Because of improved test accuracy, ease of specimen management, convenience in specimen management, and ease of screening sexually active men and women, the NAATs have largely replaced culture, the historic gold standard for chlamydia diagnosis, and the non-amplified probe tests.

Because of the softness of pure ( 24k ) gold, it is usually alloyed with base metals for use in jewelry, altering its hardness and ductility, melting point, color and other properties.

Because silver was worth less than its legal equivalent in gold, taxpayers paid their government bills in silver, while international creditors demanded payment in gold, resulting in a depletion of the nation's gold supply.

Because of the metallic gold's bright color, the gold jerseys were considered the " light " jersey in the game, so the Vikings wore their purple home jerseys as the " dark " colored team.

Because the density is so similar to gold ( tungsten is only 0. 36 % less dense ), tungsten can also be used in counterfeiting of gold bars, such as by plating a tungsten bar with gold, which has been observed since the 1980s, or taking an existing gold bar, drilling holes, and replacing the removed gold with tungsten rods.

Because of the intensive exploitation throughout Taiwan's pre-modern and modern history, the island's mineral resources ( e. g. coal, gold, marble ), as well as wild animal reserves ( e. g. deer ), have been virtually exhausted.

Because of the debt she had accumulated ( including delayed payment for her property in Auburn ), Tubman fell prey in 1873 to a swindle involving gold transfer.

Because fractional reserve banking does amount to inflating a currency, the states agreed to curtail fractional reserve banking engaged in by the " wildcat " banks by tying the amount of currency these banks could issue to the amount of gold and silver coin they held.

Because different alloys of gold have different colors ( see gold ) the unknown sample can be compared to samples of known purity.

Because of his opposition to FDR's plan to inflate the dollar by controlling gold prices, he was forced to resign in November 1933 and resumed his law practice.

Because of the massive die-off of the indigenous people, the Atlantic Slave Trade was established to import the labor required for the extraction of resources ( such as gold and silver ) and farming.

Because the outcome of quantum-mechanical events cannot in principle be predicted, they are the ‘ gold standard ’ for random number generation.

Because of the TV show, it was the Queer As Folk CD soundtrack, which went gold within one month of going on sale in March 1999 in the UK, that has become the most successful project the label has ever taken on.

Because gold does not corrode, it is used for high-quality surface-to-surface contacts.

Because of their relatively low mintage, all Dahlonega-minted gold coins are rare.

Because the original Klondike gold strikes had been in Canada, the concept soon evolved to an " Alaska-Yukon Exposition "; later, at the behest of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, the " Pacific " theme was also added to emphasize the Oriental trade.

Because of the gold standard there was nothing to stop a flight of gold.

Because rye was once a standard ingredient in Canadian whisky, the terms " rye whisky " and " Canadian whisky " are often used interchangeably in Canada.

Because the number of " words " that can be formed is vastly larger than in standard English, the board usually ends up tightly packed in places, and necessarily quite empty in others.

Because food dyes are classed as food additives, they are manufactured to a higher standard than some industrial dyes.

Because an individual's degree of impairment is often not correlated with symptom counts, and can stem from various individual and social factors, the DSM's standard of distress or disability can often produce false positives.

Because the DIX proposal was most technically complete and because of the speedy action taken by ECMA which decisively contributed to the conciliation of opinions within IEEE, the IEEE 802. 3 CSMA / CD standard was approved in December 1982.

Because the Eurocard system provided for so many modular card sizes and because connector manufacturers have continued to create new connectors which are compatible with this system, it is a popular mechanical standard which is also used for innumerable " one-off " applications.

Because of some fundamental weaknesses in the 2 0 0 release a new not compatible release 3 0 0 was released in September 1993, given the designation of EIA standard EIA-618.

Because the vast majority of genes are encoded with exactly the same code ( see the RNA codon table ), this particular code is often referred to as the canonical or standard genetic code, or simply the genetic code, though in fact some variant codes have evolved.

Because Miranda applies only to custodial interrogations, it does not protect detainees from standard booking questions such as name and address.

Because standard shuffling techniques are seen as weak, and in order to avoid " inside jobs " where employees collaborate with gamblers by performing inadequate shuffles, many casinos employ automatic shuffling machines.

Because of its relatively constant and well-known fluorescence quantum yield, quinine is used in photochemistry as a common fluorescence standard.

Because of injuries to defensive linemen ( at the beginning of the season the Dolphins were down to four healthy defensive linemen ) defensive coordinator Bill Arnsparger created what he called the " 53 " defense, in which versatile Bob Matheson ( number 53 ) would be used as either a defensive end in the standard 4-3 defense or as a fourth linebacker in a 3-4 defense, with Manny Fernandez at nose tackle.

Because of the poor reflectivity of the speculum mirrors of that day, Herschel eliminated the small diagonal mirror of a standard newtonian reflector from his design and tilted his primary mirror so he could view the formed image directly.

Because inflation levels varied between states, when they returned to the standard after the war at price they determined themselves ( some, for example, chose to enter at pre-war prices ), some countries ' goods were undervalued and some overvalued.

Because they used a different standard at 9600 bit / s, they would fall back to their highest commonly supported standard at 2400 bit / s.

Because GnuPG is an OpenPGP standard compliant system, the history of OpenPGP is of importance.

Because the standard DocBook XSL stylesheets are well-formed XSL stylesheets, and DocBook is well-formed XML, users can write their own customized stylesheets or even a full-fledged program to process the DocBook into an appropriate output format as their needs dictate.

Because the social workers worked closely with different families, they did not want to disclose many of the details that are standard in the genre of record keeping related to this field.

Because these regimes influence and are influenced by the organization of both social and economic capital, the analysis of dimensions lacking a standard economic value ( e. g., the political economy of language, of gender, of religion ) often draw on the concepts used in Marxian critiques of capital.

Because of the latter characteristic, this serotype cannot be isolated by using standard fecal coliform methods that include incubation at 45 ° C.

Because of the great number of third-party adapters and no standard for them, programming the PC could be difficult.

Because some of the less familiar Romance languages branched off early from the others ( Sardinian in particular, followed by Romanian and related Eastern Romance languages ), it is also common to reconstruct later stages: e. g. Proto Continental Romance ( after Sardinian branched off ); Proto Italo-Western Romance ( after Sardinian and Romanian branched off ); and Proto Western Romance ( after the branching-off of Sardinian, Romanian, and the central and southern Italian languages, including standard Italian ).

Because a bipolar diagnosis requires a manic or hypomanic episode, many patients are initially diagnosed and treated as having major depression.

Because it requires little equipment, street craps can be played in informal settings.

Because the projected horizontal motion in the rotating frame is a circular motion, the ball's motion requires an inward centripetal force, provided in this case by a fictitious force that produces the apparent spiral motion.

Because EVM requires quantification of a project plan, it is often perceived to be inapplicable to discovery-driven or Agile software development projects.

Because British company law requires no split in the boards of directors, unions would have directly elected the management of the company.

Because Massiah is offense-specific, an assertion of the sixth amendment right to counsel requires the police to cease interrogating the defendant about any charged offense.

Because the river is rather narrow on many of the upper reaches, navigation with larger vessels and push convoys requires great skill.

Because the full-time code messages requires that the most significant bits of each byte are zero ( valid MIDI data bytes ), there are really only 28 available bits and 4 spare bits.

Because it requires no battery or other source of energy, the magneto is a compact and reliable self-contained ignition system, which is why it remains in use in many general aviation applications.

Because graphite is soft, it requires some form of encasement.

Because it is beyond being ( epekeina tes ousias is a phrase from Plato's Republic 509b ), it is also beyond thought, because thinking requires the determinations which belong to being: the division between subject and object, and the distinction of one thing from another.

Because a pinfall only requires a three-count from the referee, as opposed to a ten-count from a boxing referee to score a technical knockout, this rule gave birth to the saying " It only takes three seconds to beat your opponent.

Because the electronic process requires compatible software that works with Companies House eFiling service, companies are usually formed through a Company Formation Agent.

Because distribution also requires a group with more than one member, plural forms are sometimes used.

Because modern technology requires a supporting infrastructure, more primitive methods are employed — for example, horses instead of tractors ( because tractors cannot reproduce themselves ).

Because relativity treats space and time as a whole, a relativistic generalization of this equation requires that space and time derivatives must enter symmetrically, as they do in the Maxwell equations that govern the behavior of light — the equations must be differentially of the same order in space and time.

Because it requires less signal processing and less chances for error than parallel transmission, the transfer rate of each individual path may be faster.

Because development of CF in the fetus requires each parent to pass on a mutated copy of the CFTR gene and because CF testing is expensive, testing is often performed initially on one parent.

Because states can never be certain of other states ' future intentions, there is a lack of trust between states which requires them to be on guard against relative losses of power which could enable other states to threaten their survival.

Because it requires large ( i. e., fast ) changes and tends to quickly forget its prior output values, it can only pass relatively high frequencies, as would be expected with a high-pass filter with a small.

Because a pinhole camera requires a lengthy exposure, its shutter may be manually operated, as with a flap made of light-proof material to cover and uncover the pinhole.

Because its growth was largely motivated by the introduction of a freeway to the area, the Pineville shopping district generally requires a motor vehicle for access.

Because a correlation function requires anywhere from 3 – 7 seconds to properly build, a limited number of data points can be collected across the peak.

Because Peru's constitution requires the president to have been born in Peru, this would have made Fujimori ineligible to be president.