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.
The dosing levels of gamma radiation were 25, 50, and 75 kGy. Sterilization By E-beam Exposure: Three levels of e-beam irradiation experiments were performed in air on the three silicone rubbers by STERIS Isomedix Services using an 80-kW 5-MeV system electron beam. Dosing levels were 10, 40, and 80 kGy.