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IFA

American  
Medicine/Medical.
  1. immunofluorescence assay.


IFA British  

abbreviation

  1. independent financial adviser

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"We expect Irish MEPs to stand behind the farming community and reject the Mercosur deal," said IFA president Francie Gorman in a statement.

From Barron's

"Just like seismologists use earthquakes to study Earth's interior, we can use stellar oscillations to understand what's happening inside distant stars," said IfA research scientist Daniel Hey, lead author of the study.

From Science Daily

Researching Annie, I had to look back at where I’m from, because she’s a hoodoo priestess and hoodoo is a derivative of Ifa, and Ifa is the traditional Yoruba religion.

From Los Angeles Times

That puzzle has now been solved by Luke Benavitz, a first-year graduate student at IfA, working with IfA astronomer Jeffrey Reep.

From Science Daily

The IfA team's new approach shows that changes in the relative amounts of elements, or elemental abundances, can account for the rapid formation of solar rain.

From Science Daily