The phrase "an increased preference" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a growing or heightened liking or inclination towards something.
Example: "Recent studies indicate an increased preference for plant-based diets among consumers."
Alternatives: "a greater preference" or "an enhanced preference".
Indeed, rats chronically treated with ethanol both prenatally and during adolescence also show an increased preference for alcohol and increased alcohol intake as adults (Barbier et al. 2009; Pascual et al. 2009).
We hypothesised that if injured bees experience pain and are given a choice between pure sucrose solution and sucrose solution plus morphine, they would show an increased preference for the analgesic, compared to sound bees.
Despite the clear influence that the remote para-substituents have on conformer population, this is superseded by the oxidation state on sulfur (II, IV, VI), where an increased preference for the gauche conformer follows the trend: sulfide < sulfone < sulfoxide.
Lengthening the helicate (L5) results in DNA interactions similar to those of the parent compounds, with an increased preference of the P enantiomer for the minor groove indicating an enhancement of mode selectivity.
Wildtype GlnRS has a similar preference for l-glutaminyl adenylate; the R260Q mutant has an increased preference, even though Arg260 makes a large contribution to the wildtype ΔΔG value.
The hydroxyl group leads to altered properties, with RNA showing an increased preference for C3′-endo over C2′-endo sugar pucker, resulting in the more symmetric base-stacked A-form helix rather than the asymmetric B-form structure preferred by DNA13,14.
We demonstrate a time-dependent effect of hydrocortisone administration on intertemporal choice: when tested 15 min after hydrocortisone administration, subjects showed a strongly increased preference for the small, soon reward over the larger, delayed reward.
Silver staining revealed (AT 15 SWCNTs exhibited up to a 100× increased preference for certain protein species.
Tau, kinesin and dynein all compete for the same binding site on β-tubulin (223); however, tau has a 10-fold increased preference over kinesin (198) and binds to the kinesin heavy chain (224– 224).
Consistent with this possibility, Cheung & Cardinal (2005) have shown that HPC-lesioned rats display impulsive choice on an operant lever-response delay-discounting task, and are sensitive to increasing delays (showing increased preference for the immediate LR choice as delays on the HR option get longer), but with their delay HR choice function shifted to the left.
The lack of the conserved lysine could be an explanation for the increased preference of MekA toward NADH.
