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Multimedia-Based Interventions To Improve Science Learning Outcomes For Deaf Students At Wangsel Institute For The Deaf., Cheten Tshering Mr., Tshering Wangchuk Jan 2026

Multimedia-Based Interventions To Improve Science Learning Outcomes For Deaf Students At Wangsel Institute For The Deaf., Cheten Tshering Mr., Tshering Wangchuk

Journal of Science Education for Students with Disabilities

Efforts have been made to ensure inclusive learning opportunities for all students, including those from diverse backgrounds. One key strategy to enhance children’s learning and academic performance involves the thoughtful selection and application of instructional tools tailored to meet learners' specific needs. This study examines the impact of multimedia-based instruction on science achievement among deaf students at Wangsel Institute for the Deaf in Bhutan. Using a quasi-experimental design, the research compared pretest and post-test results between a control group and an experimental group. Data analysis included descriptive statistics (t-test) and ANCOVA. The findings indicated a statistically significant differences (p = …

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Knowledge And Perception Of Human Milk Donation Among Pregnant, Lactating, And Postpartum Women In Rochester, Ny, And Near Hmbana Milk Banks, Samantha Allen Jan 2026

Knowledge And Perception Of Human Milk Donation Among Pregnant, Lactating, And Postpartum Women In Rochester, Ny, And Near Hmbana Milk Banks, Samantha Allen

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Human milk banks provide pasteurized donor milk for premature infants whose mothers are unable to produce sufficient amounts of milk, offering critical nutritional and immunological benefits for this high-risk population.1–4 Although 28 HMBANA-accredited milk banks operate in the United States, none are located within 4.5 hours of Rochester, NY. This study examined the knowledge and perceptions of human milk bank donation among pregnant, lactating, and postpartum women in Rochester, NY, and in communities near HMBANA-affiliated milk banks, and assessed if there is a correlation regarding the proximity of milk banks.  A cross-sectional study design was used, and participants completed a …

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Leveraging Ai, Iot, And Predictive Analytics For Crisis Management And Urban Resilience In Dubai, Suhail Bin Kalli Jan 2026

Leveraging Ai, Iot, And Predictive Analytics For Crisis Management And Urban Resilience In Dubai, Suhail Bin Kalli

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The thesis will discuss how smart technologies could be incorporated in the crisis management structures of Dubai to make the city more resilient. As Dubai grows more urbanized, it experiences increased problems with managing its crisis especially in the high population density places, traffic congestion, utility disruption, and extreme weather. This paper discusses how artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), and predictive analytics can be used to ameliorate the response to emergencies, manage the allocation of resources, and enhance the coordination between different agencies. The crisis management systems at Dubai are still ineffective despite the level of technologies …

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Optimizing Marketing Campaigns To Maximize The Response Rate For A Supermarket Using Machine Learning Techniques, Alia Almansoori Jan 2026

Optimizing Marketing Campaigns To Maximize The Response Rate For A Supermarket Using Machine Learning Techniques, Alia Almansoori

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Supermarkets must improve their marketing tactics at a time of changing consumer behavior and increasing competition in the retail industry. Engaging the wide and sophisticated consumer base of today's supermarkets is difficult using traditional methods. This proposal presents a data-driven approach using cutting-edge machine learning methods to enhance supermarket marketing strategies. The main goal is to increase the response rate of marketing initiatives, which will improve consumer engagement and ultimately increase revenue. Additional primary objectives are customer segmentation and targeting, predictive modeling, personalization, ongoing performance monitoring, and ROI evaluation. The current problem centers around personalization and accuracy. Due to the …

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Impact And Requirements Of Future Robots In The Urban Realm: Dubai Silicon Oasis Case Study, Abduljalil Abbasi Jan 2026

Impact And Requirements Of Future Robots In The Urban Realm: Dubai Silicon Oasis Case Study, Abduljalil Abbasi

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Robots are moving from factories and warehouses into the streets, sidewalks, and shared public spaces of cities, and Dubai Silicon Oasis (DSO) is at the forefront of this shift in the Gulf region. Through the Talabat ‘talabot’ autonomous delivery pilot, DSO has demonstrated that sidewalk robots can operate reliably in a hot-climate, mixed-use urban district, but this operational success has outpaced the governance frameworks, spatial design standards, and long-range planning foundations needed to scale deployment safely, inclusively, and sustainably to 2035. This thesis addresses that gap by asking how DSO can design and govern the integration of robots into its …

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Caring For Your Heart During Survivorship After Pediatric Cancer: A Visual Education Guide On Chemotherapy-Induced Cardiotoxicity, Bryona Rose Hamilton Jan 2026

Caring For Your Heart During Survivorship After Pediatric Cancer: A Visual Education Guide On Chemotherapy-Induced Cardiotoxicity, Bryona Rose Hamilton

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Chemotherapy is an effective weapon in the fight against pediatric cancer. However efficient, treatment can lead to side effects that last long after a patient finishes their last round of chemotherapy. This thesis examines current research on chemotherapy-induced cardiotoxicity, a side effect of chemotherapy treatment caused by a class of chemotherapy drugs called Anthracyclines (such as doxorubicin and daunorubicin). While effective chemotherapy agents, these drugs have been known to cause late long-term heart damage when used to treat pediatric cancers such as Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL), Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) and Pediatric Sarcoma. A written portion of this thesis project …

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A Novel Nephron: 3d Visualization Of Glomerular Filtration In The Kidney, Cassie Young Jan 2026

A Novel Nephron: 3d Visualization Of Glomerular Filtration In The Kidney, Cassie Young

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Renal physiology, particularly the process of glomerular filtration, remains one of the most conceptually challenging topics in medical education due to its microscopic scale, dynamic pressure relationships, and structural complexity. Understanding how plasma passes through the glomerular filtration barrier requires spatial reasoning across multiple levels—from the gross anatomy of the kidney to the ultrastructure of capillaries, podocytes, and the glomerular basement membrane. This thesis addresses these challenges through the development of a scientifically accurate three-dimensional (3D) animation that illustrates glomerular filtration within its anatomical and physiological context. Designed as a visual teaching aid, the animation aims to improve comprehension of …

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Understanding Computer-Mediated Human Experience In Digital-Physical Hybrid Space, Jiangnan Xu Jan 2026

Understanding Computer-Mediated Human Experience In Digital-Physical Hybrid Space, Jiangnan Xu

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With the rapid development of mobile and immersive technologies, the boundary between the digital and real world is increasingly blurred, giving rise to hybrid spaces. Hybrid spaces have permeated daily life and reshaped spatial meaning-making and social interaction. Despite their growing prevalence, empirical understanding of human experiences in hybrid spaces remains limited. If left unexamined, hybrid spaces risk becoming technology-centered rather than human-centered environments that overlook socio-cultural dimensions, potentially leading to harmful consequences for individuals and society. To investigate human experience in hybrid spaces, this thesis comprises five studies and uses gameful systems as research probes. Prior literature identifies collaboration …

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Evaluating Datasets And Models For Offensive Language Identification, Skye Deson Morgan Jan 2026

Evaluating Datasets And Models For Offensive Language Identification, Skye Deson Morgan

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Social media platforms enable people to easily communicate with one another, share ideas and express their opinions. Unfortunately, the anonymity provided by platforms such as Twitter and Facebook is more than enough to foster the spread of harmful content. Government agencies, as well as technology companies, are actively working towards finding better means of curbing offensive and objectionable content in social media and contributing to a more welcoming online environment. In this study, I first present a critical literature review on offensive language identification, exploring offensive language datasets and computational models using both machine learning and deep learning. Next, I …

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A Fish & A Bird, Deanna Moorehead Dec 2025

A Fish & A Bird, Deanna Moorehead

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As a curtain of trees opens and dawn breaks over the glistening waters of Lake Ontario, a fish and a bird spot each other through the surface and fall madly in love. They dance and sing together from their respective atmospheres, yet each time the bird soars past the water's edge and onto the beach, the fish cannot follow. Night after night, by the light of the moon, the fish trains herself to leap out of the water, hoping to breach high enough to join her beau above. Late one afternoon, the fish approaches the shore, where the bird stands …

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Disposal, Yihan Su Dec 2025

Disposal, Yihan Su

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Disposal is a mixed-media animated short film created as a graduate thesis project. The story explores the protagonist’s search for meaning in life and his defiance of a predetermined fate. At the beginning, he is an ordinary, guileless figure without remarkable qualities. In his world, life revolves around constant competition, and one’s worth is measured by their position on a ranking board. Only the top three may pass through the golden gate, a symbol of transcendence. Others must continue the endless cycle of contests, while the lowest seven face incineration in the Disposal. Despite his efforts, the protagonist falls into …

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Home, Shania Rachel Mathews Dec 2025

Home, Shania Rachel Mathews

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Home is a film where I wanted to explore the idea of the phrase so where s home? being a confusing & spiraling phrase. This is something that hits really close to me. It is a phrase that always seems to catch me off guard. As an international student, I have been around a couple of states for studies. I have made homes in all these places. I have had core memories there that link me to those locations. However, the feeling of not truly belonging would always linger. I really wanted to create a film that captures the main …

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Understanding Crime Through Harm: A Multi-Stage Study Of Rochester, Ny, Hayder Alhafedhi Dec 2025

Understanding Crime Through Harm: A Multi-Stage Study Of Rochester, Ny, Hayder Alhafedhi

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This capstone project develops, critiques, and applies a Crime Harm Index (CHI) for the City of Rochester, New York, as an alternative to traditional crime measures that rely solely on raw counts. Rather than treating all offenses as equal “one crime = one unit,” the project weights crimes by the severity of harm they cause, using New York State sentencing guidelines as the core metric. Across four working papers, the project moves from conceptual foundations and limitations of harm-based metrics, to the construction of a Rochester-specific Crime Harm Index, and finally to a set of spatial regression models that link …

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Understanding The Relationship Between Mental Health And Criminal Justice Involvement: Pathways, Disparities, And Improving System Responses, Haley Bly Dec 2025

Understanding The Relationship Between Mental Health And Criminal Justice Involvement: Pathways, Disparities, And Improving System Responses, Haley Bly

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This capstone project examines the complex relationship between mental health and involvement in the criminal justice system, emphasizing how pathways, external conditions, structural inequities, and system responses interact to shape long-term outcomes for persons with mental illness (PwMI). While mental illness alone is not a predictor of criminal behavior, the intersection between psychological disorders, social strain, stigma, and systemic failures significantly heightens the risk of criminal justice involvement. Combining four working papers, this capstone examines these relationships across individual, environmental, institutional, and community levels, ultimately arguing that treatment and rehabilitative-centered reforms are essential for improving the experiences of individuals with …

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Content Aware Intra And Inter Prediction Using Texture And Motion Analysis, Yashaswi Karthik Reddy Danda Dec 2025

Content Aware Intra And Inter Prediction Using Texture And Motion Analysis, Yashaswi Karthik Reddy Danda

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Modern video codecs rely on highly optimized block based intra and inter prediction frameworks,  in which block partitioning is determined through exhaustive rate distortion optimization (RDO)  searches. These exhaustive searches evaluate many possible block configurations to identify the  partitioning that minimizes overall rate distortion cost, and they have proven extremely effective  across diverse visual content. This thesis explores a complementary perspective by investigating  whether block partitioning can be guided more directly by content characteristics specifically,  texture complexity for intra prediction and motion complexity or motion density for inter  prediction.  For intra prediction, we introduce a texture adaptive approach that utilizes …

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Catherine, Reagan Christie Dec 2025

Catherine, Reagan Christie

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A golden lamb sleeps peacefully in a quiet meadow, showcased in an intricate golden frame. She wakes up and slowly begins to stand, her knobby knees trembling all the way up. She steadies herself, turning toward the viewer, blinking. Catherine looks at her reflection in a grimy sink full of water. The sink drips, reflection dissipating. She looks up into the mirror above the sink in an endless bathroom, tucks a loose curl of hair back into her habit, and exits the bathroom. Catherine makes her way down a long spiral staircase, humming a hymn to herself. In the kitchen, …

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The Impact Of Screen Time Patterns On Digital Behaviour And Productivity: A Data Analytics Study Across Age Groups, Maytha Alshamsi Dec 2025

The Impact Of Screen Time Patterns On Digital Behaviour And Productivity: A Data Analytics Study Across Age Groups, Maytha Alshamsi

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The increasing incidence of screen time of all ages has generated a greater interest in the effect of screens on the human psyche. This paper looks at behavioural data of 2, 000 individuals aged 13-64 to investigate the predictability of a composite mental- health score by various modalities of screen-time, lifestyle and psychological charac- teristics. We determine, based on exploratory statistics, multivariate regression and su- pervised machine-learned models, that in as much as the influence of total screen time and social-media consumption has significant relationships with worse mental health, the effects are small when juxtaposed to those of lifestyle and …

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Writing The Community: How Christian Texts Construct Belief, Belonging, And Identity, Emma Rodgers Dec 2025

Writing The Community: How Christian Texts Construct Belief, Belonging, And Identity, Emma Rodgers

Student Work

This project investigates how the Christian church community functions as a discourse community through its writing practices— its liturgies, sermons, governance documents, and everyday texts such as newsletters.

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An Educational Approach To Mitigating Stormwater Debris Pollution In The Great Lakes Basin, Autumn Potts Dec 2025

An Educational Approach To Mitigating Stormwater Debris Pollution In The Great Lakes Basin, Autumn Potts

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Accumulation of anthropogenic debris (AD) in the environment, especially plastic, is a pervasive issue that impacts human communities and ecosystems worldwide. Since AD pollution at every scale stems from human activities, its mitigation is contingent on analyzing and modifying the scale-dependent drivers of human behavior surrounding this issue. Although the underlying mechanisms driving litter input and accumulation are not well understood, these patterns suggest a need for hyperlocal solutions. Because environmental education (EE) fosters a significant influence on environmental knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors, it can play an important role in the mitigation of debris input and littering behavior. One method …

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These Yellow Stars Of Ours, Vinh Hong Nguyen Dec 2025

These Yellow Stars Of Ours, Vinh Hong Nguyen

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These Yellow Stars of Ours is an experimental documentary that traces the intertwined histories of Thaun and Nam Nguyen as they flee war-torn Vietnam, fall in love, and build a life in Western New York. Through their accounts and those of their two sons, the film explores the complexities of generational trauma and the ongoing experience of bicultural straddling—the negotiation between inherited Vietnamese identity and the shaping influence of an American upbringing. The project examines how trauma, memory, and cultural displacement circulate across generations, shaping identity in both visible and invisible ways. Methodologically, the film is structured around the conceptual …

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Mercurial, Bhavana Neti Dec 2025

Mercurial, Bhavana Neti

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Mercurial is a groundbreaking visual journey through typography that charts the fluid and often volatile passage, from the depths of sadness, eventually finding the light in the end, inspired by the song title Louder than Bombs by BTS, a Korean boyband. Over a carefully observed period, this book captures the subtle and dramatic transformations of emotion through a unique lens. "Mercurial" represents a unique and multi-layered approach to understanding and visualizing emotions. Initially, the exploration of shapes as a representational tool proved inadequate for capturing this complexity. This led to a pivotal shift towards typography, where the inherent qualities of …

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Exploring The Relationship Between Social Media And Anxiety In Deaf Community Students: A Mixed-Methods Approach., Gigi Zheng Dec 2025

Exploring The Relationship Between Social Media And Anxiety In Deaf Community Students: A Mixed-Methods Approach., Gigi Zheng

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The mental health of Deaf individuals, particularly in relation to social media engagement, is an understudied area amid growing global concerns about anxiety disorders. Deaf individuals face unique challenges, including communication barriers, social isolation, and stigma, all of which can heighten anxiety levels. Although social media offers valuable opportunities for connection and self-expression, it may also amplify stress and feelings of inadequacy when accessibility barriers persist. This mixed-methods study examined anxiety among Deaf college students and explored the cultural validity of two widely used anxiety measures—the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) and the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI). Quantitative data were collected …

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Asymptote, Aybuke Yilmazer Dec 2025

Asymptote, Aybuke Yilmazer

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Asymptote is a short film that is an expression of mankind’s emotional consumption through confusing love with sex. This film is a frame-by-frame hand-drawn animation that combines digital and analog techniques. It was produced between August 2024 and April 2025, and its music was re-produced in August 2025. This paper is a written declaration of the motives and intentions of the director, Aybuke Yilmazer, in making this film, and analyzes the filmmaking process. The text of the thesis is in third person except for the self-evaluation section.

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Out To Pasture, Amandeep Singh Dec 2025

Out To Pasture, Amandeep Singh

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With a wildly successful acting career approaching its final days, Marcel T. Cow looks back at his rise to fame, as well as a rollercoaster of a career. A toxic relationship, substance abuse, and living a lavish lifestyle all lead to his downfall, ultimately making him face one final decision: Leave the vices behind and save his career, or give in and lose everything. Out To Pasture is an animated biopic parody about Marcel’s life as an actor and how his career comes to an end. The film starts with a flashback to Marcel’s humble beginnings, moving to the Big …

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Unmasking Corruption And Bribery Using Predictive Analytics, Maha Salem Dec 2025

Unmasking Corruption And Bribery Using Predictive Analytics, Maha Salem

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The initiative (Unmasking Corruption and Bribery Using Predictive Analytics) aims to identify employees in government sectors who commit corruption and bribery by addressing issues such as the lack of transparency, fairness, equality, and public trust, as well as weakened loyalty and poor reputation. This project focuses on data analytics and predictive modeling to detect suspicious or high-risk employee behaviors related to corruption and bribery. The main objective is to reduce these unethical activities in government sectors, strengthen integrity, and promote transparency and public trust through predictive capabilities. It also seeks to raise awareness about how serious and harmful these crimes …

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Predicting Inmate Overcrowding To Improve Facility Management, Mayed Ali Alameri Dec 2025

Predicting Inmate Overcrowding To Improve Facility Management, Mayed Ali Alameri

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Overcrowding is a major challenge to correction systems because the conventional forecasting techniques are inaccurate and inadequate in most cases. This paper will solve this by constructing and testing a machine learning-based model to predict facility-level overcrowding. With the use of the XGBoost Regressor model on a dataset comprising of U.S. correctional facilities, the research identified key structural drivers but showed that the static facility attributes alone have limited predictive power (r-square approx 0.18) The discussion shows that overcrowding is non-linear, and a complicated problem not confined to the facility characteristics but to the larger, non-measurable regional influences, of which …

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Three Forks, Virginia Van Enckevort Dec 2025

Three Forks, Virginia Van Enckevort

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Three Forks is a thesis drama series about a 19th-century woman sent West to live with her estranged family in Muscogee, a lawless town where justice bends to power and survival means learning the game — or being buried by it. As we follow our lead, Eleanor Davis, out West and eventually her settlement into town, we gain a look into her new world, one where tribal council contend with encroaching U.S. jurisdiction and where settlers, freedmen, and railroad men jostle for influence in a town on the brink of statehood. The many fabled stories and myths about the West …

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The Impact Of The 2008 Financial Crisis On Crime And Cybercrime In The United States, Rashed Adel Alsuwaidi Dec 2025

The Impact Of The 2008 Financial Crisis On Crime And Cybercrime In The United States, Rashed Adel Alsuwaidi

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This thesis will examine how the traditional crime and cy- were affected by the 2008 financial crisis. United States are also experiencing a rise in crime between 2005 and 2012. Based on the FBI data at the national level. The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), Uniform Crime Reports and important economic indicators. The study, which involves tors, including unemployment, GDP, rates of foreclosures, and mortgage rates, is a combination. correlationbased interpretation supported by exploratory descriptive trend analysis. model-fit checks. The results indicate that contrary to the conventional expectations, violent and property crime also maintained their long-term reduction during the period …

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Predicting Residential Real Estate Prices In Dubai Using Integrated Data Analytics: A Machine Learning Approach, Mohammad Nasser Dec 2025

Predicting Residential Real Estate Prices In Dubai Using Integrated Data Analytics: A Machine Learning Approach, Mohammad Nasser

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Dubai’s rapidly evolving real estate market attracts substantial global investment yet remains characterized by information asymmetry, pricing volatility, and fragmented data sources. This study examines how integrated data analytics and ensemble machine learning can be used not primarily for precise price prediction, but rather to identify and quantify the key behavioral and transactional drivers of residential property prices in Dubai. A unified dataset was constructed by integrating over 100,000 residential property transactions from the Dubai Land Department with macroeconomic indicators, web-scraped listing attributes, and sentiment measures derived from online reviews and social media discussions. Supervised learning models including Linear Regression, …

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Predicting Loan Defaults: A Behavioral Scoring Approach For Portfolio Risk Monitoring In Banking And P2p Lending, Humaid Sultan Almarri Dec 2025

Predicting Loan Defaults: A Behavioral Scoring Approach For Portfolio Risk Monitoring In Banking And P2p Lending, Humaid Sultan Almarri

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The critical challenge of lending institutions and peer-to-peer investors is to single out high-risk active borrowers in order to avoid defaults and corresponding losses. This thesis is devoted to the development of a data-driven approach to predict loan defaults, which balances predictive accuracy with interpretability and cost-sensitive evaluation. Using a large dataset of loans from LendingClub, we applied the CRISP-DM methodology, performing extensive data preprocessing and exploratory analysis before training several machine learning models-logistic regression, decision tree, random forest, and XGBoost-to classify loans as default or non-default. Class imbalance was addressed through resampling, and models were tuned via cross-validation with …

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