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MIF

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MIF

(1) (Maker Interchange Format) An alternate file format for a FrameMaker document. A MIF file is ASCII text, which can be created in another program and imported into FrameMaker.

(2) (Management Information File) A DMI file format that describes a hardware or software component used in a PC. It can contain data, code or both. See DMI.

(3) (Machine Interface Format) A proprietary language for configuring Ascend networking devices. Instead of setting up via menus one option at a time, a MIF file can be created with all the changes and uploaded to the unit.

(4) (Multiple Image Facility) The management of ESCON and FICON mainframe channels so that multiple LPARs (Logical PARtitions) may share it concurrently. See ESCON, FICON and LPAR.
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A study published in the 15 May 2006 Journal of Experimental Medicine suggests the blame rests in part on macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF), an immune cytokine produced by white blood cells.
MIF and sTREM-1 calibrators and antibodies were purchased from R&D Systems.
If the connection between elevated MIF levels and depression in pregnancy is borne out in future studies, Dr.
The acquisition of the MIF inhibitor technology provides an excellent new platform within our inflammation research and development programs," said Gerald J.
Charmaine has caring responsibilities for her two children and was therefore assessed as being able to work 25 hours a week, this was multiplied by the minimum wage for age group to calculate her MIF, which was set at [pounds sterling]788.26 each month.
The MIF is secured by all the reserves in the SONYMA MIF.
"In models of pancreatic cancer progression, exosomes containing MIF are released in circulation prior to the onset of a recognized pancreatic carcinoma and can 'educate' the liver, inducing fibrosis," says first author Bruno Costa Silva, an instructor of cell and developmental biology in pediatrics.
Intracoronary ACS levels of cytokines (IL-1, IL-6, IL-8, IL-12, IL-17, TNF-[alpha], tissue plasminogen activator inhibitor (tPAI)-1, and macrophage migration inhibitory factor, MIF) are increased when compared with aortic blood [9,12,13].
The trophic structure found in the present work for the fish associated to the rocky reefs of Vermelha Beach followed a similar pattern of the reef fish assemblagesrecorded for the nearshore islands at the entrance of Guanabara Bay (Chaves & Monteiro-Neto, 2009), where Mae Island (Niteroi), and Comprida Island (Rio de Janeiro) show a dominance of the groups MIF and OMN in the relative abundance.
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