A predator's natural diet may suggest hypotheses about prey choice, choice being a behavioral trait driven by preference, and preference being a predator's differential motivation to feed on the different prey types it encounters, but testing these hypotheses depends on experimental data.
Maize meal or flour composition can also be driven by regional preferences, with some preferring whole ground maize rather than degerminated or partially degerminated maize products.
These changes are driven by consumer preferences, not just by corporate cost-cutting imperatives.
Additional evidence suggests that spending is driven by both preferences and technology.
CSR practices are frequently communicated with key stakeholders and are driven by stakeholder preferences, thus reflecting the shared values within an organization.
It is found that import duties largely influenced trade volumes, whereas trade routes were mainly driven by tariff preferences.
The large product variety driven by customers' preferences and fluctuation in number of product variants produced annually impose manufacturing challenges.
When this data is used to see which teachers transfer, it is unclear the extent to which the patterns are driven by teacher preferences or school preferences, since the matching of teachers to schools is a two-sided choice.
In development we are often driven by donor preferences – whether it is major bilateral donors, UN organisations or individuals providing funding, success sells, and each has its own preferred success narrative.
In the 1990s, partly driven by the preferences of Robert Parker, an influential American critic, many producers began delaying their harvests in order to make fuller, fruitier reds that could be drunk without lengthy cellaring.
Landscape-scale habitat preferences were generally mild and could be explained by the relative availability of suitable microhabitat within habitats, suggesting habitat selection was primarily driven by microhabitat preferences.
