Uncertainty calculation for calibrators of the IFCC HbA1c standardization network

Within the last decade, the IFCC HbA1c standardization network has established the metrologically highest reference measurement procedure for HbA1c testing. Based on this procedure, reference calibrators are produced which in turn provide the starting point for the standardization of the manufactures routine HbA1c assays. According to the IVD directive, the uncertainty of the reference calibrators must be calculated and reported together with their assigned values. Within this article, we elaborate the uncertainty calculation according to GUM (guide to the expression of uncertainty in measurement) in detail. Finally, the results are validated by a simulation study.     

The Characterization of FeZSM-5 by 57Fe Mössbauer Spectroscopy: Sensitivity Towards Nitrogen

Hyperfine Interactions - Mössbauer spectra were recorded at 4.2 K of an FeZSM-5 zeolite that has been treated with nitrogen at 623 K. Changes in the sample environment clearly show the...     

Photon Asymmetry of Deuteron Photodisintegration Between 160 and 410 MeV

 The photon asymmetry Σ of the reaction has been measured across the photon energy range 160–410 MeV at the Mainz Microtron MAMI. Linearly polarized photons were obtained from coherent bremsstrahlung and their energies were determined with the Glasgow tagging spectrometer. The large acceptance detector DAPHNE enabled the outgoing protons to be measured over the complete azimuthal range and for polar angles from 35° to 155° in the c.m. system. The data are compared with existing results and recent theoretical calculations. Received August 22, 1998; accepted for publication February 8, 1999     

Quasi-free Compton scattering and the polarizabilities of the neutron

Differential cross-sections for quasi-free Compton scattering from the proton and neutron bound in the deuteron have been measured using the Glasgow/Mainz photon tagging spectrometer at the Mainz MAMI accelerator together with the Mainz [48]cm ;SPMOslash; × [64]cm NaI(Tl) photon detector and the G?ttingen SENECA recoil detector. The data cover photon energies ranging from [200]MeV to [400]MeV at θ^LAB _γ = 136.2^°. Liquid deuterium and hydrogen targets allowed direct comparison of free and quasi-free scattering from the proton. The neutron detection efficiency of the SENECA detector was measured via the reaction p(γ,π⁺ n). The “free” proton Compton scattering cross-sections extracted from the bound proton data are in reasonable agreement with those for the free proton which gives confidence in the method to extract the differential cross-section for free scattering from quasi-free data. Differential cross-sections on the free neutron have been extracted and the difference of the electromagnetic polarizabilities of the neutron has been determined to be α_n - β_n = 9.8±3.6(stat)^+2.1 _-1.1(syst)±2.2(model) in units of [10^-4]fm ³. In combination with the polarizability sum α_n + β_n = 15.2±0.5 deduced from photoabsorption data, the neutron electric and magnetic polarizabilities, α_n = 12.5±1.8(stat)^+1.1 _-0.6(syst)±1.1(model) and β_n = 2.7±1.8(stat)^+0.6 _-1.1(syst)±1.1(model) are obtained. The backward spin polarizability of the neutron was determined to be γ⁽ⁿ⁾ _π = (58.6±4.0)×10^-4 fm ⁴. Received: 21 August 2002 / Accepted: 16 October 2002 / Published online: 11 February 2003 RID="a" ID="a"Part of the Doctoral Thesis. RID="b" ID="b"Present address: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Bundesallee 100, D-38116 Braunschweig. RID="a" ID="a"Part of the Doctoral Thesis. RID="b" ID="b"Present address: Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Bundesallee 100, D-38116 Braunschweig. RID="c" ID="c"Part of the Habilitation Thesis. RID="d" ID="d"e-mail: schumacher@physik2.uni-goettingen.de Communicated by Th. Walcher     

Measurement of helicity-dependent photoabsorption cross sections on the neutron from 815 to 1825 MeV

Helicity-dependent total photoabsorption cross sections on the deuteron have been measured for the first time at ELSA (Bonn) in the photon energy range from 815 to 1825 MeV. Circularly polarized tagged photons impinging on a longitudinally polarized LiD target have been used together with a highly efficient 4pi detector system. The data around 1 GeV are not compatible with predictions from existing multipole analyses. From the measured energy range an experimental contribution to the GDH integral on the neutron of [33.9 +/- 5.5(stat) +/- 4.5(syst)] microb is extracted.     

Helicity amplitudes A1/2 and A3/2 for the D13(1520) resonance obtained from the gamma-->p-->-->ppi(0) Reaction

The helicity dependence of the gamma-->p-->-->ppi(0) reaction has been measured for the first time in the photon-energy range from 550 to 790 MeV. The experiment, performed at the Mainz microtron MAMI, used a 4pi-detector system, a circularly polarized, tagged photon beam, and a longitudinally polarized frozen-spin target. These data are predominantly sensitive to the D13(1520) resonance and are used to determine its helicity amplitudes.