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Gordon F. Kirkbright Bursary Award 2013

Applications are invited for the 2013 Gordon Kirkbright Bursary, a prestigious annual award that enables a promising student/non-tenured young scientist of any nation to attend a recognised scientific meeting or visit a place of learning.

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NIR Products at Pittcon 2012

Smaller instrumentation was very much a key trend at Pittcon 2012. This was seen throughout the range of analytical techniques, with compact mass spectrometers, NMRs, ESRs, UV/vis, mid-IR as well as NIR spectrometers. Indeed, the first two instruments featured claim to be the world’s smallest NIR and FT-NIR, respectively.

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NIR reflectance spectroscopy for barley digestible energy analysis

A new NIR reflectance spectroscopy calibration is providing barley growers and their customers with a quick and accurate analysis of the digestible energy content of barley. Researchers at the University of Alberta, in collaboration with Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development, have developed a NIR calibration to analyse the digestible energy in barley.

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NIR-2013 Website Launched

The website for NIR-2013 (Montpellier, France, 1–7 June 2013) is now online at www.icnirs2013.com.

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Special Issue of JNIRS on NIR Imaging

JNIRS—Journal of Near Infrared Spectroscopy is preparing a Special Issue on NIR Imaging. The issue is being Edited by Professors Marena Manley and Gerry Downey, and is due for publication in mid-2012.

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John Shenk

It is with great sadness that we announce that John Shenk passed away on 15 September 2011. Peter Flinn has posted more information in the NIR Discusson Forum.

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NIR for Diagnosis of Alzheimer's Disease

A research contract for design, fabrication and test of an NIR instrument research into Alzheimer disease is being awarded by the US Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

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JNIRS Impact Factor Increases to 1.57

JNIRS—Journal of Near Infrared Spectroscopy's Impact Factor has increased to 1.57 in the 2010 figures just released.

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Major review of research on meat and fish analysis

The latest issue of JNIRS—Journal of Near Infrared Spectroscopy includes a major review article on the use of NIR spectroscopy for muscle food (meat and fish) analysis between 2005 and 2010 by Jittima Weeranantanaphan, Gerard Downey, Paul Allen and Da-Wen Sun.

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IM Publications Sponsors Whispers 2011

IM Publications is pleased to sponsor Whispers 2011—for people involved in hyperspectral data processing.

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