Interestingly, evidence exists for preferential loss of ICAM-3 (54% reduction) over CD31 (18% reduction) in apoptotic neutrophils (which lose relatively little membrane during apoptosis relative to lymphocytes), suggesting ICAM-3 may be preferentially released in microparticles.
We examined interaction between the intervention and the sex of the participant, as evidence exists of preferential feeding of male children in this setting, 27 as well as possible sex differential effects of early undernutrition on risk of cardiovascular disease.
Contradictory evidence exists for preferential homoeologue silencing in wheat, with one study showing D genome homoeoloci to be silenced twice as frequently as A or B homoeoloci [ 72], and others showing weak evidence for preferential silencing of D homoeoloci [ 70], or indeed no preferential silencing at all [ 61, 69].
This observation indicates that, for a particular island, there exists only one preferential direction for the growth.
Third, little potential exists for the preferential transmission of melarsoprol-resistant strains because patients with relapses rarely harbor trypanosomes in the bloodstream or lymph nodes, only in the CSF.
Will there be preferential treatment real or otherwise?
While we all agree that preferential treatment exists (and often with justification) I loudly echo Drew Nieporent's reservation that the intimacy and elegance of the dining experience is at risk of being compromised with all these so called advances.
If a preferential direction exists in the FFT image, the plot of the number of points for each scanned window as a function of polar angle presents a maximum for that direction.
It is possible that other undiscovered biases exist and ensure preferential processing of other important aspects of conspecifics' appearance.
In support of this idea is the finding that MLV integration is strongly favored at start sites [28], [57], while several other integrating elements show near random distributions [22], [55], [58], suggesting that mechanisms exist to guide preferential integration near start sites.
