Experimental Design: A Chemometric Approach (Data Handling in Science and Technology)

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Now available is the second edition of a book which has been described as "...an exceptionally lucid, easy-to-read presentation... would be an excellent addition to the collection of every analytical chemist. I recommend it with great enthusiasm." (Analytical Chemistry)

N.R. Draper reviewed the first edition in Publication of the International Statistical Institute "...discussion is careful, sensible, amicable, and modern and can be recommended for the intended readership."

The scope of the first edition has been revised, enlarged and expanded. Approximately 30% of the text is new. The book first introduces the reader to the fundamentals of experimental design. Systems theory, response surface concepts, and basic statistics serve as a basis for the further development of matrix least squares and hypothesis testing. The effects of different experimental designs and different models on the variance-covariance matrix and on the analysis of variance (ANOVA) are extensively discussed. Applications and advanced topics (such as confidence bands, rotatability, and confounding) complete the text. Numerous worked examples are presented.

The clear and practical approach adopted by the authors makes the book applicable to a wide audience. It will appeal particularly to those with a practical need (scientists, engineers, managers, research workers) who have completed their formal education but who still need to know efficient ways of carrying out experiments. It will also be an ideal text for advanced undergraduate and graduate students following courses in chemometrics, data acquisition and treatment, and design of experiments.

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Chemometric approach in optimization of micellar liquid chromatographic separation of some halogenated phenols [An article from: Analytica Chimica Acta]
F. Safa , and M.R. Hadjmohammadi
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This digital document is a journal article from Analytica Chimica Acta, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Simultaneous optimization of separation quality and analysis time of the micellar liquid chromatography of nine chlorophenol isomers was investigated. The effect on retention of three experimental parameters was studied using multivariate analysis. The factors studied were the concentration of sodium dodecyl sulfate, propanol content and pH of the mobile phase. The experiments were performed according to the face-centred cube central composite design and the inverse form of the experimental retention times for analytes were fitted to the polynomial models. The results of the analysis of variance showed that the models obtained explain greater than 99% of the variance observed in the chromatograms. Good predictive ability of the models was verified as high values of the statistics R^2 and F were obtained for the linear relationship between predicted cross-validated and experimental values of the dependent variable. The study showed that the use of Pareto-optimality method, an approach from multi-criteria decision-making, allows the selection of the best possible combinations of separation and analysis time in micellar liquid chromatography of chlorophenols.

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Physicist Dr. Lee M. Spetner's new book has biologists and geneticists across the country praising this book as one of the most serious challenges to the modern theory of evolution. "Dr. Spetner has an extraordinary ability to present complex mathematical, statistical, and biological issues in a comprehensible manner."--Rabbi Joseph Elias, The Jewish Observer "It is certainly the most rational attack on evolution that I have ever read"--Professor E. Simon, Department of Biology, Purdue University

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Solid.......2007-05-31

This book is a solid critique of Darwinism by an expert in the field. This book "Not By Chance" along with "Genetic Entropy" by JC Sanford give a reader the tools with which to destroy any darwinists in any debate.

Gene duplication, not mutation, adds most of the new information to DNA.......2007-03-08

First of all, let me set the record straight that Spetner is right: it is mathematically inconceivable that the complexity of life could arise from single point mutations or even a broad series of point mutations. There is no way. Mutations simply do not add enough information to account for all the complexities we see in genetic structure. Period.

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Gene Duplication
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What Spetner leaves out of his discussion is the simple genetic phenomenon of gene duplication. Inside of our cells are mechanisms for copying RNA and DNA. If these mechanisms had been designed by human beings, they would make perfect copies every time like modern printing presses. However, they are not. And they make mistakes *all the time*.

One important mistake they make is duplicating genes in the genetic code. While at first it might not be obvious, this duplication has the high possibility of adding NEW information to the DNA strand: along with the correctly copied gene A, you have a duplicate of gene A sitting right beside it or even somewhere else in the DNA. Here is the kicker: this second copy of gene A may not be perfect. It may be combined with some parts of gene B. This new copy has the possibility of producing a new gene all its own, gene C.

And even if the copy of A is perfect, future generations of the organism may freely modify the new copy of A (through other miscopies or mutations), because the original A is still intact to keep the organism alive. Those modifications have the potential to turn into something new and useful. And since they are starting as a copy of a functional gene, it is highly probable that they *will* turn into something useful. They are able to take the positive attributes of gene A and add to them.

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Incredible Consequences
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Now it is estimated that there are at least 20,000 genes in human DNA. And there are about 6 billion people on earth. If only a meager 100 of those 20,000 genes had copies floating around in human DNA, that is still over a 600 billion gene copies out there with the potential to be modified into something useful in the next generation. And that is just in one generation of human beings (i.e. 20-50 years)! Imagine that process spread out over hundreds of millions of years.

Now you have some scope for the relative rapidity with which evolution takes place. Your cells are making odd copies of your DNA (it is evolving with every person) all the time. Every person has a different DNA strand with several modifications having evolutionary potential. That is how we are able to use DNA to identify people: every person has different DNA. Spread the process over a 100,000 years and a few thousand generations and tada! you have new races. Spread it out over 100,000,000 years and and a hundred thousand generations and tada! you have new species. Each person is a different variation of DNA.

Not only have we evolved, we are always evolving. You can't stop it. Every birth produces a new, differently evolved strand of human DNA. Every person you see is a new and different test of a modification of our genetic code.

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An Example
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Maybe you are not convinced that simple (faulty) copies of something can produce new information, so here is an example. Lets say that we make a faulty mechanism for copying the words I've written in my review so far. Out of the letters from my review, this mechanism could produce the word "speciation" (which means "the formation of a new and distinct species in the course of evolution").

It's not hard: you just grab the 'spec' from 'species' then copy the 'iation' from the end of 'variation'. And viola! You have a new word: speciation. A word that may or may not be useful in the next copy of my review. Considering that the word "speciation" involves evolution, it very well may be useful. Or it may not be; in which case my review would die and not reproduce and reviews that were better adapted would survive.

The point is: this faulty copying produces new information. The information is not always useful (my example above may have produced words like "Nitothe", which isn't useful at all). But information like that remains dormant and unused in the cells until, by chance, it is activated and does become useful for survival. Or it is copied out or destroyed and never becomes useful. The point is, there are MANY new candidates like this to account for new information in a cell.

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Conclusion
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This simple process refutes Spetners entire thesis that no new information is created by simple cellular processes. What Spetner does not recognize in his book is that evolution has (at *least*) 3 important elements not 2: mutation, natural selection, and *gene duplication*. That's it.

[If you would like more information about this process (as well as a nice picture), please refer to "Gene Duplication" on Wikipedia.]

An interesting look at evolution.......2007-03-05

Dr Lee Spetner is a physicist not a biologist but don't be put off by that Spetner knows his stuff and does an excellent job in this book. The first three chapters of this book are devoted to the history of evolution starting from Darwin's original conception to the current Micro/Macro Evolution model. In Chapter 4 Spetner starts his attack looking at can evolution be based on random variation. I enjoyed this section because Spetner attacked evolution differently he attacked it on the mutation level how many mutations are necessary to cause evolution and whether evolution can achieve that level of mutation. In Chapter 5 Spetner makes his second attack against evolution, information. He explains that random variations are not new information and shows that evolution can't deal with the information because it merely adds random data to the genome and random data is not information. In Chapter 6 Spetner takes on Dawkin's Blind Watchmaker. In Chapter 7 Spetner puts forward a case for non-random variation and in Chapter 8 gives us his alternative to evolution what he calls the NREH (Non Random Evolutionary Hypothesis). I did not like this NREH I believed it was inappropriate to the discussion at hand and could've been avoided. I did start to read it and then skipped over it because I wasn't interested in it. There is an appendix in this book I didn't read it but it does contain some useful supplementary information such as the structure of DNA, The Storage of Information, How Enzymes Work and a number of other useful information if your into this sort of thing.

All in all a good book on evolution that attacks evolution right at its core on the random variations and information content. I did have some problems with the book however, I did not like his coding system for Micro and Macro Evolution, I know one of them was called brady I don't know what he called the other i found it confusing. This book is vague on Micro/Macro Evolution although he does mention it he does not adequately explain it so it may help to know the difference if you look into this book. This is only a minor detail however, Spetner for the most part focuses on Neo-Darwinism I at times got the impression he was using it to refer to Micro/Macro evolution. The book is not hard to understand however, it does somewhat become obscured when it refers to Micro/Macro evolution which is mainly in chapter 3. It does help that you at least have a basic understanding of evolutionary concepts before reading this book but if you have that you shouldn't have a problem understanding this book. The Appendix is quite technical and I would avoid that if you're not an expert on it. I can't comment on NREH apart from saying I believed it was inappropriate. I do think evolutionists and creationists can both appreciate this book. It gives the creationist the real problems with evolution and it shows the evolutionist that their theory is not as airtight as they would like to think. All in all I enjoyed this book and recommended it to anyone interested in evolution.

Shows how genetics is evolution's worst enemy.......2007-02-25

Spetner does a great job in demolishing the absurd rationalizations that evolutionists use to peddle their wannabe science. His clear explanations of the complex genetic engineering of various organism show how the non-directional nature of 'natural selection' could not have driven changes. Specifically, he cites an insect's ability to become immune to DDT by showing that it's a result of information loss.

If you liked this, check out From Darwin to Hitler by Weikart, the last 3 chapters of Godless by Ann Coulter, Why Evolution is a Fraud by Tom Sutcliff, Darwin's Demise by White and Comninellis and The FACE that demonstrates the Farce of evolution by Hank Hanegraaff.

A "Must Read".......2006-11-29

Whatever your stance in the creation/evolution debate, this book is a "must read." You do need some amount of science background to get through it. Of all the books relating to this topic that I have read (and they have been many), this book is my favorite. This is one of those books that was impossible for me to put down---I wanted to just read on and on. Spetner does an outstanding job and, in my opinion, deals a death-blow to evolution. Quite frankly, I believe that if Darwin could read this book today, that he would agree that his theory just does not hold water in light of what is currently known about mutations and molecular biology. After my sons have completed at least high school biology and chemistry, I will work through this book with them as a supplement to their science education. I am a science teacher (currently homeschooling) and would love to see this book receive the wide circulation that it deserves.

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Over the last few years it has become apparent that fluid turbulence shares many common features with plasma turbulence, such as coherent structures and self-organization phenomena, passive scalar transport and anomalous diffusion. This book gathers very high level, current papers on these subjects. It is intended for scientists and researchers, lecturers and graduate students because of the review style of the papers.

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Walk Away the Pounds: 6 week Program

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Walk Away the Pounds : The Breakthrough 6-Week Program That Helps You Burn Fat, Tone Muscle, and Feel Great Without Dieting
Leslie Sansone
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I love this book.......2007-06-04

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Walk Away the Pounds: 6 week Program.......2007-05-15

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Feel The Burn
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Cliff Shamon is Average Joe, with one exception. At five feet, six inches tall, he weighs 300 pounds. After passing out on a sidewalk, and being mistaken for dead, Cliff decides to lose weight and get physically fit. Cliff faces an onslaught of fitness industry commercialism in his battle to change his appearance and eating habits. Cliff, eventually, finds salvation in an exercise show called "Feel the Burn with Pawlo." After losing 150 pounds, Cliff rushes to meet fitness superstar Pawlo Marcolo, to thank him for the role his show played in changing Cliff's life. Conflict ensues when, after being rudely pushed aside by Pawlo, Cliff decides to get noticed by sneaking into the background of Pawlo's show. The ordeal reaches its peak when Cliff and Pawlo go head to head in an all out aerobics/spin bike grudge match. Feel The Burn is a comedy and a drama of one man's battle against obesity, prejudice, and his own inner demons.

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Ambushed by the press: a feel-good photo-op for a recovering burn victim turns into a vulture-like media attack.(First Person): An article from: American Journalism Review
Francene Cucinello
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Title: Ambushed by the press: a feel-good photo-op for a recovering burn victim turns into a vulture-like media attack.(First Person)
Author: Francene Cucinello
Publication: American Journalism Review (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2003
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Burning bright: psychiatric nurses feel burden of care (Focus).: An article from: The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health
Abigail Pugh
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Title: Burning bright: psychiatric nurses feel burden of care (Focus).
Author: Abigail Pugh
Publication: The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health (Newsletter)
Date: December 22, 2002
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