Méritos e limites da teoria da escolha racional como ferramenta de interpretação do comportamento social e político by Mauro Macedo Campos, Hugo Borsani, Nilo Lima de Azevedo

“…Their preferences depend on their degree of knowledge or information about the set of opportunities available to them. …”
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Study Protocol MEDIMIG: Improving MEDical Decision-Making in MIGrant Populations Within a Super-diverse Society: Challenges and Legal Opportunities by N. Van Eekert, K. Bombeke, V. Buffel, M. Łotoczuk, S. Van de Velde, J. van Olmen, P. Van Royen, T. Vansweevelt, F. Vermijs, E. Wouters, A. Yakhlaf, K. Van Assche

“…Aim : In this study we aim to shed light on the preferences of both patients and GPs regarding information disclosure and MDM responsibility, while also exploring how these preferences can be accommodated within the existing legal framework. …”
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Interventions to increase utilisation of advanced care planning documentation for hospitalised older adults by Laura E Walker, Anne Liwonjo, Deepi G Goyal

“…Objective Understanding patients’ wishes and preferences during hospitalisation is a crucial component of care. …”
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The human reward system encodes the subjective value of ideas during creative thinking by Sarah Moreno-Rodriguez, Benoît Béranger, Emmanuelle Volle, Alizée Lopez-Persem

“…This relative balance depends on individual preferences and predicts individuals’ creative abilities. …”
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A metal-trap tests and refines blueprints to engineer cellular protein metalation with different elements by Sophie E. Clough, Tessa R. Young, Emma Tarrant, Andrew J. P. Scott, Peter T. Chivers, Arthur Glasfeld, Nigel J. Robinson

“…By re-folding MncA in buffered competing metals, metal-preferences are determined. Relating metal-preferences to metal-availabilities estimated using cellular metal sensors, predicts mis-metalation of MncA with FeII in E. coli. …”
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A novel group tour trip recommender model for personalized travel systems by Mohammed Alatiyyah

“…Planning personalized travel itineraries for groups with diverse preferences is indeed challenging. This article proposes a novel group tour trip recommender model (GTTRM), which uses ant colony optimization (ACO) to optimize group satisfaction while minimizing conflicts between group members. …”
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The importance of market signals in crop varietal development: lessons from Komboka rice variety by Mary Ng’endo, MaryLiza Kinyua, Lourine Chebet, Samuel Mutiga, Joseph Ndung’u, Oliver Nyongesa, Simon Njau, Ajay Panchbhai, Ruth Musila, Rosemary Murori

“…Despite Komboka being a high-yielding variety, Mwea rice farmers’ perceptions and preferences for this improved variety were low. While Komboka was equally aromatic, the lack of a ready market dissuaded these farmers from widely preferring the new Komboka variety. …”
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Random forest regressor for predicting sensory texture of emotional designed packaging films by Yong Ju Lee, Min Jung Joo, Ha Kyoung Yu, Tai-Ju Lee, Hyoung Jin Kim

“…A random forest (RF) regression model was developed to predict sensory texture preferences of packaging films, enhancing their emotional appeal to consumers. …”
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METHODS OF PROMOTION OF HOTEL SERVICES WITH REGARD TO TRENDS OF DEVELOPMENT OF HOTEL BUSINESS by D. Milova

“…It is expedient with the purpose of revealing of the further tendencies of development of hotels to be guided by preferences of young travelers. The article shows that most people prefer to book hotel services through online agencies, but the segment that book hotels directly is also very significant. …”
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IMPLEMENTATION OF THE MARKETING ORIENTATION IN POLAND BY LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES by Beata Nowotarska-Romaniak

“…Marketing orientation of life insurance companies as a source of income shows customer needs and preferences, so that targeted offers and marketed insurance services meet the needs and preferences better than those of the competition. …”
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Specification and enforcement of personalized privacy policy for social network by Yuan WANG, Yu-qing SUN, Le-le MA

“…An authorization model was proposed to support personalized privacy preferences in the first-logic privacy preference language.The language allowed users to express personalized privacy preferences.Visitor-role authorization rules based on the attributes of visitors and role-permission assignment rules based on the tags of objects were introduced,which resolve dynamic authorization and fine-grained rights assignment problems.Analyzed privacy policy conflict cases and realized policy consistency verification by Prolog logic programming.Designed a personalized privacy policy management and implementation middleware for social network.In the middleware,it integrated the management of personalized policy into access control system on the existing resources.The experiments show that the policy conflict analysis has good efficiency in the implementation.…”
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Evidence-based practice models and frameworks in the healthcare setting: a scoping review by Jarrod Dusin, Andrea Melanson, Lisa Mische-Lawson

“…However, the inclusion of patient values and preferences needs to be better integrated into EBP models and frameworks. …”
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Patient and caregiver perspectives of select non-communicable diseases in India: A scoping review. by Sindhu Nila, Eliza Dutta, S S Prakash, Sophy Korula, Anu Mary Oommen

“…<h4>Background and objectives</h4>Patient-reported measures of encounters in healthcare settings and consideration of their preferences could provide valuable inputs to improve healthcare quality. …”
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A Recommendation Model Using the Bandwagon Effect for E-Marketing Purposes in IoT by Sang-Min Choi, Hyein Lee, Yo-Sub Han, Ka Lok Man, Woon Kian Chong

“…While the conventional recommendation approaches rely on user preferences provided by users, these approaches may not be suitable for the IoT environment. …”
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A Weighted Statistical Network Modeling Approach to Product Competition Analysis by Yaxin Cui, Faez Ahmed, Zhenghui Sha, Lijun Wang, Yan Fu, Noshir Contractor, Wei Chen

“…Also, traditionally when using binary network models to study product competitions and depending on the cutoff values chosen to binarize a network, the resulting estimated customer preferences can be inconsistent. Such inconsistency in interpreting customer preferences is a downside of binary network models but can be well addressed by the proposed weighted network model. …”
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Nature deficit and technology overuse in childhood. A correlational study by gender of its influence on sustainable identity construction in childhood by Sara Serrate González, Judit Alonso del Casar, Carmen Patino Alonso, José Manuel Muñoz Rodríguez

“…The results, based on a series of correlational analyses, suggest that there are significant differences by gender in preference for use and spaces, as well as differences in the effects of these preferences on their identity. …”
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Genetic Variation in Male Mate Choice for Large Females in Drosophila melanogaster by Grace S. Freed, Isabella G. Martinez, Avigayil Lev, Ana‐Maria Anthony Cuadrado, Alison Pischedda

“…ABSTRACT Males in many species show courtship and mating preferences for certain females over others when given the choice. …”
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trust, decision, online, information technology, perceived ease of use, usefulness by Gergely MAKLÁRI, Éva BÁCSNÉ BÁBA, Anetta MÜLLER, Anikó MOLNÁR*

“…Special attention was given to preferences for sports events and tourism-related aspects. …”
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Exploring the Language of Consumption by Filippo Pietrini

“…In contrast, articles in American Economic Review/Econometrica lean towards technical language, addressing the intertemporal aspect of preferences and individual facets of consumption, and only refer to other research in economics. …”
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Optimal Asset Allocation for CRRA and CARA Insurers under the Vasicek Interest Rate Model by Hanlei Hu, Shaoyong Lai, Hongjing Chen

“…In addition, several sensitivity analyses and numerical illustrations are given to analyze the impacts of different risk preferences and interest rate fluctuation on the optimal strategies. …”
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