Conditional mutants lacking GLT-1 in VTA astrocytes fail to express the tested avoidance behaviors, but maintain preference for reward.
Whilst healthy controls rapidly learn to select from the safe decks, patients with vmPFC damage fail to learn an advantageous strategy and maintain preference for the risky decks (Bechara et al., 1994, 2000).
In his 1957 book, The Economics of Discrimination, Becker explained how patterns of discrimination could outlast powerful market forces as long as people maintain their preferences for prejudice.
Commissioner James Quello, a Democrat and the panel's senior member, questioned the wisdom of proceeding with the inquiry, saying he felt the panel had broad discretion to maintain the preferences in the public interest.
Though as the same report stipulates, and as the results of the current study show, Russians appear to maintain traditional preferences for livestock products, in particular meat, poultry and dairy products.
In contrast, meerkats (Suricata suricatta), that initially shared the demonstrator's preference to forage at one of the two land marks, did not maintain this preference over time and soon fed on both land marks equally often (Thornton and Malapert 2009).
We therefore steer clear of the unpredictable risks associated with interest rate guarantees, and maintain a preference for UK Life names (Pru and Aviva both overweight) and property and casualty markets where we see solid balance sheets and relative underwriting margin stability (Sampo and Zurich (both overweight).
The bizarre star is in debt for about $200 million he has borrowed to maintain his preference for $10,000-a-night 10,000-a-night 10,000-a-nightons, hotel50 million Neverland ranch and asuitesd perks.
"We maintain our preference for big banks over smaller banks (which should have greater earnings downside), but potential disposal of strategic stakes is likely to cloud performance of the big banks in the near term," Citi said in a research note.
