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What to choose when the best preference is not available: does the Nile tilapia follow a linear sequence of preferences?
(2019-04-01)
Preference tests have been applied to detect better welfare conditions for the animals. Among these tests, the available choice options are variable and thus, the best preferences may not be included. Considering welfare ...
Individuality matters for substrate-size preference in the Nile tilapia juveniles
(2018-10-02)
Preference tests have usually been used to identify nonhuman animal preferences for welfare purposes (environmental enrichment), but they are mostly at the group level—that is, group preferences for resources or environmental ...
Options can induce risk taking for arbitrary preferences
(Springer, 2006-04)
It is widely believed that call options induce risk-taking behavior. However, Ross (2004) challenges this intuition by demonstrating the impossibility of inducing managers with arbitrary preferences to always act as if ...
Preference for heights of feeding troughs in mares: a pilot study
(Univ Federation Animal Welfare, 2019-05-01)
Preferences for the height of feeding troughs of seven mares were evaluated and, as awareness of surroundings when feeding is adaptive for horses, the relationship between preference responses and attention behaviours was ...
A Survey of University Students’ Preferences for Midwifery Care and Community Birth Options in 8 High-Income Countries.
Introduction: Midwifery care is associated with positive birth outcomes, access to community birth options, and judicious use of interventions. The aim of this study was to characterize and compare maternity care preferences ...
Physical and psychological motivation tests of individual preferences in rainbow trout
(2017-06-01)
Animal preference and motivation have been used to assess different kinds of environmental resources that may help improve welfare conditions. However, preference and motivation are typically tested separately, and these ...
Revealed Preference in President Election 2019 in Padang City West Sumatra Province
(Universidad del Zulia, 2019)
A Psychological Aversive Condition Does Not Change Individual Zebrafish Preference For Background Color Or Artificial Plant Enrichments
(2021-01-01)
Information on fish preference for environmental conditions can be a useful tool to offer them what they want, an important requirement for welfare purposes. Giving that such an approach deals with psychological states of ...
Review of modeling preferences for decision models
(Instituto Científico Europeo, 2015-12)
A group decision problem is set in environments where there is a common issue to solve, a set of possible options to choose, and a set of individuals who are experts and express their opinions about the set of possible ...
A Survey of University Students’ Preferences for Midwifery Care and Community Birth Options in 8 High-Income Countries
Introduction: Midwifery care is associated with positive birth outcomes, access to community birth options, and judicious use of interventions. The aim of this study was to characterize and compare maternity care preferences ...