Talk:MiPNet23.05 IOC Innsbruck AT

In order to discern beginners and advanced users for the evaluation of the proficiency test, these must be recognized as such.

One possibility is to hand out a questionnaire and to decide based on this.

Some suggested questions for a questionnaire (which will need to be complemented by observation of the participants):

• Do you consider yourself a beginner or an advanced user of the O2k?

• How often have you been using the O2k in the past 6 months?

- Never/1-5 times/5-10 times/Routinely

• Are you doing experiments with one instrument only or do you handle several O2k's simultaneously?

• Did you (ever) determine instrumental oxygen background flux of the O2k in your lab?

• Have you ever volume-calibrated your O2k chambers?

• How often do you service your Polarographic Oxygen Sensors (POS)?

• How often do you zero calibrate your sensors?

• Do you use different protocols in chambers A and B in a single run?

• Have you been using the DatLab protocol driver before?

• Did you participate at an O2k-Workshop and if so, when and which type of Workshop (basic, advanced - e.g. Fluo, TPP)

• Do you understand the terms LEAK, OXPHOS, ET capacity, ROX?

• Do you understand the terms F-, N-, S-linked respiration?

• Do you understand the terms CI, CII, CI&II-linked respiration?