Browsing Graduate Theses by Title
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Women managers in Israel
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)The objective of the research is to examine Israeli women in management, and to illuminate the problems that characterize both women on their way to the top and those who have already reached t he top. In order to see ... -
Women places and spaces in contemporary American mosque
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)There is an ever-present demand for Mosques in American cities to accommodate the more than 8 percent of the American population that are Muslims; the majority of which are American-born Muslims or American converts. ... -
Women take power : unionization as a strategy to increase wages in Massachusetts
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987) -
Women's access to productive resources in South Africa's rural bantustans
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994) -
The Women's Technology Program : EECS outreach for high school students
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)The Women's Technology Program (WTP) is a new residential summer school for high school students to live at MIT and study electrical engineering and computer science (EECS). In this thesis I present background research ... -
Women's work and child nutrition in Haiti
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981) -
Women, employment, and child care in Washington State
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986) -
Women, innovation, entrepreneurship : essays on designing and improving education
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneur are not gender-neutral concepts.[1] In the United States, men are twice as likely to be involved in entrepreneurship than women. Women have founded or led only 11% of venture capital backed ... -
Women, the city, and spatial citizenship examining identity formation and employment amongst Afro-Brazilian women in Rio De Janeiro and Belo Horizonte
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)This thesis explores the way that experiences of citizenship are specifically shaped at the city level in urbanized environments. The way that people navigate the city is often contingent upon varying degrees of access and ... -
The wonder of magic : eliciting wonder and amazing its expression
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)The wonder that occurs while watching a good magic trick or admiring a gorgeous natural vista is a strong emotion that has not been well studied. Educators, media producers, entertainers, scientists and magicians could all ... -
Wonderland : constructionist science learning in mixed reality
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)Science concepts lie at the heart of our everyday experiences, yet people feel disconnected from science because of the abstract way it is taught in schools. We wanted people to learn science concepts in the real world in ... -
The Woodlands, Texas--a retrospective critique of the principles and implementation of an ecologically planned development
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994) -
Woodstein : a Web interface agent for debugging e-commerce
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)Woodstein is a software agent that works with a user's web browser to explain and help diagnose problems in web processes, such as purchases. It enables the user to inspect data items in ordinary web pages, revealing the ... -
Woodward Avenue, Detroit : a pedestrian zone for a changing downtown retail street
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981)The thesis studies the changing direction of Detroit's central downtown shopping street, Woodward Avenue. During the last two decades, Woodward Avenue has lost most of its retail market to suburban shopping centers. The ... -
Wooster Square : revisiting urban renewal
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988) -
Worcester, Massachusetts--twenty-five years of downtown development
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991) -
Word and image : the creation of order in the city
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987) -
Word and phone level acoustic confidence scoring for speech understanding systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000) -
Word sense disambiguation in clinical text
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)Lexical ambiguity, the ambiguity arising from a string with multiple meanings, is pervasive in language of all domains. Word sense disambiguation (WSD) and word sense induction (WSI) are the tasks of resolving this ambiguity. ... -
Word sense disambiguation through lattice learning
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)The question of how a computer reading a text can go from a word to its meaning is an open and difficult one. The WordNet[3] lexical database uses a system of nested supersets to allow programs to be specific as to what ...
