Comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography coupled with time-of-flight mass spectrometry (GC×GC/TOF-MS) has been applied to metabolomics analyses recently. However, retention time shifts in the two-dimensional gas chromatography will introduce difficulty to compare compound profiles obtained from multiple samples. In this work, a novel two-stage peak alignment algorithm has been developed...

Trapline foraging—repealed sequential visits to a series of feeding locations—presents interesting problems seldom treated in foraging models. Work on traplining is hampered by the lack of statistical, operational approaches for detecting its existence and measuring its strength. We propose several statistical procedures, illustrating them with records of interplant flight sequences by bumble b...

This paper describes the implementation of a GPS/Inertial integrated navigation system, the GI-Eye, that is designed to automatically georeference imagery collected from a digital camera without requiring any ground control for registration. This is accomplished through the use of Wide-Area DGPS (WADGPS) GPS updates, combined with NAVSYS’ tightly coupled GPS/inertial alignment software to provi...

Matrix assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight (MALDITOF) is one of the highthroughput mass spectrometry (MS) technologies, producing data requiring an extensive preprocessing before subsequent analyses. In the last years, various preprocessing techniques have been developed for different tasks, including baseline correction, smoothing, normalization, peak detection and peak alignme...

We estimate the impact of the Dipole Straylight Contamination (DSC) for the Planck satellite on the alignments of vectors associated to the low multipoles of the pattern of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropies. In particular we study how the probability distributions of eighteen estimators for the alignments change when DSC is taken into account. We find that possible residual DSC...

A method for constructing quasimonolithic, precision-aligned optical assemblies is presented. Hydroxide-catalysis bonding is used, adapted to allow optimization of component fine alignment prior to the bond setting. We demonstrate the technique by bonding a fused silica mirror substrate to a fused silica baseplate. In-plane component placement at the submicrometer level is achieved, resulting i...

MOTIVATION Mass spectrometry data are subjected to considerable noise. Good noise models are required for proper detection and quantification of peptides. We have characterized noise in both quadrupole time-of-flight (Q-TOF) and ion trap data, and have constructed models for the noise. RESULTS We find that the noise in Q-TOF data from Applied Biosystems QSTAR fits well to a combination of mul...

Over the past few decades there has been an increased interest in using various analytical techniques for detecting and identifying microorganisms. More recently there has been an explosion in the application of matrix assisted laser desorption ionization time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF-MS) for bacterial characterization, and here we optimize this approach in order to generate repro...

An overview of the critical steps for the non-targeted Ultra-High Performance Liquid Chromatography coupled with Quadrupole Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (UPLC-Q-ToF-MS) analysis of wine chemistry is given, ranging from the study design, data preprocessing and statistical analyses, to markers identification. UPLC-Q-ToF-MS data was enhanced by the alignment of exact mass data from FTICR-MS, a...