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Quantifying ballet technique through turn kinematics for injury assessment
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
The most common turns in ballet, pirouettes and fouettés require precise movement to match proper technique and prevent injury. Variation in knee angle of a dancer's supporting leg during pirouettes of 1-5 rotations was ...
A high-throughput antiepileptic drug screening system based on chemically Induced zebrafish behavioral model
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Epilepsy, which has the largest worldwide impacts among all nervous system diseases expect for stroke and dementia, is a group of long-term neurological disorders characterized by epileptic seizures. AED medications are ...
Advanced controls for floating wind turbines
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Floating Offshore Wind Turbines (FOWT) is a technology that stands to spearhead the rapid growth of the offshore wind energy sector and allow the exploration of vast high quality wind resources over coastal and offshore ...
Market characteristics of future oil tanker operations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
This work analyzes the market characteristics of future oil tanker operations with a particular emphasis on those aspects which will have a potential impact on the design of future vessels. The market analysis model used ...
Convective heat transfer model for determining quench recovery of high temperature superconducting YBCO in liquid nitrogen
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
Stability of a superconducting magnet is critical for reliable operation of a device in which the magnet plays a role. With the advent of high temperature superconductors (HTS), liquid nitrogen may be used to cool HTS ...
A tribological study of the interaction between surface micro texturing and viscoelastic lubricants
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
An experimental study is performed on micro textured surfaces using both elastic and Newtonian fluids in order to understand the effect of surface texturing and fluid rheology on sliding friction under lubricated conditions. ...
Inverse Monte Carlo simulation of biomolecular conformation and coarse-grained molecular modeling of chondroitin sulfate conformation, titration, and osmotic pressure
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
The first part of this thesis is concerned with the solution structure determination problem. Whereas many biomacromolecules, such as proteins, can be adequately characterized by a single conformation in solution, numerous ...
Design of an infrared multi-touch surface for use as a computer keyboard
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
A multi-touch surface was designed and constructed to detect a person's finger when pressed against the touch surface, with the objective of developing a prototype touch surface computer keyboard. The prototype developed ...
Integrating response surface methods and uncertainty analysis into ship concept exploration
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
The addition of a calender machine to a pyrolytic graphite sheet production plant
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
This thesis documents the process and challenges of adding a new calender machine to AvCarb Material Solutions' pyrolytic graphite production plant. Before the machine could be used for mass production, several experiments ...