"preference lower" is not correct or usable in written English.
You could use "prefer lower" or perhaps "have a preference for lower" in order to express the same idea, as in: "I have a preference for lower temperatures in the office."
Fig. 1 Slopes of aggression (left) and bullying (right) regressed on popularity (upper panel) and social preference (lower panel), by different levels of group normative beliefs about aggression.
Animals with contralateral preference lower than 25% at PAD 0 or higher than 0% at PAD 2 were discarded.
These rules include the GC content limitation (the optimal GC content is between 30% and 55%) [ 7- 13], the thermo-stability preference (lower stability at the 3' terminal of sense strand would help the antisense strand enter into the RISC complex) [ 11, 14, 15], and some base preferences in the siRNA sequences [ 7, 16].
Improved postprandial glucose had the strongest effect on treatment satisfaction and preference; lowered insulin requirements also had a significant effect on preference.
While age, sex, education and drug treatment history did not affect preferences, lower socio-economic status was associated with preferring treatment at lower risk [ 36].
However, because most studies examined diagnosis, treatment, physician and/or patient preferences, but not all factors, it is unclear whether suboptimal cancer treatment reflects appropriate consideration of increased risk of toxicity due to comorbid illness, patient preferences, lower quality of clinical care, or poor adherence.
The way you order you preferences lower down the list will never affect the chances of your first choice candidate being elected.
In habitat-based selection, individuals preferred high-quality patches (leading to adaptive outcomes), selected patches at random (equal-preference) or preferred lower-quality patches (severe ecological traps).
Last year, two separate bipartisan commissions, Simpson-Bowles and Domenici-Rivlin, recommended eliminating preferences, lowering rates, and taxing capital gains and ordinary income evenly.
The United States asserted that in 2011, China spent $1 billion on grants, tax preferences, lowered interest rates and other subsidies to increase exports of auto parts in violation of fair trade rules.
Thus, preference for lower pH may be advantageous to the mutant; also lower pH would mean fewer chances of external contaminants.
