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Applying machine learning techniques to the analysis of policy data of the military health enterprise
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
It is common practice in organizational research to apply policy analysis to better understand how an enterprise is approaching and addressing a particular topic of interest. The approach to policy analysis commonly used ...
An experimental and theoretical tool for studying the language of geometric concepts
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
In this thesis, I propose concretizing the Piagetian view of children as 'gifted learners' to children as 'gifted language builders', who construct and learn many languages to reduce their uncertainty about the world. These ...
Sex-specific computationally generated biomarkers for cardiovascular risk stratification post acute coronary syndrome
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
Women who present with symptoms consistent with an Acute Coronary Syndrome (ACS) are often under-diagnosed and under-represented in clinical trials. Moreover, there are data to suggest that women with cardiovascular disease ...
Odor mapping in neuroscience and design
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019.)
The olfactory system remains one of the least well understood out of the five senses. In this thesis we examined the mappings of the odors to pathways in the brain as an initial assessment for the feasibility of digital ...
Assessing the impact of annotation on understanding and retaining online news articles
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
Today's online news readers are distracted and inundated with content. Readers tend to skim and spend little time reading an article, leaving them less informed and sometimes, unknowingly, incorrectly informed since they ...