Traditional methods have relied on classification based on morphology and enzymatic tests, which are subjective and can be time-consuming (typical turnaround from sample collection to results is measured in weeks). Recently, it has been demonstrated that the fatty acids of the cell walls of these bacteria are diagnostic for some species (1). These fatty acids are mainly comprised of high molecu...

A rapid and non-destructive methodology is proposed for the screening of edible vegetable oils according to conservation state expiration date employing near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy and chemometric tools. A total of fifty samples of soybean vegetable oil, of different brands andlots, were used in this study; these included thirty expired and twenty non-expired samples. The oil oxidation was...

This paper presents a novel approach to the automatic classification of very large data sets composed of terahertz pulse transient signals, highlighting their potential use in biochemical, biomedical, pharmaceutical and security applications. Two different types of THz spectra are considered in the classification process. Firstly a binary classification study of poly-A and poly-C ribonucleic ac...

BACKGROUND Mesenteric ischemia-reperfusion induces gut mucosal damage. Intestinal mucosal wounds are repaired by epithelial restitution. Although many different molecular mechanisms have been shown to affect cell metabolism under oxidative conditions, these molecular mechanisms and metabolic phenotypes are not well understood. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopic data can be used to s...

Single and sequential extraction procedures are used for studying element mobility and availability in solid matrices, like soils, sediments, sludge, and airborne particulate matter. In the first part of this review we reported an overview on these procedures and described the applications of chemometric uni- and bivariate techniques and of multivariate pattern recognition techniques based on v...

Some raw materials that have different places of production for the plant sources of the drugs Astragalus membranaceus and ginseng have been studied, based on their near-infrared reflectance spectra. The experimentally recorded spectra represent heavily ill-posed and highly correlative data sets. Three related methods, i.e. the Fisher linear discriminant analysis (FLDA), the ridge-type linear d...

A new classification approach was developed to improve the noninvasive diagnosis of brain tumors. Within this approach, information is extracted from magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy data, from which the relative location and distribution of selected tumor classes in feature space can be calculated. This relative location and distribution is used to select the best information extrac...

The potential of front-face fluorescence spectroscopy for the authentication of unifloral and polyfloral honey types (n = 57 samples) previously classified using traditional methods such as chemical, pollen, and sensory analysis was evaluated. Emission spectra were recorded between 280 and 480 nm (excit: 250 nm), 305 and 500 nm (excit: 290 nm), and 380 and 600 nm (excit: 373 nm) directly on hon...

In viscose production, it is important to monitor three process parameters as part of the spin-bath in order to assure a high quality of the final product: the concentrations of H2SO4, Na2SO4 and ZnSO4. During on-line production these process parameters usually show a quite high dynamics depending on the fibre type that is produced. Thus, conventional chemometric models, kept fixed during the w...