OBJECTIVES The preference for a specific alcoholic beverage may be related to an individual's overall lifestyle and health. The objective was to investigate associations between alcoholic beverage preference and several cardiometabolic and lifestyle factors, including adiposity, cholesterol, glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c), liver enzymes and dietary patterns. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETT...

OBJECTIVE To assess patient satisfaction with and preference for naratriptan hydrochloride therapy over previous "nontriptan" therapy for migraines. DESIGN AND SETTING Open-label study conducted at 15 primary care clinics. PATIENTS One hundred forty-three adults meeting International Headache Society diagnostic criteria for migraine who were not using triptans as first-line therapy for migr...

In fault-tolerant systems, the primary and backup copies of different tasks can be scheduled together on one processor, where primary tasks should be executed as soon as possible (ASAP) and backup tasks as late as possible (ALAP) for better performance (e.g., energy efficiency). To address such mixed requirements, in this paper, we propose the concept of preference-oriented execution and study ...

greenhouse whitefly and two-spotted spider mite are two important pests on greenhouse crops. the polyphagous predatory mite amblyseius swirskii preys on both of these pests. in this research, predation of the predatory mite on different stages of both pests, prey stage preference of pests, prey preference and switching behavior of predator between preferred stage of greenhouse whitefly and two-...

The aim of this paper is to study the integration of multiplicative preference relation as a preference representation structure in fuzzy multipurpose decision-making problems. Assuming fuzzy multipurpose decision-making problems under di4erent preference representation structures (ordering, utilities and fuzzy preference relations) and using the fuzzy preference relations as uniform representa...

Dyad ranking is a specific type of preference learning problem, namely the problem of learning a model that is capable of ranking a set of feature vector pairs, called dyads. In this paper a situation is considered where feature vectors consists of identifiers only. A new method based on learning latent-features is introduced for this purpose. The method is evaluated on synthetic data and is ap...

Nonmarket valuation is commonly applied to infer the preferences of individuals for restoration policies after an environmental disaster. A crucial issue in this task is to determine the appropriate lapse of time after which the valuation techniques should be applied. This study investigates the role of the emotional load in explaining the dynamic patterns of elicited preferences. The results s...

The quality of food can be assessed from different points of view. In this paper, we deal with those aspects that can be appreciated through sensory impressions. When we are aiming to induce a function that maps object descriptions into ratings, we must consider that consumers’ ratings are just a way to express their preferences about the products presented in the same testing session. Therefor...

Recommendation can be defined as the problem of selecting, among a set of items, those ones that are likely of interest to the user. In case of a group of users, recommendations should satisfy, as far as possible, the preferences of all the group members. In order to elicit the group preferences, we present two different mechanisms: the first one consists in a voting procedure whereas the secon...

Preference learning is an appealing approach for affective recognition. Instead of predicting the underlying emotional class of a sample, this framework relies on pairwise comparisons to rank-order the testing data according to an emotional dimension. This framework is relevant not only for continuous attributes such as arousal or valence, but also for categorical classes (e.g., is this sample ...