Time-dependent Data Treatment

A unique feature of TRMS is that both identities and quantities of ions may be studied in the time domain. For an engineer, the relationship between conventional MS measurements and TRMS is like the relationship between multimeters and oscilloscopes multimeters only indicate average electric properties while oscilloscopes measure and record fast changes in electrical signals over time. By analogy, TRMS uses a high-performance chemical detector (mass spectrometer) to study the dynamic phenomena of atoms, molecules, and ions during reactions. 

It is also possible to plot the ion current of certain ions recorded over time. In such measurements, a large data file is typically recorded with hyphenated MS methods, such as gas chromatography (GC)- or LC-MS analyses in those experiments, 10 -10 mass spectra are recorded over several minutes to hours. Thus, the current of any ion of interest can be 

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(2009) Comparison of Public Peak Detection Algorithms for MALDI Mass Spectrometry Data Analysis. BMC Bioinformatics 10 4. 

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Recently, Dinwiddie et al. [14] reported the effects of short-time, high-temperatme exposures on the temperature dependence of the thermal conductivity of CBCF. Samples were exposed to temperatures ranging from 2673 to 3273 K, for periods of 10, 15, and 20 seconds, to examine the time dependent effects of graphitization on thermal conductivity measured over the temperature range from 673 to 2373 K. Typical experimental data are shown in Figs. 7 and 8 for exposure times of 10 and 20 seconds, respectively. The thermal conductivity was observed to increase with both heat treatment temperature and exposure time. 

For catastrophic demand-related pump failures, the variability is explained by the following factors listed in their order of importance system application, pump driver, operating mode, reactor type, pump type, and unidentified plant-specific influences. Quantitative failure rate adjustments are provided for the effects of these factors. In the case of catastrophic time-dependent pump failures, the failure rate variability is explained by three factors reactor type, pump driver, and unidentified plant-specific Influences. Point and confidence interval failure rate estimates are provided for each selected pump by considering the influential factors. Both types of estimates represent an improvement over the estimates computed exclusively from the data on each pump. The coded IPRDS data used in the analysis is provided in an appendix. A similar treatment applies to the valve data. 

To date, three pharmaceutical companies have entered clinical trials with PHD inhibitors for the treatment of anemia with the most advanced being FG-2216. In clinical studies, compound 2 (likely FG-2216) showed a dose- and time-dependent elevation of plasma erythropoietin after oral administration [66]. Healthy volunteers were orally administered various doses of compound 2 and serum erythropoietin (EPO) concentrations were measured at various times. Compound 2 increased serum EPO levels in a dose-dependent manner and, following administration of the 20 mg/kg dose, a 5-fold increase of EPO levels was observed after 12 h. In the same patent application, the effect of 2 on anemic predialysis patients with no previous rh-EPO exposure was also disclosed. Patients were treated with 2 three times/week for 4 weeks (no dose reported) and the hemoglobin levels were assessed on day 42. The patients who received treatment showed a mean increase in hemoglobin of 1.9 g/dL from baseline values, whereas subjects who received placebo showed a mean decrease of 0.35 g/dL from baseline levels. These data suggest for the first time that an oral PHD inhibitor could be effective for the treatment of anemia. 

Proteins having one chromophore per molecule are the simplest and most convenient in studies of fluorescence decay kinetics as well as in other spectroscopic studies of proteins. These were historically the first proteins for which the tryptophan fluorescence decay was analyzed. It was natural to expect that, for these proteins at least, the decay curves would be singleexponential. However, a more complex time dependence of the emission was observed. To describe the experimental data for almost all of the proteins studied, it was necessary to use a set of two or more exponents.(2) The decay is single-exponential only in the case of apoazurin.(41) Several authors(41,42) explained the biexponentiality of the decay by the existence of two protein conformers in equilibrium. Such an explanation is difficult to accept without additional analysis, since there are many other mechanisms leading to nonexponential decay and in view of the fact that deconvolution into exponential components is no more than a formal procedure for treatment of nonexponential curves. 

Covariates affected by treatment allocation. Variables measured after randomisation (e.g. compliance, duration of treatment) should not be used as covariates in a model for evaluation of the treatment effect as these may be influenced by the treatment received. A similar issue concerns late baselines , that is covariate measures that are based on data captured after randomisation. The term time-dependent covariate is sometimes used in relation to each of the examples above. 

Traditionally, experimental values of Zeff have been derived from measurements of the lifetime spectra of positrons that are diffusing, and eventually annihilating, in a gas. The lifetime of each positron is measured separately, and these individual pieces of data are accumulated to form the lifetime spectrum. (The positron-trap technique, to be described in subsection 6.2.2, uses a different approach.) An alternative but equivalent procedure, which is adopted in electron diffusion studies and also in the theoretical treatment of positron diffusion, is to consider the injection of a swarm of positrons into the gas at a given time and then to investigate the time dependence of the speed distribution, as the positrons thermalize and annihilate, by solving the appropriate diffusion equation. The experimentally measured Zeg, termed Z ), is the average over the speed distribution of the positrons, y(v,t), where y(v,t) dv is the number density of positrons with speeds in the interval v to v + dv at time t after the swarm is injected into the gas. The time-dependent speed-averaged Zef[ is therefore... 

This is shown in the Figure 4, where ionization yields for a simplified model atom are reported as a function of the peak intensity of the field. Here the data are obtained from both time-dependent Schrodinger and Klein-Gordon treatments for a 1-dimensional soft-Coulomb potential. [18] ... 

This chapter concentrates on the results of DS study of the structure, dynamics, and macroscopic behavior of complex materials. First, we present an introduction to the basic concepts of dielectric polarization in static and time-dependent fields, before the dielectric spectroscopy technique itself is reviewed for both frequency and time domains. This part has three sections, namely, broadband dielectric spectroscopy, time-domain dielectric spectroscopy, and a section where different aspects of data treatment and fitting routines are discussed in detail. Then, some examples of dielectric responses observed in various disordered materials are presented. Finally, we will consider the experimental evidence of non-Debye dielectric responses in several complex disordered systems such as microemulsions, porous glasses, porous silicon, H-bonding liquids, aqueous solutions of polymers, and composite materials. 

Time Dependence. As the initial iron deficiency (by milk feeding) stimulates iron absorption (53,86-90), which in turn may affect negatively manganese absorption (as described here), the body iron state must also be taken into account. It is therefore useful to establish data about the time factor, i.e. how long the animals can be treated with iron supplemented milk before an alteration in manganese transport is observed and also, how long it takes for manganese transport to return to normal once iron treatment has ceased. 

A statistical treatment of experimental data by the metlwd of correlation analysis permits to suggest a simple analytical expression for the time dependence of the relative moisture absorption... 

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