Sentence examples for utility subject from inspiring English sources

One option would be to reclassify broadband service as a sort of basic utility subject to strict regulation, like telephone service.

Ms. West added that British Airways would like to have regulation of BAA's London airports be strengthened by the airport owner's being treated like a utility, subject to tough performance criteria and sanctions if it failed to meet them.

The objective of the household is to maximize its expected utility subject to a budget constraint.

The household will purchase a bundle of commodities to maximize its utility subject to given budget constraints.

Our point of departure is the theory of the consumer, who maximizes utility subject to a budget constraint.

That is, each peer optimizes its own expected utility subject to the constraints imposed by the routing protocol.

Following the arguments given in the context of collective labor supply models, couples utility can be written as the weighted sum of spouses' individual utilities subject to their time and budget constraints, incorporating home production.

This finding may due to the way the health states were described or to limited power to detect differences in utilities for limited vs. diffuse SSc; alternatively, when assigning utilities, subjects may have focused more on ability to perform avocational and day-to-day activities rather than the extent of skin involvement.

In a market economy, each individual maximizes her/his utility (2) subject to the feasibility constraint (3).

The consumer is assumed to maximize this utility function subject to a budgetconstraint that can be specified as Y = ∑ i p i q i (3).

Microeconomic theory assumes that decision makers select alternatives that maximize the value of their utility function, subject to resource constraints [9].