Promotional costs

Each company with sales to the NHS of more than 1 million per annum has to supply financial information and those with sales of between 1 million and 25 million will have to supply full audited accounts. Companies with NHS sales greater than 25 million will have to submit a full annual financial return (APR). Products with NHS sales of greater than 100 000 and 500 000 will have to be specifically identified. These annual returns cover the overall sales to the NHS and the costs incurred, such as research and development expenditure, manufacturing costs, general administrative costs, promotional expenditure and capital employed. (Details of specific produce costs or sales are not required.)... 

Costs, promotion, and distribution channels will likely be the key deciding factors if organics are to reach a larger audience, especially a mass audience. Research shows that consumers will choose an ecologically friendly product over a conventional one if the price is the same or only marginally different and most other factors are equal (Rice and McLean, 1999). But for many organic products, costs of production are considerably higher than their conventional counterparts. 

MS is undoubtedly the solution of the near future for LC detection. Improvements made to interfacing devices together with a continuous and sensible diminution of instrumentation costs promote MS as a universal/selective tunable detection system. Atmospheric pressrue electrospray ionization (ESI) and atmospheric pressure chemical ionization (APCI) are the most robust and popular devices for interfacing MS to LC systems. In Table 9, LC-MS data for some pesticides are given. Although ESI and APCI are more often used, other LC-MS interfaces produce reliable results in pesticide applications thermospray (TSI), particle beam (PBI) and matrix-assisted postsource decay laser desorption/ionization (CID-PSD-MALDI). 

Key account management time Trade bonuses and special discount Order processing costs Promotional costs (visible and hidden) Merchandising costs Non-standard packaging/unitisation Dedicated inventory holding costs Dedicated warehouse space Materials handling costs Transport costs... 

The widespread use of LCPs is hindered by their high cost, promoting the study of their blends with conventional thermoplastic polymers. However, commercial LCPs are immiscible with many thermoplastic polymers. The challenge in the processing of thermoplastic/LCP blends is to increase the interfacial adhesion between the blend components while preserving the in-situ fiber formation. An optimum amount of compatibilization is necessary to fully utilize these blends [2,4]. 

Although benzenesulphonyl chloride has for simplicity been used in the above discussion, tolucne-/>- sulphonyl chloride, CHaCeH SO Cl, is more frequently used in the laboratory, owing to its much lower cost, the latter being due in turn to the fact that toluene-p-sulphonyl chloride is a by-product in the commercial preparation of saccharin. Toluene-p sulphonyl chloride is a crystalline substance, of m.p. 68° the finely powdered chloride will, however, usually react readily with amines in the Schotten-Baumann reaction it does not react so readily with alcohols, but the reaction may be promoted considerably by first dissolving the chloride in some inert water-soluble solvent such as acetone. 

Air-Atmosphere Furnaces. These furnaces are appHed to processes where the workload can tolerate the oxidation that occurs at elevated temperatures in air. In some special appHcations, the oxidation is not only tolerable but is desired. Some furnaces heat the work solely to promote oxidation. Furnaces designed for air operation are not completely gas-tight which results in somewhat lower constmction costs. There are no particular problems encountered in selecting the insulation systems because almost all refractory insulations are made up of oxides. Heating element materials are readily available for the common temperature ranges used with air atmospheres. 

Emulsives are solutions of toxicant in water-immiscible organic solvents, commonly at 15 ndash 50%, with a few percent of surface-active agent to promote emulsification, wetting, and spreading. The choice of solvent is predicated upon solvency, safety to plants and animals, volatility, flammabiUty, compatibihty, odor, and cost. The most commonly used solvents are kerosene, xylenes and related petroleum fractions, methyl isobutyl ketone, and amyl acetate. Water emulsion sprays from such emulsive concentrates are widely used in plant protection and for household insect control. 

Microbial-enhanced oil recovery involves injection of carefully chosen microbes. Subsequent injection of a nutrient is sometimes employed to promote bacterial growth. Molasses is the nutrient of choice owing to its low (ca 100/t) cost. The main nutrient source for the microbes is often the cmde oil in the reservoir. A rapidly growing microbe population can reduce the permeabiHty of thief zones improving volumetric sweep efficiency. Microbes, particularly species of Clostridium and Bacillus, have also been used to produce surfactants, alcohols, solvents, and gases in situ (270). These chemicals improve waterflood oil displacement efficiency (see also Bioremediation (Supplement)). 

Instrumental Interfaces. The basic objective for any coupling between a gas chromatograph (gc) and a mass spectrometer (ms) is to reduce the atmospheric operating pressure of the gc effluent to the operating pressure in the ms which is about 10 kPa (10 torr). Essential interface features include the capability to transmit the maximum amount of sample from the gc without losses from condensation or active sites promoting decomposition no restrictions or compromises placed on either the ms or the gc with regard to resolution of the components and reliability. The interface should also be mechanically simple and as low in cost as possible. 

Reiaforced plastics may also iaclude fillers (qv), which are iaexpeasive materials such as calcium carboaate used to displace resia and reduce cost curing agents (catalysts), promoters, inhibitors, and accelerators, which affect thermosetting resia cure colorants release agents (qv) to faciUtate removal from the mold and other additives which can impart a wide variety of properties to the finished part, such as fire resistance, electrical conductivity, static dissipation, and ultraviolet resistance. 

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