Background utility values for the model were based upon utilities from a U.K. general population[ 29].
The approach utilized within this work is based upon a utility function, which enables ranking of different configurations based on the concept of utility, which is used in economics to describe the measurement of 'useful-ness' that a consumer obtains from any good [24].
Goodness as we understand it is conditioned not upon a deep truth of what is good, but upon the utility of goodness in fostering the replication of particular genes.
And in 2008, "Why Fly When You Can Float?" asked an article reflecting upon the utility — and, yes, the romance — of a dirigible in a modern age.
In 1784, under the pseudonym Constantia, she published a few essays in a Boston magazine, the Gentleman and Lady's Town and Country Magazine, beginning with "Desultory Thoughts upon the Utility of Encouraging a Degree of Self-Complacency, Especially in Female Bosoms".
In Europe such changes in civil law, which are likely to continue and even to increase in tandem with global economic activity and the growth of international and supranational legal institutions, cast doubt upon the utility of treating civil law as the defining characteristic of continental European legal systems.
As consequence, some farmers will adopt and others will not, depending upon the utility they expect from the innovation (the organic farming).
Discussion centres upon the utility of the PSOCQ in a clinical pain setting in light of the above findings, and a need for further research.
Based upon local utility rate structures, annual savings estimates for sealing 90% of 19% system leakage at a 20% outdoor air fraction were developed.
Because it makes the deontic status of conduct depend upon the utility of sanctioning that conduct in some way, we might call this conception of duty, justice, and rights sanction utilitarianism.
