Britain's new science minister, David Willetts of the Conservative Party, today made good a manifesto pledge today when he announced that the coalition government would delay for 1 year the implementation of the controversial Research Excellence Framework (REF), a system of assessing university departments for the distribution of funding.
Third, we carry out extensive simulations to study the effects of measurement delay and rotational inertia on the controllability of an aggregation of REFs and system stability.
The REF is a system of allocating research funding to university-based researchers based on the "quality" of their recent publications.
The two countries also agreed to investigate the possibilities for linking the inter-Korean railway to the trans-Siberian railway system (Ref F). 11. (C) On his state visit, Lee also signed an agreement to upgrade the ROK-Russia relationship to a "Strategic Cooperative Partnership", the same term used by China to describe this year's upgrade to the ROK-PRC relationship.
Up to now, only a few works have been given to investigate this problem, for instance, by using the stability theory of fractional-order linear system, Ref. [25] investigated modified general functional projective synchronization between a class of integer-order and fractional-order chaotic systems.
More information on BOS can be found in [14, 36]. Figure 1g shows a "lens-and-grid" or "focusing" schlieren system (Ref. [16] Ch. 4) in which the light source is a large backlit source grid SG combined with a Fresnel lens FL.
Patients were staged using the ISCL/EORTC TNM staging system (ref. 17).
The cblB disorder was separated biochemically from cblA by the failure to synthesise AdoCbl in broken cell extracts containing a reducing system (Ref. 85).
Time series were generated in the spatially explicit agent-based model, the Animal, Landscape and Man Simulation System (ref. [ 30]; see also Additional file 1).
A dedicated delivery system (REF F04B, kyphx Bone Filler Device, kyphon Inc. Medtronic, America) was used to inject the bone cement.
