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Great Ideas (Don't) Sell Themselves: The Disclosure Paradox in Digital Startups Auctions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-02)An inventor may be hesitant to reveal her idea to potential buyers because she fears it will be stolen. I show that this disclosure paradox can result in only the worst ideas being sold, leading to an ineffective ... -
Greater Jakarta--real estate market outlook
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The Greatest Generation : a new retail store model for delivering energy efficiency in Massachusetts
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)The mitigation of greenhouse gases (GHG) and reduced energy consumption in the United States has proven to be a great challenge in the face of climate change. While technological innovation and renewable energy continue ... -
Greed, hedging, and acceleration in convex optimization
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)This thesis revisits the well-studied and practically motivated problem of minimizing a strongly convex, smooth function with first-order information. The first main message of the thesis is that, surprisingly, algorithms ... -
The Greedy Exhaustive Dual Binary Swap methodology for fuel loading optimization in PWR reactors using the poropy reactor optimization Tool
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)This thesis presents the development and analysis of a deterministic optimization scheme termed Greedy Exhaustive Dual Binary Swap for the optimization of nuclear reactor core loading patterns. The goal of this optimization ... -
Greedy layerwise training of convolutional neural networks
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)Layerwise training presents an alternative approach to end-to-end back-propagation for training deep convolutional neural networks. Although previous work was unsuccessful in demonstrating the viability of layerwise training, ... -
Greek prosodies and the nature of syllabification
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Green automotive supply chain for an emerging market
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)Green Supply Chain Management (GSCM) within the automotive industry is largely based on combining lean manufacturing with mandated supplier adoption of ISO 14001-compliant Environmental Management Systems (EMS). This ... -
Green building technologies : should a developer implement photovoltaics, underfloor air distribution, and natural ventilation?
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)This thesis explores implications of green, or environmentally sensitive, development in the commercial real estate industry. Developers, as building owners, will respond to ideas that can improve their profits, not ... -
Green business model : changing our home decoration according to our MOOD
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)MOOD is a new concept for home decoration. The purpose of MOOD is to make sustainable design products for creative and modern people living in small spaces. MOOD creates high quality and fashionable reversible decorative ... -
Green chemistry : dense carbon dioxide and water as environmentally benign reaction media
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)(cont.) was investigated in scCO₂, and the cycloaddition between cyclopentadiene and methyl vinyl ketone (MVK) was studied in an scCO₂/liquid water environment. Nitrogen chemistry, specifically the synthesis of nitrogen ... -
Green development : creating incentives for developers
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)With a slowly decaying environment, the development in the construction industry is steering towards sustainability. Researchers are aware of the need for an environmentally sound building technology; however, the maturity ... -
Green development--determining the cost of environmentally responsive development
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Green fluorescent protein as a mechanical sensor
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)Inquiry into intracellular and cytoskeletal mechanics requires an intracellular mechanical sensor to verify models of sub-cellular structure dynamics. To this end, the green fluorescent protein (GFP) is considered as a ... -
Green HPC : a system design approach to energy-efficient datacenters
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)Green HPC is the new standard for High Performance Computing (HPC). This has now become the primary interest among HPC researchers because of a renewed emphasis on Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and the pursuit of higher ... -
Green luxury student housing : a real estate feasibility study
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)The primary purpose of this thesis is to estimate the demand for student housing that focuses on upperclass undergraduate and graduate students who typically shy away from dormitory housing. The initial chapters provide a ... -
Green manufacturing in the medical device industry : a case study
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)Introduction: Med Dev (name changed to protect confidentiality), is a medical device start-up using tissue engineering and drug delivery techniques to help combat the negative effects associated with secondary injury. Med ... -
Green mobility Taipei City : with the arrival of mobility-on-demand system with ultra small electric vehicles
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)Urban form always transforms when new transportation technology is deployed. Urban form and transportation technologies always coevolve. Many new technologies have been developed to solve the problems of greenhouse gas ... -
Green optical network design : power optimization of wide area and metropolitan area networks
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)Advancements in technology are fueling huge growth in network traffic capacity. Demand for low cost, reliable, and high bitrate transmissions grows 40-110% internationally every year. To date, most research has focused on ... -
Green realities : the financial opportunities of environmental sensitive development in the commercial real estate development industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)Scientific research has made clear the impacts of the built environment on energy consumption, human health, and greenhouse gas emissions. Despite academic and political advocacy for the widespread adoption of a more ...
