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SELECTION OF LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS MARITIME TRANSPORT CARRIER: AN INTEGRATED APPROACH OF LIFE CYCLE SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT AND MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING
(06-2 , Dissertation)Incorporating sustainability considerations into the distribution network processes is a major challenge for any maritime shipping operations, particularly in the energy sector. Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is carried ... -
Semi-Active Vibration Isolator Using Magnetorheological Elastomer (MRE)
(2020 , Master Thesis)Smart materials are materials by which their properties are able to be altered due to external stimuli such as temperature, pressure and magnetic field. Magnetorheological Elastomer (MRE) is a type of smart composite ... -
SERVQUAL DIMENSION ANALYSIS AT HBKU STUDENTS HOUSING FACILITIES
(2017 , Professional Masters Project)In this competitive era, the improvement of any organization robustly relies on increasing their customer satisfaction about the provided services. It is more important to provide the customers with what they want especially ... -
Shear Behavior Of Fiber Reinforced Concrete Beams Reinforced With Basalt Frp Bars And Gfrp Stirrups
(2018 , Master Thesis)Qatar suffers from a harsh environment in the form of high temperature that prevails almost all year round in addition to severe humidity and coastal conditions. This exposure leads to the rapid deterioration and the ... -
Shear Behavior of Green Concrete Beams Reinforced with Basalt FRP Bars and Stirrups.
(2020 , Master Thesis)The Reinforced concrete structures when exposed to a harsh environment it will be susceptible to the corrosion of steel reinforcement and shall lead to deterioration process. Consequently, the service lifetime of the ... -
Simulation of sulfur recovery process and optimization of the main operational parameters
(2016 , Professional Masters Project)Strict environmental regulations has pushed sulfur emissions from natural gas and crude oil refining plants to very low levels. The current and most widely used method for reducing those emissions is the Claus sulfur ... -
SMART HARDWARE TROJAN DETECTION SYSTEM
(06-2 , Master Thesis)The IoT has become an indispensable part of our lives at work and in our home applications. Due to the need for many IoT devices, IoT manufacturers are least concerned about security vulnerabilities during designing and ... -
Spare Parts Strategy: A Multi-Criteria Systematic Classification Approach To Reduce Inventory Cost
(2018 , Professional Masters Project)Efficient and effective spare parts management play an essential role for equipment-intensive companies, and many of them struggle with spare parts management issues. Asset and maintenance managers are continuously challenged ... -
SparkIR: a Scalable Distributed Information Retrieval Engine over Spark
(2020 , Master Thesis)Search engines have to deal with a huge amount of data (e.g., billions of documents in the case of the Web) and find scalable and efficient ways to produce effective search results. In this thesis, we propose to use ... -
The Spatial Culture of Traditional and Contemporary Housing in Qatar. A Comparative Analysis based on Space Syntax
(2019 , Master Thesis)Residential architecture is the product of various influential factors that directly relate to the needs and wants of the occupants, subjecting residential architecture to transformation on an urban scale. In the context ... -
SPATIAL LOGIC OF PARK ACCESS IN QATAR
(2022 , Master Thesis)Urban parks unite communities and enhance livability. Spatial distribution of parks, however, does not always adhere to people's needs. Using the established and new methodologies, this paper identifies the green park ... -
Stakeholder Perception of Service Quality in Qatar Higher Education Institutions: An Application to Qatar University
(2017 , Master Thesis)Managing quality of services offered by institutions of higher education is important in any country due to the inherent aim of producing quality graduates from programs offered in the university. Qatar has made substantial ... -
Staticand Dynamic Facial Emotion Recognition Using Neural Network Models
(2020 , Master Thesis)Emotion recognition is the process of identifying human emotions. It is made possible by processing various modalities including facial expressions, speech signals, biometricsignals,etc. Withtheadvancementsincomputingt ... -
STATISTICAL WEIGHTING BASED MEASUREMENT FOR FOOD QUALITY AND SAFETY DIMENSION OF FOOD SECURITY AND EFFICIENCY ASSESSMENT
(06-2 , Master Thesis)The appropriate application of statistical approaches on a data set brings powerful results and insights for solving food security problems for current and future generations. Moreover, it provides resilient integrated ... -
STOCK MARKET FORECASTING: AN APPLICATION OF LONG SHORT TERM MEMORY (LSTM) RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORK
(2018 , Professional Masters Project)Predicting stock market prices is regarded as a challenging task of financial time series, due to its chaotic, non-linear, non-stationary and dynamic nature. In this project we address the problem of stock market forecasting ... -
Strengthening of reinforced concrete beams With Textile- Reinforced mortars
(2016 , Master Thesis)This study involves an experimental work for using textile reinforced mortar (TRM) to increase the flexural strength of reinforced concrete (RC) beams. Two different types of textiles namely carbon and Polyparaphenylene ... -
STRENGTHENING OF SHEAR DEFICIENT REINFORCED CONCRETE BEAMS USING NEAR SURFACE EMBEDDED FABRIC REINFORCED CEMENTITIOUS MATRIX
(2018 , Master Thesis)This thesis presents an experimental study on the efficacy of new concepts of strengthening reinforced concrete beams deficient in shear. The first concept is referred to as “near surface embedded” fabric reinforced ... -
Study Of Reaction Kinetics Of Co2 With Aqueous Solutions Glycine , L-Arginine And Their Mdea Blends Using Stopped-Flow Technique
(2018 , Professional Masters Project)Global warming and its harmful implications is a major concern for the government and scientific community worldwide. CO2 being a greenhouse gas is considered to be a major contributor to the global warming. To reduce ... -
SUPPLY CHAIN MODELING OF ADDITIVELY MANUFACTURED VERSUS CNC-PRODUCED SPARE PARTS
(2023 , Master Thesis)This research proposes a generic BLOC-ICE-based framework that considers multiple aspects of the adoption of additive manufacturing (AM) in the spare part supply chain. It proposes also a multi-period multiple parts ... -
Surface-Modified Magnetic Nanoparticles for Produced Water Purification
(2024 , Master Thesis)The oil and gas sector generate large amounts of produced water (PW) that contains various organic and inorganic contaminants (e.g. heavy metals, organic materials, inorganic compounds and phenols). PW discharge puts the ...