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Enzymatic biosensors can be defined as an analytical device having an enzyme as a bioreceptor integrated or intimately associated with the physical transducer to produce a discrete or continuous digital electronic/optical signal that is proportional to the concentration of analyte present in the sample. This chapter describes the enzyme-based electrochemical biosensors for the measurement of clinically important biomatkers, beginning with a history of biosensors. 

For detection of secondary ions a laterally resolving detector is necessary. In the first step a channel plate for amplification is used secondary electrons from the output of this device are accelerated either to a fluorescent screen or to a resistive anode. If a fluorescent screen is used the image is picked up by a CCD camera and summed frame by frame by use of a computer. The principal advantage of this system is unlimited secondary ion intensities, but compared with the digital detection of the resistive anode encoder the lateral and intensity linearity is not as well-defined. 

The e-records rule uses many terms that must be understood to grasp fully the intent of the rule. FDA defines electronic records as any combination of text, graphics, data, audio, pictorial, or other information presented in digital form that is created, modified, maintained, archived, retrieved, or distributed by a computer system . A printout of a computer file is not the actual electronic record itself Electronic records include other relevant data, such as which user made a change, the time and date that the change was made, etc. 

The orbitals are completely described by specifying three quantum numbers, but only two are used in this hook. The principal quantum number (symbolized n) is a whole number, 1 or greater, that identifies the electron shell of the orbital, where the lower digits denote shells of lower energy that are closer to the atomic nucleus. The second quantum number (symbolized 1) is a whole number from 0 up to n — 1 that defines the type of orbital within a shell (n). For historical reasons, the different shapes of orbitals are represented by letters. (See Table 4-1.)... 

Historically, data collection and manipulation were effected by means of analogue meters, chart recorders, digital displays and paper print-outs. However, the advent of the microcomputer now allows data to be stored electronically, calibrations performed and concentrations calculated and reported on a user-defined form. 

An electronic or digital resume is one that will be e-mailed to a potential employer, posted on a career-related website, or included within an online resume database. Some employers that accept electronic resumes have a specific pre-defined resume form on the company website that must be completed online to be accepted. This also holds true for the majority of career-related websites. 

Irrational numbers, expressed in decimal form have a never-ending number of decimal places in which there is no repeat pattern. For example, n is expressed as 3.141 592 653... and e as 2.718 281 82... As irrational numbers like n and e cannot be represented exactly by a finite number of digits, there will always be an error associated with their decimal representation, no matter how many decimal places we include. For example, the important irrational number e, which is the base for natural logarithms (not to be confused with the electron charge), appears widely in chemistry. This number is defined by the infinite sum of terms ... 

This concept is one of the most difficult to quantitate. There are some relatively explicit definitions of information content for electronic communications. (For example, the Nyquist theorem defines the minimum sampling rate required in order to preserve the maximum frequency information in a periodic signal. And, the relationships between digital encoding formats and information content of a data base can be quantitated.) However, for the general problem of evaluating the results of instrumental measurements of chemical systems, the definitions for information content of data are very clear. 

Before we discuss electronic components, we must define the words analog and digital because we will be using them throughout our discussions of computer technology. 

An electronic record represents a record in digital format. Even though the components and requirements of an electronic record are defined by its application, a system for creating and maintaining electronic records has basically the following components ... 

Lasers with ultrashort pulse lengths down to a few femtoseconds (1 fs = 10 15 s) are now available commercially. However, photomultipliers and the associated electronic digitizers are not sufficiently fast to follow waveforms much below 1 ns. Therefore, devices with pico- and femtosecond time resolution use optical delay lines to define the time delay between the excitation pulse and the probe pulse (Figure 3.16). By focusing part of the... 

Equation (5) provides the starting point for implementing ab initio methods on digital computers. However, we should recognise that moving from a many-electron to a one-electron description may omit complete contributions from many-body effects like electron correlation. The electronic correlation energy, AEcorr, can be defined as (6) ... 

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