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Characterizing performance of residential internet connections using an analysis of measuring broadband America's web browsing test data
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
This thesis presents an analysis of F.C.C.-measured web page loading times as observed in 2013 from nodes connected to consumer broadband providers in the Northeastern, Southern and Pacific U.S. We also collected data for ...
Patient flow optimization in the Department of Medicine at MGH
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
In 2015, there were approximately 17,000 General Medicine admissions in the Department of Medicine (DOM) at MGH. General Medicine patients regularly experience significant non-clinical delays caused by bed and care team ...
Direct verification of nuclear weapons and the secrecy-certainty spectrum
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Historically, arms control treaties have exclusively relied on indirect verification mechanisms. Increasingly, direct nuclear weapons verification proves relevant to future arms control treaties. I therefore explore the ...
Regional estimates of the price elasticity of demand for natural gas in the United States
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
A misalignment of incentives in the gas pipeline construction process has caused growth of gasfired generation to outpace investment in new pipelines in New England. Limited gas capacity to the region has resulted in power ...
What's next for the airliner? : historical analysis and future predictions of aircraft architecture and performance
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Air travel has advanced greatly since the inception of the first commercially viable airliner in the 1930s, the Douglas DC-3. In the 80 years since then, the number of annual air passengers in the US has increased from ...
Demand forecasting using Monte Carlo Multi-Attribute Utility Theory
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Volatile commodity prices over the past decade, environmentally-focused policy initiatives and new technology developments have forced manufacturers to consider the idea of substituting towards alternative materials in ...
Point-of-use soil diagnostics : an actionable information system for resource constrained farmers
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
During the mid-1960s, India came to the brink of an acute food crisis in the midst of heavy dependence on food imports. A period of rapid agricultural modernization that followed, known as Green Revolution, transformed ...
Understanding the institutional landscape of cyber security
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
The decentralized architecture of the Internet, which has been key to its development and worldwide deployment, is making it challenging to secure Internet user experience. Many organizations claim to be playing a role in ...
Optimizing emergency response crew allocation during earthquakes to improve restoration time
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
Northern California and specially the San Francisco Bay Area where PG&E operates is very susceptible to earthquakes. United States Geological Survey (USGS) estimates a 63 percent chance that a magnitude-6.7 or larger ...
Using "teacher moments" as an online practice space for parent-teacher conference simulation in preservice teacher education
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
The aim of this thesis is to investigate and improve the suitability of Teacher Moments as an online practice space for parent-teacher conference simulation in preservice teacher education. We evaluate Teacher Moments by ...