Black has represented hardships as well as strength for overcoming those hardships, and gold is for the sun shining on Jamaica. History of the Jamaican Flag. After gaining independence from the British West Indies in 1962, Jamaica launched a national competition to find the design for their new national flag. Of many designs submitted, the gold saltire, or X, beat out various striped flags in the same color scheme.
Detective quantum efficiency. The detective quantum efficiency (often abbreviated as DQE) is a measure of the combined effects of the signal (related to image contrast) and noise performance of an imaging system, generally expressed as a function of spatial frequency.
Concordant normal specimens usually had zero bands by IEF but 1 band by agarose. The concordant positive specimens had an average of 11 bands by IEF and 2 bands on agarose. Among 19 cases of definite multiple sclerosis (MS), the IEF oligoclonal band (OCB) assay had a sensitivity of 95%, the agarose assay had a sensitivity of 63%, and the CSF index had a sensitivity of 74%.