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Minimisation (psychology) Minimisation or minimization is an action where an individual intentionally downplays a situation or a thing. Minimisation, or downplaying the significance of an event or emotion, is a common strategy in dealing with feelings of guilt (emotion), ...
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Minimisation (clinical trials) Minimisation is a method of adaptive stratified sampling that is used in clinical trials Clinical trials are prospective biomedical or behavioral research studies on human subject research, human participants designed to answer specific questi ...
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Minimisation (code) Minification (also minimisation or minimization) is the process of removing all unnecessary characters from the source code of interpreted programming languages or markup languages without changing its functionality. These unnecessary character ...
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Structural risk minimization Structural risk minimization (SRM) is an inductive principle of use in machine learning. Commonly in machine learning, a generalized model must be selected from a finite data set, with the consequent problem of overfitting – the model becomin ...
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Boolean minimization Logic optimization is a process of finding an equivalent representation of the specified logic circuit under one or more specified constraints. This process is a part of a logic synthesis applied in digital electronics and integrated circuit d ...
, a technique for optimizing combinational digital circuits * Cost-minimization analysis, in pharmacoeconomics * Expenditure minimization problem, in microeconomics *
Waste minimisation Waste minimisation is a set of processes and practices intended to reduce the amount of waste produced. By reducing or eliminating the generation of harmful and persistent wastes, waste minimisation supports efforts to promote a more sustai ...
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Harm reduction Harm reduction, or harm minimization, refers to a range of intentional practices and public health policies designed to lessen the negative social and/or physical consequences associated with various human behaviors, both legal and illegal. H ...
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Maxima and minima In mathematical analysis, the maximum and minimum of a function are, respectively, the greatest and least value taken by the function. Known generically as extremum, they may be defined either within a given range (the ''local'' or ''relative ...
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Minimal element In mathematics, especially in order theory, a maximal element of a subset S of some preordered set is an element of S that is not smaller than any other element in S. A minimal element of a subset S of some preordered set is defined dually as an ...
of a partial order, in mathematics *
Minimax approximation algorithm A minimax approximation algorithm (or L∞ approximation or uniform approximation) is a method to find an approximation of a mathematical function In mathematics, a function from a set (mathematics), set to a set assigns to each element of e ...
* Minimisation operator ("μ operator"), the add-on to primitive recursion to obtain μ-recursive functions in computer science


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Optimization (mathematics) Mathematical optimization (alternatively spelled ''optimisation'') or mathematical programming is the selection of a best element, with regard to some criteria, from some set of available alternatives. It is generally divided into two subfiel ...
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Minimal (disambiguation) Minimal may refer to: * Minimal (music genre), art music that employs limited or minimal musical materials * "Minimal" (song), 2006 song by Pet Shop Boys * Minimal (supermarket) or miniMAL, a former supermarket chain in Germany and Poland * Minim ...
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Minimalism (disambiguation) Minimalism is a movement in visual arts, music, and other media that began in post–World War II Western art. Minimalism may also refer to: *Minimalism (computing), a philosophy of programming and configuring computers * Minimalism (philosophy), ...
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Minification (disambiguation) Minification may refer to: *Magnification, by a factor of less than one, producing a smaller image * Minification (programming), a software coding technique *Minimisation (psychology) Minimisation or minimization is an action where an individu ...
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Maximisation (disambiguation) Maximization or maximisation may refer to: * Maximization in the sense of exaggeration * Entropy maximization * Maximization (economics) ** Profit maximization ** Utility maximization problem ** Budget-maximizing model ** Shareholder value, maxim ...
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Magnification Magnification is the process of enlarging the apparent size, not physical size, of something. This enlargement is quantified by a size ratio called optical magnification. When this number is less than one, it refers to a reduction in size, so ...
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Plateau's problem In mathematics, Plateau's problem is to show the existence of a minimal surface with a given boundary, a problem raised by Joseph-Louis Lagrange in 1760. However, it is named after Joseph Plateau who experimented with soap films. The problem ...
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