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City design and social exclusion : Abuja, Nigeria in review
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
This thesis investigation explores the relationship between city design and social exclusion, and more specifically, how modernist principles of urban design and development policy have contributed to social exclusion in ...
La Casita -- housing designed for Latinos : two cases from Southern California
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
As the nation's fastest growing minority group, Latinos are expected to be the main engine of household growth over the next decade. This demographic trend is most apparent in Southern California. While much attention has ...
D-branes and string field theory
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
In this thesis we study the D-brane physics in the context of Witten's cubic string field theory. We compute first few terms the low energy effective action for the non-abelian gauge field A, from Witten's action. We show ...
The iLab service broker : a software infrastructure providing common services in support of Internet accessible laboratories
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
Remote laboratories that are accessible via the Internet are becoming a common phenomenon in higher education institutions. This thesis describes the iLab Service Broker architecture, a software infrastructure that supports ...
A multiple secretary problem with switch costs
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
In this thesis, we utilize probabilistic reasoning and simulation methods to determine the optimal selection rule for the secretary problem with switch costs, in which a known number of applicants appear sequentially in a ...
Web services @ MIT
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
There are several useful web services developed at MIT by students, faculty and researchers. However, they are scattered all over MIT. Most people at MIT are unaware of the availability of these web services and hence they ...
Design of a carbon fiber suspension system for FSAE applications
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Reducing weight while maintaining structural integrity is one of the key challenges Formula SAE teams face as they try and design the suspension of the formula car. The purpose of this paper is to present experimental data ...
The Citadel of Cairo, 1176-1341 : reconstructing architecture from texts
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991)
This dissertation reconstructs one of the major works of military and palatial architecture in the Middle Ages, the Citadel of the Mountain (QaI'at aI-Jabal) in Cairo. It traces its development from its inception in 1176 ...
Great expectations : provisional modernism and the reception of J.J.P. Oud
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
My dissertation analyzes the reception of the work of J.J.P. Oud (1890-1963), the modern Dutch architect, by examining the systems of dissemination and reception of modern European architecture from 1910 to 1953. Reception ...
Tax credits for housing : the experience of the New Hampshire Community Development Finance Authority investment incentive program
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996)