Combining and Reporting Analytical Results

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• Preface;Environmental Metrology: the Italian Approach;Comparability and Quality of Experimental Data Under Different Quality Systems;The Role of Traceability in Sustainable Development - the UNIDO Approach;Combination of Results from Several Measurements - An Everlasting Problem;Quality Assurance of Chemical Measurements - Metrological or Management Effort;Metrological Characteristics of the Conventional Measurement Scales for Hydrogen and Oxygen Stable Isotope Amount Ratios - The ?-Scales;Experience with Metrological Traceability and Measurement Uncertainty in Clinical Chemistry;Traceability of pH in a Metrological Context;Determination of PCBs in Organic Solutions: An Example of Traceability Chain;Quality Control of pH Measurements Considering Activity and Concentration Scales - Uncertainty Budget of Primary and Secondary Apparatuses;Metrology in Complex Situations: Experiences with Thermodynamic Data;Some Traceability Problems in Analytical Assays of interest in Thermal Metrology;Developments in Uncertainty Evaluation: The Activity of JCGM/WG1;How to Combine Results Having Stated Uncertainties: To MU or Not to MU?;Uncertainty and Traceability - The View of the Analytical Chemist;Propagating Non-normally Distributed Uncertainty - The Ljungskile Code;A Systematic Approach in the Evaluation of Uncertainty in Analytical Chemistry - Application to ICP-AES Analysis;Self-Referring Procedure for the Full Cell Calibration of a Dynamic Gas Devider;Investigation of Uncertainty Related to Measurement of Particulate Organic Pollutants;Micronucleus Test in Fish Peripheral Erythrocytes - Variability in the Microscope Scoring;Evaluation of intrinsic Uncertainty in the k0-NAA;Reporting of Uncertainty in Environmental Monitoring of Radionuclides;The Use of Reference Materials in International Reference Measurement Systems and for Comparison of Analytical Data;The CSM Approach to the Calculation of the Uncertainty in XRF;Analysis of Low- and High-Alloyed Steels;Comparison of Different Approaches to Evaluate Proficiency Test Data;Distribution of Proficiency Testing Results and Their Comparability;Inter-Laboratory Comparison: the APAT Approach;Proficiency Testing in the Biomedical Field - from Definitions of Targets to Use of Data from End-Users;Measurement Uncertainty Its Role in Proficiency Testing Scheme - Case Study ILC Waste Water;The Proficiency Testing of Laboratories: A First Approach to Implement Bayesian Methods in the Assessment of Performance;The En, Uscore, and Accuracy Parameters - A Topic to Debate;Collaborative Study for Pesticides Residues Determination in Water Samples (Method 5060 APAT-IRSA CNR) - Project 4b L. 93/01;Gross / Measurements in Drinking Waters by Liquid Scintillation Technique: Validation and interlaboratory Comparison Data;Improvement of a Radiochemical Laboratory Through Fourteen Years Participation in a Intercomparison Program