Less malleable factors, however, such as patient characteristics may also play a role; certain patients may be better informed, or exert their preferences for certain treatments which may or may not be recommended [ 30].
We designed this parallel observational study because a pilot RCT to aid the final office polyp treatment (OPT) study design (www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/mds/trials/bctu/trials/womens/opt/index.aspx) had suggested that a substantial proportion of women would exert a preference for treatment setting.
The experiments with these approaches were done through computer simulation, which took into account how LS preferences exert influence on students' performances, as described by some researchers, e.g., [1, 28, 31, 32, 32, 38].
For example, family preferences exert a considerable influence over prescriber decision-making in US, Canadian and Australian nursing homes [ 42, 43, 45, 47] but appear to minimally impact prescribing decisions in Dutch nursing homes [ 44].
Until now, there is no information about grazing preferences exerted by native herbivores over S. muticum and native seaweeds on the Galician coast.
Partners' availability, sampling strategies, competition within one sex, coercion, environmental influence on mate assessment, or preferences exerted by the other sex (when mate choice is mutual), are examples of other factors apart from preferences that can have a major influence on the outcome of pair formation.
This directional selection on male condition (exerted by female preferences for mates) might thereby oppose disruptive selection acting on the larvae.
For example, when female black field crickets are raised on a high-protein diet, they are heavier as adults and exert a stronger stabilizing preference on male calling frequency as well as a stronger directional preference for male calling rate (Hunt et al. 2005).
Design standards (e.g., the intensity of the design storm), evaluation methods (e.g., depth threshold of the initial portion of runoff), and management preference all exert some influence on the resultant sizing criteria and optimization results.
Female size can affect both the mate sampling rules adopted by females and the strength of preference they exert in favor of particular male traits, especially where size is correlated with female condition (Cotton, Small, et al. 2006).
