Sentence examples for components in preference to from inspiring English sources

However, for the satellite data, we use vector components in preference to scalar data at all latitudes wherever they are available.

We advocate the use of the variance components, in preference to reliability indices, because the variance components are easier to interpret, with understandable units.

We therefore purposefully selected 'simple' care bundle components in preference to 'complex' ones where possible.

For this reason, scalar data have often been used at high latitudes in preference to vector components which tend to be more sensitive to high-latitude current systems.

Emily Dickinson used the dash in preference to any other punctuation.

I have always worn a skirt in preference to trousers.

In preference-to-preference procedures, the outcome is a preference relation over the set of alternatives.

Only outranking allows inconsistency in preferences to some degree.

This formed the basis of a DCE embedded in a survey to understand the relative importance that AHPs working in disability services in a region in western New South Wales (NSW), Australia, place on different work characteristics, and the trade-offs they are willing to make between components, in order to ascertain their preferences.

Anand and Hacquard argue that the semantics of this type of attitude also contains a preference component, in addition to the representational component.

A principal component analysis of the tables identifies the greatest variation in substitution preferences to be due to changes in hydrophobicity; the second largest variation relates to secondary structure.