At one point during the show, as the sad Christmas lights flickered in Cromer's underground world, I was reminded of this passage from Joan Didion's "Where I Was From," when she talks about her family's Northern California aesthetic: We lived in dark houses and favored, a preference so definite that it passed as a test of character, copper and brass that had darkened and greened.
Although other explanations cannot be ruled out based on the data we have presented, for the reasons discussed in this section, we favor a biologically based preference for harmonic series as the most plausible explanation for the particular scales used to make music over history and across cultures.
In summary, though it is surprising that natural selection could favor a shift in codon preference, it appears to be the most parsimonious explanation for population genetic patterns of polymorphism and divergence in D. melanogaster.
Furthermore, shorter and more reactive logistics chains may favor a further sophistication in market preferences and consumer choices.
Current linguistic preferences favor an Age of Mammals.
Car access was high (82.2%), but neighborhood preference favored a more walkable environment.
In another prospective study, patients changed their preferences favoring a nasal formulation of zolmitriptan because of the speed of onset and the overall efficacy compared to conventional zolmitritpan tablets [14], again indicating that efficacy matters most for the symptomatic treatment.
The participants were split equally in their speech type preferences with half choosing automated speech and the other half favoring a human voice; however, this preference appeared to be affected by the level of visual impairment with most of the LV participants choosing automated and most of blind participants choosing human speech.
Conformational tendency measures of the peptides indicate a significant preference for inserts favoring a β-turn conformation.
Thus the AluScan and WGS results were in accord with respect to M-allele preference, and both favored a prominence of transitional LOHs.
That is a sharp contrast with C.E.O.'s at large, who overwhelmingly favor Mr. Bush -- a preference cynics might attribute to the large personal gains that people with seven- or eight-figure incomes would receive from that tax cut.
