background: research at undergraduate and graduate level is important in deciding career fields and future profession. the undergraduate studies are greatly enriched by doing research work. this study assess research trends among medical students by evaluating their research career choices, factors influencing their research career preferences and future plans at jinnah sind medical university ...

the purpose of this study was to determine the socio-economic and intellectual factors affecting the imported meat preferences of consumers and to reveal the personal prioritized preferences of buyers consuming domestic meat and imported meat. the study was carried out in izmir, the third city of turkey, where face-to-face interviews were conducted in 300householdswhose occupants shop at hyperm...

abstract successful presence of indian and pakistani rice in iran’s market due to having similar quality with the domestic rice, extensive advertisement, and good packaging has faced rice production in iran with a big challenge. assuming that the attractions of iranian consumers toward these imported rice varieties are a signal of changes in the preferences of the domestic consumers in favor of...

the present study-both qualitative and quantitative--explored fifty efl learners’ preferences for receiving error feedback on different grammatical units as well as their beliefs about teacher feedback strategies. the study also examined the effect of the students’ level of writing ability on their views about the importance of teacher feedback on different error types. data was gathered throug...

the present study aimed to examine the determinants of using alternative treatment plans in different types of problems by different educated professionals to facilitate in formulating the appropriate marketing strategies of the most important emergency product- medicare service providers. this paper attempted to find out the attitudes and behavior of educated professionals in adopting differen...

the ways of placing decision making units (dmus) in certain clusters are found as a subject in statistics, these ways usually are heuristic. the proposed clustering approach in this article considers preferences of dmus. this study applies data envelopment analysis (dea) dmus are clustered by solving multi-objective linear problem (molp) and by considering preferences of each dmu at production ...

Despite progress towards greater public engagement, questions about the optimal approach to access public preferences remain unanswered. We review two increasingly popular methods for engaging the public in healthcare priority-setting and determining their preferences; the Citizens’ Jury (CJ) and Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE). We discuss the theoretical framework from which each method is de...