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Design and development of high precision elastomeric-stamp wrapping system for roll-to-roll multi-layer microcontact printing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
Microcontact printing is an emerging printing technique that could potentially find application in the electronics industry. High-speed roll-to-roll equipment was built at Nano Terra, Inc in 2008, for microcontact printing. ...
Panel data analyses of urban economics and housing markets
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
The thesis looks three pertinent issues in Housing Market and Urban Economics literature with panel data- home sales and house price relationship, efficiency of housing market and commercial property taxation. For the first ...
Practical knowledge and abilities
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
The thesis is an exploration of the relations between know-how, abilities, and ordinary knowledge of facts. It is shown that there is a distinctively practical sort of know-how and a corresponding interpretation of 'S knows ...
High-speed modulation of resonant CMOS photonic modulators in deep-submicron bulk-CMOS
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
Processor manufacturers have turned to parallelism to continue to improve processor performance, and the bandwidth demands of these systems have risen. Silicon photonics can lower the energy-per-bit of core-to-core and ...
Faster generation of random spanning trees
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
In this thesis, we set forth a new algorithm for generating approximately uniformly random spanning trees in undirected graphs. We show how to sample from a distribution that is within a multiplicative (1+6) of uniform in ...
Two approaches to human rights
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
Contemporary philosophy of human rights is dominated by two seemingly opposed approaches. This dissertation is concerned with the choice between them. The traditional approach to human rights is characterized by the belief ...
An optical data receiver for integrated photonic interconnects
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
The throughput bounds of traditional interconnect networks in microprocessors are being pushed to their limits. In past single-core processors, the number of long global wires constituted only a small fraction of the total. ...
Architectural disruption in aerospace
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
Distinctive technology and customer / supplier relationships are currently the primary sources of competitive advantage in the Aerospace industry. Modular Open System Architecture (MOSA) requirements represent a significant ...
The significance of fairness/
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
This dissertation is about fairness and the role it plays in political and personal morality. Specifically, I investigate when it is appropriate to rely on considerations of fairness to draw substantive conclusions about ...
Flexible bureaucracies : discretion, creativity, and accountability in labor market regulation and public sector management
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
This dissertation is about state bureaucracies and the conditions under which they learn, innovate, and play a positive role in social and economic development. It takes issue with the extant literature on the topic, which ...