A "reliability assessment does not require, although it does permit, explicit identification of a relevant scientific community and an express determination of a particular degree of acceptance within that community". United States v. Downing, 753 F. 2d, at 1238.
It's hard to be certain about why a particular applicant gains acceptance as there are so many variables that enter into the decision making process.
Could benefits that require public subsidy — like affordable housing, for example — be awarded to a particular neighborhood to win acceptance of a project rather than on the basis of where these benefits are needed most?
The applications often involve essays and recommendation letters, which the program administrators will use to match you to a particular research faculty upon acceptance.
The answer may depend on a particular journal's target acceptance rate and decision structure.
As noted above, any effects could be operating by changing the likelihood of applying to a particular university, the probability of acceptance conditional on application, or the probability of enrollment conditional on acceptance.
It is their badge of acceptance within a particular narrow community.
And these works are less divisive than religious texts because their insights are not contingent on the acceptance of a particular mythology, are based on reason, not revelation, and are therefore open to discussion and more responsive to the continually changing conditions we find ourselves in.
To find out what one is committed to with a particular set of beliefs, or acceptance of a particular theory of the world, is part of the larger discipline of ontology.
The thought that we are not good enough to enjoy the good life until we have accomplished a goal (a number on the scale; the honor roll; acceptance into a particular college; a sales target or a salary; a square footage in our home) sets us up to feel inadequate from the start.
This strategy implies the acceptance that a particular gene or set of genes among thousands can serve as a proxy for the evolutionary relatedness of organisms [ 42].
