The most common reason to hire is to cover a vacant permanent post but also to cover short-term spikes in demand or utilise skills on specific time-limited projects.
Ruedi Aebersold agrees, saying his most effective collaborations have been with tight, focused teams on time-limited projects.
However, time-limited projects are not included in this definition.
However, much biocuration is, in fact, dedicated to finite and time-limited projects in which insufficient resources demand trade-offs.
This framework combines the use of countrywide active surveillance, passive aggregate disease reporting, sentinel site surveillance, and prospective, time-limited projects to generate the comprehensive epidemiological data required to guide immunization programmes.
[ 8] A number of different types of organised volunteer peer support have been developed for pregnant women and women during the months after birth, usually as part of small scale, time-limited projects.
At the same time, these opportunities are highly circumscribed: bounded to specific interventions, targeting specific populations, and tied to short-term funding cycles and time-limited projects, they produce an 'archipelago' pattern of development (Geissler, this issue) rather than a concentric circle of progress.
Through small competitive grants, trainees and non-NIH-funded junior faculty have access to learning opportunities otherwise not available and develop a time-limited research project that augments PROP single site studies (Table 5).
Decline reached DVBD with a slight delay, as external funding for time-limited research projects (like the one I worked for at the time) created a brief period of bounty for the DVBD men.
In Iceland, the approval is time-limited, depending on each project and application.
