Sentence examples for period preference from inspiring English sources

Throughout the Extinction period, preference for one side of the tank during food anticipation gradually declined in young wild-type and mutant fish.

It is also difficult to measure the strength of an individual's 'current period preference', that is, the extent to which they are likely to favour a reward in the present compared to the same reward in the future, or to put it another way the extent to which a future reward would need to be greater before the person chose it rather than a reward in the present.

Second, different groups would vary in their likelihood of suffering future harm with a low likelihood of harm, for instance, if they only smoked the odd cigarette on an occasional basis and also in the strength of their current period preferences.

The criteria that determine whether a humorous offering will be judged good, bad, or indifferent are partly a matter of period taste and personal preference and partly dependent on the style and technique of the humorist.

This single, discrete period for preference learning enables us to observe the mother pup interactions that establish the pups' preferences and to intervene with experimental manipulations.

Evidence supports the geochemistry dissolution theory as an explanation for the induction period, in preference to the inhibiting layer theory.

Study period influenced preference with cows spending less time on pasture as the season progressed (86.7 vs. 68.3 vs. 58.3% for study periods 1, 2, and 3, respectively).

Plant categories were used selectively only in autumn and winter, and in the drought period, with preference for shrubs and avoidance of grasses.

We also show that the unique C-terminus of CKIε does not determine Dishevelled's and Period's preference for CKIε nor is it essential for binding, but instead plays an auxillary role in stabilizing the interactions of CKIε with its substrates.

At the end of the stress induction period sucrose preference and intake markedly decrease and are replaced by an increase in water consumption.

For instance temporally variable barriers such as flowering period, pollinator preference and seedling establishment of hybrids in nature are very difficult to assess, and might have lead to a higher occurrence of backcrosses towards B. crispa.