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Showing 1 to 20 of 1661 for “"Affordable"”.
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Affordable autonomous lightweight personal mobility
… are adopting micro-mobility services as a more affordable and energy-efficient last-mile alternative to traditional forms of transportation. This dissertation proposes a new genre of urban mobility by bringing together the advantages of micro-mobility with those of the self-driving car. This …
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Affordable rental housing delivery in Kenya
… and determine why despite the high demand for affordable rental housing, there has not been adequate corresponding supply of good quality housing units, a phenomenon which denotes market failure. This research aims at exploring the institutional environment to find out what has hindered …
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Affordable Haptic Gloves Beyond the Fingertips
… feedback. This thesis discusses a novel, affordable design that provides haptic feedback to the intermediate and proximal phalanges of the fingers (index, middle, ring and pinkie) using a ratchet and pawl actuation mechanism.
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Affordable technologies for point-of-care diagnostics
Affordable, point-of-care diagnostics are needed for disease monitoring in low- resource settings (LRS). Gold-standard laboratory tests require expensive benchtop equipment, which limits their widespread use. In this work, I developed low-cost technologies for the transduction of two independent …
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Attribution-based parametric insurance: towards affordable premiums
To deal with the adverse impacts of climate change, index-based or parametric insurance has been recognized as an adaptation technique to compensate farmers for economic losses from extreme weather events. The insurance can be either private or sovereign. African Risk Capacity Insurance (ARC Ltd) …
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Affordable avatar control system for personal robots
Social robots (personal robots) emphasize individualized social interaction and communication with people. To maximize communication capacity of a personal robot, designers make it more anthropomorphic (or zoomorphic), and people tend to interact more naturally with such robots. However, adapting …
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More Than Housing: Re-defining Affordable Housing
… the gentrification of neighborhoods and lack of affordable housing is causing low-income residents to be displaced and forcing them to look elsewhere for affordable options. The DC neighborhood, Navy Yard, saw one of the most intense displacements of low-income residents. My thesis asks the …
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A benchmark for impact assessment of affordable housing
… and other sectors, very little is known of it in affordable housing sub-sector and where it has been used, components of housing quality were not holistically considered. This study considers this identified deficiency in developing a benchmark for assessing affordable housing quality impact …
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Additive Manufacturing for Robust and Affordable Medical Devices
Additive manufacturing in the form of 3D printing is a revolutionary technology that has developed within the last two decades. Its ability to print an object with accurate features down to the micro scale have made its use in medical devices and research feasible. A range of life-saving …
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Promoting an affordable housing market: an institutional analysis
… In India efforts to stimulate a formal affordable housing market by privatising and deregulating housing markets and promoting private sector funding for housing and infrastructure as an alternative to provision by the government has not resulted in a market for affordable housing. …
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Design of an affordable anthropomorphic mechanical prosthetic hand
… assembly and experimental testing of an affordable anthropomorphic mechanical hand prosthesis. In many countries, upper-limb amputees lack access to prosthetic hand devices. Furthermore, currently available mechanical devices require a large amount of effort to actuate; fatiguing and …
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Community opposition to affordable housing : jamming the system
This thesis explores community opposition to affordable housing in the suburban communities of Massachusetts. In the twenty years since Chapter 774 was enacted, a significant amount of affordable housing has been developed. However, there are still many communi ties with less than the required ten …
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Strategies for affordable human Moon and Mars exploration
… and Mars. This endeavor must be performed in an affordable manner in order to be successful. This thesis outlines a series of affordability strategies that could be considered as part of the Vision for Space Exploration. Analyses of specific options for affordable human Moon and Mars missions …
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The manufactured home as an affordable housing option
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1989.
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Affordable luxury resort residences for the Baby Boomers
The purpose of this thesis is to determine the business viability of Oasis Destination Club, the first destination club designed entirely for the upper middle income baby boomer. The baby boomer generation is the largest demographic group in the United States, numbering 78 million individuals, …
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Structured financial solutions for green affordable housing projects
… air quality and they make more economic sense. Affordable housing and Green buildings in particular combine well together as the goals of both overlap. A joint team comprising of New Ecology Initiatives, the Tellus Institute, LISC Boston and the Green CDC's Initiative is currently investigating …
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Strategies for developing affordable housing in amenity towns
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1994.
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Cell-free synthetic biology for affordable, on-demand diagnostics
… and public health problems suffer from a lack of affordable, portable tests that can be used to sensitively detect nucleic acids and respond in a rapid manner. Current methods to nucleic acid testing are too expensive, slow, and complex to be routinely used outside of specialized lab settings. New …
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