Browsing MIT Theses by Title
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Minimal nuclear deterrence : a nuclear arsenal reduction plan for the United States
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)The global political climate has called for reductions to nuclear arsenals around the world. This thesis researches how potential deep cuts to the United States' large strategic nuclear arsenal would affect its current ... -
A minimal reduction class for the Entscheidungsproblem
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Minimalism in syntatic derivation
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Minimally intrusive strategies for fault detection and energy monitoring
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)This thesis addresses the need for automated monitoring systems that rely on minimally intrusive sensor arrays. The monitoring techniques employed in this thesis require fewer sensors because they take a different approach ... -
Minimally invasive diagnostic imaging using high resolution Optical Coherence Tomography
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)Advances in medical imaging have given researchers unprecedented capabilities to visualize, characterize and understand biological systems. Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is a high speed, high resolution imaging technique ... -
Minimally invasive instrument for in vivo measurement of solid organ mechanical impedance
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)The medical field, and surgeons in particular, are turning to engineers to develop systems that help them learn their craft better. Mannequin-based systems, animal labs and surgery on cadavers each have drawbacks that could ... -
Minimax estimation with structured data : shape constraints, causal models, and optimal transport
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)Modern statistics often deals with high-dimensional problems that suffer from poor performance guarantees and from the curse of dimensionality. In this thesis, we study how structural assumptions can be used to overcome ... -
Minimills and flat-rolled steel products
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Minimization of aberrations for the Mark IV holographic architecture using optical software modeling
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)The Mark IV holographic video display, created by Daniel Smalley in the Object-Based Media Group at the MIT Media Lab, generates a three-dimensional image by illuminating a guided wave acousto-optic modulator, upon which ... -
Minimization of hazardous waste in Western Europe : policy implementation and harmonization
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992) -
Minimization of mechanical aspects of friction through surface engineering
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995) -
Minimizing actuator-induced residual error in active space telescope primary mirrors
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)Heritage space telescope mirror technology-i.e. large, monolithic glass primary mirrors-has reached an upper limit on allowable aperture diameter given launch vehicle volume and mass constraints. The next generation of ... -
Minimizing airline passenger delay through integrated flight scheduling and aircraft routing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)Statistics show that airline flight delays and cancellations have increased continuously over the period from 1995 to 2000. During the same period, customer dissatisfaction and complaints have followed a similar, even more ... -
Minimizing cost and environmental impact of electric power system operation.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1973) -
Minimizing current effects on autonomous surface craft operations in Singapore harbor
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)The nation of Singapore is seeking new ways to adapt to its rapid growth. With the help of researchers and staff at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), numerous data collection and analysis ... -
Minimizing distortion and crosstalk in asymmetric channeling
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1953) -
Minimizing electricity costs with an auxiliary generator using stochastic programming
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)This thesis addresses the problem of minimizing a facility's electricity costs by generating optimal responses using an auxiliary generator as the parameter of the control systems. The-goal of the thesis is to find an ... -
Minimizing embodied carbon in multi-material structural optimization of planar trusses
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)In the built environment, there is a growing emphasis on sustainable, energy efficient design that reduces carbon emissions. However, until recently, most efforts have focused only on reducing operational carbon [1]. As a ... -
Minimizing harm : three problems in moral theory
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)Chapter 1 (Distance and Morality): This chapter is a response toFrances Kamm's "Faminine Ethics: the Problem of Distance in Morality and Singer's Ethical Theory". I argue that Kamm fails to produce a pair of cases in which ... -
Minimizing high spatial frequency residual in active space telescope mirrors
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)The trend in future space telescopes is towards large apertures and lightweight, rib-stiffened, and actively controlled deformable mirrors. These mirror architectures permit the development of segmented and deployed primary ...
