NIR News

Volume 6 Issue 1 (1995)

Pages 3–6

Polymer Process Control. Near infrared spectroscopy for polymer reaction and process control: Synthesis, processing and recycling

Heinz Siesler

Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Essen, D-45117 Essen, Germany

Page 6

EAS 94. "My first view". P9 EAS 94: A week of NIR prospecting

H.W. Siesler

Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Essen, D-45117 Essen, Germany

Pages 7–9

A basic strategy for approaching near infrared analytical problems, Part 1: Using hydrocarbon analysis as an example

Jerry Workman, Jr

The Perkin Elmer Corporation, Real-Time Systems Division, 761 Main Street, Norwalk, CT 06859-0036, USA

Pages 9–12

Letter to the Editor. Available data from Volume 1 of JNIRS. JNIRS Data Bank

Chris Scotter and David Evans

Campden & Chorleywood Food Research Association, Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, GL55 6LD, UK

Pages 10–12

Resin Identification. Near infrared techniques for resin identification

M.K. Alam, S.L. Stanton and G.A. Hebner

Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM 87185, USA

Pages 13–14

Selection of samples for calibration using spectral information

Tormod Næs and Tomas Isaksson

MATFORSK, Oslovegen 1, N-1430 Ås, Norway

Page 14

Editorial. New Australian Editor.

Tony DaviesEditor, NIR news, NIR Publications

Volume 6 Issue 2 (1995)

Page 3

10th Anniversary Symposium on NIR Spectroscopy, Tsukuba, Japan, 16-18 Nov 1994

"Jay" Junich Sugiyama

National Food Research Institute, Japan

Page 4

Letters to the Editor. Lessons from the Earthquake?

Yukihiro Ozaki

Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya, Japan

Page 5

Cho group at Kyungpook National University, Korea

Rae Kwang Cho

Department of Agricultural Chemistry, College of Agriculture, Kyungpook National University, Taegu, Korea

Pages 6–7

A basic strategy for approaching near infrared analytical problems, Part II: Using hydrocarbon analysis as an example

Jerry Workman, Jr

The Perkin Elmer Corporation, Real-Time Systems Division, 761 Main Street, Norwalk, CT 06859-0036, USA

Pages 8–13

Updating PLS calibration models

Kristian Helland

SINTEF Applied Chemistry, 7034 Trondheim, Norway

Pages 10–11

Why not try NIR microspectroscopy?

Gilbert Lachenal and Isabelle Stevenson

Université Lyon 1, Laboratoire des Materiaux Plastiques et des Biomateriaux, URA 507, F-69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France

Page 14

ICNIRS Page. Record Donation from NIR-94, Message of thanks, News from Australia, Hirschfeld award, Montreal Update, ICNIRS rule changes, EAS Award 1995, A year in Paris?

Editorial Staff

Page 15

Editorial. The electronic grapevine

Tony Davies

Editor, NIR news, NIR Publications

Pages 15–0

Diary (1995)

Editorial Staff

Volume 6 Issue 3 (1995)

Pages 2–3

Neural networks as calibration methods

Inge Helland and Knut Kvaal

MATFORSK—Norwegian Food Research Institute, Ås, Norway

Pages 4–0

News. NIR at Wolves, Award

Editorial Staff

Pages 5–0

NIR-95 Update

Editorial Staff

Pages 7–0

Chemometrics bibliography, Part 1

Jerry Workman, Jr

The Perkin Elmer Corporation, Real-Time Systems Division, 761 Main Street, Norwalk, CT 06859-0036, USA

Pages 9–0

New Products. FT-NIR, Meat analyser, Rotating sample drawer, Portable NIR, NIR fibre optic accessory, Detector arrays, Chemical/polymer analysers

Editorial Staff

Pages 10–12

Water in Foods. Analysis of hydrogen bonding related to water in foods

Matsuo Iwamoto

Agricultrual Research Council, MAFF, Kasumigaseki, Tokyo, Japan

Sumio Kawano and Hideyuki Abe

National Food Research Institute, MAFF, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Pages 12–0

Editorial. Swifts and martins, Progress of the Journal

Tony Davies

Norwich Near Infrared Consultancy, UK

Pages 13–0

ICNIRS Page. Proposed rule changes, A Pioneer visits the UK

Editorial Staff

Pages 18–19

Food authenticity (FAIM). Food authenticity challenges

Gerard Downey

The National Food Centre, Dunsinea, Castleknock, Dublin 15, Republic of Ireland

Volume 6 Issue 4 (1995)

Pages 4–5

Adjusting for non-linearities in calibration using principal components

Tormod Næs and Tomas Isaksson

MATFORSK, Oslovegen 1, N-1430 Å, Norway

Pages 6–15

Irish harvest memories–A monitor's tale

Gerard Downey

The National Food Centre, Dunsinea, Castleknock, Dublin 15, Republic of Ireland

Pages 8–15

The properties of fibre optics

Jerry Workman, Jr

Perkin-Elmer Corporation, Real-Time Systems Division, 761 Main Avenue, Norwalk, CT 06859-0201, USA

Pages 9–0

NIR 95. Supplement and Programme

Editorial Staff

Pages 12–13

NIR in Canada. Near infrared technology in Canada

Phil Williams

Grain Research Laboratory, Canadian Grain Commission, 303 Main Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3C 3GE

Pages 14–0

ICNIRS Page.

ICNIRS Ciommittee

Volume 6 Issue 5 (1995)

Pages 3–5

NIR-95 Report. 7th International Conference on Near Infrared Spectroscopy

Harvey S. Gold

DuPont Corporate Center for Analytical Sciences, PO Box 80323, Wilmington, DE 19880-0323, USA

Pages 5–6

ICNIRS Minutes. Meeting - 8 August 1995, Montreal, Canada

Heinz Siesler

Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Essen, Schützenbahn 70, PO Box 103764, W-4300 Essen, FRG

Pages 6–7

Australian NISG. The 1995 Conference

Graeme Batten

Australia

Page 7

ESIS 95 Report. European Seminars on Infrared Spectroscopy 1995

Heinz Siesler

Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Essen, Schützenbahn 70, PO Box 103764, W-4300 Essen, FRG

Pages 8–9

Statistical process control (SPC) charting: using bias significance (based on average residuals) for instrument control monitoring

Jerry Workman, Jr

The Perkin-Elmer Corporation, Real-Time Systems Division, 761 Main Avenue, Norwalk, CT 06859-0201, USA

Pages 10–12

Vegetable Research. NIR spectroscopy application in vegetable research at AVRDC

S.C.S. Tsou and T.L. Hong

Analytical Laboratory, The Asian Vegetable Research & Development Center

Page 14

Book Review. "Leaping ahead with Near-Infrared Spectroscopy", Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on NIR

C. E. Miller

DuPont Packaging and Industrial Polymers Research, PO Box 1089, Orange, TX 77631, USA

Pages 15–16

Extending PCR to data sets with more spectra than reference values

Tormod Næs and Tomas Isaksson

MATFORSK, Osloveien 1, N-1430 Ås, Norway

Volume 6 Issue 6 (1995)

Pages 3–5

Splitting of calibration data into linear subgroups

Tormod Næs and Tomas Isaksson

MATFORSK, Oslovegen 1, N-1430 Ås, Norway

Pages 4–5

Getting started on the Internet

Ian Michael

NIR Publications, UK

Pages 7–8

A primer for near infrared analysis fibre optic probe selection

Jerry Workman, Jr

Real-Time Division, The Perkin-elmer Corporation, 761 Main Avenue, Norwalk, CT 06859-0201, USA

Page 9

EAS-95 Report. The 34th Eastern Analytical Symposium

Tony Davies

Norwich Near Infrared Consultancy, UK

Pages 10–12

NIR imaging by FT-NIR-HT spectroscopy

Michael K. Bellamya, A. Norman Mortensenb, Robert M. Hammakerc and William G. Fateleyc

aUniversity of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus, Department of Chemistry, Mayaguez, PR 00681

bDepartment of Computer and Electrical Engineering, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66502, USA

cDepartment of Chemistry, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506, USA

Page 13

Software Review. NIRteach: Computer-aided learning

Tony Davies

Norwich Near Infrared Consultancy, UK

Pages 14–0

News. Oxford Instruments to sell NIR product range to Leco, Hirschfeld Award Nominations, A quartet of consultants, NIR helps packing firm

Editorial Staff

Pages 15–0

Editorial. Thank you Tormod and Tomas, Congratulations Bill!, There is always something new!

Tony Davies

Norwich Near Infrared Consultancy, UK

Pages 15–0

Diary. 1996

Editorial Staff

Volume 7 Issue 1 (1996)

Pages 3–5

The value of plots

Tom Fearn

Department of Statistical Science, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK

Pages 4–5

Electronic mail and listservers

Jim Hermiller

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, USA

Page 6

Software Review: Multivariate Analysis in Practice, A Training Package

Tony Davies

Norwich Near Infrared Consultancy, UK

Page 7

NIR in Budapest

András Salgó

Department of Biochemistry and Food Technology, Technical University Budapest, Müegyetem rkp. 3, H-1111 Budapest, Hungary

Pages 10–13

Environmental applications: seeing the environment in a different light

D.F. Malley

Ecotoxicology Section, Freshwater Institute, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, 501 University Crescent, Winnipeg, MB R3T 2N6, Canada

M. Nilsson

Department of Forest Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, S-901 83 Umeã, Sweden

Pages 13–15

News. Tomas Isaksson, Carpet fibre analysis, Third European Symposium on NIR, Dairy analyser, CharmPLS

Editorial Staff

Pages 14–15

Comparing SEP from a test set to an estimated SEP using the (chi-square) statistic

Jerry Workman, Jr

Real-Time Division, The Perkin-elmer Corporation, 761 Main Avenue, Norwalk, CT 06859-0201, USA

Pages 15–0

Diary. 1996

Editorial Staff

Volume 7 Issue 2 (1996)

Page 3

How accurate can you get?

Tom Fearn

Department of Statistical Science, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK

Pages 4–6

Usenet or newsgroups

Jim Hermiller

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co, Akron, USA

Page 7

Sponges as packing in NIR cells

A.B. Blakeney, S. Ciavarella, G.D. Batten, K.M. Marr and L.A. Welsh

Yanco Agricultural Institute, Yanco, NSW 2703, Australia

Pages 8–9

A closer look at NIR measurements

Jerry Workman, Jr

Perkin-Elmer Corporation, Real-Time Systems Division, 761 Main Avenue, Norwalk, CT 06859-0201, USA

Pages 10–12

Process NIR in industry: believers, sceptics, converts and preachers

Harvey S. Gold

Corporate Center for Analytical Sciences, E.I. DuPont de Nemours, Inc., PO Box 80323, Wilmington, Delaware, 19880-0323, USA

Pages 12–13

News. Hawthorn Prize, LECO acquire Oxford NIRs, Chambersburg, CNIRS Corner, 11th Japanese NIR Symposium, NIR-95 proceedings

Editorial Staff

Pages 14–15

Plant Analysis. Widening horizons for plant analysis by NIR

Graeme Batten and Anthony Blakeney

Yanco Agricultural Institute, PMB, Yanco, NSW 2703, Australia

Pages 15–0

Diary. 1996

Editorial Staff

Pages 16–17

NIR research in The Canning Research Institute (CANRI), Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Gerard Downey

The National Food Centre, Dunsinea, Castleknock, Dublin 15, Republic of Ireland

Volume 7 Issue 3 (1996)

Pages 3–4

Why principal components programs never agree

Tom Fearn

Department of Statistical Science, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK

Page 5

The world wide web

Jim Hermiller

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co, Akron, OH, USA

Page 6

Grey standards

Tony Davies

Norwich Near Infrared Consultancy, UK

Page 7

NIR developments in Poland

Wiesia Mroczyk

Poland

Pages 8–12

Chasing ghosts?: the relevance of certain secondary or coincidental NIR correlations

John Coates

Perkin-Elmer Corporation, Real-Time Systems Division, 761 Main Avenue, Norwalk, CT 06859-0201, USA

Pages 10–12

Diode Lasers. Application of near infrared diode lasers in atmospheric and on-line process emission monitoring

P. Martin

Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Huddersfield, Queensgate, Huddersfield, HD1 3DH, UK</I<

Miklós Fehér

Chinoin Pharmaceutical and Chemical Works Co. Ltd., Research Analytical Laboratories, Tó u. 1-5, H-1045 Budapest, Hungary

Pages 13–16

News.

Editorial Staff

Page 14

Editorial. Validation, The Journal

Tony Davies

Norwich Near Infrared Consultancy, UK

Pages 14–0

Diary. 1996, 1997

Editorial Staff

Volume 7 Issue 4 (1996)

Pages 3–4

Monitoring calbirations

Tom Fearn

Department of Statistical Science, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK

Page 4

Wake up the instrument!!

Pierre Dardenne

Station de Haute Belgique (CRAGx), Rue de Serpont 100, B-6800 Libramont, Belgium

Pages 6–9

Diffuse Reflectance. Standards for the measurement of diffuse reflectance: part I

Art Springsteen and Trudy Ricker

Labsphere Inc., PO Box 70, Shaker Street, North Sutton, NH 03287, USA

Pages 8–0

Ecological Studies. Applications for NIR spectroscopy to ecological studies in tropical Australia

William J. Foley, Andrew Woolnough, Allen McLlwee, Ivan Lawler

Department of Zoology, James Cook University, Townsville 4811, Australia

Lem Aragones

Department of Tropical Environmental Studies and Geography, James Cook University, Townsville 4811, Australia

Nils Berding

BSES, PO Box 122, Gordonvale 4865, Australia

Pages 10–12

Chambersburg History. The History of Near Infrared Spectroscopy: The International Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopy Conference–Chambersburg

Tony Davies

Norwich Near Infrared Consultancy, UK

Pages 13–0

News. Hirschfeld Award, EAS NIR Award, Australia takes another leap forward in NIR, Peter Hindle leaves IRE, Australian vacancy.

Editorial Staff

Page 14

NIR on the web

Jim HermillerGoodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, OH, USA

Pages 15–16

Process chemometrics/spectroscopy terminology

Jerry Workman, Jr

Perkin-Elmer Corporation, Real-Time Systems Division, 761 Main Avenue, Norwalk, CT 06859-0201, USA

Volume 7 Issue 5 (1996)

Pages 3–4

Chambersburg Reports. 8th International Diffuse Reflectance Conference

Tony Davies

Norwich Near Infrared Consultancy, UK

Tom Fearn

Department of Statistical Science, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK

Pages 5–6

Comparing standard deviations

Tom Fearn

Department of Statistical Science, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK

Page 7

What's out there?

Jim Hermiller

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, OH, USA

Pages 8–9

NIR Equations. Stability of NIR spectroscopy equations

Pierre Dardenne

Station de Haute Belgique, 100 Rue de Serpont, B-6800 Libramont, Belgium

Pages 10–11

Spectroscopy from Hubble

H. John Wood

Hubble Space Telescope Project, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA

Pages 12–13

Diffuse Reflection Standards. Standards for the measurement of diffuse reflectance: part II

Art Springsteen and Trudy Ricker

Labsphere Inc., PO Box 70, Shaker Street, North Sutton, NH 03287, USA

Page 15

Editorial and News. Process Pages, New consultancy, Products, Chemometrics software, Flow cell, Snack food sensor

Editorial Staff

Volume 7 Issue 6 (1996)

Pages 3–6

EAS Award Paper. Near infrared spectroscopy: the metamorphosis of an academic stepchild into an industrial prodigy

Harvey S. Gold

EI DuPont de Nemours, Inc., PO Box 80323, Wilmington, Delaware 19880-0323, USA

Pages 5–6

Near infrared spectroscopec measurement: special challenges related to quantitative analysis, Part 1

Jerry Workman, Jr

Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Analytical Science and Technology, 2100 Winchester Road, Neenah, WI 54956, USA

Pages 7–8

X = TP + E

Tom Fearn

Department of Statistical Science, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK

Pages 10–12

Hydrogen Bonding. Interaction and hydrogen bonding studied by near FT-IR spectroscopy

G. Lachenal and I. Stevenson

Université Claude Bernard, Laboratoire des Matériaux Plastiques et des Biomatériaux, UMR 5627, Bld du 11 November 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France

Pages 12–13

New NIR Centre at the School of Pharmacy. NIR and imaging of living systems. 3rd European Symposium on NIR Spectroscopy: On-Line Use

Tony Davies

Editor, NIR news, NIR Publications

Pages 14–16

Grabbing the BIG picture: a novel approach to beating within- sample material heterogeneity

Nils Berding and G.A. Brotherton

Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations (BSES) PO Box 122, Gordonvale 4865, Australia