The phrase "characterized by preference" is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used to describe someone's strong liking or choice for something. For example: "John's writing style is characterized by preference for concise and straightforward sentences." This means that John tends to prefer using short and direct sentences in his writing.
Patterns of decision making in SUD are characterized by preference for alternatives featuring high-risk, high-reward, short-term gains despite these options being less adaptive with regard to overall expected value [1], [2].
In particular, males are characterized by preference functions in which different male genotypes largely rank females similarly by attractiveness, a situation that arises under open-ended preference functions or unimodal preference functions with no genetic variation in peak preferences.
Class III factors were characterized by preference of G and C at −2 and −1, respectively, strong preference for A at +4, and relatively strong binding of sites with a C at +5.
Crawley's 3-chamber social approach test consists of a sociability test and a social novelty preference test, which is characterized by the preference of the mice based on the time spent around a wire cage containing a stranger mouse vs. an empty cage in the sociability test and a stranger mouse vs. a familiar mouse in the social novelty preference test [29].
These findings were similar to those with alcohol and methamphetamine dependence, but BED and alcohol-dependent subjects demonstrated a preference for moderate reward magnitudes, whereas methamphetamine dependence was characterized by a preference for high-risk/high-reward magnitudes.
This is characterized by the preference of not raising the leg during the approach phase, and the preference of low joint work at the knee and hip during the depression phase.
Habitat use of cottontails was characterized by a preference for natural habitats at the study area level as well as within the home ranges, while hares showed a preference for crop fields at both spatial scales and a seasonal selection of meadows within home ranges.
The agent is supposed to be completely characterized by his preference rankings over outcomes and his beliefs at each stage of the game.
While the Emoter Voice, for example, is marked by a high frequency of Affect (e.g., sad, happy) and tends to occur in personalized genres such as autobiographies, the Appraiser voices are characterized by a preference for explicit judgment (e.g., brave, cruel) and are found in more argumentative genres (see also Ngo and Unsworth 2015 for recent revisions to the Appraisal framework).
Introverts are often characterized by a preference for being alone, while anxiety, on the other hand, can make social situations downright intolerable.
"It was a mindset characterized by a preference for military action over diplomacy". But a single foreign-policy achievement, however historic and momentous, a mindset does not change.
