Evaluating the job shop scheduling problem on a D-wave quantum annealer.

Job Shop Scheduling is a combinatorial optimization problem of particular importance for production environments where the goal is to complete a production task in the shortest possible time given limitations in the resources available. Due to its computational complexity it quickly becomes intractable for problems of interesting size. The emerging technology of Quantum Annealing provides an alternative computational architecture that promises improved scalability and solution quality.

Baropodometric studies in patients submitted to Grice-Green operation for primary valgus pronated flat foot.

This study reports the results of a computerized baropodometric analysis of the function of primary valgus pronated flat foot submitted to talocalcanear arthrodesis according to the Grice-Green method (Grice, 1952; 1955) as modified by Vigliani et al., (1978). Our purpose was to document any anomalies in the behaviour of such feet, which up until now have been based on conventional evaluation (plantar imprints, podoscopy, etc.

Arthrodesis of the knee: a baropodometric evaluation of the long-term results.

A study of plantar loading has a place in orthopaedic literature today thanks to the studies conducted by various authors (Stott et al., 1973; Braun et al., 1980, Corvi et al.

Our experience in occipito-cervical fusion.

Occipito-cervical fusion for congenital and post-traumatic anomalies of the axis was used to treat 5 patients; the results obtained are analyzed. The authors also discuss the advantages of using autoplastic bone graft which remains stable in time, without creating disabling sequelae in the patient.

[Torsional defects of the lower limb: an evaluation of the reliability of the results obtained by CT].

The torsional angle was calculated goniometrically of 9 femurs and 2 tibio-peroneal groups, and then compared to the values obtained from CT scans of the corresponding bones. The results show how the methods adopted up to now have been inaccurate and have yielded only gross definitions of the axis of the femoral neck. As far as this feature is concerned, an error of +/- 6.