Publications by authors named "Vitaly Panchuk"

The provenance study of archaeological materials is an important step in understanding the cultural and economic life of ancient human communities. One of the most popular approaches in provenance studies is to obtain the chemical composition of material and process it with chemometric methods. In this paper, we describe a combination of the total-reflection X-ray fluorescence (TXRF) method and chemometric techniques (PCA, k-means cluster analysis, and SVM) to study Neolithic ceramic samples from eastern Siberia (Baikal region).

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Quantitative analysis of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) is a very challenging task. High radioactivity, complex chemical composition and personnel safety requirements severely limit the number of analytical tools suitable for this problem. There is an urgent need for the methods that would provide for remote on-line quantification of elements in spent nuclear fuel and its reprocessing technological solutions.

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We report on the development of a very simple and inexpensive sensor device based on an inductance coil connected to a high-frequency electric field generator. The working principle of this sensor is as follows: liquid sample in a plastic tube is placed inside the inductance coil as its core and this core changes the properties of high-frequency electric current passing through the coil; these changes depend on sample conductivity, dielectric constant, magnetic properties, and capacitance. The electric signal registered after the coil represents a kind of a spectrum that can be effectively treated with chemometric tools.

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The procedures for response standardization in "electronic tongue" (ET) studies are described. The construction of reliable multivariate calibration for "electronic tongue" requires the analysis of a large number of representative samples both with ET and reference techniques. This is a laborious and expensive process.

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X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometry is a modern method of element analysis, widely applied in forensic science, archeology, geochemistry and other fields. Chemometric data processing tools and approaches may help XRF to become even more informative. These tools allow for convenient data visualization, exploration of hidden relations in the data, classification of samples and quantitative treatment of noisy and overlapped spectra.

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Smoothing of instrumental signals is an important prerequisite in data processing. Various smoothing methods were suggested through the last decades each having their own benefits and drawbacks. Most of the filtering methods are based on averaging in a certain window (e.

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The procedure for transfer of calibration models between different analytical methods is suggested. It is based on the direct standardization (DS) algorithm earlier suggested for data conversion between physically different instruments of the same type. As a result, multivariate regression models obtained e.

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The experimental design of mixtures for multivariate calibration is introduced. The idea of this design is based on uniform distribution of experimental points in a concentration hypercube. Unlike the already reported uniform designs this one is pretty simple and not computationally demanding.

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