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Evaluating the technical innovation landscape for wind energy's competitive future : a value creation -- value capture analysis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
This thesis utilizes a systems approach to develop a framework to analyze the value creation and value capture potential of technical innovations in the wind energy sector of the electric power industry. Six technical ...
Application of CAST to hospital adverse events
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Despite the passage of 15 years since the Institute of Medicine sought to galvanize the nation with its report To Err is Human, the authors' goal to dramatically improve the quality of healthcare delivery in the United ...
Waste to wealth : an economic analysis of applications for Rice Husk Ash in India
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
As the world's second largest rice grower, India can generate up to 5 million MT of ash from burning rice husk for fuel. The material that remains after combustion, known as Rice Husk Ash (RHA), is high in silica content, ...
An enterprise architecting and sustainability pillars investigation of a cutting-edge health care and research facility for replication to its satellite centers
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
A 2007 congressional mandate to the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) concerned instituting a center to address the ever increasing invisible wounds of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars and impact to the Military Health System ...
An enterprise architecture evaluation of the Improving Massachusetts Post-Acute Care Transitions (IMPACT) Program
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
The Post-Acute Care Transfer process is a critical area affecting the quality and safety of patient health care in the US'. While many Post-Acute Care (PAC) centers are Electronic Health Record (EHR) -enabled, a large ...