Data Recording and Treatment

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EG G PAR (USA), Model 273 A, Potentiostat/Galvanostat volt-ammetric analyzer controlled by PC equipped with a data acquisition and treatment software to record the signal generated in the electrochemical cell for DPY measurements. A 25 mL glass cell at 25°C with the carbon paste biosensor, Ag/AgCl (3.0 mol L-1 KC1) reference electrode, and a platinum wire as auxiliary electrode to perform the volt-ammetric measurements. 

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The transient signals provided by the detectors were formerly registered with a strip-chart recorder, which required human participation in the final stage of the analytical process the operator had to measure signals, contrast samples with standards and match samples and results. The later use of microcomputers for data acquisition and treatment allows the easy delivery of results, expressed in the preselected units, through a printer. Technicon market hardware and software suited to their simpler AutoAnalyzers, which can also be adapted for this purpose with the interesting innovations reported recently [22-25]. Multi-channel models (e.g. SMAC) feature a built-in central computer which, in addition to serving this function, controls the analyser operation. 

It should be noted that the data collection and conversion effort is not trivial, it is company and plant-specific and requires substantial effort and coordination between intracompany groups. No statistical treatment can make up for inaccurate or incomplete raw data. The keys to valid, high-quality data are thoroughness and quality of personnel training comprehensive procedures for data collection, reduction, handling and protection (from raw records to final failure rates) and the ability to audit and trace the origins of finished data. Finally, the system must be structured and the data must be coded so that they can be located within a well-designed failure rate taxonomy. When done properly, valuable and uniquely applicable failure rate data and equipment reliability information can be obtained. 

Two cases of initially undamaged reservoirs have been selected for proper validation of modeling equations. From pressure and rate data recorded all along their treatment, the skin variations during acid attack are derived according to a recently published methodology. Their analysis validates the proposed model. This would mean that worm-holes in reservoirs do scale up with laboratory ones according to the proposed law. 

Values of A , and k may be extracted from the polarographic data, although the treatment is complex. Examples of its use to measure the rate constants for certain redox reactions are given in Refs. 339 and 340 which should be consulted for full experimental details. The values obtained are in reasonable agreement with those from stopped-flow and other methods. The technique has still not been used much to collect rate constants for homogenous reactions. The availability of ultramicroelectrodes has enabled cyclic voltammograms to be recorded at speeds as high as 10 Vs". Transients with very short lifetimes (< ps) and their reaction rates may be characterised. ... 

Since toxicity is a necessary but not sufficient quality of a rodenticide, the next phase of the testing was conducted to determine the acceptability of the treated diet to rats and mice. The test consisted of twenty rats per treatment level with at least twenty control animals. The tests were run from three to ten days, with the feed consumption data and necropsy data recorded for each animal. The desirable candidate compounds should comprise at least 30% of the total diet of the rats and should have a mortality of 90% or more. 

The protocol should specify what should be recorded directly into the CRF and what will also be recorded in the medical records. The CRF will contain all the pertinent data associated specifically with the clinical trial but some will be repeated in the medical records, for example, the protocol identification number, date of consent, date of commencement of the study, key baseline medical findings, visit dates, start and finish dates of the study drug/placebo or treatment, concurrent medication, adverse events and key efficacy and any unscheduled or scheduled actions or interventions (such as escape medication). Additional information obtained from biopsy reports, radiographs and similar documents will provide confirmation that the data in the CRF are recorded correctly. Monitors, QA auditors and inspectors need to see all the medical records available to the investigator. It is not appropriate to create copies of data from CRFs or checklists derived from medical records and claim that these are source documents. 

Cage cards that contain information such as animal number, study number, and treatment group are not raw data as long as no original observations are recorded on the card, nor are transformations of raw data (e.g., calculations of mean and standard deviation or other statistical values) considered raw data, because they can always be recalculated from the original raw data. 

Qualitative methodology uses small samples of subjects and the method of (usually) personal interviews, based on structured or more usually semi-structured questionnaires. The interviews are tape- or video-recorded and then transcribed and analyzed for patterns and categories in students thinking. Data treatment can also be done by commercial packages for qualitative analysis. This methodology provides the possibility for in-depth monitoring and study of students ideas and understandings about scientific concepts. One could think of written questionnaires as instant pictures, and of interviews as motion pictures. 

The order in which the treatments were to be applied was programmed into the computer, and the apparatus then operated unattended until it was time to insert a fresh data recording disc disc or to change the specimens. A complete series of treatments on a group of three specimens required about 6 weeks. 

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