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Energy Consumption Forecasting Using Machine Learning, Mahdi Mohammadigohari
Energy Consumption Forecasting Using Machine Learning, Mahdi Mohammadigohari
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Forecasting electricity demand and consumption accurately is critical to the optimal and costeffective operation system, providing a competitive advantage to companies. In working with seasonal data and external variables, the traditional time-series forecasting methods cannot be applied to electricity consumption data. In energy planning for a generating company, accurate power forecasting for the electrical consumption prediction, as a technique, to understand and predict the market electricity demand is of paramount importance. Their power production can be adjusted accordingly in a deregulated market. As data type is seasonal, Persistence Models (Naïve Models), Seasonal AutoRegressive Integrated Moving Averages with eXogenous regressors (SARIMAX), …
Sentiment Analysis Of News Tweets, Haya Fathim
Sentiment Analysis Of News Tweets, Haya Fathim
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Sentiment Analysis is a process of extracting information from a large amount of data and classifying them into different classes called sentiments. Python is a simple yet powerful, high-level, interpreted, and dynamic programming language, which is well known for its functionality of processing natural language data by using NLTK (Natural Language Toolkit). NLTK is a library of python, which provides a base for building programs and classification of data. NLTK also provides a graphical demonstration for representing various results or trends and it also provides sample data to train and test various classifiers respectively. Sentiment classification aims to automatically predict …
Cognitive Systems Engineering Models Applied To Cybersecurity, Tiffani Bragg
Cognitive Systems Engineering Models Applied To Cybersecurity, Tiffani Bragg
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Cybersecurity is an increasing area of concern for organizations and individuals alike. The majority of successfully executed cyberattacks are a result of human error. One common type of attack that targets human users is phishing. In spite of this, there is a lack of research surrounding human implications on phishing behavior. Using an online survey platform with both phishing and legitimate emails, the present research examined the utility of various cognitive engineering models for modeling responses to these example emails. Using Signal Detection Theory (SDT) and Fuzzy Signal Detection Theory (Fuzzy SDT), the influence of familiarity with phishing and having …
Marketing Automation Customers Segmentation, Hamad Murad
Marketing Automation Customers Segmentation, Hamad Murad
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Understanding the various facets of a customer’s data is very important for businesses. This insight can help them identify patterns and opportunities to improve their operations. RFM values are often used to identify which customers are valuable for a company. They are then used to identify which promotional activities are most appropriate for them. K-means clustering is an unsupervised learning technique that works when you have unlabeled data. It allows the identification of new data points and groups. This paper proposes a novel approach that combines data cleaning and analyzing customer data to divide a broad market into various consumer …
Analysis Of Car Accidents Causes In The Usa, Mohamed Aljaban
Analysis Of Car Accidents Causes In The Usa, Mohamed Aljaban
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Over the past decade more people are opting in to purchase and own their own personal vehicle and in some instances several, which means that road accidents rates are doomed to increase. And this presents a challenge to the government, individuals and the collective community as car accidents are in most cases life threatening and a hazard to society. Thus, this paper aims to tackle this issue and dig deep to explore the main factors contributing to the increase of car accidents rate. The dataset used in this research is data collected from traffic accidents events captured by the department …
Building A User-Based Recommendation System Using A Model-Based Collaborative Filtering Approach, Shaheer Airaj Ahmed
Building A User-Based Recommendation System Using A Model-Based Collaborative Filtering Approach, Shaheer Airaj Ahmed
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The modern day internet faces a very famous problem called information overload. Where the amount of information is huge and the need for personalized results to match ones preferences for ease of access to other information like it. This is especially a problem in the e-commerce and streaming industries where the amount of items available is massive and users need a way to surf through results quickly and efficiently to find the exact items they are looking for and possibly look at similar recommendations. Modern day recommendation engines use user-item data to find items an active user may like based …
Solar-Powered Bike Lanes, Eman Al Ali
Solar-Powered Bike Lanes, Eman Al Ali
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The problem of lack of bike paths in urban areas is a common problem with the increase in the number of riders. Riding the bikes in the main roads due to the lack of cycling tracks affects negatively on the urban area, its residents, visitors, and in many other aspects. To solve this problem, this study examines the design of a solar-powered cycling path in one of the areas of Umm Al Quwain city that located in the northern region of the United Arab Emirates. The research included secondary data sources derived from best practices research for solar-powered cycling paths …
Hit The Lights On Your Way Out, Ryan Zimmerman
Hit The Lights On Your Way Out, Ryan Zimmerman
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Artifacts of industry remain scattered throughout the American rustbelt. A region built and reliant upon manufacturing, destined to fail when companies found themselves in jeopardy. Jobs came and went, businesses folded. What remains in their place are vacant factories, warehouses, and the workforce itself. This area of the country is where my life began and where I have found myself once again. Growing up in Erie, Pennsylvania, part of a family that endured this cycle of ups and downs, I have a certain familiarity and fondness for this post-industrial landscape and its inherent struggles. "Hit the Lights on Your Way …
Correlating Sentiment In Reddit’S Wallstreetbets With The Stock Market Using Machine Learning Techniques, Sultan Ali Alzaabi
Correlating Sentiment In Reddit’S Wallstreetbets With The Stock Market Using Machine Learning Techniques, Sultan Ali Alzaabi
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The issue that this study addresses is to observe whether there exists a statistical relation between the stock market and Reddit’s wallstreetbets. Previous research mainly focused on the relation between the stock market and Twitter. To gather data for the study, comments were scrapped from the subreddit wallstreetbets for a period of four months, Jan 1, 2021, till April 30, 2021. Different sentiment classifiers were, then, applied on a sample of the data to observe the most accurate classifier for the study. The study concluded that the most accurate sentiment classifier was an SVM classifier trained on 80% of Reddit …
Solving Commuting Challenges With Rts Bus Rapid Transit (Rts-Brt) Rochester, Ny, Lelise Tesfaye Bekele
Solving Commuting Challenges With Rts Bus Rapid Transit (Rts-Brt) Rochester, Ny, Lelise Tesfaye Bekele
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The public transport service in Rochester, NY, is inefficient in terms of reliability, safety, comfort, security, waiting, transfer, and longer commute hours. The public transportation system needs significant transformation to overcome this alleviating issue and relieve the burden on low-income residents, pedestrians, and non-motorized vehicle users. The research objective of this thesis is to advance and discover a connection pattern between transportation, urban sprawl, poverty, and unemployment in Rochester, NY. It targets the low-income resident’s detachment from diverse uses, residential settlement, locations of jobs, and transportation options. The research analyses how-: people commute to work, how long the commute takes, …
Using Characters To Narrow Culture Gaps, Xiangyu Han
Using Characters To Narrow Culture Gaps, Xiangyu Han
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There are a lot of different cultures around the world. It is hard for people with various cultural backgrounds to understand each other. Language is the most direct expression of cultural barriers. With the different structures of languages, communication becomes unsmooth. People can get to know each other better if we narrow down the gaps. The research here discusses the possibility of building a connection between language characters through the graphic. This work will use Chinese and English as an experimental. Images and pictures are the most visual information for people to read. And languages are the most direct information …
Esaal (Smart Delivery System In Dubai), Banout Alketbi
Esaal (Smart Delivery System In Dubai), Banout Alketbi
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Delivery sector has been facing many issues lately due to covid 19 pandemic mainly delivering items and packages late and some of them being in bad condition. The new smart delivery system ( will help in making the delivery system in Dubai more sustainable and at the same time more accurately functioning The proposed system will achieve that by running on their own tracks that are especially made for them to deliver Furthermore, the new designed system will be running and functioning depe nding on solar energy. These routes will be designed to have way to all of the areas …
Characterization And Proteolytic Maturation Of Head Proteins In A Giant Salmonella Virus, Aaron Scheuch
Characterization And Proteolytic Maturation Of Head Proteins In A Giant Salmonella Virus, Aaron Scheuch
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Giant phages are of interest for biocontrol of pathogenic bacteria, however, there is limited knowledge about their biology. We study the Salmonella phage SPN3US to better understand virion structure and function. SPN3US has a contractile tail and a large T=27 icosahedral capsid that contains its 240-kb genome. Previous analyses showed the SPN3US virion is highly unusual because it contains >80 different proteins, a number that is highly unusual for a tailed phage. In addition, there is a mass (>40 MDa) of proteins ("ejection proteins") within the head that enter the Salmonella cell, possibly with roles in host takeover at …
The Artemis Project: Exploring Mass Communication Utilizing A Visual Exploration Of Influential Imagery., Brooke K. Collins
The Artemis Project: Exploring Mass Communication Utilizing A Visual Exploration Of Influential Imagery., Brooke K. Collins
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Society struggles to have difficult conversations. Polite silence is often preferred to dredging up uncomfortable topics. This silence is deafening as the majority of Americans do not consider topics such as The American Sex Trafficking Crisis. In a post-pandemic world, how do we initiate difficult conversations in both digital forums and public domains? The Artemis Project seeks to visually explore this gap in conversation, undergoing an optical investigation of utilizing design and illustrative practices as tools for mass communication. This project conceptualizes the development and application of imagery to introduce a conversation, facilitating understanding and empathy. In short, The Artemis …
Amazon Reviews Using Sentiment Analysis, Ammar Rashed Hamdallah
Amazon Reviews Using Sentiment Analysis, Ammar Rashed Hamdallah
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The intense competition to attract and maintain customers online is compelling businesses to implement novel strategies to enhance the customer experiences. It is becoming necessary for companies to examine customer reviews on online platforms such as Amazon to understand better how customers rate their products and services. The purpose of this study is to investigate how companies can conduct sentiment analysis based on Amazon reviews to gain more insights into customer experiences. The dataset selected for this capstone consists of customer reviews and ratings from consumer reviews of Amazon products. Amazon product reviews enable a business to gain insights on …
Calculating Common Vulnerability Scoring System’S Environmental Metrics Using Context-Aware Network Graphs, Christopher Thomas Enoch
Calculating Common Vulnerability Scoring System’S Environmental Metrics Using Context-Aware Network Graphs, Christopher Thomas Enoch
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Software vulnerabilities have significant costs associated with them. To aid in the prioritization of vulnerabilities, analysts often utilize Common Vulnerability Scoring System’s Base severity scores. However, the Base scores provided from the National Vulnerability Database are subjective and may incorrectly convey the severity of the vulnerability in an organization's network. This thesis proposes a method to statically analyze context-aware network graphs to increase accuracy of CVSS severity scores. Through experimentation of the proposed methodology, it is determined that context-aware network graphs can capture the required metrics to generate modified severity scores. The proposed approach has some accuracy to it, but …
Analyzing The Arguments And Opinions Surrounding Space Privatization, Henry Yaeger
Analyzing The Arguments And Opinions Surrounding Space Privatization, Henry Yaeger
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As space exploration technology advances and more private actors engage in independent space activities, national governments and international organizations need to reform and modernize their approach to regulating private space activities in order to better capture and distribute the benefits of those activities. This paper examines several disparate suggestions and ideas found in 38 articles ranging from current space policy literate to international treaties in order to generate four possible policy approaches to private space activities: the Status Quo, Self-Regulation, New International Treaties and Expanded Public-Private Partnership models. It then compares and contrasts these four alternatives to determine which can …
Health, Productivity, And Engagement: Using Modular Product Design To Integrally Improve The Workplace Environment, Xinyue Guo
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With the fast pace of city life and workplace stress, there are growing concerns in relation to well-being and staying healthy. As a space that has relatively undefined functions in a work environment, breakrooms are increasingly expected to contribute to reducing these concerns. However, the vast majority of workplace breakrooms that exist are insufficiently designed achieving only basic functions such as sitting and eating. This thesis questions why existing workplace breakrooms are so neglected, when they have great potential to play a much more important role in the workplace. Firstly, this thesis discusses current literature and qualitative research on the …
Two Moons, Chuhan Peng
Two Moons, Chuhan Peng
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People may think that they can better understand the world through convenient technology in this Internet age. The fact is that even though we can search almost everything on Google, we still live and are confined to a small world. What's worse, big smart data will provide you with "privately customized" information services based on your specific situation. People gradually become accustomed to a voice and are more inclined to think that the world is what they see. This has also led to the fact that people of different social classes and cultural environments may be very different, and they …
Pun Monster: How To Effectively Maintain Fitness And Improve Socialization, Yue Yuan
Pun Monster: How To Effectively Maintain Fitness And Improve Socialization, Yue Yuan
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With the global outbreak of the COVID-19 in 2020, national governments have introduced policies of home quarantine and closing public places, and following social distances. As people spent more time at home, lifestyles changed dramatically, people spent more time looking at their phones and computers, and eating habits changed. This has brought about weight gain and increased anxiety and stress. People have started to do fitness activities at home, but have encountered various problems such as lack of motivation to exercise and lack of peers to supervise each other. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the key factors …
Suno ("Listen"), Kajal Kohli
Suno ("Listen"), Kajal Kohli
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Suno (“Listen” in Hindi) is a 3D Animated Short that revolves around our main character Sid’s day in his life where he decides to find someone who would listen to him about what he’s going through without passing judgement of their own. Sid is an 18-year-old boy living in a typical Indian household with his parents and grandmother. Sid has always been a brilliant student academically and has had accolades in sports rendering him in what one may call an astounding over-all achiever. Even so, he has started to feel burned out and depressed. He has gone into his own …
Access To Physical Activity: How Does Access To Physical Activity In Deaf Adolescence Affect Their Activity Levels In College?, Kenly Nicole Vater Ciampaglione
Access To Physical Activity: How Does Access To Physical Activity In Deaf Adolescence Affect Their Activity Levels In College?, Kenly Nicole Vater Ciampaglione
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Background: Individuals who identify as deaf and hard of hearing are overlooked or excluded from public health research, surveillance, and outreach and education programs. Studies have shown that there is a connection between motor skill development in children and their participation in physical activities. Generally, deaf children lag in motor skill development when compared to their hearing peers, and these developmental discrepancies can be minimized with increased participation in physical activity and sports. Purpose: This project involved the creation and validation of a survey that retrospectively assessed how both parental hearing status and the number of barriers experienced by a …
Temporal Requirements For Future Landsat Systems For Agricultural Monitoring, Emily Myers
Temporal Requirements For Future Landsat Systems For Agricultural Monitoring, Emily Myers
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Agricultural monitoring is an important application of earth-observing satellite systems, which may be used for stress and disease detection, growth stage monitoring, and yield prediction in crops at a fraction of the time and cost it would take to survey fields manually. Satellites within the Landsat program are frequently used for agricultural monitoring, but they do not always collect imagery often enough to capture rapid changes in vegetation health. To address this limitation, an increase in revisit rate is being considered for future Landsat systems. This research aims to determine the necessary overpass frequency for a future Landsat sensor for …
Winner, Yizhang Liu
Winner, Yizhang Liu
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Winner is an animated 3D graduate thesis film. The entire film, including the credits, is 4 minutes 34 seconds long. The production phase went from August 2020 to December 2021. The story is about an old man who wants to profit from a robot he invented, but finally paid for his selfishness in the end. The man is a robot inventor. He uses a chip to control the robot and uses it to participate in the robot fighting competition. His robot won one championship after another, and he was rewarded with bags after bags of money. He became richer and …
Rocks, Xuting Liu
Rocks, Xuting Liu
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ROCKS is a 2D animation thesis film of 6 minutes and 20 seconds and talks about a young woman dealing with difficult memories of her father who is an astronaut and his decision to go away on a long space flight when she was a young girl. The story is about memory, family and making peace with the past, as well as the progress of growing up. The major software used during the entire production process include: Adobe Photoshop, TVPaint, Adobe After Effect and Procreate. It is inspired by some of my own experience as a young girl, and the …
Fruffeltin, Jared Ratzel
Fruffeltin, Jared Ratzel
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Fruffeltin is a short 2D animated film following the journey of a goofy children’s book character trying to win back the affection of a child after being replaced by a fighting video game. The film’s core message regarding mental health awareness is illuminated through the visualization of character-driven animation, juxtaposing environments and symbolic details. The concept stems from my own personal growth trajectory and reflection upon it within the framework of animated creatures and robots. The narrative follows Fruffeltin, a children’s book character with three leaves on his head, who lives to make a young boy laugh by performing silly …
Ivalet – A Smart Parking Reservation System, Aaesha Alrefaei
Ivalet – A Smart Parking Reservation System, Aaesha Alrefaei
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In the current time with the continuously increasing population in the world generally and in big cities like Dubai particularly, many problems arise related to traffic and transportation. Due to covid-19 virus spread pandemic, WHO is submitting different regulations and recommendation for the need of social distancing along with avoiding any activities that might increase the possibility of the virus spread and minimize the number of infected people to save more lives. The need for decreasing the usage of the public transportation in Dubai have created parking issues in the city, streets, and buildings. One of the preferred solutions by …
Underwater, Yuan Zheng
Underwater, Yuan Zheng
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This thesis seeks to highlight the importance of work-life balance to our mental health. By experiencing an imbalanced life from the first-person view, this thesis focuses on using an abstract visual style to present the character’s inner world and the desperation for relaxation.
Cross-Platform Methods In Computer Graphics That Boost Experimental Film Making, Yue Zhang
Cross-Platform Methods In Computer Graphics That Boost Experimental Film Making, Yue Zhang
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Computer graphics arts such as animations, video games, and special effects in live-action movies have become essential for people seeking entertainment and education. This study aims to explore the potential for experimental film in presenting scientific theory as well as assessing different production strategies in 3D image creation. To invite people into some abstract or complicated scientific topics more readily, non-narrative film form is a viable method to relay this type of information. It's crucial to look at how independent filmmakers employ various ways to fulfill their particular creative purposes. I’ll be demonstrating how these processes worked in making my …
Artifact, Durotimi A. Akinkugbe
Artifact, Durotimi A. Akinkugbe
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Artifact is a 3D animated short film following the journey of a mysterious metal, altered by time and human interaction across several millennia. The titular artifact first arrives on a barren prehistoric Earth as the remains of a meteorite impact, a rock glistening with metallic ore. The epoch passes as the natural world comes to life, vegetation growing at the site of the crater. The ore-rock, having remained untouched all these years, is finally found by an early human. It is attached to a stick, forming a primitive hammer. After some use, the hammer breaks, and the ore is smelted, …