Sentences with phrase «by merit review»

Supported by grants from the American Diabetes Association, the Minnesota Beef Council, and the Colorado and Nebraska Beef Councils and by Merit Review Funds from the Medical Research Service, Department of Veterans Affairs, Minneapolis.

Not exact matches

It should be noted that South Coast Winery Resort & Spa's contributions fund does have limitations and each application is reviewed by special committee based on merit and other standard requirements to ensure fair distribution.

«prevent the Australian Competition Tribunal... from reviewing certain decisions made under the national energy laws and to ensure that decisions made by the Australian Energy Regulator (AER) under those laws are not subject to merits review by any other State or Territory body»

The EM explains that the Bill is designed to «prevent the Australian Competition Tribunal... from reviewing certain decisions made under the national energy laws and to ensure that decisions made by the Australian Energy Regulator (AER) under those laws are not subject to merits review by any other State or Territory body».

Personally, I find it rather ironic that you're lecturing the blog author on the rigor of language, when, faced with the need to support the claims made by a documentary that has faced absolutely no real standards of intellectual rigor or merit (the kind of evidence you apparently find convincing), you have so far managed to produce a study with a sample size too small to conclude anything, a review paper that basically summarized well known connections between vaginal and amniotic flora and poor outcomes in labor and birth before attempting to rescue what would have been just another OB review article with a few attention grabbing sentences about long term health implications, and a review article published in a trash journal.

Should your plan not cover the purchase and / or rental of a breast pump or if the breast pump provided by your plan does not meet your specific needs or if your plan has delayed delivery of the breast pump, we are pleased to review the merits of the pumps with you so that you can choose the breast pump that best meets your needs.

«These allegations merit a full and fair review by the appropriate authorities.

Austin Shafran, a spokesman for John L. Sampson, the Senate Democratic leader, said that the charges merited «a full and fair review by the appropriate authorities» but that no action was being taken to remove Mr. Espada from his leadership position.

· In 2014, the jail's Special Housing Unit (a disciplinary block) was reviewed by the New York State Commission of Correction, the oversight agency for jails statewide, and earned a «merited commendation» from the commission, which noted mental health operations in particular.

► «[T] he process of offering admission at selective Ph.D. programs is chock - full of assumptions that are seldom made explicit or challenged,» wrote Sian Beilock, vice provost for academic initiatives at the University of Chicago in Illinois, in her review of the book Inside Graduate Admissions: Merit, Diversity, and Faculty Gatekeeping, by Julie Posselt.

NSF is committed to increasing its support of basic research, mostly through competitive merit - reviewed grants, by shifting resources away from facilities and instrumentation support, a commitment that shows in its 3.8 percent increase for basic research to $ 2.1 billion.

After merit - review by panels consisting of a combination of scientific and entrepreneurship experts, six entrepreneurs were selected to advance to the Lab to Launch Live Pitching Finals.

Proposals are reviewed by an independent group of experts according to not only scientific merit and relevance but also to capacity - building potential.

• A spending bill approved in March included an amendment by Senator Tom Coburn (R - OK) that, for political science proposals to NSF, effectively adds a third review criterion to the usual two (scientific merit and broader impacts).

The agency will also review the scientific merits of the study, which was pitched by a Harvard University researcher who is now its leader.

Your application is reviewed for scientific merit and scored by a study section at the Center for Scientific Review; it is then evaluated for funding by whatever institute is chosen to consider it.

Scientists were invited to comment on the draft by 14 July, and this Thursday NSB's Task Force on Merit Review will discuss the proposed revisions.

A statement by the group's board of directors says the ongoing review of some 60 grants «is having a destructive effect on NSF and on the merit review process that is designed to fund the best research and to remove those decisions from the political process.»

The release of the new Statement of Principles for Scientific Merit Review followed a meeting of 47 research leaders hosted by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) at its headquarters in Arlington, Virginia.

The proposed guidance required that unless prohibited by Federal statute for competitive grants and cooperative agreements, Federal awarding agencies must design and execute a merit review process for applications.

Selected through an open national competition with a rigorous merit review process that relied on outside expert reviewers, JCESR is the fourth Energy Innovation Hub established by the Energy Department since 2010.

Other posters will explain how the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation choose which projects to fund, learn about the role of peer / merit review, and leave with a better appreciation for research that has beaten long odds to be funded by these competitive, world - class U.S. science agencies.

Every scientific article submitted to Medical Physics is peer - reviewed by individuals selected for their knowledge of the topic of the article, and for their objectivity and experience in assessing the scientific merit and clarity of presentation of scientific publications.

In considering applications, reviewers are instructed to address the two Merit Review Criteria as approved by the National Science Board - Intellectual Merit and Broader Impacts (NSF Proposal and Award Policies and Procedures Guide).

This work was supported by University of California at Los Angeles Specialized Program of Research Excellence In Lung Cancer NIH grant P50 CA90388, UC Tobacco - Related Disease Research Program 13RT - 0031, NIH RO1 CA111851 and Merit Review Research Funds from the Department of Veterans Affairs.

The two BOT members reviewing the nomination should consult with the COS for advice on the status of science in the candidate country by providing the information collected on its scientific merit.

Every game must be reviewed by it's own merit, but Tiny metal tries so hard to be Advance Wars that we must compare

Every game must be reviewed by it's own merit, but Tiny metal tries so hard to be Advance Wars that we must compare both games in order to find what works and what not in the new game.

Recently, Education Next released a path - breaking, peer - reviewed study by Ludger Woessmann which estimated long - term impacts of merit pay arrangements for teachers on student performance in math, science and reading at age 15.

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Review the Program Guide PDFs Get familiar withDeveloping Critical Thinking Skills Online and Merit's online management tools by looking at the guides and step - by - step walkthroughs.

Sadler (2006) strongly endorses the work of Black and Wiliam and cements the overall effectiveness of the practice when he states: I conclude by reiterating the position reached by Black & Wiliam's review: Formative assessment does make a difference, and it is the quality, not just the quantity, of feedback that merits our closest attention.

Places like Kirkus and Midwest Book Review do offer paid review services, but these are handled by trained, professional reviewers who will objectively weigh the merits of yourReview do offer paid review services, but these are handled by trained, professional reviewers who will objectively weigh the merits of yourreview services, but these are handled by trained, professional reviewers who will objectively weigh the merits of your work.

Selection: The author judges will select winners from a shortlist created by Kobo booksellers based on a combination of literary merit and reader engagement — completion rates, reviews, and ratings will factor into the final decision.

Of course, take all individual reviews as they come and judge them by their own merit.

Since this is a DLC pack I'm not going to go into great detail regarding the many, many merits of Dishonored's core gameplay mechanics as you've presumably already played it if you're reading this review, rather I'll go through the changes one by one to see what works and what doesn't.

So, comparisons to previous Devil May Cry games will be made in this review for obvious reasons, but ultimately the score and my final opinion on the game will be determined by DmC's own merits, as a standalone game, because I feel that's the fairest thing to do.

Still, that's no reason not to curl up by the fire with a glass of nog or nog substitute and listen to I «Snow Miser» Coleman and Jay «Heat Miser» Petrequin discuss why Star Wars «eighth episode is easily one of the best movies of the year, extol the merits of DOOM «s Switch port (now that Bethesda's bothered to fix some of the more glaring issues), catch up on some of the year's best games, movies, books, and music; and review Bridge Constructor Portal which, to the surprise of no one who was actually paying attention, did not turn out to be a stealth reveal for Half Life 3.

I fear that any attempt I make to objectively look at a NES game's merits on the new system would eventually be tainted by this one glaring issue and my review would degenerate into criticism of the Virtual Console service and not the game itself.

Applications were reviewed by panels of outside experts convened by NEA staff and each project was judged on its artistic excellence and artistic merit.

However, I am astonished that instead of arguing the merits of the issues raised by the exhibition, she turned her review into a personal attack on the curator.

11:15 p.m. Updated below As I promised in an earlier post on transparency and conflicts of interest in the fight over natural gas drilling, here's my piece on the importance of peer review in gauging the merits of research findings wielded by the «ban» or «bonanza» factions in this continuing battle.

It said waste would be avoided by having an open review process to select and support projects based on technical merits.

As part of climate negotiations, each national commitment to reduce ghg emissions should be reviewed by a panel of experts who would evaluate each national commitment to reduce ghg emissions on its merits as a matter of distributive justice.

Now, there is merit in writing a comprehensive review, although «Rise and Fall of the First Solar Theory» by Paul Charbonneau goes a long way already.

If he could just put it on hold until the process underwent the required review that was skipped by the Obama EPA I am quite certain it would fail for lack of merit or evidence.

The term «arbitral procedure» encompasses the period beginning with the filing of an action and ending when the award is rendered.891 The application of the law by a tribunal, on the other hand, goes to the actual merits of a dispute and therefore falls outside the scope of review at the recognition and enforcement stage.892

The Certificate of Merit is an opinion from a medical expert / certified physician offering evidence that the physician has reviewed the plaintiff's medical records, and based on the review, believes that there is a strong argument for an act of malpractice committed by the defendant based on the fact that evidence suggests the defendant deviated from the appropriate standard of care.

His site does this by eliminating fee splitting and by enabling lawyers to review documents and submit offers based on the case's merits.