These may include selecting the most least-cost inputs (e.g. using nurses instead of doctors or generics instead of brand drugs), minimising excess bed capacity, maximising the effort of staff, eradicating theft of resources, combining available resource inputs in a cost-minimising way, given their prices, and so on.
This energy consumption can be reduced by different techniques like minimising path length or hop count.
The long-term average of surprise is called entropy, which means minimising surprise minimises (information theoretic) entropy.
Various ways of minimising heat loss from the cell surface including insulation or providing supplementary heat via a heating belt or panel were assessed but discarded in favour of housing the cell in a hot air cabinet maintained at 80 °C and eliminating the surrounding cell body.
Minimising tax obligations is a way of life for many people in all income brackets.
The methodology, using QFD, cognitive function analysis and modelling, design reviews and simulator experiments, is a practical approach to minimising human errors and maximising crew situation awareness in a cost-effective way.
When celebrities and publishers agree to divorce, in contrast, the parting of the ways tends, in public at least, to be friction-free, minimising loss of face on both sides.
Ways have to be found to limit hypoglycaemia occurrence, such as minimising infusion volume and monitoring glucose levels.
In this way the principal investigator was not exposed to patients' follow-up scores on the HADS, SGRQ or ESSI, potentially minimising measurement bias during the study follow-up.
Minimising, denying, prevaricating.
