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Infrastructure
<p>The paintings in this series depict sensations and forms drawn from a collaged, painted surface, referencing examples of painting from the Early Renaissance and the pure Formalism of the mid 20<sup>th</sup> century. Collage materials lend both conceptual and physical directions to the …
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Social infrastructure
… urbanization patterns and aging transportation infrastructures have marginalized millions of US citizens. The result is that 4 .5 million US residents live within 100 meters of a four-lane highway' and have become hound to communities, which endure social hardship and environmental detriment. …
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Financing infrastructure projects
Infrastructure is of great importance to the development and economic growth of communities. Due to the increased demand on sophisticated infrastructure, governments' budgets are not anymore able to satisfy this growing need. The role of the private sector in infrastructure finance is essential, …
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Predictable Connected Traffic Infrastructure
… other computational resources on legacy traffic infrastructure may also introduce security vulnerabilities. To ensure that the timeliness and resource constraints of the vehicles using the roadways as well as the applications being deployed on the traffic infrastructure are met, the …
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Facility/infrastructure Resource Scheduling
Once FIRS has been implemented, it may be included as one portion of a realtime Operations and Maintenance control system. Such a system, when combined with building information models and location-aware computing devices, would allow near-optimal, dynamic crew scheduling. In addition to …
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Aid, infrastructure and growth
In their seminal paper, Burnside and Dollar (2000) introduced the interactive term aid*policy into growth equations. Most studies up until then had merely added aid as a variable on its own with GDP growth as the dependent variable in order to check aid effectiveness.
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Urban residential infrastructure networks.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture. Thesis. 1970. M.Arch.
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Management systems for infrastructure
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2000.
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Data-driven Infrastructure Inspection
Bridge inspection and infrastructure inspection are critical steps in the lifecycle of the built environment. Emerging technologies and data are driving factors which are disrupting the traditional processes for conducting these inspections. Because inspections are mainly conducted visually by …
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Dynamic Analysis of Levee Infrastructure Failure Risk: A Framework for Enhanced Critical Infrastructure Management
Current models that assess infrastructure failure risk are "linear," and therefore, only consider the direct influence attributed to each factor that defines risk. These models do not consider the undeniable relationships that exist among these parameters. In reality, factors that define risk are …
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Successful Infrastructure Construction Project Execution
The following research builds on the existing project management success and critical success factor research by focusing on the social mechanisms used by project managers and project teams to achieve success. Through analysis of previous literature five criteria for success are determined and the …
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Disaster and infrastructure scene understanding
… structural damage found in civil structures and infrastructure systems that provide the backbone of our socio-economic activities. These structural damage-related complex scenes can be attributed to natural and technical hazards, and many are found in the aftermath of natural disasters. Many …
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Quantifying Vulnerability to Critical Infrastructure
… responsibility to protect our Nation's critical infrastructure, communities, and symbols of American power from terrorists, home and abroad, as well as from natural disasters. To this end, assessments are conducted to reduce vulnerability. The literature offers multiple definitions of …
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On Infrastructure and Economic Growth
… dissertation explores the relationship between infrastructure and economic growth. To this end, the dissertation is divided in four chapters. In chapter one we develop a structural model that helps discern the mutual effects of infrastructure, power and telecommunications, and the rest of the …
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Towards a worldwide storage infrastructure
… as video streaming applications but also storage infrastructures benefiting from the availability and resilience of such scalable network protocols. Unfortunately, rare are the storage systems designed to be scalable and fault-tolerant to Byzantine behaviour, conditions required for such systems …
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Private finance of transportation infrastructure
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1990.
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Cybersecurity for urban critical infrastructure
Our cities are under attack. Urban critical infrastructure which includes the electric grid, water networks, transportation systems and public health and safety services are constantly being targeted by cyberattacks. Urban critical infrastructure has been increasingly connected to the internet for …
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Infrastructure for an intelligent kitchen
… numbers of "things that think", a software infrastructure for managing complex systems of these things is a necessity. This paper presents such a software system, Hive. Hive is a decentralized distributed mobile agents platform, addressing the requirements of a infrastructure for "things …
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Modeling hydrogen fuel distribution infrastructure
… production, distribution, and dispensing infrastructure under various scenarios and to discover if any trends become apparent after sensitivity analysis. After reviewing the literature regarding the production, distribution, and dispensing of hydrogen fuel, a hybrid product pathway and …
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