The quicker methods of judicial killing — the headsman's axe, the hangman's rope, the firing squad, the guillotine — minimized the duration of physical agony but retained the didactic violence and the public spectacle.
In addition to exploring approaches to create more robust behaviour change, designers should minimize the duration of operation and maximize the number of households served by the device.
For example, in [21], to improve system performance, the authors minimize the duration of a hand-shaking process by taking advantages of receiver's tolerance to interference when two nodes are closer than the maximal transmission range.
Other techniques for designing the pulse shaping filters that have been reported are based on optimization techniques with a specific objective function such as maximizing the robustness against timing jitter [2, 3, 8 10] minimizing the duration of the impulse response [11 13] or minimizing the peak to average power ratio (PAPR) at the transmitter filter output [14].
In fact, we found that the parameter values that minimize the duration of group splitting correspond to the experimental ones.
The two main optimization criteria for migrating birds are to minimize the duration of the migration and to minimize the energy spent on the migration [14].
The values of β and γ for which the mean duration was minimized were similar to those found in our experiment, and furthermore they maintained this property of minimizing the duration of split events whatever the group size considered.
This finding confirms the saccadic flight style and gaze strategy that aims at minimizing the duration of rotational head movements, while the intersaccadic interval has a duration of some tens of milliseconds [2], [27].
In order to minimize the duration of the entire experiment, we used different inter-stimulus-intervals (ISIs) from sentence onset to the onset of the following sentence in the learning phases and in the test phases.
