Browsing MIT Theses by Title

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    • Pocket protein family function in mesenchymal tissue development and tumorigenesis 

      Landman, Allison Simone (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
      pRB is a member of the pocket protein family, which includes the closely related proteins p107 and p130. The pocket proteins are critical regulators of the cell cycle and function to restrain proliferation by controlling ...

    • PocketRemote : integrating a universal remote control with a handheld computer 

      Huang, Angus, 1978- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)

    • Podscanning : audio microcontent and synchronous communication for mobile devices 

      Wheeler, Patrick Sean (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
      Over the past decade, computationally powerful audio communication devices have become commonplace. Mobile devices have high storage capacity for digital audio, and smartphones or networked PDAs can be used to stream ...

    • PoEM : a parser of emotion metaphors 

      Hiyakumoto, Laurie Satsue, 1969- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)
      Although metaphor is generally recognized as an integral component of everyday language, very few computational systems capable of understanding metaphoric utterances exist today. This thesis describes one approach to the ...

    • Poetic expression in architecture 

      Epstein, Deborah A (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983)
      A common element of twentieth century thought has been the analysis of each phenomenon to its internal logic, the reduction of everything to bare essentials. What has evolved is a notion, to some extent shared by all of ...

    • Poetics of furniture : augmenting furniture with technologies 

      Nikolovska, Lira (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
      This dissertation focuses on one genre of new hybrid objects, namely furniture augmented with electronics. It explores the role of furniture as mediators of social interactions, as well as its potential for eliciting ...

    • Poetics of the videogame setpiece 

      Sidhu, Sonny (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
      Many of today's most popular single-player videogames contain short, semi-interactive sequences of tightly scripted, visually spectacular action gameplay, which-despite being generally unrepresentative of a game's 'normal' ...

    • Poetry and architecture : the making of meaning. 

      Suter, Linda Bashford (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1978)

    • The poetry generator 

      Shafran, Joan K (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980)
      Poetry is one of the oldest forms of communication. The poet is interested in finding new ways of expressing universal truths. Science and technology also are looking for new ways to communicate universal truths. Through ...

    • Point by point gain calibration of the Dark Matter Time Projection Chamber 

      Lee, Albert H. (Albert Hyunjick) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
      Since 1975 a growing body of astronomical evidence has given increasing credibility to the existence of dark matter. Once a simple proposition by Fritz Zwicky to explain discrepancies in the virial motion of galaxy clusters, ...

    • Point cloud alignment in arm reconstruction for lymphedema detection by iterating pairwise ICP 

      Yordán López, Fernando A. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
      Arm lymphedema is a debilitating condition characterized by a large swelling of the patient arms. This thesis describes a system for measuring arm volume with the goal of providing a cost-effective, reliable, easy to use, ...

    • Point cloud segmentation for mobile robot manipulation 

      Zhu, Charlotte (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
      In this thesis, we develop a system for estimating a belief state for a scene over multiple observations of the scene. Given as input a sequence of observed RGB-D point clouds of a scene, a list of known objects in the ...

    • Point defect engineering in germanium 

      Monmeyran, Corentin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
      In 1947, the first transistor was made of germanium, but soon silicon became the core material of computer chips because of its processability. However, as the typical dimensions of transistors are getting closer to the ...

    • Point mutations in normal lungs of smokers and non-smokers 

      Sudo, Hiroko, 1977- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
      It is a widely-held hypothesis that environmental mutagens play an essential role in human somatic and germinal cell mutagenesis. In particular, the finding of small amounts of chemical mutagens in cigarette smoke has led ...

    • The point of Corumbau : a case study in emerging market (Brazil) real estate development feasibility analysis 

      Clayton, Paul B., S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
      In 2003, Renata Oliveira, a young Portuguese architect, has re-discovered the Point of Corumbau in Bahia, Brazil, and, like the Portuguese adventurers who had discovered Brazil 500 years earlier in the same location, found ...

    • Point of departure : landscape, memory and change as passage for design 

      Ames, Richard M. (Richard Mansur) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989)
      This thesis is the exploration of the natural and cultural environment through design. The natural landscape is a richly complex system reliant on interdependencies, change, and renewal. It is laden with multiple, even ...

    • Point of impact : delivering mission essential supplies to the warfighter through the Joint Precision Airdrop System (JPADS) 

      Eaton, Joshua A. N. (Joshua Andrew Norman) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
      The Joint Precision Airdrop System (JPADS) exists to execute logistical resupply operations using fixed and rotary wing air in a safe, effective and precise manner in order to deliver supplies and equipment to intended ...

    • Point of Use Semi-Batch Reverse Osmosis Desalination Prototype Experimental Validation 

      Moya, Janice (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-05)
      Water scarcity is undoubtedly a growing problem worldwide. Desalination provides a potential solution to water scarcity by providing water from typically unusable sources (saline brackish aquifers, seawater, or saline ...

    • Point processes of representation theoretic origin 

      Cuenca, Cesar(Cesar A.) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
      There are two parts to this thesis. In the first part we compute the correlation functions of the 4-parameter family of BC type Z-measures. The result is given explicitly in terms of Gauss's hypergeometric function. The ...

    • Point sample rendering 

      Grossman, J. P., 1973- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)
      We present an algorithm suitable for real-time, high quality rendering of complex objects. Objects are represented as a dense set of surface point samples which contain colour, depth and normal information. These point ...