Browsing AUS Theses & Dissertations by Title
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Assessment of Integrating Solar Energy Technology with Combined Cycle Power Plants
(2014-06)The integration of solar energy technology with the conventional combined cycle is considered as a promising technology to produce electricity due to its valuable and unique benefits. Also, adding thermal energy storage ... -
Assessment of Inventory and Transportation Collaboration in a Logistics Marketplace
(2020-03)The globalization of businesses and the consequent competition introduce significant pressures on logistics systems. One such key demand on the role of logistics within organizations is the increased emphasis on time-based ... -
Assessment of Usability of Web-Based Applications' User Interfaces
(2017-07)System intelligence can be expressed in terms of how much it helps to make a desired task easy for human beings. The concept can be extended to user interface of computer software which is the cornerstone of human- machine ... -
Assessment Through Student Portfolios in Omani Schools
(2006-06)Why do Omani teachers not use student portfolios as effective alternative tools of assessment? Why do they only depend on traditional testing to evaluate students progress in the English language? Although the Ministry ... -
Audio Visual Translation: Subtitling Pragmatic Features
(2006-12)Globally, this is the age of mass communications, of multimedia experience and a world where audiences demand the right to share the text, be it film, song , or book simultaneously across cultures" Bassnett (cited in ... -
AUS Student Writers' Use of Clauses: Support for the Contrastive Rhetoric Hypothesis?
(2009-12)Different theories exist regarding the characteristics of academic writing in English by students of other L1s. In 1966 Robert Kaplan proposed the contrastive rhetoric hypothesis, which has evolved over the years into the ... -
AUS-UAV HILS Setup of Dynamic Flight Path Planning
(2006-08)My research will utilize the existing UAV test-bed consisting of the TRI-60 RC airplane, the Avionics Unit, the embedded controller system, and the Ground Station to test minimum time flight path algorithms and mission ... -
Auto Takeoff and Precision Landing using Integrated GPS/INS/Optical Flow Solution
(2015-01)Auto takeoff and landing has been considered as the most challenging part in performing a flight with a high degree of autonomy. Hence, many researchers have addressed the problem of developing a precise auto takeoff and ... -
Automated Writing Evaluations in The ESL Classroom
(2023-05)Automated feedback systems have taken center stage in global education. It is unarguably evident that there have been noticeable increases in attempts by many technological companies to develop automated feedback tools ... -
Automatic detection of data manipulation in power systems
(2019-04)Securing and protecting a power grid system is critical because a power grid transmits and distributes power to millions of people across a country. One of the significant topics in this field is having a real time model ... -
Automatic Plastic Bottle Classification System for Recycling
(2005-12)This thesis presents the design, development, implementation and testing of automatic plastic bottles sorting and classification system. The sorting is based on the bottle material chemical composition as well as on the ... -
Automatic Video Summarization Using HEVC and CNN Features
(2022-11)With the incredible surge of the internet and surveillance footage, there is a vast number of digital videos. The need to summarize these videos within databases is very crucial. This is where video summarization comes in ... -
Automatic White Blood Cell Differential Classification
(2005-06)The characteristics (quantity, shape and color) of the white blood cell (WBC) can give vital information about a patient's health. Hematologists, with the aid of microscopes, use their experience to classify WBCs and make ... -
Autonomous Demand-Side Management in the Future Smart Grid
(2016-11)Group Autonomous Demand-Side Management (ADSM) programs provide practical mechanisms to coordinate energy consumption to achieve smart grid-wide objectives, such as reducing the energy cost, reducing the Peak-to-Average ... -
Autonomous Mobile Robots in Nature: Transfer RNAs in Escherichia coli Bacteria
(2008-05)Transfer RNAs (tRNAs) are the smallest autonomous robots on earth. They can recognize a specific amino acid from the possible pool of 20 different amino acids. They are able to transport these protein building blocks to ... -
Autonomous Robot Navigation Based On Recurrent Neural Networks
(2012-05)The main objective of this research is to present a reactive navigation algorithm for wheeled mobile robots under non-holonomic constraints and in unknown environments. Two techniques are proposed: a geometrical based ... -
Autonomous Vehicles Delivery Systems: Analyzing Vehicle Routing Problems with a Moving Depot
(2019-04)The vast growth in the e-commerce market has increased the attention to resolving the problem of Last Mile Delivery that has significant challenges such as reducing operational cost or ecological impact and increasing ... -
Autopilot Design and Commercial Autopilot Evaluation Using Flybarless Helicopter
(2014-03)In its effort to develop unmanned autonomous systems research capabilities, the College of Engineering is adding a rotary wing UAV to its research activities. The current thesis goal is to use the Maxi Joker 3 commercial ...