Scholarships are offered purely on the merits of performance at audition.
In addition to discussing various aspects of concrete durability, this contribution will discuss the merits of performance and objective-based specifications as well as the processes required to make them work.
The audience, quite delightfully, displayed the strong opinions and partisan enjoyment of sports fans, rooting for favorites and debating the relative merits of performances, even in some cases without prior specialized knowledge of the music.
But I've long wanted to do an empirical study of the merits of performances in relation to direction, because I think that, in an overwhelming preponderance of movies, there's a close correlation between the quality of an actor's performance and the inspiration of the director.
"My criticism was solely based on the merit of the performance I saw," he said by telephone on Wednesday.
Still, whatever the musical merit of the performance, it was the visual element — the seeming presence of Tupac onstage — that made such an impression on the audience.
Irish point-to-point form might be tough to assess, but the merit of the performance was certainly franked when runner-up Sydney Paget scored impressively first time out for Donald McCain in a Carlisle bumper earlier this month.
Comparative judgement ensures that individual judge severity is overcome because the judgement process is focused on the 'relative merit' of each performance and not the individual judge's standard (Bramley, 2007, p. 265; Pollitt, 2012a).
My view of it is the criticism is merited because of performance -- or lack of performance, because of incompetence.
In order to compare the different schemes, it is useful to introduce some figures of merit for performance models.
