Sentence examples for ranking preferences from inspiring English sources

The traffic measured may be normalised by the number of opportunities readers had of visiting the link to avoid biasing the measure due to the ranking preferences of the news search engine.

In the Manchester suburb of Urmston, a No voter walking his spaniel said a winner should be the person with the most votes: ranking preferences felt like "hedging bets".

Respondents weakened their ranking preferences in the WTP exercise.

There's no "fifty-percent-plus-one" threshold in the Iowa caucuses, so winners can still be declared with small pluralities (and they often are), but after the battle royale that was the 2008 Iowa contest, we at least have all become intimately familiar with the concept of ranking preferences.

We measured patients' dental-health-state utilities and ranking preferences of the treatment options for these dental problems.

We extended this technique by measuring patients' utilities and ranking preferences for the management of an endodontically abscessed mandibular molar and maxillary incisor treatment options.

Step 9: When the serving MAG has done the selection of the closest MAG to the ideal network environment from the ranking preference, the serving MAG starts a load balancing process by sending a handover command message to HMN.

Simple attribute-ranking preferences are presented elsewhere (Apicella et al, 2006).

The entries in the data matrix, B, need not be binary, but could represent a continuous or ordinal variable, such as ratings, rankings, or preferences.

The paper reports on a cross-sectional multi-good contingent valuation survey conducted between April and September 2009 with three representative samples of the Irish population (N = 1214) to identify rankings and preferences for different community care programmes including: family care programme, a state-provided care programme and three different telecare programmes.

The relative rankings of preferences will provide insight for clinical leaders and policy makers to identify which aspects of bedside handover are most important to which groups and can guide priority setting for the implementation of changes that support bedside handover as a common practice.