCR assay for the simultaneous detection of 14 types of respiratory viruses using the AdvanSure RV real-time PCR Kit (LG Life Sciences, Korea). METHODS Three hundred and twenty clinical specimens were tested with the AdvanSure RV real-time PCR Kit and conventional multipl...