Sampling frame

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All processors must use the same serial clocks to stay in synchronization with the sample frame clocks. These clocks are buffered by the host interface card and put on the backplane. The card also generates the processor clocks, so the processors can also run in synchronization. 

The orientational distribution function P cos of axially symmetric coupling tensors (t] — 0) in the laboratory frame can be read directly from the NMR spectrum S S2). Its expansion coefficients x/ can be transformed to those, of the orientational distribution function P(cos0) of the molecules in the sample fixed frame by using the known orientation angles 0 and 0 of the principal-axes frame in the molecule-fixed coordinate frame, and the orientation angle of ihe sample frame in the laboratory frame. By convention, the preferential axis n of the sample is parallel to the Zs-axis of the sample frame. 

The formal description of MAS involves different coordinate frames when samples with a preferential axis of molecular order are considered (Fig. 3.3.6). On the molecular level a sample frame is introduced, the Zs-axis of which is parallel to the preferential direction of the sample. In some cases, this frame can be attached to the molecule or the crystallite... 

Because the principal axes of the coupling tensor are not aligned with the axes of the sample frame, all elements of the coupling tensor appear in (3.3.9). Though the calculation explicitly deals with the chemical shielding, similar expressions are valid for other anisotropic second-rank interactions like the dipole-dipole coupling between two spins and the first-order quadrupole interaction. 

The signal of the total magnetization derives from (3.3.16) by summation of all magnetization components. This can be achieved by integration over all orientations a, P, y of the sample frame in the rotor frame weighted by the orientational distribution function P(a, p, y) of the sample frame,... 

With the procedures outlined in Section 3.2.1, P a, p, y) can be expressed in tenns of the molecular orientation in the sample frame and the orientation of the coupling tensor in the molecular frame. By use of (3.3.17) the FID signal can be calculated for oriented samples under MAS conditions, and MAS spectra are obtained by subsequent Fourier transformation. The finite width of centre lines and sideband signals has been accounted for in (3.3.17) by multiplication of the FID with the exponential line function exp -(r/T2). ... 

Inserting eqn (8.5.7) into eqn (8.5.6) yields the field gradient components in the sample frame,... 

Fig.l shows the XRD patterns of the samples calcined at 500°C (The A1 diffraction peak comes from the sample frame made of aluminium). It can be seen that all samples show a diffraction pattern of Sn02 without any peak characteristic for silica, and that the longer the digestion time, the weaker and broader the Sn02 peaks, indicating a smaller particle size and lower crystallinity. 

Sources of Bias. Finally, the very data on which safety and effectiveness decisions are made, while voluminous and scrupulously cleaned, may be of questionable value owing to the very process by which investigators and subjects are selected (not randomly sampled) and the data are revised (not simply cleaned) to fit our preconceived data models. Regulatory oversight has focused not on the scientific validity of the sampling frame or the meaningfulness of the data, but rather on adherence to a set of technical procedures that may assure neither. These three points deserve clarification. 

There is a critical need for statisticians to develop inferential analysis models that are valid in the face of the realities of nonrandom subject recruitment. In addition, there is a need to consider whether the current trend toward highly selective inclusion and exclusion criteria for clinical trial subjects should be reversed to allow a more representative sampling frame. 

Recommendations. In a prospective randomized comparative clinical trial, the biostatistician should be primarily concerned with the ability to generalize from the results of the trial to the future population of subjects who may receive the new therapeutic product. To do so, the sampling frame must be constructed to represent the... 

The geographic and temporal sampling frame, taking into account issues of safety, cost, and fairness to a multitude of local communities. 

Efficiency calibration requires a sample of defined shape and volume placed at a defined location relative to the detector. A sample frame may be needed for reproducible placement. Calibration can be performed with a radioactivity standard or by Monte Carlo simulation (see Sections 8.2 and 10.5). 

In any sampling, we must define the unit of sampling, the sampling frame, and the sample choice technique. For a human factors audit the unit of sampling is not as self-evident as it appears. From a job-evaluation viewpoint (e.g., McCormick 1979), the natural unit is the job that is composed of a number of tasks. From a medical viewpoint the unit would be the individual. Human factors studies focus on the task/operator/machine/environment (TOME) system (Drury 1992) or equivalently the software/hardware/environment/Uveware (SHEL) system (ICAO 1989). Thus, from a strictly human factors viewpoint, the specific combination of TOME can become the sampling unit for an audit program. 

Choice of the sample from the samphng frame is well covered in sociology texts. Within human factors it typically arises in the context of survey design (Sinclair 1990). To mate statistical inferences from the sample to the population (specifically to the sampling frame), our sampling procedure must allow the laws of probability to be applied. The most often-used sampling methods are ... 

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In the absence of any mirror symmetry breaking by the rubbing process, the molecular and the sample frame are identical. In this case, the experimental intensities for 100% linearly polarized x-rays with the electric field vector oscillating along the x, y, and 2 axes are directly proportional to the... 

Fig. 6.3. Sketch of the experimental geometries to illustrate for elliptically polarized x-rays the orientation of the major horizontal Eh and minor vertical E component of the electrical field vector for parallel (A) and perpendicular (B) orientation of the film surface with respect to the rubbing direction (4-a direction). (C) Relationship between the sample frame x,y,z) and the molecular frame x, y, z ), in which the molecular distribution of polymer segments at the film surface has at least twofold symmetry about all three orthogonal axes.

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