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The socio-technical construction of precision bombing : a study of shared control and cognition by humans, machines, and doctrine during World War II
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
This dissertation examines the creation and initial use of the precision bombing system employed by the United States Army Air Forces during World War II in the opening phase of the Combined Bomber Offensive against Germany. ...
Towards high performing hospital enterprise architectures : elevating hospitals to lean enterprise thinking
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
This research is motivated by the National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine's joint call for research in healthcare, promoting the application of principles, tools, and research from engineering ...
Open collaborative system design : a strategic framework with application to synthetic biology
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
Across technology industries and particularly at the cutting edge of biotechnology a debate is under way about the proper balance between open and closed - between co-developing products with shared information and open ...
Finding order in a contentious Internet
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
This inquiry started with the simple question, "Who manages the Internet infrastructure and how?" Since, this question evolved into an evaluation of the routing system and the institutions that manage it. This institutional ...
Simulation based micro-founded structural market analysis : a case study of the copper industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
This work aims to provide a widely applicable modeling framework that can be used to credibly investigate materials scarcity risks for various types of commodities. Different from existing literature, this work contributes ...
Strategies to reduce product waste in the consumer packaged goods industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
The cost of waste for products such as soft drinks, shelf stable dry food, and dairy in the consumer packaged goods industry is massive, about $15 billion annually in the U.S.A. This thesis focuses on waste associated with ...
Using inclusive wealth as a measure of sustainability for infrastructure planning and evaluation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
Inclusive wealth (IW) measures the productive base of an economy, which is a linear index of its capital asset stocks. Changes to IW per capita over time track changes to intergenerational human well-being, thus non-declining ...
Characterizing the materials footprint of a university campus : data, methods, recommendations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Universities are major consumers and disposers of many materials, but their specific flows are not well characterized. Both energy and material consumption drive a university's environmental impact. Many universities collect ...