BACKGROUND Research in tobacco control demonstrating best practices is widely disseminated; however, application at the local level is often difficult. Translating research into practice requires a concerted effort to develop an understanding of the evidence and how it can be applied within diverse contexts. PURPOSE A strategic planning infrastructure was developed to support the translation ...

To contribute to the understanding of the links between urban planning and school siting and, ultimately, the impact of both on physical activity, we conducted a case study of Lee County, Florida. Our study examined the extent of state-mandated collaboration between the Lee County School Board and Lee County government (e.g., the Lee County Department of Planning, the Office of Smart Growth, an...

Urban planning, in particular on protected landscape areas, demands an increasing role of public participation within the frame of the efficiency of sustainable planning process. The development of urban planning actions in Protected Landscape areas, as Sintra-Cascais Natural Park, should perform a methodological process that is structured over distinct sequential stages, providing the developm...

We present a model for the surgery admission planning problem, and a meta-heuristic algorithm for solving it. The problem involves assigning operating rooms and dates to a set of elective surgeries, as well as scheduling the surgeries of each day and room. Simultaneously, a schedule is created for each surgeon to avoid double bookings. The presented algorithm uses simple Relocate and Two-Exchan...

This paperpresents a cumpurative evuluatiun uf different distance metrics and local planners within the context of probabilistic roadmap methods f i r motion planning. Both C-space and Workspace distance metrics and local planners are considered. The study concentrates on cluttered three-dimensional Workspaces typical, e.g., of mechanical designs. Our results include recommendations for selecti...

Recognizing that planners' decisions affect the public's health, some public health officials are becoming more involved in city and regional planning. This article describes city and regional planning fundamentals to help public health practitioners better understand plan making and plan implementation, including the development project review process; provides examples of how three local publ...

A two-level search algorithm for motion planning is presented in this paper. The algorithm combines a multiheuristic local search algorithm with a subgoal graph based global guidance. A novel feature of the planner is that it can adjust the balance between local and global planning. As the experimental data suggests that the optimal balance depends on the problem, a scheduling mechanism is adde...

Distributed Planning System Marie desJardins and Michael Wolverton SRI International 333 Ravenswood Ave. Menlo Park CA 94025 fmarie,[email protected] Pre-publication draft. To appear, AI Magazine, Winter 2000. Abbreviated title: Coordinating a Distributed Planning System Abstract Distributed SIPE (DSIPE) is a distributed planning system that provides decision support to human planners in a collab...

tem that provides decision support to human planners in a collaborative planning environment. The key contributions of our research on DSIPE are (1) constraint-based, consistent local views of the global plan that give each planner a view of how other planners’ subplans relate to their local planning decisions; (2) methods for automatically identifying and sharing potentially relevant informati...

forest management as one of the important source of production is crucial and critical. in taking over the forest resources as one of the most important of natural resources in the world, it is essential to consider local stakeholders to implement forest action plan for forest co-management. therefore, this study aims at achieving to proper management of forests based on evaluating the stakehol...