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Differences in the Alcohol Preference Assessment of Shy and Bold Zebrafish
(2022-02-24)
Individuals differ in their preference for alcohol and propensity to develop alcoholism, where the behavioral profile, such as the bold-shy axis, plays an important role for such a difference. However, literature is limited ...
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 ...
Identifying transit driver preferences for work shift structures: An econometric analysis
(INFORMS, 2008)
The combination of a strict labor legislation with daily and weekly time-dependent demand patterns has meant that transit companies tend to suffer significant inefficiencies; indeed, as more drivers than the minimum required ...
Optimal Economic growth with recursive preferences: decreasing rate of time preference
(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 1998-12)
In the field of optimal growth theory, since Ramsey's time it is frequent to maximize a welfare function consisting of the discounted sum of instantaneous utilities. Such an optimality criterion implies that preferences ...
New bases for a general definition for the moving preferred basis
(World Scientific, 2011-10)
One of the challenges of the Environment-Induced Decoherence (EID) approach is to provide a simple general definition of the moving pointer basis or moving preferred basis. In this letter we prove that the study of the ...
Valuing noise level reductions in a residential location context
(PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2005)
Although noise levels in urban areas frequently surpass the designated norms the consequences on health are only beginning to be examined. A stated preference experiment is used to estimate the willingness-to-pay for ...
The impact of traffic images on travel time valuation in stated-preference choice experiments
(TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC, 2012)
We develop a simple but modern stated-preference (SP) choice experiment to analyse the impact of traffic images on the estimated value of travel time savings (VTTS). A random subsample of survey respondents view ...
A history-based method to estimate animal preference
(Nature Publishing Group, 2016-06-28)
Giving animals their preferred items (e.g., environmental enrichment) has been suggested as a method to improve animal welfare, thus raising the question of how to determine what animals want. Most studies have employed ...
Willingness-to-pay estimation with mixed logit models: some new evidence
(SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC, 2005)
Mixed-logit models are currently the state of the art in discrete-choice modelling, and their estimation in various forms (in particular, mixing revealed-preference and stated-preference data) is becoming increasingly ...