Volume 17 Issue 4 (2006)
Pages 3–4
PITTCON 2006, Meeting Report. New product introductions
Jim Reeves
NA Column Editor, ANRI, USDA, ARS, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Environmental Management and By-Products Laboratory, Building 306, Beltsville, MD 20705-2350, USA
Pages 5–9
Applications of NIR spectroscopy for on-tree quality evaluation of fruit
Sirinnapa Saranwong,a,b Jinda Sornsrivichaib and Sumio Kawanoa
aNational Food Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan 305-8642. E-mail: sirinnap@affrc.go.jp
bDepartment of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiangmai, Thailand 50202
Pages 7–9
Time-resolved NIR spectroscopy for analysis of solid pharmaceuticals
Jonas Johansson,a,* Staffan Folestad,a Christoffer Abrahamsson,b Tomas Svenssonb and Stefan Andersson- Engelsb
aPharmaceutical and Analytical R & D, AstraZeneca R & D, Mölndal, Sweden
bDepartment of Physics, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund, Sweden
Pages 10–11
Hirschfeld Award Lecture. Aquaphotomics: exploring water-light interactions for a better understanding of the biological world
Roumiana Tsenkova
Kobe University, Faculty of Agriculture, Kobe, Japan
Pages 12–13
Optimisation of support vector regression parameters
Bülent Üstün, Willem Melssen and Lutgarde Buydens
Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry, Radboud University, Nijmegen,Toernooiveld 1, 6525 ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Page 14
0th Anniversary of the formation of ICNIRS. IRDC, Chambersburg 2006
Tony Davies
Editor, NIR news
Pages 15–16
Diagnostics 2: leverage and the hat matrix
Tom Fearn
Department of Statistical Science, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK