Submitted to the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Science in Nuclear Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ASSANUSETTS INS E OF TECHNOLOGy June 2013 JUL 1 6 2013 k LBRA RIES Martin Goycoolea. All rights reserved @ The author hereby grants to MIT permission to reproduce and to dis...

Proverbs are commonly metaphoric in nature and the mapping across domains is commonly established in proverbs. The abundance of proverbs in terms of metaphors makes them an extremely valuable linguistic resource since they can be utilized as a gold standard for various metaphor related linguistic tasks such as metaphor identification or interpretation. Besides, a collection of proverbs from var...

Voegelin did not publish an extended volume on Greek tragedy. In his writings, there is a brief account of tragedy in The New Science of Politics, and a more extensive chapter on the subject in The World of the Polis.1 [1] In each case, the bulk of Voegelin�s analysis is concerned with Aeschylus, but in neither case is his analysis comprehensive. His comments in New Science amount to a few page...

Recent Internet applications, such as online social networks and user-generated content sharing, produce an unprecedented amount of social information, which is further augmented by location or collocation data collected from mobile phones. Unfortunately, this wealth of social information is fragmented across many different proprietary applications. Combined, it could provide a more accurate re...

The recent US Supreme Court decision in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc. clarified what is considered patentable subject matter. Patent claims limited to the composition of isolated nucleic acid sequences are now considered a product of nature and not patent eligible, while man-made variants of nucleic acid sequences may still be patentable. The decision is consisten...

non-functional requirements (NFRs) of software-intensive systems that are under continuous evolution should be evaluated during early development phases in order to be able to improve those systems and achieve ‘time-tomarket’. However, current evaluations are often done during late stages, like coding and testing. In this paper we propose an approach to evaluate NFRs earlier. The requirements f...

WestMata is a 1200mdeep submarine volcano where explosive boninite eruptions were observed in 2009. The acoustic signatures from the volcano’s summit eruptive vents Hades and Prometheus were recorded with an in situ (~25m range) hydrophone during ROV dives in May 2009 and with local (~5 km range) moored hydrophones between December 2009 and August 2011. The sensors recorded low frequency (1–40 ...

In today's embedded software systems development, non-functional requirements (e.g., dependability, maintainability) are becoming more and more important. Simultaneously the increasing pressure to develop software in less time and at lower costs pushes software industry towards product line’s solutions. To support product lines for high quality embedded software, quality models are needed. In t...

In this paper, we propose to use the Activity Theory and causal diagrams for modelling human activities with the aim of facilitating the specification of an agent-based assistance system through the Prometheus methodology. As a case study, we consider the elder medication activity, a recurring, complex and context-rich activity that involves several individual and collective activities which ma...