The participants were asked to indicate how they perceived each individual pack with regard to three characteristics: appeal, taste and harmfulness.
Participants were interviewed broadly on subject characteristics (age, marital status, formal education, and family/community interactions), illness characteristics (nature of illness, severity of illness, perceived cause of illness, and expected benefits of treatment) and service characteristics (appeal, accessibility, quality, communication, and cost).
This fit of cognitive activities and OO characteristics appeals to many system developers.
Roman food, like much Italian food, is mostly seasonal, uncomplicated, bold, and with flavours that are undisguised and definite, characteristics that appeal to me.
But partly it's unconscious: we are attracted (or repulsed) by certain characteristics that appeal to use (or we find disagreeable) for reasons we cannot fathom.
"I always urge people to take some kayak lessons before they buy a boat," said Randall Henriksen, owner of the New York Kayak Company (www.nykayak.com) in Manhattan, "because a boat possessing characteristics that appeal to a beginner may bore them after they've acquired some experience".
There is a whole class of goods — those semi-durable and durable "conveniences"—for which efficiency and functionality seem not to be the main characteristics of appeal, but rather the variability they display in their design properties and in their connections with other goods.
Our goal as pastry chefs is to preserve these physical characteristics which appeal to our visual sense and our sensation of taste and texture.
Desirability may be based on a person's national stature, research interests, background, or some other unique characteristic that appeals to the institution.
These characteristics will appeal to adolescents and young adults.
