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From Book News These proceedings present a cross section of the most recent developments in near infrared spectroscopy--applications, spectroscopic theory, chemometrics, and instrumentation. The variety of contributors, a striking reflection of the broad range of applications of this technique, include workers in agriculture, food science, medicine, life sciences, pharmaceuticals, textiles, general chemicals, and polymers. Topics include: building an NIR spectrometer, monitoring reactions, stability of NIR instrumentation, fuzzy methods of analysis, neural networks, and computer simulation of partial least squares. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.