Sentence examples for absence of preference from inspiring English sources

The results also showed that the shell use pattern of P. criniticornis can be explained by its preference at both sites, whereas for P. brevidactylus it occurred only at Cabelo Gordo, where the absence of preference was correlated with the similar use of the three gastropod species studied.

However, a current limitation of the KIDSCREEN-10 is the absence of preference weights meaning that the measure cannot be used directly to estimate QALYs for use in cost-utility analyses.

The partner preference index (PPind) was calculated as follows: PPind = (Time huddling with Western -Time huddling with Central)/Total test time PPind = (Time huddling with Western -Time huddling with Central)/Total test time A PPind of 1 would indicate a complete preference for a Western male, −1 a complete preference for a Central male and 0 would indicate an absence of preference.

Time spent with the males was quantified with the partner preference index (PPind) where 1 would indicate a complete preference for a Western male, −1 a complete preference for a Central male and 0 would indicate an absence of preference (see Material and Methods).

Estimating EQ-5D health state utility values using the algorithms presented herein permits comparisons of health outcomes in the absence of preference-based measures.

The major limitation of this study is the absence of preference-based QoL estimates that differentiate between the impact of SLN biopsy and IFL on morbidity, making a cost-utility analysis using the QALY as the outcome measure impossible.

The absence of female preference based on male age also may be due to several factors.

The absence of female preference based on male age in this case might have been due to the low average absolute mutation load across all age classes (0.128).

It should be noted that, for chicks, the small irregular shapes with imperfect symmetry composing the noise stimulus could, in principle, result more attractive than the face-stimulus (hypothesising the absence of any preference for face-like configurations).

The absence of a preference for the derived call pattern supports the hypothesis that female choice did not drive the evolution of the double pulse pattern in N. retusus and N. maxillosus.

Although based on an even smaller number of trials (n = 5), a recent study of Hippocampus guttulatus also found an absence of female preference for partners of large body size (Naud et al. 2009).