Relevant Techniques

See the Gaussian, Inc. white paper, Visualizing Results from Gaussian for more discussion ofthe relevant techniques and issues. 

If you have the facility to acquire good quality spectra of the types discussed in this chapter and the one preceding it, then you should be well positioned to tackle virtually any problem that comes your way. We have covered what in our view are the most important and relevant techniques - but there are many others you may have heard of, all with their own enticing sounding acronyms. We ll now take a look at some of them and try to outline some of their potential uses as well as their shortcomings. 

We hope that this volume will be of use to not only neurochemists but also to many neuroscientists interested in the functioning of the nervous system and the effects of drugs on that functioning. We realize that some relevant techniques may well have been omitted in the volume, and would appreciate feedback from readers about techniques that should be included on the website and in future hard copies of this volume in the Handbook of Neurochemistry and Molecular Neurobiology. 

The following exercises require specific software. The relevant techniques are available in several packages that might be in use, such as SAS, Stata, or LIMDEP. The exercises are suggested as departure points for explorations using a few of the many estimation techniques listed in this chapter. 

The unique feature of the WDKA Health Professions seminar was the use of a current health topic, such as the avian flu, as a case study that exposed students to a potential real-world problem and familiarized them with relevant techniques used in the public health sector. Visits to... 

Since the first report on enzyme immunoassay appeared in 1971 (E5, V2) relevant techniques have been developed and applications are increasing. There are many reports on new coupling agents for preparing conjugates of... 

Numerous ways to hydrogenate silicon have been devised. We mention and describe here only relevant techniques and refer the reader to earlier chapters for detailed information on growth and fabrication methods of hydrogenated silicon films. 

An Indirect, but for colloid stability very relevant, technique Involves the surface force apparatus, mentioned in sec. 1.4.8. This apparatus, basically... 

Some approaches to design with uncertainty are reviewed in order to identify the appropriate basic approach and relevant techniques from previous work. A new algorithm is then presented which builds on previous work and attempts to exploit the characteristics of the design problems. 

Earlier we described how pharmacokinetic and dynamic properties of inhaled drugs are relevant for pulmonary selectivity. The assessment of pharmacokinetic and dynamic properties is consequently relevant for drug development and clinical practice. This section reviews some of the relevant techniques for assessing such properties. The available tools range from cell culture or isolated lung perfusion models to mucociliary clearance analysis, imaging techniques, and in vivo pharmacokinetic and dynamic analysis of the inhaled drug. 

We have reviewed the principles of operation of the most relevant techniques employed to characterize the second- and third-order response of nonlinear media. 

In the following sections, we will show how we can find these relations from X-ray diffraction measurements. As we have just explained, in order for relations of this type to make sense, the crystals in the film must all be oriented the same way, which means that the film is a quasi-single crystal . As a result, the relevant techniques and vocabulary are often taken from single crystal diffraction. 

In this chapter the fundamentals of chemometrics will be presented by means of a quick overview of the most relevant techniques for data display, classification, modeling, and calibration. The goal of the chapter is to make people aware of the great superiority of multivariate analysis over the commonly used univariate approach. Mathematical and algorithmical details will not be presented, since the chapter is mainly focused on the general problems to which chemometrics can be successfully applied in the field of environmental chemistry. 

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