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Precipitation analysis for a flood early warning system in the Manafwa River Basin, Uganda
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
The communities living in the Manafwa River Basin experience frequent floods threatening their lives and property. Climate change and anthropogenic perturbations to the natural environment increase flooding frequency. This ...
Chemo-poro-elastic fracture mechanics of wellbore cement liners : the role of eigenstress and pore pressure on the risk of fracture
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
Between 2001 and 2010, United States natural gas wells have been drilled at a mean annual rate of 24,500. Moreover, an investigation in the Marcellus region revealed a 3.4% incidence rate of well-barrier leakages that were ...
A quantitative analysis of the impact of land use changes on floods in the Manafwa River Basin
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
Flood events in the Manafwa watershed, located in eastern Uganda, have increased in frequency in recent years. The risk of flooding is increasing globally due partly to climate change which enhances the number of weather ...
Demand driven dispatch and revenue management
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
The focus of this thesis is on the integration of and interplay between demand driven dispatch and revenue management in a competitive airline network environment. Demand driven dispatch is the reassignment of aircraft to ...
Evaluation of household water treatment and safe storage (HWTS) alternatives in Ghana
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Ghana's water quality and sanitation condition are very poor. Pure Home Water (PHW), a local non-profit organization has been successfully improving the supply of safe drinking water in the northern region by producing and ...
Integrated transportation and energy activity-based model
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
There is a long history of projects and regulations that have had limited or even counterproductive results. These unforeseen effects are due to the failure of planners to capture all of the complexity inherent in urban ...
Tarmac delay policies : a passenger-centric analysis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
In this work, we analyze the effectiveness of the 2010 Tarmac Delay Rule from a passenger-centric point of view. The Tarmac Delay Rule aims to protect enplaned passengers on commercial aircraft from excessively long delays ...
A study of natural gas extraction in Marcellus shale
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
With the dramatic increases in crude oil prices there has been a need to find reliable energy substitutions. One substitution that has been used in the United States is natural gas. However, with the increased use of natural ...
Designing sanitation projects in rural Ghana
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
Providing sanitation to rural areas in Ghana remains a huge challenge. Government funding is scarce while many international donor projects are ineffective. This thesis explores the difficulties with rural sanitation ...
Active control of tensegrity structures and its applications using Linear Quadratic Regulator algorithms
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
The concept of responsive architecture has inspired the idea structures which are adaptable and change in order to better fit the user. This idea can be extended to structural engineering with the implementing of structures ...