Public health people tend to tally their successes based on a calculus of lives saved versus lives lost, and on this score, said Dr. Scott Lillibridge, a centers' expert on bioterrorism, the agency's performance has been "about as good as you can get in a crisis environment".
But before you gush over the changes, consider this: Both firms probably arrived at their decision based on a calculus that showed it would be too costly to build a system that lets consumers opt to breach their credit limit, as the law required.
Many have called Pyongyang's actions unpredictable and bizarre, but I find that they are most likely based on a deliberate calculus of its needs, its negotiating strategy, and the necessarily inexact science of negotiations and implmentation….
I only know that, as Solomon suggests over and over again in his exceptional book, parents frequently make decisions based on a complex calculus that has as much to do with them as their kids.
But federal authorities charged Wednesday that the success their former colleague, Paul Bergrin, had in defending drug dealers and gang leaders was based on a brutal calculus that he had boiled down to a phrase he repeated like a slogan: No witnesses, no case.
All the familiar elements were there: the lone icon speaking for moral principle against totalitarian rule, the anonymous but courageous network at home that sheltered him, the supporters abroad who rallied around his cause, and the governments that made their choices based on a difficult calculus of moral ideals and geopolitical interests.
Others [ 41] have also pointed out that when physicians manage their cases (e.g., diagnosis and treatment), their previous experience allows them to make informed decisions based on heuristics rather than on a sound, complete and reproducible reasoning, such as logical inference based on a predicate calculus representation of a problem.
It's just that we make decisions based on a particular stubborn calculus.
But it was based on a simple business calculus: limiting its computers to a single operating system had limited the company's growth.
Young professionals don't usually choose a city based on a fully rationed calculus of cost of living to salary to Department of Labor job creation statistics.
It should be emphasized that the drawback observed here in the form of inter-channel interference (ICI) is eliminated by applying the so-called SVD (singular value decomposition) form in the signal reconstruction process [6 8], dedicated solely to the traditional analysis based on a parameter matrix calculus [9 11].
