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Serious games for improved defense contracting
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Gaming has been explored as a research technique in complex systems to explore human interactions within technical domains. These so-called "serious games" are designed for purposes outside of pure entertainment and are ...
Best practices for industry-university research collaborations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
This thesis reports a study of industry-university collaborations aimed at the development of best practices to enhance the impact of such collaborations on company competitiveness. The data sample involves twenty-five ...
Economics of end-of-life materials recover : a study of small appliances and computer devices in Portugal
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
The challenges brought on by the increasing complexity of electronic products, and the criticality of the materials these devices contain, present an opportunity for maximizing the economic and societal benefits derived ...
A mixed methods approach to modeling personal protective equipment supply chains for infectious disease outbreak response
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Personal protective equipment (PPE) is critical to the protection of healthcare workers responding to infectious disease outbreaks. The ability of the PPE supply chain to provide adequate and consistent supply when there ...
Resiliency of interdependent gas and electricity systems : the New England case
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
According to the Presidential Policy Directive 21, the natural gas and the power systems should be able to recover quickly following a disaster and also be able to anticipate high-impact, low-probability events, rapidly ...
Competitive strategy for the proposed Texas High Speed Rail Project : a system dynamics/ CLIOS process approach
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
The Texas High-Speed Rail (HSR) is an unprecedented US project proposed by a private company. This project has many uncertainties because it will be funded only by the private sectors and it is the first US HSR project ...
Design of a mobile kit for cardiovascular disease screening in resource constrained environments
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
In the past few decades global health has improved significantly and many countries have started to move away from high mortality rates due to infectious diseases. This trend has however been accompanied by an increase in ...
FairML : ToolBox for diagnosing bias in predictive modeling
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Predictive models are increasingly deployed for the purpose of determining access to services such as credit, insurance, and employment. Despite societal gains in efficiency and productivity through deployment of these ...
Assessing deployment strategies for ethanol and flex fuel vehicles in the U.S. light-duty vehicle fleet
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
Within the next 3-7 years the US light duty fleet and fuel supply will encounter what is commonly referred to as the "blend wall". This phenomenon describes the situation when more ethanol production has been mandated than ...
Aging, empathy, and the Internet of Things : a measure of physician readiness to treat older adults
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
Aging is an increasingly disruptive force in the US -- nearly 1 in 5 Americans will be at least 65 years old by 2030. Largely due to the high incidence of chronic disease among older adults, health care spending is larger ...