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An evaluation of short innovation contest implementation in the federal context
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
Technologies over the past three decades have democratized the tools of knowledge creation, thus creating increasing communities of innovators outside traditional organizations' boundaries. Cost effective ways of leveraging ...
Radiation therapy of pediatric brain tumors : comparison of long-term health effects and costs between proton therapy and IMRT
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
Radiation therapy is an important component of pediatric brain tumor treatment. However, radiation-induced damage can lead to adverse long-term health effects. Proton therapy has the ability to reduce the dose delivered ...
A field-based study of alternative microbial indicator tests for drinking water quality in Northern Ghana
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Safe drinking water is essential for human survival, yet it is unavailable to over 1 billion of the world's people living in poverty (World Bank, 2009). The current methods used to identify drinking water sources are ...
Metal price volatility : a study of informative metrics and the volatility mitigating effects of recycling
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
Metal price volatility is undesirable for firms that use metals as raw materials, because price volatility can translate into volatility of material costs. Volatile material costs and can erode the profitability of the ...
Unique abilities of hopper spacecraft to enable national objectives for solar system exploration
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
In comparison with conventional and other conceived approaches, hopper spacecraft offer unique advantages in exploring Solar System objects beyond Earth. The present work began with a survey - based on documents from the ...
A semantic data federation engine : design, implementation & applications in educational information management
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
With the advent of the World Wide Web, the amount of digital information in the world has increased exponentially. The ability to organize this deluge of data, retrieve it, and combine it with other data would bring numerous ...
Collaborative competition for crowdsourcing spaceflight software and STEM education using SPHERES Zero Robotics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Crowdsourcing is being researched as a technique to develop small-scale spaceflight software by issuing open calls for solutions to large crowds of people with the incentive of prizes. There is widespread investment of ...
A cost model for testing unmanned and autonomous systems of systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
The evolutionary nature of Unmanned and Autonomous Systems of Systems (UASoS) acquisition needs to be matched by equally evolutionary test capabilities in the future. There is currently no standard method to determine what ...
Technological development and innovation : selected policy implications
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Technological development is one of the main drivers in economic progress throughout the world and is strongly linked to the creation of new industries, jobs, and wealth. This thesis attempts to better understand how a ...
Tragedy of the routing table : an analysis of collective action amongst Internet network operators
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
This thesis analyzes and discusses the effectiveness of social efforts to achieve collective action amongst Internet network operators in order to manage the growth of the Internet routing table. The size and rate of growth ...