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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)Predictive models are increasingly deployed for the purpose of determining access to services such as credit, insurance, and employment. Despite societal gains in efficiency and productivity through deployment of these ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)There are 1.1 billion people in the world who lack access to electricity, mostly in rural areas. The expansion of the central grid has been slow in many developing countries, hampered by a lack of supply, poor finances, ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)Emergency responders have suffered from a lack of cross-agency radio communications for the past three decades. After numerous firefighters died in the terrorist attacks of September 11, partially due to a lack of ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)This thesis presents lessons from the development of an on-line, web-based feedback system and preliminary analysis of the socio-technical interactions associated with the specification, design and use of this system. The ...
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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, 2004)Unsustainable transportation systems have been the cause of many problems facing urban areas around the world. Lack of regard for sustainable development considerations by those responsible for planning and implementing ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)The motivation for this work is to quantify the complexity of complex systems and to understand its sources. To study complexity, we develop a theoretical framework where the complex system of interest is embedded in a ...
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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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From haute couture to fast-fashion : evaluating social transparency in global apparel supply chains (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)After Rana Plaza collapsed on April 24, 2013, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and killed more than 1,100 workers, the apparel industry fell under widely publicized scrutiny for its negligent social practices. With consumers and ...
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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, 2016)China has a goal of reducing carbon emissions. At the same time, China is currently targeting an increase in natural gas consumption as a part of broader national strategies to reduce the environmental (air pollution) ...
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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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