In the second part of her experiment, Dr Holveck found that these song preferences "actually translated into preferences for the live males".
We parlay our preferences into spending habits and seek to score as producers by earning profits.
Public social networks like LinkedIn provide additional insight into customer connections, preferences, behaviors and sentiments, which can lead to more productive sales engagements.
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Plus, the MLDs really reinforced the notion of differentiated learning: By giving students the option of using pencil, paper, podcasts and so forth, we were allowing them to tap into their individual learning preferences.
Proponents of affirmative action, including most university administrators, feel they need only point to the decline of minority enrolment in the best public universities in California and Texas in the two years since the ban on racial preferences went into effect.
In that same column, I surmised that any new tax revenue would likely be pursued in the form of proposals the President has previously pitched but failed to turn into law, such as eliminating preferences for the oil and gas industries, private jet owners, and private equity fund managers.
Of course, who does the research and where it gets printed should not have any bearing on what the actual relationship is but, apparently, preferences and publication bias do come into the picture with quite some force.
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While appropriations have some level of transparency, tax preferences often are obscurely drafted and dropped into larger bills, hidden from public view.
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If a restaurant chooses to note your preferences, that information may be typed into its OpenTable System manually just as a restaurant might write a note on an index card.
Private companies can assess consumer preferences and experiment with ways to integrate sustainability into product design and marketing.
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There are enough exemptions, exclusions, preferences, subsidies, giveaways and gotchas written into the tax code to fill a medium-size library.
Faced with an increasingly diverse workforce due not only to generational differences, but also globalization, later retirement dates and a host of other factors, organizations have a number of critical talent management decisions: ranging from taking into account varying skills of employees to dealing with differing preferences and motives.
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But any further preferences they could have stated will not be taken into account.
But it allows you to take those preferences and create an algorithm you can plug factors into.
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Within London, Hammersmith has the lowest level of first preferences - with only 56.7% getting into their first place school.
And once it hits the Web, the game will take a primitive, but impressive, step into a brave new world where computers will watch and analyze your preferences and habits and reprogram themselves accordingly.
British Airways started rolling out iPads to 2, 000 senior cabin crew in late 2011 and are now using them across their entire fleet to tap into customer data, check member status and record meal and beverage preferences, as well as keep track of transfer and final destination details.
So with the Droid 3 there are little preferences set to maximize battery life: the phone switches into sleep mode almost immediately and brightness is automatically set to its lowest levels.
Do you come to lists to see if they conform to all other lists, to see if they conform to your own preferences, or to maybe get some new insights and suggestions into movies to consider besides the same ones repeated over and over on every movie list online that you find?
Like the jam tasters, they have been tricked into over-analyzing their options, thinking too much about a set of preferences that can't be explained.
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Often the books we read, music we listen to, products we buy and even relationships we enter into are fed to us from the cloud, based on our habits and preferences.
Stroud argues that it's a mistake not to include older consumers in an overall marketing strategy that divides potential buyers into worthwhile categories such as education level, race, zip code, income and buying preferences.
Unlike Mr. Obama, Mr. McCain also favors the Colombian Free Trade Agreement, which would primarily remove tariffs on American imports into that country, with barriers to Colombian exports in America already almost completely removed under the Andean Trade Preferences Act.
For cosmopolitan cities such as Hong Kong or Singapore, where wine made its way into the dining culture (albeit in a small way) starting in the 1970s and 1980s, wine preferences followed those of the expatriates and foreigners who were more familiar with the beverage.
Alex Gregg, a waiter at Paola's on the Upper East Side who's waited tables for more than 40 years, says he's morphed into a tech whiz manning the sophisticated POS system, taking reservations on OpenTable, checking customer preferences on databases, even Googling patrons when he can't match a name to a face.
He says the U.S. can either change the ratio of preferences for family-based immigration or raise the hard cap on people who bring investment or skills into the country.
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Since women make up half the talent pool (though their interests and preferences are often different from men's, of which more later), getting more of them into work should help alleviate the shortage, all the more so since there are now more university-educated women than men in most rich countries (and some emerging ones too).
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