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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)Dell's Direct Business Model and its global supply chain are the foundations of the company's success. These strategies, however, bring about problems such as long inbound supply lead times and hard-to-predict site-level ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)The unrelenting increase in oil use by the U.S. light-duty vehicle (LDV) fleet presents an extremely challenging energy and environmental problem. A variety of propulsion technologies and fuels have the promise to reduce ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)Government agencies characteristically face dynamic policy and investment environments yet frequently rely on ad-hoc decision-making methods in response to complexities inherent in their operating landscape. Additionally, ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)Firms seek to create a product that are both desired by consumers, and also minimize costs. These goals come into conflict, as minimizing costs leads firms toward mass production, and meeting consumer needs leads firms ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)Globalization, outsourcing, and the emphasis on lean supply chains continue to shape the supply chain industry. These trends have increased the prevalence and severity of disruptions to upstream supply. Disruptions to ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)This thesis documents the testing of a prototype of a smartphone to be used by roadway workers and dispatchers that was based in a wireless data link service. The main purpose of using a smartphone in railroad communications ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)The deployment of fuel recycling through either CONFU (COmbined Non-Fertile and UO2 fuel) thermal watercooled reactors (LWRs) or fast ABR (Actinide Burner Reactor) reactors is compared to the Once-Through LWR reactor system ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)A logistics cost model is developed for a chemical distribution system from a single plant using bulk and packaged transportation strategies. The purpose of this research is to provide a tool that helps understand the cost ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)With growing markets and increasing pipelines, biotechnology companies face a supply chain challenge to manufacture and distribute products using economically feasible methods that protect protein integrity. Adequate storage ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)This work applies a systems approach to architectural definition, development and selection of power generating concepts capable of supporting a 20 crewmember Mars mission by the year 2040. The thesis confirms that current ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)When trying to envision what the future might look like, different methods of forecasting are often used. However, there is a growing consensus that discontinuity and abrupt change are inherent to the very nature of the ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)Technologies over the past three decades have democratized the tools of knowledge creation, thus creating increasing communities of innovators outside traditional organizations' boundaries. Cost effective ways of leveraging ...
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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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Evaluation of the environmental viability of direct injection schemes for ocean carbon sequestration (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)This thesis evaluates the expected impact of several promising schemes for ocean carbon sequestration by direct injection of CO2, and serves as an update to the assessment by Auerbach et al. (1997) and Caulfield et al. ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)The primary goal of this internship is to explore the financial impact of changing one or more of the downstream chromatography steps involved in the purification of a complex biologic molecule from a batch process to a ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)As the healthcare industry in United States continues to be constrained by increasing costs, new delivery channels are coming into practice. One such channel is home healthcare. Home healthcare presents challenges on the ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)In today's fast-paced and turbulent global economy, the topic of risk management has gained significant interest in the business and academic world. However, in practice, risk management remains rather underdeveloped and ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)The escalating costs of healthcare have created an urgent need to develop innovative solutions that can improve the quality of healthcare delivered and quality of health outcomes. This thesis explores the role that smartphones ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)This thesis contributes toward the building of a theory of the evolution of business ecosystems by exploring the applicability of Piepenbrock's' theoretical framework to a commodity industrial setting, namely the U.S. steel ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)Internet of Things (IoT) is being touted as the next wave of big opportunity. However, the picture does not seem to be very rosy for semiconductor vendors and chip suppliers who might find it difficult to make high revenues ...
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