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Distributed coordination in network information theory
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
Constructing a large-scale wireless data network is spectacularly expensive. It is therefore important to understand how to efficiently utilize the physical infrastructure and available battery power, which are expensive ...
Information theoretic analysis of watermarking systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
Watermarking models a copyright protection mechanism where an original data sequence is modified before distribution to the public in order to embed some extra information. The embedding should be transparent (i.e., the ...
Quantum signal processing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
Quantum signal processing (QSP) as formulated in this thesis, borrows from the formalism and principles of quantum mechanics and some of its interesting axioms and constraints, leading to a novel paradigm for signal ...
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 ...
Unequal development : decentralization and fiscal disparities in the Metropolitan Zone of the Valley of Mexico
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
This study is about the impact of decentralization in metropolitan areas. Studies of fiscal decentralization have largely centered on the formal tiers of government, without looking at the effects of this process on the ...
Community in the garden in the community : the development of an open space resource in Boston's South End
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
Now a permanently protected type of open space, the community gardens in Boston's South End began in the early 1970's as an effort to utilize vacant land in what was a predominantly low-income neighborhood. Since then, the ...
Placelogging : mobile spatial annotation and its potential use to urban planners and designers
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
With the rise of 'Mobile 2.0,' digital telecommunications are beginning to provide deep resources of information to mobile city dwellers. Particularly striking among recent applications is placelogging, defined here as the ...
Sowing a sense of place : an in-depth case study of changing youths' sense of places
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
In this dissertation I examine the change in youths' sense of urban and non-urban places brought about by involvement in a multi-site agriculture program. The concept of 'Place' is more than the biophysical and built ...
Energy consumption and smart growth in Massachusetts : does smart growth make a difference?
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
With the environmental crisis involving climate change fast approaching, all potential mitigation techniques must be explored and implemented. A key approach comes from the power towns and cities have to influence land use ...