Merit of Distinction

Tracking the merit of merit pay

MERIT Motifs

MERIT (Multimedia Extensions of Retrieval Interaction Tools)1 provides a user-centered interface to a database covering European research programs, projects, and consortia in the field of information technology. The system supports the user by offering a selection of sample retrieval strategies, called “cases”, which are modifiable to meet situative requirements. The dialogue is focused by obje...

Merit awards.

the speech act of advice and the introvert/extrovert distinction among iranian efl university students

the aim of this study is to examine the difference between the introverts and extroverts in preferred advice-giving style. furthermore, it explores the difference between l1 (persian) and l2 (english) regarding the giving of advice for the extroverts and introverts separately. it investigates whether an extrovert or introvert gives advice in the same manner in his l1 (persian) and l2 (english) ...

Cubature Rules of Prescribed Merit

We introduce a criterion for the evaluation of multidimensional quadrature, or cubature, rules for the hypercube: this is the merit of a rule which is closely related to its trigonometric degree and which reduces to the Zaremba figure of merit in the case of a lattice rule. We derive a family of rules Q k having dimension s and merit 2. These rules seem to be competitive with lattice rules with...