This paper models how a nation’s military manpower system affects the decision to go to war. Manpower systems differ primarily in how they distribute costs: the volunteer system shares the war’s manpower costs broadly, while the draft forces a subset of the population to bear a disproportionate share of the load. This difference affects an officeand policy-motivated politician’s decision to go ...

This paper examines a longitudinal model of a manpower system in which the demands for effective manpower is determined by the state of a ! aiite Markov chain, and there are delays in training an adequate supply of effective manpower. We present an operational method of calculating optimal appointment policies. This calculation can in turn be used to find the equilibrium operating rules for the...

Manpower projections for oral health are generally held to be more accurate than those for other health sectors since the diseases involved and their treatment times can be predicted more precisely. Nevertheless most oral health manpower projections are either overestimates or are not in line with the resources of individual countries, especially in developing countries. Zimbabwe was taken as t...

introduction: there are various factors that affect manpower efficiency. identification of the most important and influential factors on efficiency is quite essential. analysis of factors affecting manpower efficiency from the viewpoint of clinical and non-clinical faculty members at guilan university of medical sciences in 2011. methods: this descriptive, analytical, cross-sectional study was ...