Historically, the term "slow virus infections" was coined for a poorly defined group of seemingly viral diseases which were later found to be caused by several quite different conventional viruses, also unconventional infectious agents. They...

Virology is the discipline of microbiology that is concerned with the study of viruses. Viruses are essentially nonliving repositories of nucleic acid that require the presence of a living prokaryotic or eukaryotic cell for the replication of the...

Latent viruses are those viruses that can incorporate their genetic material into the genetic material of the infected host cell. Because the viral genetic material can then be replicated along with the host material, the virus becomes effectively...

Virus classification involves naming and placing viruses into a taxonomic system. Like the relatively consistent classification systems seen for cellular organisms, virus classification is the subject of ongoing debate and proposals. This is largely due...

Biological and language factors should be considered to improve the performance of speech processing systems I just completed a paper for the book Speaker Classification, edited by Christian Millier and Suzanne Schotz, in which I describe ways that speaker identification and verification (SIV)...

Richard O. Duda, Peter E. Hart and David G. Stork, Pattern Classification, 2nd edn, Wiley, 2001, 654 pp., £78.95. This book not only describes pattern classification methods, but also includes new and recently developed techniques. There are nine main chapters and an appendix....