Browsing Graduate Theses by Title
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Maa-Bara : catalyzing change in Nigeria's Niger delta
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)Can architecture catalyze economic growth? This thesis serves as a design contribution to the war against poverty by proving that small-scale architectural interventions can propagate large-scale economic growth. It ... -
Macaulay Bases of Modules
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021-06)We introduce fully general Macaulay bases of modules, which are a common generalization of Groebner bases and Macaulay 𝐻-bases to suitably graded modules over a commutative graded k-algebra, where the index sets of the ... -
Machi, Machinami, Machiya : a context for people's places in Japan
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982)This thesis attempts to present the structure of Japanese towns as the connection between physical amenity and use, and the meaning of spatial structure as it is formed and textured by the people who inhabit it. This is ... -
Machine analysis of students' mathematical representations for multiplication and division problems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)This project extends Classroom Learning Partner classroom interaction software to include a semantic interpretation component. This semantic interpretation, combined with existing syntactic interpretation, enables the ... -
Machine Audition Curriculum and Real-Time Music Accompaniment
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021-09)A machine audition curriculum was created as part of the MIT Media Lab’s Artificial Intelligence Education initiative. This curriculum was geared towards middle school students to help them understand how humans and machines ... -
Machine comprehension for clinical case reports
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)Over the past decade, question answering (QA) has been an active area of research in natural language processing (NLP). Despite much progress in general knowledge tasks, question answering in specialized domains, such as ... -
Machine couture : manufacturing as consumer spectacle
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)By creating spectacle through architecture, clothing Labels have developed new branding techniques through which to redefine and provoke. However, the essential behind-the-scenes models of production have remained the same: ... -
A machine for tribological experimentation on indexing continuous media with specific application to semiconductor testing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)Technology was developed to facilitate electrical contact tribology experiments on continuous media, dramatically reducing the difficulty of employing virgin material for each test. Specifically, a tester was designed to ... -
Machine Learning Aided Aerial Radiation Mapping
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021-09)In recent years, radiation mapping has attracted widespread research interest along with increasing public concerns on environmental monitoring. However, due to the complex mechanisms of gaseous radionuclide dispersion, ... -
Machine learning and cognitive computing : a proposed framework to navigate the opportunities
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)Machine Learning and Cognitive Computing universe is buzzing again. Recent significant events are special. There is also talk about beginning of a general purpose "Smart Machine Age" Advances in computing power, storage ... -
Machine Learning and Data-Driven Analysis of Thermal Runaway Characteristics in Lithium-Ion Batteries
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2024-02)This study explores thermal runaway in lithium-ion batteries, particularly examining NCM (Nickel Cobalt Manganese) and NCA (Nickel Cobalt Aluminum) chemistries. Utilizing data analysis and machine learning on approximately ... -
Machine Learning Applications for Time Series Data: Motor Anomaly Detection and Mean Arterial Blood Pressure Estimation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-02)In recent years, Machine Learning (ML) on edge computing devices has gained attention from both the academic world and industries due to the enormous potential of various applications. Although the advancement in hardware ... -
A machine learning approach to evaluating renewable energy technology : an alternative LACE study on solar photo-voltaic (PV)
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)Currently, renewable technologies are often evaluated using the Levelized cost of electricity (LCOE), which is a measure of building and operating a generating plant over an assumed αnancial life and duty cycle. Naturally, ... -
A machine learning approach to molecular structure recognition in chemical literature
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)Reaction diagrams in chemistry papers contain essential reaction information that is not available in the text. In order to extract comprehensive reaction information from chemistry literature, it is vital to convert these ... -
A machine learning approach to wind estimation and uncertainty using remote dropsondes and deterministic forecasts
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)The U.S. Air force currently has a need for high altitude, unguided airdrops without making two passes over a drop zone (DZ). During conventional high altitude drops, aircrews fly over a DZ, release a dropsonde, compute a ... -
Machine learning at the operating room of the future : a comparison of machine learning techniques applied to operating room scheduling
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)The quality of an operating room schedule is determined by the accuracy of the surgery duration estimation used. State of the art estimation algorithms consider only three surgery variables-procedure type, surgeon identity, ... -
A machine learning automation system for utilization management
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)We develop high-performance machine learning automation systems for utilization management that are effective across all specialties. We were motivated by the knowledge that current automation systems for utilization ... -
Machine learning based CRISPR gRNA design for therapeutic exon skipping
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)The restoration of gene function by the induced skipping of a deleterious exon has been shown to be effective for treating genetic disorders. However, many of the clinically successful therapies for exon skipping are ... -
Machine Learning Based Flood Risk Modeling Using Features from Satellite, Socioeconomic, Geographic, and Building Data
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-02)Due to the effects of climate change coupled with increased urbanization, many cities will be experiencing more frequent and intense flooding in the future. As a result, it would be very beneficial for urban planners to ... -
Machine learning blocks
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)This work presents MLBlocks, a machine learning system that lets data scientists explore the space of modeling techniques in a very easy and efficient manner. We show how the system is very general in the sense that virtually ...