Submissions from 2018
An evaluation of positive behavioural support for children with challenging behaviour in community settings, Ian Grey, Maryann Mesbur, Helena Lydon, Olive Healy, and Justin Thomas
Do lebanese freshman students gain weight?, S. Haidar, M. Karavetian, and N. De vries
The freshman weight gain phenomenon: Does it apply to Lebanese students?, Suzan A. Haidar, Nanne K. de Vries, Dimitrios Papandreou, Rana Rizk, and Mirey Karavetian
Stress, Anxiety, and Weight Gain among University and College Students: A Systematic Review, Suzan A. Haidar, N.K. de Vries, Mirey Karavetian, and Rola El-Rassi
Vitamin D status among the juvenile population: A retrospective study, Afrozul Haq, Jitka Svobodová, Nighat Y. Sofi, Andrea Jindrová, Bohumil Kába, Jaishen Rajah, Fatme Al Anouti, Laila Abdel-Wareth, Sunil J. Wimalawansa, and Mohammed S. Razzaque
Clinical practice guidelines for vitamin D in the United Arab Emirates, Afrozul Haq, Sunil J. Wimalawansa, Pawel Pludowski, and Fatme Al Anouti
Metabolic syndrome among adolescents in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, is attributable to the high prevalence of low HDL levels: A cross-sectional study, Dalia Haroun, Rola Mechli, Razan Sahuri, Safa Alkhatib, Omar Obeid, Carla El Mallah, Lesley Wood, and Khulood Alsuwaidi
Assessment of initiation of breastfeeding practice in Kassala, Eastern Sudan: A community-based study, Ahmed A. Hassan, Zainab Taha, Mohammed Ahmed A. Ahmed, Abdel Aziem A. Ali, and Ishag Adam
A qualitative study of airborne minerals and associated organic compounds in southeast of Cairo, Egypt, Kamal T. Hindy, Ashraf R. Baghdady, Fares M. Howari, and Ahmed S. Abdelmaksoud
Hapke-based computational method to enable unmixing of hyperspectral data of common salts, Fares M. Howari, Gheorge Acbas, Yousef Nazzal, and Fatima AlAydaroos
P75Shortening and calcium transport in epicardial and endocardial ventricular myocytes from the streptozotocin-induced diabetic rat, F C Howarth, L Al Kury, V Sydorenko, MMA Smail, M A Qureshi, A Shmygol, M Oz, and J Singh
Short-term CO2 exposure and temperature rise effects on metazoan meiofauna and free-living nematodes in sandy and muddy sediments: Results from a flume experiment, Jeroen Ingels, Giovanni dos Santos, Natalie Hicks, Yirina Valdes Vazquez, Patricia Fernandes Neres, Leticia Pereira Pontes, Mayara Nataly Amorim, Sara Romain, Yongfen Du, Henrik Stahl, Paul J. Somerfield, and Stephen Widdicombe
Ionic liquid as a potential solvent for preparation of collagen-alginate-hydroxyapatite beads as bone filler, Bushra Iqbal, Zenab Sarfaraz, Nawshad Muhammad, Pervaiz Ahmad, Jibran Iqbal, Zia Ul Haq Khan, Girma Gonfa, Farasat Iqbal, Arshad Jamal, and Abdur Rahim
Hydrochemical processes determining the groundwater quality for irrigation use in an arid environment: The case of Liwa Aquifer, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Jibran Iqbal, Yousef Nazzal, Fares Howari, Cijo Xavier, and Ahmad Yousef
Preterm infants with necrotising enterocolitis demonstrate an unbalanced gut microbiota, Tarek Itani, Carole Ayoub Moubareck, Imad Melki, Clotilde Rousseau, Irène Mangin, Marie José Butel, and Dolla Karam-Sarkis
Fabrication and Evaluation of Cellulose-Alginate-Hydroxyapatite Beads for the Removal of Heavy Metal Ions from Aqueous Solutions, Anum Jamshaid, Jibran Iqbal, Almas Hamid, Moinuddin Ghauri, Nawshad Muhammad, Asma Nasrullah, Sikander Rafiq, and Noor Samad Shah
Almost Hermitian Manifold with Quarter Symmetric Non-Metric Connection, Manisha Kankarej
Patient education for hyperphosphatemia management: Improving outcomes while decreasing costs?, Mirey Karavetian and Rana Rizk
Effect of intradialytic-aerobic exercise on clinical outcomes of hemodialysis patients in the United Arab Emirates, M. Karavetian, N. Salhab, M. Alrukhaimi, J. Kooman, E. Fiaccadori, H. Muthana, and R. Rizk
An investigation into the urban water cycle in the city of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Rashed Karkain, Moetaz El Sergany, and Evan Diamadopoulos
In situ immobilization of CuO on SiO2/graphite matrix, modified with benzimidazolium-1-acatate ionic liquid: Application as catechol sensor, Bilal Khalid, Abdur Rahim, Mazhar Amjad Gilani, Nawshad Muhammad, Abdur Rehman Younus, Sobia Tabassum, Jibran Iqbal, and Abdulrahman I. Alharthi
An overview of real-time quantitative PCR: Principles and formats for environmental microbiology studies, M. A. Khan, A. G. Ganesh, and Naushad Rais
Applications of real-time quantitative PCR for environmental microbiology studies, M. A. Khan, A. G. Ganesh, and Naushad Rais
Archaeal community structure in the anaerobic sludge digesters of a full-scale municipal wastewater treatment plant in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, M.A. Khan, A.G. Ganesh, N. Rais, S.M. Faheem, and S.T. Khan
Assessing methanogenic archaeal community in full scale anaerobic sludge digester systems in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Munawwar A. Khan, Poojabahen G. Patel, Arpitha G. Ganesh, Naushad Rais, Sultan M. Faheem, and Shams T. Khan
Matching experimental and three dimensional numerical models for structural vibration problems with uncertainties, P. Langer, K. Sepahvand, C. Guist, J. Bär, A. Peplow, and S. Marburg
Boulder emplacement and remobilisation by cyclone and submarine landslide tsunami waves near Suva City, Fiji, A. Y.Annie Lau, James P. Terry, Alan Ziegler, Arti Pratap, and Daniel Harris
Chitosan/Ag-hydroxyapatite nanocomposite beads as a potential adsorbent for the efficient removal of toxic aquatic pollutants, Long Li, Jibran Iqbal, Ying Zhu, Peng Zhang, Wanchao Chen, Amit Bhatnagar, and Yiping Du
Defining Atheism and the Burden of Proof, Shoaib Ahmed Malik
Gibbs effects using Daubechies and Coiflet tight framelet systems, Mutaz Mohammad and En Bing Lin
Gibbs phenomenon in tight framelet expansions, Mutaz Mohammad and En Bing Lin
Development and application of artificial neural network models to estimate values of a complex human thermal comfort index associated with urban heat and cool island patterns using air temperature data from a standard meteorological station, Konstantinos Moustris, Ioannis X. Tsiros, Areti Tseliou, and Panagiotis Nastos
The Cytokinin-Activating LOG-Family Proteins Are Not Lysine Decarboxylases, Muhammad Naseem, Elena Bencurova, and Thomas Dandekar
Curcumin potentiates the function of human α 7 -nicotinic acetylcholine receptors expressed in SH-EP1 cells, Eslam El Nebrisi, Lina T. Al Kury, Keun Hang Susan Yang, Petrilla Jayaprakash, Frank C. Howarth, Nadine Kabbani, and Murat Oz
Strategies for Promoting Social Justice in the Math Classroom, Ram Krishna Panthi, Bal Chandra Luitel, and Shashidhar Belbase
Teachers' Perception of Social Justice in Mathematics Classrooms, Ram Krishna Panthi, Bal Chandra Luitel, and Shashidhar Belbase
The association of physical activity to blood cholesterol levels and blood pressure, Christiana Philippou, Dimitrios Papandreou, Photos Hadjigeorgiou, Evelina Charidemou, Evridiki Georgaki, Costas Andreou, Christoforos Christoforou, Rebecca Kokkinofta, Christos Dioghenous, Antonios Zampelas, and Eleni Andreou
Non-technical skills assessment scale in nursing: Construction, development and validation, Sara Martins Pereira Pires, Sara Otília Marques Monteiro, Anabela Maria Sousa Pereira, Joana Novaes Machado Stocker, Daniela de Mascarenhas Chaló, and Elsa Maria de Oliveira Pinho de Melo
The epidemiology and economic burden of obesity and related cardiometabolic disorders in the United Arab Emirates: A systematic review and qualitative synthesis, Hadia Radwan, Rami A. Ballout, Hayder Hasan, Nader Lessan, Mirey Karavetian, and Rana Rizk
Cost-effectiveness of dedicated dietitians for hyperphosphatemia management among hemodialysis patients in Lebanon: Results from the nutrition education for management of osteodystrophy trial, R. Rizk, M. Karavetian, M. Hiligsmann, and S. Evers
Vitamin D receptor gene polymorphisms among Emirati patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, Habiba Al Safar, Sarah El Hajj Chehadeh, Laila Abdel-Wareth, Afrozul Haq, Herbert F. Jelinek, Gehad ElGhazali, and Fatme Al Anouti
Intradialytic Aerobic Exercise in the United Arab Emirates: a Descriptive Study, Nada Salhab, Mirey Karavetian, Jeroen Kooman, and Enrico Fiaccadori
Toxicities, kinetics and degradation pathways investigation of ciprofloxacin degradation using iron-mediated H2O2 based advanced oxidation processes, Noor S. Shah, Allah Ditta Rizwan, Javed Ali Khan, Murtaza Sayed, Zia Ul Haq Khan, Behzad Murtaza, Jibran Iqbal, Salah Ud Din, Muhammad Imran, Muhammad Nadeem, Ala'a H. Al-Muhtaseb, Nawshad Muhammad, Hasan M. Khan, Moinuddin Ghauri, and Gohar Zaman
Data from: Investigating the effect of wearing the hijab: Perception of facial attractiveness by Emirati Muslim women living in their native Muslim country, Mercedes Sheen, Hajar Aman Key Yekani, and Timothy R. Jordan
Investigating the effect of wearing the hijab: Perception of facial attractiveness by Emirati Muslim women living in their native Muslim country, Mercedes Sheen, Hajar Aman Key Yekani, and Timothy R. Jordan
Waste Moringa oleifera seed pods as green sorbent for efficient removal of toxic aquatic pollutants, Zahra Shirani, Chella Santhosh, Jibran Iqbal, and Amit Bhatnagar
American universities in the middle east: A student’s perspective, Linda Smail and Ginger Silvera
Cell shortening and calcium dynamics in epicardial and endocardial myocytes from the left ventricle of Goto-Kakizaki type 2 diabetic rats, Manal Smail, Lina Al Kury, Muhammad Anwar Qureshi, Anatoliy Shmygol, Murat Oz, Jaipaul Singh, and Frank Christopher Howarth
The role of diet and lifestyle in women with breast cancer: An update review of related research in the Middle East, Zainab Taha and Sakina E. Eltom
Predictors of glucose control in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes: Results of a cross-sectional study in Khartoum, Sudan, Zainab Taha, Zeinab Eltoum, and Sidiga Washi
Patterns of breastfeeding practices among infants and young children in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Zainab Taha, Malin Garemo, and Joy Nanda
Parthenolide inhibits tumor-promoting effects of nicotine in lung cancer by inducing P53 - dependent apoptosis and inhibiting VEGF expression, Wamidh H. Talib and Lina T. Al Kury
Major typhoon phases in the upper Gulf of Thailand over the last 1.5 millennia, determined from coastal deposits on rock islands, James P. Terry, James Goff, and Kruawun Jankaew
The Delhi ‘gas chamber’: smog, air pollution and the health emergency of November 2017, James P. Terry, Gensuo Jia, Robert Boldi, and Sarah Khan
Magnitudes of nearshore waves generated by tropical cyclone Winston, the strongest landfalling cyclone in South Pacific records. Unprecedented or unremarkable?, James P. Terry and A. Y.Annie Lau
Sun Exposure and Behavioral Activation for Hypovitaminosis D and Depression: A Controlled Pilot Study, Justin Thomas and Fatme Al-Anouti
Macbeth Arabia: moral threat and cleansing-related construct accessibility in Arab women, Justin Thomas, Ian Grey, and Salama Al-Romaithi
Acculturation, out-group positivity and eating disorders symptoms among Emirati women, Justin Thomas, Lily O’Hara, Susanne Quadflieg, and Sophia Christin Weissgerber
Holy anorexia: Eating disorders symptomatology and religiosity among Muslim women in the United Arab Emirates, Justin Thomas, Lily O'Hara, Sabrina Tahboub-Schulte, Ian Grey, and Nayeefa Chowdhury
Thermal sensation, perceptionand microclimatic data at a city with Mediterranean climate, Areti Tseliou and Ioannis Tsiros
An assessment to evaluate potential passive cooling patterns for climate change adaptation in a residential neighbourhood of a Mediterranean coastal city (Athens, Greece), Ioannis X. Tsiros, Milo E. Hoffman, Areti Tseliou, Vasiliki Christopoulou, and Spyridon Lykoudis
Types of tobacco consumption and the oral microbiome in the United Arab Emirates Healthy Future (UAEHFS) Pilot Study, Yvonne Vallès, Claire K. Inman, Brandilyn A. Peters, Raghib Ali, Laila Abdel Wareth, Abdishakur Abdulle, Habiba Alsafar, Fatme Al Anouti, Ayesha Al Dhaheri, Divya Galani, Muna Haji, Aisha Al Hamiz, Ayesha Al Hosani, Mohammed Al Houqani, Abdulla Al Junaibi, Marina Kazim, Tomas Kirchhoff, Wael Al Mahmeed, Fatma Al Maskari, Abdullah Alnaeemi, Naima Oumeziane, Ravichandran Ramasamy, Ann Marie Schmidt, Michael Weitzman, Eiman Al Zaabi, Scott Sherman, Richard B. Hayes, and Jiyoung Ahn
Rapid determination of illegal additives chrysoidin and malachite green by surface-enhanced Raman scattering with silanized support based substrate, Han Zhang, Lin Sun, Yuan Zhang, Yan Kang, Huilian Hu, Jibran Iqbal, and Yiping Du
Submissions from 2017
Prevalence and Pattern of Traditional and Complementary Alternative Medicine Use in Diabetic Patients in Dubai, UAE, Usama ALAlami, Khulood A. Saeed, and Munawwar A. Khan
Breast Cancer Awareness Among Zayed University Female Students, Shaima K. AlBlooshi, Lina T. Al Kury, and Pavlos Malindretos
Extending information system models to the health care context: An empirical study and experience from developing countries, Osama Alfarraj and Ahed Abugabah
Effects of Dietary Fiber Intake on Body Weight and Waist Circumference, Eiman Al Hammadi
Distribution of heavy metals around the Barakah nuclear power plant in the United Arab Emirates, Mouza Rashid Al Rashdi, Sulaiman Alaabed, Mohamed El Tokhi, Fares M. Howari, Walid El Mowafi, and Alya A. Arabi
Factors associated with continuing emergence of β-thalassemia major despite prenatal testing: a cross-sectional survey., Haleama Al Sabbah, Sarah Khan, Abdallah Hamadna, Lamia Abu Ghazaleh, Anwar Dudin, and Bashar Adnan Karmi
Factors associated with continuing emergence of β-thalassemia major despite prenatal testing: A cross-sectional survey, Haleama Al Sabbah, Sarah Khan, Abdallah Hamadna, Lamia Abu Ghazaleh, Anwar Dudin, and Bashar Adnan Karmi
Disordered Eating Attitudes and Exercise Behavior among Female Emirati College Students in the United Arab Emirates: A Cross- Sectional Study, Haleama Al Sabbah and Shatha Muhsineh
A Study on Foodborne Bacterial Cross-contamination During Fresh Chicken Preparation, Shamma Ebrahim AlZaabi and Munawwar Ali Khan
Type 2 diabetes and its correlates in a first nationwide study among Cypriot adults, Eleni Andreou, Dimitrios Papandreou, Photos Hajigeorgiou, Katia Kyriakou, Thalia Avraam, Georgia Chappa, Procopis Kallis, Christalleni Lazarou, Christiana Philippou, Christoforos Christoforou, Rebecca Kokkinofta, Christos Dioghenous, Savvas Savva, Antony Kafatos, and Antonios Zampelas
Routes to drug design via bioisosterism of carboxyl and sulfonamide groups, Alya A. Arabi
The Role of Genetic, Dietary and Lifestyle Factors in Pediatric Metabolic Syndrome: A Review of the Literature from Prenatal to Adolescence, Teresa Arora, Sahar Agouba, Ahmad Sharara, and Shahrad Taheri
The relationship between dieting and levels of perceived psychological stress in United Arab Emirates residents, Teresa Arora, Shamma Al Ketbi, Marwa Mubarak, Anood Al Othali, Sara Al Hajri, Adeeba Al Messabi, and Fatema Al Jneibi
C–O isotope geochemistry of the Florida phosphate of Four Corners and Hardee County mines, USA: Implication for genesis and diagenesis, Ashraf R. Baghdady, Fares M. Howari, and Mohamed I. Al-Wakeel
Method Development for Selective and Nontargeted Identification of Nitro Compounds in Diesel Particulate Matter, Mahmoud Bataineh, Alya A. Arabi, Jibran Iqbal, Fares M. Howari, and Werner Brack
Attitudinal and cognitive beliefs of two preservice secondary mathematics teachers, Shashidhar Belbase
Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults, James Bentham, Mariachiara Di Cesare, Ver Bilano, Honor Bixby, Bin Zhou, Gretchen A. Stevens, Leanne M. Riley, Cristina Taddei, Kaveh Hajifathalian, Yuan Lu, Stefan Savin, Melanie J. Cowan, Christopher J. Paciorek, Adela Chirita-Emandi, Alison J. Hayes, Joanne Katz, Roya Kelishadi, Andre Pascal Kengne, Young Ho Khang, Avula Laxmaiah, Yanping Li, Jun Ma, J. Jaime Miranda, Aya Mostafa, Martin Neovius, Cristina Padez, Lekhraj Rampal, Aubrianna Zhu, James E. Bennett, and Goodarz Danaei
The relationship between trauma centrality, self-efficacy, posttraumatic stress and psychiatric co-morbidity among Syrian refugees: Is gender a moderator?, Man Cheung Chung, Nowf AlQarni, Shamsa Al Muhairi, and Britt Mitchell
Marine microbial gene abundance and community composition in response to ocean acidification and elevated temperature in two contrasting coastal marine sediments, Ashleigh R. Currie, Karen Tait, Helen Parry, Beatriz de Francisco-Mora, Natalie Hicks, A. Mark Osborn, Steve Widdicombe, and Henrik Stahl
Seawater carbonate chemistry and gene abundance and community composition in two contrasting coastal marine sediments, Ashleigh R. Currie, Karen Tait, Helen Parry, Beatriz de Francisco-Mora, Natalie Hicks, A. Mark Osborn, Steve Widdicombe, and Henrik Stahl
Antibacterial effects and microbial quality of commonly consumed herbs in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, R. Dghaim, H. Al Sabbah, A. H. Al Zarooni, and M. A. Khan
Putative periodontopathic bacteria and herpes viruses interactions in the subgingival plaque of patients with aggressive periodontitis and healthy controls, Amal Elamin, Raouf Wahab Ali, and Vidar Bakken
Performance of modified sulfur concrete exposed to actual sewerage environment with variable temperature, humidity and gases, Maisa M. El Gamal, Amr S. El-Dieb, Abdel Mohsen O. Mohamed, and Khaled M. El Sawy
Data from: Low recruitment due to altered settlement substrata as primary constraint for coral communities under ocean acidification, Katharina E. Fabricius, Sam H. C. Noonan, David Abrego, Lindsay Harrington, and Glenn De'ath
Low recruitment due to altered settlement substrata as primary constraint for coral communities under ocean acidification, Katharina E. Fabricius, Sam H.C. Noonan, David Abrego, Lindsay Harrington, and Glenn De’Ath
Impact of building characteristics and occupants’ behaviour on the electricity consumption of households in Abu Dhabi (UAE), L. Giusti and M. Almoosawi
Ethnic Identity and Wellbeing: Implicit in-group identity and language dominance predicts Wellbeing in Emirati Women, Ian Grey and Justin Thomas
Aliasing of the Schumann resonance background signal by sprite-associated Q-bursts, Anirban Guha, Earle Williams, Robert Boldi, Gabriella Sátori, Tamás Nagy, József Bór, Joan Montanyà, and Pascal Ortega
Heterogeneity of Carbapenem Resistance Mechanisms among Gram-Negative Pathogens in Lebanon: Results of the First Cross-Sectional Countrywide Study, Dalal Hammoudi Halat, Carole Ayoub Moubareck, and Dolla Karam Sarkis
Dietary and Activity Habits in Adolescents Living in the United Arab Emirates: A Cross-Sectional Study, Dalia Haroun, Ola ElSaleh, and Lesley Wood
Reading rate and comprehension for text presented on tablet and paper: Evidence from Arabic, Ehab W. Hermena, Mercedes Sheen, Maryam AlJassmi, Khulood AlFalasi, Maha AlMatroushi, and Timothy R. Jordan
The knowledge and practice of workers toward occupational hazards: Case study from United Arab Emirates, Fares M. Howari, Yousef Nazzal, and Mustaffah Awad
On The future of energy and resource security in the United Arab Emirates, Fares Howari and Yousef Nazzal
The AGE-RAGE axis in an Arab population: The United Arab Emirates Healthy Futures (UAEHFS) pilot study, Claire K. Inman, Abdullah Aljunaibi, Hyunwook Koh, Abdishakur Abdulle, Raghib Ali, Abdullah Alnaeemi, Eiman Al Zaabi, Naima Oumeziane, Marina Al Bastaki, Mohammed Al-Houqani, Fatma Al-Maskari, Ayesha Al Dhaheri, Syed M. Shah, Laila Abdel Wareth, Wael Al Mahmeed, Habiba Alsafar, Fatme Al Anouti, Ayesha Al Hosani, Muna Haji, Divya Galani, Matthew J. O'Connor, Jiyoung Ahn, Tomas Kirchhoff, Scott Sherman, Richard B. Hayes, Huilin Li, Ravichandran Ramasamy, and Ann Marie Schmidt
An application of ionic liquid for preparation of homogeneous collagen and alginate hydrogels for skin dressing, Bushra Iqbal, Nawshad Muhammad, Arshad Jamal, Pervaiz Ahmad, Zia Ul Haq Khan, Abdur Rahim, Amir Sada Khan, Girma Gonfa, Jibran Iqbal, and Ihtesham Ur Rehman
Simultaneous enrichment & on-line detection of low-concentration Copper, Cobalt, & Nickel Ions in Water by Near-Infrared diffuse reflectance spectroscopy combined with chemometrics, Jibran Iqbal, Yiping Du, Fares M. Howari, Mahmoud Bataineh, Nawshad Muhammad, and Abdur Rahim
Establishment and development of the intestinal microbiota of preterm infants in a Lebanese tertiary hospital, Tarek Itani, Carole Ayoub Moubareck, Imad Melki, Clotilde Rousseau, Irène Mangin, Marie José Butel, and Dolla Karam Sarkis