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Showing 1 to 20 of 727 for “"and Infrastructure"”.
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Disaster and infrastructure scene understanding
… complex as they contain physical objects and their spatial-temporal dynamic processes, including natural disasters and human-centered socio-economic activities. Image-based understanding of urban scenes has been actively pursued in the computer and machine vision communities, as witnessed …
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China telecommunications policy and infrastructure
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1996.
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Automated Cloud Datastore and Infrastructure Management Under SLA
… etc., use quorum-replicated datastores, like Cassandra, MongoDB, Hbase, etc., to process huge volumes of data on a cluster of commodity machines. Our research explores novel techniques to adapt the client-centric performance (i.e., performance observed from client application) of such applications …
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Pension fund Investment and infrastructure development in Namibia
… such as Namibia, need to bridge the existing infrastructure gap to improve the country's comparative advantage, economic growth and competitiveness, quality of life and the welfare of its citizens. As traditional sources of finance dwindle, Pension Fund savings need to be pooled to complement …
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The eFacilitator : a meeting capture application and infrastructure
Meeting capture and support is an important research field in ubiquitous computing and human computer interaction. We have a built a note-taking application, which lets meeting facilitators and note takers organize the material they place on an electronic palette. This application stores all …
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Exploring urban resilience : violence and infrastructure provision in Karachi
The Urban Resilience and Chronic Violence project at MIT extends the scientific concept of resilience to the analysis of chronic conflict. This thesis builds upon the project by testing the usefulness of a socio-spatial capital resilience model for cities confronting persistent violence, which …
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Machine Learning Methods for Churn Prediction and Infrastructure Resilience
… industry: short-term customer churn prediction and long-term infrastructure resilience to climate-driven disruptions. In the first part of this work, I develop an upgrades-informed churn forecasting model tailored specifically for marketing operations. Recognizing limitations in the existing …
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Polymer and Concrete Composites in Industrial and Infrastructure Applications
… have a wide range of applications in civil and structural engineering due to their advantages in mechanical properties and higher strengths over the base materials alone. Polymer-concrete composites are particularly attractive for use in industrial and infrastructure applications from …
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Powerlines : alternative art and infrastructure in Indonesia in the 1990s
… investigates why an alternative visual art and arts infrastructure developed in Indonesia during the 1990s. Initially alternative exhibition spaces developed in response to a lack of outlets through the existing commercial galleries and in reaction to the cultural hegemony of Suharto’s …
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Dossier: Distributed operating system and infrastructure for scientific data management
As scientific advancement and discovery have become increasingly data-driven and interdisciplinary, there are urging needs for advanced cyberinfrastructure to support managing and process- ing scientific data generated from day-to-day research. However, the development of data-driven …
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Essays on the Economics of Drinking Water Quality and Infrastructure
… a hypothetical material in home drinking water infrastructure that will remain leak free. Willingness to pay is investigated using both dichotomous choice and dichotomous choice with follow-up formats using a national telephone survey of consumers. Our results indicate that consumers' concerns …
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New Venture Creation and Infrastructure in Developed and Developing World Countries
Knowledge of contexts under which infrastructure affects entrepreneurship is often used as important policy tool to inform and improve infrastructural investments, and to boost entrepreneurial activities in developed and developing world countries (DDWC). Research has shown that scholars do not …
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Enhancing food security in Zambia: supply-demand adaptation and infrastructure development
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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Omeya: Water, work and infrastructure in Ovamboland from 1915 to 1968
… explore the ways in which the multiple layers of infrastructure and archive have been coconstituted in Ovamboland from 1915 to 1968 in an effort to store, circulate and redirect water and its knowledge, which in turn seemed to frequently escape and exceed them. In the existent historiography of …
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Characterizing the evolution of the alternative fuel vehicle and infrastructure Nexus
… duty vehicle (LDV) fleet in the United States and around most of the world. However, recent developments in alternative fuel vehicle (AFV) technology have led to viable alternatives to the traditional internal combustion engine. In particular, vehicles with zero tailpipe emissions including …
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Energy and infrastructure policies for mitigating air pollution in Mexico City
… Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1997.
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Water Fluxes in Soil-Pavement Systems: Integrating Trees, Soils and Infrastructure
… Pavements are known to alter soil moisture and temperature, and may have implications for tree growth, root development and depth, drought resilience, and sidewalk lifting. Furthermore, tree pits are often the only unsealed soil surface and are important for water exchange between soil and …
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Municipal water supply governance in Ontario: neoliberalization, utility restructuring, and infrastructure management
… restructuring, sustainability, and the governance of municipal services in the province of Ontario, Canada. Two issues are studied: the restructuring of business models, and programs for sustainable infrastructure management (focusing on programs for the reduction of water …
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When productivity is costly : the relation between transport costs and infrastructure stock
… reduz a taxa ótima de investimento da economia quando comparada ao modelo de benchmark usado na literatura. Além disso, nossos resultados mostram que, se o governo brasileiro investir apenas 2% do PIB em infraestrutura de transporte, o PIB no estado estacionário poderá ser 27% maior.
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