0 present participle of maximize
1 to make something as great in amount, size, or importance as possible:
One acts from self-interest when one aims at maximizing one's welfare, where welfare is understood as depending exclusively on the goods enjoyed by oneself.
Note that, in this case, maximizing n(u) corresponds to maximizing the expected average reward penalized by the expected average variability.
Liberals, in contrast, portray a happier world in which actors can and should craft mutually beneficial institutions, maximizing wealth rather than security.
No person, it must be emphasized, is a servant of a universal, impersonal satisfaction system responsible for maximizing aggregate utility.
This would involve maximizing the invariable representation of morphemes and would entail a cer tain degree of abstraction.
On models of expectations that arise from maximizing behavior of economic agents over time.
But maximizing offspring cannot be taken as the ultimate underlying motive of all human behavior, because it simply does not fit the facts.
A better understanding of the flow patterns seen in this noninvasive technique is essential in maximizing the role of echocardiography as a diagnostic tool.
