Browsing Faculty of Engineering & IT (Theses and Dissertations) by Title
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Photovoltaic Facades: Key to the Concept of Zero Energy Buildings
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2021-09)Buildings around the globe consume almost 40 % of energy, and building operations are based on non-renewable sources of energy, e.g., ventilation, air conditioning, electricity, heating, which contributes to over 33% of ... -
Positive Unlabelled Learning to Recognize Dishes as Named Entity
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2019-04)With the growth of social media, there is a need to analyse the user-generated content; especially the text reviews. Online text reviews have a lot of potential and opportunities for both users and business owners. Many ... -
Potential of horizontal louvers in increased energy savings in a commercial building in Dubai
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2018-10)Building façade contributes to a major share of energy expenditure in residential as well as commercial buildings. There is a need to look for alternate options of façade design, in order to replace the glazing option ... -
The Potential of integrating PV in the Heritage Sites Case Study of Dubai Museum
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2015-04)The conserved historic building presents a realistic and live scene of the past telling how the society has contributed in the development of the human civilization. The renovation work is complicated due to the lack of ... -
The potential role of nuclear energy in mitigating CO2 emissions of te built environment in the United Arab Emirates
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2011-02)Carbon Dioxide emission is a foremost contributor to the threatening global warming and climate change. It is more than doubled in the UAE since 1990, and the electricity generated by conventional energy is responsible for ... -
Potentials of Retrofitting the Federal Buildings in the UAE to Net Zero Electricity Cost Buildings by Implementing Passive and Active Measures
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2016-08)The efforts of the United Arab Emirates' (UAE) government regarding sustainable developments are remarkable since the country was labeled with the highest ecological footprint in 2007. Many strategies and initiatives have ... -
Predict Student Success and Performance factors by analyzing educational data using data mining techniques
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2022-03)Academic institutions around the globe strive to become highly reputable and make continuous efforts to improve their students' ability to gain and apply knowledge concepts in the field. The primary outcome of the academic ... -
Predicting Dropouts among a Homogeneous Population using a Data Mining Approach
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2019-03)Student retention is one the biggest challenges facing academic institutions worldwide. Failure to retain students not only affects the student in a negative way but also hinders institutional quality and reputation. While ... -
Predicting Mobile Game Success Using Data Analytics
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2017-11)Since the advent of arcade games and the development of the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) at the close of the millennium, the mobile game app industry has exploded; and subsequently has transformed the ideologies of ... -
Predicting Passenger's Behavior by Using Association Rules in Data Mining
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2016-01)Data mining is considered as one of the most powerful and contemporary tools in extracting massive and valuable data and information from several standard database formats that all different kinds of public and private ... -
Predicting Student Withdrawal from UAE CHEDS Repository using Data Mining Methodology
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2022-11)Early prediction of a student who is at risk of course dropout leads to student retention in the study course. The percentage of student dropout in higher education sector is high, and affects the students’ careers negatively ... -
Predicting User Behavior over the Web
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2010-01)Web Usage Mining is the application of discovering useful patterns from web data using statistical and data mining techniques. It has recently a wide range of applications in E-commerce web site and E-services such as ... -
Prenatal and postnatal information support through the web
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Prevalence and risk factors of poor indoor air quality and sick house syndrome symptoms in Dubai
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2019-04)"Housing environment is a key determinant of health and wellbeing for individuals, communities, and public health at large. Recently, an increasing range of diseases related to poor Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) ... -
Priority Index Development for Implementing (LED) Street Lighting System in UAE Federal Roadways
(The British University in Dubai, 2018-03)Since the World Economic Forum sets in 2004 the first Global Competitiveness Index that list countries according to several indicators, one of which is the infrastructure index, that consists of nine secondary axes, one ... -
Project Management Maturity Integration based on Capability Maturity Model Integration
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2013)Software development is an industry sector which is typified by rapid change and iterative progress. However it is also considered as being leading edge in terms of effective project management because of the cost, resource ... -
Project Portfolio Management for Successful Major IT Projects in Global Telecommunication Organization
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2011-06)Many researchers have discussed and analyzed the failures for Information Technology Projects and the importance of implementing project management methodology through Project Management Office or Enterprise Project ... -
A Proposal of an Information Security Framework for Geospatial Data and Systems Case Study: Abu Dhabi Government
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2017-10)The purpose of this research is to formulate an information security framework particularly built for the geospatial data and systems in Abu Dhabi governmental entities, taking into consideration the nature and complexity ... -
Psychosocially Supportive Design within Workplaces
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2016-06)This thesis has been written to discuss psychosocially s supportive design within work places. It is no secret that built environments had affected our lives massively, work places in particular since we are spending almost ... -
Pushing an existing villa in Dubai to nearly Zero Energy Building passing through AL SA’AFAT rating system
(The British University in Dubai (BUiD), 2017-05)Our surrounding environment is effected significantly due to the buildings impact which is a result of excessive energy consumption. Residential and commercial buildings use about 40% of the world total primary energy ...