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...Technology, said that rankings can shape students’ initial consideration of a school. But he also echoed McGrath’s comments, saying that while it is pleasing to be recognized, students’ final decisions do not depend on them. The universities are evaluated on six criteria: peer review, recruiter review, excellence in research based on citations, student to faculty ratio, international faculty ratio, and international student ratio. THES and QS Quacquarelli chose criteria that they thought could be evaluated regardless of location. Universities from 28 countries are included in the list. The top 10 institutions, however...
Spack subjects his patients to a lengthy evaluation process before recommending hormone therapy. Kids undergo a battery of interview-based psychological tests to see if they meet the medically established criteria for gender-identity disorder. The clothing they wear, the way they style their hair and the type of toys they play with are assessed. Family members, teachers and primary-care doctors are consulted. After weighing all the evidence, an interdisciplinary team of doctors and psychologists determines the severity of the gender variation and whether to recommend the child for hormone blockers. But the final decision rests with the parents...
...this new era of globalization, Europe proposes its small-states empire by choice: union based on worthy ideals, not purely military or economic power. In 1993, the EU came up with the Copenhagen Criteria, a roadmap to membership. The three criteria somewhat resemble America’s founding principles, only updated to present realities. To apply for membership, a country must have a democratic political system with protection for minorities and human rights and a functioning market economy. Further, it must accept the acquis, the collection of regulations from Brussels that aim at ever-closer monetary, economic, and political integration...
...convince them it was for real and that it was going to be a really professional-grade fashion show,” Kim says.What followed was a month-long effort of online research, phone calls and inquiries at designers’ stores in Korea.“We had criteria that included the designer having to be high-end and have had a showing at a fashion week like New York, Toyko or Paris,” Parent says. “The first call we got came from Issey Miyake, which is a very successful brand with beautiful stuff...
...missing information. Yet what they do with the data - or a contributor who fails to produce it - is left to their discretion. The Clinton camp did more than it was required to when it refunded a handful of contributions from its $380,000 fund-raiser in April. But the criteria for which contributions were returned and which were kept remains somewhat mysterious. Why did the Clinton campaign, for example, send back a check to Liu Zeng, but not to Lee Sang Cheung, who each gave $1,000 to the campaign and fit the same demographic and voter profile...