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High speed air pneumatic wind shield wiping design
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
In this creative design process a number of designs were constructed, implemented and tested in order to assess the feasibility of using high speed to create a curtain to repel the rain from the automobile windshield instead ...
The back stroke buddy
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
The objective of this thesis was to study and improve one's own physical intelligence. Through studying bodily movements of people trying to accomplish new tasks, I realized one way to enhance physical intelligence was ...
Temporary shelter for the homeless
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
A one-person cardboard structure was designed to temporarily shelter the homeless during harsh weather conditions. The overall form is based on the folding Yoshimura pattern. It is collapsible, wind and water resistant, ...
Extensions and enhancements to the iLab heat transfer project site
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
The iLab Heat Transfer Project website started four years ago to enable web access to experiments related to movement of heat through transport processes. This thesis details improvements made to the site which extend and ...
The applicability and accuracy of computer modeling in regards to acoustical scattering by a complex geometry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
The intent of the investigation is to try to characterize the nature of scattered acoustical energy off of the face of a concrete masonry unit with an atypical geometry. The nature of the tests conducted would be in ...
Fabrication of a picoliter microreactor with multilayer elastomer values
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
Microfluidics has the ability to greatly reduce the time needed to do many biological tests. The development of polymers has brought about substrates with elastomeric properties that can be used to the advantage of ...
Surgical system for image-based stereotaxy in the rat
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
Currently there are no of MRI image-based stereotactic apparatus for target determination in the brain of animals. Until now, the only stereotactic devices for directing problems and electrodes in animal brains for ...
Regenerative braking on bicycles to power LED safety flashers
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
This work develops a method for capturing some of the kinetic energy ordinarily lost during braking on bicycles to power LED safety flashers. The system is designed to eliminate: (a) battery changing in popular LED flashers, ...
Study of flavor tagging with semi-exclusive reconstruction of b [right arrow] D(sigma)X decays
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
The BaBar experiment measures CP violation in the B meson system by analyzing the decays of B⁰B̄⁰ pairs in which one of the mesons decays into a CP eigenstate. By measuring the decay time distribution separately for B⁰ and ...
An accurate analytical framework for computing fault-tolerance thresholds using the [[7,1,3]] quantum code
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
In studies of the threshold for fault-tolerant quantum error-correction, it is generally assumed that the noise channel at all levels of error-correction is the depolarizing channel. The effects of this assumption on the ...