### action | improvement | maintenance:

Preventive maintenance
* helps to ensure that equipment is available when needed.
* includes keeping in shape physically and emotionally.
* is essential to the operation of all mechanical systems
  - maintenance performed before a breakdown occurs
* is the best method for keeping instruments in working order
  - cornerstone of an effective and efficient transportation organization

Proper maintenance
* is important for the long-term health of newly planted shrubs.
* key factor affecting the emission performance of a vehicle.

### action | improvement | maintenance | raising:

Livestock raising
* has a very long history in Romania.
* is also a major factor in the economy with many ranches in outlying areas
  - important, and manufactures include textiles and processed foods
  - important in the highlands
* remains the most unprofitable branch of agriculture.
* significant source of income.

Road maintenance
* allows continued use of roads over time.
* is important in order to minimize erosion and the expense of reconstruction
  - upkeep of the county's highways, bridges, and other roads

Mend
* is improvement
* tend to be clean-shaven, though some wear beards in braids.

Optimisation
* key facet of the behavioural synthesis problem.
* series of experiments and their subsequent data analysis.

### action | improvement:

Optimization
* comes in many forms.
* concerns the minimization or maximization of functions.
* door that swings both ways.
* excels at squeezing knowledge out of data.
* is about finding better solutions to problems
  - achieved by changing the times at which computations are performed
* is an analytical process
  - important part of statistical calculations and nonlinear regression particularly
  - inherent activity in the world
  - based on a form of branch and bound
  - carried out by Genetic Algorithms
  - fundamentally a goal seeking algorithm
  - management's job
  - related to finding the most efficient method of solving a problem
  - seen as a process in genotype space
  - strategic analysis of a site for optimal search engine placement
* is the process of eliminating fragmentation
  - making decisions that are superior to any alternatives
  - universal in both the physical world and human activities
  - used in real-time to obtain appropriate input values
* key to efficiency in the business world.
* prescriptive operations research modeling technique.
* reduces cost.
* refers to the process of fine-tuning each car to achieve it's top performance.
* requires knowledge.
* rich and thriving mathematical discipline.
* special case of generation of efficient implementations from specifications.
* top to bottom and beginning to end process.
* uses mathematical techniques to assist in the solution of real-world problems.
* widely used tool in industry today.
+ Applied mathematics: Mathematics

### action | improvement | optimization:

Elegance
* is optimization
  - quality
  - something that comes from inside
* is the achievement of maximal effect with minimal effort
  - concept of something that is simple but works very well
* means lack of adornment.

### action | improvement | optimization | elegance:

Pomp
* are elegance.
* is elegance

Experiential optimization
* deals with the product, which is the electromechanical system.
* is systemic in nature.