Browsing Faculty of Engineering & IT (Theses and Dissertations) by Title
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Reducing of the Energy Consumption in the Federal Buildings in UAE Using Lighting and Control Technologies
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2014-04)UAE has one of the highest electricity consumption per capita in the world. This reflects negatively on the CO2 emissions which is an increasing determination in the UAE. CO2 emissions must be reduced as part of the global ... -
REHABILITATION OF DETERIORATED REINFORCED CONCRETE MEMBERS USING ADVANCED COMPOSITE MATERIALS: A CASE STUDY OF A DETERIORATED 8-STOREY BUILDING IN THE CITY OF ABU DHABI IN THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
(The British University in Dubai, 2017-10)The deterioration of reinforced concrete in building structures due to factors such as aging, reinforcement corrosion, humidity and oxidation, and freeze-thaw events, had imposed a great deal of stresses on these structures. ... -
The Relation Between Respiratory & Acute Coronary Syndrome Using Data Mining Techniques
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2018-04)In healthcare world, data science is one of the most important sciences that helps in predicting diseases, and despite the availability of medical data from laboratory tests, most medical institutions in middle east region ... -
Relevance Feedback Optimization for Digital Forensic Investigations
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2019)Digital forensics deals with the use of tools and techniques to preserve, identify, extract, document, and interpret any data stored or transmitted using a digital system. It is usually used to help support or refute a ... -
Research on the potential of photovoltaic technologies in reducing energy consumption in an urban mixed use residential community. A Case study for net zero energy community in Dubai, UAE.
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2018-08)Humans have an unquenchable thirst for energy. Accelerated global economic and population growth are the main influencing factors that has led to the increase in electricity consumption. In addition, the release greenhouse ... -
Research Paper in Speech Recognition Technology
(The British Univesity in Dubai (BUiD), 2014-03)Introduction of electronic medical records (EMR) documentations is burdensome for physicians and clinicians in terms of time spent in typing, and adaption of this technology might be hard. Recent advances in speech recognition ... -
A Research Study on the Teleworking in Engineering Sectors in UAE
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2022-04)Organization measures its success by its employee’s performance. It is one of the most important measurements tool to indicate the efficiency and effectiveness of the corporate system performance. Employees are the valuable ... -
Resilience of UAE high-rise buildings to climate change: Impacts of projected climate changes on annual energy demands.
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2020-07)The impact of climate change and global warming on buildings energy consumption has been an arguable topic in many studies all around the world. However, there are limited studies on the effect of climate change on UAE ... -
The role of IT governance in enhancing the competitiveness of for-profit private schools' business
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2010-12)IT governance is one of the topics that has emerged suddenly and became an important information issue in the information technology and business era. Many organizations around the world have realised the importance of ... -
The Role of Project Portfolio Management in Fostering Innovation Within the Context of UAE’s Organizations
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2017-08)The research study is conducted with an aim to determine the ways through which large portfolio organizations of UAE can be able to foster innovation by adopting practices of Project Portfolio Management. On the basis ... -
The Role of Shading as a Passive Strategy in Traditional Built Environment in Hot Climate
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2007-11)Some Middle Eastern countries are located in the hot climate zone and are rich in natural resources particularly oil and gas. In recent years, due to the high income from oil, they have started to develop the urban fabric ... -
Security in wire/wireless networks: sniffing attacks prevention/detection techniques in LAN networks & the effect on biometric technology
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2010-02)During the past era, Information Technology made a revolution in R&D. No double internet becomes an essential backbone of all sciences and research nowadays. Accordingly security threats and data banks attacks turn out to ... -
Seismic Retrofitting of Reinforced Concrete Structures
(The British University in Dubai, 2018-10)In the current scenario of ever-increasing incidence of earthquakes around the world, we need to carry out a macro level study and review the causes of earthquakes and consequential effects of it and identification at ... -
Seismic strengthening of Reinforced Concrete Structures using External Lateral Post Tensioning
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2021-04)The constructions of buildings before the 1970s where not in coherence with the seismic design or any type of seismic codes hence the buildings have to be investigated and do the necessary strengthening to withstand the ... -
Self-Organization and Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Taxi Dispatch
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2009-02)The taxi dispatch problem involves assigning taxis to callers waiting at different locations. An adjacency-based dispatch system currently in use by a major taxi company divides the city(in which the system operates) into ... -
Sensitivity analysis of work plane illuminance to room surface reflectance values
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2018-11)Nowadays, the employees spend around 8 to 10 hours a day in their offices , therefore, the creating of right work environment is an essential matter in today’s designs for offices. However , some people till today don’t ... -
Sensory Pollution from Treated Wood Panels on Perceived Air Quality and Human Comfort
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2013-04)The aim of the present study is to examine the effects of sensory pollution from treated wood panels, commonly used in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), on perceived air quality (PAQ) and human comfort. Human subjects between ... -
Sentiment analysis for Arabic
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2015-12)Named Entity Recognition, Question Answering, Information Retrieval, Machine Translation, etc. fall under the tasks that follow Natural Language Processing approaches wherein Sentiment Analysis uses Natural Language Processing ... -
Sentiment Analysis for Arabic Social media Movie Reviews Using Deep Learning
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2022-10)This work is to apply sentiment analysis SA for Arabic movie reviews on social media. Automatically detecting attitude or sentiment in a text is often helpful. By classifying the data into positive, negative, or neutral ... -
Sentiment Analysis for opinion leaders on Twitter: A Case Study of COVID-19
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2022-11)The coronavirus or COVID-19 is an ongoing global problem where a pandemic was implemented early in 2020 during the outbreak. Social media platforms were used during the pandemic to share views and exchange information. ...