The Demeter program is the first application of the Myriade microsatellite program conducted by the Cnes (French Space Agency) since 1997.
Moreover, a first application of an acceptance-based program in cardiac patients has revealed high treatment satisfaction and initial evidences of effectiveness in increasing heart-healthy behaviour.
This is the first application of a realist synthesis to community-based conservation programs.
The first application of PRA to epidemiological issues was when community-based animal health programs used it to conduct animal health assessments to inform program design.
The third priority is the consistent application of the program in a way that inspires confidence that the program is there for the medium term.
Those authors found the first applications of audio segmentation in automatic program monitoring of FM stations, and in the improvement of performance of ASR technologies, respectively.
During the first year of the program, no applications with scores less favorable than 4.4 were funded.
In the second and third years of the program, a second submission deadline, which was limited to revised applications not funded in the initial submission, occurred 3 6 wk after the scores from the first round were released to the applicants.
In the second year of the program, the program announcement was clarified, stressing the intent to fund applicants for both the acquisition of new skills and/or the application of existing skills to new research questions.
In its first round of use, the program found that 30 applications had evidence of plagiarism.
It selected its first cohort — a group of 19 founders selected from 1,500 applications — earlier this year, and the program announced that its second cohort is open for applications today.
