Sentences with phrase «human preferences»

There may be investment opportunities that will repay more than $ 50, and there is simply a very human preference for earlier satisfaction.

It is very difficult to understand the dimensions of human preference.

It's mainly about numbers and very little about human preferences.

Human preferences for horse coat colors have changed greatly over time and across cultures.

A study of penguin species most often depicted in coffee table books raises questions about how human preferences for attractive animals may influence conservation efforts.

Consider as a primer what freer trade accomplishes: In the post-war era, and especially with the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991 — and with it the notion that governments could centrally direct an economy — a growing number of economies rejoined the normal human preference and practice of free enterprise.

More generally, it stands within the «realist» tradition in affirming the objective reality of the orders of truth and other kinds of excellence, as against nominalists and subjectivists who believe that knowledge is essentially a human construct and values are nothing but human preferences.

Morin found no evidence that scripts tend to become more horizontal or vertical over time, suggesting that the scribes who created them baked human preferences into the written word from the beginning, he reported last month in Cognitive Science.

That contrasts with claims that human preferences act as a kind of selective pressure on writing, forcing it to evolve to become more legible or die, Morin says.

asks Anna Gunnthorsdottir, an economist at the University of New South Wales Australian School of Business in Sydney who studies how human preference changes conservation behavior.

Because domestic animals reflect human preferences, the idea that dark - colored dogs are more effective deterrents to enemies was not lost on those who selectively bred black from wolf grey.

A new study from England's University of Portsmouth conducted by Dr. Bridget Waller and Dr. Juliane Kaminski, among others, has recently proposed that dogs have actually evolved childlike facial features such as «puppy dog eyes» to influence human preference.

Such tactics prey on one of the mind's greatest vulnerabilities: the innate human preference for rapid reward, or immediate gratification... Can we, as shoppers, resist?

Pandas, monkeys, snow leopards, cranes — we could go on about the animals in Disney's visually spectacular documentary Born in China, but the record of human preferences indicates Disney had you at «pandas.»

So much of the history of the Christian church is the history of theological overkill or underkill, of a brutish wielding of the totalitarian potentialities of an uncircumspect monotheism on the one hand or the weak capitulation of the strong word of Scripture to human preference and prejudice on the other.

Vanderbilt does not seem too concerned to impress any organizing theory on his subject, the vagaries of human preference.

Dr Louise McDowell, Dr Deborah Wells and Professor Peter Hepper from the School of Psychology at Queen's, recruited 44 cats for the study and found that while there was no overall population preference like the human preference for right handedness, there was a gender preference.

During the Bronze Age (2,700 — 900 BC) and Iron Age (900 BC — 400 AD) the number of color variants further increased from six to nine, indicating a human preference for new colors.

lovely is when i found a happy woman, being good is a human preference just like beauty lies in the eye of beholder.

«Our study suggests that dogs» facial movements have evolved in response to a human preference for childlike characteristics.

The study suggests that dogs have evolved in response to the human preference towards childlike faces.

Secondly, although 3 light meals a day will do us no harm, it's just the matter of your human preferences — whether to feed us 2 times with solid meals or 3 times with plates a bit lighter.

As with the cats, human preferences are color - coded green, orange, or purple.

Humans have domesticated the dog as we know according to human preferences and specifications.