All of these concepts have merit and relevance.
The merit and relevance of the PCA to the present study is illustrated by applying to the abnormal quiet day variations in H and D at Indian stations.
Proposals are reviewed by an independent group of experts according to not only scientific merit and relevance but also to capacity-building potential.
Postdoctoral applications are evaluated on three criteria: 1) The applicant; 2) The host laboratory and research environment; and 3) The proposal's scientific merit and relevance of the proposal to the Foundation's goals.
A thorough review of early school leaving (Lehr et al. 2003) revealed that research on school dropout has been overwhelmingly predictive or descriptive (mainly analyzing predictive/explicative causes of dropouts) in nature and that most methodologies used to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions have been of low quality and have very little scientific merit or relevance.
When 12 biology students judged the pedagogical merit, depth, relevance, fluency, and ambiguity of the two different types of questions to professional human-made questions, the pattern of results depended on whether we assumed the judgements were a ratio scale or an ordinal scale.
In a response to Friday's decision, NIH spokesperson John Burklow said NIH doesn't set aside fixed amounts of money for studying adult or embryonic stem cells, but instead makes award decisions based on scientific merit and relevance to NIH's priorities.
Still, I think careful consideration should be put into required reading lists, and the merit and relevance of classics like Catcher should be reexamined from time to time.
Other figures-of-merit of relevance to RF front-end design are presented, including the maximum stable gain and noise figure.
This type of argument format was quite usual in the Finnish documents where, the various ethical and legal issues were discussed on their merits and relevance in relation to public expenditure, as well as commercial potential (cf. Tupasela 2008).
