Browsing MIT Theses by Title
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Balancing people, place and the automobile : recommendations for the redesign of Belmont's Trapelo Road
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)This thesis presents a case study of the planning process for the redesign of Trapelo Road in Belmont, Massachusetts, a Boston suburb. The case is an on-going planning controversy that deals with a number of key issues ... -
Balancing product flow and synchronizing transportation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)Traditionally, production and transportation planning processes are managed separately in organizations. In such arrangements, order processing, load planning, and transportation scheduling are often done sequentially, ... -
Balancing tax incentives with operational risks in captive overseas production facilities
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)Due to the general macroeconomic downturn, many companies have turned to offshoring - sending a function overseas - to reduce production costs. While some companies elect to outsource overseas production to outside companies, ... -
Balancing technology-focused and solution-focused strategies in the high-tech industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)Companies in the high-tech industry can pursue a range of strategies around delivering value to their customers. A technology focus strategy enables organizations to offer to their customers products that feature best-in-class ... -
Balancing the scales : the impact of the built environment on the socioeconomic diversity of Metropolitan Boston
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)The question that this thesis ponders is: Is there a physical neighborhood form that promotes more integrated communities by supporting the different living preferences and resources of diverse racial and class groups? ... -
Balancing utility and privacy of high-dimensional datasets : mobile phone metadata
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)Large-scale datasets of human behavior have the potential to fundamentally transform the way we develop cities, fight disease and crime, and respond to natural disasters. However, understanding the privacy of these data ... -
Balancing values : development strategies that sustain the cultural heritage of rice paddies and the natural landscape in Thimphu, Bhutan
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)This thesis focuses on the impending urban development of the terraced rice paddies in the valley surrounding Bhutan's capital city, Thimphu. It makes the argument that this unique landscape is deeply rooted in Bhutanese ... -
Ball milling process
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A ball-on-beam project kit
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)An apparatus of the classical ball-on-beam problem was designed and constructed to be used as a pedagogical instrument in feedback courses. The aesthetic and mechanical design incorporated economical materials to make kits ... -
The ballast resistor : a simple dissipative structure.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1976) -
Ballistic electrons : microscopy, spectroscopy, devices and luminescence
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)This thesis describes research to theoretically model and experimentally measure electronic systems which employ ballistic electron emission. First, a Monte-Carlo framework for simulating electron injection from a tunnel ... -
Ballistic impact resistance of fiber-reinforced high density polyethylene
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Ballistic resistance of multi-layered steel shields
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)In this thesis, the ballistic resistance of multi-layered steel shields against projectile impact at the sub-ordnance velocity is evaluated using finite element simulations. Eight types of projectiles of different weight ... -
A ballistic transport model for HEMTs and III-V MOSFETs
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)As silicon MOSFETs keep scaling down in size, the continued improvement on their logic performance is threated by their fundamental physical limits. With silicon approaching these limits, MOSFETs designed with III-V ... -
A balloon-borne telemetering device for the measurement of raindrop-size distributions in the vertical.
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Ballot box and tinder box : can electoral engineering save multiethnic democracy?
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)The objective of this dissertation is to systematize the existing hypotheses in the electoral engineering literature and to test them in a set of selected case studies in order to answer a central question: does the electoral ... -
Bamboo as a material for reinforcing concrete
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1914) -
Banach categories with conjugation.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1969) -
Band edge spectroscopy of CdSe quantum dots
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)In this thesis, I describe work done to understand the band edge exciton fine structure of CdSe quantum dots (QDs). These QDs or nanocrystallites are the result of recent synthetic efforts in the Bawendi group to produce ... -
Band structure and gain calculations for gallium nitride quantum-well structures
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)