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Achilles, Sreelekha Samala Dec 2025

Achilles, Sreelekha Samala

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ACHILLES is a speculative design project and conceptual artifact. It is not intended to function as a medically certified or biomechanically operational prosthetic arm. Instead, it operates within the realm of design research, using visual realism and luxury aesthetics to explore how assistive technologies could be perceived differently in cultural, emotional, and commercial contexts. Using 3D software to experiment with color, pattern, and texture, I designed a realistic mockup to demonstrate how Achilles could appear in a high-end commercial setting. Instead of animating the model, I focused on camera motion to highlight the prosthetic from multiple angles, emphasizing its sculptural …

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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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Potential And Low-Cost Football Talents For Uae Clubs Based On Data-Driven Analysis, Rashid Alqemzi Dec 2025

Potential And Low-Cost Football Talents For Uae Clubs Based On Data-Driven Analysis, Rashid Alqemzi

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The use of data analytics in professional football has changed the way clubs view, value and invest in players. Meanwhile, elite European teams have consistently exploited the data-driven strategies that offer them a competitive edge, but in up-and-coming football markets, such as the UAE Pro League, nepotism has remained strong, with reputation-based and agentdriven recruitment being the transformation choice of even the biggest profile moves. This work explores whether predictive analytics can discover hidden high-quality football talent from ”hotbeds” of talent including Brazil and Argentina, in a way that matches the economic capabilities of clubs in the UAE, given the …

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Detecting Fraud In Police Reports Using Machine Learning And Natural Language Processing, Maryam Almarar Dec 2025

Detecting Fraud In Police Reports Using Machine Learning And Natural Language Processing, Maryam Almarar

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The paper explores how statistical analysis and machine learning can be used to identify the fraud patterns in the police reports. The study aims at establishing the most important predictive factors and indicators distinguishing fraudulent and valid cases with the use of structured data of police databases. The work was done in the background of the increase in financial fraud instances and the rising necessity of the introduction of automated detection systems in police departments. Police reports of the pastwere mined down to data and analyzed on SPSS 1, to carry out statistical operations. The sample was structured data which …

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Investigating The Effect Of Build Direction On Mechanical Properties In Pellet-Based 3d Printing, Yahya Mohammed Dec 2025

Investigating The Effect Of Build Direction On Mechanical Properties In Pellet-Based 3d Printing, Yahya Mohammed

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This study investigates the influence of build orientation on the mechanical performance of Polylactic Acid (PLA) components fabricated using Fused Granular Fabrication (FGF), a pellet-based additive manufacturing method, and benchmarks these results against Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM). Although orientation-dependent mechanical behavior has been widely studied in filament-based extrusion, there remains a critical gap in understanding how these effects appeared in pellet-based fabrication. To address this gap, PLA tensile and compression specimens were fabricated using both FGF and FDM under identical geometries, processing parameters, and preparation procedures, ensuring that any differences in performance arise solely from the manufacturing method and build …

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Exploring Engineering Students' Utilization Of Resources In Calculus Using Self-Regulated Learning, Kriz George Dec 2025

Exploring Engineering Students' Utilization Of Resources In Calculus Using Self-Regulated Learning, Kriz George

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In response to high failure rates of engineering students in introductory math courses such as calculus, a wide variety of interventions have been implemented. A common intervention is targeted at modifying the curricula. Additionally, a major initiative to improve pass rates is to provide resources to students to help them better learn the concepts and get continual support as they complete assignments and other coursework. Despite these interventions, pass rates continue to remain low. I posit that merely the availability of resources is not enough for student success in mathematics courses. Students who lack knowledge of how to use these …

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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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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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Ai-Powered Multimodal Tour Guide: Enhancing Cultural Tourism With Image Recognition, And Personalized Storytelling, Abdulla Ibrahim Aljawi Dec 2025

Ai-Powered Multimodal Tour Guide: Enhancing Cultural Tourism With Image Recognition, And Personalized Storytelling, Abdulla Ibrahim Aljawi

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This thesis presents the design and evaluation of an AI-powered multimodal tour guide that uses image recognition and personalised storytelling to enhance cultural heritage experiences. Traditional approaches to learning about monuments rely on static plaques, generic tour content, or manual web searches, which limit personalisation, interactivity, and accessibility. To address these limitations, the study implemented a “Multimodal Monument Explorer” that allows users to upload a photo of a landmark or describe it in natural language and then receive rich, context-aware explanations in both text and audio form. The system integrates a persistent vector database of monument images, OpenCLIP-based visual embeddings, …

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The Klik Chair - Designed To Move, Built To Last, Neeraj Sugumaran Menon Dec 2025

The Klik Chair - Designed To Move, Built To Last, Neeraj Sugumaran Menon

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For the modern individual who moves housing frequently, buying furniture has become an increasingly tedious and frustrating process. Traditional furniture often presents challenges due to its bulk, weight, and complex assembly requirements, making it difficult to transport and reassemble when moving to a new living space. As a result, the true value of a piece of furniture is no longer determined solely by its price tag or aesthetic appeal but by its ability to adapt to a nomadic lifestyle. Additionally, furniture that holds long-term sentimental or functional value has become even more significant in an era where disposability is routine. …

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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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Play Of Curiosity: A Table-Top Game That Cultivates A Creative Attitude By Encouraging Curiosity In Young Adults, Kajal Shah Dec 2025

Play Of Curiosity: A Table-Top Game That Cultivates A Creative Attitude By Encouraging Curiosity In Young Adults, Kajal Shah

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In a time that increasingly demands instant creativity, adaptability, and innovative thinking on a constant basis, nurturing a curious attitude among young adults must become a critical focus. Creativity and curiosity can be encouraged throughout various stages of life, and for myriads of personality types, the focus demographic of this paper is young adults, ages 18 to 26 years old. Young adulthood is when one starts to recognize post-formal thoughts. This stage of cognitive development helps to approach concepts beyond binary thinking, developing the unique abilities of ambiguous thinking and relativism. The enigmatic, ever-changing, and easygoing mind will often try …

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Early Electrical Fault Detection In Power Systems Using Data Analytics, Hessa Alraeesi Dec 2025

Early Electrical Fault Detection In Power Systems Using Data Analytics, Hessa Alraeesi

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The increasing penetration of renewable energy, especially solar generation, has introduced higher variability into power system loading, making early detection of electrical faults more challenging yet more essential for maintaining network reliability. This research presents a machine-learning–based framework for early electrical fault detection using a Random Forest model developed in DataRobot. Due to confidentiality constraints on DEWA operational data, a Kaggle dataset was adopted and enriched with simulated solar irradiance variability to mirror real network conditions in the UAE. After comprehensive data preprocessing and feature engineering, the Random Forest model demonstrated strong generalization performance, accurately distinguishing early fault signatures from …

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Macroscale Thermal Modelling For The Molten Metal Droplet Jetting Additive Manufacturing Process, Khushbu Zope Dec 2025

Macroscale Thermal Modelling For The Molten Metal Droplet Jetting Additive Manufacturing Process, Khushbu Zope

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Molten Metal Jetting (MMJ) has become a promising pathway for next-generation metal additive manufacturing because it avoids the need for powders or high-power energy sources and enables precise, drop-on-demand deposition of structural alloys. Despite this promise, the field lacks a predictive thermal modeling framework that can describe the full temperature history of a part as thousands of droplets accumulate. Without such a model, it is difficult to control heat buildup, to understand how bonding conditions evolve across layers, and to avoid defects such as incomplete fusion, porosity, and geometrical distortion. This dissertation presents the first validated macroscale thermal modeling framework …

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Predictive Analysis Of Residential Property In Urban Areas, Hamad Adnan Alzarooni Dec 2025

Predictive Analysis Of Residential Property In Urban Areas, Hamad Adnan Alzarooni

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This paper aims to determine the predictive modelling of residential property prices in urban Scotland with the help of an integrated framework in which machine learning methods are applied in combination with detailed socio-economic, health, housing, and geographic indicators. Conventional valuation methods tend to be based on the concept of few structural variables and ignore the effect of multidimensional variables in determining spatial variation in housing markets. To cope with this, the study uses Linear Regression, random forest, Multi-layer perceptron, and XGBoost models, which are assisted by a broad range of feature engineering, outlier management, and data preprocessing. Compared with …

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Segment-Level Machine Learning For Detecting Partial Deepfake Audio: An Rnn–Svm Hybrid Approach For Real-World Adversarial Environments, Ahmad Alhelli Dec 2025

Segment-Level Machine Learning For Detecting Partial Deepfake Audio: An Rnn–Svm Hybrid Approach For Real-World Adversarial Environments, Ahmad Alhelli

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This study investigates the detection of real, fully fake, and partially fake (PF) audio using classical machine-learning models as well as a segment-level analysis model. Unlike most existing research, which focuses solely on binary real-vs-fake classification, this work introduces a three-class detection framework and constructs realistic PF samples by inserting short synthetic speech segments into otherwise genuine audio recordings. Its method combines MFCC and spectral feature engineering,Wav2Vec2 embeddings, controlled PF synthesis and various models such as SVM, Random Forest, XGBoost and an attention based RNN. Segment level windowing allows fine-grained study of transition of time and breaks of manipulation. The …

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Integrating Climate And Geospatial Features Into Machine Learning Models, Abdulaziz Ahmed Aljaziri Dec 2025

Integrating Climate And Geospatial Features Into Machine Learning Models, Abdulaziz Ahmed Aljaziri

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This thesis addresses a significant gap in real estate valuation models by investigating the economic impact of localized climate conditions and granular geospatial amenities. An abstract summarizes the following: - The main themes, ideas or areas of theory being investigated: This research investigates the integration of localized climate conditions and granular geospatial amenities into machine learning (ML) frameworks for residential real estate valuation. - The background and context of the research: In dynamic urban markets like Dubai, traditional valuation models often rely on broad location labels and structural attributes, overlooking the tangible economic impact of environmental comfort and micro-climates in …

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Multilingual Identity Document Information Extraction Via Dynamic Templates And Hybrid Ocr, Khalifa Rashed Dec 2025

Multilingual Identity Document Information Extraction Via Dynamic Templates And Hybrid Ocr, Khalifa Rashed

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The thesis introduces a unified, automated document intelligence system that can in-house resolve significant issues in identity authentication and data OCR by two complementary technological components: advanced facial biometrics and powerful multilingual optical character recognition. The system directly addresses the inefficiencies of the slow speed of document processing by humans, human error and high cost of operation by offering a single pipeline for verifying the identity of the user via facial comparison and digitizing textual data contained in documents. The former module adopts an advanced face verification pipeline. It starts with an image pre-processing step, which improves the quality of …

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Ai-Powered Mobile Phone Activity Insights: Developing Predictive Models For Smarter Decision-Making, Maryam Al Ali Dec 2025

Ai-Powered Mobile Phone Activity Insights: Developing Predictive Models For Smarter Decision-Making, Maryam Al Ali

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This study investigates how artificial intelligence can enhance telecom network management by forecasting internet usage, predicting congestion, and identifying user behavior patterns from mobile phone activity data. The study made use of anonymized logs for calls, SMS and internet, and put up a multi-model analytical pipeline, which was composed of time-series forecasting (ARIMA, LSTM), clustering (K-Means), and classification (XGBoost), to perform the analysis. Among the time-series methods, ARIMA ranked first in the forecast performance (RMSE=0.31) and gave LSTM a convincing defeat in the case of this particular short and stable dataset. Based on K-Means segmentation, users were sorted into five …

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Predicting Athlete Performance Using Machine Learning Models, Mohammad Abdulbasit Mohammad Alabdulla Dec 2025

Predicting Athlete Performance Using Machine Learning Models, Mohammad Abdulbasit Mohammad Alabdulla

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The purpose of this research is to develop and assess multi-modal machine learning for robust performance analysis to predict athletic performance and evaluate injury risk. The study employed Data Analytics approach, where composite features, i.e., Training Stress and Recovery Score,were modelled to characterize training-recovery correlations. It had four different regression models (MLR, RFR, SVR, DNN) and four different classification models (Logistic Regression, RFC, SVM, DNN). DNN exhibited an increased degree of effectiveness in the forecasting Synthetic Performance Score (R2 =0.9998). Notably, the Random Forest Classifier (RFC) turned out to be the most valid predictor of injuries risk (F1-Score 0.7736; AUC-ROC …

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Work And Play In Tandem: A Brief Study Of Familiar Silhouettes In The Contemporary Workplace, Tanisa Bose Samaddar Dec 2025

Work And Play In Tandem: A Brief Study Of Familiar Silhouettes In The Contemporary Workplace, Tanisa Bose Samaddar

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This thesis addresses the limitations posed by conventional office furniture, and its impact on human psychological and physiological well-being. Drawing upon literature that delves into the topics of neuroscience of play, environmental psychology, and emotional sustainability, the thesis seeks to solve these issues through design modifications. It aims to understand how brief, movement-focused breaks can help rejuvenate executive functioning, uplift mood, and encourage bursts of social interaction. A five-stage prototyping process, thumbnail sketches, clay models, 3D modeling, full-scale drawings, and iterative Fusion360 refinements, later Tandem was born. By requiring at least two users to operate its see-saw mode, Tandem counteracts …

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Optimizing Human Resource Decisions: Predicting Promotions Using Data Analytics, Mohammad Khalid A Mohammad Abdulrahim Dec 2025

Optimizing Human Resource Decisions: Predicting Promotions Using Data Analytics, Mohammad Khalid A Mohammad Abdulrahim

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Proper and objective selection of high potential employees to promote them is a major dilemma in the Human Resources (HR) department, more so in sensitive and hierarchal environments in the public sector where subjectivity is likely to take place. This paper is based on this ubiquitous issue, and it seeks to develop, experiment, and examine a clear and equitable machine learning model that can forecast the possibility of an employee to get a promotion according to organized past HR records. The technique was solid preprocessing, alleviation of extreme class imbalances on the basis of the Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique (SMOTE), …

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Deepfake Audio Detection, Rashed Alfalasi Dec 2025

Deepfake Audio Detection, Rashed Alfalasi

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The rise of deepfake audio technology has introduced a serious threat to information credibility, personal security, and media integrity. This thesis investigates the application of machine learning techniques for detecting synthetic audio through the analysis of acoustic features, including Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCCs), spectral centroid, chroma_stft, and zero-crossing rate. The dataset used in this study was sourced from Kaggle and contains labeled samples of real and fake audio clips. The research aimed to train and evaluate multiple machine learning models—Support Vector Machines (SVM), Random Forest, XGBoost, Logistic Regression, and Neural Networks—to determine the most effective approach for deepfake audio classification. …

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Security Vulnerabilities In Cloud Storage: A Comparative Study Of Google Drive, Dropbox, And Onedrive, Sultan Majid Alshamsi Dec 2025

Security Vulnerabilities In Cloud Storage: A Comparative Study Of Google Drive, Dropbox, And Onedrive, Sultan Majid Alshamsi

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In recent years, use of internet has increased manifold. People have started creating more data, and instead of saving it locally, people have started preferring storing it “online”. Companies are also following the same path to maintain accessibility and availability of their data. Thus, data has become a central part of our lives. People, companies, and institutions rely heavily on cloud storage solutions these days for managing their data. Some of the main cloud storage solution are Google Drive, Dropbox, and OneDrive. These are sophisticated solutions developed by tech giants, and general expectation of the public is that these solutions …

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Integrated Machine Learning For Smart Home Resource Optimization, Ahmed Almazrouei Dec 2025

Integrated Machine Learning For Smart Home Resource Optimization, Ahmed Almazrouei

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This thesis explores howmachine learning can be used to support better energy management in smart homes. Many smart home systems today collect a large amount of data through sensors and smart meters, but they still depend on simple rules and do not make predictive or automatic decisions. In the academic field, energy forecasting and energy optimization are often studied separately, which creates a gap in understanding how the two components can work together in a real setting. Because of this, there is a need to test an integrated approach that uses both forecasting and optimization in one framework. In this …

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A Comparative Analysis Of Machine Learning And Deep Learning Models For Human Activity Recognition Using Wearable Sensor Data, Fares Shaban Dec 2025

A Comparative Analysis Of Machine Learning And Deep Learning Models For Human Activity Recognition Using Wearable Sensor Data, Fares Shaban

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Wearable sensors have become vital for health monitoring, evaluation of sport performance, and recognition of activities of daily life in Human Activity Recognition (HAR). With the combination of machine learning and inertial sensing, new possibilities for the collection of data pertaining to human motion in daily life have emerged. Nevertheless, problems remain to be resolved in the field of modeling in relation to tradeoffs in classification. The focus remains on imaging, signal variability, and sensor noise. This study aims to determine the usefulness of Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) data for activity recognition and compares classical machine learning methods with a …

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Biodegradation Of Common Post-Consumer Plastic, Laura Krebs Dec 2025

Biodegradation Of Common Post-Consumer Plastic, Laura Krebs

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Plastic waste is widespread throughout the Laurentian Great Lakes watershed. During environmental exposure, plastic undergoes abiotic and biotic degradation. The presence of novel plastic substrates coupled with rapid microbial turnover may lead to selection for or evolution of metabolic pathways and enzymes with enhanced biodegradation capabilities. This study investigated the biodegradation potential of bacteria isolated from debris accumulation hotspots - stormwater retention ponds, storm drains, and tributaries - in the Lake Ontario watershed within Rochester, New York. Bacterial isolates were exposed to commonly littered plastics for 240 d: cellulose acetate from smoked cigarette filters, high-density polyethylene from takeout shopping bags, …

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Analyzing Airline Customer Experience Challenges And Their Impact On Dubai's Tourism Sector, Suhail Alfalasi Dec 2025

Analyzing Airline Customer Experience Challenges And Their Impact On Dubai's Tourism Sector, Suhail Alfalasi

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The paper explores whether there is a connection between operational performance, customer sentiment, and digital administrative complexity among major regional Middle Eastern airlines, such as Flag Carriers (e.g., Emirates) and Low-Cost carriers (LCCs) (e.g., Air Arabia). With the use of a highly detailed dataset of customer review and operations data, the study proves that a large service paradox is present in which, despite the high Net Promoter Scores (NPS: 48.004) of the carriers, which are positively reinforced by delivering world-class soft products, the loyalty is constantly disrupted by low-frequency but high-severe operational delays (Delay_Minutes). Since it has been analyzed that …

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Ai-Driven Cyber Threat Detection, Humaid Thani Almheiri Dec 2025

Ai-Driven Cyber Threat Detection, Humaid Thani Almheiri

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Bycreating an AI-driven method using deep learning and statistical analysis tools, this study seeks to fill important security holes in conventional intrusion detection systems. Current signature-based systems miss new and complex cyberattacks, which have significant financial and operational consequences for companies. The suggested approach detects unusual network activity in real-time by combining statistical analysis with long short-term memory networks (LSTMs), convolutional neural networks (CNNs), and statistical analysis. This study will create and test hybrid models that can identify both known and zero-day threats while reducing false positives using publicly accessible datasets like UNSW-NB15, CIC-IDS2017, and NSL-KDD. Expected results are a …

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Enhancing Airport Operations With Ai For A Seamless Passenger Experience, Rashed Alsubousi Dec 2025

Enhancing Airport Operations With Ai For A Seamless Passenger Experience, Rashed Alsubousi

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The paper is research exploring the importance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data Analytics to optimize airport operations and the passenger experience in the environment of the expanding air traffic in the world and the smart city movement. With increasing tasks that airports currently experience, congestion, flight delays, mishandling of baggage, and limited capacity, nowadays AI-based technologies integration is crucial to the operational efficiency, sustainability, and customer satisfaction. This study discusses the use of predictive analytics, machine learning, and clustering models to enhance passenger flows, resource allocation, and performance in general at airports. The research is based on the working …

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