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Y B ME? : an analysis of the status of women in mechanical engineering and the Women's Technology Program as a potential long-term solution
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)The issue of the lack of women in the fields of science and engineering has recently received new attention by the scientific and women's studies communities alike. In fields such as Mechanical Engineering there continues ... -
Yaku Cosmo-Infrastructures : Designing with Water Across the Andes
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-06)Water in the Andes is a dual entity: matter and energy, terrestial and celestial, substance, and Cosmos. This thesis is a provocation to reimagine water infrastructures across the Andes as a collaboration of ancestral and ... -
YAMA : a system for marking network traffic
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)Computer security performance analysis requires precise labeling of traffic as either background or attack traffic. When an experiment is performed on-line, it may also be important to identify traffic from the security ... -
Yang-Mills connections with isolated singularities
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Yang-Mills replacement
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)We develop an analog of the harmonic replacement technique of Colding and Minicozzi in the gauge theory context. The idea behind harmonic replacement dates back to Schwarz and Perron, and the technique involves taking a ... -
Yard unreliability in rail freight movement.
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Yarditecture : new walls for trench town
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)"The yard" -- the typical housing typology of low-income downtown, Jamaica where multiple households are contained within a surrounding wall. This thesis envelops itself in Trench town, Jamaica, the epicenter of what is ... -
Yardstick Competition : an empirical investigation using state taxes and media markets
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)I investigate whether voters judge the performance of their governor on taxes by comparing him to governors from neighboring states. If voters do make these comparisons, it creates "yardstick competition," where governors ... -
Yeast and mammalian RNA polymerase II holoenzymes
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The yeast three-hybrid system : a method for detecting ligand-protein interactions
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Yeast-based vaccine approaches to cancer immunotherapy
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)Saccharomyces cerevisiae stimulates dendritic cells and represents a promising candidate for cancer immunotherapy development. Effective cross-presentation of antigen delivered to dendritic cells is necessary for successful ... -
Yellow helmets : work and worth of women workers on construction sites in northern India
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)The participation of women in the building sector is an exception rather than a rule. Inmost countries of the world the building industry is almost exclusively the domain of men. In India a large number of women are actively ... -
The Yellow Pages : a medium, an industry
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The Yellow Revolution in Malwa : alternative arenas of struggle and the cultural politics of development
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)This dissertation engages with two analytical frameworks to explore questions of social transformation and structures of power in rural society in India. The first is a specific critique of various types of development ... -
The Yenidze Oriental Tobacco and Cigarette Factory : an example of Islamic Ornamental architecture in Germany
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)Stylistic elements of "Oriental" architecture became a popularized design feature for industrial buildings in Europe during the 19th century--especially within the context of Germany. As an Islamic ornamentation program ... -
Yield improvement efforts in vinyl siding production
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Yield management for telecommunication networks : defining a new landscape
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)Can airline Yield Management strategies be used to generate additional revenue from spare capacity in telecom networks? Pundits believe "yes", based on several analogies between the industries such as, for instance, ... -
Yield management for the maritime industry
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York's Wild Kingdom : a development proposal
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)York's Wild Kingdom is a privately held zoo and amusement park in York, a Massachusetts based shopping center developer and investment compa Kingdom and the 150 acres that surround it. The community is culturaIl ( and York ... -
You can't always get what you want : managing recreational use in the Middlesex Fells
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)Land conservation programs are often guided by a dual mission: to protect natural resources and provide for the recreational use of a property. These goals are fundamentally in conflict, however, because all recreational ...
