There's a strain of feminist argument, of course, — offered, for instance, by Linda Hirshman in her recent polemic "Get To Work" — that such maximization is the primary thing that matters, and that women should subordinate every other good (like, say, having more than one child) to the pursuit of financial self-sufficiency.
Deliberate planning and coordination of the IPA course series has fostered maximization of student learning, achievement of curricular integration, and compliance with accreditation standards.
Of course, if the Millian Model argument for prudential value or non-moral goodness does not work, then that provides a very strong (if defeasible) reason for supposing that there is no further argument for the related account of non-prudential value as consisting in maximization of power).
In such tasks, matching follows from the maximization of reward at either the molecular (maximizing reward at each element of time) or molar (maximizing reward over the course of the experiment) levels.
Because ℒ is difficult to maximize directly, we use an EM algorithm to replace the maximization of ℒ with a series of simpler maximizations.
A private delivery system is perceived to be guided by "maximization of shareholders' values and maximization of profit," he said.
Many executives, for their part, construe their mission solely as the maximization of profit.
"We spend 90% of our studies at HBS pursuing the maximization of the dollar".
