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Icephobic surfaces: Definition and figures of merit.
Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2019 Icephobic surfaces have a critical footprint on human daily lives ranging from aviation systems and infrastructures to energy systems, but creation of these surfaces for low-temperature applications remains elusive.
Peyman Irajizad, Sina Nazifi, H. Ghasemi
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Combining Patronage and Merit in Public Sector Recruitment
Journal of Politics, 2020 When do politicians in developing democracies prioritize meritocratic recruitment over patronage hiring for public sector jobs? I distinguish between low- and high-skilled positions and argue that the former are valuable for sustaining party machines ...
Sarah Brierley
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Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective Obesity, defined by body mass index (BMI) ≥30 kg/m2, is a risk factor for functional limitations in people with knee osteoarthritis (OA). However, function varies among such individuals. Our objective was to evaluate the implications of obesity subtypes on longitudinal patterns of physical functioning in people with or at risk for knee OA ...
Kristine Godziuk +7 more
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The Allocation of Merit Pay in Academia: A Case Study [PDF]
This paper investigates whether the widespread awarding of faculty merit pay at a large public university accurately reflects productivity. We show that pairwise voting on a quality standard by a committee can in theory be consistent with observed ...
James Manley +2 more
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Contextualising merit and integrity within human research
, 2011 The first consideration of any Australian Human Research Ethics Committee should be to satisfy itself that the project before them is worth undertaking.
Thomson, Colin, Pieper, Ian James
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Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Over the past 50 years, the science of pediatric rheumatology has grown exponentially due to an expansion in the understanding of complex rheumatic conditions and a surge in novel targeted therapeutics. Physician‐scientists in the field of pediatric rheumatology have played major roles in these advancements that have improved the care of children ...
Ekemini A. Ogbu +2 more
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Frontiers in SociologyHow do people balance competing principles of distributive justice when allocating limited goods? This study applies a novel methodological approach—distributional survey experiments (DSEs)—to examine how people weigh merit, need and equality ...
Sandra Gilgen +2 more
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Polisemie del merito e della sua valutazione nei processi educativi
Studi sulla Formazione, 2019 Starting from the epistemological assumptions of the debate on educational evaluation, the essay discusses the different meanings given to the word “merit” in common use and, consequently, the different interpretations of evaluation processes informed by
Monica Ferrari
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Immunosuppressive Drug Use in Limited Systemic Sclerosis: An International Survey
Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.Objective Current guidelines recommend immunosuppressive treatment for diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis but are less clear on their use in limited cutaneous systemic sclerosis (lcSSc) in the absence of internal organ complications. We conducted an international survey to understand current immunosuppressive drug prescribing patterns in lcSSc ...
Sabrina Hoa +3 more
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Merit Motives and Government Intervention: Public Finance in Reverse [PDF]
A common view in public finance is that there is an efficiency-redistribution tradeoff in which distortions are tolerated in order to redistribute income.
Casey B. Mulligan, Tomas J. Philipson
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