Allen Boulevard Corridor Plan

The Allen Boulevard corridor, home to diverse populations and a vibrant commercial district, is a community in transition and a community with potential. While Allen Boulevard possesses unique assets in its present state, it has seen little in the way of localized planning or City programs tailored to the area’s needs. As such, the City of Beaverton partnered with the Portland State University Master of Urban and Regional Planning program to produce a detailed corridor study and planning guide for the area. From that partnership, six graduate students formed a consulting group, InSite Planning, to produce this plan. This project was conducted under the supervision of Sy Adler, Marisa A. Zapata, Andree Tremoulet, Lisa Bates, Matthew Gebhardt and Gregory Schrock

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation (Under Revision) A Hybrid Scheduling and Control System Architecture for Warehouse Management

Abstract-- In recent years, the hybrid control framework has received much attention from the research community. Several variations of this control framework are available. In this paper, an actual industrial warehouse order picking problem where goods are stored at multiple locations and the pick location of goods can be selected dynamically in near real time, is considered. A hybrid intelligent agent based scheduling and control system architecture is presented for the order picking problem. The need for a higher level optimizer and communication between higher and lower level controllers is demonstrated. The presented architecture includes a higher level optimizer, a middle level guide agent, and lower level negotiation agents. A mathematical model and a genetic algorithm for the resource assignment problem are presented. Simulation results demonstrating efficiency of the new approach are also presented. Index Terms-- Hybrid framework, intelligent agent, warehouse managemen

An old man carrying fagots home for fuel, Japan

Photograph shows an old man with a bundle of wood on his back.Title from item.No. 30Copyright 1902 by C.H. Graves

International comparative evaluation of fixed-bearing non-posterior-stabilized and posterior-stabilized total knee replacements.

Differences in survivorship of non-posterior-stabilized compared with posterior-stabilized knee designs carry substantial economic consequences, especially with limited health-care resources. However, these comparisons have often been made between relatively small groups of patients, often with short-term follow-up, with only small differences demonstrated between the groups. The goal of this study is to compare the outcomes of non-posterior-stabilized and posterior-stabilized total knee arthroplasties with use of a unique collaboration of multiple established knee arthroplasty registries

International comparative evaluation of knee replacement with fixed or mobile non-posterior-stabilized implants.

Mobile-bearing total knee prostheses were designed to reduce wear and improve implant survivorship following total knee arthroplasty. However, the benefit of mobile-bearing total knee arthroplasty remains unproven. Both mobile-bearing and fixed-bearing total knee arthroplasty implants are available in posterior-stabilized and non-posterior-stabilized designs. With the latter, the implant does not recreate the function of the posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) with a posterior-stabilizing cam mechanism. The purpose of the present study was to compare mobile-bearing, non-posterior-stabilized devices with fixed-bearing, non-posterior-stabilized devices used in total knee arthroplasty through a novel multinational study design

International comparative evaluation of knee replacement with fixed or mobile-bearing posterior-stabilized prostheses.

Posterior-stabilized total knee prostheses were introduced to address instability secondary to loss of posterior cruciate ligament function, and they have either fixed or mobile bearings. Mobile bearings were developed to improve the function and longevity of total knee prostheses. In this study, the International Consortium of Orthopaedic Registries used a distributed health data network to study a large cohort of posterior-stabilized prostheses to determine if the outcome of a posterior-stabilized total knee prosthesis differs depending on whether it has a fixed or mobile-bearing design