Sentence examples for treating preferences from inspiring English sources

We present a computational decision support framework for treating preferences related to physical design features.

Preference queries have to be answered cooperatively by treating preferences as soft constraints, attempting a best possible matchmaking.

The study design, unlike most earlier studies on the walkability of neighbourhoods, treated preferences as explicit variables predicting the amount of walking in a neighbourhood, rather than as control variables that alter the estimated effect of the built environment.

It also treats preference shares - which some governments now own in return for cash injections - as debt rather than as equity.

However, none of these researchers seem enthusiastic about treating subgroup preferences as fundamental phenomena in driving health policy.

The choice and length of antibiotic treatment were not uniform; changes in treatments were common, based on individual microbial findings, tolerability and/or the treating physicians' preferences.

This, apart from treating physicians' preferences towards salvage regimens, partly explain the reason why only 26% of patients that we identified as progressing during an initial trastuzumab-based regimen received vinorelbine-based salvage therapy.

The duration of antimyco-bacterial therapy included 6 months of rifabutin, azithromycin, and ethambutol for case 1, and 9 months of levafloxacin and clarithromycin (with an additional 7 weeks of initial therapy with rifabutin) for case 4. Because each case was treated by a different pulmonologist, the variation in treatment regimens reflected the treating physicians' preference.

Decision theorists have tended to treat pairwise preferences as basic: the basic attitude is that of preferring A to B (e.g., von Neumann and Morgenstern 1944).

If it were decided to treat subgroup preferences as valid determinants of public policy, a transparent analytical procedure is needed.

A related criticism of utilitarianism involves the way it treats individual preferences about other peoples' welfare or holdings.