Sentence examples for utilitarian component from inspiring English sources

Each sculpture is attached with a sort of utilitarian component, an accessory used in the support of an activity or event.

This was my problem: When my new H.P. MediaSmart television was called upon to play nice with my other perfectly utilitarian components (cable box, DVD player and computer), the 47-inch beauty kept a distance no cable could bridge.

We show that every unanimous and dominant strategy implementable allocation rule in this problem is a component-wise weighted utilitarian rule, which assigns non-negative weight vectors to agents in each component and chooses an alternative in each component by maximizing the weighted sum of valuations in that component.

Potential employees weighing job offers often have to trade off some utilitarian factors with various reputation components.

Specifically, this paper develops and tests an empirical model that explores the role of curiosity, control, performance, utilitarian value and hedonic value as cognitive components of consumer's response to change.

They know why people need to buy; the emotional components as well as the utilitarian purposes.

She traces the networks of human and textual ties that made London a vital component of an emerging experimental and utilitarian culture.

It is noted that respondents reported completely utilitarian and hedonic trips and the trips with both components of motivation were excluded during the interview (Table 2).

Factor 1 closely resembles a utilitarian perspective.

Consumer efficiency encompasses both benefit and cost components, reaches beyond the boundaries of product and service foci, and engages both utilitarian and hedonic principles of consumer behavior.

And finally, it was about two contradictory ways of thinking about the environment: one deriving from the past and viewing natural resources from a purely utilitarian perspective, and one that arose only recently in American history, regarding ecosystems and their living components as having rights and value beyond their economic utility to human beings.