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Sodium hypochlorite generation for household water disinfection in Haiti
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Sodium NMR relaxation parameters in cartilage : implications for MR imaging
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995) -
Sodium-Ion Battery Cathode Active Material Cost Drivers and Manufacturing Scale-up Barriers
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-05)Energy storage can mitigate challenges posed by intermittent renewable generation. Non-hydro energy storage is currently dominated by lithium-ion batteries, but cost and materials supply are concerns. Sodium is more abundant ... -
Soft Aerial Manipulation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021-06)This thesis explores the theory and implementation of a soft drone, consisting of a quadrotor and a tendon-actuated soft gripper, which for the first time fully exploits the advantages of softness in aerial manipulation. ... -
Soft at the Joints
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2024-02)A building can be understood entirely through its joints. It can explain gravitational forces, interlacing moments of material application, and environmental conditions. Yet, this portion of the design is often relegated ... -
Soft body animation in real-time simulations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)This thesis presents a novel approach for creating deformable object animations. A deformable object can be represented as a discrete lattice of particles, and transforming those particles defines a new state for the ... -
Soft boundaries
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)Textiles have always played a critical role in the spaces we inhabit. Although textiles are often in opposition to what we consider to be architecture. Architecture is permanent, grounded, fixed; textiles are temporary, ... -
A soft circuit curriculum to promote technological self-efficacy
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)The development of technological self-efficacy in young people can have a dramatic impact on diversity in the field of computing. Students'self-efficacy and scientific understanding can benefit from engaging in hands-on ... -
Soft exchanges for interaction design
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)The boundaries and fabric of human experience are continuously redefined by microorganisms interacting at imperceptible scales. Though hidden, these systems condition our body and the environment we inhabit. Instruments ... -
The soft grid
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)The grid in architecture is a systematic organization of space. The means that architects use to organize space are, almost by definition, rigid and totalizing. The Cartesian grid, which will serve as the antagonist of the ... -
Soft interfaces for interactive storytelling : learning about identity and communication
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Soft pneumatic artificial muscles with low threshold pressures for a cardiac compression device
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)In this paper, I present the design, fabrication and characterization of fully soft pneumatic artificial muscles (PAMs) with low threshold pressures that are intended for direct cardiac compression (DCC). McKibben type ... -
Soft Robotic Platforms for the Simulation of Cardiovascular Disease and Device Development
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-09)The advancement of safe and effective medical devices critically hinges on the utilization of high-fidelity models of human disease. The closer these models emulate the intricacy of pathophysiological phenomena driving ... -
Soft Robotics Applied to the Development of a Diaphragm Assist System
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-02)Severe diaphragm dysfunction can lead to respiratory failure, requiring permanent mechanical ventilation. Permanent tethering to a mechanical ventilator via a patient’s mouth or tracheostomy can interfere with a patient’s ... -
The soft side of the Toyata production system is the hard side
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)This thesis analyzes the challenges associate with the rollout of the Toyota Production System (TPS) in a US vinyl extrusion plant. There is a cursory explanation of some of the Technical aspects of TPS, and implementation ... -
Soft Skills and Hard Work: Organizing as a Political Behavior Rooted in Relational Labor
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-09)What qualities of individuals make them willing and able to organize? Healthy representative democracies depend on citizens consistently overcoming collective action problems. This quality makes organizing - systematic ... -
Soft X-ray ptychographic reconstructions of a neodymium nickel oxide thin film
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)Rare earth (R) perovskite nickelates RNiO 3 have a rich phase diagram which includes a metal-insulator and paramagnetic-antiferromagnetic phase transition. In neodymium nickel oxide (NdNiO 3 ), these phase transitions ... -
Soft, Compliant Tactile Robotic Manipulators
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2024-02)When we look to the future of soft robotics and manipulation, we begin to look towards sensory-rich and compliant grasping mechanisms. Not only do we want to capitalize on the significant advantages in safety and adaptability ... -
Soft, round, high resolution tactile fingertip sensors for dexterous robotic manipulation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-09)In this work we introduce a non-planar soft high-resolution tactile sensor. An iteration of the GelSight sensors, it enables future GelSights to have more complicated form factors, such as a humanoid fingertip. To do this ... -
Softbuilt : computational textiles and augmenting space through emotion
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)When we inhabit, wear, and make textiles we are in conversation with our pre-historical and historical past and in a sense already connected to what is to come by the structure of fabric that operates as a mode of understanding ...
