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... on 'Bill Inside Sport 8 Pages of Jobs OiA resolving student complaints Citi the project professionals Sun ...
2003 - Gale Group | TDA
... With Perón's approval, this Organización Israelita Argentina (OIA) sought to intercede with the state on matters ... the IJA rejected both the DAIA and the OIA and instead encouraged the Jewish community to align ... studies have considered the significance of the Peronist OIA and its efforts to politicize the Jewish community, ... this perspective by interpreting the actions of the OIA as just one of several competing Jewish responses ... the rise of competing political discourses among the OIA and the IJA.At the same time, conditions ...
Tópico(s): Hispanic-African Historical Relations
2006 - Duke University Press | Hispanic American Historical Review
IEEE Xplore
Andrew Robson, Phil Yates, Rosemary Righter, Raymond Snoddy Media Editor, David Frost (Professor), Andrew Pierce, DJM, Zahid Hussain, Tom Dyckhoff, Gary Duncan, Lesley Russell, Mark Souster, Linda Tsang, Michael Elliott, Ivo Tennant, Philip Howard, David Chater, Robert Hinde (Chairman), Suna Erdem, Sarah Vive, Nic Hopkins, Clive Davis, Elizabeth Judge, Gabrielle Starkey, Carl Mortished, James Hider, Roger Maynard, Jeremy Whittle, Rosemary Bennett and Jill Sherman, Geoff Brown, Sam Lister, Chritopher Martin-Jenkins Chief Cricket Correspondent, Valerie Elliott Countryside Editor, David McVay, Stephen Ward, Patience Wheatcroft Business Editor's Commentary, Donald Hutera, Stewart Tendler Crime Correspondent, Jennai Cox Fitness Editor, Gordon Wasserman (Head, Police), Jack Malvern, Tom Bawden, Erica Wagner Literary Editor, Steve Bird, Debra Craine, Anthony Browne, Gary Jacob, Jill Dupleix, Tim Reid, Angela Jameson Industrial Correspondent, Libby Purves, Phoebe Greenwood, Alan Hamilton, James Delingpole, Ron Lewis, Stephen King's, Matt Dickinson Chief Football Correspondent, Bronwen Maddox Foreign Editor's Briefing, Alan Read (Professor), Nicholas Wapshott, Patience Wheatcroft Business Editor, Hugo Rifkind, Angela Jameson, Luke Clancy, Sir Clive Woodward, Russell Kempson, David Rowan, Edward Fennell, Stuart Andrews, Oliver Kay, Christian Wolmar, Stephanie Wienrich (Director), Lisa Armstrong, Rick Broadbent, Tom Baldwin, Stephen Burgen, Sam Coates, John Hopkins, Ann Treneman, Steuart & Francis, John Hopkins Golf Correspondent, Rob Wright, Celia Brayfield, Neil Harman Tennis Correspondent, David Powell Athletics Correspondent, Dan Sabbagh Telecoms Correspondent, Raymond Keene, Adam Sage, Chris Willig, Sean MacAulay, Christine Buckley Industrial Editor, Rosemary Bennett Deputy Political Editor, Nigel Hawkes, Chris Campling, Russell Hotten, Chris Ayres and Oliver Wright, Joseph Rotblat (President), Richard Owen, Christopher Martin-Jenkins Chief Cricket Correspondent, Damian Whitworth, Roger Boyes, Oliver August, Nick Hasell, Grania Langdon-Down, Lord Kingsland, Carolyn Asome, David Hands Rugby Correspondent, Tom Dart, Glen Owen, Elizabeth Haggis, John Goodbody, Ruth Glehill, Danny Lee, Christopher Walker, Gilbert Murray, Shirley English and Jack Malvern, Graham Searjeant Financial Editor, George Caulkin, Russell Jenkins, Ingrid Mansell, Alan Lee, Peter Riddell, Sarah Ebner, Michael Gove, David Buckman, Ian Whittell, Lewis Stuart, Mark Henderson, Martin Waller, Chris Ayres, Carl Mortished International Business Editor, Nigel Hawkes Health Editor, Sarah Butler, Keith J. Sutton, Stephen Dalton, Leo Lewis, Cherry Potter, Bill Edgar, John Baker, Chairman, Abigail Rayner, Michael Evans, Alan Lee Racing Correspondent, David Burrows, Richard Ford, Peter Klinger, Christopher Irvine,
... Public Sector Health Sail Training International PKF NHS OIA RF employment and training Egon Zehnder International Merton ...
2004 - Gale Group | TDA
Elias N. Ezike, Chokechai Rongkavilit, Marilynn R. Fairfax, Ronald Thomas, Basim I. Asmar,
... of group A streptococcus by the STREP A OIA MAX (hereafter, OIA MAX) test. Methods Children aged 5 to 18 ... on sheep blood agar, and then used for OIA MAX testing. In group 2, two throat swabs ... and then joined with the other swab for OIA MAX testing. In both groups, the pledgets in ... of 363 patients. The sensitivity and specificity of OIA MAX testing were 94.7% and 100.0%, ... the specificity, and the predictive values of the OIA MAX test performed with 1 swab compared with ... swabs ( P >.10). There was no association between OIA MAX test sensitivity and the severity of pharyngitis ...
Tópico(s): Neonatal and Maternal Infections
2005 - American Medical Association | Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
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Campbell, MacDougall, Nick Fielding, Sharon Sage, J P, Graham Norwood, David Budworth, William Lewis Business editor, Philip Pullman, Christina Odone, Sarah Baxter, Nick Fellows, Jason Dawe, Sian Griffiths, Jonathan Northcroft, John McCrae, Hala Jaber, Roland white, Jim Munro, Peter Whittle, Paula Radcliffe, Sean O'Brien, David Cannadine, Andrew Longmore, Lesley White, Bryan Reuben Professor, Dan Retief, Peter Day, Mark Cueto, Stephen Jones Sports Journalist of the Year, Steven Poole, E P, Andrew Sullivan, Clive Davis, Mihai Radu, Dr Susan Sanders, Brian Keenan, James Howard, Frank Dobson, Jeremy Irons, Mike Pattenden, Victoria Segal, Edward Porter, Hugh Mcllvanny, Dave Pollard, Geoff Bradford, Ken Kime, John Nichol, Andrew Porter Deputy Political Editor, Paul Donovan, Lucy Mayhew, Peter Hounam, Hugh McIlvanney, Garth Pearce, David Leppard, Amanda Holden, Lois Rogers, Alan Combes, Jayesh Ghaghda, Diana Wright, S B, Barry Flatman, Richard Evans, Natalie Graham, Peter Porter, Jessica 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Goodman, India Knight, Kingston Smith, Tom Holland, Adrian Somerfield,
... Multiple Display Advertising Items Savute Elephant Camp, Botswana Oia Manor House, Greece The Cipriani, Venice Live and ...
2004 - Gale Group | Sunday Times HA GDA
Patrick Supon, Sheila Tunnell, M I Greene, Rachel Ostroff,
... this study we evaluated the newest optical immunoassay (OIA) test from BioStar®, the STREP A OIA MAX® assay. This assay is shorter and simpler than the original STREP A OIA® test, which previously was shown in some studies ... the clinical performance of the new STREP A OIA MAX® assay and traditional throat culture in comparison ... with a new rapid test device (STREP A OIA MAX®, BioStar, Inc., Boulder, CO). Immediately after collection ... h) for subsequent testing by the STREP A OIA MAX® procedure. Primary culture involved inoculating one 5% ...
Tópico(s): Neonatal and Maternal Infections
1998 - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
Wiley Online Library
... cellular array (OCA) and one-way iterative array (OIA). For inputs of length n, both arrays consist ... applied to the cells in parallel. For the OIA, the input is applied serially to the leftmost ... accept exactly the same class of languages as OIA's. It is relatively easy to show that OIA's can simulate OCA's. The difficult part ... converse, i.e., that OCA's can simulate OIA's. This is rather surprising, since in an OIA, every cell of the array has access to ... This result, when combined with known results concerning OIA's, answers some open questions concerning the computational ...
Tópico(s): semigroups and automata theory
1987 - Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics | SIAM Journal on Computing
Yuan Ren, Tiejun Lv, Hui Gao, Shaoshi Yang,
... ICPA) philosophy, a pair of opportunistic interference alignment (OIA) schemes, namely, the coarse ICPA-OIA (C-ICPA-OIA) and the refined ICPA-OIA (R-ICPA-OIA), are proposed for balancing the sum rate performance ... and the energy harvested. Specifically, the C-ICPA-OIA treats the overall signal strength within the reference ... of zero-forcing-based reception, the R-ICPA-OIA considers the projected signal strength with respect to ... analyses, demonstrating that our schemes outperform the existing OIA schemes.
Tópico(s): Antenna Design and Analysis
2016 - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | IEEE Access
Hyun Jong Yang, Won-Yong Shin, Bang Chul Jung, A. Paulraj,
... this paper, we propose two opportunistic interference alignment (OIA) techniques utilizing multiple transmit antennas at each user: antenna selection-based OIA and singular value decomposition (SVD)-based OIA. Their performance is analyzed in terms of user ... It is shown that the antenna selection-based OIA does not fundamentally change the user scaling condition ... In addition, we show that the SVD-based OIA can greatly reduce the user scaling condition to ... validate the derived scaling laws of the proposed OIA techniques. The sum-rate performance of the proposed ...
Tópico(s): Advanced Wireless Communication Techniques
2013 - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Joyce J. Evans, David J. Pasnik, Phillip H. Klesius,
The BioStar STREP B Optical ImmunoAssay (STREP B OIA) (BioStar OIA Strep B Assay Kit; BioStar Incorporation, Louisville, CO, ... directly from clinically- infected fish swabs. STREP B OIA identified 25 known fish and dolphin GBS isolates. ... were swabbed and subjected to the STREP B OIA for detection of GBS antigen immediately after swabbing ( ... agar with 5% sheep blood. The STREP B OIA method demonstrated a diagnostic sensitivity of 75.0% ... compared to direct TSA. The percent agreement between OIA and culture was 100%. GBS antigen could be ...
Tópico(s): Aquaculture disease management and microbiota
2010 - Elsevier BV | Veterinary Microbiology
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Lilia A. Rousseva, Elizabeth R. Gaillard, David C. Paik, John C. Merriam, Victor Ryzhov, Donita Garland, James Dillon,
... In particular, the early tryptophan oxidation product, oxindolealanine (OIA) has been detected in lyophilized and hydrolyzed cataractous lenses by mass spectrometry. OIA was confirmed in human cataract samples by observing ... that there are differences in the amounts of OIA in the nucleus versus the cortex in human ... one and a half times greater levels of OIA as compared to the cortex [nucleus = (3.7 ± ... 10−2]. Furthermore, the average value for the OIA/Phe ratio in the calf lens (controls) was ( ... correspond to a 4.6-fold increase of OIA in human cataractous lenses. In a separate series ...
Tópico(s): Bee Products Chemical Analysis
2007 - Elsevier BV | Experimental Eye Research
Susan Kuhn, H. Dele Davies, Gary Katzko, Taj Jadavji, Deirdre L. Church,
The Strep A OIA® assay by Biostar (Boulder, Co., USA) is a unique optical immunoassay system for the rapid detection of Group A ... of pharyngitis, the performance of the Strep A OIA® assay was compared with the amount of growth ... Todd–Hewitt broth (THB) enhancement. The Strep A OIA® was then performed. A total of 144 of ... of 144 (88.9%), and the Strep A OIA® assay detected 129 of 144 (89.6%). Complete ... 3%. Although the performance of the Strep A OIA® assay had similar specificity (96.5%) and positive ... found in the ability of the Strep A OIA® assay to detect agar culture–positive swabs that ...
Tópico(s): Neonatal and Maternal Infections
1999 - Elsevier BV | Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Cynthia A. Needham, Kenneth A. McPherson, Kenneth H. Webb,
... rapid test for group A streptococci (Strep A OIA; BioStar, Inc., Boulder, Colo.) improves physician outcome. The ... practice once the results of the Strep A OIA were known. Based upon intent, the physicians seeing ... After receiving the results of the Strep A OIA, WIC physicians prescribed an appropriate antibiotic course for ... After receiving the results of the Strep A OIA, PED physicians prescribed an appropriate antibiotic course for ... prevalence of GABHS among WIC patients, Strep A OIA improved the overall WIC physician outcome from 58 ...
Tópico(s): Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing
1998 - American Society for Microbiology | Journal of Clinical Microbiology
G Kaltwasser, JORGE DIEGO, PATRICIA L. WELBY-SELLENRIEK, Rhonda Ferrett, Michael G. Caparon, Gregory A. Storch,
... group A streptococci such as the optical immunoassay (OIA), some samples are positive by the antigen test ... to establish a reference standard for evaluating an OIA for group A streptococcal antigen. Methods. A PCR ... children with symptomatic pharyngitis and used to perform OIA, agar culture, brothenhanced culture and PCR. As a ... comparison to agar and broth-enhanced culture procedures, OIA had sensitivities of 82 and 80% and specificities ... 44%) of 18 samples that were positive by OIA but negative by culture were positive for group ...
Tópico(s): Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing
1997 - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
J C Dale, Emily A. Vetter, Joan M. Contezac, L. K. Iverson, Peter C. Wollan, Franklin R. Cockerill,
Two rapid methods, BioStar Strep A OIA (OIA; BioStar, Inc., Boulder, Colo.), an optical immunoassay, and CARDS O.S. (O.S.; Pacific Biotech, Inc., San Diego, Calif.), a color immunochromographic assay, ... six double swabs (Culturette II) were processed, with OIA and SBA culture performed on one swab and ... both culture methods, a concomitant positive result by OIA and O.S. antigen testing. Sensitivity and specificity ... each of the methods were as follows, respectively: OIA, 81.0 and 97.5%; O.S., 74. ... and TH culture, 86.4 and 100%. Both OIA and O.S. are suitable screening methods for ...
Tópico(s): Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing
1994 - American Society for Microbiology | Journal of Clinical Microbiology
Rikard Holmdahl, Christina Kvick,
... after injection of FIA alone (oil-induced arthritis (OIA)). This finding allows a direct comparison of two ... one with a pure adjuvant. Both CIA and OIA develop approximately 2 weeks after induction but OIA is a self-limited acute disease whereas CIA ... response. The Lewis rat develops neither CIA nor OIA while FI(DA ± Lewis) rats develop CIA but not OIA. Olive oil or CII emulsified in olive oil ... in olive oil vaccinates against CIA but not OIA whereas pretreatment with FIA vaccinates against OIA but not CIA. These findings demonstrate that inclusion ...
Tópico(s): T-cell and B-cell Immunology
1992 - Oxford University Press | Clinical & Experimental Immunology
Christos G. Tsinos, Kostas Berberidis,
Opportunistic interference alignment (OIA) is a technique that enables the multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) secondary user (SU) to exploit the inherent spatial ... channel state information (CSI) requirements of the existing OIA techniques. The goal of the present paper is ... a MIMO SU transceiver system that applies an OIA technique in a manner completely oblivious to the ... To this end, at first, a new improved OIA technique is proposed. The resulting technique requires CSI ... CSI estimation scheme is developed for the new OIA technique. The exact theoretical ergodic capacity of the ...
Tópico(s): Cognitive Radio Networks and Spectrum Sensing
2013 - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems
Joan M. Neuner, Mary Beth Hamel, Russell S. Phillips, Kira Bona, Mark D. Aronson,
... two-plate selective culture technique, 4) optical immunoassay (OIA) followed by culture to confirm negative OIA test results, or 5) OIA alone.Cost per lost quality-adjusted life-days ( ... were sensitive to the prevalence of GAS pharyngitis: OIA followed by culture was most effective when GAS ... of anaphylaxis was about half the baseline probability, OIA/culture was most effective; when the probability was ... baseline, observation was most effective. Only at an OIA cost less than half of baseline did the OIA alone strategy become less expensive than culture. Results ...
Tópico(s): Infective Endocarditis Diagnosis and Management
2003 - American College of Physicians | Annals of Internal Medicine
Ramin Samadi, A. Stek, Jeffrey S. Greenspoon,
Objective : To compare an optical immunoassay (OIA) rapid diagnostic kit to standard culture for the diagnosis of vaginal colonization with group B streptococcus (GBS) and to assess the accuracy and reproducibility of the OIA results. Method : A total of 301 patients in ... by the Food and Drug Administration (STREP B OIA kit, Biostar, Boulder, CO, USA) and by culture. ... 54 of 301 (17.9%) of patients. The OIA had sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value and negative ... 3%, 37.5% and 94.8%, respectively. The OIA had a kappa statistic score of 0.59. ...
Tópico(s): Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing
2001 - Informa | The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine
Ramin Samadi, Alice Stek, Jeffrey S. Greenspoon,
Objective : To compare an optical immunoassay (OIA) rapid diagnostic kit to standard culture for the diagnosis of vaginal colonization with group B streptococcus (GBS) and to assess the accuracy and reproducibility of the OIA results. Method : A total of 301 patients in ... by the Food and Drug Administration (STREP B OIA kit, Biostar, Boulder, CO, USA) and by culture. ... 54 of 301 (17.9%) of patients. The OIA had sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value and negative ... 3%, 37.5% and 94.8%, respectively. The OIA had a kappa statistic score of 0.59. ...
Tópico(s): Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing
2001 - Informa | The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine
Michael A. Gerber, Robert R. Tanz, William Kabat, Elizabeth S. Dennis, Gillian Bell, Edward L. Kaplan, Stanford T. Shulman,
To compare the accuracy of an optical immunoassay (OIA) for the rapid diagnosis of group A streptococcal ... 1130 in Chicago.The sensitivities and specificities of OIA and BAP culture (both performed and interpreted in ... Among patients in Connecticut, the sensitivities of the OIA and BAP culture were 94% and 89%, respectively ( ... Among patients in Chicago, the sensitivities of the OIA and BAP culture were 79% and 72%, respectively ( ... In each of the 6 pediatricians' offices, the OIA was more sensitive than the BAP culture. Combining ...
Tópico(s): Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus
1997 - American Medical Association | JAMA
E. Donskoi, James Manuel, Peter Austin, А. Поляков, Michael Peterson, Sarath Hapugoda,
... of iron ore, i.e. optical image analysis (OIA) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). In this article, ... against results obtained by the CSIRO Recognition3/Mineral3 OIA system. Both OIA and SEM systems have advantages and drawbacks. Even ... as magnetite and vitreous goethite as hematite. In OIA, iron minerals with slight differences in their oxidation ... more detailed information on the gangue minerals than OIA. However, for routine characterisation of iron ores with ... containing a variety of iron oxides and oxyhydroxides, OIA is a faster, more cost effective and more ...
Tópico(s): Metal Extraction and Bioleaching
2013 - Taylor & Francis | Applied Earth Science Transactions of the Institutions of Mining and Metallurgy Section B