Sentence examples for a direct preference from inspiring English sources

Therefore, the male preferences for low BMI correspond to preferences for females taller and lighter than their actual partners (rather than reflecting a direct preference for BMI).

The development of these health states is described further in a direct preference elicitation study designed to identify utility values attributable to each health state.

However, we also find evidence for a direct, preference-based channel.

The actual partners' BMI can be predicted either from the preferred BMI (direct preference), or by using the preferred stature and body mass to compute a preferred BMI (indirect preference, see methods).

Considering that people tend to give their direct preference information with linguistic variables, a codebook that used to model such language information with interval type-2 fuzzy sets is constructed.

Specifically for stroke, variations in estimates resulting from direct preference elicitation have previously been explained by a number of factors.

In summary, direct preference assessments as well as DCE contribute important findings to the knowledge of AIDS/HIV treatment preferences.

As Ann Cudd explains, possibilities like these must be accepted because liberal feminism values freedom and thus cannot advocate direct "preference education" (Cudd 2004, 57).

Instead, automatic concept-based categorization should have no direct preference for any of the layers: the extracted concepts correspond both to phenomena and methods, and the algorithm has no information about the possible division of the concepts.

Table 1 indicates only the direct preference model.

Direct preference measurement will, therefore, not be considered further in this paper.