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  • initialism Conflict of interest.

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  • The COI is going through a process of laying off 40% of its 737 staff, while the coalition government, which has frozen ad spend on all "non-essential" government campaigns, is seeking to cut its total COI spend – currently about £540m – on all forms marketing by up to 50%.

    Publicis executive backs plan to run government ads free on BBC Mark Sweney 2010

  • I'd also like to bring in the suggestion of having a Chemical Object Identifier: like the DOI, the COI is a simple alpha-numerical identifier, with a one-to-one connection to the InChI, and unlike the InChIKey unique as the InChI itself, but requiring a look up service.

    The Chemical Object Identifier; or, the freedom to identify chemicals Egon Willighagen 2008

  • I'd also like to bring in the suggestion of having a Chemical Object Identifier: like the DOI, the COI is a simple alpha-numerical identifier, with a one-to-one connection to the InChI, and unlike the InChIKey unique as the InChI itself, but requiring a look up service.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Egon Willighagen 2008

  • The consortium's scientists settled on a 645-base-pair region of mitochondrial genetic code, known as the COI or COX1 gene, to serve as the standard fingerprint for a species.

    Cosmic Log 2009

  • This led to the creation of the Coordinator of Information COI, just five months before Pearl Harbor.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • You aren't going to find anyone who is competent who DOESN'T have real (or perceived) COI issues!

    OIG on Conflict of Interest Issues With Constellation SRBs - NASA Watch 2009

  • I can see a COI developing if a Prof were to require his students to buy his own self-printed 'textbook'.

    Textbook Pricing, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • This led to the creation of the Coordinator of Information COI, just five months before Pearl Harbor.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • Rather, the COI would be significant for how it raises these abuses.

    Commissioning Justice for Burma 2010

  • They believe that by putting the senior general in the international hot seat, the COI process could encourage others the regime to view him as a liability worth dumping overboard.

    Commissioning Justice for Burma 2010

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