But phenotypes of all living organisms represent the consequence of several genetic components including epistatic effects and their interactions with environment; therefore, to estimate genetic merit relevant to the epistases and their interactions with environment certainly plays a crucial role in planning an effective breeding regime [ 20, 21].
First, it is not plausible to hold that the merits are relevant to a judicial decision only when the sources make it so.
Fitting attitude theories hold that for something to be valuable is for it to merit some relevant evaluative attitude.
In the US, as in the UK, the Hicklin test of obscenity applied, but New York case law had established that books should be judged by their effects on adults rather than on children and that literary merit was relevant.
"Any workers' compensation claim will be evaluated and addressed on its merits and the relevant provisions of state law and the collective bargaining agreement," Mr. Curran said.
As Jeff Seglin, an Emerson College professor and ethics columnist, said, it's not as if Mr. Stermer broke the rules in service of some greater good or as an act of civil disobedience to argue the merits of the relevant law.
Anyone is eligible to apply for favorable treatment or special appointment, applications are judged on their merits, according to relevant criteria of merit for that particular institution, practice, or association, and selection proceeds in order of merit.
The Epistemic Uncertainty Project of Sandia National Laboratories NMM, USA) proposed two challenge problems intended to assess the applicability and the relevant merits of modern mathematical theories of uncertainty in reliability engineering and risk analysis.
No guidance has (before now) been provided as to the relevant merits of the paired and attribute level formulations.
Policy makers generally lead these processes, but are subject to decisions by fund holders and political leaders, who must be convinced of the relevant merits of action before any action can proceed; a theme that is consistent with the global health literature [ 12, 22].
