Category Archives: General
Why is chemometrics so important and useful for NIR data?
The intrinsic nature of NIR spectroscopy data is equal to highly overlapped signals from different chemical features combined with a lot of correlated information. These features and the information can be difficult to extract using classical and often too simple … Continue reading
Q-Interline Sampling Award 2011
Those of you who are interested in and working with Process Analytical Technologies (PAT) and Process Analytical Chemometrics (PAC) based on NIR spectroscopy, please submit your abstracts! Q-Interline will present an award at NIR 2011 to recognise outstanding achievement in PAT and … Continue reading
Science writing for non-scientists
I recently again became aware of the importance of having the ability to present one’s research in a format accessible to non-scientists. Cereal research in South Africa is funded also by grain producers in the form of levies paid by … Continue reading
Registration for NIR 2011 to open soon
I hope that you have enjoyed and learned from the IZiseko zeSayensi blog posts over the past few months. Thank you to all who contributed so generously! I invite you to visit the NIR 2011 website (www.nir2011.org) as it will … Continue reading
Note on Abstracts for NIR 2011 – IZiseko zeSayensi
Delegates should now be thinking about writing their abstracts for NIR 2011 as Abstract submission will open soon. These 10 steps are suggested to help you write the Abstract so that reviewers can more easily judge it’s suitability for either … Continue reading
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE!
Read and memorise carefully. This blog will self-destruct in 10 seconds. My impossible mission is to mention and introduce topics that normally would fall outside the program. Any international NIR conference has always the ubiquitous sessions for which 10 or … Continue reading
PAT – shining light on your processes with NIR
Process analytical technology (PAT) is the use of analytical tools in terms of instrumentation, data analysis, and control systems to measure a system in real-time so that rapid, data-driven decisions can be made to keep a process moving in the … Continue reading
See you in Cape Town in 2011
Hello to the NIR community, The 15th International Conference on Near Infrared Spectroscopy will be held in less than one year now and it is time to think about it seriously. This conference will be the first one held on … Continue reading
NIR 2011 COMES TO AFRICA!
Visit the NIR 2011 conference website at www.nir2011.org
