Volume 14 Issue 4 (2003)
Page 3
News
Editorial Staff
Pages 4–5
New Products
Editorial Staff
Page 5
Post Cordoba Reflections
Tony Davies
Editor, NIR news, NIR Publications
Pages 6–7
Transfer of NIR calibrations between sites and different instruments
Eva-Lotta Bergman,a Henric Brage,a Henrik Leion,a Olof Svenssona and Anders Sparénb
aAnalytical Development, Pharmaceutical and Analytical R & D Mölndal, AstraZeneca, S431-83 Mölndal, Sweden
bQuality Control Assurance, Astra Zeneca Tablet Production Sweden, S-151 85 Södertälge, Sweden
Pages 8–11
Application of time-of -flight near infrared spectroscopy for detecting sugar content and acidity in apples
Satoru Tsuchikawa* and Takahiro Hamada
Graduate School of Bioagricultural Sciences, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8601, Japan. E-mail: st3842@agr.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Pages 10–11
Speaking theoretically—: Re-calibrating Kubelka—:Munk: an intuitive model of diffuse reflectance
Donald J. Dahm
Department of Chermistry and Physics, Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey, USA
Pages 12–16
Getting rid of noise by smoothing
Tom Fearn
Department of Statistical Science, University College London,Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Pages 14–15
Pharmaceutical Validation. PASG NIR Sub-Group update
Neville Broad
Chairman, Pharmaceutical Analytical Sciences Group, NIR Sub-Group
Pages 15–16
JNIRS DataBank
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