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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)The emergence of large-scale hydrocarbon production from shale reservoirs has revolutionized the oil and gas sector, and hydraulic fracturing has been the key enabler of this advancement. As a result, the need for water ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Cultural differences not only affect the political arena, but also impact businesses around the world as more and more companies become multinational. The fast economic growth in East Asian countries has raised questions ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Large-scale health enterprises comprise multiple organizations that provide programs and services for patients. Despite the interconnectedness of these systems there is a lack of empirical research documenting how these ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)The international climate of cyber security is dramatically changing and thus unpredictable. As such, agile yet sustainable solutions are needed, along with an effective and a pragmatic evaluation framework to assess and ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)The growth of renewables in power systems has reinvigorated research and regulatory interest in reliability analysis algorithms such as the Baleriaux/Booth convolution-based probabilistic production cost (PPC) model. ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)More than 200 rivers in the world cross at least one political border. Any development project including hydropower or irrigation that is implemented in a trans-boundary river is in essence a claim on the resource. Managing ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Japan has a long history of Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs); however, it has experienced many failures but learned various lessons from them. The representative example is a management failure of the third sector, which ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Managing forest fires is a serious national problem in Portugal. Burned area has increased steadily over the past several decades, with particularly devastating years in 2003 and 2005. Ignitions also spike dramatically in ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Coal-fired power plants with post combustion capture and sequestration (CCS) systems have a variety of challenges to integrate the steam generation, air quality control, cooling water systems and steam turbine with the ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Complementarity of vehicles and fuels has posed significant barrier for increasing the use of alternative fuels in place of traditional ones. An initial positive number of either alternative fuel vehicle (AFV) users or ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)The interdependency between water and energy, sometimes called the water-energy nexus, is growing in importance as demand for both water and energy increases. Energy is required for water treatment and supply, while virtually ...
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Risk assessment of groundwater contamination from hydraulic fracturing fluid spills in Pennsylvania (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Fast-paced growth in natural gas production in the Marcellus Shale has fueled intense debate over the risk of groundwater contamination from hydraulic fracturing and the shale gas extraction process at large. While several ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)The U.S. government doubled NIH appropriations between 1998 and 2003, aiming to significantly foster research activities in biomedicine. However, several indicators demonstrate not only that the impact of the budget increase ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)An increasing awareness of the operational challenges created by intermittent generation of electricity from policy-mandated renewable resources, such as wind and solar, has led to increased scrutiny of the public policies ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Since the phasing-out of the High Density Rule, access to major commercial airports in the United States has been unconstrained or, in the case of the airports of New York, weakly constrained. This largely unregulated ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)To date, biomass has not been a large source of power generation in the United States, despite the potential for greenhouse gas (GHG) benefits from displacing coal with carbon neutral biomass. In this thesis, the fuel cycle ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Sleepiness impacts performance in all aspects of life. This thesis addresses the impact of sleepiness on astronauts and adolescents in their everyday tasks. The first part describes the results of an experiment assessing ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)The continued growth of the aviation industry poses a challenge to policy-makers and industry stakeholders as each decision represents a trade-off on efficiency, equity, and environmental impact. The Aviation environmental ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Both anonymity and accountability play crucial roles in sustaining the Internet's functionality, however there is a common misconception that increasing the anonymity of Internet identities necessitates diminishing their ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)The residential sector in the U.S. is responsible for about 20% of the country's primary energy use (EIA, 2011). Studies estimate that efficiency improvements in this sector can reduce household energy consumption by over ...
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