COLUMNS
THE BASELINE
Maxwell's Equations, Part VI
Results are generalized from the last installment and considerations are made for how it applies to one of Maxwell’s equations.
David W. Ball

FOCUS ON QUALITY
Is Cloud Computing Right for Your Laboratory . . . or Are You Living in Cloud Cuckoo Land?
A discussion of the various options for cloud computing, avoiding the marketing hype and focusing on the potential advantages and disadvantages for your laboratory.
R.D. McDowall

LASER AND OPTICS INTERFACE
Advantages of High-Brightness Lasers in Confocal Raman Spectroscopy
The theoretical and experimental differences between high-brightness and low-brightness lasers used in a dispersive confocal Raman microscope system are compared.
Dick Wieboldt

ARTICLES
Discriminating Paints with Different Clay Additives in Forensic Analysis of Automotive Coatings by FT-IR and Raman Spectroscopy
An investigation of the different kinds of clay used as paint additives with the goal of discriminating the paints.
Jungang Lv, Jimin Feng, Yong Liu, Zhaohong Wang, Meng Zhao, Yanming Cai, and Rongguang Shi

Improving Accuracy in Inductively Coupled Plasma–Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry: The Interference Standard Method
An approach for dealing with one of the main limitations of ICP-MS, low sensitivity and accuracy caused by spectral interferences.
George L. Donati, Renata S. Amais, and Joaquim A. Nóbrega

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