Fifteen is a pretty optimal number.

(b) Obtain optimal return without undue risk

So it's the optimal way of combining information.

So, very quickly, what is the optimal time profile?

(c) The optimal organizational structure and adequate resource requirements

We got the results from that for the optimal engine.

The other combinations of challenge and skill become progressively less optimal.

Determining an optimal level of accountability for results is also challenging.

Conversely, if resources and know how are made available, environmental assessment gaps and information quality can be improved, leading to more optimal decision making and improved management of environmental resources.

This lack of information may lead to a non optimal allocation of resources.

And he will, or she will, calculate the optimal design of the nozzle.

I mean, is this the optimal environment in which to raise our children?

First, were the regions to be united similar or dissimilar in terms of their economies vulnerability to external shocks? The more similar the regions, the more optimal the resulting currency area, because policy responses could be applied uniformly across its entire territory.

Perhaps more troubling is that pay restrictions open a Pandora s box of other restrictions. Indeed, politicians, eager to look good in the eyes of angry voters, are often more interested in setting limits to total compensation than they are in designing the optimal form of compensation.

Instruments aimed at tackling market failure and offering incentives to provide benefits such as watershed protection, biodiversity conservation, recreation and carbon sequestration would contribute to sustainable forest management, as well as socially more optimal forest activities.

The risk was a less than optimal allocation of scarce resources, or a waste of resources.

Regarding energy supply, Parties mentioned several options, including ensuring an optimal overall mix of energy sources.

Connor (2005). Optimal Deterrence and Private International Cartels (draft). www.aae.wisc.edu fsrg web FSRG 20papers 05 20Connor.pdf.

Despite progress in expanding the use of SSC, mainstreaming of the modality is still not optimal.

And what Bayes' rule says is, given my beliefs, the action should in some sense be optimal.

The cooperation provided by UNMIK in the protection of witnesses has also been sometimes less than optimal.

Efficiency is not an arithmetical or managerial concept it is a function of optimal and just decisions.

Optimal strategic policies should be based on common welfare, gained through economic integration and redistributive social policies.

But if you ask the average American what the optimal formula of longevity is, they probably couldn't tell you.

This network will provide them with tools to support the optimal development of their potential and their social integration.

This arrangement is expected to ensure, in a coordinated manner, optimal use of the resources available to the Organization.

Table 2 suggests that the organization of the procurement function within the United Nations system is far from optimal.

While I expect to learn much more as I work on HICCup, I am already sure that the biggest problem will be finding people to take on the challenges in each community. What s the optimal balance between replicability and the human touch?

The design of optimal regulation has to take into account the intensity of competition in the different banking segments. For example, capital charges should account for the degree of friction and rivalry in the banking sector, with tighter requirements in more competitive contexts.

Now of course there are other moves, but with vast computers we approximate and come close to the optimal solution.

Conventional wisdom suggests that the optimal organizational fine is as much as three times the actual gain from the cartel.

This means that one of the main conditions for the optimal application of the B9 procedure is not always met.

It should include a core catalogue of training opportunities and the optimal decentralization of training funds and reflect subregional priorities.

In the area of treasury management, UNDP will continue to strengthen its efforts to move more country offices into the electronic banking interface (para. 478) monitor the optimal cash balance of country offices (para. 471) progressively roll out cash position worksheets to more country offices in 2006 2007 and explore the use of performance benchmarks for portfolio management (para.

And you can actually get optimal nutritional yield by running a kind of high quality liquid soil over plants' root systems.

That is essential for a world order in which decisions are optimal and therefore acceptable, and the use of force minimal.

Given the significance of that body, we believe that the optimal composition must be adopted on the basis of broad agreement.

Undoubtedly, the deliberations of this forum will be guided effectively and will achieve optimal results, thanks to their wisdom and competence.

Many developing countries do not as yet have an optimal regulatory and institutional framework in place in respect of infrastructural services.

Internal management structures will be leaner, with authority delegated to the operational level to achieve optimal productivity and optimal support to the COP, the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol, the subsidiary bodies and the other bodies established under the Convention and the Protocol.

In the meantime, we know that antioxidants can cause unwanted health consequences. So the optimal source for antioxidants is diet, not supplements.

Consultations with the Government are ongoing on the optimal allocation of the approved civilian adviser posts to the various Timorese State institutions.

Requests that MINUSTAH and the Haitian authorities take all necessary steps to achieve optimal coordination between MINUSTAH's civilian police and the HNP

At the country level, it will require optimal teamwork, with UNICEF Representatives leading and securing availability and involvement of all relevant staff.

The final pitfall is excessively rapid depletion of oil or mineral deposits, in violation of optimal rates of saving, let alone environmental preservation.