The International Journal of Emergency Medicine publishes selected prize-winning abstracts from various international meetings as a means to highlight ongoing international emergency medicine research.
Politics can play a role in selecting prize winners.
And this is one of the more demented aspects of the business: how after going to the trouble of selecting prized specimens from the global gene pool, what designers like best is to render their beauty invisible.
We study the problem of selecting prize winners from a group of experts when each expert nominates another expert for the prize.
Stanley Prusiner, the sole physiology and medicine winner in 1997, said in 2014 that it's "better to be lucky than brilliant," and in 2011 and 2012, columnist Adam Ruben explored the fickle nature of selecting prize winners and doling out scientific credit.
Undeterred by the fact that there were no profs (of either sex) on this year's panel she excoriates "male academics" for invariably selecting prizes that will impress their colleagues, rather than selecting works that are readable.
Winners get select prizes from Colombina and Oscar Murillo.
The students rated the movie from one to 100, then selected the prize they would like to receive from a drawing for a free DVD.
And the reader's taste may not match up with the taste of the critics and others on judging committees who selected the prize-winner," said Sharkey.
This year, the gallery selected Pritzker Prize-winner Rem Koolhaas, founder of the Rotterdam, Netherlands-based Office for Metropolitan Architecture, and Cecil Balmond, deputy chairman of global design firm Arup, to design the pavilion.
When more than two people or organizations are selected, the prize is distributed at the judges' discretion.
