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B. A. HoweU and B. B. S. Sastry, Proceedings of 22nd North American Thermal Analysis S odef Meeting, 1993, pp. 122—127. 

B.A. Howell and B.B.S. Sastry, Degradation ofVinylidene Chloride / Methyl Acrylate Copolymers in the Presence of Phosphines , Proceedings, 22nd North American Thermal Analysis Society Meeting, pp. 122- 127, (1993). 

A. B. Brennan and F. Rabbani, North American Thermal Analysis Society Conference Proceedings, Vol. 20, 1991, pp. 164—170. 

Folly, P., Alonso, B., Aebischer, J.-N. and Stoessel, F. (2004) Advanced kinetic tools for the evaluation of decomposition reactions, in ICTAC, North American Thermal Analysis Society (NATAS), Sacramento. 

A. Riga, Proceedings of the 26th North American Thermal Analysis Society, Ed., K.R. Williams, Omnipress, Madison, USA, 1998, 648. 

M.L. Mittleman, D.A. Compton and P. Engle, Proceedings of the 13th Meeting of the North American Thermal Analysis Society, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 1984, 410. 

Dunn, R. O. 2006b. Oxidation Kinetics of Biodiesel by Non-Isothermal Pressurized-Differential Scanning Calorimetry. In Proc., 34th Annual NATAS Conference. Bowling Green KY North American Thermal Analysis Society. 

Franklin, W.E., Proceedings of the Eleventh North American Thermal Analysis Society Conference, Vol. 11, 1981, p. 471. 

S. L. Soled, G. McVicker and B. DeRites, Proc. 11th North American Thermal Analysis Conference, 1981. 

Grentzer, T. H. Holsworth, R.M. Provder, T. Kline, S. "Quantitative Reaction Kinetics by Differential Scanning Calorimetry", Proceedings of the Tenth North American Thermal Analysis Society Conference, (Oct. 26-29, 1980), Boston, Mass., 269. 

Daley, C. Menard, K. Measurement of shrinkage forces of synthetic fibers held at constant length during solvent exposure. North American Thermal Analysis Society Notes 1994, 26, 56. 

Rostam-Abadi, M. and Kruse, C. W. Proceedings of the 12th North American Thermal analysis Society Conference, Sept. 25-29, Williamsburg, VA, p. 673-677. 

Giger, G. and Regenass, W., "Assessment of Reaction Hazards by Means of a Bench Scale Heat Plow Calorimeter", Proc. Eleventh North American Thermal Analysis Society Conf., Vol. 2, pp. 579-586, 1981. 

The annual conferences of the North American Thermal Analysis Society (NATAS)... 

A.L. Smith and G. Zilberman, Detection of vital bacteria and protein ligand binding using the QCM/HCC, in 32nd Annual Conference of ttie North American Thermal Analysis Society, (Ed. M. Rich),... 

North American Thermal Analysis Society NATAS... 

C. A. Cody, L. DiCarlo and B. K. Faulseit, Proc. 10th North American Thermal Analysis Society Conference, October 26, 1980, Boston, MA Am.Lab., 13, (1), 93 (1981). 

Stockton et al, 1986. North American Thermal Analysis Conf September 1986. Wright, T.K. and Butterworth, C.W., 1987, Isothermal heat flow calorimeter. Hazards from Pressure, Symposium Series No. 102, 85-96 (IChemE, Rugby, UK). Regenas, W., 1979, Am Chem Soc Symp Ser No. 65, 37-49. 

The term thermal analysis can be applied to any technique which involves the measurement of a physical quantity while the temperature is changed or maintained in a controlled and measured fashion as expressed in Fig. 2.4. Usually the temperature is, for simplicity, kept constant or increased linearly with time. Recently, it was found advantageous to superimpose a small modulation of the temperature to check for the reversibility of the measurement and to separate the calorimeter response from inadvertent gains or losses that do not occur with this modulation frequency (see Sect. 4.4). The professional organizations of thermal analysis are the International Confederation for Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, ICTAC, and the North American Thermal Analysis Society, NAT AS, described in some detail in Figs. 2.5 and 2.6, respectively. The most common journals dealing with thermal analysis techniques and results are ThermochimicaActa and the Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry. 

All basic techniques of thermal analysis treated in this chapter are already mentioned in Sect. 2.1.3, together with a number of further, less basic techniques. The thermal analysis tools are grouped according to the variables they are designed to determine, as is summarized in Fig. 2.4. The International Confederation for Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, ICT AC, and the regional North American Thermal Analysis Society, NATAS, are the scientific organizations concerned with this field of science (see Figs. 

Key research papers in DSC are often presented in Thermochimica Acta and the Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry. Progress in DSC is also reported in the Proceedings of the International Conferences on Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, ICTAC. The annual Proceedings of the Meeting of the North American Thermal Analysis Society, NATAS, are also a useful source of informadon. 

V. Mathot, T. Pijpers, M. Steinmetz, G. van der Plaats, Proceedings of the 25th North American Thermal Analysis Society Conference (McClean Virginia, 1997), p. 64. The temperature dependent crystallinity software program which runs under Windows and is not instrument specific, has been developed by DSM Research BV and Anatech BV jointly, and is availabe trough PerkinElmer. 

J. R. Fried, G. A. Hanna and S-Y Lai, Paper presented at the North American Thermal Analysis Conference, Boston, Mass., Oct. 1980. 

H. Sha, I. R. Harrison, and X. Zhang, in Proceedings of the 19th North American Thermal Analysis Society Conference, 1990, p. 179. 

B. A. Howell, D. A. Spears, and P. B. Smith, in Proceedings of the 24th North American Thermal Analysis Society Meeting, San Fransico, 1995. 

A. Korzhenko, F. Beaume, and B. Ernst, in Proceedings of the 28th North American Thermal Analysis Society, Oct. 2000, pp. 184—191. 

Figure 2.32. The glass transition of (semicrystalline) PET recorded on cooling (CR = 1 °C/min) and on reheating (HR = 10°C/inin) since the two areas between the two curves are equal, there is no hysteresis peak (Endotherm is down) [from Menczel and Jaffe (2006, 2007) reprinted with permission of Springer-Verlag and the North American Thermal Analysis Society],...

Figure 2.78. Typical example of a DPC ran on a UV-curable resin covered with PVDF film (see discussion below) and irradiated for 2 min with a UV intensity of 53 mW/cm. Run 1 = uncured sample, and run 2 = same sample immediately following the first irradiation. Because the sample weight is unchanged and its UV absorption characteristics are similar before and after cure, run 2 may be used as the baseline and subtracted from run 1 to generate the true heat flow-time curve. A Perkin-Ehner DPC accessory with its water filter was used to minimize the IR component of the incoming radiation. [From Bair and Blyler (1985) reprinted with permission of the North American Thermal Analysis Society]...

Figure 2.88. Graphical determination of the total heat flow from the modulated heat flow and the underlying heating rate from the modulated heating rate [Judovits (1997) reprinted with permission from the North American Thermal Analysis Society].

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