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A field-based study of alternative microbial indicator tests for drinking water quality in Northern Ghana
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Safe drinking water is essential for human survival, yet it is unavailable to over 1 billion of the world's people living in poverty (World Bank, 2009). The current methods used to identify drinking water sources are ...
Collaborative competition for crowdsourcing spaceflight software and STEM education using SPHERES Zero Robotics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Crowdsourcing is being researched as a technique to develop small-scale spaceflight software by issuing open calls for solutions to large crowds of people with the incentive of prizes. There is widespread investment of ...
Technological development and innovation : selected policy implications
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Technological development is one of the main drivers in economic progress throughout the world and is strongly linked to the creation of new industries, jobs, and wealth. This thesis attempts to better understand how a ...
Monitoring under the Plutonium Management and Disposition Agreement : the prospects of antineutrino detection as an IAEA verification metric for the disposition of weapons-grade plutonium in the United States
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
After the end of World War II, the world entered an even more turbulent period as it faced the beginnings of the Cold War, during which the prospect of mutually assured destruction between the world's largest nuclear weapon ...
Aviation environmental policy effects on national- and regional-scale air quality, noise, and climate impacts
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
The continued growth of the aviation industry poses a challenge to policy-makers and industry stakeholders as each decision represents a trade-off on efficiency, equity, and environmental impact. The Aviation environmental ...
New product development methods : a study of open design
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
This thesis explores the application of open design to the process of developing physical products. Open design is a type of decentralized innovation that is derived from applying principles of open source software and ...
Analysis of global airline alliances as a strategy for international network development
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Since the late 1990s, network airlines worldwide have being enrolling in one of the three current Global Airline Alliances (GALs), oneworld, Star Alliance and SkyTeam. By 2011, airlines belonging to the three GALs transported ...
Deployment related mental health care seeking behaviors in the U.S. military and the use of telehealth to mitigate their impacts on access to care
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Interviewees report that groups of service members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan often require substantial amounts of mental health care, causing surges in demand at military hospitals. These hospitals have difficulty ...
Operational and policy implications of managing uncertainty in quality and emissions of multi-feedstock biodiesel systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
As an alternative transportation fuel to petrodiesel, biodiesel has been widely promoted within national energy portfolio targets across the world. Early estimations of low lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of ...
Understanding user state and preferences for robust spoken dialog systems and location-aware assistive technology
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
This research focuses on improving the performance of spoken dialog systems (SDS) in the domain of assistive technology for people with disabilities. Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has compelling potential applications ...