A novel method of determining the total uncertainty in the integrated intensity of fitted emission lines in multipeaked emission spectra is presented. The proposed method does not require an assumption of the type of line profile to be specified. The absolute difference between a fit and measured spectrum defines the uncertainty of the integrated signal intensity and is subsequently decomposed to determine the uncertainty of each peak in multiline fits. Decomposition relies on tabulating a weighting factor, which describes how each peak contributes to the total integral uncertainty. Applications of this method to quantitative approaches in laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy analysis are described.
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BMJ Nutr Prev Health
December 2024
Laboratory of Toxicology and Forensic Sciences, Medical School of the University of Crete, Crete, Greece.
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School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK.
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ToxStrategies LLC, Asheville, NC, United States.
Prompted by a series of executive orders, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) is promoting cumulative impact assessment (CIA) to integrate numerous factors that have the potential to impact community health, which include nonchemical stressors such as socioeconomic conditions, pre-existing health conditions, and many others that historically have not been addressed by USEPA's chemical risk assessment paradigm.
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January 2025
Department of Marine Sciences, University of the Aegean, Mytilene, 81100, Greece.
Systematic conservation planning (SCP) involves the cost-effective placement and application of management actions to achieve biodiversity conservation objectives. Given the political momentum for greater global nature protection, restoration, and improved management of natural resources articulated in the targets of the Global Biodiversity Framework, assessing the state-of-the-art of SCP is timely. Recent advances in SCP include faster and more exact algorithms and software, inclusion of ecosystem services and multiple facets of biodiversity (e.
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