Seeing more and more aspects of our lives as games to win through maximization has a sort of self-perpetuating effect with perverse consequences, not the least of which is the impairment of what Diesing terms social rationality; the cherishing of unique relationships, personal connectedness, cooperative functioning, solidarity and sentiment.
In this study, however, we investigated not only the optimum information transmission from the viewpoint of information maximization, but also the mechanisms of information maximization in the neural circuit, which had not previously been rigorously theoretically investigated.
While the concept of shareholder value maximization has always been attractive in its elegance, making it a reality has proved tricky for managers.
It is clear that profit/utility maximization has led to much of the environmental conundrum we find ourselves in.
In Pakistan, a new concept of "Yield Maximization" has gained popularity over the past few years.
Notice that I have not referred to any maximization problem so far.
In particular, strategies based on the maximization of the modularity adjusted to overcome the resolution limit for directed networks have not been developed.
In addition, we have applied the program "Multiple Expectation Maximization for Motif Elicitation" (MEME) [ 44] for the detection of short conserved sequence parts that have not been described yet as Pfam and/or SMART motif.
De Leng et al. [ 16] stated that videos should not be too long, but we have not been able to find any literature describing the optimal duration of patient video cases for value maximization.
However, once we admit a concept of the common good, and that such good might outweigh the maximization of private gain, haven't we admitted that profits are just one variable in the complex equation that determines human well-being?
