Scientific target-specific

An expert witness is to be a person with substantial training in a specific field who can look at a set of data and come to a scientific conclusion about the merits of the issues. Target here is that any conflict between objectively and the highly opinionated atmosphere inherent in legal proceedings has always been problematic for technical people with ethics. 

Example 62 If a manufacturing process involves two raw materials, each defined by three sets of specification limits, and four pieces of equipment with one control knob, then a complete validation protocol would ask for (Three settings Lo, Target, Hi) (2 materials 3 specs + 4 machines 1 control) = 3 = 59 000 experiments, even without repetitions. This product would never reach the market if one did not employ experience and scientific rationale to simplify development by testing only the presumed critical issues, say a total of three specification points for 3 = 27 experiments. 

Readers with significant scientific knowledge, but not in the specific area targeted in the written work. 

Abstracts and titles are generally written for expert and scientific audiences however, parts of each are also typically accessible to a student audience. For example, the abstract in the aldehydes-in-beer article targets professional food chemists and analytical chemists specifically, but a student in organic chemistry could read the abstract and understand which aldehydes are present in aged beer. Moreover, the student could also discern from the title that the article is about aldehydes in beer. 

The second audience comprises conference attendees, who read abstracts to determine whose talk to attend or poster to view. Because national conferences typically have multiple concurrent sessions, attendees rely on abstracts to make their decisions about what sessions to attend, where to go, and when. Individuals who read your abstract are likely to be in a related field of chemistry, but most likely will not be in your specific area of chemistry. Thus, it is important to keep your abstract general enough to be readily understood across different areas of science, thereby targeting primarily a scientific audience. In this regard, the conference abstract is more similar to the Introduction section of a journal article than to the abstract of a journal article, the latter written for an expert audience. 

The number of records in total, as well as the number of unique compounds and targets, is highly relevant. Both the diversity of target classes and the big target families need to be taken into account. This breadth and depth comes specifically from the scope and number of scientific journals and patents that are covered within the database. For these sources, the age of the annotation needs to be taken into account. It is also very important that especially human targets are covered. 

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