RECRUITMENT TO RESEARCH The actual number of trainees in geriatrics research fellowship programs is unknown, However, for 1992-1993, the Manpower Study counted 240 geriatrics fellows, with 24 in the third year and 7 in the fourth year of training; 70-80% of trainees continue into the second year of training and 25-30% into the third year [2]. Fellowship programs should strive to recruit and tra...

Casualty rates for naval forces ashore across varying battle intensities are needed as input to medical and manpower planning models. Casualty data of medical and construction battalions participating in World War II amphibious assaults, Korea, and Vietnam were extracted from archival sources. Casualty rates among naval ashore forces fluctuated with battle intensity. The rate during intense com...

Background Prior to 1993, Nepal had a vertical health logistics system. Logistics was not a government priority. No logistics curricula had been developed, no staff had been trained, and no logistics information systems existed at any level. After the establishment of the Logistics Management Division in 1993, the lack of trained manpower in logistics was realized. With support of USAID funded ...

The design of the CLEO-III Trigger produced 24 different multilayer printed circuit board designs, and over 100 FPGA configurations. Only one board design was intentionally prototyped and respun; only one board design was respun due to design/layout error; only one board design had more than 6 ECO wires. A detailed case study of the CLEO-III Trigger design methodology is presented. Scheduling, ...

Every organization needs a staff appropriate for its tasks in order to accomplish its business objectives, both now and in the future. To gain insight into the quality and number of staff needed in the future, human resource forecasting models are being used. This chapter addresses the design of a simulation model for human resources forecasting, which is being developed for the Chief of Naval ...

A local municipality has decided to build a sewage pit to receive residential sewage waste arriving by tank trucks. Daily accumulated waste are to be pumped to a nearby waste water treatment facility to be re-consumed for agricultural and construction projects. A discrete-event simulation model using Arena Software was constructed to assist in defining the capacity of the system in cubic meters...

The introduction of the new immigration rules will considerably reduce the number of overseas doctors available for junior hospital appointments over the next five years. To offset this sponsorship schemes should be offered by universities and colleges comprising training courses, entry to examinations, and hospital appointments, and training programmes should be adapted to make objectives atta...

The Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA), colloquially labeled the “drone,” has become iconic of American military campaigns this century. However, with surging demand for RPA combat operations, the United States Air Force (USAF) has struggled to train and retain sufficient manpower to operate these aircraft. Earlier efforts to address this challenge relied on military intuition and subjective input...

Human resource is one of the most effective resources in the development of any organization or a Nation. Optimal utilization of manpower is a pivotal challenge to a manager of a dynamic management system. Achieving the objectives by meeting the constraints on various feasibilities is the core problem before statisticians, model developers and OR scientists. In this paper we develop a model wit...