Volume 16 Issue 2 (2005)
Page 2
NIR-2005 Update. Auckland, New Zealand, 10-15th April 2005
Ross Clarke
AgResearch, New Zealand
Page 3
Embedded near infrared spectroscopy goes to the fields
Christian Paul
Braunschweig, Germany
Page 5
Büchi Meeting. BBüchi chi NIRFlex N-500 and NIRWare
Tony Davies
Editor NIRnews, 73 Intwood Road, Cringleford, Norwich NR4 6AA, UK
Pages 6–12
Appreciation of John Shenk. John Shenk's retirement: some tributes from his friends, colleagues and students
Phil Williams
PDK Grain, 5072 Vista View Crescent, Nanaimo, BC V9V 1L6, Canada
Pages 8–19
ICNIRS page. NIR-2009. Proposal for a joint Thailand/Japan conference to be held in Thailand. ICNIRS officers for the period 2005-2009
Sumio Kawano
National Food Research Institute, 2-1-12 Kannondai, Tsukuba 305-8642, Japan
Pages 9–10
Automated NIR sorting of oranges.
Sirinnapa Saranwong,a Sumio Kawanoa and Tony Daviesb
aNational Food Research Institute, 2-1-12 Kannondai, Tsukuba 305- 8642, JapanbNorwich Near Infrared Consultancy, 75 Intwood Road, Cringleford, Norwich NR4 6AA, UK
Pages 11–12
Support vector machines IV: penalised regression
Tom Fearn
Department of Statistical Science, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
Pages 13–15
Diffuse radiation, plane parallel mathematics, and a better approach to data collection
Donald J. Dahm
Department of Chemistry and Physics, Rowan University, Glassboro, New Jersey, USA
Pages 14–15
Efficient NIR calibrations utilising pure component projection.
Carl A. Anderson and Robert P. Cogdill
Duquesne University Center for Pharmaceutical Technology, Pittsburgh, PA,, USA