The optimal amount of steering is determined by the current course of the ship.

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This would create competition among regulators to provide the optimal amount of consumer protection.

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It isn't known whether there is an optimal amount of time for meditating that is most effective.

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By the same token, the optimal amount of monetary stimulus is defined by the state of the economy.

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Calabrese says that many poisons follow, instead, a U-shaped curve: The death rate goes down as the dose climbs from zero to a certain small amount, what you could call the optimal exposure.

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Only now will we have the socially optimal level of emissions, the level which provides the greatest amount of human happiness possible.

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Each box represents the amount of total lifetime benefits that would be sacrificed if James and Linda did not file at their optimal ages.

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