What does non-destructive analysis mean?

Borgwardt, Tyler; Wells, Douglas P.

doi:10.1080/23312009.2017.1405767

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“…The physical NHCs provide the ease and freedom to examine superficial properties, the biomaterials, and structures (the observable characteristics or phenotype) for sophisticated levels of non-destructive analysis that include: environmental scanning electron microscopy, optical coherence tomography, neutron imaging, and optical coherence tomography. [20] We highlight the trending role of NHCs to provide abundant and diverse material to facilitate further and more in detail understanding of unusual, unique, and superior strategies that have evolved by organisms, to act with and against a variety of physical and chemical phenomena, and to expand the coverage of countless phenotypic adaptations in biodiversity and biocomplexity (the diversity at all the levels of scale) across all contexts, times, and scales. As with evolutionary psychology, the understanding that a given phenomenon is an adaptation (a function for the benefit of survival and persistence) there is the requirement to follow as many "disparate sources of lines of evidence" as possible across every possible discipline (nomological networks of cumulative evidence).…”

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“…Biomimetic translation will only move ahead with the complete and wide‐ranging observation, analysis and characterization of organism phenotypes – the mechanism and the function. The physical NHCs provide the ease and freedom to examine superficial properties, the biomaterials, and structures (the observable characteristics or phenotype) for sophisticated levels of non‐destructive analysis that include: environmental scanning electron microscopy, optical coherence tomography, neutron imaging, and optical coherence tomography …”

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Natural History Collections as Inspiration for Technology

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Living organisms are the ultimate survivalists, having evolved phenotypes with unprecedented adaptability, ingenuity, resourcefulness, and versatility compared to human technology. To harness these properties, functional descriptions and design principles from all sources of biodiversity information must be collated − including the hundreds of thousands of possible survival features manifest in natural history museum collections, which represent 12% of total global biodiversity. This requires a consortium of expert biologists from a range of disciplines to convert the observations, data, and hypotheses into the language of engineering. We hope to unite multidisciplinary biologists and natural history museum scientists to maximize the coverage of observations, descriptions, and hypotheses relating to adaptation and function across biodiversity, to make it technologically useful. This is to be achieved by developments in meta‐ taxonomic classification, phylogenetics, systematics, biological materials research, structure and morphological characterizations, and ecological data gathering from the collections − the aim being to identify and catalogue features essential for good biomimetic design.

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Natural History Collections as Inspiration for Technology

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“…Because of these drawbacks, in recent decades, there has been a surge in publications exploring potential nondestructive approaches towards archaeological material (e.g. Biró 2005;Borgwardt and Wells 2017). In the case of coprolites, X-ray computed tomography (μCT) scanning has been utilised for the past two decades to avoid destructive analysis, facilitate replicability and create raw data for future research.…”

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Combined visual and biochemical analyses confirm depositor and diet for Neolithic coprolites from Skara Brae

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Archaeol Anthropol Sci

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Coprolites (fossilized faeces) can provide valuable insights into species’ diet and related habits. In archaeozoological contexts, they are a potential source of information on human-animal interactions as well as human and animal subsistence. However, despite a broad discussion on coprolites in archaeology, such finds are rarely subject to detailed examination by researchers, perhaps due to the destructive nature of traditional analytical methods. Here, we have examined coprolitic remains from the Neolithic (third millennium BCE) settlement at Skara Brae, Orkney, using a range of modern methods: X-ray computed tomography, scanning electron microscopy, lipid and protein analysis (shotgun proteomics of the coprolite matrix as well as collagen peptide mass fingerprinting of isolated bone fragments). This combined approach minimised destructiveness of sampling, leaving sufficient material for subsequent study, while providing more information than traditional morphological examination alone. Based on gross visual examination, coprolites were predominantly attributed to domestic dogs (Canis familiaris), with morphologically identified bone inclusions derived from domestic sheep (Ovis aries) and common voles (Microtus arvalis). Partial dissection of a coprolite provided bone samples containing protein markers akin to those of domestic sheep. Considering the predominance of vertebral and distal limb bone fragments, Skara Brae dogs were probably consuming human butchery or meal refuse, either routinely fed to them or scavenged. The presumably opportunistic consumption of rodents may also have played a role in pest control.

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“…The properties of external morphology, internal structure, and chemical composition can all provide valuable insights. Overall, a plethora of techniques exist for retrieving information from each pathway; however, chemical analyses are typically destructive [1], making them less than ideal candidates for use. Recent work [2] has shown photon activation analysis (PAA) as a potentially nondestructive elemental analysis technique in paleontology.…”

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“…As such, this paper will present a standardized methodology for the nondestructive use of PAA with paleontological samples. Usage of the phrase "non-destructive" in this paper will follow the criteria and definitions laid out in [1].…”

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Non-Destructive Photon Activation Analysis in Paleontology

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2018

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Paleontological samples are rare and non-renewable, which makes the study of their chemical or physical characteristics require non-destructive methods. Physical characteristics are routinely studied with non-destructive methods; however, chemical studies tend to require destructive methods unless samples are very small or only the surface compositions are of interest. One potential technique for non-destructive elemental analysis is photon activation analysis (PAA). PAA is a versatile, broad-spectrum, multi-element analysis tool with low sensitivities, capable of analyzing large samples without any alteration, preserving the physical characteristics. Recent work has applied PAA to fossils and their source matrices in an attempt to correlate provenance through trace element analysis. PAA was shown to be non-consumptive and able to identify 20+ elements in samples with sub-ppm sensitivities. From that work, several lessons were learned and the non-destructivity of the technique was better characterized. PAA doesn’t have one standardized methodology, as it varies depending on the sample type. As such, from the lessons learned from the previous research, a standard method of applying PAA non-destructively to paleontological samples has been developed and will be presented in the following paper.

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What does non-destructive analysis mean?

Cited by 8 publications

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Natural History Collections as Inspiration for Technology

Natural History Collections as Inspiration for Technology

Combined visual and biochemical analyses confirm depositor and diet for Neolithic coprolites from Skara Brae

Non-Destructive Photon Activation Analysis in Paleontology

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