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A comparison of proficiency testing evaluation criteria approaches for fitness-for-purpose 适用性能力验证评价标准方法比较

IF 1 4区工程技术

Accreditation and Quality Assurance Pub Date : 2024-04-09 DOI: 10.1007/s00769-024-01590-1

Kelly Black, Polona Carson, Emmie Jenkins

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(K)ILO project: proficiency tests for students (K）国际劳工组织项目：学生能力测试

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Accreditation and Quality Assurance Pub Date : 2024-04-07 DOI: 10.1007/s00769-024-01581-2

Kees van Putten, Esther Peters-Grutters, Martijn Heuven

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Quality control charts for short or long runs without a training phase. Part 1. Performances in state of control and in the presence of outliers 无训练阶段短跑或长跑的质量控制图。第 1 部分。控制状态下和出现异常值时的性能

IF 0.8 4区工程技术

Accreditation and Quality Assurance Pub Date : 2024-03-27 DOI: 10.1007/s00769-024-01584-z

Manuel Alvarez-Prieto, Ricardo S. Páez-Montero

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Improved coverage factors for expanded measurement uncertainty calculated from two estimated variance components 根据两个估计方差分量计算的扩大测量不确定性的改进覆盖因子

IF 0.8 4区工程技术

Accreditation and Quality Assurance Pub Date : 2024-03-27 DOI: 10.1007/s00769-024-01579-w

Peter D. Rostron, Tom Fearn, Michael H. Ramsey

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Information combination and transformation: a paradox and its resolution 信息组合与转换：一个悖论及其解决方案

IF 0.8 4区工程技术

Accreditation and Quality Assurance Pub Date : 2024-03-23 DOI: 10.1007/s00769-024-01578-x

Hening Huang

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Paradox? What paradox? 悖论？什么悖论？

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Accreditation and Quality Assurance Pub Date : 2024-03-23 DOI: 10.1007/s00769-024-01577-y

R. Willink

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A practical two-step procedure for taking into account all available information (prior and current) about influence quantities in measurement uncertainty analysis 在测量不确定性分析中考虑有关影响量的所有可用信息（先验信息和当前信息）的实用两步程序

IF 0.8 4区工程技术

Accreditation and Quality Assurance Pub Date : 2024-03-23 DOI: 10.1007/s00769-024-01583-0

Hening Huang

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Comparisons of real versus synthetic proficiency testing items 真实与合成能力验证项目的比较

IF 1 4区工程技术

Accreditation and Quality Assurance Pub Date : 2024-03-22 DOI: 10.1007/s00769-024-01582-1

Finlay MacKenzie, Rachel Marrington

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Target uncertainty: a critical review 目标的不确定性：严格审查

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Accreditation and Quality Assurance Pub Date : 2024-03-19 DOI: 10.1007/s00769-024-01585-y

Fernando C. Raposo, Michael H. Ramsey

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The comparison of flow rate calibration methods for high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) pump 高效液相色谱泵流速校准方法的比较

IF 0.8 4区工程技术

Accreditation and Quality Assurance Pub Date : 2024-03-15 DOI: 10.1007/s00769-024-01580-3

Prangtip Uthaiwat, Theera Leeudomwong, Tassanai Sanponpute

{"title":"The comparison of flow rate calibration methods for high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) pump","authors":"Prangtip Uthaiwat, Theera Leeudomwong, Tassanai Sanponpute","doi":"10.1007/s00769-024-01580-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00769-024-01580-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) pump has a main function to deliver a mobile phase which needs accuracy and stable flow rate. Recently, the reference of General European OMCL Network 2005: Qualification of Equipment Annex 1 qualification of liquid chromatography equipment presents three flow rate calibration methods that have been used to calibrate the HPLC pump performance such as using standard flow meter, gravimetric method, and volumetric method. In this reference, the calibration methods have not been clearly described. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate and compare the flow rate calibration by the using standard flow meter, gravimetric method, and volumetric method. The flow rate was calibrated at 0.5 and 5 mL/min with three replications. The stability between days of each method was observed for three days. The calibration procedure, traceability chart, and uncertainty budget of each method had been described. The flow rate results were analyzed by using the <i>E</i><sub><i>n</i></sub> ratio. The results showed that the stability of all methods had no statistically significant difference between days when compared to the first day itself. The average measurement flow rates by using standard flow meter, gravimetric method, and volumetric method at 0.5 mL/min were 0.4908, 0.4992, and 0.5012 mL/min, respectively, and at 5 mL/min, they were 4.8346, 4.8272, and 4.8394 mL/min, respectively. These flow rates showed consistent results between each other as confirmed with the <i>E</i><sub><i>n</i></sub> ratio ≤ 1. The precision of the three methods was 0.01 to 0.08 %RSD. This study concluded that the flow rate results of three calibration methods had been consistent with each other. All methods had a good stability and precision for the flow rate calibration of the HPLC pump.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":454,"journal":{"name":"Accreditation and Quality Assurance","volume":"29 3","pages":"205 - 214"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140240497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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