Reliability of information

The reliability of ARF estimates depends on many factors, one being the reliability of information about aerosol optical thickness (AOT). 

In this context (and in this paper), availability and reliability of information refer to their existence regardless of survival probabilities of units. 

During the interview, the investigator should introduce control questions to ensure the accuracy of statistical data as well as permit subsequent evaluation of the reliability of information supplied by the witness. The control questions should include... 

The complex growth mechanism and morphology of polyaniline film raises questions on the reliability of information obtained by ellipsometry. 

All series transmissions, in order to guarantee personnel safety, must include a CRC 16 double check or equivalent which guarantees a higher level of reliability of information transmission (a value of the order of 10 per annum). 

Shubinsky, I.B. 2012, Fimctional reliability of information systems, Nadyozhnost, Moscow, 2012. 

In the past, species tests were efficiently incorporated into periodic taxonomic revisions or monographs, but such descriptive studies are less frequently completed today and few students are being educated with a firm foundation in such broadly comparative and comprehensive taxonomic knowledge. In large taxa, such revisions may appear only once or twice a century. As a result, the reliability of information associated with the estimated three billion specimens in the world s natural history collections is slowly but steadily eroding. In extreme cases, as many as 70 per cent of specimens are already wrongly identified (Meier and Dikow, 2004). 

Because determination of osmotic pressure and light scattering requires special instrumentation and skill to operate, they are usually used for fundamental research only. Because of the convenience, DSV and GPC are more frequently nsed. GPC provides a fractionation curve, not just mass-average and number-average. DSV is usually just used to obtain a bench-mark of MW, without questioning a presence or absence of branching. The following discnssion covers the reliability of information obtainable from GPC with processability in mind. 

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