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  • Analysis of aero-elastic forces in labyrinth seals and the design of an experimental facility to measure them 
    Millsaps, Knox Taylor (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Thesis (M.)
  • Inferring ocean circulation during the last glacial maximum and last deglaciation using data and models 
    Amrhein, Daniel Edward (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017-02-22)
    Since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM, ~ 20,000 years ago) air temperatures warmed, sea level rose roughly 130 meters, and atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide increased. This thesis combines global models and ...
  • Transfer learning for low-resource natural language analysis 
    Zhang, Yuan, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
    Expressive machine learning models such as deep neural networks are highly effective when they can be trained with large amounts of in-domain labeled training data. While such annotations may not be readily available for ...
  • Enabling malware remediation in expanding home networks 
    Loving, James Howard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
    As the Internet of Things (IoT) grows, malware will increasingly threaten Internet security and stability. Many actors, from individuals installing antivirus on their personal computers to law enforcement conducting botnet ...
  • Towards the efficiency limit of visible light-emitting diodes 
    Xue, Jin, S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
    In this thesis, a thermophotonic method based on the heat-pump mechanism is proposed to potentially enhance the efficiency of visible light-emitting diodes (LEDs) for high-power operation. By leveraging this special mode ...
  • Robust stability analysis for large-scale power systems 
    Zhang, Richard Yi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
    Innovations in electric power systems, such as renewable energy, demand-side participation, and electric vehicles, are all expected to increase variability and uncertainty, making stability verification more challenging. ...
  • Architecture in the Afternet 
    Ghantous, Sam N (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
    Tweeting from your couch, in your sweats, can be an architectural act. Architecture's ability to serve and shape a public has been weakened by its disciplinary exclusivity and the privatization of public space. Hope for ...
  • Enabling high-throughput single-cell growth measurements with parallel microchannel resonators 
    Cermak, Nathan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
    Single cells constitute a fundamental unit of biological organization, yet most laboratory techniques are unable to characterize single cell behavior and instead measure average properties of many thousands of cells. Among ...
  • Understanding of weak turbulence of capillary waves 
    Pan, Yulin, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
    First developed by Zakharov, Weak Turbulence Theory (WTT) aims at describing the steady-state statistical property of an ensemble of waves in weakly nonlinear interactions. In the wavenumber k domain, the WTT steady-state ...
  • Do school-going children with more active modes of morning commutes walk more throughout the day? 
    Tan, Shin Bin (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
    Boosting physical activity in school-going children has multiple health and educational benefits. One strategy to boost physical activity is to have students adopt more active commutes. However, empirical health studies ...
  • Nanostructured photovoltaics : improving device efficiency and measuring carrier transport 
    Rekemeyer, Paul Harlan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
    Photovoltaics (PV) offer a promising route to combat climate change. However, the growth rate of the dominant commercial photovoltaic (PV) technology is limited by large capital expenditure requirements. This motivates ...
  • Incremental parametric syntax for multi-language transformation 
    Koppel, James (James Brandon) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
    We present a new system for building source-to-source transformations that can run on multiple programming languages, based on a new way of representing programs called incremental parametric syntax. We construct incremental ...
  • Testing properties of Ising models 
    Dikkala, Sai Nishanth (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
    Given samples from an unknown multivariate distribution p, is it possible to distinguish whether p is the product of its marginals versus p being [epsilon]-far from every product distribution? Similarly, is it possible to ...
  • Advanced silicon photonic microcavities for routing, detection and lasing applications 
    Su, Zhan, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
    The theoretical background of microcavities for photonic applications has been extensively investigated in theory over the past two decades. These structures provide the ability to filter wavelength, support high-Q modes ...
  • China's outbound real estate investment 
    Wang, Qing, S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
    Since 2013, investors from the People's Republic of China (PRC) have made significant strides in the global real estate market, especially in developed regions such as North America, Australia, and Western Europe. From ...
  • Dispatches from the transient city 
    Enikolopov, Grigori (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
    Unprecedented levels of migration, displacement, and expulsions mark the contemporary moment. With the increase of protracted conflicts and environmental crises, the numbers of displaced persons fleeing war, famine, disease, ...
  • A study of the co-working operating model 
    Zhai, Wensi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
    After explosive development in the past half decade, the co-working industry is seeking changes to enhance the sustainability of its business model. Despite early success, the buy-bulk-sell-piece model does not promise a ...
  • Multiserver queueing systems in heavy traffic 
    Eschenfeldt, Patrick Clark (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
    In the study of queueing systems, a question of significant current interest is that of large scale behavior, where the size of the system increases without bound. This regime has becoming increasingly relevant with the ...
  • Problems with a localized nature in exploration seismology 
    Willemsen, Lucas Abraham (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
    A wide range of problems in seismology have a localized nature. Examples include inversion for time-lapse change, salt boundary position and Amplitude or Phase Versus Angle (AVA/PVA). With increasing computational power, ...
  • Integrated optical quantum manipulation and measurement of trapped ions 
    Mehta, Karan K. (Karan Kartik) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
    Individual atomic ions confined in designed electromagnetic potentials and manipulated via lasers are strong candidates as physical bases for quantum information processing (QIP). This is in large part due to their long ...
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