Browsing MIT Theses by Title
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Analysis of venture capital institutions financing minority businesses in Boston.
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Analysis of vested third party influences on new venture organizational and architectural norms in the commercialization of disruptive technologies
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Analysis of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in soil via passive sampling : measuring partition and diffusion coefficients
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)Passive sampling has been used as a qualitative and semi-quantitative method in detecting volatile organic compound (VOCs) concentrations in soil vapors or water. Passive sampling for soil vapor takes an absorptive material ... -
Analysis of walking and balancing models actuated and controlled by ankles
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)Experimental data show that ankle torque is the most important actuator in normal human locomotion. I investigate the dynamics of simple models actuated by ankles alone. To assess the contribution of ankle actuation to ... -
Analysis of weighted l̳₁-minimization for model based compressed sensing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)The central problem of Compressed Sensing is to recover a sparse signal from fewer measurements than its ambient dimension. Recent results by Donoho, and Candes and Tao giving theoretical guarantees that ( 1-minimization ... -
Analysis of wet & dry weather bacterial concentrations within Kranji & Marina Catchments, Singapore
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)The Singaporean government's Public Utilities Board aims to open Kranji and Marina Reservoirs to the public for recreational use. Thus, the water bodies have to be safe from fecal contamination in order to protect the ... -
Analysis of wind direction fluctuations
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Analysis of word-order universals using Bayesian phylogenetic inference
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)This thesis examines the novel approach by Dunn et al. (2011) that employs the Bayesian phylogenetic inference to compute the Bayes Factors that determine whether the evolutions of a set of word-order traits in four language ... -
Analysis of Wyner's analog encryption scheme
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Analysis of XML and COIN as solutions for data heterogeneity in insurance system integration
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An analysis of zonal mean atmospheric angular momentum and high cloud cover : periodicities, time-latitude structure, and cross correlations
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An analysis on branding within the real estate industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)This thesis is an analysis of the current branding landscape within the real estate industry. It focuses specifically on real estate owner/operators, and excludes the hotels, motel, and brokerage sectors. It seeks to ... -
An analysis on information diffusion by retweets in Twitter
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)This dissertation examines retweeting activities as the information spreading function of Twitter. First, we investigated what kind of features of a tweet help to get retweets. We construct a model that describes peoples' ... -
An analysis on the feasibility of supporting and funding rural education through private education in Argentina
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)The quality of education in Argentina has been declining over the past decades, affecting specially rural and marginalized sectors of the population. Given the current circumstances, in which the government has increased ... -
Analysis on the impacts of electricity tariffs on the attractiveness of gas fired distributed combined heat and power systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)In order to achieve a more sustainable energy system, regulators and the industry are trying to balance among many challenging issues such as environmental concerns, economic efficiency and security of supply. In Europe, ... -
Analysis on the KOSPI200 option from the time-series and cross- sectional perspectives
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)The Korean derivatives market is one of the most active markets in the world. The KOSPI200 options accounted for 43.4% of the global trading volume in equity index futures and options in 2011. It also accounted for 93.5% ... -
Analysis on the startup accelerator industry in China
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)Under the Chinese government's Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative, startup accelerators have been emerging fast during the past few years. Who are the leading players in China's accelerator industry and what is ... -
Analysis pumping schemes for the extraction of contaminated groundwater at Cape Cod, Massachusetts, using 3-D numerical modeling
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An analysis relating lead time and market penetration in the auto industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1959) -
Analysis study of Chinese SMEs financing challenges
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)Financing small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) is a prevalent challenge for most of countries, especially developing countries. Chinese SMEs have been suffering from difficulty in financing themselves for long. This ...