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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 ...
D-branes and string field theory
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
In this thesis we study the D-brane physics in the context of Witten's cubic string field theory. We compute first few terms the low energy effective action for the non-abelian gauge field A, from Witten's action. We show ...
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 ...
Design of a carbon fiber suspension system for FSAE applications
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Reducing weight while maintaining structural integrity is one of the key challenges Formula SAE teams face as they try and design the suspension of the formula car. The purpose of this paper is to present experimental data ...
Great expectations : provisional modernism and the reception of J.J.P. Oud
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
My dissertation analyzes the reception of the work of J.J.P. Oud (1890-1963), the modern Dutch architect, by examining the systems of dissemination and reception of modern European architecture from 1910 to 1953. Reception ...
Music-listening systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
When human listeners are confronted with musical sounds, they rapidly and automatically orient themselves in the music. Even musically untrained listeners have an exceptional ability to make rapid judgments about music ...
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 ...