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OBJECTIVE To analyse the effect of Kenya's Emergency Hiring Plan for nurses on their inequitable distribution in rural and underserved areas. METHODS We used data from the Kenya Health Workforce Informatics System on the nursing workforce to determine the effect of the Emergency Hiring Plan on nurse shortages and maldistribution. The total number of nurses, the number of nurses per 100,000 po...

President Obama’s 2011 Executive Order 13583 was expected to serve as a catalyst for coordinated government-wide initiative promote diversity and inclusion in the federal workforce. This order reinforced government’s commitment equal employment opportunity by “using talents of all segments society,” achieved recruiting, hiring, promoting, retaining more diverse The mandated creation strategic p...

A host uses servers hired from a Cloud in order to offer certain services to paying customers. It must decide dynamically when and how many servers to hire, and when to release them, so as to minimize both the job holding costs and the server costs. Under certain assumptions, the problem can be formulated in terms of a semi-Markov decision process and the optimal hiring policy can be computed. ...