Travel and accommodation

Is class of travel, e.g. coach or business class, specified in the code of the country where the healthcare professional is employed  

Are there any restrictions on who can be reimbursed for travel and/or See Section 8.2, p. 1 29 accommodation, e.g. accompanying persons such as spouses who do not qualify as delegates in their own right  

The guidance with respect to food and drink provided by pharmaceutical companies for healthcare professionals in many countries is that it should not be lavish and should be of a standard that health professionals would pay for themselves. This is obviously vague so it is suggested that individual pharmaceutical companies should provide guidance for their employees on what is considered acceptable in terms of cost, etc. 

Information that is available in the codes for the countries can be found in Chapter 8. 

In general terms, speakers in company-organised symposia can be paid for the time that they have spent preparing and delivering their presentations or chairing debates. However, this payment should normally be in line with commercial rates of pay for the amount of time spent. For country-specific requirements, refer to Section 7.5, p. 105. 

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Another illustration of the use of trip style variables comes from the study of self-drive travellers. In this literature important trip-related variables are party size, nights away from home, distance travelled and accommodation usage (Pennington-Gray, 2003). Further specialist studies of the senior self-drive travel market add the further trip style variables of the season of travel and a preference for multiple destinations (Hardy, 2003 Mings McHugh, 1996 Pearce, 1999a Prideaux Carson, 2003). 

Table 3.4 Key issues for travel and accommodation at international congresses...

To facilitate the transfer of knowledge and skills among qualified healthcare professionals, pharmaceutical companies may support educational programmes. Reimbursement for the expert s travel and accommodation, if necessary, and honoraria are acceptable. Participants in the programme may not be reimbursed for any costs or provided honoraria. As an exception to the general principle, a maximum of five healthcare professionals per calendar year, per brand, may participate in these programmes in a recognised centre of excellence. In this instance, travel and accommodation may be reimbursed. 

Payment of reasonable fees and reimbursement of out-of-pocket expenses, including travel and accommodation, may be provided to healthcare professionals who are providing genuine services as speakers or presenters on the basis of a written contract with the company at the event. 

An advisory board/consultant panel may be organised by international affiliates. These meetings, if held outside Canada, may include a maximum of 10 Canadian healthcare professionals, per brand, per year, who should be experts in their fields. Honoraria and reimbursement of travel and accommodation expenses may be provided as indicated above, provided that a consultancy agreement is in place. 

Lunch/dinner meetings can be held for maximum 10 physicians. The hospitality is limited to lunch or dinner. No travel and accommodation should be provided. 

No specific guidance on travel and accommodation general guidance on hospitality is given in Section... 

The costs calculated at the beginning of the study should include all the activities of the trial. Therefore, the investigators expect no additional payment. For example, the fund should include travel and accommodation costs if investigator meetings are planned during the trial. 

The additional costs to the universities are mainly travel and accommodation expenses for company visits and are estimated at 5,000 - 10,000 Euro per university per year. 

The advantage of test measurements is easy access. The disadvantage is the fact that there is no funding of travel expenses and accommodation. 

Flexibility You can manage your work schedule to fit your personal life. If you want a few days off you can have them without pay. This allows you to accommodate leisure interests such as travel and visits from the grandchildren. 

The uveal tract constitutes the middle tunic of the eye, located between the innermost retina and the outer protective scleral coat. This tissue and its constituent parts are both richly vascularized and highly innervated. The iris defines the anterior-most part of the uvea. It serves primarily as a diaphragm to admit light into the eye. Just posterior to the iris is the ciliary body, responsible for aqueous production and accommodation of the lens. Finally, the choroid defines the posterior-most aspect of the uvea. The choroid, via the choriocapil-laris, is responsible for blood supply to the outer one-third of the retina. It also serves as a pathway for numerous sensory and autonomic neurons traveling to the anterior eye. 

Hospitality extended in connection with promotional, professional or scientific events shall be limited to travel, meals, accommodation and genuine registration fees. 

Sponsorship to healthcare professionals is limited to the payment of travel, meals, accommodation and registration fees. 

Testing stratified atmospheres— When monitoring for entries involving a descent into atmosphere that may be stratified, the atmospheric envelope should be tested a distance of approximately 4 feet (1.22 m) in the direction of travel and to each side. If a sampling probe is used, the entrant s rate of progress should be slowed to accommodate the sampling speed and detector response. 

We only mention here that the probe used in AFM is a sharp tip, which is attached to a flexible microbeam (microcantilever). In AFM various forms of interactions between the apex of the tip (with a radius between approximately 10-100 nm) and the sample surface are measured, either as a function of tip location with respect to the surface, or at a fixed (x,y) position as a function of the cantilever deflection or tip-sample distance. In most conventional instruments the cantilever-tip assembly is attached to a piezo controller, which positions the tip in the (x,y) scanned plane and adjusts the vertical position (piezo travel) to accommodate sample height, or to measure tip-sample force curves. The latest generation instruments can also be equipped with active x-y-z distance feedback control loops, which enable one to perform lithography, vertical positioning of the tip (e.g. for single molecule force spectroscopy), etc. 

Shoulder Resurfacing Unpaved, stabilized shoulders should be paved in order to reinforce the edge of the traveled way, accommodate bicyclists, and increase safety. ALIO pavement wedge maybe used to transition between the travel way paving and a paved shoulder that will not be resurfaced on nonfreeways. ... 

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