Sentence examples for defined costs from inspiring English sources

Wars of this sort, with limited and strictly defined costs, may be the only way to rescue the idea of humanitarian intervention at all; the West should be similarly cautious in the nation-building phase.

The prospect of lawsuits and the lack of clearly defined costs in fixing a site -- whether heavily or lightly polluted -- have until now discouraged potential buyers, said Ronald Bruder, chairman of the Dames & Moore/Brookhill Corporation, a Manhattan real estate and engineering company that has bought tainted sites in dozens of states but until now not in New Jersey or New York.

The lack of clearly defined costs in fixing older buildings has until now discouraged rehabilitation projects because "if the return on investment is unpredictable the investment usually is not made," said William M. Connolly, director of the Division of Codes and Standards at the Department of Community Affairs.

If the terminal state can be defined, costs are calculated up to the final one in Equation (4).

For the final cost (Eq. 7) used by the proposed algorithm, the previously defined costs are summed together.

1. Hospitalization: Molinari et al. [ 1] defined costs for the hospitalization episode to include inpatient costs as well as outpatient and pharmacy services incurred 2 weeks prior and 4 weeks after the inpatient stay.

We compute the optimal D value which maximizes a suitably defined cost function.

Convexity of a suitably defined cost function is studied, indicating that parameter estimation can be accomplished using standard optimization techniques.

On the other hand, BESS sizing is formulated as a constrained optimization problem, with a defined cost function to be minimized.

Through theoretical analysis, the guaranteed cost control problem is transformed into designing an optimal controller of the associated nominal system with a newly defined cost function.

In this paper, a genetic algorithm has been applied in a move toward producing an optimum substrate feed profile given a defined cost function.