Interpretation considerations

The SEM provides the investigator with a highly magnified image of the surface of a material that is very similar to what one would expect if one could actually see the surface visually. This tends to simplify image interpretations considerably, but... 

Ambrose, S.H. 1993 Isotopic analysis of paleodiets Methodological and interpretive considerations. In Sandford, M.K., ed., Investigations of Ancient Kmaan Tissue Chemical Analyses in Anthropology. Langhorne, PA, Gordon and Breach Science Publishers 59-130. 

Isotopic analysis Methodological and interpretive considerations. In Sandford, M.K.,... 

Isotopic analysis of paleodiets Methodological and interpretative considerations. In... 

Ambrose, S. H. (1993) Isotopic analysis of palaeodiets methodological and interpretive considerations. In Investigations of Ancient Human Tissue (Ed. Sandford, M. K.), Gordon Breach, Langhorne, PA, pp. 59 130. 

Skeletal collections were selected for sampling to address specific research questions as part of a larger project aimed at understanding variation between coastal and inland environments and change of economic practices over time. In this chapter we use the first results to make some interpretive considerations. 

The great distance between the surveyor team and the interpreter considerably complicated the entire process and posed additional problems during the subsequent proposal stage and program trials but heightened the interest for all concerned (and hopefully will do the same for the reader). 

Thus, only one reduced matrix element has to be calculated or determined experimentally, because the coupling coefficients are known. This simplifies the interpretation considerably. E.g. in the case of a E iS> e JT problem the potential energy surface is determined by only three reduced matrix elements, corresponding to the parameters F, G, K [46]. 

The results of chemical analyses of brain biopsy or autopsy specimens, as reported by different laboratories, are particularly difficult to interpret. Considerable discrepancies in such data with regard to the concentrations of individual lipid fractions may to a significant degree be due to the fact that in the majority of cases analyses were performed during the period of the considerable physiologic change in brain lipid composition which accompanies myelination. 

As for future trends, some speculation will be advanced. Some are already on the way all have been given much serious thought. Some form of direct readout is a distinct possibility and will probably simplify the work of interpretation considerably. Interferometric methods to improve resolution in specific regions may be used. 

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