When using these theories for measuring the costs of exercise time, the opportunity cost of exercise time and the utility of the activity are important.
Thus, if epiphenomenalism (or, in James' own language, automaton-theory) were true, the felicitous alignment that generally holds between affective valuation of our feelings and the utility of the activities that generally produce them would require a special explanation.
To analyze the influence that the implementation of a fall prevention Best Practice Guideline (BPG) could have on the perception of patients and their caregivers about the utility of the activities implemented, about the care provided during admission and the adherence (the level of follow-up) to the recommendations received at discharge.
Topics included participants' experiences and views of the utility of these activities.
Thus, the utility in use of this activity represents the marginal value of leisure time.
Utilities of the activity chain combinations are defined as a linear function of personal and household attributes and tour activities combination constant; similarly, utilities of tour combinations are defined as a linear function of the natural logarithm sum of utilities of activity chain combinations and tour combination constant [49].
To investigate the utility of this model to screen drug activity in vivo, we tested three newly approved drugs known for their anti-myeloma activity, thalidomide, bortezomib and lenalinomide.
This provides important preliminary information concerning the utility of motor activity as a new intermediate phenotype for ADHD.
To begin to assess the utility of this substrate for measuring DPAP1 activity in complex protein mixtures, we measured its apparent Km value in parasite extracts (Figure 1B).
