Browsing MIT Theses by Title
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Improving Cardiac Delivery of Antisense Oligonucleotides with Peptidomimetic Targeting Agents
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-09)Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, both individually and as a comorbidity for other diseases such as diabetes and atherosclerosis. Unfortunately, CVD trends irreversibly toward ... -
Improving charge carrier dynamics in tin (II) sulfide through targeted defect engineering
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)Tin sulfide is an emerging material for photovoltaics, with the potential for highthroughput manufacturing to combat climate change by displacing fossil fuel generation. However, device efficiencies for SnS have plateaued ... -
Improving clinical decision making with natural language processing and machine learning
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)This thesis focused on two tasks of applying natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning to electronic health records (EHRs) to improve clinical decision making. The first task was to predict cardiac resynchronization ... -
Improving clinical decisions using correspondences within and across electronic health records
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)Electronic Health Record (EHR) adoption and retrospective analyses of health care data are part of a broader conversation about health care quality and cost in the United States. Machine learning in health care can be used ... -
Improving clinical risk-stratification tools : instance-transfer for selecting relevant training data
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)One of the primary problems in constructing risk-stratification models for medical applications is that the data are often noisy, incomplete, and suffer from high class-imbalance. This problem becomes more severe when the ... -
Improving commonality implementation in the cockpits of commercial aircraft
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)Product development is a major source of competitive advantage in the commercial aircraft business. Judiciously implementing commonality across a range of products yields important benefits in this area. Thus, measuring ... -
Improving complex enterprises with system models
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)Air Force sustainment operations are the focus of an intensive internal effort to improve performance and reduce costs. Past improvement initiatives have often failed to produce the intended results, and have caused ... -
Improving complex sale cycles and performance by using machine learning and predictive analytics to understand the customer journey
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)Today's business operations and decision management demand that firms respond efficiently in an increasingly dynamic and highly competitive external environment. Business-to-business firms need insight about markets and ... -
improving contact lens manufacturing through cost modeling and batch production scheduling optimization
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)J&J Vision Care (JJVC) uses production scheduling methods that are not fully optimized, causing over-production of certain SKUs, and reducing capacity for other SKUs on backorder. This makes planning a weekly run-schedule ... -
Improving customer experience by better predicting revised delivery dates
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)Historically, Dell has used a variety of methods to calculate a customer order's initial Estimated Delivery Date (EDD) and a subsequent Revised Delivery Date (RDD) as necessary. Multiple tools arose to meet diverse business ... -
Improving customer experience through advocacy and morphing : a Web application for Suruga Bank
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)After the rise of the internet, the relationship between customer and company has changed so that customer power increased. Companies have had to change their marketing activity from mass media based to internet based. At ... -
Improving customer order visibility to enable improved planning and decision making
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)The General Purpose Drives organization of ABB Switzerland does not capture sufficient data on the movement of customer orders through the production process to make efficient decisions on where to allocate improvement ... -
Improving customer satisfaction through the management of perceptions of waiting
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Improving customer service contact root-cause analysis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)When a customer calls or e-mails customer service, a customer service agent will diagnose the issue, render a solution, and then wrap-up the call or e-mail. For many customer service departments, this wrap-up process ... -
Improving customer service level through centralized supply flexibility
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)This thesis explores a combined application of Supply Chain Management theory for centralized and decentralized distribution systems and Customer Relationship Management techniques in data mining to solve the challenges ... -
Improving design and manufacturing performance through advanced visualization
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)Visualization technology is advancing at an impressive rate, and Raytheon is investing heavily in the technology to improve product performance and manufacturability. Raytheon Missile Systems (RMS) has recently upgraded ... -
Improving digital ink interpretation through expected type prediction and dynamic dispatch
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)Interpretation accuracy of current applications dependent on interpretation of handwritten "digital ink" can be improved by providing contextual information about an ink sample's expected type. This expected type, however, ... -
Improving driving training with a handheld performance support system
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)The handheld computer Driver Trainer application is an element of a new training program by the transportation company to improve the safety of new truck drivers. Its aim is to aid trainers objectively evaluate truck drivers ... -
Improving e-Commerce sales using machine learning
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)Trends show promising growth of the online e-Commerce industry. While the e-Commerce companies are aggressively moving towards digital sales and marketing, the customers are being bombarded with frequent and often irrelevant ... -
Improving economics education outcomes through gamification and simulation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)Presented here is a thorough attempt to translate concepts in microeconomics to games in an attempt to improve educational outcomes at the high school and college level. Two different kinds of educational economics games ...
