Sentence examples for decrease in preference from inspiring English sources

In our regression models, cognitive impairment was associated with a 0.12 – 0.23 decrease in preference values, a substantial effect size.

The decrease in preference for a sexy appearance during pregnancy may be caused by progesterone, which weakens sexual drive (Dixson 2001; Regan 1999), and its levels increase dramatically during pregnancy (Fleming et al. 1997).

In the model employed, the induction of a depressive-like state by stress exposure was defined by the occurrence of behavioural manifestations of anhedonia, as determined by a decrease in preference for a 1% sucrose solution to below 65% [ 35].

Another study in harmony with this one showed a decrease in preference of the novel object after LPS injection [ 28], in which intraperitoneal injection of green tea extract resulted in significantly higher discrimination ratio in object recognition test compared with nontreated LPS mice.

In both cases, there are slight decreases in preferences for lower-quality resources (ranks 150 200 in pure patches and ranks 0 150 in the uniform environment), and an increase in preferences for high-quality resources (ranks 200 250).

As it was unclear whether a thus defined 'peer-pressure' effect, if any, would manifest as increase or decrease in olfactory preference, we intended to work at moderate levels of preference throughout.

Our experiment was based on the assumption that, if a particular wave band is of special importance in female mating-preference its removal will lead to a considerable decrease in female preference compared to rather irrelevant wave bands.

Rats treated acutely with dexamethasone (5 10 mg/kg) showed a significant decrease in sucrose preference (anhedonia) in comparison to vehicle treated rats, although 1 mg/kg dexamethasone did not alter the sucrose preference.

Among the species in our study, rats had the strongest increase in HC preference over the two days and the two Peromyscus mice (deer mouse and white-footed mice) had largest decrease in GE preference.

Bicuculline, compared with controls, caused a decrease in novelty preference, but only in B6: t = 2.08, p = 0.05.

Using BL/6N mice and applying a different stress procedure Strekalova et al. [25] reported a decrease in sucrose preference coupled with other behavioural alterations.