Browsing Masters Theses by Title
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Fraud Risk Implications of Celebrity SPACs
(2022-08)The 2012 Jumpstart Our Businesses Act (JOBS) was passed arguably to facilitate greater access to capital by startup firms and to lower the costs of being public in an effort to make American listings more competitive with ... -
Functional Connectivity Analysis under Vigilance Decrement and Enhanced Mental States
(2020-06)This thesis proposes electroencephalogram (EEG) functional connectivity and graph theory analysis (GTA) to quantify brain activity under alertness, vigilance decrement, and enhanced mental states in four frequency bands. ... -
Functionalized Metal Organic Frameworks For Chemotherapy Drug Delivery
(2020-11)Cancer is the leading cause of death worldwide, and can be treated by various methods or sometimes a combination of different treatments. Chemotherapy is one of the conventional methods of treatment. Although it is effective ... -
Fuzzy Logic Based Patients' Monitoring System
(2013-01)The ever increasing health care costs are becoming a major concern to both, individuals and authorities. This has tempted researchers to seek alternative models to the traditional and costly hospital-based monitoring and ... -
Gender and Hedging: Translatability of Difference in Agatha Christie's Third Girl
(2015-02)As a linguistic tool, hedging has been examined by logicians and scholars to explore the vagueness and imprecision it creates in discourse. Generally, men are said to be more accurate, precise, assertive and confident in ... -
A General Framework for Sustainability Assessment of Manufacturing Processes
(2018-11)The manufacturing sector has a major impact on the three sustainability dimensions represented by social, economic, and environmental aspects. Most of the work on sustainability assessment in the field of manufacturing is ... -
Genre Within Genre: A Discourse Perspective On The Translation Of Existentialist Literature
(2014-04)"There are important rhetorical and stylistic effects produced by describing a situation as not X rather than simply positively describing the same situation" (Sweetser, 2006, p. 313). This thesis is aimed at investigating ... -
Gesture-based Graph-theoretic Robot Formation Control
(2022-06)Multi-robot systems have many diverse applications including but not limited to surveillance, search and rescue operations, hazardous material handling, agriculture etc. Formation control is a key requirement out of the ... -
Girls of Riyadh: Issues of Translation and Ideology
(2011-06)Ideology interference is said to be unavoidable in translation, since translation is subjective by definition. However, when the translator's ideology interferes in the translation process to the extent of changing the ... -
GIS-BIM Based Regional Seismic Risk Assessment for Dubai, UAE
(2023-05)In the last two decades, the construction sector in UAE has been expanded to include a high range of tall and supertall buildings. Geographically, this region is surrounded by multiple earthquakes, such as the Zagros Fold ... -
Graph of Linear Transformations over a Field
(2019-06)This research is an attempt to introduce a connection between graph theory and linear transformations of finite dimensional vector spaces over a field F (in our case we will be considering R). Let Rᵐ, Rⁿ be finite vector ... -
Green Inhibition of Mild Steel Corrosion in a CO2 Saturated Saline Solution
(2015-05)Mild steel is extensively used in equipment such as pipelines and machinery by many industries, where it is exposed to corrosive environments. Dissolved carbon dioxide (CO2) can be found in produced water and results in ... -
The ‘green’ start-up: environmental commitment and its impact on start-up success
(2022-12)This thesis analyzes the impact of environmental commitment and industry greenhouse gas (GHG) emission of start-ups on start-up success. I study environmental commitment along with GHG emission and funding data for 911 ... -
Ground Penetrating Radar Technique for Bridge Deck Inspection
(2013-07)The rapid growth of infrastructure in the UAE has caused a proportional growth in the transportation system. Bridges are among the major elements in the transportation system that requires continuous monitoring and maintenance ... -
Guidance, Control and Trajectory Tracking of Small Fixed Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV's)
(2009-04)Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV's) have gained increasing considerations due to their low cost and increased autonomy. A large number of applications in the military and civilian fields. The present work considers a low level ... -
Guided Reading for Second Language Learning in Bahrain: Is it Worth it
(2010-05)Much research has shown that Extensive Reading (ER) is beneficial for second language learning. It helps in building up the four language skills, and in developing positive attitudes and motivation to learn the language. ... -
Harmonic-Based Overcurrent Scheme for Optimal Protection Coordination of Islanded Microgrids
(2022-12)Protection of microgrids dominated by inverter-based distributed generators (IBDGs) is challenging as these IBDGs are characterized by their low contribution to fault currents. Therefore, their fault currents can be confused ... -
Healthcare Disruption: Assessing COVID-19 Impact on Healthcare Delivery
(2021-12)Health emergency outbreaks, including COVID-19 pandemic, make it challenging for the healthcare (HC) system to ration medical resources and care delivered to patients. Such disastrous events have been increasing in the ...