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Environmental and economic tradeoffs in building materials production in India
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
The current and projected growth of India's economy and population will continue to lead to increased demand for buildings and infrastructure, and there is a real need to consider what this increase means in terms of natural ...
Water management in hydraulic fracturing-a planning and decision optimization platform
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Recent developments in hydraulic fracturing technology have enabled cost-effective production of unconventional resources, particularly shale gas in the U.S. The process of hydraulic fracturing is water intensive, requiring ...
Data-driven resource allocation decisions : FEMA's disaster recovery centers
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Resource allocation decisions in post-disaster operations are challenging because of situational dynamics, insufficient information, organizational culture, political context, and urgency. We propose a methodology to create ...
Regulatory and technical barriers to wind energy integration in northeast China
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
China leads the world in installed wind capacity, which forms an integral part of its long-term goals to reduce the environmental impacts of the electricity sector. This primarily centrally-managed wind policy has concentrated ...
Desalination under uncertainty : understanding the role of contractual arrangements on the adoption of flexibility
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
The development of new infrastructure projects is a key part of global efforts to meet the demands of growing populations in times of increasing uncertainty. The deterministic approaches commonly used for the development ...
"Riots and Sociability : a case study of human interaction networks in Qatif Saudi Arabia"
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Since the onset of the Arab Spring in late 2010, waves of political activism have reverberated across much of the Arab world. A growing body of literature has emerged that explores how new communications and social media ...
Sustainability standards for biofuels : analyses of the current standards and recommendations of the future direction
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Past decades have seen development and expansion of biofuels industry around the world thanks to the environmental and economic contribution that biofuels have promised. As more and more people became concerned about the ...
Economic regulation of electricity distribution utilities under high penetration of distributed energy resources : applying an incentive compatible menu of contracts, reference network model and uncertainty mechanisms
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Ongoing changes in the use and management of electricity distribution systems - including the proliferation of distributed energy resources, smart grid technologies (i.e., advanced power electronics and information and ...
Optimized border interdiction
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
A feature of many conflicts is the presence of a border that separates an area of on-going military operations from an area that the enemy can use permissively. This thesis considers analytic techniques for planning military ...
Ssessment methodology for proliferation resistant fast breeder reactor
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Due to perceived proliferation risks, current US fast reactor designs have avoided the use of uranium blankets. While reducing the amount of plutonium produced, this omission also restrains the reactor design space and has ...