Human ingenuity, like the Green Revolution, or else human calculation of utility (prosperity makes people have fewer kids) helped hold those past wolves at bay.
Overlapping also influences the calculation of utility function U a (c), assigning a penalty if the overlapping occurs: Ov ( c ) = - 1 if State ( c ) = ONE _ PED 0 otherwise.
Calculation of utility values would be strengthened by qualitative research components to record preferences of individual men concerning the trade-off between reduced treatment morbidity and increased risk of reoperation.
The leader's obligations will involve calculations of utility, but, in extremis, his or her ultimate responsibility to that community trumps universalist utilitarian calculations as well as specific deontological constraints.
Westen offers evidence that the only people to make decisions based purely on rational calculations of utility are those who have suffered brain damage.
The cost of the optimal solution is estimated through calculations with utility functions.
Surely a sophisticated version of utilitarianism, such as rule or indirect utilitarianism, can have room for the idea that duties, virtues etc. cannot be overridden by ordinary calculations of utility since to allow this would be to risk too much overall disutility.
Performing the mapping exercise only using similar dimensions – for example, pain – would not permit the calculation of utilities to be used in CUAs.
