Submissions from 2020
Dynamic Dual-Attentive Aggregation Learning for Visible-Infrared Person Re-identification, Mang Ye, Jianbing Shen, David J. Crandall, Ling Shao, and Jiebo Luo
Learning Enriched Features for Real Image Restoration and Enhancement, Syed Waqas Zamir, Aditya Arora, Salman Khan, Munawar Hayat, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Ming Hsuan Yang, and Ling Shao
Submissions from 2019
Effects of vitamin D status and supplements on anthropometric and biochemical indices in a clinical setting: A retrospective study, Myriam Abboud, Xiaoying Liu, Flavia Fayet-Moore, Kaye E. Brock, Dimitrios Papandreou, Tara C. Brennan-Speranza, and Rebecca S. Mason
Gut microbiome, probiotics and bone: An updated mini review, Myriam Abboud and Dimitrios Papandreou
Towards an efficient data fragmentation, allocation, and clustering approach in a distributed environment, Hassan Abdalla and Abdel Monim Artoli
IFRS and institutional work in the accounting domain, Dina Aburous
Prevalence of overweight and obesity and their associations with dietary habits among students from a major university in Palestine: A cross-sectional study, Bassam Abu Shanab and Haleama Al-Sabbah
Buffer capital, loan portfolio quality and the performance of microfinance institutions: A global analysis, Godfred Adjapong Afrifa, Ernest Gyapong, and Alaa Mansour Zalata
A New Approach to Information Extraction in User-Centric E-Recruitment Systems, Malik Nabeel Ahmed Awan, Sharifullah Khan, Khalid Latif, and Asad Masood Khattak
Marathon TV watching among emiratis in the interactive media environment, Azza Ahmed
An insight into the paradigms of osteoporosis: From genetics to biomechanics, Fatme Al Anouti, Zainab Taha, Sadia Shamim, Kinda Khalaf, Leena Al Kaabi, and Habiba Alsafar
Online peer support groups to combat digital addiction: User acceptance and rejection factors, Manal Aldhayan, Sainabou Cham, Theodoros Kostoulas, Mohamed Basel Almourad, and Raian Ali
Assessment and hardening of IOT development boards, Omar Alfandi, Musaab Hasan, and Zayed Balbahaith
0913 Exploring The Relationship Between Sleep And Depersonalization, Eman Alhelali and Teresa Arora
0444 Comparison of Commonly Used Questionnaires to Identify Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Pilots, Mohammed Al Houqani and Teresa Arora
Feminist perspectives on education and pedagogy: A meta-synthetic insight into the thought of four American philosophers, Khadija Alhumaid
The Karaki dialect of Christians and Muslims in Jordan- Social linguistic study., Ahmad S. Al janadbah
Effect of consumer innovativeness on new product purchase intentions through learning process and perceived value, Salem A. Al-Jundi, Ahmed Shuhaiber, and Reshmi Augustine
Improving fog computing performance via Fog-2-Fog collaboration, Mohammed Al-khafajiy, Thar Baker, Hilal Al-Libawy, Zakaria Maamar, Moayad Aloqaily, and Yaser Jararweh
Neuroprotective effects of melatonin and celecoxib against ethanol-induced neurodegeneration: A computational and pharmacological approach, Lina T. Al Kury, Alam Zeb, Zain Ul Abidin, Nadeem Irshad, Imran Malik, Arooj Mohsin Alvi, Atif Ali Khan Khalil, Sareer Ahmad, Muhammad Faheem, Arif Ullah Khan, Fawad Ali Shah, and Shupeng Li
Analysis of WCAG 2.0 data accessibility success criterion of e-government websites, Mohamed Basel Al Mourad, Mohammed Hussein, Faouzi Kamoun, and Zelal Wattar
Behavioural Digital Forensics Model: Embedding Behavioural Evidence Analysis into the Investigation of Digital Crimes, Noora Al Mutawa, Joanne Bryce, Virginia N.L. Franqueira, Andrew Marrington, and Janet C. Read
Combining machine learning and metaheuristics algorithms for classification method PROAFTN, Feras Al-Obeidat, Nabil Belacel, and Bruce Spencer
Constitutional and Legislative Guarantees of Foreign Investment in Light of Jordanian Legislation, Nayel Musa Shaker Alomran
Prevalence of Complications in Type 2 Diabetics in Dubai, UAE: A Cross-sectional Study, Haleama Al Sabbah, Moaza Alketbi, and Rania Dghaim
Major Risk Factors in the Onset of End-Stage Renal Disease, Haleama Al-Sabbah, Kazem Nazme Basheer, Kristina Lu, and Mustafa Younis
Oral health status of athletes with intellectual disabilities: a review, Shahd Omar Al-Shamlan, Mutaz Mohammad, and Dimitrios Papandreou
Arabia Felix 2.0: a cross-linguistic Twitter analysis of happiness patterns in the United Arab Emirates, Aamna Al Shehhi, Justin Thomas, Roy Welsch, Ian Grey, and Zeyar Aung
Customer churn prediction in telecommunication industry using data certainty, Adnan Amin, Feras Al-Obeidat, Babar Shah, Awais Adnan, Jonathan Loo, and Sajid Anwar
Cross-company customer churn prediction in telecommunication: A comparison of data transformation methods, Adnan Amin, Babar Shah, Asad Masood Khattak, Fernando Joaquim Lopes Moreira, Gohar Ali, Alvaro Rocha, and Sajid Anwar
Central Asian Regional Economic Cooperation Program as Driver of Regional Energy Projects to Promote Energy Security in the Post-Soviet Central Asia, F. S. Aminjonov
Tennis serve data may elude some as serves get too fast, Nejat Anbarci, K. Peren Arin, and Christina Zenker
Mitigation of ground vibrations by circular arrays of rigid blocks, Lars V. Andersen, Andrew T. Peplow, and Peter Persson
Revisiting the Growth Effects of Fiscal Policy: A Bayesian Model Averaging Approach, K. Peren Arin, Elias Braunfels, and Gernot Doppelhofer
0675 The Association Between Sleep Beliefs And Sleep Behaviour In University Students, Teresa Arora
Sleep Routines in Children, Teresa Arora
Role of outer membrane permeability, efflux mechanism, and carbapenemases in carbapenem-nonsusceptible Pseudomonas aeruginosa from Dubai hospitals: Results of the first cross-sectional survey, Carole Ayoub Moubareck, Dalal Hammoudi Halat, Charbel Akkawi, Anju Nabi, Mouza A. AlSharhan, Zulfa O. AlDeesi, Christabel C. Peters, Handan Celiloglu, and Dolla Karam Sarkis
The Strength of Weak Ties: Eliza Haywood’s Social Network in The Dunciad in Four Books (1743), Ileana Baird
Online authentication methods used in banks and attacks against these methods, Anoud Bani-Hani, Munir Majdalweieh, and Aisha AlShamsi
A Novel Quality and Reliability-Based Approach for Participants' Selection in Mobile Crowdsensing, May El Barachi, Assane Lo, Sujith Samuel Mathew, and Kiyan Afsari
Designing the Lebanese public education budget: A policy document analysis, Sandra Baroudi
Non-Orthogonal Radio Resource Management for RF Energy Harvested 5G Networks, Mehak Basharat, Muhammad Naeem, Waleed Ejaz, Asad Masood Khattak, Alagan Anpalagan, Omar Alfandi, and Hyung Seok Kim
Fog computing enabling industrial internet of things: State-of-the-art and research challenges, Rabeea Basir, Saad Qaisar, Mudassar Ali, Monther Aldwairi, Muhammad Ikram Ashraf, Aamir Mahmood, and Mikael Gidlund
Triplet loss network for unsupervised domain adaptation, Imad Eddine Ibrahim Bekkouch, Youssef Youssry, Rustam Gafarov, Adil Khan, and Asad Masood Khattak
Meanings, Dimensions, and Categories of Mathematics Teacher Beliefs: A Navigation through the Literature, Shashidhar Belbase
Virtual Environments Testing as a Cloud Service: A Methodology for Protecting and Securing Virtual Infrastructures, Elhadj Benkhelifa, Anoud Bani Hani, Thomas Welsh, Siyakha Mthunzi, and Chirine Ghedira Guegan
Dependence measure for length-biased survival data using copulas, Rachid Bentoumi, Mhamed Mesfioui, and Mayer Alvo
0917 Assessing The Relationship Between Sleep Quality, Anger And Aggression, Fatima Al Beshr and Teresa Arora
Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults, Honor Bixby, James Bentham, Bin Zhou, Mariachiara Di Cesare, Christopher J. Paciorek, James E. Bennett, Cristina Taddei, Gretchen A. Stevens, Andrea Rodriguez-Martinez, Rodrigo M. Carrillo-Larco, Young Ho Khang, Maroje Sorić, Edward W. Gregg, J. Jaime Miranda, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Stefan Savin, Marisa K. Sophiea, Maria L.C. Iurilli, Bethlehem D. Solomon, Melanie J. Cowan, Leanne M. Riley, Goodarz Danaei, Pascal Bovet, Adela Chirita-Emandi, Ian R. Hambleton, Alison J. Hayes, Nayu Ikeda, Andre P. Kengne, Avula Laxmaiah, and Yanping Li
Bioprospecting desert plant Bacillus endophytic strains for their potential to enhance plant stress tolerance, Ameerah Bokhari, Magbubah Essack, Feras F. Lafi, Cristina Andres-Barrao, Rewaa Jalal, Soha Alamoudi, Rozaimi Razali, Hanin Alzubaidy, Kausar H. Shah, Shahid Siddique, Vladimir B. Bajic, Heribert Hirt, and Maged M. Saad
Norm-based and commitment-driven agentification of the Internet of Things, Khouloud Boukadi, Noura Faci, Zakaria Maamar, Emir Ugljanin, Mohamed Sellami, Thar Baker, and Mohammed Al-Khafajiy
Testing the Static Trade-Off Theory of Capital Structure: A Corporate Governance Perspective, Umar Butt
A positive Living-in-History effect: the case of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Christin Camia, Christina Menzel, and Annette Bohn
Integrated database system with spatial information for disaster risk management, Ever Enrique Castillo Osorio, Bashir Hayat, Babar Shah, Francis Chow, and Ki Il Kim
Improved Identity Management with Verifiable Credentials and FIDO, David W. Chadwick, Romain Laborde, Arnaud Oglaza, Remi Venant, Samer Wazan, and Manreet Nijjar
Digital addiction: Negative life experiences and potential for technology-assisted solutions, Sainabou Cham, Abdullah Algashami, Manal Aldhayan, John McAlaney, Keith Phalp, Mohamed Basel Almourad, and Raian Ali
Effective Evaluation of the Non-Technical Skills in the Computing Discipline, Maurice Danaher, Kevin Schoepp, and Ashley Ater Kranov
What is Academic Writing?, Peter Davidson
When Employees Retaliate Against Self-Serving Leaders: The Influence of the Ethical Climate, Stijn Decoster, Jeroen Stouten, and Thomas M. Tripp
An authentic-based privacy preservation protocol for smart e-healthcare systems in iot, B. D. Deebak, Fadi Al-Turjman, Moayad Aloqaily, and Omar Alfandi
Public relations in the Middle East: an editorial introduction, Ganga S. Dhanesh and Gaelle P. Duthler
Facts Over Stories for Involved Publics: Framing Effects in CSR Messaging and the Roles of Issue Involvement, Message Elaboration, Affect, and Skepticism, Ganga S. Dhanesh and Elmie Nekmat
Global nomads, cultural chameleons, strange ones or immigrants? An exploration of Third Culture Kid terminology with reference to the United Arab Emirates, Anna Dillon and Tabassim Ali
The experience of co-teaching for emergent Arabic-English literacy, Anna M. Dillon and Kay Gallagher
Learning Stylometric Representations for Authorship Analysis, Steven H.H. Ding, Benjamin C.M. Fung, Farkhund Iqbal, and William K. Cheung
Unmanned aerial vehicles enabled IoT platform for disaster management, Waleed Ejaz, Muhammad Awais Azam, Salman Saadat, Farkhund Iqbal, and Abdul Hanan
Network Centrality, Connections, and Information: Evidence from CEO Insider Trading Gains, Rwan El‐Khatib, Dobrina Georgieva Jandik, and Tomas Jandik
Bootstrapping the empirical distribution of a stationary process with change-point, Farid El Ktaibi and B. Gail Ivanoff
An assessment of the influence of personal branding on financing entrepreneurial ventures, Suzanna ElMassah, Ian Michael, Reynold James, and Ionica Ghimpu
Stages of change, smoking behavior and acceptability of a textmessaging intervention for tobacco cessation among cigarette, dokha and shishasmokers: A qualitative research study, Yusra Elhidaia Elobaid, Andrea Leinberger Jabari, Aisha Al Hamiz, Abdul Rizzak Al Kaddour, Sherif Bakir, Heba Barazi, Elisa Kazim, Scott Sherman, and Raghib Ali
Using mobile learning tools in higher education: A UAE Case, Jenny Eppard, Zeina Hojeij, Pinar Ozdemir-Ayber, Marlieke Rodjan-Helder, and Sandra Baroudi
Hydropower Potential of the Central Asian Countries, Bahtiyor Eshchanov, Alina Abylkasymova, Indra Overland, Daniyar Moldokanov, Farkhod Aminjonov, and Roman Vakulchuk
Heterogeneous effects in the international transmission of the US monetary policy: a factor-augmented VAR perspective, Anastasios Evgenidis, Dionisis Philippas, and Costas Siriopoulos
In Situ Mutation for Active Things in the IoT Context, Noura Faci, Zakaria Maamar, Thar Baker, Emir Ugljanin, and Mohamed Sellami
The mediating roles of psychological autonomy, competence and relatedness on work-life balance and well-being, Anestis Fotiadis, Khadija Abdulrahman, and Anastasia Spyridou
The impact of EU sponsorship, size, and geographic characteristics on rural tourism development, Anestis Fotiadis, Guych Nuryyev, Jennet Achyldurdyyeva, and Anastasia Spyridou
Book Review: China's Maritime Silk Road Initiative And South Asia: A Political Economic Analysis Of Its Purposes, Peril, And Promise, Jonathan Fulton
China’s challenge to US dominance in the Middle East, Jonathan Fulton
China’s changing role in the Middle East, Jonathan Fulton
Friends with Benefits: China’s Partnership Diplomacy in the Gulf, Jonathan Fulton
Why Saudi Arabia is turning to Asia, Jonathan Fulton
The Evolution of the Incubator: Past, Present, and Future, Brendan Galbraith, Rodney McAdam, and Stephen Edward Cross
Cationic antimicrobial peptides: Alternatives and/or adjuvants to antibiotics active against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Regina Geitani, Carole Ayoub Moubareck, Lhousseine Touqui, and Dolla Karam Sarkis
Variations in 25-hydroxyvitamin d in countries from the middle east and europe: The roles of uvb exposure and diet, William B. Grant, Hana M.A. Fakhoury, Spyridon N. Karras, Fatme Al Anouti, and Harjit P. Bhattoa
Enhanced label noise filtering with multiple voting, Donghai Guan, Maqbool Hussain, Weiwei Yuan, Asad Masood Khattak, Muhammad Fahim, and Wajahat Ali Khan
Neutrosophic cubic Heronian mean operators with applications in multiple attribute group decision-making using cosine similarity functions, Muhammad Gulistan, Mutaz Mohammad, Faruk Karaaslan, Seifedine Kadry, Salma Khan, and Hafiz Abdul Wahab
Message from the mobile data & ai special track chairs, Guibing Guo, Xiuqiang He, Fabrizio Lamberti, Liang Lan, Bin Li, Wengen Li, Zakaria Maamar, Zhengyu Niu, Stephan Reiff-Marganiec, Christian Ritz, Benyun Shi, Feng Wang, Shuaiqiang Wang, Wen Wu, Weicheng Xie, Haiqin Yang, and Zhou Zhao
National Culture and Women Managers: Evidence From Microfinance Institutions Around the World, Ernest Gyapong and Godfred Adjapong Afrifa
Hanada's Text Leveling System (HTLS) from Text Engagement to Text Engagingness, Majed Harb
Enhancing the teaching and learning process using video streaming servers and forecasting techniques, Raza Hasan, Sellappan Palaniappan, Salman Mahmood, Babar Shah, Ali Abbas, and Kamal Uddin Sarker
Assessment of Bottle-Feeding Practices in Kassala, Eastern Sudan: A Community-Based Study, Ahmed A. Hassan, Zainab Taha, Mohamed A. Abdulla, Abdel Aziem A. Ali, and Ishag Adam
Are there paternal components in human milk?, Ahmed Hassan, Zainab Taha, Abdullah Nafeesah, and Ishag Adam
The Making of a Mobile Caliphate State in the African Sahel, Hamdy Hassan
Orthographic and root frequency effects in Arabic: Evidence from eye movements and lexical decision, Ehab W. Hermena, Simon P. Liversedge, Sana Bouamama, and Denis Drieghe
Selecting high quality dual language texts for young children in multicultural contexts: A uae case, Zeina Hojeij, Anna Marie Dillon, Alecia Perkins, and Ian Grey
Do LGBT Workplace Diversity Policies Create Value for Firms?, Mohammed Hossain, Muhammad Atif, Ammad Ahmed, and Lokman Mia
Hyperspectroscopic and microtopographic analyses of salt crust forms on arid, silty clay loam desert soils, Fares M. Howari, Fatima Al Aydaroos, Yousef Nazzal, Jibran Iqbal, and Nadine Bou Orm
Contraction and Intracellular Calcium Transport in Epicardial and Endocardial Ventricular Myocytes from Streptozotocin-Induced Diabetic Rat, Frank Christopher Howarth, Manal M. A. Smail, Muhammad Anwar Qureshi, Anatoliy Shmygol, Jaipaul Singh, and Lina Al Kury
Development and validation of a prediction model for fat mass in children and adolescents: Meta-analysis using individual participant data, Mohammed T. Hudda, Mary S. Fewtrell, Dalia Haroun, Sooky Lum, Jane E. Williams, Jonathan C.K. Wells, Richard D. Riley, Christopher G. Owen, Derek G. Cook, Alicja R. Rudnicka, Peter H. Whincup, and Claire M. Nightingale
Why I No Longer Believe Social Media Is Cool..., Zoe Hurley
Wordnet-Based Criminal Networks Mining for Cybercrime Investigation, Farkhund Iqbal, Benjamin C.M. Fung, Mourad Debbabi, Rabia Batool, and Andrew Marrington
A Hybrid Framework for Sentiment Analysis Using Genetic Algorithm Based Feature Reduction, Farkhund Iqbal, Jahanzeb Maqbool Hashmi, Benjamin C.M. Fung, Rabia Batool, Asad Masood Khattak, Saiqa Aleem, and Patrick C.K. Hung
Drone forensics: Examination and analysis, Farkhund Iqbal, Benjamin Yankson, Maryam A. AlYammahi, Naeema AlMansoori, Suaad Mohammed Qayed, Babar Shah, and Thar Baker
Dynamic Adaptation for WPANs Collision Prevention in eHealth Environments, Youssef Iraqi and Loubna Mekouar
Raising Children’s Cultural Awareness: A Task-Based Approach, Nadine Jaafarawi
Book Review: Disruptive classroom technologies: a framework for innovation in education (Magana, S., 2017), Nadine Jaafarawi and Afshan Parkar
Psychological vulnerability as an integral component of comprehensive vulnerability assessment: Informing policy and practice in disaster risk reduction, Jigar Jogia and Gayan Wedawatta
Restriction-based fragmentation of business processes over the cloud, Slim Kallel, Zakaria Maamar, Mohamed Sellami, Noura Faci, Ahmed Ben Arab, Walid Gaaloul, and Thar Baker
Perceptions of Health and Safety among Workers in the Automotive Repair Industry in Dubai (United Arab Emirates): A Cross-sectional Exploratory Study, Mona El Kouatly Kambris, Sarah Khan, and Shatha Nabil Al Falasi
SP414EXPLORING THE CONCORDANCE OF MALNUTRITION ASSESSMENT TOOLS WITH THE GLIM CRITERIA AMONG HEMODIALYSIS PATIENTS: RESULTS FROM A CROSS SECTIONAL STUDY, Mirey Karavetian
Malnutrition-inflammation score VS phase angle in the era of GLIM criteria: A cross-sectional study among hemodialysis patients in UAE, Mirey Karavetian, Nada Salhab, Rana Rizk, and Kalliopi Anna Poulia
An Efficient Multi-Cloud Service Composition Using A Distributed Multiagent-based, Memory-driven Approach, Phillip Kendrick, Thar Baker, Zakaria Maamar, Abir Hussain, Rajkumar Buyya, and Dhiya Al-Jumeily
Bacterial community structure in anaerobic digesters of a full scale municipal wastewater treatment plant - Case study of dubai, united arab emirates, Munawwar A. Khan, Noorun N. Ashar, Arpitha G. Ganesh, Naushad Rais, Sultan M. Faheem, and Shams T. Khan
Online assessments: Exploring perspectives of university students, Sarah Khan and Rashid Azim Khan
Role assigning and taking in cloud computing, Shafaq Naheed Khan, Mathew Nicho, Haifa Takruri, Zakaria Maamar, and Faouzi Kamoun
Calculating three thermal coefficients from one data set, A. Kharab, F. M. Howari, and R. B. Guenther
A lightweight perceptron-based intrusion detection system for fog computing, Belal Sudqi Khater, Ainuddin Wahid Bin Abdul Wahab, Mohd Yamani Idna Bin Idris, Mohammed Abdulla Hussain, and Ashraf Ahmed Ibrahim
Dietary application for the management of patients with hemodialysis: A formative development study, Cosette Fakih El Khoury, Mirey Karavetian, Ruud J.G. Halfens, Rik Crutzen, Dayana El Chaar, and Jos M.G.A. Schols
Wireless sensor networks for big data systems, Beom Su Kim, Ki Il Kim, Babar Shah, Francis Chow, and Kyong Hoon Kim
Economics or ethics? Exploring the role of CSR expectations in explaining consumers’ perceptions, motivations, and active communication behaviors about corporate misconduct, Soojin Kim, Arunima Krishna, and Ganga Dhanesh
Information technology in the British and Irish undergraduate accounting degrees, Amr Kotb, Magdy Abdel-Kader, Amir Allam, Hussein Halabi, and Ellie Franklin
Consecutive dual-vortex interactions between quadruple Typhoons Noru, Kulap, Nesat and Haitang during the 2017 North Pacific Typhoon season, Yuei An Liou, Ji Chyun Liu, Chung Chih Liu, Chun Hsu Chen, Kim Anh Nguyen, and James P. Terry
Learning human anatomy using ARA mobile application, Samia Loucif, Murad Al-Rajab, Reem Salem, Abdullah Hesham, Doaa Mahely, and Mhd Alaa Ajlouni
Semantic Web Services Composition in the astrophysics domain: Issues and solutions, Thierry Louge, Mohamed Hedi Karray, Bernard Archimede, Zakaria Maamar, and Michael Mrissa
MHD boundary layer flow of Carreau fluid over a convectively heated bidirectional sheet with non-fourier heat flux and variable thermal conductivity, Dianchen Lu, Mutaz Mohammad, Muhammad Ramzan, Muhammad Bilal, Fares Howari, and Muhammad Suleman
A thin film flow of nanofluid comprising carbon nanotubes influenced by Cattaneo-Christov heat flux and entropy generation, Dianchen Lu, Muhammad Ramzan, Mutaz Mohammad, Fares Howari, and Jae Dong Chung
Weaving cognition into the internet-of-things: Application to water leaks, Zakaria Maamar, Thar Baker, Noura Faci, Mohammed Al-Khafajiy, Emir Ugljanin, Yacine Atif, and Mohamed Sellami
Cognitive Computing Meets the Internet of Things, Zakaria Maamar, Thar Baker, Noura Faci, Emir Ugljanin, Yacine Atif, Mohammed Al-Khafajiy, and Mohamed Sellami
Everything-as-a-Thing for Abstracting the Internet-of-Things, Zakaria Maamar, Noura Faci, Mohamed Sellami, Emir Ugljanin, and Ejub Kajan
Open challenges in vetting the internet‐of‐things, Zakaria Maamar, Ejub Kajan, Muhammad Asim, and Thar Baker Shamsa
Solving Galbrun’s Equation with a Discontinuous galerkin Finite Element Method, Marcus Maeder, Andrew Peplow, Maximilian Meindl, and Steffen Marburg
Speech enhancement Algorithm based on super-Gaussian modeling and orthogonal polynomials, Basheera M. Mahmmod, Abd Rahman Ramli, Thar Baker, Feras Al-Obeidat, Sadiq H. Abdulhussain, and Wissam A. Jassim
Research challenges and opportunities in blockchain and cryptocurrencies, Qusay H. Mahmoud, Michael Lescisin, and May AlTaei
Advancing digital transformation: Integrated digital transformation framework for a successful deployment, Munir Majdalawieh
Family volunteers as alternative future resources: School leaders' beliefs and practices, Hazar Hekmat Malluhi and Nayel Musa Alomran
A trial sequential meta-analysis of TNF-α –308G>A (rs800629) gene polymorphism and susceptibility to colorectal cancer, Raju K. Mandal, Munawwar Ali Khan, Arif Hussain, Naseem Akhter, Arshad Jawed, Sajad A. Dar, Mohd Wahid, Aditya K. Panda, Mohtashim Lohani, Bhartendu N. Mishra, and Shafiul Haque
Association of MBL2 gene polymorphisms with pulmonary tuberculosis susceptibility: Trial sequence meta-analysis as evidence, Raju K. Mandal, Munawwar Ali Khan, Arif Hussain, Sajad A. Dar, Sultan Aloufi, Arshad Jawed, Mohd Wahid, Aditya K. Panda, Mohtashim Lohani, Naseem Akhter, Saif Khan, Bhartendu Nath Mishra, and Shafiul Haque
The Role of Skeletal Muscle in Maintaining Vitamin D Status in Winter, Rebecca S. Mason, Mark S. Rybchyn, Myriam Abboud, Tara C. Brennan-Speranza, and David R. Fraser
“I’m a stay at home businesswoman”: an insight into informal entrepreneurship in Jordan, Salime Mehtap, Leyla Ozmenekse, and Andrea Caputo
A metadesign theory for tailorable decision support, Shah Jahan Miah, John G. Gammack, and Judy McKay
A big-data analytics method for capturing visitor activities and flows: the case of an island country, Shah Jahan Miah, Huy Quan Vu, and John Gammack
A Location Analytics Method for the Utilisation of Geotagged Photos in Travel Marketing Decision-Making, Shah Jahan Miah, Huy Quan Vu, and John G. Gammack
Methodologies for designing healthcare analytics solutions: A literature analysis, Shah J. Miah, John Gammack, and Najmul Hasan
Follow-up decision support tool for public healthcare: A design research perspective, Shah J. Miah, Najmul Hasan, and John Gammack
Emerging Insights of Health Informatics Research: A Literature Analysis for Outlining New Themes, Shah Miah, Jun Shen, John W Lamp, Don Kerr, and John Gammack
A numerical solution of fredholm integral equations of the second kind based on tight framelets generated by the oblique extension principle, Mutaz Mohammad
Biorthogonal-wavelet-based method for numerical solution of volterra integral equations, Mutaz Mohammad
On the gibbs effect based on the quasi-affine dual tight framelets system generated using the mixed oblique extension principle, Mutaz Mohammad
Instructional mode: A better predictor of performance than student preferred learning styles, Jase Moussa-Inaty, Fida Atallah, and Mark Causapin
Dominant Language Acquisition in Destination Countries: Structure, Agency and Reflexivity, Gina Netto, Maria Hudson, Nicolina Kamenou-Aigbekaen, and Filip Sosenko
Vulnerability of Vietnam to typhoons: A spatial assessment based on hazards, exposure and adaptive capacity, Kim Anh Nguyen, Yuei An Liou, and James P. Terry
Dimensions of 'socio' vulnerabilities of advanced persistent threats, Mathew Nicho and Christopher D. McDermott
Intensive pre-processing of KDD Cup 99 for network intrusion classification using machine learning techniques, Ibrahim M. Obeidat, Nabhan Hamadneh, Mouhammd Alkasassbeh, Mohammad Almseidin, and Mazen Ibrahim AlZubi
Mining biosynthetic gene clusters in Virgibacillus genomes, Ghofran Othoum, Salim Bougouffa, Ameerah Bokhari, Feras F. Lafi, Takashi Gojobori, Heribert Hirt, Ivan Mijakovic, Vladimir B. Bajic, and Magbubah Essack
Comparative genomics study reveals Red Sea Bacillus with characteristics associated with potential microbial cell factories (MCFs), G. Othoum, S. Prigent, A. Derouiche, L. Shi, A. Bokhari, S. Alamoudi, S. Bougouffa, X. Gao, R. Hoehndorf, S. T. Arold, T. Gojobori, H. Hirt, F. F. Lafi, J. Nielsen, V. B. Bajic, I. Mijakovic, and M. Essack
The covcrav project: Architecture and design of a cooperative v2v crash avoidance system, Fatma Outay, Hichem Bargaoui, Anouar Chemek, Faouzi Kamoun, and Ansar Yasar
V2V and V2I communications for traffic safety and CO2 emission reduction: A performance evaluation, Fatma Outay, Faouzi Kamoun, Florent Kaisser, Doaa Alterri, and Ansar Yasar
Narratives on Facebook: the impact of user-generated content on visiting attitudes, visiting intention and perceptions of destination risk, Saeed Pahlevan Sharif and Paolo Mura
Volatility spillovers in electricity markets: Evidence from the United States, Themistoclis Pantos, Stathis Polyzos, Angelos Armenatzoglou, and Ilias Kampouris
Consumption of Raw Orange, 100% Fresh Orange Juice, and Nectar- Sweetened Orange Juice-Effects on Blood Glucose and Insulin Levels on Healthy Subjects, Dimitrios Papandreou, Emmanouella Magriplis, Myriam Abboud, Zainab Taha, Eleftheria Karavolia, Christos Karavolias, and Antonis Zampelas
Social networks and leadership emergence, Jin Park
Computation of axisymmetric vibration transmission using a well-conditioned system for elastic layers over a half–space, Andrew T. Peplow, Lars V. Andersen, and Peter Persson
How building adjacency affects occupant-perceivable vibrations due to urban sources: A parametric study, Peter Persson, Loukas F. Kallivokas, Lars V. Andersen, and Andrew T. Peplow
Systematically Searching Empirical Literature in the Social Sciences: Results from Two Meta-Analyses Within the Domain of Education, David I. Pickup, Robert M. Bernard, Eugene Borokhovski, Anne C. Wade, and Rana M. Tamim
There is nothing so practical as good theory for tracking destination image over time, Steven Pike, H. S. Jin, and Filareti Kotsi
Data-driven curation, learning and analysis for inferring evolving IoT botnets in the wild, Morteza Safaei Pour, Antonio Mangino, Kurt Friday, Matthias Rathbun, Elias Bou-Harb, Farkhund Iqbal, Khaled Shaban, and Abdelkarim Erradi
Collective decision making in dynamic environments, Judhi Prasetyo, Giulia De Masi, and Eliseo Ferrante
A Quality-of-Things model for assessing the Internet-of-Things' nonfunctional properties, Ayesha Qamar, Muhammad Asim, Zakaria Maamar, Saad Saeed, and Thar Baker
Impact of nonlinear chemical reaction and melting heat transfer on an MHD nanofluid flow over a thin needle in porous media, Muhammad Ramzan, Hina Gul, Seifedine Kadry, Chhayly Lim, Yunyoung Nam, and Fares Howari
Magnetized suspended carbon nanotubes based nanofluid flow with bio-convection and entropy generation past a vertical cone, Muhammad Ramzan, Mutaz Mohammad, and Fares Howari
Entropy analysis of carbon nanotubes based nanofluid flow past a vertical cone with thermal radiation, Muhammad Ramzan, Mutaz Mohammad, Fares Howari, and Jae Dong Chung
Barriers to innovation and knowledge generation: The challenges of conducting business and social research in an emerging country context, James C. Ryan and Timothy M. Daly
A location-sensitive and network-aware broker for recommending Web services, Saad Saeed, Muhammad Asim, Thar Baker, and Zakaria Maamar
Effect of intradialytic exercise on hyperphosphatemia and malnutrition, Nada Salhab, Mona Alrukhaimi, Jeroen Kooman, Enrico Fiaccadori, Harith Aljubori, Rana Rizk, and Mirey Karavetian
Effects of intradialytic aerobic exercise on hemodialysis patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis, Nada Salhab, Mirey Karavetian, Jeroen Kooman, Enrico Fiaccadori, and Cosette F. El Khoury
Attitudes and Barriers to Physical Activity in Hemodialysis Patients: Could Intradialytic Exercise Modify These Factors?, Nada Salhab, Jeroen Kooman, Enrico Fiaccadori, Harith Aljubori, and Mirey Karavetian
Assessing teamwork in a computing programme, Kevin Schoepp, Maurice Danaher, Anthony Rhodes, and Ashley Ater Kranov
Polydatin attenuates neuronal loss via reducing neuroinflammation and oxidative stress in rat MCAO models, Fawad Ali Shah, Lina Al Kury, Tao Li, Alam Zeb, Phil Ok Koh, Fang Liu, Qiang Zhou, Ishtiaq Hussain, Arif Ullah Khan, Yuhua Jiang, and Shupeng Li
Pathological Comparisons of the Hippocampal Changes in the Transient and Permanent Middle Cerebral Artery Occlusion Rat Models, Fawad Ali Shah, Tao Li, Lina Tariq Al Kury, Alam Zeb, Shehla Khatoon, Gongping Liu, Xifei Yang, Fang Liu, Huo Yao, Arif Ullah Khan, Phil Ok Koh, Yuhua Jiang, and Shupeng Li
Melatonin protects MCAO-induced neuronal loss via NR2A mediated prosurvival pathways, Fawad Ali Shah, Gongping Liu, Lina T. Al Kury, Alam Zeb, Muzaffar Abbas, Tao Li, Xifei Yang, Fang Liu, Yuhua Jiang, and Shupeng Li
Compromised user credentials detection in a digital enterprise using behavioral analytics, Saleh Shah, Babar Shah, Adnan Amin, Feras Al-Obeidat, Francis Chow, Fernando Joaquim Lopes Moreira, and Sajid Anwar
Higher Education 4.0: Uni for nothin’, MOOCs for free?, Ravi Sharma, Kevin Jones, Warwick Anderson, and Anushia Inthiran
Computer-Aided Diagnostic System for Early Detection of Acute Renal Transplant Rejection Using Diffusion-Weighted MRI, Mohamed Shehata, Fahmi Khalifa, Ahmed Soliman, Mohammed Ghazal, Fatma Taher, Mohamed Abou El-Ghar, Amy C. Dwyer, Georgy Gimel'Farb, Robert S. Keynton, and Ayman El-Baz
Relationships between teamwork and suicidal behavior in Juvenile detention facilities using Bayesian networks, Ginger Silvera and Linda Smail
The January barometer in emerging markets: New evidence from the Gulf Cooperation Council stock exchanges, Costas Siriopoulos and Layal Youssef
Happiness as a value of event organizers in Abu Dhabi, Natasa Slak Valek and Anestis Fotiadis
Forecasting Temperature in a Smart Home with Segmented Linear Regression, Bruce Spencer, Omar Alfandi, and Feras Al-Obeidat
Archaeological, Historical, and Ethnographic Approaches to the Study of Sewn Boats: past, present, and future, Eric Staples and Lucy Blue
Culture and Heritage: A Foundation for Sustainable Development through Understanding and Tolerance of Cultural Differences, Melodena Stephens, Shamma bint Sultan bin Khalifa Al Nahyan, Frederik Panz, and Filareti Kotsi
International Student Perceptions of Libraries: Experiences from the Middle East and North Africa, Kristine N. Stewart and Kenneth C. Haggerty
Whose Responsibility is it Anyway?, Kristine N. Stewart and Judith Mavodza
A comparative study of magnetic chitosan (Chi@Fe3O4) and graphene oxide modified magnetic chitosan (Chi@Fe3O4GO) nanocomposites for efficient removal of Cr(VI) from water, Nabin Subedi, Anna Lähde, Emmanuel Abu-Danso, Jibran Iqbal, and Amit Bhatnagar
Genistein modulates signaling pathways and targets several epigenetic markers in hela cells, Madhumitha Kedhari Sundaram, Sreepoorna Unni, Pallavi Somvanshi, Tulika Bhardwaj, Raju K. Mandal, Arif Hussain, and Shafiul Haque
Life outside your comfort zone: The power of reflection for cultural adjustment, Jobila Sy and Natalie Cruz
A FINA világbajnokság (2017) önkénteseinek szerepe Budapest sportturizmusában, Viktória Szenyéri, Gábor Michalkó, and Anestis Fotiadis
Arabic Language Education in the UAE: Choosing the Right Drivers, Hanada Taha Thomure
Prevalence and associated factors of caesarean section and its impact on early initiation of breastfeeding in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Zainab Taha, Ahmed Ali Hassan, Ludmilla Wikkeling-Scott, and Dimitrios Papandreou
The security of big data in fog-enabled iot applications including blockchain: A survey, Noshina Tariq, Muhammad Asim, Feras Al-Obeidat, Muhammad Zubair Farooqi, Thar Baker, Mohammad Hammoudeh, and Ibrahim Ghafir
Temporal and Effort cost Decision-making in Healthy Individuals with Subclinical Psychotic Symptoms, Damiano Terenzi, Elena Mainetto, Mariapaola Barbato, Raffaella Ida Rumiati, and Marilena Aiello
We tweet Arabic; I tweet English: self-concept, language and social media, Justin Thomas, A. Al-Shehhi, M. Al-Ameri, and Ian Grey
Secret Shisha: A Qualitative Study of Waterpipe Tobacco Smoking among Emirati College Women, Justin Thomas, Adam Jeffers, Ludmilla Scott, and Ramzi Salloum
Data on thermal sensation, perception and microclimatic parameters in a city with Mediterranean climate, Areti Tseliou, Ioannis Tsiros, and Spyridon Lykoudis
Incense Burning is Associated with Human Oral Microbiota Composition, Yvonne Vallès, Claire K. Inman, Brandilyn A. Peters, 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 Aljunaibi, Marina Kazim, Tomas Kirchhoff, Wael Al Mahmeed, Fatma Al Maskari, Abdullah Alnaeemi, Naima Oumeziane, Ravichandran Ramasamy, Ann Marie Schmidt, Henri Vallès, Eiman Al Zaabi, Scott Sherman, Raghib Ali, Jiyoung Ahn, and Richard B. Hayes
Negotiated matter: a robotic exploration of craft-driven innovation, Alejandro Veliz Reyes, Wassim Jabi, Mohamed Gomaa, Aikaterini Chatzivasileiadi, Lina Ahmad, and Nicholas Mario Wardhana
Cross-Cultural Validation of the Perceptions of Stigmatization by Others for Seeking Help (PSOSH) Scale, David L. Vogel, Patrick J. Heath, Kelsey E. Engel, Rachel E. Brenner, Haley A. Strass, Fatima Rashed Al-Darmaki, Patrick I. Armstrong, Niall Galbraith, Victoria Galbraith, Makilim Nunes Baptista, Marta Gonçalves, Hsin-Ya Liao, Corey Mackenzie, Mark Rubin, Mark Rubin, Nursel Topkaya, Ying-Fen Wang, and Alina Zlati
Network Centrality and Open Innovation: A Social Network Analysis of an SME Manufacturing Cluster, Judith Woods, Brendan Galbraith, and Nola Hewitt-Dundas
Stock price movements and trading behaviors around merger and acquisition announcements: Evidence from the Korean stock market, Jin Young Yang, Reuben Segara, and Jingwei Feng
HICSS - Modeling Privacy Preservation in Smart Connected Toys by Petri-Nets, Benjamin Yankson, Farkhund Iqbal, Zhihui Lu, Xiaoling Wang, and Patrick Hung
Combining RSS-SVM with genetic algorithm for Arabic opinions analysis, Amel Ziani, Nabiha Azizi, Djamel Zenakhra, Soraya Cheriguene, and Monther Aldwairi
Defining new technological traditions of Late Islamic Arabia: a view on Bahlā Ware from al-Ain (UAE) and the lead-barium glaze production, Jelena Živković, Timothy Power, Myrto Georgakopoulou, and José Cristobal Carvajal López
A Consumer Neuroscience Study of Conscious and Subconscious Destination Preference, Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy, Noela Michael, and Ian Michael
Proceedings of the Applied Linguistics and Language Teaching Conference 2018: Teaching and Learning in a Globalized World, Wafa Zoghbor, Suhair Al-Alami, and Thomaï Alexiou
Submissions from 2018
Toward a second wave of waqf revival in Islamic World, Tarak Abdallah
The UAE healthy future study: a pilot for a prospective cohort study of 20,000 United Arab Emirates nationals, Abdishakur Abdulle, Abdullah Alnaeemi, Abdullah Aljunaibi, Abdulrahman Al Ali, Khaled Al Saedi, Eiman Al Zaabi, Naima Oumeziane, Marina Al Bastaki, Mohammed Al-Houqani, Fatma Al Maskari, Ayesha Al Dhaheri, Syed M. Shah, Tom Loney, Mohamed El-Sadig, Abderrahim Oulhaj, Leila Abdel Wareth, Wael Al Mahmeed, Habiba Alsafar, Benjamin Hirsch, Fatme Al Anouti, Jamila Yaaqoub, Claire K. Inman, Aisha Al Hamiz, Ayesha Al Hosani, Muna Haji, Teeb Alsharid, Thekra Al Zaabi, Fatima Al Maisary, Divya Galani, and Tim Sprosen
Harm perceptions of waterpipe tobacco smoking among university students in five Eastern Mediterranean Region countries: A cross-sectional study, Niveen M.E. Abu-Rmeileh, Ola Alkhuffash, Khalid Kheirallah, Aya Mostafa, Muhammad Darawad, Yahya Al-Farsi, Afzalhussein Yusufali, Justin Thomas, Mohamed Salama, Randah R. Hamadeh, Rima Nakkash, and Ramzi G. Salloum
Fuzziness-based active learning framework to enhance hyperspectral image classification performance for discriminative and generative classifiers, Muhammad Ahmad, Stanislav Protasov, Adil Mehmood Khan, Rasheed Hussain, Asad Masood Khattak, and Wajahat Ali Khan
Groundwater pollution risk mapping using modified DRASTIC model in parts of hail region of Saudi Arabia, Izrar Ahmed, Yousef Nazzal, and Faisal Zaidi
The effect of explicit instruction of formulaic language on EFL argumentative writing quality, Armağan Bakili Akkoç, Jingjing Qin, and Erkan Karabacak
A Survey of Resource Management Challenges in Multi-cloud Environment: Taxonomy and Empirical Analysis, Bandar Aldawsari, Thar Baker, Muhammad Asim, Zakaria Maamar, Dhiya Al-Jumeily, and Mohammed Alkhafajiy
Detecting Fake News in Social Media Networks, Monther Aldwairi and Ali Alwahedi
Patterns of tobacco use in the United Arab Emirates healthy future (UAEHFS) pilot study, Mohammed Al-Houqani, Andrea Leinberger-Jabari, Abdullah Al Naeemi, Abdullah Al Junaibi, Eiman Al Zaabi, Naima Oumeziane, Marina Kazim, Fatima Al Maskari, Ayesha Al Dhaheri, Leila Abdel Wareth, Wael Al Mahmeed, Habiba Alsafar, Fatme Al Anouti, Abdishakur Abdulle, Claire K. Inman, Aisha Al Hamiz, Muna Haji, Jiyoung Ahn, Tomas Kirchhoff, Richard B. Hayes, Ravichandran Ramasamy, Ann Marie Schmidt, Omar El Shahawy, Michael Weitzman, Raghib Ali, and Scott Sherman
SafePath: Differentially-private publishing of passenger trajectories in transportation systems, Khalil Al-Hussaeni, Benjamin C.M. Fung, Farkhund Iqbal, Gaby G. Dagher, and Eun G. Park
Foreign language learning policy in the United Arab Emirates: Local and global agents of change, Mira Al Hussein and Christina Gitsaki
Natural negative allosteric modulators of 5-HT3 receptors, Lina T. Al Kury, Mohamed Mahgoub, Frank Christopher Howarth, and Murat Oz
Calcium signaling in the ventricular myocardium of the Goto-Kakizaki type 2 diabetic rat, L. Al Kury, M. Smail, M. A. Qureshi, V. Sydorenko, A. Shmygol, M. Oz, J. Singh, and F. C. Howarth
Genetic Research Using Archival Tissue: Ethical, Social, and Legal Considerations in the United Arab Emirates, Saeeda Almarzooqi and Carol Campbell
Seasonal impact to air qualities in industrial areas of the arabian gulf region, Ahmed A. Al-Taani, Fares M. Howari, Yousef Nazzal, and Ahmad Yousef
Revisiting loss aversion: Evidence from professional tennis, Nejat Anbarci, K. Peren Arin, Torben Kuhlenkasper, and Christina Zenker
Student attitudes towards technology and their preferences for learning tools/devices at two universities in the UAE, Matthew Andrew, Jennifer Taylorson, Donald J. Langille, Aimee Grange, and Norman Williams
Education and Supplementation to Overcome Malnutrition in Pregnant Mothers for Improving Offspring Development, Teresa Arora and Ayesha Salem-Al Murry
Cloud-SEnergy: A bin-packing based multi-cloud service broker for energy efficient composition and execution of data-intensive applications, Thar Baker, Bandar Aldawsari, Muhammad Asim, Hissam Tawfik, Zakaria Maamar, and Rajkumar Buyya
Everything as a resource: Foundations and illustration through Internet-of-things, Thar Baker, Emir Ugljanin, Noura Faci, Mohamed Sellami, Zakaria Maamar, and Ejub Kajan
Statistical analysis and estimation of the regional trend of aerosol size over the Arabian Gulf Region during 2002-2016, Alina Barbulescu, Yousef Nazzal, and Fares Howari
Teach Students How To Learn: Strategies You Can Incorporate Into Any Course To Improve Student Metacognition, Study Skills, And Motivation, Shashidhar Belbase, Hilda Horemans, Hemali Makhija, and Janice Kaur Munster
Extracting semantic relations from the Quranic Arabic based on Arabic conjunctive patterns, Rahima Bentrcia, Samir Zidat, and Farhi Marir
Determination of the Global-Average Charge Moment of a Lightning Flash Using Schumann Resonances and the LIS/OTD Lightning Data, Robert Boldi, Earle Williams, and Anirban Guha
Achievement and attitudes in technology-supported postsecondary education: Complexity of relationships through the lens of meta-analysis, Eugene Borokhovski, Robert M. Bernard, Rana M. Tamim, and Richard F. Schmid
Technology integration in postsecondary education: A summary of findings from a set of related meta-analyses, Evgueni F. Borokhovski, Robert M. Bernard, Rana M. Tamim, and Richard F. Schmid
Inventor CEOs and Firm Innovation, Ibrahim Bostan and G. Mujtaba Mian
TiO2-based hybrid nanocomposites modified by phosphonate molecules as selective PAH adsorbents, Nadine Bou Orm, Quoc An Trieu, and Stephane Daniele
Estimating meteorological visibility range under foggy weather conditions: A deep learning approach, Hazar Chaabani, Naoufel Werghi, Faouzi Kamoun, Bilal Taha, Fatma Outay, and Ansar Ul Haque Yasar
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Psychiatric Co-morbidity among Syrian Refugees of Different Ages: the Role of Trauma Centrality, Man Cheung Chung, Nowf AlQarni, Mariam AlMazrouei, Shamsa Al Muhairi, Mudar Shakra, Britt Mitchell, Sara Al Mazrouei, and Shurooq Al Hashimi
Media narratives of gender in the contentious conservative age of Trump, Pam Creedon
Impacts of environmental change on agroecosystems and livelihoods in Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal, Mohan B. Dangi, Ram P. Chaudhary, Kedar Rijal, Peter D. Stahl, Shashidhar Belbase, Kenneth G. Gerow, Deanna Fernandez, and Binod Pyakurel
Bridging Theory to Practice: Utilizing the Culture-Centered Approach (CCA) to Address Gaps in Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) Processes, Sydney Dillard, Agaptus Anaele, Rati Kumar, and Raihan Jamil
Desert plant bacteria reveal host influence and beneficial plant growth properties, Abdul Aziz Eida, Maren Ziegler, Feras F. Lafi, Craig T. Michell, Christian R. Voolstra, Heribert Hirt, and Maged M. Saad
Dental caries and their association with socioeconomic characteristics, oral hygiene practices and eating habits among preschool children in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - the NOPLAS project, Amal Elamin, Malin Garemo, and Andrew Gardner
Achieving Sustainable Industrialisation in Egypt: Assessment of the Potential for EIPs, Suzanna Sobhy ElMassah
Contributions of mean and shape of blood pressure distribution to worldwide trends and variations in raised blood pressure: A pooled analysis of 1018 population-based measurement studies with 88.6 million participants, Majid Ezzati, Bin Zhou, James Bentham, Mariachiara Di Cesare, Honor Bixby, Goodarz Danaei, Kaveh Hajifathalian, Cristina Taddei, Rodrigo M. Carrillo-Larco, Shirin Djalalinia, Shahab Khatibzadeh, Charles Lugero, Niloofar Peykari, Wan Zhu Zhang, James Bennett, Ver Bilano, Gretchen A. Stevens, Melanie J. Cowan, Leanne M. Riley, Zhengming Chen, Ian R. Hambleton, Rod T. Jackson, Andre Pascal Kengne, Young Ho Khang, Avula Laxmaiah, Jing Liu, Reza Malekzadeh, Hannelore K. Neuhauser, Maroje Sorić, and Gregor Starc
Context mining of sedentary behaviour for promoting self-awareness using a smartphone, Muhammad Fahim, Thar Baker, Asad Masood Khattak, Babar Shah, Saiqa Aleem, and Francis Chow
Investigation of Indecent Images of Children cases: Challenges and suggestions collected from the trenches, Virginia N.L. Franqueira, Joanne Bryce, Noora Al Mutawa, and Andrew Marrington
Extreme Correlation in Cryptocurrency Markets, Konstantinos Gkillas, Stelios Bekiros, and Costas Siriopoulos
Exact expressions for numerical evaluation of high order modes of vibration in uniform Euler-Bernoulli beams, Paulo J.Paupitz Gonçalves, Andrew Peplow, and Michael J. Brennan
Hacking in the cloud, Nick Gregorio, Janahan Mathanamohan, Qusay H. Mahmoud, and May AlTaei
Authoritarian leadership and employee creativity: The moderating role of psychological capital and the mediating role of fear and defensive silence, Liang Guo, Stijn Decoster, Mayowa T. Babalola, Leander De Schutter, Omale A. Garba, and Katrin Riisla
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
How can arts-based educational research be emancipatory? Insights from three research projects, Majed Harb
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
Transitioning from a Teaching to a Research-Focused Collection in a Middle Eastern University: A Road Map for Future Directions, Lilly Hoi Sze Ho
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
Introducing Multimodality, Zoe Hurley
Why do self-initiated expatriates quit their jobs: The role of job embeddedness and shocks in explaining turnover intentions, Taiba Hussain and Stephen Deery
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
Disruptive Classroom Technologies: A Framework For Innovation In Education, Nadine Jaafarawi and Afshan Parkar
Patient education for hyperphosphatemia management: Improving outcomes while decreasing costs?, Mirey Karavetian and Rana Rizk
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
Book Review: Bayat, Asef. Revolution without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring, Habibul Haque Khondker
Epilepsy, identity, and the experience of the body, Stephanie Kılınç, Carol Campbell, Alison Guy, and Anna van Wersch
An enhanced mobility and temperature aware routing protocol through multi-criteria decision making method in wireless body area networks, Beom Su Kim, Babar Shah, Feras Al-Obediat, Sana Ullah, Kyong Hoon Kim, and Ki Il Kim
Genomic and transcriptomic signals of thermal tolerance in heat-tolerant corals (Platygyra daedalea) of the Arabian/Persian Gulf, Nathan L. Kirk, Emily J. Howells, David Abrego, John A. Burt, and Eli Meyer
The auditor-to-client revolving door: A structured literature review, Amr Kotb, Hussein Halabi, and Hany Elbardan
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
Real-Time Communication in Wireless Sensor Networks, Jeongcheol Lee, Babar Shah, Giovanni Pau, Javier Prieto, and Ki Il Kim
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
Opportunistic mining of top-n high utility patterns, Junqiang Liu, Xingxing Zhang, Benjamin C.M. Fung, Jiuyong Li, and Farkhund Iqbal
Appraising offsets as a tool for integrated environmental planning and management, Sumit Lodhia, Nigel Martin, and John Rice
One Stop Shopping as a regime: a crowdsourced analysis of integrated environmental approval policy, Sumit Lodhia, Nigel Martin, and John Rice
Cloud vs edge: Who serves the Internet‐of‐Things better?, Zakaria Maamar, Thar Baker, Mohamed Sellami, Muhammad Asim, Emir Ugljanin, and Noura Faci
Software agents meet internet of things, Zakaria Maamar, Noura Faci, Slim Kallel, Mohamed Sellami, and Emir Ugljanin
Modelling undesirable outputs in multiple objective data envelopment analysis, Mahdi Mahdiloo, Abdol Hossein Jafarzadeh, Reza Farzipoor Saen, Yong Wu, and John Rice
The Innovator's Mindset: Empower Learning, Unleash Talent And Lead A Culture Of Creativity, Lama Mahmoud and Hanar Atroshi
Performance Management of a Government Organization: Abu Dhabi's Experience, Arshad Ashfaque Malik, Muhammd Kaleem Zahir-ul-Hassan, and Abdelrahman Zaid Alhadhrami
Enhanced teamwork communication model for electronic clinical pathways in healthcare, Wasef Mater, Monther Aldwairi, and Roliana Ibrahim
Advertisement typicality: A longitudinal experiment: Can sponsors transfer the image of a sporting event to their brand?, Marc Mazodier, Armando Maria Corsi, and Pascale G. Quester
Encounters with Interactive Technologies in UAE Museums, Kara McKeown and Sabrina DeTurk
Investor sentiment and advertising expenditure, G. Mujtaba Mian, Piyush Sharma, and Ferdinand A. Gul
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
A process model for implementing information systems security governance, Mathew Nicho
Evaluating User Vulnerabilities Vs Phisher Skills In Spear Phishing, Mathew Nicho, Hussein Fakhry, and Uche Egbue
Mobile and multidimensional: Flipping the business English classroom, Catherine Nickerson
Editor's Introduction, David M. Palfreyman
Editor's introduction, David M. Palfreyman
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 Salvation of Emirati Memory in Nujoom Alghanem's Hamama, Chrysavgi Papagianni
Computation of a well-conditioned dynamic stiffness matrix for elastic layers overlying a half-space, Andrew T. Peplow
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
Good management or good finances? An agent-based study on the causes of bank failure, Stathis Polyzos, Khadija Abdulrahman, and Apostolos Christopoulos
The effect of sport tourists' travel style, destination and event choices, and motivation on their involvement in small-scale sports events, Constantinos Vasilios Priporas, Chris A. Vassiliadis, Nikolaos Stylos, and Anestis K. Fotiadis
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
Business process analytics and big data systems: A roadmap to bridge the gap, Sherif Sakr, Zakaria Maamar, Ahmed Awad, Boualem Benatallah, and Wil M.P. Van Der Aalst
Intradialytic Aerobic Exercise in the United Arab Emirates: a Descriptive Study, Nada Salhab, Mirey Karavetian, Jeroen Kooman, and Enrico Fiaccadori
Terrorist incidents and tourism demand: Evidence from Greece, Aristeidis Samitas, Dimitrios Asteriou, Stathis Polyzos, and Dimitris Kenourgios
Librarians participating in service learning at federal universities in the United Arab Emirates, Mary Sengati-Zimba and Judith Mavodza
Towards the transversal detection of DDoS network attacks in 5G multi-tenant overlay networks, Ana Serrano Mamolar, Zeeshan Pervez, Jose M. Alcaraz Calero, and Asad Masood Khattak
A generalized deep learning-based diagnostic system for early diagnosis of various types of pulmonary nodules, Ahmed Shaffie, Ahmed Soliman, Luay Fraiwan, Mohammed Ghazal, Fatma Taher, Neal Dunlap, Brian Wang, Victor van Berkel, Robert Keynton, Adel Elmaghraby, and Ayman El-Baz
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
Sociodemographic predictors of tobacco smoking among expatriate and national adolescents in the United Arab Emirates, Ayesha Siddiqua, Rania Dghaim, and Caroline Barakat-Haddad
Opinion: A Resurgent Russia and A Rising UAE in the Gulf, Li-Chen Sim
Russia’s return to the Gulf, Li-Chen Sim
Quo Vadis? External Powers in a Changing Gulf Region, Li-Chen Sim and Jonathan Fulton
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
A Cloud-Based Architecture for Multimedia Conferencing Service Provisioning, Abbas Soltanian, Fatna Belqasmi, Sami Yangui, Mohammad A. Salahuddin, Roch Glitho, and Halima Elbiaze
A Refinement of Lasso Regression Applied to Temperature Forecasting, Bruce Spencer, Omar Alfandi, and Feras Al-Obeidat
Concepções Pessoais de Competência e Rendimento Acadêmico: Estudo Longitudinal no Ensino Secundário Português, Joana Stocker and Luisa Faria
Personal conceptions of competence and academic achievement: Longitudinal study in Portuguese secondary school, Joana Stocker and Luisa Faria
Temporary labour migration to United Arab Emirates: a complex story, Zan Strabac, Marko Valenta, and Mouawiya Al Awad
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
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
Acculturation, out-group positivity and eating disorders symptoms among Emirati women, Justin Thomas, Lily O’Hara, Susanne Quadflieg, and Sophia Christin Weissgerber
Re-engineering of Smart City's Business Processes Based on Social Networks and Internet of Things, Emir Ugljanin, Dragan Stojanović, Ejub Kajan, and Zakaria Maamar
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
Asymmetric and nonlinear inter-relations of US stock indices, Dimitrios Vortelinos, Konstantinos Gkillas (Gillas), Costas Syriopoulos, and Argyro Svingou
Information literacy outside the classroom, Melanie Wood
An Enhanced AODV Protocol for Avoiding Black Holes in MANET, Qussai M. Yaseen and Monther Aldwairi
Energy-efficient region shift scheme to support mobile sink group in wireless sensor networks, Yongbin Yim, Kyong Hoon Kim, Monther Aldwairi, and Ki Il Kim
Ferrão, R. Benedito. The Many Lives of Vamona Navelcar. Cinnamon Teal, 2017., Alia Yunis
Making meaning from student evaluations of teaching: Seeing beyond our own horizons, Carina Jia Yan Zhu, Diana White, Janet Rankin, and Christina Jean Davison
Submissions from 2017
Comparing internal and external impacts of sustainable innovation: an exploratory study, Wasseem Abaza
Enterprise systems: The quality of system outputs and their perceived business value, Ahed Abugabah
Integrating RFID with Healthcare Information Systems: Toward Smart Hospitals, Ahed Abugabah
Impact of Ideological Disagreements on International Relations: a Study on Islam and the West, Bashir AbulQaraya
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
Secure approximation of edit distance on genomic data, Md Momin Al Aziz, Dima Alhadidi, and Noman Mohammed
Inquiry-based learning: Emirati university students choose WhatsApp for collaboration, Robyn Albers, Christina Davison, and Bradley Johnson
Breast Cancer Awareness Among Zayed University Female Students, Shaima K. AlBlooshi, Lina T. Al Kury, and Pavlos Malindretos
Pattern matching of signature-based ids using myers algorithm under mapreduce framework, Monther Aldwairi, Ansam M. Abu-Dalo, and Moath Jarrah
Effects of Dietary Fiber Intake on Body Weight and Waist Circumference, Eiman Al Hammadi
Identifying Major Tasks from On-line Reviews, Feras Al-Obeidat and Bruce Spencer
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
Mobile Technology and its Use among Media Students at Zayed University in Dubai, Najat AlSaied and Fokiya Akhtar
A Study on Foodborne Bacterial Cross-contamination During Fresh Chicken Preparation, Shamma Ebrahim AlZaabi and Munawwar Ali Khan
Is Roger Federer more loss averse than Serena Williams?, Nejat Anbarci, K. Peren Arin, Cagla Okten, and Christina Zenker
Efficiency of nearly periodic structures for mitigation of ground vibration, Lars V. Andersen, Andrew Peplow, and P. Bucinskas
Variation in models for simple dynamic structure-soil-structure interaction problems, L. V. Andersen, A. Peplow, P. Bucinskas, P. Persson, and K. Persson
Routes to drug design via bioisosterism of carboxyl and sulfonamide groups, Alya A. Arabi
Revisiting the Growth Effects of Fiscal Policy: A Bayesian Model Averaging Approach, K. Peren Arin and Elias Braunfels
A note on the macroeconomic consequences of ethnic/racial tension, K. Peren Arin, Murat Koyuncu, and Nicola Spagnolo
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
Strategic Communication and Public Engagement: The UAE E-Brainstorming Session, Badran A. Badran
The Creation of an Arabic Emotion Ontology Based on E-Motive, Anoud Bani-Hani, Munir Majdalweieh, and Feras Obeidat
Empowering culturally foreign teachers by fostering cultural competence, Lydia Barza
When Informing Doesn't Inform [Abstract], John Beachboard and Martine Robinson Beachboard
Linked USDL Extension for Describing Business Services and Users' Requirements in a Cloud Context, Hind Benfenatki, Catarina Ferreira Da Silva, Aïcha-Nabila Benharkat, Parisa Ghodous, and Zakaria Maamar
MADONA: a method for automated provisioning of cloud-based component-oriented business applications, Hind Benfenatki, Catarina Ferreira Da Silva, Gavin Kemp, Aïcha Nabila Benharkat, Parisa Ghodous, and Zakaria Maamar
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
Public perceptions and practices of solid waste recycling in the city of laramie in wyoming, U.S.A., Upendra B. Bom, Shashidhar Belbase, and Reni Bibriven Lila
The effects of language simplification and pictures on the ability of Emirati university students to comprehend and solve mathematics word problems, Mark Causapin and Timothy Groombridge
A Neural network approach to visibility range estimation under foggy weather conditions, Hazar Chaabani, Faouzi Kamoun, Hichem Bargaoui, Fatma Outay, and Ansar Ul Haque Yasar
Instructor's Use of Student-Generated Annotated Concept Sketches in Formative Assessment in General Science, Eddia Copeland Solas and Kenesha Wilson
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
Emirati women do not shy away from competition: evidence from a patriarchal society in transition, Aurelie Dariel, Curtis Kephart, Nikos Nikiforakis, and Christina Zenker
Book review: Small teaching: everyday lessons from the science of learning (Lang, J.M., 2016, Jossey-Bass), Christina J. Davison
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
Production of durable and cost effective sewer pipes using petroleum and industrial waste by-products, Maisa El Gamal, Amr El-Dieb, Khaled El-Sawy, Amr Sweedan, and Abdel Mohsen Mohamed
Motivation of Emirati males and females to study at higher education in the United Arab Emirates, Marion Engin and Kara McKeown
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
The effects of online social networking on retail consumer dynamics in the attractions industry: The case of ‘E-da’ theme park, Taiwan, Anestis K. Fotiadis and Nikolaos Stylos
Destination image, customer satisfaction and behavioural intentions: The state-of-the-art and a new research agenda, A. Fotiadis, M. Sotiriadis, and C. A. Vassiliadis
No Great Wall: Trade, Tariffs, and Nationalism in Republican China, 1927–1945, written by Felix Boecking, Jonathan Fulton
Investigating Executive Working Memory and Phonological Short-Term Memory in Relation to Fluency and Self-Repair Behavior in L2 Speech, Effrosyni Georgiadou and Karen Roehr-Brackin
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
A Dynamic Theory of Environmental Performance Management and Exploratory Evidence in Chinese Context, Vipin Gupta and Yi Zhang
An Ontological Derivation of the Dynamic Conditionality for Environmental Performance Management, Vipin Gupta and Yi Zhang
Curriculum as a Discourse: Using Critical Discourse Analysis to Revive Curriculum Reconceptualists' Thought, Majed Harb
Dietary and Activity Habits in Adolescents Living in the United Arab Emirates: A Cross-Sectional Study, Dalia Haroun, Ola ElSaleh, and Lesley Wood
An alternative perspective for political science in North Africa, Hamdy A. Hassan
Local mean consistency on numerical solutions of stochastic wave equation with cubic nonlinearities on 2D rectangles, Haziem M. Hazaimeh
Mean Square Consistency on Numerical Solutions of Stochastic Wave Equation with Cubic Nonlinearities on 2D Rectangles, Haziem M. Hazaimeh
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
Oxygen dynamics in shelf seas sediments incorporating seasonal variability, N. Hicks, G. R. Ubbara, B. Silburn, H. E.K. Smith, S. Kröger, E. R. Parker, D. Sivyer, V. Kitidis, A. Hatton, D. J. Mayor, and H. Stahl
The Triple Flip: Using Technology for Peer and Self-Editing of Writing, Zeina Hojeij and Zoe Hurley
The knowledge and practice of workers toward occupational hazards: Case study from United Arab Emirates, Fares M. Howari, Yousef Nazzal, and Mustaffah Awad
Body mass index adjustments to increase the validity of body fatness assessment in UK Black African and South Asian children, M. T. Hudda, C. M. Nightingale, A. S. Donin, M. S. Fewtrell, D. Haroun, S. Lum, J. E. Williams, C. G. Owen, A. R. Rudnicka, J. C.K. Wells, D. G. Cook, and P. H. Whincup
Ethnicity and low wage traps: favouritism, homosocial reproduction and economic marginalization, Maria Hudson, Gina Netto, Mike Noon, Filip Sosenko, Philomena de Lima, and Nicolina Kamenou-Aigbekaen
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
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
What's in a typeface? Evidence of the existence of print personalities in Arabic, Timothy R. Jordan, Alya S. Al Shamsi, Hajar A.K. Yekani, Maryam Al Jassmi, Nada Al Dosari, Ehab W. Hermena, and Mercedes Sheen
Investigating the effectiveness of spatial frequencies to the left and right of central vision during reading: Evidence from reading times and eye movements, Timothy R. Jordan, Victoria A. McGowan, Stoyan Kurtev, and Kevin B. Paterson
Coral larvae for restoration and research: A large-scale method for rearing Acropora millepora larvae, inducing settlement, and establishing symbiosis, F. Joseph Pollock, Sefano M. Katz, Jeroen A.J.M. van de Water, Sarah W. Davies, Margaux Hein, Gergely Torda, Mikhail V. Matz, Victor H. Beltran, Patrick Buerger, Eneour Puill-Stephan, David Abrego, David G. Bourne, and Bette L. Willis
Book review: What our stories teach us: a guide to critical reflection for college faculty, Amir Kaviani
Assessment of microbial quality in household water tanks in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Munawwar Ali Khan and Asma Mohammad Abdulrahman Ahmad Almadani
Exploratory study into awareness of heart disease and health care seeking behavior among Emirati women (UAE) - Cross sectional descriptive study, Sarah Khan and Syed Adnan Ali
Roots of Asia's Entangled Globality, Habibul Haque Khondker
The experience of living with adult-onset epilepsy, Stephanie Kılınç, Anna van Wersch, Carol Campbell, and Alison Guy
Images of Mathematics Held by Undergraduate Students, Basanta Raj Lamichhane and Shashidhar Belbase
Aging and the optimal viewing position effect in visual word recognition: Evidence from English, Lin Li, Sha Li, Jingxin Wang, Victoria A. McGowan, Pingping Liu, Timothy R. Jordan, and Kevin B. Paterson
Privacy-aware in the IoT applications: A systematic literature review, Faiza Loukil, Chirine Ghedira-Guegan, Aïcha Nabila Benharkat, Khouloud Boukadi, and Zakaria Maamar
Ongoing Research Agenda on the Internet of Things (IoT) in the Context of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Zakaria Maamar
Caffeine consumption among Zayed University students in Dubai, United Arab Emirates: A cross-sectional study, Rola M. Al Ghali, Hessa Al Shaibi, Huda Al Majed, and Dalia Haroun
Revisiting and re-representing scaffolding: The two gradient model, Shoaib Ahmed Malik
More Than a Criminal Tool: The Hawala System's Role As A Critical Remittance Channel for Low-Income Pakistani Migrants in Dubai, Froilan Tuccat Malit Jr, Mouawiya Alawad, and George Naufal
Open-source based testbed for multioperator 4G/5G infrastructure sharing in virtual environments, Ricardo Marco Alaez, Jose M. Alcaraz Calero, Qi Wang, Fatna Belqasmi, May El Barachi, Mohamad Badra, and Omar Alfandi
Improving Academic Decision-Making through Course Evaluation Technology, Adam Marks, Maytha Al-Ali, Munir Majdalawieh, and Anoud Bani-Hani
From the Internet of Things to the web of things-enabling by sensing as-A service, Sujith Samuel Mathew, Yacine Atif, and May El-Barachi
Vitamin D Supplementation does not Effect Adiposity in Healthy Adults, Zujaja-Tul-Noor Hamid Mehmood and Dimitrios Papandreou
Extending the framework for mobile health information systems Research: A content analysis, Shah Jahan Miah, John Gammack, and Najmul Hasan
Healthcare support for underserved communities using a mobile social media platform, Shah Jahan Miah, Najmul Hasan, Rashadul Hasan, and John Gammack
A Big Data Analytics Method for Tourist Behaviour Analysis, Shah Jahan Miah, Huy Quan Vu, John Gammack, and Michael McGrath
Public relations for the next generation: Middle East Public Relations Association (MEPRA)'s engagement with students, Noela Michael and T. Serra Gorpe
Push and pull escape travel motivations of Emirati nationals to Australia, Noela Michael, Charlotte Wien, and Yvette Reisinger
A relational perspective on the contract-control-trust nexus in an interfirm relationship, Reinald A. Minnaar, Ed Vosselman, Paula M.G. van Veen-Dirks, and Muhammad Kaleem Zahir-ul-Hassan
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
Project-Based Learning in Higher Education in the UAE: A Case Study of Arab Students in Emirati Studies, Noorah Mohammed
ConVeh: Driving Safely into a Connected Future, Fatma Outay, Faouzi Kamoun, Ansar Yasar, Elhadi Shakshuki, and Samar El-Amine
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
Geologic environments for nuclear waste repositories, Evan K. Paleologos, Abdel Mohsen O. Mohamed, and Kosmas Pavlopoulos
Editor's Introduction, David M. Palfreyman
Celiac Disease or Gluten Sensitivity? A mini update 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
Fasting ghrelin levels are decreased in obese subjects and are significantly related with insulin resistance and body mass index, Dimitrios Papandreou, Christos Karavolias, Fotini Arvaniti, Eleana Kafeza, and Fatima Sidawi
A tree based broadcast scheme for (m, k)-firm real-time stream in wireless sensor networks, Ho Sung Park, Beom Su Kim, Kyong Hoon Kim, Babar Shah, and Ki Il Kim
Three-dimensional wireless ad hoc and sensor networks 2016, Soo Chang Park, Babar Shah, Euisin Lee, and Ki Il Kim
Environmental vibration reduction utilizing an array of mass scatterers, A. T. Peplow, L. V. Andersen, and P. Bucinskas
OS2: Oblivious similarity based searching for encrypted data outsourced to an untrusted domain, Zeeshan Pervez, Mahmood Ahmad, Asad Masood Khattak, Naeem Ramzan, and Wajahat Ali Khan
Book review: How to talk about hot topics on campus, James Piecowye
Generation Z consumers' expectations of interactions in smart retailing: A future agenda, Constantinos Vasilios Priporas, Nikolaos Stylos, and Anestis K. Fotiadis
China-Gulf Economic Relationship under the “Belt and Road” Initiative, Xuming QIAN and Jonathan FULTON
Age of exposure, task stimulus, and type of second language knowledge, Muhammad Asif Qureshi
Towards a Privacy Rule Conceptual Model for Smart Toys, Laura Rafferty, Patrick C. K. Hung, Marcelo Fantinato, Sarajane Marques Peres, Farkhund Iqbal, Sy-Yen Kuo, and Shih-Chia Huang
mlCAF: Multi-level cross-domain semantic context fusioning for behavior identification, Muhammad Asif Razzaq, Claudia Villalonga, Sungyoung Lee, Usman Akhtar, Maqbool Ali, Eun Soo Kim, Asad Masood Khattak, Hyonwoo Seung, Taeho Hur, Jaehun Bang, Dohyeong Kim, and Wajahat Ali Khan
Agents of Change: How Islamist Women Activists in Israel Are Challenging the Status Quo, Tilde Rosmer
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
Family Food Environment and Child Eating Behavior in a Private School of Abu Dhabi, Al Amoodi Sara Ahmed Abdulla Saeed
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
Intercultural Communication With Arabs: Studies In Educational, Professional And Societal Contexts, Ginger Silvera
Junction trees constructions in Bayesian networks, Linda Smail
SAND - A dashboard for analyzing employees' social actions over google hangouts, Edvan Soares, Marcos Eduardo, Vanilson Burégio, Emir Ugljanin, and Zakaria Maamar
Comparing The Effectiveness Of Processing Instruction And Production-Based Instruction On L2 Grammar Learning: The Role Of Explicit Information, Adem Soruc, Jingjing Qin, and YouJin Kim
Travel review websites and interactive travel forums, M. Sotiriadis, A. Fotiadis, and C. A. Vassiliadis
Explicit integration of a generic Hénon-Heiles system with quartic potential, Nicola Sottocornola
Selecting Sensors when Forecasting Temperature in Smart Buildings, Bruce Spencer, Feras Al-Obeidat, and Omar Alfandi
Staying on track: The buffering effect of culture on leadership strength and derailment potential, Mary F. Sully de Luque, Yi Zhang, and Jean Brittain Leslie
The Advising Palaver Hut: Case Study in West African Higher Education, Jobila Williams Sy
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
Dividend Yields and Stock Returns under a Tax-Free Environment, Kienpin Tee and Abiot Tessema
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
Implementation guidelines for green data centres, Abdallah Tubaishat and Sara Sumaidaa
Labour migrations to resource-rich countries: Comparative perspectives on migrants' rights in Canada, Norway and the United Arab Emirates, Marko Valenta, Zan Strabac, Jo Jakobsen, Jeffrey Reitz, and Mouawiya Al Awad
Domains of public activity in touristic flamenco shows, Marta Wieczorek
Review of Health Literacy and Nutrition-Related Research in the Middle East, Ludmilla F. Wikkeling-Scott and R.V. Rikard
A fuzzy logic-based approach for assessing the quality of business process models, Fadwa Yahya, Khouloud Boukadi, Hanêne Ben Abdallah, and Zakaria Maamar
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
Exploring the use of social networking tools among Lebanese students, Rana Zein, Hani Lababidi, and Maysoun Dimashkieh
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
An Architecture for QoS-Enabled Mobile Video Surveillance Applications in a 4G EPC and M2M Environment, Mohammad Abu-Lebdeh, Fatna Belqasmi, and Roch Glitho
The Western Understanding to the Meaning of the Prophethood, Bashir AbulQaraya
The Political Consequences of Ethnic Tension: Theory and Evidence, Kemal KKvann Akkz, K. Peren Arin, and Christina Zenker
Bloom Filters Optimized Wu-Manber for Intrusion Detection, Monther Aldwairi, Koloud Al-Khamaiseh, Fatima Alharbi, and Babar Shah
Critical Success Factors to Improve the Game Development Process from a Developer’s Perspective, Saiqa Aleem, Luiz Fernando Capretz, and Faheem Ahmed
Game development software engineering process life cycle: a systematic review, Saiqa Aleem, Luiz Fernando Capretz, and Faheem Ahmed
Calculating the speed of vehicles using Wireless Sensor Networks, Omar Alfandi, Arne Bochem, Mehdi Akbari Gurabi, Alberto Rivera Diaz, Md Istiak Mehedi, and Dieter Hogrefe
Cross Cultural Indicators of Independent Learning in Young Children: A Jordanian Case, Qais Almeqdad, Firas Al-Hamouri, Rafe'A A. Zghoul, Ayoub Al-Rousan, and David Whitebread
An Algorithm for Inferring Big Data Objects Correlation Using Word Net, M. Basel Almourad, Mohammed Hussain, and Talal Bonny
Forensic investigation of cyberstalking cases using Behavioural Evidence Analysis, Noora Al Mutawa, Joanne Bryce, Virginia N.L. Franqueira, and Andrew Marrington
Cloud-based Lineament Extraction of Topographic Lineaments from NASA Shuttle Radar Topography Mission Data, Feras Al-Obeidat, Leonardo Feltrin, and Farhi Marir
Towards on Demand Road Condition Monitoring Using Mobile Phone Sensing as a Service, Wael Alrahal AlOrabi, Sawsan Abdul Rahman, May El Barachi, and Azzam Mourad
Auto-Configuration of ACL Policy in Case of Topology Change in Hybrid SDN, Rashid Amin, Nadir Shah, Babar Shah, and Omar Alfandi
Evaluating dispersion forces for optimization of van der Waals complexes using a non-empirical functional, Alya A. Arabi
Significant Predictors of e-Learning Readiness for Faculty and Students in a Public University in the UAE, Fida Atallah and Jase Moussa-Inaty
A Lightweight Security Protocol for NFC-based Mobile Payments, Mohamad Badra and Rouba Borghol Badra
Monetizing Personal Data: A Two-Sided Market Approach, Ahmed Saleh Bataineh, Rabeb Mizouni, May El Barachi, and Jamal Bentahar
Book Review: The scholarship of teaching and learning in and across the disciplines, Shashidhar Belbase
A MOF-based social web services description metamodel, Amel Benna, Zakaria Maamar, and Mohamed Ahmed Nacer
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
Influence of aerial seed banks on germination response in three desert plant species, Arvind Bhatt, Prakash Chandra Phondani, Shyam S. Phartyal, Andrea Santo, and David Gallacher
Development of a DSS and Online Tools to Support Sleep Disorder Consultations using Design Science., Jacqueline Blake, Don Kerr, and John Gammack
Assessment of online information literacy learning objects for first year community college english composition, Mara Bordignon, Alana Otis, Adele Georgievski, Jennifer Peters, Gail Strachan, Joy Muller, and Rana Tamin
Reconsidering the migrant letter: from the experience of migrants to the language of migrants, Marcelo J. Borges and Sonia Cancian
Innovation and Insider Trading, Ibrahim Bostan
Social networks and information retrieval, how are they converging? A survey, a taxonomy and an analysis of social information retrieval approaches and platforms, Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek, Hakim Hacid, and Mokrane Bouzeghoub
Vitamin D supplements: Magic pill or overkill?, Ronald B Brown, Fatme Al Anouti, and Mohammed S Razzaque
Structure of Moves in Research Article Abstracts in Applied Linguistics, Seden Can, Erkan Karabacak, and Jingjing Qin
Book review: Student writing in the quantitative disciplines: a guide for college faculty, Mark Causapin
Whistleblower Protection Laws in the Financial Markets: Lessons for Emerging Markets, Christian Chamorro-Courtland and Marc Cohen
Assessing variations in foreign direct investments under international financial reporting standards (IFRS) adoption, macro-socioeconomic developments and credit ratings, Evangelos Daskalopoulos, Anastasios Evgenidis, Athanasios Tsagkanos, and Costas Siriopoulos