An optimal route is one that results in the most efficient use of labour and equipment, and selecting such a route requires the application of computer analyses that account for all the many design variables in a large and complex network.
These studies affirmed that the use of two auxiliaries, one alongside the dentist ("chair-side assistant") and another mobile ("roving assistant"), who were in charge of ensuring the flow of patients, the sterilization work and other routine operations, would be the most efficient division of labour [ 32, 33].
This is due in part to rigid labour laws, which prevent the most efficient use of workers, and to a lack of modern infrastructure.
So mechanized dry seeding is probably the most efficient way of rice seedling establishment, saving 30%% labour than machine-transplanting rice (MTPR) as estimated in Korean trials [ 3].
At that time, Britain's coal industry was the most efficient and technologically advanced in the world, a result of a tripartite agreement, the Plan For Coal, signed by a Labour government, the National Coal Board (NCB) and the mining trade unions in 1974, and endorsed by Thatcher in 1981.
We're the most efficient, efficient farmers.
AND, probably, the most efficient.
Which route would be the most efficient?
One of the most efficient workouts around.
Indeed, Labour takes a leap into the bureaucratic unknown which Bill Clinton never attempted: it says that the government will provide services in the most efficient way — through existing government offices or through private contractors.
