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A Proposal to Improve the Health Care Systems for the Urban Poor in the Squatter Settlements of the Developing Countries
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2003-07)
Rapid urbanization and large scale population movements from rural to urban areas have resulted in unprecedented health crises in the developing countries. In addition to communicable diseases, respiratory infections and ...
Engineering Effective Response to Outbreaks of Influenza
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2014-03)
Objective. Allocation of vaccines and deployment of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) are critical to controlling influenza. We examine how these policies can minimize the societal impact.
Methods. An engineering ...
Holistic Trinity of Services Sciences: Management, Social, & Engineering Sciences
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2007-04)
Services industries comprise about 75% of the economy of developed nations. To design and operate services systems for today and tomorrow, we need to educate a new type of engineer who focuses not on manufacturing but on ...
Pandemic Flu: Yes, We Can Do Something About It!
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2007-08)
The emergence of influenza with virulence comparable to the famous 1918-1919 “Spanish Flu” has the potential to kill hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Should we find ourselves being forced to ‘live with the flu,’ ...
Stopping Pandemic Flu: Government and Community Interventions in a Multi-Community Model
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2007-12)
Focusing on mitigation strategies for global pandemic influenza, we use elementary mathematical models to evaluate the implementation and timing of intervention strategies such as travel restrictions, vaccination, social ...
Congestion Pricing: A Parking Queue Model
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2007-08)
Congestion pricing imposes a usage fee on a public resource during times of high demand. Road pricing involves cordoning off a section of the city and imposing a fee on vehicles that enter it. Parking pricing increases the ...
Strategies to Overcome Network Congestion in Infrastructure Systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2006-11)
Networked Infrastructure systems deliver services and/or products from point to point along the network. They include transportation networks (e.g., rails, highways, airports, sea ports), telecommunication networks (by ...
Revisiting R[subscript 0], the Basic Reproductive Number for Pandemic Influenza
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2008-02)
This paper focuses on a fundamental input parameter for most existing mathematical models of pandemic influenza, the ‘basic reproductive number R[subscript 0],’ defined to be the mean number of new influenza infections ...
System Design and Architecture of an Online, Adaptive, and Personalized Learning Platform
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2013-11)
The authors propose that personalized learning can be brought to traditional and nontraditional learners through a new type of asynchronous learning platform called Guided Learning Pathways (GLP). The GLP platform allows ...
The Coming Hangover: Magnified Effects of Sequestration on Research Enterprises
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division, 2013-03)
As of March 1, 2013 the US government is taking an $85 billion budget cut. Also referred as the “sequestration”, this automatic spending cut policy might continue for several upcoming years and potentially affect many ...