Browsing Graduate Theses by Title
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B'Seder : the design of a social medium for Polish and Jewish communities
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)"The history of the Polish-Jewish relationship is...the embattled terrain of several collective memories, each with its claim to moral legitimacy, and each charged with fierce and sometimes vehement feelings." These contested ... -
The B-1B bomber : a program history
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B-Cell Epitope Prediction for Improved Antibody Docking
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-02)Predicting how antibodies bind to their targets is a fundamental problem of immunology, and a critical step in accelerating the development of vaccines and therapeutics against foreign pathogens. In particular, the task ... -
B2B E-commerce : value chain transformation, enablers and barriers, technology, privacy and security
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)The Internet is changing the way we do business. Today's conventional wisdom says that in order to survive in the new economy era, companies must transform from and align their old business practices, processes and culture ... -
B2B strategy for network operations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)The telecommunications industry is highly competitive. Many of the players in the Carrier, Commercial and Network Construction Service markets are looking to have financial, personnel, marketing, other resources and other ... -
b_verify : scalable non-equivocation for verifiable management of data
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)Equivocation allows attackers to present inconsistent data to users. This is not just a problem for Internet applications: the global economy relies heavily on verifiable and transferable records of property, liens, and ... -
Baba is AI: A Grounded Benchmark for Compositional Generalization in Dynamic Rule Systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-06)People leverage the compositional nature of their environment to generalize to new scenarios. For example, if you understand the meaning of the verb "to sing" and the adverb "loudly," then you can determine the meaning of ... -
The baby (s)he grows : investigating the causes of gender differences in entrepreneurial quality
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)Recent reports suggest that female entrepreneurs are increasingly relevant to business dynamism and economic growth, but it appears that they may be forming different types of businesses relative to male entrepreneurs. ... -
Back talk : an auditory environment for co-presence in television viewing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)Video content is being consumed in a host of new ways - viewers are no longer restricted to same-time or same-place viewing. However, the experience of watching content with a group is inherently a sociable one, and often ... -
Back to school : the alternate ground of integration
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)This thesis embraces the leftover spaces along the back alleyways and turns them into fronts. It proposes inhabitation of spaces below,above and in-between the warehouses through strategic and programmatically specific ... -
Back to the city : differences in economic and investment performances between downtowns and suburbs
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Recently, we have observed significant changes in which corporate offices and residential buildings have been relocated from the suburbs back into the city. Does the observation mean that there is a real economic movement ... -
Back to the crossroads of Flatbush--the junction--student housing for Brooklyn College
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988)The crossroads of Flatbush (often called The Junction) is a five point intersection of vehicular and pedestrian traffic. A crossroad where ethnic groups step beyond subtle neighborhood boundaries and merge to use public ... -
Back-end design and development of a energy systems analysis tool
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)Sustainable Energy System Analysis Modeling Environment (SESAME) is a modular analytic environment designed for supporting various pathway-level and system-level analyses [1]. Pathway, in this context, refers to life cycle ... -
'The Backbone of Chicago's economy" : the Chicago Microlending Institute and the road to financial inclusion for entrepreneurs of color
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)Amidst persistent and widening racial wealth divides in their communities, local and state governments across the United States have deployed non-traditional tools to support underserved entrepreneurs of color and build ... -
Background maintenance utilizing common distributions
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Bacteria attenuation modeling and source identification in Kranji Catchment and Reservoir
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)This study was performed to determine the bacterial loading of Kranji Catchment and Reservoir and how this will affect planned recreational use of Kranji Reservoir. Field and laboratory work was conducted in Singapore ... -
A bacterial algorithm for surface mapping using a Markov modulated Markov chain model of bacterial chemotaxis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)Bacterial chemotaxis is the locomotory response of bacteria to chemical stimuli. E. coli movement can be described as a biased random walk, and it is known that the general biological or evolutionary function is to increase ... -
Bagasse particle board: a production study and investment analysis.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1972) -
bagging
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)The projective gesture of architecture, its forward reach as an offering, anticipates a recipient. Through a systematized catcall, it interpellates a subject as the beneficiary of its offering. As Mabel Wilson has reminded ... -
Bahrain's competitiveness in the aluminum industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994)