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Authenticated Key Establishment Protocol For Constrained Smart Healthcare Systems Based On Physical Unclonable Function, Abdalla Saleh Elkushli

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Smart healthcare systems are one of the critical applications of the internet of things. They benefit many categories of the population and provide significant improvement to healthcare services. Smart healthcare systems are also susceptible to many threats and exploits because they run without supervision for long periods of time and communicate via open channels. Moreover, in many implementations, healthcare sensor nodes are implanted or miniaturized and are resource-constrained. The potential risks on patients/individuals’ life from the threats necessitate that securing the connections in these systems is of utmost importance. This thesis provides a solution to secure end-to-end communications in such …

Exploring Cycle 2 English Teachers’ Beliefs Toward Assessment Practices In The United Arab Emirates, Othaiba Salem Al Dhaheri

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The new language assessment policies in the UAE necessitate that English language teacher need to be cognizant about the new language assessment. The inseparable connection between learning and teaching is at the center of assessment today. This study tries to explore cycle 2 English language teachers’ beliefs toward their assessment practices in the UAE. The study seeks to understand teachers’ assessment practices, beliefs, and obstacles through two means: a semi-structured interview followed by a self-report questionnaire. The study employs an exploratory sequential mixed method design. In the first phase, a semi-structured interview is conducted with 6 cycle 2 English language …

Uae Kindergarten Teachers’ Mathematical Beliefs And Self-Reported Practices, Mausmi Dilip Jadhav

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Research stresses that young children must be nurtured and encouraged to develop cognitive processes of higher order thinking skills from a young age in order to excel in later years. According to the joint position statement issued by the National Association for the Education of Young Children and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (2010), which was endorsed by the Ministry of Education, UAE, all kindergarten teachers should practice developmentally appropriate mathematics instruction to promote mathematical thinking. However, there is a paucity of research that reflects the beliefs and confidence of the UAE kindergarten teachers in facilitating developmentally appropriate …

The Effect Of Patient Activation On Transition Clinic Adherence, Megan S. Mcgraw

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Heart failure (HF) affects more than five million Americans and is one of the most commonly occurring reasons for admission to the hospital among adults aged 65 and over. Evidence is growing that the higher amount of patient engagement or activation, the better the health and cost outcomes. The purpose of this study was to determine if there was a relationship between a higher patient activation score, as determined by the PAM-10, and completion in the heart failure transition clinic. The design for this study was a quantitative descriptive study. The patients were given the questionnaire prior to discharge from …

Sustainability In Design: The Exploration Of Using Digital Design As A Tool To Promote Environmental Conservation And Sustainable Practice, Kaitlyn Maxwell

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The final website deliverable functions not only as a means of presentation, but as a jumping off point for digital designers to build off of, using the carefully curated resources and informational findings that are included in, and crafted specifically for, this project. By focusing on three main aspects of how to answer the research question 1) creating awareness, 2) making a case for caring, and 3) effective messaging methods, a framework has been created that the audience can expand upon without being overwhelmed by a question with many potential routes to travel down. A digital designer can promote sustainable …

Creating Engaging Online Curriculum In A Secondary Graphic Design Class, Berea Moss

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This project focuses on how to improve online learning courses leading to increased student engagement. This project examines a variety of online tools and course structures such as Padlet, introductory videos, and prompt teacher feedback to engage a variety of learners throughout the online course. Prior research conducted on proper online course design was used in the development of an online unit of instruction. The unit created consists of four lessons with an emphasis on proper course layout, student-teacher interactions, and engaging online tools. The project studies the engagement of seventy-eight seventh and eighth grade graphic design students during the …

نظام التقاضي عن بعد وفقا لقانون الإجراءات المدنیة الإماراتي, مریم محمد الشامسي

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تتناول ھذه الدراسة كیفیة قواعد التقاضي عن بعد وفقا لقانون الإجراءات المدنیة الإماراتي وتحدید ا التطبیق العملي للتقاض ي عن بعد في ضوء صدور القرار الوزاري رقم 260 لسنة 2019 في شأن الدلیل الإجرائي لتنظیم التقاضي باستخدام الوسائل الإلكترونیة والاتصال عن بعد في الإجراءات المدنیة الإماراتي، حیث بینت الدراسة ماھیة التقاضي عن بعد، ووضحت إجراءات التقاضي عن بعد، وتطرقت أیضا إلى خصوصیة التقاضي عن بعد في مرحلة التقاضي.

توصلت الباحثة من خلال الدراسة إلى عدة نتائج مھمة، أو لا:ً أن الإجراءات الورقیة والمواعید الإجرائیة الطویلة في نظام التقاضي التقلیدي تطیل أمد التقاض ي، وتسبب صعوبة الفصل ف ي المنازعات، كما …

Role Of Group Work In Promoting Student To Student Interaction And Motivation In The Efl Classroom, Iman Duw Suwassi

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This thesis is concerned with group work and collaborative learning and teaching in the English as a Foreign Language (EFL) classroom in the UAE. This study aims to discover the role of group work and collaborative learning in promoting student to student interaction and motivation in the English Language Classroom. Three tools were used in this study to collect data. An online student questionnaire and an online student survey were conducted with 15 high school students during a distance learning lesson on Microsoft Teams. The third tool was an online interview conducted via Zoom with the high school English Teacher. …

Effects Of St713 With Simultaneous Histamine H3 And Dopamine D2/D3 Receptor Antagonist Properties On Cognitive Impairments And Autism-Like Behaviors In Btbr T+Tf/J Mice, Mohammed Mustafa Alawad

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Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) is a multifactorial neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by two core symptoms which are impairments in social interaction and communication, repetitive and restricted behaviors. Dopamine (DA) and histamine (HA) are two neurotransmitters that are proposed to be involved in several brain disorders including schizophrenia, depression, anxiety, and narcolepsy, all of those disorders are comorbid with ASD. Thus, the palliative effects of the novel multiple-active histamine H3 receptor (H3R) antagonist and dopamine D2/D3 receptor (D2/D3R) antagonist ST-713 with its high H3R antagonist affinity and balanced inhibitory effects on both dopaminergic receptor subtypes D2R and D3R on ASD-like behaviors in …

Technology Assisted Review Of Legal Documents, Malik Umar Hassan

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A legal prediction-based approach will help judges and solicitors to take judicial decisions on current cases, which are going on in courts, and make predictions on new cases on the basis of existing references and judgments. This model also helps law students learn about legal references. This application was developed specifically for the “Supreme Court of Pakistan (SCP)” and the “Pakistan Bar Council (PBC)” to expedite their judgments and provide legal guidance to lawyers based on historical data and constitutions.

Speech Feature Analysis And Discrimination In Biological Information, Shogo Honda

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A silent speech interface is a system that allows people doing speech communication without using their own speech sounds. Today, a variety of speech interfaces have been developed using biological signals such as the eye movement, and the articulatory. These interfaces are mainly for supporting people who have speech disorder to communicate with others, yet there are many speech disorder that have not been addressed by the current technologies. The possible cause of the issue is the limited numbers of the biological signals used for the speech interface. The uncovered issues with speech disorders can be addressed through identifying new …

Predicting Energy Consumption During Expo 2020, Rashed Waleed Albishre

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The art of the Expo event is the bloom in the economy of the country where it is hosted along with the collaboration among the various areas of the country. Dubai availed the privilege of hosting Expo 2020. Dubai being a center of attention for tourist attraction and the growth in its economy, took pride in hosting the event while working on themes and ways to make the event stand out. Expo is known to bring visitors from around the world to one country for a duration of six months where the visitors are provided with an opportunity to enjoy …

Climate Change Awareness In The United Arab Emirates, Mariam Matar Abdulla Mohammed Almheiri

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Climate change has focused public attention in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on the role of society in environmental protection. The objective of this study was to determine the level of public awareness of climate change in the seven emirates of the UAE. The study also aimed to determine the spatial and geographical distribution and gender differences, as well as to investigate the possible influence of human activities on climate change impacts. In a cross-sectional survey, the researcher used a questionnaire to collect data from a sample of 4000 participants to answer the research questions. The drop-off pick-up (DOPU) method …

English Language Teachers’ Perceptions Of Implementing Digital Game-Based Learning In The Uae Middle Schools, Israa Mohammed Abbas

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This study investigates how English teachers perceive the use and implementation of DGBL in middle schools in the United Arab Emirates. Digital game-based learning is a relatively new method that is being integrated into the classroom. This method requires ICT skills in line with pedagogy to be practiced in a meaningful way. The main objective of this study is to highlight the positive aspects and the obstacles that teachers may face when using DGBL in the classroom. The study used a mix of methods to answer the research questions. The first phase used the quantitative method through a questionnaire distributed …

Supply Chain Resilience By Strategic Sourcing: A Case Study, Abel Mathews

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Purpose- To briefly explore the topic of improving supply chain resilience using strategic sourcing and its benefits to businesses when adopted. The project also develops a framework for the implementation of the principles of strategic sourcing for an HVAC manufacturer and supplier in the UAE, considering the pandemic and its impact on market requirements. Approach- Define the need for strategic sourcing to meet the current market condition in the UAE. Develop a strategic sourcing framework tailor-made to the company based on the requirement of the case study to offer an advantage in the current market. Develop methodologies to implement strategic …

Preparing Prelicensure Nursing Students For Workplace Violence: A Limit Setting Education Module, Maychao Michelle Yang

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In the hospital setting, de-escalation training has become a very important method of preventing workplace violence against nurses and other healthcare workers. While nurses are now required to complete workplace violence prevention training, there is no guarantee that nurses who complete the training have the communication skills needed during the de-escalation process with disruptive or aggressive patients. In prelicensure nursing programs, key skills in deescalation training such as limit setting could form a solid foundation for any further training provided in the hospital setting. An online educational module on the topic of limit setting with patients and visitors was created …

Organizational Excellence And Agility - Correlation Model, Karam Yousef Al-Assaf

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The strive to sustain excellence within organizations has increased with the constant change in customer demands and toughening of competition. With these rapid changes occurring, the need for organizations to be agile has become a significant element in their operation schemes to sustain the excellence and be future-ready. This need raises the question of the relationship between organizational excellence and agility. Various models and frameworks have been developed to achieve excellence and agility in organizations. However, limited studies have correlated the two. This research investigates the relationship between excellence and agility within organizations and develops an assessment correlation index matrix …

Design And Implementation Of Photovoltaic Energy Harvesting Automaton, Iskandar Askarov

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Global domestic electricity consumption has been rapidly increasing in the past three decades. In fact, from 1990 to 2020, consumption has more than doubled from 10,120 TWh to 23,177 TWh [1]. Moreover, consumers have been turning more towards clean, renewable energy sources such as Photovoltaic. According to International Energy Agency, global Solar power generation alone in 2019 has reached almost 3% [4] of the electricity supply. Even though the efficiency of photovoltaic panels has been growing, presently, the highest efficiency solar panels available to an average consumer range only from 20%-22% [14]. Many research papers have been published to increase …

Unsupervised Transfer Learning With Autoencoders, Siddhant Reddy

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There have been massive improvements in the field of computer vision in recent years, mostly due to the efficacy of deep learning. Most if not all of these tasks involve use of supervised learning. However, building a labelled dataset of sufficient volume can be prohibitively expensive. This is where transfer learning is applied, where the predictive models are trained on a related pretext task(most commonly using supervised learning) before being fine-tuned on the target task. This reduces the volume of data required for the target task but we are still bound by the volume of labelled data available for the …

A Novel 3d Animation About Human Visual System: From Retina To Perception, Qiuwan Liu

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Introduction to vision and perception has been a fundamental topic for students from varied majors in college. Students who study Biology, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, and Visual Design, need to learn about the visual pathway before they dive into more specific research topics. This thesis intends to create a 3D animation to assist professors explaining the complex process of the visual pathway. The target audience for this project is undergraduate students majoring in color science. My goal of this animation is to introduce students to the complicated anatomy of the retinal structure and the molecular pathway of the photoreceptors to demonstrate …

Modern Tarot Deck, Caitlyn Childress

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The Original Rider-Waite tarot deck has since been reimagined through numerous tarot decks with the intention of modernization and implementing personal interpretations. Through varying versions of the monumentally historical deck, the Major Arcana, a vital part of the traditional tarot deck, has transformed meaning through replacements and substitutions of visual design elements. Existing modern adaptations of the Original Rider-Waite deck have not addressed race and gender perspectives native to the original deck. I recreated the Major Arcana twice, with both groups of cards tailored towards the same user group with ease, learning, traditional meanings, and experience in mind. After creating …

Designing For Enchantment: The Application Of New Media Technologies For The Design Of Enchanting Museum Experiences, Liam Madden

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This thesis documents and presents a number of ideas that aim to enhance the visitor experience of Nano Nagle Place (NNP). The primary aim of this project is to explore the novel application of new media technologies for the construction and creation of enchanting experiences within the context of the contemporary museum / visitor centre. Though the aim was to introduce technology into the museum space, a leading principle from the outset was to ensure any interventions resonated with the heritage of the museum. The focus of was not on the technologies used to create the interventions but rather on …

Genomic Changes Associated With Transitions To Heterospory And Genome Downsizing In Land Plants, Rijan R. Dhakal

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Green plants, ubiquitous and essential in the biosphere, have two reproductive life cycles: heterosporous and homosporous. Heterosporous plants are generally seen more often in daily life and tend to be the source of staple foods. Heterosporous reproduction has evolved at least 11 times from ancestral homosporous lineages. Heterospory, presumed to have selective advantages, has a perplexing correlation with chromosome numbers. Here I have used novel data, tools, and methodology to discover 19, so far unknown, gene families, with the potential to explain the correlation between the reproductive life cycle in green plants and chromosome numbers. The discovery of these gene …

Beyond The Supernova : Time, Space, And Utopia In Outer Wilds, Sarah Salajka

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Video games have evolved from simplistic marks moving on a screen to a diverse and inventive storytelling medium unique from other narrative forms. They allow for new methods of approaching traditional literary forms, such as the utopia. The utopian genre has seen a series of formal changes as social and historical contexts changed over time. This thesis proposes a new approach to the utopian genre borne from the current inability to imagine a future. While previous literary versions of utopia were expressed by moving forward through time or displacement through space, current social and environmental circumstances render this impossible, and …

'Are We Doing The Right Thing?' Utilising Security Governance To Reform The Us Drone Program, Jane Minson

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The use of unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, for counterterrorism purposes by the United States within its targeted killing program has been deeply controversial. Used in each presidential administration since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, drones have sparked debate, in part due to their contribution to civilian deaths; their killing of high-value terrorist targets including, on at least one occasion, a US citizen; and the heightened secrecy that has surrounded the program with little formal oversight and, as such, little accountability. This thesis uses this contextual framework – with a particular focus on the administration of President Barack …

Developing A Contemplative Classroom. Are There Other Approaches That Usefully Extend Angelo Caranfa?, Rosemary Laoulach

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This study will explore the literature on silence and contemplation in order to develop an approach for a contemplative classroom. It will examine Angelo Caranfa’s ideas on silence in education and a contemplative curriculum. The research will highlight some of the influences on his work, critiquing them and pointing out what can be further developed by outlining what a contemplative classroom might look like.

Contemplative practices will be defined broadly as silence, attentiveness, reflection, humility, attentive listening, and mindfulness. I will provide a theoretical and practical account of these to inform educators towards a holistic approach to teaching and learning …

Architecture And Students' Physical Activity In Learning Environments, Rachel Marie Tindall

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‘Architecture and Students’ Physical Activity in Learning Environments’ is a doctoral thesis that aims to understand how the physical activity behaviours of Australian children are influenced by school architectural environments. Physical activity (movement) and sedentary behaviour (sitting) play a major role in the overall health of children, yet Australian children are failing to meet the government recommendations (Active Healthy Kids Australia (AHKA) 2016). As most children spend a significant amount of their time in schools, it is important to understand how the learning environments influence them. The architecture of schools is perhaps the least changed architectural typology within contemporary society, …

‘Burnt Out Lamps’: Exploring The Impact Of Occupational Stress And Burnout On The Wellbeing Of Intensive Care Nurses In A Tertiary Hospital, Swapna Mathew

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Occupational stress and burnout are commonly experienced by nurses in the intensive care unit and contribute to poor nursing practice. A study in the United Kingdom revealed that approximately one-third of the intensive care unit team members were at a ‘high risk’ for burnout syndrome. Research suggests that multiple factors contribute to occupational stress and burnout, including nursing shortages, staff turnover, high workloads, workplace conflicts, and bullying. Research suggests that the wellbeing of nurses is imperative in ensuring the best delivery of care to patients, which further results in positive health outcomes for patients.

This study was conducted in a …

Assess, Address, Progress: An Online Approach To Evaluate And Develop Teacher Education Students’ Numeracy Capability, Kate Hartup

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For as long as numeracy has been assessed as a major domain in Australia (since 2003), Australian school students’ numeracy levels have been declining (Thomson et al., 2019). This decline is evident despite it being a national requirement for teachers to teach numeracy skills across all subject areas at all year levels (Australian Curriculum and Reporting Authority (ACARA), n.d.). Although there are several definitions of numeracy, fundamentally it is the application of mathematics and the ability to interpret and utilise mathematical information (Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), 2017). Given that teachers’ mathematical knowledge has been shown to affect their …

The Virtue Of Appropriate Transparency: Research Psychology And The Replication Crisis, Barry Mannolini-Winwood

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I argue that one step toward addressing the replication crisis in psychology is through the application of appropriate transparency in research communication. Drawing upon virtue epistemology, I propose that appropriate transparency can be defined as a contextually informed point between understatement and overstatement. As such, I contend that judging appropriate transparency in research psychology requires a shared research design nomenclature (RDN). As researchers’ definitions of terms related to research psychology are not necessarily identical between individuals, it is beneficial to use transparent definitions of pivotal concepts to facilitate effective communication between researchers and their audience. However, the boundaries of appropriate …