Individuals with minor mobility problems only, for example, are likely to recognise the possibility of better health states, yet all might agree that the problems themselves are insufficient to merit assignment to "moderate" or "severe" in the EQ-5D's mobility domain.
For example, if all edges are assigned identical merit scores then any assignment is optimal.
If, going forward, we eliminated all the automatic raises and promises of huge lifetime benefits, we'd have an enormous amount of money to devote to merit pay, hardship-assignment incentives, and recruiting in subjects where we have shortages.
DISCUSSION Our findings highlight the need for further research into the relative merit of subtype-assignment in patients with ARFID and whether such practice would aid in the recommended treatment.
He said CDR Financial had competed fairly for the bond business and won its assignment on the merits.
Through tireless work, long nights and extra rotations I began winning awards at my first duty assignment; eventually, these merits built upon each other and became a steady flow.
The assignment of D9S6 merits further investigation because OAR9 is currently designated as homologous to CHI14, not CHI9 (ISCNDB 2001).
The union, the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, had sought to have the promotions reversed, arguing that they violated a judicial order barring the department from awarding "special assignment pay or merit pay in any form" without negotiating with the union.
Nevertheless, variation in rejection rate by reviewer attributes, as reported here, represents a potential reviewer bias, which is likely to affect community-level perception and assignment of relative merit in the peer-review process [2].
Schneider et al. (2009) operationalized the use of the Klimisch reliability categories by developing an evaluative tool with uniform, objective category criteria enabling scientifically sound evaluations and assignment of relative merit weighting to toxicological studies and data.
