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 NPRS is an 11-point scale from 0-10. â0â = no pain. â10â = the most intense pain imaginable. Patients verbally select a value that is most in line with the intensity of pain that they have experienced in the last 24 hours. A written form is also frequently used with the numeric values of 0 â 10 written out.