They prefer higher levels of sweet than do adults, with preferences declining to adult levels during middle to late adolescence, which coincides with the cessation of physical growth.
The latter in general shows a peak of 'preferred complexity', beyond which preference declines.
THE authors of "Creative Destruction," Richard Foster and Sarah Kaplan of McKinsey & Company, say companies that fail to keep pace with the capital markets' changing preferences will decline and die.
3 Patients with strong preferences may decline to participate; in a trial in which strong preferences exist and a large number of patients refuse randomisation, the external validity will be adversely affected.
Sales are soaring of pinot noir, a variety the state will tighten its grip on as cooler spots on the mainland shrink, and preferences are declining for heavy, alcohol-rich wines, which require warmer weather to produce.
In her world, women are not human beings capable of asserting their own preferences or declining to conform to the preferences of others.
Our core abstraction forms indicate that ten of these patients had a recorded entry in their medical notes stating their preference to decline intensive treatment.
Although the novel compartment was generally preferred over the familiar one, the percent preference gradually declined throughout the test session (fig. 5a).
When building guards told the crowd in the lobby that ticketholders would get preference, order declined and entropy increased.
That boy-preference gap declines to 12 points among those 30 to 49, to 5 points among those 50 to 64, and finally to only 2 points among those 65 and older.
