It would award grants to individual research teams for a specific project, solely on the basis of scientific merit judged by peer review.
At 3 30 p.m., children and adults can enter a "Primp my bike" competition for the chance to win a Cannondale, with artistic and technical merit judged by exhibiting artists.
People active in the community often have their worth and merit judged by the number of faddish initiatives they have taken on or ignored (100-mile diet, zero-impact, zero-waste), the number of solar panels they've installed, or the kilometers they've cycled.
"Why should I be concerned if I know these charges have no merit?" Judge Silberman acknowledged that he counts among his friends both Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, two of President Bush's most influential advisers on Iraq.
Part of the problem is that the commission funded each proposal on its merits, without judging how many science centers a single island nation might support.
The pizzas — 11 of them, plus 9 optional toppings — were so good they would easily merit, if judged alone, an Excellent rating.
Written in rude Italian Saturnian metre, it had little poetic merit, to judge from the less than 50 surviving lines and from the comments of Cicero (Brutus) and Horace (Epistles); according to Horace, 1st-century-bc schoolboys studied the work.
The £10,000 award is given annually by the Royal Society of Literature to a work of fiction, non-fiction or poetry which is "of the highest literary merit", and judged to convey a sense of place.
F-ratio is employed as a criterion to determine the figure of merit to judge the above two sets of information, and to find a compromise between them.
Some journals perform an in-house screening of submissions and reject those they believe do not merit being judged by an external peer reviewer: "Because of the sheer volume of papers that come in there is little point in reviewing things we are never going to accept".
"Neither plaintiffs nor the government have shown a strong likelihood of success on the merits," Judge Cleland wrote.
