Saudi Cultural Missions Theses & Dissertations
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Item Restricted Crowd Management in Hajj to Improve the Health and Safety of Pilgrims(Saudi Digital Library, 2025) Zainalabedin, Noor; Eldaouk, MohamadCrowd Management in Hajj to Improve the Health and Safety of Pilgrims This research will solve the question: What solutions can be adopted to improve the health and safety of pilgrims during Hajj? Moreover, the aims of this research include discussing the challenges faced due to overcrowding during Hajj, analyzing already employed solutions to control challenges caused by overcrowding and exploring new solutions to control challenges caused by overcrowding. By conducting an extensive literature review, solutions previously proposed by various researchers, as well as already implemented solutions, have been noted. There are various implications that arise due to the overcrowded nature of Hajj, including the spread of diseases, stampede disasters, communication barriers and the presence of illegal unregistered pilgrims. In an attempt to mitigate these implications to ensure the health and safety of pilgrims, solutions may be applied, such as increasing the awareness and education levels of pilgrims, connecting Hajj visas and permits with health history, subsidizing Hajj costs for underprivileged pilgrims, utilizing artificial intelligence facial recognition to fight illegal pilgrims, and preparing schedules and providing stones for the stone throwing ritual.21 0Item Restricted Exploring Freedom and Belonging: A Comparative Study of Muslim Women’s Solo and Group Travel(Saudi Digital Library, 2025) Alorfi, Bashayer; Osman, HanaThis dissertation explores the evolving travel behaviours and perceptions of Muslim women, focusing on the contrast between solo and group travel experiences. The study investigates how factors such as safety, empowerment, social identity, and family expectations influence travel choices and overall satisfaction. A quantitative research approach was employed, using survey data analysed through SPSS to examine patterns, correlations, and differences between solo and group travellers. Findings reveal that while solo travel offers a sense of independence and personal growth, concerns regarding safety and social judgment remain prevalent. Group travel, on the other hand, provides emotional comfort and social approval but may limit autonomy. The results highlight a nuanced relationship between cultural expectations and individual agency, suggesting that Muslim women are actively redefining travel norms within modern contexts. This research contributes to a deeper understanding of Muslim women's empowerment through tourism, offering theoretical insights and practical implications for the travel and hospitality industry.11 0Item Restricted Food Safety in UK Households: The Influence of Concerns Regarding Food Poisoning and Demographics on Compliance with Meat and Poultry Handling Guidelines(The university of Leeds, 2024-08-30) Alsufyani, Nuha Hameed; Ensaff, HannahThis study investigated whether concern about food poisoning (e.g., Salmonella and E. coli) influences household compliance with hygiene guidelines for handling raw meat and poultry at home, and how demographic factors affect this compliance. A secondary analysis of the data from the “Food and You 2” survey (wave 6) by the Food Standards Agency, involving 4,893 respondents from England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, was conducted. Descriptive statistics, Chi-Square tests, and logistic regression were used to explore relationships between variables. Results showed that 53% of respondents exhibited high compliance with hygiene guidelines. Concern about food poisoning was significantly associated with higher compliance (57% vs. 48%, p<0.001). The logistic regression showed that concerned individuals were 48% more likely to report high compliance. Additionally, age, sex, employment, and being the main food provider were significantly associated with compliance, while marital status and income were not significant predictors. Specifically, increasing the age predicts higher compliance with 18% for each decade, females were 19% more likely to comply than males, employed individuals had 37% higher odds of compliance compared to unemployed, and main food providers were over 2 times as likely to comply as non-regular cooks. The study concludes that food poisoning concerns and demographic factors, particularly age and being the main food providers, play significant roles in predicting compliance with hygiene guidelines. These findings can inform targeted public health interventions to enhance food safety practices, especially among younger populations and less frequent cooks.23 0Item Restricted Understanding the Influence of Cultural Factors on Process Safety Behaviours in the Saudi Arabian Oil and Gas Industry(The University of Sheffield, 2024-09-02) Algarni, Abdulrahman; Hoseyni, SeyedThe study proposed seeks to investigate the main cultural factors that can impact process safety behaviours with focus on risk perception within the Saudi Arabian oil and gas industry. The project, through the collected data seeks to suggest recommendations which can improve safety culture and reduce its impacts on process safety behaviours. The study is based on a mixed-methods approach which combines quantitative questionnaires with qualitative case study analysis. Tow quantitative questionnaires where designed and directed to selected managers and workers operating in the Saudi oil and gas industry. These two questionnaires investigated many cultural dimensions which can impact risk perception among participants. The case study provided by Alshahrani et al (n.d.) investigated the impact of national culture on safety behaviour among Saudi and non-Saudi employees operating in the petrochemical industry as part of the oil and gas industry. The main findings of this research proved that some cultural factors in the Saudi oil and gas industry are determinant in shaping the effectiveness of risk perception the process safety behaviour in general terms. There are clear indications from the questionnaires basically and the case study that cultural factors such as traditional and religious values, masculinity as related to risk taking behaviours, fatalistic attitudes, low perception of risk tolerance and risky optimism are currently impacting the level of risk perception in the Saudi oil and gas sector having as such a direct impact on process safety behaviours11 0Item Restricted Predicting Pedestrian Crossing Intention(Saudi Digital Library, 2024) Alofi, Afnan; Trivedi, MohanAutonomous vehicles face significant challenges in understanding pedestrian behavior, particularly in urban environments. The system must recognize pedestrians’ intentions and anticipate their actions to achieve intelligent driving. This paper focuses on predicting pedestrian crossings, aiming to enable oncoming vehicles to react in a timely manner. We investigate the effectiveness of various input modalities for pedestrian crossing prediction, including human poses, bounding boxes and ego vehicle speed features. We propose a novel lightweight architec- ture based on LSTM and attention to accurately identifying crossing pedestrians. Our methods evaluated on two widely used public datasets for pedestrian behavior, PIE and JAAD datasets, and our algorithm achieved a state-of-the-art performance in both datasets35 0