Ski socks are calf length to maximize protection and comfort, and some have ribbing meant to fight muscle fatigue.
Cockroaches gather in sheltered locations, or resting places, so the question was how they go about forming groups that maximize protection but minimize overcrowding.
About 80 percent of all drivers wear seat belts, according to federal estimates, but government standards for air bags are intended to maximize protection for unbelted drivers, a holdover from years ago when very few drivers buckled up.
The movement of fragile materials requires a thorough assessment of the degree of fragility, the potential hazards of transport, and the cost and efficiency of practical containers, in order to maximize protection and minimize shipping expenses.
The researchers pointed out that these fluctuations may have evolved as a way to maximize protection against diseases like malaria — carried by mosquitoes that typically exhibit daily feeding patterns.
On the old-economy side, Netflix spends considerable time and effort perfecting the red envelopes it uses to mail DVD's to minimize weight, maximize protection for the discs and enhance the speed at which the envelopes can be processed by the Postal Service.
Sugar and surfactant pairs were selected that would maximize protection of different aggregation prone regions through direct interactions.
However, there is a lack of fundamental system-level research leading to the development of sensor networks that both maximize protection and minimize the system cost for indoor air protection.
Today, emergence of disease caused by pneumococcal serotypes not included in various vaccine formulations fuels research into conserved proteins or other means to maximize protection against more than 90 known pneumococcal serotypes.
