Are standard sample measurements still needed to transfer multivariate calibration models between near-infrared spectrometers? The answer is not always

Calibration transfer (CT) refers to the set of chemometric techniques used to transfer (near-infrared) calibration models between spectrometers. The requirement of traditional CT methods to measure calibration standard samples has been a challenge as such measurements are difficult in real-world applications, e.g. when the instruments are located far apart or chemically stable standard samples are not available. In recent years, major developments have taken place in the domain of CT, hence, this work provides a concise but critical review of all the main recent chemometric techniques available to perform CT. Particularly this work explains some newer concepts for standard-free CT, where the standard samples are not required to attain the CT. We conclude that CT approaches that do not rely on standard sample measurements hold promise to help making calibration models sharable between similar analytical devices and to increase the applicability of CT to real-world problems in the analytical sciences

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Not AvailableBluetongue (BT) is a notifiable multiple species transboundary viral disease of domestic and wild ruminants. Though the disease is enzootic in India, little is known of the disease burden and prevalent serotypes in Tripura, a hilly state of northeastern India sharing a vast porous border with Bangladesh. A surveillance study was conducted to understand the disease burden in goats in Tripura. Serum (n = 1240) and blood (n = 194) samples were collected during the year 2014 to 2017 from all the eight districts of Tripura. The overall prevalence of BT seroconversion was 47.58% whereas the presence of viral antigen was 20.61% at the individual level. Percent seroconversion was found more (50.47 ± 4.00, CI 41.31 to 49.47) in adult goats in comparison to the younger animals where it was 45.39 ± 2.08, CI 42.63 to 58.31. Presence of neutralizing antibodies in selected serum samples (n = 72) was investigated by serum neutralization test (SNT) against six bluetongue virus (BTV) serotypes and BTV-1 was found as most predominant (65.27%) followed by BTV-16 (26.38%), BTV-10 (20.83%), BTV-9 and 23 (13.88%), and BTV-2 (6.94%). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study conducted in Tripura to investigate the presence of BTV antigen and type-specific neutralizing antibodies in apparently healthy goats.Not Availabl