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Recent Examples of optimizesPruning apple trees optimizes fruiting.—Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Feb. 2026 In retail media specifically, AI dynamically optimizes audience targeting, creative performance and spend allocation across channels.—Gary Drenik, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026 Unlike other weapons configured with either single or multiple sensors, JAGM optimizes target engagement based on available sensor information, and remains capable of target prosecution should an anomaly occur with one of the sensors.—Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 18 Jan. 2026 So instead Barabási and his team sought to explain how the structure of physical networks optimizes for minimal surface area rather than other factors such as length or volume.—Lee Billings, Scientific American, 13 Jan. 2026 The work that happens in between those starting and ending points is then organic, a living system that optimizes itself in real time.—François Candelon, Fortune, 12 Dec. 2025 The laundry considers sustainability as an efficient alternative that optimizes processes without compromising aesthetics and creativity.—Andrea Onate, Footwear News, 3 Dec. 2025 Research shows that eating about 25 to 30 grams of protein per meal optimizes your body’s process of repairing and building muscle, Gans explains.—Danielle Zickl, SELF, 17 Oct. 2025 Warm, sunny weather optimizes the conditions for this sort of reaction, meaning unhealthy ozone levels are often seen in the summer.—Maia Pandey, jsonline.com, 17 Sep. 2025
Advocate improves employees’ health and retirement The company is also allocating $40 million to enhance program benefits, including offering free virtual care and expanded support for mental health, women’s health and menopause care.
Tony Galaska’s moody lighting design enhances the warmth of the story.
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Mary Damiano,
Miami Herald,
2 Feb. 2026
Thermal and pressure bonding of a capping layer The research team showed that thermal and pressure bonding of a capping layer to a perovskite surface suppresses defect initiation from iodide loss and enhances long-term stability.