Abstract Governments need tools to analyze trade-offs for freshwater policy, yet valuation estimates from the literature can be difficult deploy in a policy setting. Obstacles benefit transfer include (i) difficulties scaling up local estimates, (ii) water quality attributes that cannot linked and (iii) surveys positing large, unrealistic changes. Focusing on rivers streams New Zealand, we deve...

Background The management of foot problems in JIA is complex and requires a multidisciplinary health professional input. However little is known about patients’ and parents’ preferences for attributes of foot care. Incorporating individuals’ preferences into future foot-care provision may improve satisfaction, treatment adherence, and thus clinical efficacy. The aim of this study was to compare...

Preference-based search is the problem of finding an item that matches best with a user’s preferences. Recently several researchers have proposed approaches based on examples where preferences are stated in form of critiques on shown options. User studies show that example-based tools for preference-based search can achieve significantly higher accuracy when they are complemented with suggestio...