Speciality Cards

PLA is finding new applications in speciality cards such as credit, membership, retail and gift cards. Biodegradable polymers provide retailers and brand owners with an opportunity to provide a more responsible environmental position to traditional plastics such as PVC for these applications. The rigid properties of PLA sheet allow it to be easily scored and PLA also exhibits an optimum surface for printing and varnishing. 

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Speciality Cards PLA can be used for a variety of cards including gift, phone, key, credit and retail cards. Other sheet applications include folding cartons and blister packs. 

Packaging, including foodservice, is easily the largest end use market for PLA with 70% of total consumption in 2005. Textile fibres account for an estimated 23% of total volumes. Other applications, with just 7% of total volumes, include speciality cards and sheet, agricultural products and a wide range of injection moulded products. 

Chapter 9 examines the market opportunities for biodegradable plastics by end use market covering packaging, bags and sacks, disposable serviceware, agriculture and horticulture, medical devices, consumer electronics products, automotive, speciality cards and fibres. 

B. In most cases, a male DB-25 port will be a serial port. In some cases, you could find some specialized cards that differ, but they are rare. 

The original list of indexes to be examined should be reviewed at this point and revised if necessary on the basis of the additional knowledge obtained in the review of the books and the like. In fact, both the list of sources to be examined and the subject headings to be used should be repeatedly checked and revised as the search progresses. The searcher may wish to start the indexes with the special card index in the library, if this is sufficiently complete. If a more exhaustive search is required, the searcher would start from here with the most comprehensive indexes available. 

The receiving serial number and the items described under paragraph 4.2.9 as well as the legend AWAITING INSPECTION shall be written on a special card (with perforated sections) placed on each package of raw materials. The packages shall be kept in quarantine. 

Additional modules available for some, but not all, concentrators may allow data traffic from this network in box to travel to other local LANs via bridge or router add-on modules. (Bridges and routers will be discussed in the next section on internetworking.) These combination concentrators are sometimes called internetworking hubs. Communication to remote LANs or workstations maybe available through the addition of other specialized cards, or modules, designed to provide access to wide area network services purchased from common carriers. 

The system is designed to handle data obtainable with NaCl, KBr, KRS-5, and other prism materials. The cards provide wavelength data to the closest 0.1 // for the 2-25 p region, and to the closest 1 p for the 25-50 p region. Special cards are available for LiF and CaF2 prism data, which show better resolution of spectra. 

Each time one of these changes is made, there is a chance for an error to occur. So after each change the program must be checked to see that it responds correctly under as many varied situations as possible. Most programs have special input card decks, or tapes, that have been prepared to perform these tests. These are merely a set of specific input data for which the responses have been hand-calculated. If the computer and hand-calculated results agree, the program is considered correct. Of course, when the data bank is altered the answers are altered. This means a corrected set of hand calculations must be made whenever the data bank is changed. 

Pick up any newspaper or watch any news program chances are that these media use percentages to make their information clear. Every time you shop for a sale, borrow money, choose a credit card, invest money, or pay a tip to a service worker, you use your understanding of percents. Percents are special ratios that compare a part to a whole the whole is always one hundred. Percent problems can be solved just like any other type of ratio/pro-portion problem. This chapter will also review alternate methods to solve percent problems. 

Despite the obvious merit of this conventional wisdom, selectivity wild cards often prove essential, and there is real value in developing a repertoire of special weapons and tactics. Even though there is no way to predict which, if any, will produce the effect you seek, the options are limited, well defined, and the investment of resources reasonably modest. By the time you get to the point of evaluating wild cards, you will probably be sufficiently familiar with your analytical system to discern a useful result from a chromatogram without extensive secondary testing. The principal investment will be buffer preparation and the time to run the analyses. 

The Yellow Card Scheme, at first restricted to receive reports from doctors, dentists and coroners, has been gradually expanded to receive reports from other sources. From October 1996, the Scheme was extended to include reporting of suspected adverse reactions to unlicensed herbal remedies. In April 1997, the Yellow Card Scheme was further extended to include hospital pharmacists as recognised reporters of suspected ADRs. In addition, there are specially targeted extensions of the Scheme such as adverse reactions to HIV medicines and adverse reactions in children. Over the period, the Scheme has been gradually extended further to receive reports from community pharmacists and in October 2002, from nurses, midwives and health visitors. 

All reports on suspected ADRs are co-ordinated and assessed in the company s Medical Department and/or Pharmacovigilance Unit. As much relevant information as possible is obtained from the doctor concerned to enable physicians and scientists to assess the case and determine whether the reaction was caused by the product. A special company ADR card which is often similar to the CSM yellow card may be sent to the doctor to be completed with the required details. 

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