Word: optimum
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...administration, sees the issue of Brown-Beasley's working relationships far differently. For the best systems development, Champion says, there must be a cooperative effort between the various people involved. Not only does Brown-Beasley not fit into the cooperative method, Champion says, but he believes that "what is optimum in any given situation is his idea and that no one else's position is important unless they agree with...
...Science. Recent work by Harvard professors Lewontin, Gould, and Levins has scrutinized some important and inadequately worked-out areas of natural selection theory; i,e. the methodology underlying efforts to ascribe phenotypic characters to effects of "heredity" and "environment"; the degree of determinism in evolution; the degree to which optimum genotypes can be favored by selection under conditions of polygenetic determination of characters and complex selection pressures. These writers' arguments do not, however, reduce the significance of work by Hamilton, G.C. Williams, Orians, Selander, Trivers, and Wilson on the evolution of social behavior. I believe that most biologists familiar with...
...waxing chart above is a demonstration of how snow conditions and temperature combine to determine the optimum...
...committee on Optimum Care to the Hopelessly Ill at Mass General should be commended for its efforts to produce explicit guidelines for doctors when deciding such cases. Its recommendations, which were accepted by the hospital in September, advise that patients whose brains do not function and who show no prospect of recovery should be taken off expensive life support measures. The report argues that if a patient has no brain function--even if he breathes and has a pulse--he is dead. The committee accepted as its criteria for death the Harvard standard, developed by a committee at the Medical...
...forecast for next year calls for real growth in G.N.P. of about 4%. But the upturn is beginning from such a low base-German industry today is operating at only 75% of capacity -that even with that relatively healthy advance the economy will be operating well below optimum levels. The unemployment rate has risen to 4.4%, and could well go higher this winter. In Germany, that is high enough to raise grim memories of the '20s and '30s, when legions of jobless workers flocked to Fascism...