It's no secret that most people harbor racial preferences and prejudices; research psychologists have proved as much through their ongoing Implicit Association Test.
The high price-to-earnings multiples that pharmaceutical companies enjoyed in the 1980s made acquisitions costly for ICI, and the division itself harbored a preference for organic growth.
What the study revealed -- that the doctors had a moderate implicit bias against blacks and more strongly associated whites with compliance -- was perhaps most surprising to the doctors themselves, who thought they harbored no preference for blacks over whites and had overall positive attitudes about race.
In addition, if mating preferences are highly polygenic, then they could harbor a large amount of genetic variation by virtue of being a large mutational target.
Nevertheless, some crop improvement traits are regional preferences, such as grain texture and flavor regulated by waxy and BADH2 which harbor allelic diversity in different landraces and cultivars (Olsen and Purugganan 2002; Kovach et al. 2009).
His preference: gold funds like Gabelli Gold and other dollar hedges like Prudent Safe Harbor Fund, as well as funds invested in Asia (outside Japan) like Matthews Pacific Tiger (MAPTX).
In fact, even though most IS elements were found distributed over the genome without particular insertion site preferences, some e.g. ISNcy5, ISNcy2-b, ISNCy4, & ISNcy1-a4, were found harbored by RGP.
These analyses revealed that influenza transcriptase is able to use leaders from an exogenous mRNA source with a preference for leaders harboring base complementarity to the 3′-ultimate residues of the viral template, as previously observed during in vitro studies.
The king crab, Paralithodes camtschaticus, harbors a nuclease with exclusive preference for dsDNA [13] or DNA-RNA duplexes and no ssDNase or RNase activity [10].
