Duke University, for example, has been known to give out a limited number of merit scholarships, especially to top-ranked mathematics students.
My phone - and this, let's remember, is something that only a couple of decades ago, when I was winning my record-breaking number of merit badges at primary school, didn't even exist - is correcting my spelling.
The number of merit visas could grow to 250,000 over time.
In each design case a number of merit exponents are involved.
Besides being a throughout high first class (right from high school (1953) to M. Sc. (1959)) and meritorious product of the University of Allahabad, and having won a number of merit prizes and scholarships, he was awarded the Allahabad Jubilee Medal in the year 1959.
For highly porous catalytic coatings of gas evolving and gas consuming electrodes, eg Raney-nickel coated hydrogen evolving cathodes as well as for gas diffusion electrodes, slow diffusive mass transfer of the dissolved gases in the electrolyte limits the utilization of the nanoporous catalyst particles, the number of merit for the porous structures being the electrochemical Thiele modulus.
In 1978, the number of merit badges needed for Eagle was lowered to the original 21, and the number of required merit badges was set at 11 (this was changed to 12 in 1993).
In their original conceptions, Life Scout, Star Scout (Life preceded Star until 1924) and Eagle Scout were not ranks, but part of the merit badge system that recognized Scouts who had earned a specified number of merit badges.
In 1972, the Improved Scouting Program increased to 24 the number of merit badges needed to obtain Eagle, while reducing the list of required merit badges to ten, eliminating badges that required swimming and outdoor skills both of which were later reinstated, and adding the requirement to show leadership during the service project.
For example, a Scout who earns Eagle within two months before his 18th birthday will be unable to earn any palms regardless of the number of merit badges earned, because he will not be able to perform three months' additional active service before becoming ineligible for further advancement.
To determinate the optimal number of clusters, Figure of Merit (FOM) analyses were calculated to determine the quality of the clusters [ 74].
