Browsing Graduate Theses by Title
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Yaku Cosmo-Infrastructures : Designing with Water Across the Andes
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023-06)Water in the Andes is a dual entity: matter and energy, terrestial and celestial, substance, and Cosmos. This thesis is a provocation to reimagine water infrastructures across the Andes as a collaboration of ancestral and ... -
YAMA : a system for marking network traffic
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)Computer security performance analysis requires precise labeling of traffic as either background or attack traffic. When an experiment is performed on-line, it may also be important to identify traffic from the security ... -
Yard unreliability in rail freight movement.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1971) -
Yarditecture : new walls for trench town
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)"The yard" -- the typical housing typology of low-income downtown, Jamaica where multiple households are contained within a surrounding wall. This thesis envelops itself in Trench town, Jamaica, the epicenter of what is ... -
Yardstick Competition : an empirical investigation using state taxes and media markets
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)I investigate whether voters judge the performance of their governor on taxes by comparing him to governors from neighboring states. If voters do make these comparisons, it creates "yardstick competition," where governors ... -
Yellow helmets : work and worth of women workers on construction sites in northern India
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)The participation of women in the building sector is an exception rather than a rule. Inmost countries of the world the building industry is almost exclusively the domain of men. In India a large number of women are actively ... -
The Yenidze Oriental Tobacco and Cigarette Factory : an example of Islamic Ornamental architecture in Germany
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)Stylistic elements of "Oriental" architecture became a popularized design feature for industrial buildings in Europe during the 19th century--especially within the context of Germany. As an Islamic ornamentation program ... -
Yield improvement efforts in vinyl siding production
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996) -
York's Wild Kingdom : a development proposal
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)York's Wild Kingdom is a privately held zoo and amusement park in York, a Massachusetts based shopping center developer and investment compa Kingdom and the 150 acres that surround it. The community is culturaIl ( and York ... -
You can't always get what you want : managing recreational use in the Middlesex Fells
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)Land conservation programs are often guided by a dual mission: to protect natural resources and provide for the recreational use of a property. These goals are fundamentally in conflict, however, because all recreational ... -
"You don't have a problem, until you do" : revitalization and gentrification in Providence, Rhode Island
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)This paper uses a mixed methods approach to investigate the extent of gentrification in Providence neighborhoods, in order to contribute to policy-relevant research on gentrification in weak market contexts and in Providence, ... -
You give me fever : practical protection for metropolitan neuroses
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)The emergence of Swine Flu in the past six months has once again heightened the world's fears of a coming flu pandemic. Although H1N1 is only slightly more pathogenic than the common seasonal flu, which kills approximately ... -
You smell : the mysterious science of scent
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)The sense of smell is a mystery-and the human sense of smell is a particularly inscrutable one. Only in the last 25 years have scientists identified the molecules in our noses responsible for detecting odors, and since ... -
Young deaf children and the computer : a study of learning styles
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986) -
A young entrepreneur's guide to buying a small business
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987) -
"Young Town" growing up : four decades later : self-help housing and upgrading lessons from a squatter neighborhood in Lima
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)This thesis examines self-help housing policies in Peru by revisiting Independencia, one of Lima's young towns (squatter settlements), forty-five years after its founding. The study was designed to better understand how ... -
Your brain on 9 volts : the specter and hype of electrical brain stimulation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)The potential of electricity to improve the brain has captivated many. Electrical gadgets attract the rich and the poor, the educated and uneducated, the scientist and the charlatan. Over hundreds of years, people have ... -
Youth credit unions : investing in the future of our communities with the youth of today
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)Youth credit unions have emerged in the United States as a relatively new and innovative community youth development program. It is a twist of youth development and financial literacy. The basic idea of a youth credit union ... -
Youth issues, youth programming and the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative's role in the Dudley Triangle
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992) -
The Youth Services Bureau strategy: community-based diversion and delinquency prevention reconsidered.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1973)