6,528 research outputs found
Implementation of lean manufacturing during the process definition phase of a new engine program
No full textThesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1998.Includes bibliographical references (p. 104-105).by Ryan L. Blanchette.S.M
Using scenarios in regional strategic transportation planning : an evolving methodology
No full textThesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Technology and Policy Program, 1999.Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-253).by Christopher Ryan Conklin.S.M
Pressure vs. displacement measurement system
No full textThesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2000.Includes bibliographical references (p. 64-65).by Ryan T. Carlino.S.M
Viscoelastic free surface instabilities during exponential stretching
No full textThesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, February 2002.Includes bibliographical references (p. 115-120).by Ryan D. Welsh.S.M
Free-piston cryogenic expander
No full textThesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1999.Includes bibliographical references (leaf 92).by Ryan Edward Jones.S.M
Materializing the hole
No full textThesis: S.M. in Art, Culture and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2014.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 62-65).This thesis concerns the body as it faces the computer. While it is informed by theories of embodiment, it argues against a retreat to the "human" in the face of new sensations that may result from the body's willing incorporation into the computer as an avatar. At the same time, the processes of self-virtualization enabled by computation are subject to question. Extending from the author's practice as an artist working in interactive media, digital video, sound, and writing, this work posits that both human and computer compete for agency in the active construction of meaning. Rather than locate this construction in either a perceptual or an algorithmic process, the encounter with the computer is described as a vibration. This allows both human and computer to be considered as affective bodies prior to signification. The vibration between these bodies is a form of movement opened by interrupting the process of signification that occurs when the computer renders code; the user responds to the computer's output; and rendering, response, and interaction are all read discursively. Both interruption and vibration are theorized here in relation to Merleau-Ponty, Virilio, Lyotard, Goodman, Hansen, Barthes, Beckett, Cézanne, Plato, and other theorists and practitioners.by Ryan Kuo.S.M. in Art, Culture and Technolog
Detection of deoxyribonucleic acid polymorphisms in thermal gradients via a scanning laser confocal system
No full textThesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2000.Includes bibliographical references (p. 32-33).by Matthew Ryan Graham.S.M
A systematic study of real estate core funds : herd behavior and performance attribution analysis
No full textThesis (S.M. in Real Estate Development)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, Center for Real Estate, 2005 [first author]; and, (S.M. in Real Estate Development)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, Center for Real Estate, 2005 [second author].This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 57-58).The returns and portfolio characteristics of core funds were tested for evidence of herd behavior and performance relative to the NCREIF Property Index (NPI), using a proprietary database that included data from 1985 to 2004. Tests performed include descriptive statistics, regression analysis, and attribution analysis. Results indicate that herd behavior tends to be somewhat correlated with the NPI return. Through our disaggregate (fund specific) analysis, we find that herd behavior, where managers base investment decisions on the collective actions of the market rather than their individual beliefs, may be present in the core fund industry. Regression analysis suggests that herding appears to be positively correlated with fund size and negatively correlated to leverage, fees, and persistence from the one-year lag of the deviation from the mean. Performance analysis results indicate that although fund leverage has increased significantly over time, the use of debt has produced little or no additional return to investors. We found that across funds, net returns to real estate fall short of the NPI, and that across time, there is a negative correlation between the performance of the index and fund performance relative to the index.(cont.) Attribution analysis revealed that property selection returns have produced the greatest amount of return deviation from the NPI over time, and that selection and strategy returns are negatively correlated. Regression analysis suggests there is persistence in fund performance in the short term, that a fund's fee is positively correlated with gross returns, although that does not necessarily translate into higher returns to the investor, and that larger funds are negatively correlated with performance.by Valerie Kwong and George Ryan Robison.S.M.in Real Estate Developmen
Scaling address-space operations on Linux with TSX
No full textThesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2014.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.22Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 55-56).Concurrent programming is important due to increasing core counts, but scalable concurrency control is difficult and error-prone to implement. Hardware Transactional Memory (HTM) addresses this problem by providing hardware support for concurrently executing arbitrary read-modify-write memory transactions. Intel released Transactional Synchronization eXtensions (TSX), a HTM implementation, in select processors to support scalable concurrency control. This thesis contributes a case study in applying TSX to the Linux virtual memory system, which currently serializes address-space operations with a lock. TSX should provide scalability by supporting concurrent address-space operations. Achieving scalability with TSX, however, turned out to be difficult due to transactional aborts. This thesis details how to identify and resolve abort problems, and it describes the necessary modifications to make address-space operations scale in Linux. This thesis also describes a new TLB shootdown algorithm, TxShootDown, which removes TLB shootdown from a transactional critical section while avoiding races due to concurrent address-space operations.by Christopher Ryan Johnson.S.M
The Sacramental Theory in John 19:26-27
No full textAbout the author: Father Theodore Koehler, S.M., of the Seminaire Marianiste at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, studied under Father Neubert
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