Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

by Miguel Vélez-Reyes. , Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1992. , Includes bibliographical references (leaves 215-221). Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-221).

Mechanical Engineering

by Gregg Kiyoshi Motonaga. , Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1992. , Includes bibliographical references (leaves 45-46).

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

by David V. Arnold. , Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1992. , Includes bibliographical references (leaves 176-180).

Mechanical Engineering

by Antonios I. Zavaliangos. , Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1992. , Includes bibliographical references (leaves 287-297).

Economics

by Howard F. Chang. , Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1992. , Includes bibliographical references.

Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences

by Kurt Louis Polzin. , Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 1992. , Includes bibliographical references (leaves 231-244).

Civil and Environmental Engineering

by Gregg F. Martin. , Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1992. , Includes bibliographical references (v. 2, leaves 378-415).

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

by Nadim F. Constantine. , Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1992. , Includes bibliographical references (leaves 209-210).

Architecture

by Thomas G. Aguierre Smith. , Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1992. , Includes bibliographical references (leaves 106-108).

Architecture

by Stephen E. Librande. , Thesis (M.S.V.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1992. , Includes bibliographical references (leaves 67-69).

Nuclear Engineering

by Keung Koo Kim. , Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Nuclear Engineering, 1992. , Includes bibliographical references (2nd v., leaves 394-400).

Mechanical Engineering

by Brad Lee Kirkwood. , Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1992 and Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering. , Includes bibliographical references (v. 2, leaves 311-317).

Chemistry, Biochemistry

Isolation of bovine S-adenosylhomocysteine hydrolase by affinity chromatography unexpectedly yielded two forms of the enzyme. Type A contained 4 moles of NAD$\sp+$/mole of enzyme tetramer, while Type B had only half that number of nucleotide cofactors associated with it. The acetylenic analog of adenosine, 9-(5$\sp\prime$,6$\sp\prime$-dideoxy-$\beta$-D-ribo-hex-5$\sp\prime$-ynofuranosyl)-adenine, was synthesized, and its behavior as an inhibitor of Type A enzyme examined. Irreversible inactivati...

Women's Studies

The maritagium and the gift in tail were conditional gifts by which land from the patrimony might be provided to daughters and younger sons while ensuring that when such cadet branches failed the land would return to the central inheritance. The coalescence of the common law around coherent principles and the legislation of Edward I on land conveyance resulted in the demise of the maritagium as a land conveyance form and its replacement by the gift in tail. Also, attitudes about the place of wom...

Womens studies,Cultural anthropology

This study explores, through participant observation and interviewing, the meaning of the experience of Cape Verdean women who participate in a base group of the national women's organization of Cape Verde, Organizacao das Mulheres de Cabo Verde (OMCV). The study addresses the significance of this type of organizational activity for Third World women, seeking to illuminate the perspective of women who participate in it. It also has three underlying purposes: (1) to fulfill a goal of feminist...

Mechanical engineering,Industrial engineering,Management

Product realization is a very complex, interdisciplinary process. At early design stages, decisions must be made not only about physical attributes of the design, but also about scheduling and resource allocation for many product and manufacturing engineering activities, as well as purchasing, finance, marketing, etc. Typically, complex interdependencies exist among these disparate activities, and it is difficult to predict how decisions will affect overall organizational objectives of low cost,...

Finance,Business community,Management

This study examines restructuring in which, (i) two firms exchange operating units (asset-for-asset exchanges), and (ii) a firm divests assets in exchange for an equity stake in the firm acquiring the assets (asset-for-stock exchanges). These transactions are called asset exchanges, as distinct from divestitures primarily for cash. Since liquidity is not the primary consideration, asset exchanges are more suitable than sales of assets for cash when examining the role of synergy in the divestitur...

Secondary school teachers.

Technology - Study and teaching (Secondary) - Curricula.

théorie de la conception

Cette thèse étudie les possibilités offertes par l'intelligence artificielle pour l'identification et la circonscription des risques incendie de bâtiments.La sécurité incendie est une composante de la fonction technique du bâtiment. Elle peut donc être considérée dès la conception. Actuellement elle est traitée principalement par l'application de textes réglementaires. Nous proposons une approche différente ayant deux caractéristiques principales : premièrement elle privilégie la rec...

I present a novel design methodology for the synthesis of automatic controllers, together with a computational environment---the Control Engineer's Workbench---integrating a suite of programs that automatically analyze and design controllers for high-performance, global control of nonlinear systems. This work demonstrates that difficult control synthesis tasks can be automated, using programs that actively exploit and efficiently represent knowledge of nonlinear dynamics and phase space and ...

American history,American literature,Womens studies,Biographies,Minority & ethnic groups,Sociology

This dissertation is a study of the religious and ethical influences on the lives of three American Jewish women: Anzia Yezierska (ca. 1880-1970), immigrant-born author from the Lower East Side who gave poignant voice in her fiction to immigrant Jewish women's lives; Rose Pastor Stokes (1879-1933), immigrant-born political activist and an early member of the American Communist party; and Maud Nathan (1862-1946), an upper-class, American-born Jew who fought for female enfranchisement and bett...

Port and Airport Development Strategy.

Psychology,Experiments,Zoology,Ecology

Because of patch depletion, there comes a time after entering a patch when the forager should abandon the patch in favor of finding another. I am interested in what information influences the decision to leave a patch and how the information is used. In the past, I and my associates have studied patch departure decisions of blue jays using open economy, operant simulations of foraging. During a typical experiment, food-deprived jays would forage for one or two sessions per day, could exploit a d...

Thesis (M.B.A.)--PU vir CHO, 1993.

Buddhism - Sacred books.

Housing management. High-rise apartment buildings Social surveys Housing management High-rise apartment buildings

Thesis (M.B.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 1992.

Approximate Bayesian Analysis / Data Augmentation / Dynamic Linear Models / Kalman Filtering / Model Likelihood / State Space Models

We define a subclass of dynamic linear models with unknown hyperparameters called d-inverse-gamma models. We then approximate the marginal p.d.f.s of the hyperparameter and the state vector by the data augmentation algorithm of Tanner/Wong. We prove that the regularity conditions for convergence hold. A sampling based scheme for practical implementation is discussed. Finally, we illustrate how to obtain an iterative importance sampling estimate of the model likelihood. (author's abstract)

Humanities

by Tona Jean Hangen. , Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, 1992. , Includes bibliographical references (leaves 78-83).

BIOLOGY, MOLECULAR (0307)

The identification of a novel human integrin $/beta$ subunit, $/beta/sb7$, has been reported in this dissertation. The full-length human $/beta/sb7$ cDNA contains 2798 nucleotides encoding a single long open reading frame of 798 amino acid residues of which 708 are extracellular and 52 are cytoplasmic. The human $/beta/sb7$ sequence displays strong homology with other integrin $/beta$ subunits, being most related to $/beta/sb2$. Cell distribution studies suggest that the expression of transcript...

Soccer attendance. Soccer College sports

Thesis (M.S. Ed.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1992. , Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 66-68). Also available via the Internet.

Video games Computer animation Drug abuse Drug abuse

Thesis (M.F.A.)--Rochester Institute of Technology, 1992. , Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaf 36).

Insertion elements, DNA. Plant molecular genetics. Gene fusion. Mobile genetic elements.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Carleton University, 1992. , Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Islamic antiquities Mosques Architecture, Islamic

Originally presented as author's thesis (M.A.)--Jāmiʻat Ḥalab. , "Manshūrāt Jāmiʻat Ḥalab". Includes bibliographical references (p. 653-658) and indexes.

CAD/CAM systems. Geometrical models.

Thesis (M.S.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1992. , Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 87-91). Also available via the Internet.

Thesis (B.A.(Hons))--University of Adelaide, Dept. of History, 1993? , Includes bibliographical references (leaves 76-79).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Pathology, 1993. , Includes bibliographical references (p. 184-215).

Adult education teachers Functional literacy.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--Illinois State University, 1992. , Title from title page screen, viewed February 2, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Dent M. Rhodes (chair), Gayle Flickinger, Karl Taylor, Deborah B. Gentry. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 204-220) and abstract. Also available in print.

Physics, Condensed Matter

Photoelectron spectra of negatively charged cobalt clusters in the size range of 4-26 atoms have been obtained. The electron affinity (E.A.) values along with the reported ionization potential (I.P.) have been used to understand the reactivity of neutrally charged cobalt clusters, with H$\sb2$, in terms of their valence electronic structure. Comparison to currently available theories indicate that a charge transfer mechanism (be it from metal to H$\sb2$ or the reverse process) is inadequate in p...

Engineering, Electronics and Electrical

In this thesis, a methodology and techniques for the design of a laser range imaging device (LRID) for robotic applications are presented. Furthermore, a prototype incorporating the concepts presented has been successfully tested in the laboratory. In this LRID, the range is determined by the shift in phase in the return of a modulated laser beam illuminating an object. The device is designed using a low power and visible (for laboratory safety reasons) diode laser and an APD detector. The devic...

HD28 .M414 no.3372-, 92

Jianxiu Hao and James B. Orlin. , "December, 1992." , Includes bibliographical references (p. 25-26).

HD28 .M414 no.3385 ,-92

Peter B. Vranas, Dimitris J. Bertsimas, Amedeo R. Odoni. , Includes bibliographical references (p. 33-34). , Supported by Charles S. Draper Laboratory. Second author partially suported by the National Science Foundation with a Presidential Young Investigator Award. DDM-9158118

HD28 .M414 no.3411-, 92

Hitendra K. Wadhwa. , Includes bibliographical references (p. 40-41).

HD28 .M414 no.3415-, 92

Christopher A. Vellturo, ... [et al.]. , "Revised version, manuscript dated 23 March 1992."--3rd preliminary page. , Includes bibliographical references (p. [38]-[39]). val , Supported by the National Science Foundation, and the MIT Center for Energy Policy Research.

Physics, Elementary Particles and High Energy

Momentum spectra of $\pi\sp-$, $K\sp-$, p and d have been measured from central collisions of 14.6 $\times$ A GeV/c Si beam on Si and W targets at rapidity 1.9 $<$ y $<$ 2.1. The inverse slope parameters $T\sb0$ obtained by an exponential fit with the transverse mass spectra in transverse kinetic energy are found to be $T\sb0(\pi\sp-) < T\sb0(K\sp-) < T\sb0(p) < T\sb0(d)$. This result is predicted by a radially expanding flow model. From integrated results, the $K\sp-/\pi\sp-$ ratios, (2.7 $\pm$...

School management and organization.

Polymers,Materials science

In order to understand the fundamental cause of preferential lattice orientations when certain metals are vapor deposited onto oriented semicrystalline polymers, Sn deposited onto various polyolefins was investigated as a function of polymer crystallinity, crystallography, morphology and Sn deposition conditions. Crystallinity is necessary, however, the invariance of the orientations to changes in the polymer crystallography indicates that the orientation of the metal is not due to lattice match...

School administration,Elementary education,Education history

The Principalship has received increased attention since the 1983 report, A Nation At Risk: The Imperative For Educational Reform and the 1986 Carnegie report, A Nation Prepared: Teachers For The Twenty-First Century. These reports challenged the Principal to become a strong, effective leader for school reform. The challenge called for the Principal to become a change agent, to affect the culture and climate of a school, to empower others, and to motivate staff and students. Emphasis on leadersh...

Social studies education,Secondary education,History

The purpose of this study was to obtain a realistic portrait of National History Day (NHD)--a secondary school, history related program in which students research and develop presentations on a topic related to an annual theme. My goal was to determine: whether the positive claims for NHD were realistic; why and how the program grew from a local program with 129 students in 1974 to over 500,000 students in 48 states in 1991; and what implications there were for educational processes. For this et...