The fluorescent treponemal antibody (FTA-200) test has been shown to detect at least two types of antibody in syphilitic serum; one of these, which can be removed by absorption with Reiter treponemes, is thought to be a group antibody which reacts with an antigen shared by Treponema pallidum and other treponemes (Deacon and Hunter, 1962). A second antibody, which remains after such an absorptio...

This study examines how the rules of origin (RoO) a free trade agreement (FTA) affect firms' pricing strategies. The value-added criterion (VAC) RoO requires firms to add more than certain level value within an FTA when use inputs originating from outside FTA. VAC may work as price floor, and resulting increases in prices can benefit all if it induces offshoring firm manipulate its output price...

The daily number of individuals practising the group dynamics of consciousness-group practice of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programme-in Great Britain was compared with daily fluctuations in the Financial Times Actuaries 'All Share' (FTA) Index. The FTA Index is a measure of the current market capitalizations of the 750 largest companies in Great Britain, and may be seen as an i...

Betel quid (BQ) chewing, a common tradition in tropical areas, often poses a problem during collection and DNA analysis of buccal samples from many indigenous communities for population genetic studies and in forensic analysis of chewed BQ residues. This study evaluated the use of FTA card, a chemically treated filter paper, in collecting buccal samples from long-term BQ users and subsequent PC...

The Financial Therapy Association (FTA) periodically releases a report of the state its membership. This is from membership data collected in 2020 as follow-up to 2011 and 2013 reports. Since report, FTA developed code ethics professional certification. current highlights differences characteristics perspectives financial therapy developing field profession.

Drawing upon the presentations made at the fourth conference on Future-oriented Technology Analysis, this essay reflects on the implications of the current period of instability and discontinuity for the practice of FTA or foresight. In the past the demand environment for foresight on research and innovation policy favoured application to priority-setting and articulation of demand. New tendenc...

The reactivity of a non-specific reagin (RPR) test and a specific treponemal (FTA-ABS) test were determined in 21 patients with primary syphilis, 430 patients with proven non-treponemal genital ulcerations and 719 patients with acute urethritis presenting at a clinic for sexually transmitted diseases in southern Africa. Excluding those 21 cases of primary syphilis, 358 of 1149 tests performed (...

Safety is an important requirement for many modern systems. To ensure safety of complex critical systems, well-known safety analysis methods have been formalized. This holds in particular for automation sytsems and transportation systems. In this paper we present the formalization of one of the most wide spread safety analysis methods: fault tree analysis (FTA). Formal FTA allows to rigorously ...