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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Robert Robert"”.
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Writing Barcelona: reflections on city planning and urban experience, 1854-1888
… I explore the ways in which some authors—Robert Robert, Emili Vilanova, and Narcís Oller among others—, artists—Lluís Rigalt—, and photographers—Franck, Puig, and Martí—reflected on the new modern articulation of space conceived in the two major urban planning proposals of the period: …
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A numerical solution of the Navier-Stokes equation in a rectangular basin
vii, 159 leaves : ill., graphs, tables ; 30 cm.
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Post-crisis investment in single-family homes in Fulton County, Georgia
The twentieth and twenty-first centuries have witnessed shifts in the dominant modes of the provision of mortgage finance in response to crises of liquidity and devaluation of mortgage-related assets. The political economy of housing in the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2007 has been marked …
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Critical assessment of thorium reactor technology
Thorium-based fuels for nuclear reactors are being considered for use with current and future designs in both large and small-scale energy production. Thorium-232 is as abundant on Earth as lead, far more common than all isotopes of uranium, leading to its greatly reduced cost. Thorium itself …
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Industrial policy and the Indian electronics industry
Recently, production within India's Electronics sector amounted to a low $12 billion when compared to the global output of $1400 billion. The slow growth in the local industry is often judged to be the result of late economic liberalization within India. This thesis argues that the lagging growth …
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Evaluation of marking technology for risk management in the biopharmaceutical supply chain
Amgen is a leader in the biopharmaceutical industry. It manufacturers and provides human therapeutics that drastically improve lives. Amgen's reputation and brand, its goodwill, is an invaluable asset to its ability to succeed in an increasingly competitive landscape. Because of this, risk …
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Making medical records more resilient
Hurricane Katrina showed that the current methods for handling medical records are minimally resilient to large scale disasters. This research presents a preliminary model for measuring the resilience of medical records systems against public policy goals and uses the model to illuminate the …
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Driving equitable demand : early lessons from the BetterBuildings Program to access 'hard-to-reach' communities for energy efficiency building improvements
Increasing the energy efficiency of low- to moderate-income and minority-occupied households could significantly reduce energy consumption in the United States. Strategies to access these 'hard to reach' households, however, are not well understood. The federal Department of Energy's $486 million …
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Planning support systems for spatial planning through social learning
This dissertation examines new professional practices in urban planning that utilize new types of spatial planning support systems (PSS) based on geographic information systems (GIS) software. Through a mixed-methods research design, the dissertation investigates the role of these new technologies …
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Engineering mechanical dissipation in solid poly(ethylene glycol) hydrogels with bio-inspired metal-coordinate crosslinks
Growing evidence supports that the unique mechanical behavior of mussel byssal threads, such as high toughness and self-healing, rely on an intricate balance of permanent covalent and reversible metal coordination bonds. Inspired by this material crosslink chemistry balance, we synthesized …
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Thermodynamic modeling of solder melting and solidification for proposed squishbot design
This thesis develops a thermodynamic simulation of the melting and solidification of a substance resting on a surface. The simulation was created in an effort to develop a single actuator joint locking and unlocking mechanism for Squishbot. The Squishbot is a proposed robot that has the ability to …
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Control and design of a single degree-of-freedom magnetic levitation demonstration
Controlling and stabilizing magnetic suspension systems is a difficult design task because several non-linearities and noise in both magnet physics and sensor performance can cause instability. This thesis investigates methods of building and controlling a stable, single degree-of-freedom magnetic …
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Crowdsourcing mental health and emotional well-being
More than 30 million adults in the United States suffer from depression. Many more meet the diagnostic criteria for an anxiety disorder. Psychotherapies like cognitive-behavioral therapy can be effective for conditions such as anxiety and depression, but the demand for these treatments exceeds the …
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Using information technology to exchange health information among healthcare providers : measuring usage and understanding value
Health information exchange (HIE) - the electronic exchange of health information among healthcare institutions - has been projected to hold enormous promise as an antidote to the fragmented healthcare delivery system in the United States. After decades of mostly failed attempts, we still do not …
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Learning common sense knowledge from user interaction and principal component analysis
In this thesis, I present a system for reasoning with common sense knowledge in multiple natural languages, as part of the Open Mind Common Sense project. The knowledge that Open Mind collects from volunteer contributors is represented as a semantic network called ConceptNet. Using principal …
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Development of a Bayesian Network to monitor the probability of nuclear proliferation
Nuclear Proliferation is a complex problem that has plagued national security strategists since the advent of the first nuclear weapons. As the cost to produce nuclear weapons has continued to decline and the availability of nuclear material has become more widespread, the threat of proliferation …
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Applicability of deep learning approaches to non-convex optimization for trajectory-based policy search
Trajectory optimization is a powerful tool for determining good control sequences for actuating dynamical systems. In the past decade, trajectory optimization has been successfully used to train and guide policy search within deep neural networks via optimizing over many trajectories …
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Aligning product and supply chain strategies in the mobile phone industry
Designing and managing the supply chain of a company in the mobile phone industry is particularly challenging. Short product lifecycles, rapidly evolving technology, globally linked distribution networks, increasing product variability and high levels of demand and supply uncertainty all create …
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Moral relativism and reasons for action
There are many varieties of moral relativism. Appraiser relativism, according to which the proposition expressed by a moral sentence varies from context to context, is motivated by the thought that it provides the best explanation of the intractability of fundamental moral disagreements. In …
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Flexible control and interprocess communication on the Rogue GPS receiver
Thesis (S.B. and M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1999.