Sentences with phrase «than scientific merits»

Because the patent process is long and expensive, the rationale to file a patent is often based more on business reasons than scientific merits of the invention.

Could it be possible that the scientific consensus you speak of, is a result of a lot of papers not seeing the light of publication due to factors other than scientific merit?

It seems to me the suggestion was intended more for its rhetorical effect than its scientific merit.

Not exact matches

Because names of potential experts may come from sources other than panel members — for example, from scientific societies — the panel's other important role will be to vet the recommended scientists, engineers or physicians for scientific merit, reputation, and the ability to communicate highly technical information to non-scientific audiences.

In the first phase, a panel of judges (comprised of judges selected by AAAS at its sole discretion) will select no more than 5 dances in each field, based on artistic and scientific merit.

The age old adage «women are better at multitasking than men» may have some scientific merit.

But some academics criticized the system because they perceived that it focused on the «impact» of research in society at large rather than on its scientific merit.

Although the Italian scientific culture seems, at times, to be more of an «ageocracy» than a meritocracy, I believe that I was hired on merit and that if I succeed in fulfilling or, indeed, surpassing the expectations my employers, my efforts will be appreciated and therefore rewarded.

The criteria used to make a favorable review decision encompass more than the scientific and technical merits of your proposal.

Finally, Hess defends other reforms of his choosing, such as merit pay, with little more than such saucy statements as, «While there is little or no scientific proof [for merit pay], that's probably the way to bet» (p. 149).

All comments should be anonymous, and therefore treated on their scientific merit rather than inflated «me too, me too» authority...

I understand your frustration at having some of your work described as anecdotal and (presumedly) therefore of lesser scientific merit even than of some of the non-robust GCM's that dot the landscape.

IF temperatures rise by 5 C, as claimed by Hansen on days when he thinks nobody capable of judging the scientific merit of the claim is looking, then it might well be more expensive to do nothing than to try to mitigate.

I have heard more than once that the scientific and engineering challenges of developing some technologies are significant enough to merit increased research efforts now.

Although additional efforts to refine an adverse childhood experience checklist that predicts later health outcomes has scientific merit, an argument can be made that enough is known about certain harmful childhood experiences22 that more testing of parts of this model should be carried out through experiment rather than correlation.