This preference for better-drained soils may have allowed Sigillaria to survive the drying of the great coal swamps that led to the extinction of many tree-sized lycopsids during the middle of the Pennsylvanian Subperiod (318 to 299 million years ago).
However, female cave fish, observed on site via infrared techniques, preferred to associate with surface males rather than size-matched cave males, likely reflecting the female preference for better-nourished (in this case: surface) males.
And finally, to study women's preferences for better organisation of the screening programme.
Additionally, better coordination between primary care and specialist care needs to be established to allow referrals to surgery to be based on agreed upon standards and also to include some patient's preferences for better quality of life now even with the risk of future revision surgery.
I wonder if there isn't something particularly American in the preference for "best" over "better" strategies.
Patients' had consistently larger preference weight for better sensitivity and specificity of the test, as was evident based on ORs and WTP values associated with different levels of sensitivity.
Or have people voluntarily deserted the land in preference for a better life elsewhere?
Many Venezuelans interviewed expressed a preference for generally better stocked private supermarkets.
Although all strata of Indian society share a preference for sons, better-off families have access to and can afford the ultrasound tests to reveal the sex of a foetus.
The customer preference data allows for better targeting and ultimately superior conversions (around 10-11% vs 2% for the best commerce sites today)." Consumers tell Next Jump not only what items they would like to buy, but at what price point they would be willing to buy it for.
And when Intersect invited a group of more than 100 Facebook users to track their trending topics last week, many expressed concern about the way stories were selectively targeted to them: Just check out your current "ad preferences" for a better glimpse of the racialized, gendered and socioeconomic boxes that Facebook algorithmically puts you in.
