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Measuring and modeling activity and travel well-being
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)This thesis develops methods for the measurement of activity and travel well-being and models for linking well-being and behavior. The hypotheses underlying this research are that (1) activities are planned to maintain or ... -
Measuring and modeling low frequency dispersion in GaAs MESFETs
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Measuring and modifying the intrinsic memorability of images
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)this thesis, I developed and carried out a procedure to measure the memorability of an image by running hundreds of human-trials and making use of a custom designed image dataset, the Mem60k dataset. The large store of ... -
Measuring and optimizing for network conditions on drones
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021)As drones emerge as viable vehicles for mobile computation, a world where we can deploy a fleet of drones to execute tasks, like streaming real-time video, sounds less like sci-fi and more like a quickly-approaching reality. ... -
Measuring atomic properties with an atom interferometer
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)Two experiments are presented which measure atomic properties using an atom interferometer. The interferometer splits the sodium de Broglie wave into two paths, one of which travels through an interaction region. The paths ... -
Measuring Backtracking on Delivery Routes through Community Detection
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2022-05)In logistics, backtracking is the act of a route returning to an area that it has already visited. Despite backtracking’s clear potential to be a source of inefficiency and driver frustration, there is little existing ... -
Measuring built environment technology awareness using time-series analysis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021)This study responds to the accelerating application of technologies in the building environment and lack of academic research exploring how these technologies are developed over time. "Built environment technologies" refers ... -
Measuring cannibalization in distribution networks : an approach to optimize store locations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)A methodology was proposed to measure sales cannibalization using historic data containing variations in store densities. Sales cannibalization was defined as a decrease in the sales of one or several existing stores as a ... -
Measuring car pride and its implications for car ownership and use across individuals, cities, and countries
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)As the world recognizes that its growing reliance on private, fossil fuel-based vehicles is unsustainable, understanding how to avoid growth in car ownership and how to shift current users towards more efficient, ... -
Measuring channel mobility through the analysis of area-based change in analog experiments, with insights into alluvial environments
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)We quantify the mobility of alluvial river channels in order to better understand the relationship between channel mobility and fluvial environment. We analyze five analog experiments, performed between 2002 and 2007 at ... -
Measuring clay property variation and effects on ceramic pot filter performance
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Pure Home Water (PHW) is a non-profit organization in Ghana whose mission is to provide safe drinking water to Ghana's Northern Region - the poorest part of the country. Originally a distributor of ceramic pot filters ... -
Measuring climate adaptation : assessing the use of indicators in U.S. coastal cities
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)In response to the growing threat of climate change, in recent years many U.S. cities have developed climate adaptation plans. However, they have made limited progress implementing these plans and even less progress ... -
Measuring college students' sleep, stress, mental health and wellbeing with wearable sensors and mobile phones
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)This thesis carries out a series of studies and develops a methodology and tools to measure and analyze ambulatory physiological, behavioral and social data from wearable sensors and mobile phones with trait data such as ... -
Measuring compositional and growth properties of single cells
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)The physical properties of a cell are manifestations of its most basic molecular and metabolic processes. In particular, size has been a sought metric, which can be difficult to ascertain with great resolution or for smaller ... -
Measuring congestion and emissions : a network model for Mexico City
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)Congestion is a major problem for the major cities of today. It reduces mobility, slows economic growth, and is a major cause of emissions. Vehicles traveling at slow speeds emit significantly more pollutants than vehicles ... -
Measuring coronary artery flow rates using intravascular optical coherence tomography to improve the assessment of percutaneous coronary intervention
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)In this project, a blood flow quantification technique was developed based on a novel backscattering indicator-dilution approach for intravascular optical coherence tomography (IV-OCT). It achieved the goal of obtaining ... -
Measuring cosmic microwave background radiation anisotropy on medium angular scales
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Measuring culture in product development teams : development of an attribute inventory method
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Measuring cycling kinematics using a low-cost, flashing LED, multi-camera approach
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)In this thesis a low cost motion capture approach is presented and applied to measure cyclists' kinematics. The motion capture system consists of low cost hardware and custom developed software. Based on still-frame, ... -
Measuring decoherence and the matter-wave index of refraction with an improved atom interferometer
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)This thesis describes experiments performed using the MIT atom interferometer, which has recently been upgraded to provide increased experimental precision and flexibility. The three-gratings comprising our Mach-Zehnder ...
