Anorexia is a very common manifestation of disease. Cats that are eating ravenously present less of a diagnostic dilemma, as there is a shorter list of illnesses that result in increased appetite (diabetes, hyperthyroidism, pancreatic insufficiency and a few others).
The fragments that survive the journey through the analyzer shoot into the electron multiplier-the detector of the GCMS. The electron multiplier detects every ion of the selected mass that passes through the quadrupole analyzer. Electron multipliers use a process known as secondary electron emission. When the ions hit a surface, it causes the electrons in the outermost area of the atom to be released, which are known as secondary electrons.
Multiplier (economics) Not to be confused with the Lagrange multiplier, a mathematical tool often used in economics. In macroeconomics, a multiplier is a factor of proportionality that measures how much an endogenous variable changes in response to a change in some exogenous variable. For example, suppose variable x changes by 1 unit, which causes another variable y to change by M units.