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Simulation, models, and refactoring of bacteriophage T7 gene expression
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
Our understanding of why biological systems are designed in a particular way would benefit from biophysically-realistic models that can make accurate predictions on the time-evolution of molecular events given arbitrary ...
On the development of an efficient truly meshless discretization procedure in computational mechanics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
The objective of this thesis is to present an efficient and reliable meshless computational technique - the method of finite spheres - for the solution of boundary value problems on complex domains. This method is truly ...
Quantization and erasures in frame representations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
Frame representations, which correspond to overcomplete generalizations to basis expansions, are often used in signal processing to provide robustness to errors. In this thesis robustness is provided through the use of ...
Development of a guidance, navigation and control architecture and validation process enabling autonomous docking to a tumbling satellite
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
The capability to routinely perform autonomous docking is a key enabling technology for future space exploration, as well as assembly and servicing missions for spacecraft and commercial satellites. Particularly, in more ...
A dual/high-voltage automotive electrical power system with superior transient performance
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
Today's automotive electrical power system is based on an engine-driven alternator regulated at 14 V which charges a 12 V battery and delivers power to the loads. Installed electrical power is growing rapidly with model ...
The biomechanics of knees at high flexion angles before and after Total Knee Arthroplasty
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA) was initially developed to alleviate pain in the case of severe arthritis of the knee. Restoration of knee motion has been an on going issue for the last decade. Contemporary TKAs appear to ...
Intelligence by design : principles of modularity and coordination for engineering complex adaptive agents
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
All intelligence relies on search - for example, the search for an intelligent agent's next action. Search is only likely to succeed in resource-bounded agents if they have already been biased towards finding the right ...
A shoe-integrated sensor system for wireless gait analysis and real-time therapeutic feedback
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
Clinical gait analysis currently involves either an expensive analysis in a motion laboratory, using highly accurate, if cumbersome, kinematic systems, or a qualitative analysis with a physician or physical therapist making ...
Microstructured tungsten thermophotovoltaic selective emitters c by Natalija (Zorana) Jovanović.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
This research investigates the fabrication, modeling, characterization, and application of tungsten two-dimensional (2D) photonic crystal (PhC) structures as selective emitters and means of achieving higher efficiencies ...
Elucidation of chemically-induced transdermal transport processes
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
In this thesis, chemically-induced transdermal transport enhancement has been examined as one of the many techniques currently used to increase the skin permeability to a broader range of pharmaceutically relevant drugs. ...