The 17 International Conference on Flow Injection Analysis was held in Krakow, Poland, from 3 to 8 July, 2011. The conference was organized under the auspices of the Committee of Analytical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Japanese Association for Flow Injection Analysis (JAFIA). This was the first time that Poland had hosted this conference, which has been held regularly sin...

The manual handling of solutions (known as “beaker chemistry”) remains the Achilles Heel of modern analytical instrumentation. It is currently being replaced by flow injection analysis (FIA), which is computer compatible and allows automated handling of sample and reagent solutions with a strict control of reaction conditions. The flow injection analysis (FIA) was preceded by the success of seg...

This paper presents the analytical determination of the pesticide Asulam based on its native fluorescence. The method was optimized in either a flow injection analysis (FIA) assembly or in batch. The maximum fluorescence intensity was observed for basic pH solutions and at a lamda(ex) of 258 nm and a lamda(em) of 342 nm. The influence of different empirical parameters, such as the pH, the prese...

This paper addresses the role of dependency analysis in distributed management. It introduces the concept of dependency lifetime that traces the flow of dependency information from the design to installation to runtime stages of a service. Two categories of models, functional and structural, are used to represent this information as it flows from the design to the runtime stages. The paper desc...

A simple and fast electrochemical method for quantitative analysis of picric acid explosive (nitro-explosive) based on its electrochemical reduction at copper surfaces is reported. To achieve a higher sample throughput, the electrochemical sensor was adapted in a flow injection system. Under optimal experimental conditions, the peak current response increases linearly with picric acid concentra...