The phrase "acquired preference" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a preference that has been developed or obtained over time, often through experience or exposure.
Example: "After years of trying different cuisines, I have developed an acquired preference for spicy food."
Alternatives: "developed preference" or "established preference".
The energetic advantages of this acquired preference and its importance in trypanosomoses epidemiology are discussed.
This procedure is based on the fact that the pairing of neutral distinctive environmental stimuli with a drug results in an acquired preference for those specific stimuli.
Nevertheless, the acquired preference is not exclusive and spatial encroachment between man and animal reservoirs probably favours between-species transmission (Sané et al. 2000).
In the phosphoinositide pull-down assay, AKT2-G161V showed altered phosphoinositide binding with acquired preference for PtdIns(4,5 P2, again similar to the synthetic kinase-dead AKT2 mutant.
Conformism can involve the adoption of new behaviors, but it can also involve an acquired preference of the use of behaviors that are already in an individual's behavioral repertoire and/or the suppression of some other behavior formerly used in a particular context.
Before birth, children have not only been affected chemically by the food and air ingested by the mother: at least by the last trimester of prenatal development, children are sensitive to, and have acquired preferences for, the melodic contour of their native language beings.
Wilson advanced a notion that is as significant for moral theory as the notion of norms dictated by universal, evolutionarily acquired preferences and indeed ultimately more useful, namely ambivalence.
The latest setback came after a Dutch independent foundation connected to KPN announced late on Thursday that it was exercising its right to acquire preference stock in the Dutch mobile phone operator, which would give it just under 50 percent of the voting rights in the company.
But Craig Packer, a University of Minnesota biologist who's spent decades researching big cats including maneaters, said there are credible cases of individual animals that have acquired a preference for two-legged prey, particularly in rural communities in Africa and Asia.
The Russian bureaucracy, whose members were often drawn from the military, thus acquired a preference for uniformity and militarism that did not foster respect or concern for the individual needs of the various regions and peoples of the far-flung empire.
Cavalli-Sforza and Feldman argue that if women simply acquired whichever preference for family size was the most widely adopted in their local cultural environment, then cultural inheritance would not have enough of an effect to overcome natural selection.
