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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 ... -
From high power terahertz quantum cascade lasers to terahertz light amplifiers
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)The terahertz (THz) frequency range (300 GHz to 10 THz, wavelength 30-1000 [mu]m), despite having many potential applications, is technologically relatively underdeveloped mainly because of the lack of suitable coherent ... -
From hindered to promoted settling in dispersions of attractive colloids: Simulation, modeling, and application to macromolecular characterization
(American Physical Society, 2018-06)The settling of colloidal particles with short-ranged attractions is investigated via highly resolved immersed boundary simulations. At modest volume fractions, we show that intercolloid attractions lead to clustering that ... -
From HIV protein sequences to viral fitness landscapes: a new paradigm for in silico vaccine design
(Biomed Central Ltd., 2012-09)Background: An inexpensive prophylactic vaccine offers the best hope to curb the HIV/AIDS epidemic gripping sub-Saharan Africa. Systematic means to guide the design of an effective immunogen for this, and other, infectious ... -
From huelga! to undocumented and unafraid! : a comparative study of media strategies in the Farm Worker Movement of the 1960s and the Immigrant Youth Movement of the 2000s
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)Attention to the use of new media by social movements rose rapidly following groundbreaking global protests: The Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, and the "Indignados" Movement in Spain. However, determinism and rhetoric ... -
From Human Days to Machine Seconds: Automatically Answering and Generating Machine Learning Final Exams
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From hutong to hi-rise : explaining the transformation of Old Beijing, 1990-2002
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)This thesis attempts to explain the redevelopment of Old Beijing during the period 1990-2002. During this time, at least one third of the Old City was transformed from an urban fabric consisting principally of courtyard ... -
From idea to implementation : fostering creativity and design maturity in novices
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)This thesis explores how novices, in particular students, design products for people and how to foster creativity in students who are accustomed to a traditional engineering curriculum. In a world of messy, ill-definied ... -
From idea to reality : entrepreneurship in public and private development organizations
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From ideal to reality: segmentation, annotation, and recommendation, the vital trajectory of intelligent micro learning
(Springer US, 2019-10-23)Abstract The soaring development of Web technologies and mobile devices has blurred time-space boundaries of people’s daily activities. Such development together with the life-long learning requirement give birth to a new ... -
From ideals to institutions : institutional entrepreneurship in Mexican small business finance
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)Through a combination of in-depth research and unique loan-level data, this dissertation explores the mechanisms of intentional institutional change. It argues that current accounts of institutions and institutional change ... -
From ideas to practice, "self-help" in housing : from interpretation to application
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From images to surfaces : a computational study of the human early visual system
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From imitation to innovation : the very large scale integrated (VLSI) semiconductor project in Japan
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From Improved Diagnostics to Presurgical Planning: High-Resolution Functionally Graded Multimaterial 3D Printing of Biomedical Tomographic Data Sets
(Mary Ann Liebert Inc, 2018-05)Three-dimensional (3D) printing technologies are increasingly used to convert medical imaging studies into tangible (physical) models of individual patient anatomy, allowing physicians, scientists, and patients an unprecedented ... -
From individual development accounts to community asset building : an exploration in bridging people-and place-based strategies
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) are matched saving accounts for low-income individuals to save for the purchase of an asset. As one of many national initiatives that encourage homeownership, this thesis explores how ... -
From innovators perspective : process of grassroots innovation in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)In the past two decades, there has been a growing interest in grassroots innovation in India and beyond, both as an area of formal research and practice. Although many different explanations of grassroots innovations exist ... -
From Internationalism to Nationalism
(Duke University Press, 2021-12-01)The steady rollout of Covid-19 vaccines comes attached with a series of difficult questions. Are vaccines a human right? Should patents be enforced in a way that puts people in the global South behind in a global queue? ... -
From Internationalism to Nationalism
(Duke University Press, 2021-12)The steady rollout of Covid-19 vaccines comes attached with a series of difficult questions. Are vaccines a human right? Should patents be enforced in a way that puts people in the global South behind in a global queue? ... -
From Just-in-Time, to Just-in-Case, to Just-in-Worst-Case: Simple Models of a Global Supply Chain under Uncertain Aggregate Shocks
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2021-11-15)Abstract COVID-19 highlighted the weaknesses in the supply chain. Many have argued that a more resilient or robust supply chain is needed. But what does a robust supply chain mean? And how do firms’ decisions ...