Its "sleep coaching" program encourages you to identify and put the kibosh on "sleep stealers" — too much caffeine or stress, say, or a less-than-prudent bedtime.
When the marginal cost of deliberation is sufficiently high, the agent might do better to follow a rule of thumb that quickly, and cheaply, identifies a good but not optimal, action.[12] If the expected benefit from choosing the optimal action (relative to the good action) is less than the cost, it is prudent for the agent to adopt the rule of thumb.
Moreover, they were advised to substitute foods that provide similar dietary intake to the step 1 NCEP prudent diet – less than 30% of energy from total fat, <10% from saturated fat, <300 mg cholesterol per day.
A more prudent course of action is a flexible one that acknowledges the many possibilities and accounts for ideal and less-than-ideal spending amounts.
Their public finances are much less prudent than conventional measures suggest.
The management of RBS had been far less prudent than that of Hall & Woodhouse, borrowing heavily over the preceding years to expand its business at breakneck speed.
Moreover, Frederick William's management of the Prussian economy was less prudent than his predecessor's and finally brought the state's finances into disorder.
In today's economy, inflation outpaces the interest rates that banks pay to encourage saving money — this makes penny pinching less prudent than many might think.
Jia (2009) analyzed the relationship between bank ownership and performance with regression models, concluding that lending by state-owned banks has been less prudent than lending by joint-equity banks.
That is to say, the circumstances in which he decided on his levels of effort his particular skills not being much in demand may have ensured that those decisions were less prudent than they would have been in different contexts.
