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The payline is a percentile cut-off for study section scoring within which all grants are funded.
Bleak House (and I don’t mean the Dickens novel) Professor in Training 2009
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The payline is the funding cutoff point for grant applications that is set at the beginning of a fiscal year.
Media Newswire 2009
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The NIA "payline" is now just 8 percent, meaning that even if you file a research proposal deemed scientifically meritorious and worthy of support, you only have a slim probability of receiving funding.
Chris Mooney: Why It's Time to Rock Alzheimer's Chris Mooney 2010
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The NIA "payline" is now just 8 percent, meaning that even if you file a research proposal deemed scientifically meritorious and worthy of support, you only have a slim probability of receiving funding.
Chris Mooney: Why It's Time to Rock Alzheimer's Chris Mooney 2010
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Then the stimulus money in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) threw a lifeline to labs that were in jeopardy; many NIH panels reached below the "payline" and funded grants that had just missed the cutoff for funding from NIH's regular budget.
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Three or more of them on an active payline trigger the bonus game.
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In a 2008 study, scientists analyzed how "slot machine manufacturers use virtual reels and a technique called 'award symbol ratio' to create a high number of near misses above and below the payline" — that is, so that the losing icon appears right above or below the winning cherries, lemons, or whatever.
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But if it is independent, should reviewers look more favourably on a previously-funded PI when deciding on new investigator grants or when there is an increased payline for such individuals?
Criteria for getting funded as a new/early career investigator Professor in Training 2009
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First, the payline is not the percentage of applications that get funded.
Bleak House (and I don’t mean the Dickens novel) Professor in Training 2009
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Oh, and saying that your payline is at the 25th percentile and then only funding 10% of the applicants sucks.
Motherfucking pissed off Professor in Training 2009
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