Browsing MIT Theses by Title
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Were ancient mesoamerican buildings oriented to magnetic north?
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1979) -
West Scandinavian vowel systems and the ordering of phonological rules.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1969) -
Western South Atlantic holocene and glacial deepwater hydrography derived from benthic foraminiferal Cd/Ca and stable carbon isotope data
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)Today, deep waters produced in the North Atlantic are exported through the western South Atlantic. Antarctic intermediate water (AAIW) also enters the Atlantic in this region. Circumpolar deep water (CDW) fills the depths ... -
Westinghouse PWR : the rise and fall of a dominant design in the electric power industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)In the early 1950s the electric power industry was shaken by the introduction of a new type of energy source that pledged to be the most cost-efficient way of producing electricity. Counting on the promise of huge profits ... -
Westway
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982)This thesis develops the master plan, urban design guidelines, and housing models for two of the residential sections of Westway, New York City -- a 178 acre landfill project proposed for Manhattan' s Hudson River shore. ... -
Wesurvived.nyc : participatory mapping as a political act
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)Participatory GIS (PGIS) and crowdsourced mapping have allowed communities to envision ways in which marginalized populations can hold governments accountable and demand urban change. Yet, those participatory practices ... -
Wet Adhesion and Bioadhesive Technology
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021-06)Along with the rise of complex and ever more capable technologies, our body is interacting with a rapidly growing number of man-made devices and machines ranging from biomedical devices for surgical repair and disease ... -
Wet oxidation of human waste
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Wet-weather-effective bicycle rim brake: a product-development exercise.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1971) -
Wetland model in an earth systems modeling framework for regional environmental policy analysis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)The objective of this research is to investigate incorporating a wetland component into a land energy and water fluxes model, the Community Land Model (CLM). CLM is the land fluxes component of the Integrated Global Systems ... -
Wettability of candidate Accident Tolerant Fuel (ATF) cladding materials in LWR conditions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)Since the 2011 Fukushima accident, substantial research has been dedicated to developing accident tolerant fuel (ATF) cladding materials. These analyses have mostly concentrated on the capability of potential ATF materials ... -
Wettability of low Sn solders on integrated circuit package metallizations
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Wetting and phase-change phenomena on micro/nanostructures for enhanced heat transfer
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)Micro/nanostructures have been extensively studied to amplify the intrinsic wettability of materials to create superhydrophilic or superhydrophobic surfaces. Such extreme wetting properties can influence the heat transfer ... -
Wetting hysteresis and droplet roll off behavior on superhydrophobic surfaces by Katherine Marie Smyth.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)Various states of hydrophobic wetting and hysteresis are observed when water droplets are deposited on micro-post surfaces of different post densities. Hysteresis is commonly defined as the difference between the advancing ... -
The wetting of alumina by vitreous abrasive wheel bonds
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Wetting of ceramic particulates with liquid aluminum alloys
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Wetting transition and fluid trapping in a microfluidic fracture
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021-06)During immiscible fluid-fluid displacement in partial wetting regime, defending fluid is often trapped as a liquid film on solid surfaces through the mechanism of wetting transition. Here, we study the impact of roughness ... -
WFP supply chain capacity in Ethiopia : an analysis of its sufficiency, constraints & impact
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)The WFP's transport of food aid to Ethiopia's landlocked population is constrained by supply chain bottlenecks at the port, and limited availability of trucks for inland transport. How can the WFP supply chain be optimized ... -
Whales & Wind: A Case Study on Misinformation About Renewable Energy Development
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2024-05)Mis- and disinformation are being increasingly harnessed to influence public opinion and advance agendas across the globe. It has also greatly impacted renewable energy planning and development. This thesis explores ... -
WhanauSIP : a secure peer-to-peer communications platform
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)This thesis presents a novel mechanism for achieving secure and reliable peer-to-peer communications on the Internet. WhanauSIP merges a Sybil-proof distributed hash table with the session initiation protocol (SIP) to ...
