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Estimating a Baseball Hitter’s Bat Speed Using One Camera
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-06)The speed a hitter swings a baseball bat has become more and more popular among the baseball analytics community. Determining a player’s bat speed not only can tell you how fast a player can swing but also would allow you ... -
Estimating and Optimizing Throughput in an Aluminum Rolling Mill Using Capacity Modeling and Optimization Techniques
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-06)The aluminum industry has sustained continuous growth since 1975 and expects to continue this trend with the increased popularity of electric vehicles. With these forecasts in place and the current market conditions, ... -
Estimating atmospheric boundary layer turbulence in the marine environment using lidar systems with applications for offshore wind energy
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021)Estimating turbulence in the marine-atmospheric boundary layer is critical to many industrial, commercial and scientific fields, but of particular importance to the wind energy industry. Contributing to both the efficiency ... -
Estimating carbon emissions from less-than-truckload (LTL) shipments
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)Less-than-truckload (LTL) is a $32-billion sector of the trucking industry that focuses on moving smaller shipments, typically with weights between 100 and 10,000 pounds, that do not require a full trailer to be moved. ... -
Estimating change propagation risk using TRLs and system architecture
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)Risk estimation is a key activity for product development and technology integration programs. There are a number of decision support tools that help project managers identify and mitigate risks in a project, however few ... -
Estimating commuter rail demand to Kendall Square along the Grand Junction Corridor
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Since acquiring the Grand Junction Railroad in June 2010 from CSX, the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) has explored the possibility of using the line for commuter rail service. In addition the Grand Junction ... -
Estimating current and future benefits of airport surface congestion management techniques
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Air traffic is expected to continue to grow in the future and improved methods for dealing with the increased demand on the system need to be designed and implemented. One method for reducing surface congestion at airports ... -
Estimating demand for liquid assets
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)This paper proposes a simple structural model to study substitution patterns within the class of safe and liquid assets at the extreme short-end of the yield curve (maturity <1YR). I estimate the demand system by exploiting ... -
Estimating demand for new modes of transportation using a context-aware stated preference survey
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)This thesis presents the design of a context-aware stated preference survey that will be used to estimate the demand for new transportation modes and services. It builds on the Future Mobility Survey, a smartphone-based ... -
Estimating evapotranspiration from the Amazon Basin using the atmospheric water balance
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)The spatio-temporal patterns of evapotranspiration (ET) in the Amazon basin are still poorly understood. Field studies in the Amazonian forest have shown that at some sites, deep roots allow trees to sustain elevated ... -
Estimating evolutionary parameters and detecting signals of natural selection from genetic data
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)Even prior to the elucidation of the structure of DNA, the theoretical foundations of population genetics had been well developed. Advances made by Sewall Wright, John B.S. Haldane, and Ronald A. Fisher form the basis with ... -
Estimating Frequency Distributions in Data Streams
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-02)Streaming algorithms allow for space-efficient processing of massive datasets. The distribution of the frequencies of items in a large dataset is often used to characterize that data: e.g., the data is heavy-tailed, the ... -
Estimating Global Object Pose from Tactile Images
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-09)This work evaluates Tac2Pose, an object-specific approach to tactile pose estimation for known objects. Given the object geometry, we learn a perception model in simulation that estimates a probability distribution over ... -
Estimating glottal voicing source characteristics by measuring and modeling the acceleration of the skin on the neck
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)In the clinical management of voice patients, quantifying vocal function is becoming increasingly important both for corroborating clinicians' subjective impressions during a voice evaluation and for assessing the effectiveness ... -
Estimating Gulf of Maine zooplankton distributions using multiple frequency acoustic, video and environmental data
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)This thesis develops methods useful for estimating zooplankton distributions in the field by combining acoustic scattering models and an integrated set of field data. The accuracy of existing scattering models for fluid-like ... -
Estimating hydrologic fluxes, crop water use, and agricultural land use in China from multiple data sources
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)Crop production has significantly altered the terrestrial environment by changing land use (Ramankutty et al., 2008) and by altering the water cycle through both co-opting rainfall and surface water withdrawals (Postel et ... -
Estimating H₂ production and storage cost targets for cost-competitively meeting electricity and H₂ fuel demand in deeply decarbonized electric power systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-02)In order to address carbon emissions from the electricity sector, we must reduce our reliance on fossil fuels to power the grid. Renewable energy produced from solar and wind presents one part of the solution, but energy ... -
Estimating institutional quality with instruments : three essays and applications in education and healthcare
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)1 IsoLATEing: Identifying Counterfactual-specific Treatment Effects with Crossstratum Comparisons -- 2. Leveraging Lotteries for School Value-added: Testing and Estimation -- 3. Estimating Hospital Quality with Quasi-experimental ... -
Estimating launch vehicle trajectories and atmospheric emissions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021-06)Launch vehicles enable Earth observation, navigation or space exploration. In doing so, they cause direct anthropogenic emissions in the troposphere and above. This comes with an environmental cost. They can emit carbon ... -
Estimating life cycle carbon emissions of the global oil supply chain at a high-resolution using optimization in a network model
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021-06)Climate change, being the multi-faceted problem that it is, requires aggressive decarbonization across the entire life cycle. With the evolving energy mix, the oil industry is in a phase of adaptation. At present, petroleum ...