Submissions from 2017
Vitamin D Supplementation does not Effect Adiposity in Healthy Adults, Zujaja-Tul-Noor Hamid Mehmood and Dimitrios Papandreou
The influence of coring method on the preservation of sedimentary and biogeochemical features when sampling soft-bottom, shallow coastal environments, Andrew O.M. Mogg, Karl M. Attard, Henrik Stahl, Tim Brand, Robert Turnewitsch, and Martin D.J. Sayer
Fundamentals of Geoenvironmental Engineering: Understanding Soil, Water, and Pollutant Interaction and Transport, Abdel Mohsen Onsy Mohamed and Evan K. Paleologos
Use of remote sensing data in assessment land cover changes, land use patterns and land capabilities in AL-Qassim region, Saudi Arabia, Yousef Nazzal, Fares M. Howari, Habes Ghrefat, and H. A. Kishawy
Cellular and molecular targets of menthol actions, Murat Oz, Eslam G. El Nebrisi, Keun Hang S. Yang, Frank C. Howarth, and Lina T. Al Kury
Investigating physiological glucose excursions before, during, and after Ramadan in adults without diabetes mellitus, Maria Pallayova, Hadeel B. Zaghloul, Teresa Arora, Sopna M. Choudhury, Omar M. Omar, Odette L. Chagoury, and Shahrad Taheri
Celiac Disease or Gluten Sensitivity? A mini update review, Dimitrios Papandreou
Vitamin E effects on paediatric non-alcoholic fatty liver disease - Mini review, Dimitrios Papandreou
Obese Children with Metabolic Syndrome Have 3 Times Higher Risk to Have Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Compared with Those without Metabolic Syndrome, Dimitrios Papandreou, Mirey Karavetian, Zacharoula Karabouta, and Eleni Andreou
Asymptotic inference for non-supercritical partially observed branching processes, I. Rahimov
Statistical inference for partially observed branching processes with immigration, Ibrahim Rahimov
Cost-effectiveness of dedicated dietitians for hyperphosphatemia management among hemodialysis patients in Lebanon: results from the Nutrition Education for Management of Osteodystrophy trial, Rana Rizk, Mickaël Hiligsmann, Mirey Karavetian, and Silvia M.A.A. Evers
Effect of stage-based education provided by dedicated dietitians on hyperphosphataemic haemodialysis patients: results from the Nutrition Education for Management of Osteodystrophy randomised controlled trial, R. Rizk, M. Karavetian, M. Hiligsmann, and S. M.A.A. Evers
Reach-scale river metabolism across contrasting sub-catchment geologies: Effect of light and hydrology, Lorenzo Rovelli, Karl M. Attard, Andrew Binley, Catherine M. Heppell, Henrik Stahl, Mark Trimmer, and Ronnie N. Glud
Protein-energy wasting and nutritional supplementation in patients with end-stage renal disease on hemodialysis, A. Sabatino, G. Regolisti, T. Karupaiah, S. Sahathevan, B. K. Sadu Singh, B. H. Khor, N. Salhab, M. Karavetian, A. Cupisti, and E. Fiaccadori
Policy-relevant context of waterpipe tobacco smoking among university students in six countries across the Eastern Mediterranean region: A qualitative study, Ramzi G. Salloum, Niveen Abu-Rmeileh, Randah Hamadeh, Justin Thomas, Aya Mostafa, Afzalhussein Yusufali, Khalid A. Kheirallah, Mark M. Macauda, Ryan P. Theis, Lama El Kadi, Evan J. Johnson, Muhammad W. Darawad, and Rima Nakkash
Family Food Environment and Child Eating Behavior in a Private School of Abu Dhabi, Al Amoodi Sara Ahmed Abdulla Saeed
Teaching About Psychological Disorders: A Case for Using Discussion Boards in the Classroom, Mercedes Sheen, Maryam A. AlJassmi, and Timothy R. Jordan
How many sleep diary entries are needed to reliably estimate adolescent sleep?, Michelle A. Short, Teresa Arora, Michael Gradisar, Shahrad Taheri, and Mary A. Carskadon
Explicit integration of a generic Hénon-Heiles system with quartic potential, Nicola Sottocornola
Trends of Breastfeeding in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Zainab Taha
The Effect of Breakfast on Academic Performance among High School Students in Abu Dhabi, Zainab Taha and Ayesha S. Rashed
Comment on “Late Cenozoic sea level and the rise of modern rimmed atolls” by Toomey et al. (2016), Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 451: 73–83, James P. Terry and James Goff
Past and potential tsunami sources in the South China Sea: A brief synthesis, James P. Terry, Nigel Winspear, James Goff, and P. H.Hannah Tan
Ethnic identity and paranoid thinking: Implicit out-group preference and language dominance predict paranoia in Emirati women, Justin Thomas, Richard P. Bentall, Lowri Hadden, and Lily O'Hara
The rise of mindfulness and its resonance with the Islamic tradition, Justin Thomas, Steven W. Furber, and Ian Grey
Exploring Culturally Attuned Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) as a Means of Improving Quality of life, Emotional Well Being and Academic Performance of Emirati College Students, Justin Thomas, Ian Grey, and Peter Kinderman
Seasonal differences in thermal sensation in the outdoor urban environment of Mediterranean climates – the example of Athens, Greece, Areti Tseliou, Ioannis X. Tsiros, and Marialena Nikolopoulou
Review of Health Literacy and Nutrition-Related Research in the Middle East, Ludmilla F. Wikkeling-Scott and R.V. Rikard
Natural radioactivity and groundwater quality assessment in the northern area of the Western Desert of Egypt, Mohamed Yehia, Ashraf Baghdady, Fares M. Howari, Samir Awad, and Ahmed Gad
Association of beverage consumption with obesity in healthy adults, Sirine Maher Zahran
Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants, Bin Zhou, James Bentham, Mariachiara Di Cesare, Honor Bixby, Goodarz Danaei, Melanie J. Cowan, Christopher J. Paciorek, Gitanjali Singh, Kaveh Hajifathalian, James E. Bennett, Cristina Taddei, Ver Bilano, Rodrigo M. Carrillo-Larco, Shirin Djalalinia, Shahab Khatibzadeh, Charles Lugero, Niloofar Peykari, Wan Zhu Zhang, Yuan Lu, Gretchen A. Stevens, Leanne M. Riley, Pascal Bovet, Paul Elliott, Dongfeng Gu, Nayu Ikeda, Rod T. Jackson, Michel Joffres, Andre Pascal Kengne, Tiina Laatikainen, and Tai Hing Lam
Submissions from 2016
Mental Health Beliefs Amongst Emirati Female College Students, Fatima Al-Darmaki, Justin Thomas, and Saad Yaaqeib
Integrating Ethics Training into an Undergraduate Research Program: Applying the Triplex Model, Shurooq al Hashimi, Mercedes Sheen, Jessica Essary, and Majeda Humeidan
Electrostatic potentials and average electron densities of bioisosteres in methylsquarate and acetic acid, Alya A. Arabi and Chérif F. Matta
On the mineral characteristics and geochemistry of the Florida phosphate of Four Corners and Hardee County mines, Ashraf R. Baghdady, Fares M. Howari, and Mohamed I. Al-Wakeel
Book Review: The scholarship of teaching and learning in and across the disciplines, Shashidhar Belbase
Endogenous, very small embryonic-like stem cells: Critical review, therapeutic potential and a look ahead, Deepa Bhartiya, Ambreen Shaikh, Sandhya Anand, Hiren Patel, Sona Kapoor, Kalpana Sriraman, Seema Parte, and Sreepoorna Unni
From montreal and venice with love: Migrant letters and romantic intimacy in Italian migration to postwar Canada, Sonia Cancian
Book review: Student writing in the quantitative disciplines: a guide for college faculty, Mark Causapin
Change-point detection in the marginal distribution of a linear process, Farid El Ktaibi and B. Gail Ivanoff
Benthic Carbon Mineralization and Nutrient Turnover in a Scottish Sea Loch: An Integrative In Situ Study, Ronnie N. Glud, Peter Berg, Henrik Stahl, Andrew Hume, Morten Larsen, Bradley D. Eyre, and Perran L.M. Cook
Defining tsunamis: Yoda strikes back?, James Goff, Yuichi Ebina, Kazuhisa Goto, and James Terry
Anthropogenic disruption to the seismic driving of beach ridge formation: The Sendai coast, Japan, James Goff, Jasper Knight, Daisuke Sugawara, and James P. Terry
Tsunamigenic slope failures: the Pacific Islands ‘blind spot’?, James Goff and James P. Terry
An updated mini review of Vitamin D and obesity: Adipogenesis and inflammation state, Zujaja Tul Noor Hamid Mehmood and Dimitrios Papandreou
Assessing knowledge of, and attitudes to, HIV/AIDS among university students in the United Arab Emirates, Dalia Haroun, Ola El Saleh, Lesley Wood, Rola Mechli, Nada Al Marzouqi, and Samir Anouti
Metallogenic evolution of uranium deposits in the Middle East and North Africa deposits, Fares Howari, Philip Goodell, and Abdulaty Salman
Gravity investigations of recent sinkholes and karst pits of Dahal Al-Hamam, State of Qatar, Fares M. Howari, Raed Aldouri, and Abdulali Sadiq
Host adaptation and unexpected symbiont partners enable reef-building corals to tolerate extreme temperatures, Emily J. Howells, David Abrego, Eli Meyer, Nathan L. Kirk, and John A. Burt
Effects of spatial frequencies on word identification by fast and slow readers: Evidence from eye movements, Timothy R. Jordan, Jasmine Dixon, Victoria A. McGowan, Stoyan Kurtev, and Kevin B. Paterson
A further look at postview effects in reading: An eye-movements study of influences from the left of fixation, Timothy R. Jordan, Victoria A. McGowan, Stoyan Kurtev, and Kevin B. Paterson
Associations of Apolipoprotein A, High-Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein and Fasting Plasma Insulin in Obese Children With and Without Family History of Cardiovascular Disease, Zacharoula Karabouta, Dimitrios Papandreou, Areti Makedou, Israel Rousso, and Fani Athanassiadou
Development and evaluation of continuing education course in renal nutrition, Mirey Karavetian and Rana Rizk
Microbial quality of treated wastewater used for irrigation of public parks in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Munawwar Khan and Rania Dghaim
Understanding the history of extreme wave events in the Tuamotu Archipelago of French Polynesia from large carbonate boulders on Makemo Atoll, with implications for future threats in the central South Pacific, A. Y.Annie Lau, James P. Terry, Alan D. Ziegler, Adam D. Switzer, Yingsin Lee, and Samuel Etienne
Feeling culture: The emotional experience of six early childhood educators while teaching in a cross-cultural context, Samara Madrid, Nikki Baldwin, and Shashidhar Belbase
The distribution of blow fly (Diptera: Calliphoridae) larval lengths and its implications for estimating post mortem intervals, Colin Moffatt, Viv Heaton, and Dorine De Haan
An Improved Equation for TBS and ADD: Establishing a Reliable Postmortem Interval Framework for Casework and Experimental Studies, Colin Moffatt, Tal Simmons, and Jeanne Lynch-Aird
Evaluation of metals that are potentially toxic to agricultural surface soils, using statistical analysis, in northwestern Saudi Arabia, Yousef Nazzal, Faisal K. Zaidi, Bassam A. Abuamarah, Izrar Ahmed, Fares M. Howari, Muhammad Naeem, Nassir S.N. Al-Arifi, Muhammad Kamran Jafri, and Khaled M. Al-Kahtany
Weight-related teasing and internalized weight stigma predict abnormal eating attitudes and behaviours in Emirati female university students, Lily O'Hara, Sabrina Tahboub-Schulte, and Justin Thomas
Impact of Vitamin D on cardiovascular disease-mini review, Dimitrios Papandreou
Relation of neck circumference with total body fat and BMI, Dimitrios Papandreou, Mark Causapin, Zujaja Tul-Noor, and Pavlos Malindretos
Are dietary intakes related to obesity in children?, Dimitrios Papandreou, Kali Makedou, Areti Zormpa, Maria Karampola, Anastasia Ioannou, and Areti Hitoglou-Makedou
Estimation of the offspring mean in a branching process with non stationary immigration, I. Rahimov
Diabetes education program for people with type 2 diabetes: An international perspective, Osama A. Rashed, Haleama Al Sabbah, Mustafa Z. Younis, Adnan Kisa, and Jai Parkash
Economic evaluations of interventions to manage hyperphosphataemia in adult haemodialysis patients: A systematic review, Rana Rizk, Mickaël Hiligsmann, Mirey Karavetian, and Silvia Maa Evers
A societal cost-of-illness study of hemodialysis in Lebanon, Rana Rizk, Mickaël Hiligsmann, Mirey Karavetian, Pascale Salameh, and Silvia M.A.A. Evers
Effects of Energetic Solar Emissions on the Earth–Ionosphere Cavity of Schumann Resonances, Gabriella Sátori, Earle Williams, Colin Price, Robert Boldi, Alexander Koloskov, Yuri Yampolski, Anirban Guha, and Veronika Barta
Believing is Seeing: A Perspective on Perceiving Images of Objects on the Shroud of Turin, Mercedes Sheen and Timothy R. Jordan
Regional effects of streptozotocin-induced diabetes on shortening and calcium transport in epicardial and endocardial myocytes from rat left ventricle, Manal M.A. Smaill, Muhammad A. Qureshi, Anatoliy Shmygol, Murat Oz, Jaipaul Singh, Vadym Sydorenko, Alya Arabi, Frank C. Howarth, and Lina Al Kury
Prehistorical frequency of high-energy marine inundation events driven by typhoons in the Bay of Bangkok (Thailand), interpreted from coastal carbonate boulders, James P. Terry, Kieran Dunne, and Kruawun Jankaew
Ancient high-energy storm boulder deposits on Ko Samui, Thailand, and their significance for identifying coastal hazard risk, James P. Terry, Grahame J.H. Oliver, and Daniel A. Friess
Compulsive buying and depressive symptoms among female citizens of the United Arab Emirates, Justin Thomas, Salwa Al-Menhali, and Majeda Humeidan
From Black Bile to the Bipolar Spectrum: A Historical Review of the Bipolar Affective Disorder Concept, Justin Thomas and Ian Grey
Religiosity: Reducing Depressive Symptoms Amongst Muslim Females in the United Arab Emirates, Justin Thomas, Meera Mutawa, Steven W. Furber, and Ian Grey
Implicit out-group preference is associated with eating disorders symptoms amongst Emirati females, Justin Thomas, Susanne Quadflieg, and Lily O'Hara
Stress Reactivity, Depressive Symptoms, and Mindfulness: A Gulf Arab Perspective, Justin Thomas, Monique Raynor, and Eman Bahussain
Mindfulness-based stress reduction among Emirati Muslim women, Justin Thomas, Monique Raynor, and Marie Claire Bakker
Review of three books on the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, James Toth
Ibn al-balad vs. Ibn al-zawat in the land of the two pharaohs, James F. Toth
Submissions from 2015
Effects of cannabidiol on contractions and calcium signaling in rat ventricular myocytes, Ramez M. Ali, Lina T. Al Kury, Keun Hang Susan Yang, Anwar Qureshi, Mohanraj Rajesh, Sehamuddin Galadari, Yaroslav M. Shuba, Frank Christopher Howarth, and Murat Oz
Distribution of heavy metals in the coastal area of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, Saeed Al Rashdi, Alya A. Arabi, Fares M. Howari, and Abdi Siad
Knowledge and Beliefs Related to Cervical Cancer, Pap Smear Screening and HPV Vaccination among Women in Umm Al Qawain, Haleama Al Sabbah and Alya Saeed Al Haran
Consumption patterns and side effects of energy drinks among university students in Palestine: crosssectional study, Haleama Al Sabbah, Naim Qamhia, and Mustafa Younis
Detection of CO2 leakage from a simulated sub-seabed storage site using three different types of pCO2 sensors, Dariia Atamanchuk, Anders Tengberg, Dmitry Aleynik, Peer Fietzek, Kiminori Shitashima, Anna Lichtschlag, Per O.J. Hall, and Henrik Stahl
Benthic oxygen exchange in a live coralline algal bed and an adjacent sandy habitat: An eddy covariance study, Karl M. Attard, Henrik Stahl, Nicholas A. Kamenos, Gavin Turner, Heidi L. Burdett, and Ronnie N. Glud
Adolescent health risk behaviors in a migrant population, Caroline Barakat-Haddad and Rania Dghaim
A preservice mathematics teacher’s beliefs about teaching mathematics with technology, Shashidhar Belbase
Groundwater salinisation on atoll islands after storm-surge flooding: Modelling the influence of central topographic depressions, Ting Fong May Chui and James P. Terry
Determination of heavy metals concentration in traditional herbs commonly consumed in the United Arab Emirates, Rania Dghaim, Safa Al Khatib, Husna Rasool, and Munawwar Ali Khan
CO2 sequestration using accelerated gas-solid carbonation of pre-treated EAF steel-making bag house dust, Muftah H. El-Naas, Maisa El Gamal, Suhaib Hameedi, and Abdel Mohsen O. Mohamed
Evaporation losses and dispersion of volatile organic compounds from tank farms, Fares M. Howari
Prospecting for geothermal energy through satellite based thermal data: Review and the way forward, F. M. Howari
Seeing inscriptions on the Shroud of Turin: The role of psychological influences in the perception of writing, Timothy R. Jordan, Mercedes Sheen, Lily Abedipour, and Kevin B. Paterson
A new demonstration of the illusory letters phenomenon: Graphemic restoration in Arabic word perception, Timothy R. Jordan, Mercedes Sheen, Maryam A. AlJassmi, and Kevin B. Paterson
(-)-Epigallocatechin-3-gallate reverses the expression of various tumor-suppressor genes by inhibiting DNA methyltransferases and histone deacetylases in human cervical cancer cells, Munawwar Ali Khan, Arif Hussain, Madhumitha Kedhari Sundaram, Usama Alalami, Dian Gunasekera, Laveena Ramesh, Amina Hamza, and Uzma Quraishi
Sulforaphane Reverses the Expression of Various Tumor Suppressor Genes by Targeting DNMT3B and HDAC1 in Human Cervical Cancer Cells, Munawwar Ali Khan, Madhumitha Kedhari Sundaram, Amina Hamza, Uzma Quraishi, Dian Gunasekera, Laveena Ramesh, Payal Goala, Usama Al Alami, Mohammad Zeeshan Ansari, Tahir A. Rizvi, Chhavi Sharma, and Arif Hussain