Since these interferences can be more than half of the signal intensity on the Sr isotope mass, these corrections are large and the correction procedures need to be extremely rigorous if accurate and precise Sr isotope ratios are to be obtained.
"Scientific methods and results must be extremely rigorous and clearly communicated," says Koo, "and it is especially important when the health of a community is at stake".
As these qualifying exams are extremely rigorous, support is usually available to people progressing through the exams.
"ARPA-E is extremely rigorous on having milestones that we need to meet in order to continue the funding of the project," Signorelli goes on.
The methodology for calculating energy consumption is extremely rigorous, as it must be for something like this to be accepted.
"We are extremely rigorous in our methodology and we are constantly challenging ourselves to be more exacting," said Turner.
The exhibition, according to the Tate curator Matthew Gale, will seek to "redress the idea that he was a quirky artist, allowing his cat to paint, but rather show that he was extremely rigorous, with a clear sense of how his work was progressing... and it will give a sense of the extraordinary variety of his production".
You will see when you watch the show that it's extremely rigorous.
