SNSF will ensure that its evaluation panels include members who have experience with ERC evaluation procedures, Knaus says.
On the evidence of her track record, her research proposal's quality, and her ambition, Aifantis's jury saw her as having "a very high potential to become an independent research leader in spite of her limited experience," according to the ERC evaluation report.
This scenario must have been an utter surprise for one of the European Research Council's (ERC's) evaluation panel members who, last year, stumbled across the most bizarre case of scientific misconduct that the organization has witnessed so far.
The ERC said: "This evaluation will examine the rationale for the proposed changes to both tournaments, as well as the impact on all stakeholders of any change to the format and structure of the competitions".
These concerns are made worse by a rather unstructured oversight system of local ERCs - each local health bureau organizes a group of experts to conduct an annual evaluation of ERCs, but there is no oversight of the different ERCs.
An improvement of this approach over existing meta-regression methods is that the use of regression splines eliminates the need to make strict a priori assumptions regarding the shape of the ERC, which allows for a more objective evaluation of its actual shape.
SNSF's emergency plan will broadly follow the same rules, evaluation criteria, and funding calendar as ERC's.
A Proof of Concept grant that I later obtained from the ERC enabled me to start carrying out a market evaluation and writing a business plan for a promising therapy that emerged from the research.
MRI thanks to its inherent superior contrast and spatial resolution, especially with an endorectal coil (ERC)—represents an emerging and promising modality for the evaluation of prostatic fossa after RP.
With regard to empirical evaluation of these four single Q matrix models (Q-I, Q-ERC, Q-ATAC, Q-ATAS), models based on apprentices' think-aloud studies usually show better model fit values than researchers'/experts' Q matrix models.
Our findings suggest that, besides conventional pathological analysis like T stage, tumor size, sm-level of infiltration, differentiation, and vascular infiltration, evaluation of the immunological microenvironment might further improve prediction of lymph node involvement in ERC.
