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Showing 1 to 20 of 260 for “"Institute for Data, Systems, and Society."”.
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Rate design for the 21st Century : improving economic efficiency and distributional equity in electricity rate
… bulk of the costs of generating, transmitting, and distributing electrical energy. These tariffs also often include taxes and recover other costs associated with regulatory or policy measures. The resulting prices do not reflect the true social marginal costs of generating, transmitting, and …
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Model use in sustainability negotiations and decisions
Sustainability negotiations and decisions require the integration of scientific information with stakeholder interests. Mathematical models help elucidate the physical world and therefore may orient the negotiators in a shared understanding of the physical world. Many researchers suggest …
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Simulation based micro-founded structural market analysis : a case study of the copper industry
… to credibly investigate materials scarcity risks for various types of commodities. Different from existing literature, this work contributes to a better understanding of commodity scarcity risk, specifically copper future consumption on several fronts. Firstly, it introduces an elaborate price …
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Effects of road-network circuity on strategic decisions in urban logistics
… framework that leverages high-resolution traffic and urban infrastructure data to improve analytical approximation methods used to inform strategic decisions in designing last-mile distribution systems. In particular, this thesis explores the effects of the road-network on the circuity of local …
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Variability in the emissions savings potential of battery electric vehicles across regions and individuals
Personal vehicles account for almost 25% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, and this share is increasing. The increase is due to several factors, including a growth in transportation demand and the decarbonization of electricity by 30% since 2007. Alternative technologies for road vehicles, such as …
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Backroom space allocation in retail stores
Space is one of the most scarce, expensive, and difficult to manage resources in urban retail establishments. A typical retail space broadly consists of two areas, the customer facing frontroom area and the backroom area, which is used for inventory storage and other support activities. While …
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Electricity system planning with distributed energy resources : new methods and insights for economics, regulation, and policy
… distributed energy resources (DERs), flexible and price-responsive demand, and distribution network losses and reinforcement costs. New methods are developed and demonstrated to derive the aggregate impact of demand and DERs on distribution network losses and upgrade costs from detailed …
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Beyond gates, guards and guns : the systems-theoretic framework for security at nuclear facilities
… produce elegantly designed physical protection systems (PPS) that may be limited by untenable assumptions or well stated-albeit vague and imprecise-descriptions of how to improve nuclear security culture itself. According to one nuclear security culture expert: While the International Atomic …
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Individual and organizational Uses of Evidence-Based Practice in healthcare settings
… Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) has become standard clinical practice and the subject of targeted interventions at all levels of the health system. Despite its prevalence, EBP is frequently challenged on philosophical, practical, empirical, and normative grounds. And EBP is often underused in …
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Firms, industries, and technological change : a patent-based approach to studying disruption and disruptors
… empirical approach as well as a new patent-based dataset for studying disruption and technology transition cases. At the core of this approach lies a novel engineering systems framework of technological change. The framework focuses on the relationship between changes in technological competencies …
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Evaluating storage technologies for wind and solar energy
Rapidly falling wind and solar energy costs over the past four decades have led to exponential growth in installation of these technologies. However, these intermittent renewables do not reliably produce power on demand. One possible mitigation strategy is the addition of energy storage …
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Learning and flexibility for water supply infrastructure planning under diverse uncertainties
… Uncertainty in short-term in rainfall and runoff, groundwater storage, and long-term climate change impacts water supply forecasts. Population and economic growth drive urban water demand growth at rapid but uncertain rates. Overbuilding infrastructure can lead to expensive stranded …
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Healthcare Systems : three studies of patient management and policy change
For my PhD thesis, I conducted behavioral science research and wrote three first- author journal format papers, of which one paper has been published and the other two will be submitted to healthcare management journals after completion of my degree. All three papers introduce new information about …
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Creating markets for wind electricity in China : case studies in energy policy and regulation
… growth -- largely industrial, energy-intensive, and reliant on coal -- has generated environmental, public health, and governance challenges. While China now leads the world in renewable energy deployment, curtailment (waste) of wind and solar is high and increasing, generating much discussion on …
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Multi-stakeholder contribution to biotechnology environmental assessment
Environmental assessments, such as those for biotechnology applications, are typically conducted by small groups of expert assessors, but scholars and practitioners are increasingly interested in involving diverse stakeholders. In addition to other reasons for broader involvement, researchers have …
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Market design opportunities for an evolving power system
The rapid growth of renewable energy is transforming the electric power sector. Wind and solar energy are non-dispatchable: their energy output is uncertain and variable from hour-to- hour. New challenges arise in electricity markets with a large share of uncertain and variable renewable energy. We …
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Beyond industry : an expanded definition of authentic engineering design education
… industry connection is commonly either in the form of projects provided by industry partners or practicing engineers that serve as mentors to students. After exploring the goals and current practices of design education, this dissertation proposes an expanded definition of authentic design …
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Effects of hardware and soft features on the performance evolution of low-carbon technologies
This dissertation studies how physical and non-physical features of low-carbon technologies evolve and influence performance evolution. This fundamental question about the role of hardware- and non-hardware ('soft') innovations in technological progress remains largely unanswered despite the …
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Using inclusive wealth as a measure of sustainability for infrastructure planning and evaluation
… retrospectively; this dissertation models and projects IW prospectively, measuring the impact of alternative infrastructure plans on IW. The focus of the work is on electricity planning in oil-exporting countries. Domestic oil consumption in these countries, driven by increasing electricity …
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Modeling transmission heterogeneity for infectious disease outbreaks
… populations. Here, we use analytical and simulation methods to show that the treatment of Ro as the mean of a random variable (thus permitting the estimation of non-deterministic case count projections) allows us to better assess outbreak trajectory and likelihood of disease …
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