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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)Currently the electric utility companies are going through a deregulation process that is going to result in market competition for the generating and the transmission companies. The competition is going to be mainly ...
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Framework for the study of governance in the supply networks : Wal-mart : "Enlightened Despot" model (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)Extensive research work has been conducted on the topic of collaboration in supply chain management, but the more general topic of governance in supply networks has never truly been addressed. This research proposes to ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)Using partnerships between the public and private sectors to provide emergency preparedness and response (EPER) functions has become a useful and necessary tool for improving overall emergency management in the United ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)The accumulation of transuranic inventories in spent nuclear fuel depends on both deployment of advanced reactors that can be loaded with recycled transuranics (TRU), and on availability of the facilities that separate and ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)We consider the problem of functional compression. The objective is to separately compress possibly correlated discrete sources such that an arbitrary deterministic function of those sources can be computed given the ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)This thesis assesses fare payment technologies for Transport for London in 2015. Based on a survey of technical literature, feasible payments technologies in 2015 include current smartcard technology, contactless bankcards ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)Cost growth and inefficiencies are a serious problem in almost all major U.S. defense procurement programs, and have existed for many years despite repeated efforts to control them. These problems are particularly virulent ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)The ailing U.S. health care system faces two tremendous challenges: a rising health care bill and a growing number of uninsured individuals. Several policies have been enacted to tackle these challenges but they are ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)Companies in the computer hardware industry can benefit by incorporating future business scenarios in their present decision-making processes. Any decision regarding strategic supply chain design is one such area where ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology has the potential to enable large reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions, but one of the unanswered questions about CCS is whether it will be accepted by the public. In ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)Although the current literature on technology and development has mainly focused on the Internet, I focus on a case where an "old" technology can be more beneficial and appropriate. In 1993, the Peruvian Government created ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)Globalization is changing the way in which the world is organized. The world trade regime is increasingly the dominant mode of organizing international relations. Within this context of globalization and liberalization of ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)An accurate outlook on long-term uranium resources is critical in forecasting uranium costresource relationships, and for energy policy planning as regards the development and deployment of nuclear fuel cycle alternatives. ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)Methods are presented to assess the global risk of nuclear theft and nuclear terrorism, to identify the nuclear facilities and transport legs that pose the highest-priority risks of nuclear theft, and to evaluate policy ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)In China, elevated levels of urban air pollution result in significant adverse health impacts for its large and rapidly growing urban population. An expanded version of the Emissions Prediction and Policy Analysis (EPPA), ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)Increasingly stringent heavy-duty vehicle emission regulations are prompting the use of PM and NOx aftertreatment systems in the US, the EU and Japan. In the US, the EPA Highway Diesel Rule, which will be fully implemented ...
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