Mr Frank's point is best recast as a point about median-voter logic as an exhortation to his fellow progressives not to take the preferences of the median voter for granted, as fixed, when it might be possible to shift those preferences to the left with some galvanising rhetoric, etc.
It takes the preferences of its customers into account just in the selection of those scenario paths that it includes to the Futures Map.
In the informants' opinion, professionals had to provide an individualized care: "They should take the preferences of residents and family members into account" (P.2 Proxy).
In this case, because Series C shareholders attached a 2x multiple to their liquidation preference, they will get more money by taking the liquidation preference payout than by converting to common shares.
This corresponds well with the concept of person-centred care, which implies taking the patient's preferences, values, needs, and priorities into account when planning, performing, and evaluating care.
Several equivalence models between the output-oriented DEA and Multiple Objective Linear Programming (MOLP) models have been proposed in the literature to take the DMs' preferences into consideration.
Assuming transitive or ordinal preferences, an algorithm can take the prioritized preference statements of the Federal Government in Table 1 and rank the states from most to least preferred where ties are allowed.
At this point it is worth recalling that we focus on preferences taking the Gorman Polar Form for income values within bounded ranges, which here means that this equivalence has a local nature by construction.
Green et al. (1996) improved this procedure and presented a discrimination method using a cross-efficiency concept, i.e., alternatives take the voters' preference as desired for themselves compared to the other alternatives.
