Lesser-known brands were chosen over famous brands to erase any premium that comes from branding.
These methods were chosen over more computationally intensive permutation-based subject sampling approaches.
Haar-like features were chosen over, for example, Gaussian averages and differences, because of their fast implementation by means of lookup tables.
Syllables were chosen over words as the critical unit to account for the fact that in apractic patients errors often occur at the syllable level (Aichert and Ziegler, 2004).
Some gardeners, feeling locked out of the decision-making process, claim the plots they use were chosen over vacant lots.
(For a while, probably, though chemotherapy and radiotherapy were chosen over surgery partly to protect his growly delivery).
Pannack said the marshes were near her home and were chosen over other park-based locations because they "felt more unusual and emotive.
Ms. Andraos and Mr. Wood were chosen over four other finalists, all of them based in New York: Matter Architecture Practice; su11 architecture & design; Them; and Monad Architects, which also has an office in Miami.
The Soviet anthem and the music from "A Life for the Czar," an opera by the 19th-century composer Glinka, which now represents Russia, were chosen over six rival offerings.
Ms. Tsien and Mr. Williams, the New York husband-and-wife team responsible for the American Folk Art Museum in Manhattan and an expansion of the Phoenix Art Museum in Arizona, were chosen over five other finalists.
Merrill Grant, the general manager of the GE Monogram brand, said food images were chosen over product shots for the video loop because they enhanced the lifestyle message the company sought for the overall showroom.
