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Guaranteed Credit: A Time-Tested Program Guaranteed to Provide Clear, Step-By-Step Information on How to Repair, Restore and Rebuild Your Credit
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Worth Every Penny!.......2005-01-20

While it is true that some of the strategies are "passé" for the information age, the principles still apply. I have raised my credit ration to a `Good" category, and my husband's to an excellent. I have some more items that will be coming off of my credit report, which should hopefully put me in the excellent category as well.

The main thing is to exercise your rights. If you read the book, but don't act, it's all academic. But I have acted, with great success!

worth getting yet . . ........2004-09-17

. . . a bit outdated. It is an important book to get for anyone that wants control of their Credit Score. It does a great job describing and facilitates understanding of the credit reporting process. As well, it explains the choice of procedures one may have to pursue an optimal Score. By stressing the rights of the individual, it makes you understand the rules. However, it comes a little short when it comes down to Rebuilding the credit it comes a little short. Some of the strategies are very passe in the information age. It's in dire need of a revision to recieve a 5 Stars Thank you.

Dont waste your money!.......2004-03-11

This book was worthless. It was basic and definitely outdated..

Guaranteed Results!.......2003-08-09

This is by far the most informative and effective book on credit repair I have ever read.As with all "how to" books,it's efficacy is contingent upon how much effort you actually put into implementing the advice it contains and believe me,there is Plenty of usefull,little known facts on the sleaziness of the credit card industry and the credit bureaus.Mr.Goldstien even includes the entire Fair Credit Reporting Act law at the end!After my divource,my credit was a mess.Armed with this information I have managed to clear up my report beyond my expectations.I have read other books on credit repair that basicly said there was nothing I could do for seven years to clear my name and credit.Not So!This Book is guaranteed to work but again,as with everything,you have to do the leg work.

Solid strategies to stay out of debt.......2002-09-14

Guaranteed Credit by Arnold "The Money Doctor" Goldstein, is a remarkable, practical, and thoroughly "user friendly" guide to swiftly improving a personal credit rating in only 90 days! From secrets the credit card industry won't tell you, to solid strategies to stay out of debt and repair bad credit, Guaranteed Credit is a superbly presented and effective "how to" guide expressly written for non-specialist general readers with credit troubles. Even people with as-yet flawless credit can benefit from the sample form letters, layman's interpretation of latest credit laws, and just plain sound advice in a book so useful, it comes with a money-back guarantee by the publisher! If using the techniques within does not improve the buyer's credit, the buyer can return the book (in resalable condition) to the publisher for a refund of "the lesser of publisher's list of actual purchase price, excluding shipping and handling, if any." There are many credit and finance advice books out there, but this is one author puts his money where his mouth is!

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Gradient elution demystified

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Written by two well-known authorities in liquid chromatography, High-Performance Gradient Elution: The Practical Application of the Linear-Solvent-Strength Model takes the mystery out of the practice of gradient elution and helps remove barriers to the practical application of this important separation technique. The book presents a systematic approach to the current understanding of gradient elution, describing theory, methodology, and applications across many of the fields that use liquid chromatography as a primary analytical tool.

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Automated off-line optimisation of programmed elutions in reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography using ternary solvent mixtures [An article from: Analytica Chimica Acta]
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A new system for the unattended optimisation of gradient elutions in reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography has been developed. The system is based on the simulation of retention times under conditions of ternary solvent mixtures and ternary gradient programmes. This model is constructed departing from a few experimental data obtained in isocratic elutions and validated against experimental gradient elutions. Once validated, this retention model can be used for the unattended search of an optimum separation. The optimisation process is driven by an evolutionary algorithm (EA), specially developed to map the ternary gradient elutions problem. The development and characteristics of the retention modelling as well as those of the EA and its particularities are discussed and some real world examples of separation presented.

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A comparative study of the performance of acetonitrile and methanol in the multi-linear gradient separation of proteic primary amino acids [An article from: Analytica Chimica Acta]
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The performance of the separation of proteic primary amino acids using multi-linear gradients of acetonitrile and methanol was studied under an experimental-design basis, using an Inertsil ODS-3 column and pre-column derivatization with o-phthaldialdehyde (OPA) and N-acetyl-l-cysteine (NAC). Elution strength, peak properties, resolution, and analysis time, were examined. The optimal separation was established through modeling, using information obtained from isocratic data. By optimizing the separation with gradients of increasing complexity, acceptable resolution was possible, being glycine/threonine the critical pair. Multi-criteria decision-making (Derringer desirabilities) was applied to balance resolution and analysis time. The more favorable peak distribution for methanol gradients allowed a larger reduction of analysis times, keeping satisfactory resolution, but its smaller elution strength forces the use of concentrations significantly larger. Methanol is, however, less toxic, and the final cost is similar for both solvents.

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The retention behaviour of compounds in a chromatographic system is believed to be multivariate by nature, i.e. many physico-chemical properties of an analyte can influence its retention. Principal component analysis (PCA) and partial least squares (PLS) can therefore be particularly useful tools for visualising, exploring and modelling the complex interactions between solutes and the mobile and stationary phase. PCA allows the relationships between compounds (the observations) and their retention parameters (the variables) to be visualised in usually just two or three dimensions. PLS can be used to model quantitative structure-retention relationships (QSRRs) and may lead to better understanding of retention and selectivity changes in chromatographic systems. The objective of the study was to investigate the chromatographic behaviour of basic compounds under optimised gradient conditions using octadecyl high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) columns designed for high pH separations. Three pharmaceutical mixtures were analysed by linear gradient reverse phase HPLC (RP-HPLC) at high pH using ammonia as a pH modifier, and methanol and/or acetonitrile as the organic modifier. The separations were carried out on three octadecyl columns: Waters XTerra MS C18, Agilent Zorbax Extend C18 and Thermo Hypersil-Keystone BetaBasic-18. Multivariate PCA and PLS modelling were employed to explore and explain the differences in selectivity between the chromatographic systems studied when the basic compounds were analysed under the high pH conditions. The interactions between the analytes and the mobile-stationary phases were described by relating the compound molecular descriptors with the selectivity of each chromatographic system. The selectivity differences between the chromatographic systems were identified.

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Poor print quality.......2007-03-09

The price of this paperback of SPM book is very good compared to that of the hardcover. However, the print quality is poor. In some of the images you barely see the featutres they talk about in the book. I am a SPM user so this is really bothering me. The SPM imagaes in this book are not very informative due to the poor print quality. Maybe the hardcover one has better print quality.

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