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The evaluation of regional water balances using different hydrometeorological datasets
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
City design and social exclusion : Abuja, Nigeria in review
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
This thesis investigation explores the relationship between city design and social exclusion, and more specifically, how modernist principles of urban design and development policy have contributed to social exclusion in ...
La Casita -- housing designed for Latinos : two cases from Southern California
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
As the nation's fastest growing minority group, Latinos are expected to be the main engine of household growth over the next decade. This demographic trend is most apparent in Southern California. While much attention has ...
The iLab service broker : a software infrastructure providing common services in support of Internet accessible laboratories
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
Remote laboratories that are accessible via the Internet are becoming a common phenomenon in higher education institutions. This thesis describes the iLab Service Broker architecture, a software infrastructure that supports ...
A multiple secretary problem with switch costs
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
In this thesis, we utilize probabilistic reasoning and simulation methods to determine the optimal selection rule for the secretary problem with switch costs, in which a known number of applicants appear sequentially in a ...
Web services @ MIT
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
There are several useful web services developed at MIT by students, faculty and researchers. However, they are scattered all over MIT. Most people at MIT are unaware of the availability of these web services and hence they ...
Winning, losing, and breaking even : new casinos' effects on economic development impacts of existing casinos
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
The number of casinos has grown substantially since 1990 as states and localities try to find new tax revenue and jobs. After some initial successes across the United States and Canada, the strategy has become even more ...
Capacity provisioning, failure recovery and throughput analysis for low earth orbit satellite constellations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
We investigate the capacity needed to build a restorable satellite network and design routing schemes to achieve high throughput. Specifically, the first part of this thesis considers the link capacity requirement for a ...
Establishing a positional information assay for brain ventricle mutants and investigating the choroid plexuses in zebrafish
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
The process by which the neural tube expands into three brain ventricles can be understood through genetic mutant analysis. Within the framework of a characterization of zebrafish mutants with brain ventricle phenotypes, ...
Balance : Lancaster County's tragedy
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania residents are proud of their agricultural heritage. They do not want to see their farmland disappear. But the County continues to be developed into residential subdivisions. This thesis ...