My experience is more with Department of Energy grants, so I don't know how much of this applies to NIH grants, but in grants I have dealt with a lot of time is spent basically promoting the expertise of the PI and how that person's expertise would allow them to successfully perform the research proposed in the grant proposal.
If you intend to strip out all identifying information then a large part of the introductory sections are can no longer be confirmed by the peer reviewers by means of checking the PI's background or references. Expertise and ability to successfully execute the proposed research is an important aspect of any grant, and it can be an unreasonable burden on a Project Manager to have to evaluate each proposal without some kind of expert input.
I agree with the sentiment of wanting to strip out all identifying information, as I have personally experienced bias from competing researchers during various peer review processes, but I believe that it would simply be impractical.
Except that the criteron for choosing a Nobel Prize recipient is that they performed research that has been shown to be of great importance within the previous year.
As a person who actually works around dangerous chemicals, extremely flammable gases, and carcinogens I know that there are a great deal of regulations concerning the proper handling of those substances. I would assume that he would have had to obtain permits and undergone inspections to ensure the safety, environmental and health related, of the room he was performing his experiments in. This is for both his safety and for the safety of those around him, and frankly if he didn't follow the proper procedures and obtain the correct paperwork then they had every right to confiscate those chemicals. If they had not and some tragedy occurred due to those chemicals then they could be held liable because they knew about them. If he does in fact have any permits required and is not breaking any zoning laws or putting lives in danger then they were wrong in the confiscation. In my opinion he has every right to experiment, but not without regard to safety.
In some places this is against the law. I know where I live you are not allowed to put out your garbage until after 4pm the night before pick-up. Obviously enforcement of this is not consistent. I've seen people randomly get notices on their doors about this, and then there's other neighborhoods where the cans basically sit out all week long instead of being carted back and forth from house to curb.
Yes, I too remember the commentators mentioning the fact that those footsteps were CGI. The last two stories about the Olympics broadcasts seem like they could have been avoided if people had only listened to the commentary on the broadcasts.
If you had seen the broadcast you would know why the countries are in that order. They said that China ordered based on the number of brush strokes of the first character in the simplified Chinese representing the country's name. I watched the entire thing last night following along with the list with the names written in Chinese and the only editing they did was to fit in commercial breaks and all they did there was do a quick recap of the countries that went past during the break. This is a non-story.
i too was confused by the inclusion of myspace in that list. I am using 3.0 and I have my awesome bar disabled, I use bookmarks, I really don't see where the problem is
As much as I like my Wii, it is clear that it would never be capable to play FFXIII on it. Besides the the fact that the processors simply would not be powerful enough to provide an equivalent game experience as on the other two consoles, there is also no HD output (besides 480p).
I wonder if Calibri and Cambria are listed under this agreement. If so I would put those in the "not crap" category, I happen to like Calibri alot and use it extensively, I realize that its similar to Lucida Sans.
Actually, there have been two other console games with an AO rating, Thrill Kill for the Playstation, and The Joy of Sex, for CD-i, if you consider that a console.
The National Hurricane Center predicted a more than typical number of storms for that year indicating that we were going to have a very active season. They base this on average water surface temperatures, atmospheric pressure trends and much much more. The problem is that even with all of this information it is possible that something that they didn't take into account will affect the hurricane season and consequently make their yearly prediction wrong. Predicting the intensity of a hurricane season is not a particularly simple thing to do, and just like any weather prediction it has a high possibility of being incorrect. Like the other reply said, the media simply grabbed onto this prediction and basically struck fear into the people living here, but I suppose that alarming the people and forcing them to prepare for something that might happen is better than predicting an under active hurricane season and being surprised.
With the internet you can mute/ignore people. It's much easier to filter out the noise that you don't like. When a person is sitting right next to you on a plane in the middle of a crowded flight talking loudly on his/her cell phone for three and a half hours, what are you going to do about it?
Colors are arbitrarily assigned to ranges of wavelength. Color arises because certain wavelengths are reflected from surfaces and others are absorbed. if there is a complete absence of light then there are no wavelengths to be reflected or absorbed, therefore no color. So an object does need light to have color. If the color was defined as the wavelengths that are reflected from the surfaces then even without light those objects would be defined as having a color. But color seems to be defined by the ranges of wavelengths that we see. Just my thoughts on it.
This isn't strange, why would you publish this when the program that breaks it is in BETA still? Windows Vista was officially released and then they saw it was still broken so they released this statement. I don't see anything strange about that. In fact it seems downright logical.
Exactly. In fact as a researcher I don't know anybody in my field here in the US that even uses anything but metric. The only time I have to deal with the US standard is when i have to deal with our machine shop. Scientists are all already using metric. Its mostly just the average American that doesn't want to change. Frankly I can see why. They have all grown up with MPH and degrees F, so they can look at one of those measurements and instantly imagine how much it is, but with KPH and degrees C they don't know what to make of it. For me personally even this is difficult despite the fact that I work in metric everyday. I still have to think about it for a minute every time I see degrees C because I grew up with the current US standard. That is why there is such an aversion to switching. I would personally welcome such a switch though, and any children I have would benefit greatly if we switch now.
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My experience is more with Department of Energy grants, so I don't know how much of this applies to NIH grants, but in grants I have dealt with a lot of time is spent basically promoting the expertise of the PI and how that person's expertise would allow them to successfully perform the research proposed in the grant proposal.
If you intend to strip out all identifying information then a large part of the introductory sections are can no longer be confirmed by the peer reviewers by means of checking the PI's background or references. Expertise and ability to successfully execute the proposed research is an important aspect of any grant, and it can be an unreasonable burden on a Project Manager to have to evaluate each proposal without some kind of expert input.
I agree with the sentiment of wanting to strip out all identifying information, as I have personally experienced bias from competing researchers during various peer review processes, but I believe that it would simply be impractical.
Except that the criteron for choosing a Nobel Prize recipient is that they performed research that has been shown to be of great importance within the previous year.
depends on how big the rocks are
As a person who actually works around dangerous chemicals, extremely flammable gases, and carcinogens I know that there are a great deal of regulations concerning the proper handling of those substances. I would assume that he would have had to obtain permits and undergone inspections to ensure the safety, environmental and health related, of the room he was performing his experiments in. This is for both his safety and for the safety of those around him, and frankly if he didn't follow the proper procedures and obtain the correct paperwork then they had every right to confiscate those chemicals. If they had not and some tragedy occurred due to those chemicals then they could be held liable because they knew about them. If he does in fact have any permits required and is not breaking any zoning laws or putting lives in danger then they were wrong in the confiscation. In my opinion he has every right to experiment, but not without regard to safety.
In some places this is against the law. I know where I live you are not allowed to put out your garbage until after 4pm the night before pick-up. Obviously enforcement of this is not consistent. I've seen people randomly get notices on their doors about this, and then there's other neighborhoods where the cans basically sit out all week long instead of being carted back and forth from house to curb.
Yes, I too remember the commentators mentioning the fact that those footsteps were CGI. The last two stories about the Olympics broadcasts seem like they could have been avoided if people had only listened to the commentary on the broadcasts.
The Earth is flat, just within a curve space. Oh snap! Did I just blow your mind!
If you had seen the broadcast you would know why the countries are in that order. They said that China ordered based on the number of brush strokes of the first character in the simplified Chinese representing the country's name. I watched the entire thing last night following along with the list with the names written in Chinese and the only editing they did was to fit in commercial breaks and all they did there was do a quick recap of the countries that went past during the break. This is a non-story.
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but couldn't they just make 10 higher?
More like Beijing
i too was confused by the inclusion of myspace in that list. I am using 3.0 and I have my awesome bar disabled, I use bookmarks, I really don't see where the problem is
As much as I like my Wii, it is clear that it would never be capable to play FFXIII on it. Besides the the fact that the processors simply would not be powerful enough to provide an equivalent game experience as on the other two consoles, there is also no HD output (besides 480p).
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something you wrap dead fish in
I have a feeling that its kinda like yelling out "FIRE!" in a crowded theater causing a panic, which is a punishable offense.
That sounds like it could be considered a form of discrimination. I doubt that obese people would take this move lightly.
I wonder if Calibri and Cambria are listed under this agreement. If so I would put those in the "not crap" category, I happen to like Calibri alot and use it extensively, I realize that its similar to Lucida Sans.
Actually, there have been two other console games with an AO rating, Thrill Kill for the Playstation, and The Joy of Sex, for CD-i, if you consider that a console.
There are only 23 games with an AO rating. They can be seen here
The National Hurricane Center predicted a more than typical number of storms for that year indicating that we were going to have a very active season. They base this on average water surface temperatures, atmospheric pressure trends and much much more. The problem is that even with all of this information it is possible that something that they didn't take into account will affect the hurricane season and consequently make their yearly prediction wrong. Predicting the intensity of a hurricane season is not a particularly simple thing to do, and just like any weather prediction it has a high possibility of being incorrect. Like the other reply said, the media simply grabbed onto this prediction and basically struck fear into the people living here, but I suppose that alarming the people and forcing them to prepare for something that might happen is better than predicting an under active hurricane season and being surprised.
With the internet you can mute/ignore people. It's much easier to filter out the noise that you don't like. When a person is sitting right next to you on a plane in the middle of a crowded flight talking loudly on his/her cell phone for three and a half hours, what are you going to do about it?
Colors are arbitrarily assigned to ranges of wavelength. Color arises because certain wavelengths are reflected from surfaces and others are absorbed. if there is a complete absence of light then there are no wavelengths to be reflected or absorbed, therefore no color. So an object does need light to have color. If the color was defined as the wavelengths that are reflected from the surfaces then even without light those objects would be defined as having a color. But color seems to be defined by the ranges of wavelengths that we see. Just my thoughts on it.
This isn't strange, why would you publish this when the program that breaks it is in BETA still? Windows Vista was officially released and then they saw it was still broken so they released this statement. I don't see anything strange about that. In fact it seems downright logical.
Exactly. In fact as a researcher I don't know anybody in my field here in the US that even uses anything but metric. The only time I have to deal with the US standard is when i have to deal with our machine shop. Scientists are all already using metric. Its mostly just the average American that doesn't want to change. Frankly I can see why. They have all grown up with MPH and degrees F, so they can look at one of those measurements and instantly imagine how much it is, but with KPH and degrees C they don't know what to make of it. For me personally even this is difficult despite the fact that I work in metric everyday. I still have to think about it for a minute every time I see degrees C because I grew up with the current US standard. That is why there is such an aversion to switching. I would personally welcome such a switch though, and any children I have would benefit greatly if we switch now.