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Team interaction space effectiveness for globally dispersed teams : theory and case studies
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
Groups of geographically and/or organizationally dispersed members are increasingly being assembled to accomplish a wide range of organizational tasks using a combination of telecommunication and information technologies. ...
A study of loading parameters that affect DNA electrophoresis in microdevices
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
Electrophoresis of DNA has become particularly attractive in today's age of bio-technology. The goal of the present research is to optimize the the gel-loading and sample-loading protocols used prior to electrophoresis ...
Memory consistency models for high performance distributed computing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
This thesis develops a mathematical framework for specifying the consistency guarantees of high performance distributed shared memory multiprocessors. This framework is based on computations, which specify the operations ...
A numerical framework for the direct simulation of solid-fluid systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
Our understanding of solid-fluid dynamics has been severely limited by the nonexistence of a high-fidelity modeling capability for these multiphase systems. Continuum modeling approaches overlook the microscale solid-fluid ...
On the development of an efficient truly meshless discretization procedure in computational mechanics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
The objective of this thesis is to present an efficient and reliable meshless computational technique - the method of finite spheres - for the solution of boundary value problems on complex domains. This method is truly ...
Intelligence by design : principles of modularity and coordination for engineering complex adaptive agents
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
All intelligence relies on search - for example, the search for an intelligent agent's next action. Search is only likely to succeed in resource-bounded agents if they have already been biased towards finding the right ...
Structures, statistics and mechanisms of low Froude number free-surface turbulence : a simulation-based study
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
Simulation of ionospheric plasma heating experiments in the versatile toroidal facility
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
Remote sensing techniques employed to diagnose ionospheric modification experiments are intrinsically ambiguous, uncorrelated with "ground truth." To overcome this limitation, laboratory experiments are performed in the ...
Determination of the historical changes in primary and secondary risk factors for cancer using U.S. public health records
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
Overall cancer mortality rates have risen from about 4% of all deaths in the early 20th century to about 25% of all deaths by the end of the century in the United States. To assess any potential hypotheses for this increase ...
Multivariable analysis of spectral measurements for the characterization of semiconductor processes
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
The availability of affordable and reliable optical sensor technology and the abundance of data that these sensors now provide have created new opportunities to better characterize and control semiconductor processes in ...