Browsing Graduate Theses by Title
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Wafer defect prediction with statistical machine learning
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)In the semiconductor industry where the technology continues to grow in complexity while also striving to achieve lower manufacturing costs, it is becoming increasingly important to drive cost savings by screening out ... -
Wage slavery under king cane : status and power on a Jamaican sugar workers' cooperative
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980) -
WAI-KNOT (Wireless Audio Interactive Knot)
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)The Sound Transformer is a new type of musical instrument. It looks a little like a saxophone, but when you sing or "kazoo" into it, astonishing transforms and mutations come out. What actually happens is that the input ... -
Waiting for the bus : a strategy for approaching the regulation of public transportation in Kuwait
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)There is an increasing concern about the growth of car dependence in the Middle East and its associated negative impacts on cities, including economic and environmental factors, urban form, and lifestyle. Kuwait, having ... -
Waiting for the bus : transportation and job accessibility issues in lower income communities
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998) -
Waiting for the interurban : the politics of light-rail planning in Seattle
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)Transportation systems pose some of the most intractable challenges to sustainable, climate-friendly cities. As the fastest growing source of greenhouse-gas emissions, transportation is critical to sustainability. Yet ... -
Waiting for TOD : developing in the Millbrae BART Station Area
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)The suburban terminus station dedicates large amounts of land for parking in order to cater to its driving riders, and causes a trade-off tension between attracting ridership through providing park-and-rides and building ... -
Wake characteristics associated with logjams to inform river restoration
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-05)In the past, logjams have been removed due to concerns about flooding, erosion, and destruction of property. However, logjams have been found to have many ecosystem benefits, including generating pools for salmonid spawning, ... -
Walk Deserts
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-09)This thesis describes a new methodology to identify, measure, and understand “Walk Deserts.” This methodology comprises a system for identifying, mapping, and visualizing areas that are ostensibly highly walkable places ... -
Walking in the city--an operational theater
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997)The city is to be considered a site of power. Privileged, gendered, uneven, the city exercises authority and control over its inhabitants. What masks as public, in truth, is private. Its space and structures are fixed by ... -
Walking on daylight : the application of translucent floor systems as a means of achieving natural daylighting in mid and low rise architecture
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985)This thesis is concerned with the introduction of quality daylight to buildings by means of translucency in the horizontal planes or floors within the building. Since people began to build, the concept of translucency in ... -
Walking to transit – using big data to analyze bus and train ridership in Los Angeles
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021-09)Los Angeles passed one of the largest sales taxes in the country in 2016, which will give the county unprecedented financing in improving public transportation. Public transit ridership has been declining despite hefty ... -
Wall-modeled Large-eddy Simulation Based on Building-block Flows
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-09)A unified subgrid-scale (SGS) and wall model—the building-block flow model (BFM) — for wall modeled large-eddy simulation (WMLES) is proposed by devising the flow as a collection of building blocks that enables the prediction ... -
Wall-Walking and Other Bannable Offenses: Discipline and Deviant Play in World of Warcraft
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-05)As in most games, World of Warcraft’s player characters’ virtual bodies are designed and built to comply with, and be acted upon by, the governing systems of the gameworld they inhabit. The technical equations that determine ... -
The walled city : Beijing hybrid development plan in the 2nd ring road
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)The circular ring roads are one of the key elements that define the spatial organization of Beijing today. However, as the city continues to expand, the ring roads located in the inner city, combined with the gridded ... -
Walling political conflicts : an urban archetype for the Demilitarized Zone
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)Polarity in political ideologies within the Korea Peninsula has left a heavily militarized infrastructure, called the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). The no man's land is a thickly belted corridor on the Korean peninsula ... -
Walter Baker Chocolate Factory : an adaptive reuse exploration
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1981)This thesis explores the processes of building evolution and the methods in which old buildings are recycled for continued use. Reuse is the process in which a building's life is extended through a preservation or alteration ... -
War games as a decision making tool in military planning and operations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983) -
A war memorial for Cambridge, Mass.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1950) -
Warehouse Automation: Improvements for the Precise Placement of Irregular Pallets
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-09)Anonymous Lumber Co. (ALC) has decided to implement a new automated warehouse to feed its Continuous Drying System (CDS). The new warehouse’s job is to autonomously move pallets, also known as “units,” of stacked green ...