Submissions from 2019
The Evolution of the Incubator: Past, Present, and Future, Brendan Galbraith, Rodney McAdam, and Stephen Edward Cross
Student voice: perceptions of fair treatment in a Foundations program, Kay Gallagher
A review of the nutritional guidelines for children at nurseries and schools in Middle Eastern countries, Malin Garemo, Amal Elamin, and Anzelle Van De Venter
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
Calculation of the natural frequencies and mode shapes of a Euler–Bernoulli beam which has any combination of linear boundary conditions, Paulo J.Paupitz Gonçalves, Michael J. Brennan, Andrew Peplow, and Bin Tang
The impact of behavioural skills training on the knowledge, skills and well-being of front line staff in the intellectual disability sector: a clustered randomised control trial, L. Gormley, O. Healy, B. O'Sullivan, D. O'Regan, I. Grey, and M. Bracken
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
Parental satisfaction with early intensive behavioral intervention, Ian Grey, Barry Coughlan, Helena Lydon, Olive Healy, and Justin Thomas
National Identity, Implicit In-Group Evaluation, and Psychological Well-Being Among Emirati Women, Ian Grey and Justin Thomas
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
Strategic fit: microfoundations of firm’s environmental performance, Vipin Gupta and Yi Zhang
National Culture and Women Managers: Evidence From Microfinance Institutions Around the World, Ernest Gyapong and Godfred Adjapong Afrifa
Association between β-amino-isobutyric acid (BAIBA) and cardiometabolic risk factors, Suzan A. Haidar, Nanne K. De Vries, Mirey Karavetian, Alessandro Laviano, and Mohammad Rached
University Lebanese students are not immune to the metabolic syndrome, Suzan A. Haidar, Mirey Karavetian, Hadia Radwan, and Nanne K.De Vries
Portraying China as an alternative to U. S. Hegemony: The China daily’s framing of the arab spring, Jae Sik Ha and Donghee Shin
‘Mother Weight Carried across Borders’: Migrant Materiality and the Maternal in Meena Alexander’s Fault Lines: A Memoir (2003), Szidonia Haragos
Selves and identities in the Arabian Gulf: The year in the Gulf Cooperation Council, Szidonia Haragos
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 Use of Differential Reinforcement of Other Behaviours to Establish Inhibitory Stimulus Control for the Management of Vocal Stereotypy in Children with Autism, Olive Healy, Sinéad Lydon, Thérèse Brady, Mandy Rispoli, Jennifer Holloway, Leslie Neely, and Ian Grey
Media Urbanism and the development of local creative communities, Adina Hempel and Janet Bellotto
The color of support: The effect of sponsor–team visual congruence on sponsorship performance, Conor M. Henderson, Marc Mazodier, and Aparna Sundar
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
Are library electronic resources providing adequate support for research? A case study of a federal university in the United Arab Emirates, Lilly Hoi Sze Ho
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
Environmental service-learning in the United Arab Emirates: Is it mediated by the effects of biographical and demographical variables?, Fares Howari, Nida Qafisheh, and Yousef Nazzal
Ecosystems as Commodity Frontiers - Challenges Faced by Land Set Aside as Protected Areas (PAs) in the Dubai Emirate, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Brigitte Howarth, Tamer Khafaga, Greg Simkins, and Sabrina Joseph
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
Show, Not Tell: The Contingency Role of Infographics Versus Text in the Differential Effects of Message Strategies on Optimistic Bias, Guanxiong Huang, Kang Li, and Hairong Li
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
Clinical and Demographic Predictors of Interdisciplinary Chronic Pain Rehabilitation Program Treatment Response, Kelly L. Huffman, Darcy Mandell, Jennifer K. Lehmann, Xavier F. Jimenez, and Brittany R. Lapin
The Visual and Multimodal Entanglements of Gulf-Arab Women's Social Media Learning, Zoe Hurley
Why I No Longer Believe Social Media Is Cool..., Zoe Hurley
Determinants of innovative behaviors among self-initiated expatriates, Taiba Hussain, Perihan Iren, and John Rice
Social-media based assessment of academic programs, Abdullah Hussein and Mohammed Hussain
Backtracking assessment of IT and engineering courses, Abdullah M. Hussein and Mohammed Hussain
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
COSMO-RS predictions, hydrogen bond basicity values and experimental evaluation of amino acid-based ionic liquids for lignocellulosic biomass dissolution, Jibran Iqbal, Nawshad Muhammad, Abdur Rahim, Amir Sada Khan, Zahoor Ullah, Girma Gonfa, and Pervaiz Ahmad
Synergistic effects of activated carbon and nano-zerovalent copper on the performance of hydroxyapatite-alginate beads for the removal of As3+ from aqueous solution, Jibran Iqbal, Noor S. Shah, Murtaza Sayed, Muhammad Imran, Nawshad Muhammad, Fares M. Howari, Sara A. Alkhoori, Javed Ali Khan, Zia Ul Haq Khan, Amit Bhatnagar, Kyriaki Polychronopoulou, Issam Ismail, and Mohammad Abu Haija
Dynamic Adaptation for WPANs Collision Prevention in eHealth Environments, Youssef Iraqi and Loubna Mekouar
Individual variations in intestinal microbiota were higher in preterm infants with necrotising enterocolitis than healthy controls, Tarek Itani, Carole Ayoub Moubareck, Irène Mangin, Marie José Butel, and Dolla Karam Sarkis
Book Review: Disruptive classroom technologies: a framework for innovation in education (Magana, S., 2017), Nadine Jaafarawi and Afshan Parkar
The protection of minors in UAE law as persons in need: An analytical study, Iyad Mohammad Jadalhaq and Ibrahim Sulaiman Al-Qatawnah
The Toyota Way or the unions’ way?: Examining the nexus between lean and unions in Toyota Australia, Reynold James
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
IP/MPLS networks with hardened pipes: service concepts, traffic engineering and design considerations, Faouzi Kamoun and Fatma Outay
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
Social media and urban social movements: The anatomy of continued protest in authoritarian contexts, Magdalena Karolak
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
Mitigating risks in managing cloud-based IT controls, Shafaq Khan
Success factors model for green computing implementations, Shafaq Naheed Khan, Manal Abdulla Aljaberi, and Suadad Muammar
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
Pakistan, Habibul Haque Khondker
The impact of the Arab Spring on democracy and development in the MENA region, Habibul Haque Khondker
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
An Efficient Real-Time Data Dissemination Multicast Protocol for Big Data in Wireless Sensor Networks, Beom Su Kim, Monther Aldwairi, and Ki Il Kim
Wireless sensor networks for big data systems, Beom Su Kim, Ki Il Kim, Babar Shah, Francis Chow, and Kyong Hoon Kim
A forwarder based temperature aware routing protocol in wireless body area networks, Beom Su Kim, Ki Il Kim, Babar Shah, and Sana Ullah
The effect of SOX on audit quality, Moo Sung Kim, Jagadish Dandu, and Perihan Iren
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
A Phenomenographic Exploration of Female Arab Second Language Writers’ Experiences with Information in an EAP Writing Course, Mehtap Kocatepe
Information technology in the British and Irish undergraduate accounting degrees, Amr Kotb, Magdy Abdel-Kader, Amir Allam, Hussein Halabi, and Ellie Franklin
Pink and Blue: Assemblages of Family Balancing and the Making of Dubai as a Fertility Destination, Charlotte Kroløkke and Filareti Kotsi
Toward an automatic summarisation of Arabic text depending on rhetorical relations, Samira Lagrini, Nabiha Azizi, Mohammed Redjimi, and Monther Al Dwairi
Automatic identification of rhetorical relations among intra-sentence discourse segments in Arabic, Samira Lagrini, Nabiha Azizi, Mohammed Redjimi, and Monther Al Dwairi
Short selling restrictions and index futures pricing: Evidence from China, Andrew Lepone, Jun Wen, Jin Boon Wong, and Jin Young Yang
On-chip solid phase extraction and in situ optical detection, Long Li, Jibran Iqbal, Hui Li, Yuan Zhang, Lin Sun, Ying Zhu, Wanchao Chen, Yongqing Xi, Ting Wu, and Yiping Du
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
Cuba and the Secret World, James Lockhart
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
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
Dynamic connectedness of oil price shocks and exchange rates, Farooq Malik and Zaghum Umar
God, information and the world: The metaphysics of william Dembski and al-ghazālī, Shoaib Ahmed Malik
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
Coal Seam Gas projects: Proposed policy model for compensation and benefits sharing, N. Martin and John Rice
Expatriate assignments: the “same” job may require different tasks, Scott Martin and Reynold James
What makes Jordanian residents buy smart home devices?: A factorial investigation using PLS-SEM, Ibrahim Mashal and Ahmed Shuhaiber
Fragmentation of production: New challenges for big data–a complex network approach, Giulia De Masi and Giorgio Ricchiuti
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
Interpreting Library Chat Reference Service Transactions, Judith Mavodza
Does technology divide or unite generations?: Testing media richness and communication climate effects on communication satisfaction in the Indian workplace, Payal Mehra and Catherine Nickerson
Organizational communication and job satisfaction: what role do generational differences play?, Payal Mehra and Catherine Nickerson
“I’m a stay at home businesswoman”: an insight into informal entrepreneurship in Jordan, Salime Mehtap, Leyla Ozmenekse, and Andrea Caputo
Liposomal quercetin potentiates maxi-K channel openings in smooth muscles and restores its activity after oxidative stress, Mariia I. Melnyk, Dariia O. Dryn, Lina T. Al Kury, Alexander V. Zholos, and Anatoly I. Soloviev
C60 fullerenes selectively inhibit BKCa but not Kv channels in pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells, Mariia I. Melnyk, Irina V. Ivanova, Dariia O. Dryn, Yuriy I. Prylutskyy, Vasyl V. Hurmach, Maxim Platonov, Lina T. Al Kury, Uwe Ritter, Anatoly I. Soloviev, and Alexander V. Zholos
Impact of Privatisation and Broader Reforms on the Competitiveness of the Cement Manufacturing Industry in Pakistan, Maqsood Memon and Yaseen Ghulam
Enablers of entrepreneurial self-efficacy in a developing country, Maqsood Memon, Bahadur Ali Soomro, and Naimatullah Shah
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 study of unconscious emotional and cognitive responses to tourism images using a neuroscience method, Ian Michael, Thomas Ramsoy, Melodena Stephens, and Filareti Kotsi
The UAE's tourism competitiveness: A business perspective, Noela Michael, Yvette Reisinger, and John P. Hayes
GCC labor market, education and Generation y females: A match or mismatch?, Cameron Mirza and Magdalena Karolak
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
Discourse Analysis in a Virtual Classroom: A MOOC Example, Laila Mohebi
Pre-Service Teachers' Perspectives on Their Preparedness to Use Technology in Classrooms in the United Arab Emirates: A Qualitative Approach, Laila Mohebi and Solomon David
The Pandora's box of corporate social irresponsibility: An exploratory study within a failed State context, Claudel Mombeuil, Anestis K. Fotiadis, and Zhao hua Wang
Instructional mode: A better predictor of performance than student preferred learning styles, Jase Moussa-Inaty, Fida Atallah, and Mark Causapin
IT governance practices in the Gulf Cooperation Council region, Suadad Muammar and Mathew Nicho
Behind the research beliefs and practices of Asian tourism scholars in Malaysia, Vietnam and Thailand, Paolo Mura and Sarah N.R. Wijesinghe
Does female representation on corporate boards improve intellectual capital efficiency?, Muhammad Nadeem, Muhammad Bilal Farooq, and Ammad Ahmed
Women on boards, firm risk and the profitability nexus: Does gender diversity moderate the risk and return relationship?, Muhammad Nadeem, T. Suleman, and A. Ahmed
Lignin and lignin based materials for the removal of heavy metals from waste water - An overview, Ayesha Naseer, Anum Jamshaid, Almas Hamid, Nawshad Muhammad, Moinuddin Ghauri, Jibran Iqbal, Sikander Rafiq, Shahzad Khuram, and Noor Samad Shah
New insights on sand dust storm from historical records, UAE, Yousef Nazzal, Alina Barbulescu, Fares Howari, Ahmad Yousef, Ahmed A. Al-Taani, Fatima Al Aydaroos, and Muhammad Naseem
Investigating aquifer vulnerability and pollution risk employing modified DRASTIC model and GIS techniques in Liwa area, United Arab Emirates, Yousef Nazzal, Fares M. Howari, Jibran Iqbal, Izrar Ahmed, Nadine Bou Orm, and Ahmad Yousef
Transfer from expatriate to local contracts: a multiple case study of an unexpected career transition, Tania Nery-Kjerfve and Jia Wang
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
The impact of religious salience on purchase intentions: evidence from the UAE, Catherine Nickerson and Anup Menon Nandialath
The effects of oil price shocks on Asian exchange rates: Evidence from quantile regression analysis, Salah A. Nusair and Dennis Olson
Developing a faster pattern matching algorithms for intrusion detection system, Ibrahim Obeidat and Mazen AlZubi
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
Relative sea-level highstands in Thailand since the Mid-Holocene based on 14C rock oyster chronology, G. J.H. Oliver and J. P. Terry
Behavior of foreign investors in the Malaysian stock market in times of crisis: A nonlinear approach, Tolga Omay and Perihan Iren
Disclosure Decision in an Entry Game With Costly Information Interpretation, Eda Orhun
Voluntary disclosure and market competition: Theory and evidence from the U.S. services sector, Eda Orhun
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
Investigation of the impact of a wireless Fog Warning System with respect to road traffic on a highway, Fatma Outay, Absar Ul Haque Ahmar, Faouzi Kamoun, Ansar Ul Haque Yasar, Christoph Sommer, Nafaa Jabeur, and Samar El-Amine
Estimating ambient visibility in the presence of fog: a deep convolutional neural network approach, Fatma Outay, Bilal Taha, Hazar Chaabani, Faouzi Kamoun, Naoufel Werghi, and Ansar Ul Haque 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
A systematic review of systematic reviews in tourism, Saeed Pahlevan-Sharif, Paolo Mura, and Sarah N.R. Wijesinghe
Qualitative online research in tourism – a systematic review of the literature, Saeed Pahlevan-Sharif, Paolo Mura, and Sarah N.R. Wijesinghe
Lexical sophistication across languages: a preliminary study of undergraduate writing in Arabic (L1) and English (L2), David M. Palfreyman and Suha Karaki
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
Predictors of life satisfaction in a large nationally representative Japanese sample, Joonha Park, Mohsen Joshanloo, and Heinz Scheifinger
Attitudes and perceptions towards summative e-assessment for free-text responses: A case study of a UAE university, Marielle Patronis, Fawzi Fayez Ishtaiwa-Dweikat, Mouawiya Al Awad, and Ibtehal M. Aburezeq
Surface ground vibration from a strip–load acting over elastic layers: A uniform approach, 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
An Iron Age ceramic sequence from the Bayt Bin Ati, al-Ain, UAE, Timothy Power, Anne Benoist, and Peter Sheehan
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
Estimation of the mean in partially observed branching processes with general immigration, I. Rahimov
The mediating effect of brand image on the relationships between social media advertising content, sales promotion content and behaviuoral intention, Ridwan Adetunji Raji, Sabrina Rashid, and Sobhi Ishak
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
Energy production predication via Internet of Thing based machine learning system, Pedro P. Rebouças Filho, Samuel L. Gomes, Navar M.Mendonça e Nascimento, Cláudio M.S. Medeiros, Fatma Outay, and Victor Hugo C. de Albuquerque
Destination competitiveness from a tourist perspective: A case of the United Arab Emirates, Yvette Reisinger, Noela Michael, and John P. Hayes
Pro-Cyclical Effect of Sovereign Rating Changes on Stock Returns: A Fact or Factoid?, Yasir Riaz, Choudhry Tanveer Shehzad, and Zaghum Umar
Bullying in Schools in the United Arab Emirates and the Personal Safety of Students, Ken Rigby, Dalia Haroun, and Essam Ali
The Impact of International Business Strategy Simulation Games on Student Engagement, Tim Rogmans and Wasseem Abaza
Black Gold's Price Plunge: Are Conventional and Islamic Banks Equally Vulnerable?, Ghulame Rubbaniy, Osama El-Temtamy, Walayet A. Khan, and Abida Perveen
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
The adoption and usage of smartphone media technologies as a source of news by Egyptian university students, Hamza Saad Mohamed Saad
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
Individual-level determinants of waterpipe smoking demand in four Eastern-Mediterranean countries, Ramzi G. Salloum, Rima Nakkash, Niveen M.E. Abu-Rmeileh, Randah R. Hamadeh, Muhammad W. Darawad, Khalid A. Kheirallah, Yahya Al-Farsi, Afzalhussein Yusufali, Justin Thomas, Aya Mostafa, Mohamed Salama, Lama El Kadi, Sukaina Alzyoud, Nihaya Al-Sheyab, and James F. Thrasher
Modelling the underlying factors for flexible power plant valuation, Aristeidis Samitas, Aggelos Armenatzoglou, Ioannis Kinias, and Stathis Polyzos
Financial illness and political virus: the case of contagious crises in the Eurozone, Aristeidis Samitas and Elias Kampouris
Assessing teamwork in a computing programme, Kevin Schoepp, Maurice Danaher, Anthony Rhodes, and Ashley Ater Kranov
Logs and enterprise networks for overcoming obstacles in business processes, Mohamed Sellami, Zakaria Maamar, Sylvain Lefebvre, and Noura Faci
Inhibition of protease-activated receptor 1 ameliorates behavioral deficits and restores hippocampal synaptic plasticity in a rat model of status epilepticus, Marharyta Semenikhina, Ruslan Bogovyk, Mykhailo Fedoriuk, Oksana Nikolaienko, Lina T. AlKury, Alina Savotchenko, Oleg Krishtal, and Elena Isaeva
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
UK's stock market reaction to Brexit process: A tale of two halves, Khurram Shahzad, Ghulame Rubbaniy, M. A.P.E. Lensvelt, and Tariq Bhatti
Further Evidence for Using Online Discussion Boards in the Classroom, Mercedes Sheen, Hajar Aman Key Yekani, and Timothy R. Jordan
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
Blockchain: The emerging technology of digital trust, Don D.H. Shin
A living lab as socio-technical ecosystem: Evaluating the Korean living lab of internet of things, Donghee Shin
How do technological properties influence user affordance of wearable technologies?, Donghee Shin
How do users experience the interaction with an immersive screen?, Donghee Shin
Toward Fair, Accountable, and Transparent Algorithms: Case Studies on Algorithm Initiatives in Korea and China, Donghee (Don) Shin
Prospectus and limitations of algorithmic governance: an ecological evaluation of algorithmic trends, Donghee Shin, Anestis Fotiadis, and Hongsik Yu
3D learning spaces and activities fostering users’ learning, acceptance, and creativity, Donghee Shin and Seyoung Park
Role of fairness, accountability, and transparency in algorithmic affordance, Donghee Shin and Yong Jin Park
Understanding users’ acceptance of smart homes, Ahmed Shuhaiber and Ibrahim Mashal
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
Distinction in Locals' Support for a Major and Mega-Event: Case of Expo 2020 Dubai and Grand Prix F1, Nataša Slak Valek
Happiness as a value of event organizers in Abu Dhabi, Natasa Slak Valek and Anestis Fotiadis
Empowering Students in Leading their Education and Practice: The Design Workbook, Tina Sleiman, Yunsun Chung-Shin, and Rabab Al Haddad
Emirati women’s attitudes towards menopause: Implications for health care policy, Linda Smail, Ghufran A. Jassim, Qasim M. Al-Shboul, and Afaaf Saeed Hattawi
Investigating the intention to adopt smartphone apps among the entrepreneurs of a developing country, Bahadur Ali Soomro, Naimatullah Shah, and Maqsood Memon
Separation coordinates in Hénon-Heiles systems, Nicola Sottocornola
Dynamic Clustering for IoT Key Management in Hostile Application Area, Soumaya Souaidi, Tayeb Kenaza, Badis Djamaa, and Monther Aldwairi
Accurately forecasting temperatures in smart buildings using fewer sensors, Bruce Spencer, Feras Al-Obeidat, and Omar Alfandi
Sewn-Plank Reconstructions of Oman: construction and documentation, Eric Staples
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
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
Morpho-orthographic preferences among typical and poor native Arab readers, Haitham Taha and Hanada Taha
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
Risk Factors Associated with Initiation of Breastfeeding among Mothers with Low Birth Weight Babies: A Cross-sectional Multicenter Study in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates., Zainab Taha, Ahmed Ali Hassan, Ludmilla Wikkeling-Scott, and Dimitrios Papandreou
"Exotic colonialism" in the age of the Asian traveler, Keith Kay Hin Tan and Paolo Mura
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
A Mobile Code-driven Trust Mechanism for detecting internal attacks in sensor node-powered IoT, Noshina Tariq, Muhammad Asim, Zakaria Maamar, M. Zubair Farooqi, Noura Faci, and Thar Baker
Preparation of cellulosic Ag-nanocomposites using an ionic liquid, Zuhra Tayyab, Sher Zaman Safi, Abdur Rahim, Amir Sada Khan, Faiza Sharif, Zia Ul Haq Khan, Fozia Rehman, Zahoor Ullah, Jibran Iqbal, and Nawshad Muhammad
Stock market reactions to dividend and earnings announcements in a tax-free environment, Kienpin Tee and Abiot M. Tessema
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
Quantitative observations on tropical cyclone tracks in the Arabian Sea, James P. Terry and Gennady Gienko
Strongly aligned coastal boulders on Ko Larn island (Thailand): a proxy for past typhoon-driven high-energy wave events in the Bay of Bangkok, James P. Terry and James Goff
Short communication: Recognising the perils of landslide-generated tsunamis in the Asia–Pacific region, James P. Terry, James Goff, Nigel Winspear, and Vena Pearl Bongolan
Curriculum Review: Analysis through a Learning Organization Lens, Burcu Tezcan-Unal, Wayne Jones, and Suzanne Littlewood
We tweet Arabic; I tweet English: self-concept, language and social media, Justin Thomas, A. Al-Shehhi, M. Al-Ameri, and Ian Grey
The sacred and the profane: social media and temporal patterns of religiosity in the United Arab Emirates, Justin Thomas, Aamna Al Shehhi, 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
Foreign direct investment and stock market development: Evidence from a “new” emerging market, Athanasios Tsagkanos, Costas Siriopoulos, and Konstantina Vartholomatou
Data on thermal sensation, perception and microclimatic parameters in a city with Mediterranean climate, Areti Tseliou, Ioannis Tsiros, and Spyridon Lykoudis
Hedging U.S. metals & mining Industry's credit risk with industrial and precious metals, Zaghum Umar, Syed Jawad Hussain Shahzad, and Dimitris Kenourgios
Exploring the time and frequency domain connectedness of oil prices and metal prices, Zaghum Umar, Samia Nasreen, Sakiru Adebola Solarin, and Aviral Kumar Tiwari
The demand for eurozone stocks and bonds in a time-varying asset allocation framework, Zaghum Umar, Choudhry Tanveer Shehzad, and Aristeidis Samitas
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
Macau’s Heterotopias: Ruins of St. Paul’s as a Spatial and Temporal Disruption, Marta Wieczorek
Health literacy research in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: an integrative review, Ludmilla F. Wikkeling-Scott, Rahma Jamea Yousef Ajja, and Robert Vann Rikard
Global lightning activity and the hiatus in global warming, Earle Williams, Anirban Guha, Robert Boldi, Hugh Christian, and Dennis Buechler
The social facilitation of performance, emotions, and motivation in a high challenge video game: Playing people and playing game characters, Russell Blair Williams
The social facilitation of performance, engagement and affect in a complex videogame: Opponent identity, Russell Blair Williams
Pokémon GO is serious leisure that increases the touristic engagement, physical activity and sense of happiness of players, Russell B. Williams and Natasa Slak-Valek
Network Centrality and Open Innovation: A Social Network Analysis of an SME Manufacturing Cluster, Judith Woods, Brendan Galbraith, and Nola Hewitt-Dundas
A Fuzzy-Based Approach for Identifying Candidate Business Processes for Socialization, Fadwa Yahya, Khouloud Boukadi, Zakaria Maamar, and Hanêne Ben-Abdallah
CA4BPS: An end-to-end context-based approach for business process socialisation, Fadwa Yahya, Khouloud Boukadi, Zakaria Maamar, and Hanêne Ben-Abdallah
Foreign investors’ trading behaviors around merger and acquisition announcements: Evidence from Korea, Jin Young Yang and Reuben Segara
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
Nonenzymatic amperometric dopamine sensor based on a carbon ceramic electrode of type SiO2/C modified with Co3O4 nanoparticles, Abdur Rehman Younus, Jibran Iqbal, Nawshad Muhammad, Fozia Rehman, Muhammad Tariq, Abdul Niaz, Syed Badshah, Tawfik A. Saleh, and Abdur Rahim
User behavior prediction via heterogeneous information preserving network embedding, Weiwei Yuan, Kangya He, Guangjie Han, Donghai Guan, and Asad Masood Khattak
QoS enhancement with deep learning-based interference prediction in mobile IoT, Saniya Zafar, Sobia Jangsher, Ouns Bouachir, Moayad Aloqaily, and Jalel Ben Othman
Inflation hedging with commodities: A wavelet analysis of seven centuries worth of data, Adam Zaremba, Zaghum Umar, and Mateusz Mikutowski
Individual Ambidexterity and Antecedents in a Changing Context, Yi Zhang, Feng Wei, and Constance Van Horne
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
Submissions from 2018
1,25-Dihydroxycholecalciferol (calcitriol) modifies uptake and release of 25-hydroxycholecalciferol in skeletal muscle cells in culture, M. Abboud, M. S. Rybchyn, Y. J. Ning, T. C. Brennan-Speranza, C. M. Girgis, J. E. Gunton, D. R. Fraser, and R. S. Mason
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
Immunomodulatory roles of bacterial toxins: Impacts on the innate pulmonary defense of the host, Charlotte Abrial, Jennifer da Silva, Régina Geitani, Carole Ayoub Moubareck, and Lhousseine Touqui
How customer orientation enhances salespeople’s performance? A case study from an international market, Amjad Abu ELSamen and Mamoun N. Akroush
MemSens: Memristor-Based Radiation Sensor, Heba Abunahla, Baker Mohammad, Lama Mahmoud, Muna Darweesh, Mohammad Alhawari, Maguy Abi Jaoude, and George Wesley Hitt
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
Research: The Upsides of Disclosing Your Religion, Sexual Orientation, or Parental Status at Work, Afra Ahmad, Isaac Sabat, and Eden King
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
Revisiting the democracy-private investment nexus: Does inequality matter?, Kemal Kivanç Aköz, Benjamin Barber IV, Jeffrey Jensen, and Christina Zenker
Attitudes towards translanguaging: how future teachers perceive the meshing of Arabic and English in children’s storybooks, Afaf al-Bataineh and Kay Gallagher
Anomaly payload signature generation system based on efficient tokenization methodology, Monther Aldwairi, Wail Mardini, and Alaa Alhowaide
A Consumer Perspective on Digital Games: Factors for Successful Game Development, Saiqa Aleem, Luiz Fernando Capretz, and Faheem Ahmed
Women’s enactment of leadership in a heavily gender-marked Islamic context: An exploration within the United Arab Emirates, Abdelrahman Alhadhrami, Valerie Priscilla Goby, and Yahya Al-Ansaari
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
Differentially private multidimensional data publishing, Khalil Al-Hussaeni, Benjamin C.M. Fung, Farkhund Iqbal, Junqiang Liu, and Patrick C.K. Hung
Knowledge-based reasoning and recommendation framework for intelligent decision making, Rahman Ali, Muhammad Afzal, Muhammad Sadiq, Maqbool Hussain, Taqdir Ali, Sungyoung Lee, and Asad Masood Khattak
Anomaly-based intrusion detection system through feature selection analysis and building hybrid efficient model, Shadi Aljawarneh, Monther Aldwairi, and Muneer Bani Yassein
Voltage dependence of the Ca2+ transient in endocardial and epicardial myocytes from the left ventricle of Goto–Kakizaki type 2 diabetic rats, Lina Al Kury, Vadym Sydorenko, Manal M.A. Smail, Muhammad Anwar Qureshi, Anatoliy Shmygol, Murat Oz, Jaipaul Singh, and Frank Christopher Howarth
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
Measuring the technical efficiency of cooperative societies in Kuwait, Abdullah Al Mutairi, Dennis Olson, and Bashaer Al Ghanim
The Opinion Management Framework: Identifying and addressing customer concerns extracted from online product reviews, Feras Al-Obeidat, Bruce Spencer, and Eleanna Kafeza
A best-practice model of university-students relationship development: An empirical study, Raed Musbah Alqirem, Husam Mustafa Alnaimi, and Ahmed Shuhaiber
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
Arabic authorship attribution: An extensive study on twitter posts, Malik H. Altakrori, Farkhund Iqbal, Benjamin C.M. Fung, Steven H.H. Ding, and Abdallah Tubaishat
A perspective on women’s spatial experiences in higher education: between modernity and tradition, Gergana Alzeer
Types and dynamics of gendered space: a case of Emirati female learners in a single-gender context, Gergana Alzeer
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
Adenine-thymine tautomerization under the influence of strong homogeneous electric fields, Alya A. Arabi and Chérif F. Matta
Effects of Intense Electric Fields on the Double Proton Transfer in the Watson-Crick Guanine-Cytosine Base Pair, Alya A. Arabi and Chérif F. Matta
Antecedents to Consumer Peer Communication through Social Advertising: A Self-Disclosure Theory Perspective, Yusfi Ardiansyah, Paul Harrigan, Geoffrey N. Soutar, and Timothy M. Daly
The resource curse revisited: A Bayesian model averaging approach, K. Peren Arin and Elias Braunfels
Empirical analysis of market reactions to the UK's referendum results – How strong will Brexit be?, Samitas Aristeidis and Kampouris Elias
The Prospective Association Between Electronic Device Use Before Bedtime and Academic Attainment in Adolescents, Teresa Arora, Afnan Albahri, Omar M. Omar, Ahmad Sharara, and Shahrad Taheri
The associations among objectively estimated sleep and obesity indicators in elementary schoolchildren, Teresa Arora, Hoda Gad, Omar M. Omar, Sopna Choudhury, Odette Chagoury, Javaid Sheikh, and Shahrad Taheri
Education and Supplementation to OvercomeMalnutrition in Pregnant Mothers for ImprovingOffspring Development, Teresa Arora and Ayesha Salem-Al Murry
Reactions to psychological contract breaches and organizational citizenship behaviours: An experimental manipulation of severity, Theresa P. Atkinson, Russell A. Matthews, Alexandra A. Henderson, and Christiane Spitzmueller
Long-term integrity and non-repudiation protocol for multiple entities, Mohamad Badra and Rouba Borghol
Neural word and entity embeddings for ad hoc retrieval, Ebrahim Bagheri, Faezeh Ensan, and Feras Al-Obeidat
Capital Punishment for Apostasy in Islam, Man Baker
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
Do Managers Disclose or Withhold Bad News? Evidence from Short Interest, Dichu Bao, Yongtae Kim, G. Mujtaba Mian, and Lixin (Nancy) Su
New model for inorganic pollutants dissipation on the northern part of the romanian black sea coast, A. Barbulescu, L. Barbes, and Y. Nazzal
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
A survey and taxonomy on nonorthogonal multiple-access schemes for 5G networks, Mehak Basharat, Waleed Ejaz, Muhammad Naeem, Asad Masood Khattak, and Alagan Anpalagan
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
An analytical study on the holy Quran based on the order of words in Arabic and conjunction, Rahima Bentrcia, Samir Zidat, and Farhi Marir
Extracting semantic relations from the Quranic Arabic based on Arabic conjunctive patterns, Rahima Bentrcia, Samir Zidat, and Farhi Marir
Online Conference Report: 2018 Annual Electronic Resources & Libraries (ER&L), Austin, Texas, March 4–7, 2018, Mary Jean Bernabe
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
Financing innovation through minority acquisitions, Ibrahim Bostan and Mariana Spatareanu
TiO2-based hybrid nanocomposites modified by phosphonate molecules as selective PAH adsorbents, Nadine Bou Orm, Quoc An Trieu, and Stephane Daniele
Security and privacy challenges in smart cities, Trevor Braun, Benjamin C.M. Fung, Farkhund Iqbal, and Babar Shah
Real-time? Reframing temporal consciousness in time-based and interactive media, Andrew Buchanan
Population change of Trillium govanianum (Melanthiaceae) amid altered indigenous harvesting practices in the Indian Himalayas, Harsh K. Chauhan, Anil K. Bisht, Indra D. Bhatt, Arvind Bhatt, David Gallacher, and Andrea Santo
The impact of trauma exposure characteristics on post-traumatic stress disorder and psychiatric co-morbidity among Syrian refugees, Man Cheung Chung, Nowf AlQarni, Mariam AlMazrouei, Shamsa Al Muhairi, Mudar Shakra, Britt Mitchell, Sara Al Mazrouei, and Shurooq Al Hashimi
Business Groups and Corporate Social Responsibility, Jongmoo Jay Choi, Hoje Jo, Jimi Kim, and Moo Sung Kim
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
Posttraumatic Stress Among Syrian Refugees: Trauma Exposure Characteristics, Trauma Centrality, and Emotional Suppression, Man Cheung Chung, Mudar Shakra, Nowf AlQarni, Mariam AlMazrouei, Sara Al Mazrouei, and Shurooq Al Hashimi
The dark side of dialog, Justin J. Couchman, Gwenievere A. Birster, and Mariana V.C. Coutinho
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
Culture and Crisis Communication: Nestle India's Maggi Noodles Case, Ganga S. Dhanesh and Krishnamurthy Sriramesh
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
Finding innovation and imagination in a bag of loose parts, Anna Dillon
C60 fullerenes disrupt cellular signalling leading to TRPC4 and TRPC6 channels opening by the activation of muscarinic receptors and G-proteins in small intestinal smooth muscles, Dariia O. Dryn, Mariia I. Melnyk, Lina T. Al Kury, Yuriy I. Prylutskyy, Uwe Ritter, and Alexander V. Zholos
The role of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and internal CSR communication in predicting employee engagement: Perspectives from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Gaelle Duthler and Ganga S. Dhanesh
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
Guest-based hotel equity: scale development and validation, Mohammed Ismail El-Adly and Amjad Abu ELSamen
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
Bio-regeneration of activated carbon: A comprehensive review, Maisa El Gamal, Hussein A. Mousa, Muftah H. El-Naas, Renju Zacharia, and Simon Judd
Assessment of potential usability and reliability of an Arabic dietary mobile application (KELA.AE) for hemodialysis patients: a qualitative analysis of user and healthcare professionals’ feedback, C. ElKhoury Fakih, M. Karavetian, R. Crutzen, R.J. Halfens, and J.M. Schols
Industrial symbiosis within eco-industrial parks: Sustainable development for Borg El-Arab in Egypt, Suzanna ElMassah
Addressing free riders in collaborative group work: The use of mobile application in higher education, Suzanna Sobhy El Massah
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
Can water mitigate the palestinian-israeli conflict? The case for environmental peacemaking, Mona Farag
Entity linking of tweets based on dominant entity candidates, Yue Feng, Fattane Zarrinkalam, Ebrahim Bagheri, Hossein Fani, and Feras Al-Obeidat
Modeling Chinese inbound tourism arrivals into Christchurch, Peter Fieger and John Rice
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
Steve A. Yetiv and Katerina Oskarsson, Challenged Hegemony: The United States, China, and Russia in the Persian Gulf, Jonathan Fulton
The Gulf between the Indo-Pacific and the Belt and Road Initiative, Jonathan Fulton
Troubled waters: insecurity in the Persian Gulf, Jonathan Fulton
Corporate governance and corporate social responsibility disclosures: The case of GCC countries, Samy Garas and Suzanna ElMassah
Student performance on computer-based tests versus paper-based tests in introductory financial accounting: UAE evidence, Samy Garas and Mostafa Hassan
Weight status and food habits of preschool children in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates: NOPLAS project, Malin Garemo, Amal Elamin, and Andrew Gardner
Children's meals at restaurants in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, have poor nutritional quality, Malin Garemo and Afnan Al Naimi
National citizenship as a mediator of organizational innovation, Valerie Priscilla Goby and Abdelrahman Alhadhrami
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
Forensic psychology and Islamic jurisprudence, Ian Grey, Amraim AlMazrouei, Justin Thomas, and Patrick Randall
The relationship between shame and guilt: cultural comparisons between Ireland and the United Arab Emirates, Ian Grey, Rebecca Daly, Justin Thomas, and Walaa Marassas
An evaluation of positive behavioural support for children with challenging behaviour in community settings, Ian Grey, Maryann Mesbur, Helena Lydon, Olive Healy, and Justin Thomas
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
Preface, Hakim Hacid, Wojciech Cellary, Hua Wang, Hye Young Paik, and Rui Zhou
An SLA-Aware Cloud Coalition Formation Approach for Virtualized Networks, Souad Hadjres, Nadjia Kara, May El Barachi, and Fatna Belqasmi
Do lebanese freshman students gain weight?, S. Haidar, M. Karavetian, and N. De vries
The freshman weight gain phenomenon: Does it apply to Lebanese students?, Suzan A. Haidar, Nanne K. de Vries, Dimitrios Papandreou, Rana Rizk, and Mirey Karavetian
Stress, Anxiety, and Weight Gain among University and College Students: A Systematic Review, Suzan A. Haidar, N.K. de Vries, Mirey Karavetian, and Rola El-Rassi
Vitamin D status among the juvenile population: A retrospective study, Afrozul Haq, Jitka Svobodová, Nighat Y. Sofi, Andrea Jindrová, Bohumil Kába, Jaishen Rajah, Fatme Al Anouti, Laila Abdel-Wareth, Sunil J. Wimalawansa, and Mohammed S. Razzaque
Clinical practice guidelines for vitamin D in the United Arab Emirates, Afrozul Haq, Sunil J. Wimalawansa, Pawel Pludowski, and Fatme Al Anouti
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
Customer engagement and the relationship between involvement, engagement, self-brand connection and brand usage intent, Paul Harrigan, Uwana Evers, Morgan P. Miles, and Tim Daly
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
Action research as professional development: Its role in education reform in the United Arab Emirates, Conley Hathorn and Anna Marie Dillon
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
Student perceptions on peer feedback training using a blended method: A UAE case, Zeina Hojeij and Sandra Baroudi
Collection assessment for a Middle Eastern, English curriculum university library, Lilly Hoi Sze Ho
Estimating downside risk in stock returns under structural breaks, Matthew Hood and Farooq Malik
Creative hybridity over linguistic purity: the status of English in the United Arab Emirates, Sarah Hopkyns, Wafa Zoghbor, and Peter John Hassall
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
Smart TV face monitoring for children privacy, P. C. K. Hung, K. Kanev, S.-C. Huang, F. Iqbal, and B. C. M. Fung
Introducing Multimodality, Zoe Hurley
A secure and decentralised SIP for mobile ad hoc networks, Mohammed Hussain and Dhafer Ben Khedher
Why do self-initiated expatriates quit their jobs: The role of job embeddedness and shocks in explaining turnover intentions, Taiba Hussain and Stephen Deery
Foreigners' Real Estate Property in United Arab Emirates Comparative study, Walaa-Eldeen Ibrahim
Short-term CO2 exposure and temperature rise effects on metazoan meiofauna and free-living nematodes in sandy and muddy sediments: Results from a flume experiment, Jeroen Ingels, Giovanni dos Santos, Natalie Hicks, Yirina Valdes Vazquez, Patricia Fernandes Neres, Leticia Pereira Pontes, Mayara Nataly Amorim, Sara Romain, Yongfen Du, Henrik Stahl, Paul J. Somerfield, and Stephen Widdicombe
Ionic liquid as a potential solvent for preparation of collagen-alginate-hydroxyapatite beads as bone filler, Bushra Iqbal, Zenab Sarfaraz, Nawshad Muhammad, Pervaiz Ahmad, Jibran Iqbal, Zia Ul Haq Khan, Girma Gonfa, Farasat Iqbal, Arshad Jamal, and Abdur Rahim
A glance at research-driven university's technology transfer office in the UAE, Farkhund Iqbal, Patrick C.K. Hung, Fazli Wahid, and Suaad Mohammed Qayed Ahmed Mohammed
A study of detecting child pornography on smart phone, Farkhund Iqbal, Andrew Marrington, Patrick C.K. Hung, Jing Jie Lin, Guan Pu Pan, Shih Chia Huang, and Benjamin Yankson
Hydrochemical processes determining the groundwater quality for irrigation use in an arid environment: The case of Liwa Aquifer, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Jibran Iqbal, Yousef Nazzal, Fares Howari, Cijo Xavier, and Ahmad Yousef
Boardroom Diversity and Innovation in the UAE Banks, Perihan Iren and Kienpin Tee
Preterm infants with necrotising enterocolitis demonstrate an unbalanced gut microbiota, Tarek Itani, Carole Ayoub Moubareck, Imad Melki, Clotilde Rousseau, Irène Mangin, Marie José Butel, and Dolla Karam-Sarkis
Disruptive Classroom Technologies: A Framework For Innovation In Education, Nadine Jaafarawi and Afshan Parkar
Fabrication and Evaluation of Cellulose-Alginate-Hydroxyapatite Beads for the Removal of Heavy Metal Ions from Aqueous Solutions, Anum Jamshaid, Jibran Iqbal, Almas Hamid, Moinuddin Ghauri, Nawshad Muhammad, Asma Nasrullah, Sikander Rafiq, and Noor Samad Shah
Hollywood’s transnational imaginaries: colonial agency and vision from Indiana Jones to World War Z*, Lena Jayyusi
Farming the desert: Agriculture in the oil frontier, the case of the United Arab Emirates, 1940s to 1990s, Sabrina Joseph
Advanced Temporal Constraints for Business Processes Modelling and Execution, Eleanna Kafeza
Almost Hermitian Manifold with Quarter Symmetric Non-Metric Connection, Manisha Kankarej
Patient education for hyperphosphatemia management: Improving outcomes while decreasing costs?, Mirey Karavetian and Rana Rizk
Effect of intradialytic-aerobic exercise on clinical outcomes of hemodialysis patients in the United Arab Emirates, M. Karavetian, N. Salhab, M. Alrukhaimi, J. Kooman, E. Fiaccadori, H. Muthana, and R. Rizk
An investigation into the urban water cycle in the city of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Rashed Karkain, Moetaz El Sergany, and Evan Diamadopoulos
Global crises and contagion: Does the capitalization size matter?, Dimitris Kenourgios, Dimitrios Dimitriou, and Aristeidis Samitas
Proximity to urban fringe recreational facilities increases native biodiversity in an arid rangeland, Tamer Khafaga, Greg Simkins, and David Gallacher
In situ immobilization of CuO on SiO2/graphite matrix, modified with benzimidazolium-1-acatate ionic liquid: Application as catechol sensor, Bilal Khalid, Abdur Rahim, Mazhar Amjad Gilani, Nawshad Muhammad, Abdur Rehman Younus, Sobia Tabassum, Jibran Iqbal, and Abdulrahman I. Alharthi
An overview of real-time quantitative PCR: Principles and formats for environmental microbiology studies, M. A. Khan, A. G. Ganesh, and Naushad Rais
Applications of real-time quantitative PCR for environmental microbiology studies, M. A. Khan, A. G. Ganesh, and Naushad Rais
Archaeal community structure in the anaerobic sludge digesters of a full-scale municipal wastewater treatment plant in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, M.A. Khan, A.G. Ganesh, N. Rais, S.M. Faheem, and S.T. Khan
Assessing methanogenic archaeal community in full scale anaerobic sludge digester systems in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Munawwar A. Khan, Poojabahen G. Patel, Arpitha G. Ganesh, Naushad Rais, Sultan M. Faheem, and Shams T. Khan
Book Review: Bayat, Asef. Revolution without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring, Habibul Haque Khondker
Class, identity, and insecurity: Bangladeshi temporary migrants in the United Arab Emirates, Habibul Haque Khondker
Glocalization, consumption, and cricket: The Indian Premier League, Habibul Haque Khondker and Roland Robertson
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
Trade asymmetries in the Mediterranean basin, Konstantinos Konstantaras, Dionisis Philippas, and Costas Siriopoulos
Why a world state is unnecessary: The continuing debate on world government, W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz
The auditor-to-client revolving door: A structured literature review, Amr Kotb, Hussein Halabi, and Hany Elbardan
Place branding: Aligning multiple stakeholder perception of visual and auditory communication elements, Filareti Kotsi, Melodena Stephens Balakrishnan, Ian Michael, and Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy
Consumer-based brand equity (CBBE) in the context of an international stopover destination: Perceptions of Dubai in France and Australia, Filareti Kotsi, Steven Pike, and Udo Gottlieb
Flying with Nicole Kidman or Jennifer Aniston? Brand funnel stages’ influence on brand personality, Filareti Kotsi and Natasa Slak Valek
When and why does belief in a controlling God strengthen goal commitment?, Mark J. Landau, Jamel Khenfer, Lucas A. Keefer, Trevor J. Swanson, and Aaron C. Kay
Matching experimental and three dimensional numerical models for structural vibration problems with uncertainties, P. Langer, K. Sepahvand, C. Guist, J. Bär, A. Peplow, and S. Marburg
Boulder emplacement and remobilisation by cyclone and submarine landslide tsunami waves near Suva City, Fiji, A. Y.Annie Lau, James P. Terry, Alan Ziegler, Arti Pratap, and Daniel Harris
Short-selling and credit default swap spreads—Where do informed traders trade?, Steven Lecce, Andrew Lepone, Michael D. McKenzie, Jin Boon Wong, and Jin Young Yang
Message traffic restrictions and relative pricing efficiency: Evidence from index futures contracts and exchange-traded funds, Andrew Lepone, Jun Wen, and Jin Young Yang
The Aesthetics of Liminality: Augmentation as an Art Form, Patrick Lichty
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
TRIBAL AFFILIATIONS IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE, Dahlia Mahmoud
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
Defining Atheism and the Burden of Proof, Shoaib Ahmed Malik
Enhanced teamwork communication model for electronic clinical pathways in healthcare, Wasef Mater, Monther Aldwairi, and Roliana Ibrahim
Health literacy among female university students in the United Arab Emirates, John D. Matthews
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
The long reach of sponsorship: How fan isolation and identification jointly shape sponsorship performance, Marc Mazodier, Conor M. Henderson, and Joshua T. Beck
A Perspective of Democratic Teaching through the Lens of Research on the Application of Daoism, David McLachlan Jeffrey
Investor sentiment and advertising expenditure, G. Mujtaba Mian, Piyush Sharma, and Ferdinand A. Gul
Australia’s cognitive, affective and conative destination image: an Emirati tourist perspective, Noela Michael, Reynold James, and Ian Michael
A case study of developing leadership and creativity skills in Higher education (He) students, Noela Michael, Mustafeed Zaman, and T. Serra Gorpe
Chapter 1 Geoenvironmental Engineering in a Global Environment, Abdel-Mohsen Onsy Mohamed and Evan K. Paleologos
Gibbs effects using Daubechies and Coiflet tight framelet systems, Mutaz Mohammad and En Bing Lin
Gibbs phenomenon in tight framelet expansions, Mutaz Mohammad and En Bing Lin
Clonal emergence of Klebsiella pneumoniae ST14 co-producing OXA-48-type and NDM carbapenemases with high rate of colistin resistance in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Carole Ayoub Moubareck, Shaimaa F. Mouftah, Tibor Pál, Akela Ghazawi, Dalal H. Halat, Anju Nabi, Mouza A. AlSharhan, Zulfa O. AlDeesi, Christabel C. Peters, Handan Celiloglu, Manjunath Sannegowda, Dolla K. Sarkis, and Ágnes Sonnevend
Development and application of artificial neural network models to estimate values of a complex human thermal comfort index associated with urban heat and cool island patterns using air temperature data from a standard meteorological station, Konstantinos Moustris, Ioannis X. Tsiros, Areti Tseliou, and Panagiotis Nastos
The Adoption of Renewable Energy Policies in a Rentier State: A Case Study of the United Arab Emirates, Hessa Murooshid
The Cytokinin-Activating LOG-Family Proteins Are Not Lysine Decarboxylases, Muhammad Naseem, Elena Bencurova, and Thomas Dandekar
Curcumin potentiates the function of human α 7 -nicotinic acetylcholine receptors expressed in SH-EP1 cells, Eslam El Nebrisi, Lina T. Al Kury, Keun Hang Susan Yang, Petrilla Jayaprakash, Frank C. Howarth, Nadine Kabbani, and Murat Oz
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
Convergence and collaboration: co-creating meaning within culturally diverse workforces, Catherine Nickerson and Valerie Priscilla Goby
The Effect of Faculty Perceptions and Leadership Support on Social Media Utilization in Higher Education, Mariyam Al Obaidli, Lydia Barza, and Laura Matherly
Explore like a local: Student generated websites as representation of emirati perspectives on Dubai tourism, Michael R. Ogden, Melissa Lee Price, and Noela Michael
Editor's introduction, David M. Palfreyman
‘This is my life style, Arabic and English’: students’ attitudes to (trans)languaging in a bilingual university context, David M. Palfreyman and Afaf Al-Bataineh
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
The association of physical activity to blood cholesterol levels and blood pressure, Christiana Philippou, Dimitrios Papandreou, Photos Hadjigeorgiou, Evelina Charidemou, Evridiki Georgaki, Costas Andreou, Christoforos Christoforou, Rebecca Kokkinofta, Christos Dioghenous, Antonios Zampelas, and Eleni Andreou
Stopover destination image–perceptions of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, among French and Australian travellers, Steven Pike and Filareti Kotsi
Stopover destination image: A comparison of salient attributes elicited from French and Australian travellers, Steven Pike, Filareti Kotsi, and Vesselina Tossan
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 Red Sea under the Caliphal Dynasties, c. 639–1171, Timothy Power
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
Use of collocations in freshman composition: Implications for L1 English and Arabic ESL writers, Asif Qureshi and Ulugbek Nurmukhamedov
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
Concurrent direct assessment of foundation skills for general education, Anthony Rhodes, Maurice Danaher, and Ashley Ater Kranov
Cost-effectiveness of dedicated dietitians for hyperphosphatemia management among hemodialysis patients in Lebanon: Results from the nutrition education for management of osteodystrophy trial, R. Rizk, M. Karavetian, M. Hiligsmann, and S. Evers
Vitamin D receptor gene polymorphisms among Emirati patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, Habiba Al Safar, Sarah El Hajj Chehadeh, Laila Abdel-Wareth, Afrozul Haq, Herbert F. Jelinek, Gehad ElGhazali, and Fatme Al Anouti
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
The Qur'an as the Only Constitutive Source of Islamic Law, Ahmed Ali Salem
Intradialytic Aerobic Exercise in the United Arab Emirates: a Descriptive Study, Nada Salhab, Mirey Karavetian, Jeroen Kooman, and Enrico Fiaccadori
Alleviating road network congestion: Traffic pattern optimization using Markov chain traffic assignment, Sinan Salman and Suzan Alaswad
Terrorist incidents and tourism demand: Evidence from Greece, Aristeidis Samitas, Dimitrios Asteriou, Stathis Polyzos, and Dimitris Kenourgios
Empirical investigation of co-authorship in the field of finance: A network perspective, Aristeidis Samitas and Elias Kampouris
Brexit and financial stability: An agent-based simulation, Aristeidis Samitas, Stathis Polyzos, and Costas Siriopoulos
An effective rubric norming process, Kevin Schoepp, Maurice Danaher, and Ashley Ater Kranov
Total Interpretive Structural Modelling of predictors for graduate employability for the information technology sector, Nidhi Sehgal and Saboohi Nasim
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
Fuzzy searching and routing in unstructured mobile peer-to-peer networks, Babar Shah, Farkhund Iqbal, Omar Alfandi, Yoonsoo Kim, Seok Yoon Kang, and Ki Il Kim
Toxicities, kinetics and degradation pathways investigation of ciprofloxacin degradation using iron-mediated H2O2 based advanced oxidation processes, Noor S. Shah, Allah Ditta Rizwan, Javed Ali Khan, Murtaza Sayed, Zia Ul Haq Khan, Behzad Murtaza, Jibran Iqbal, Salah Ud Din, Muhammad Imran, Muhammad Nadeem, Ala'a H. Al-Muhtaseb, Nawshad Muhammad, Hasan M. Khan, Moinuddin Ghauri, and Gohar Zaman
Audit quality during the global financial crisis: The investors’ perspective, Khurram Shahzad, Thierry Pouw, Ghulame Rubbaniy, and Osama El-Temtamy
Investigating the effect of wearing the hijab: Perception of facial attractiveness by Emirati Muslim women living in their native Muslim country, Mercedes Sheen, Hajar Aman Key Yekani, and Timothy R. Jordan
Waste Moringa oleifera seed pods as green sorbent for efficient removal of toxic aquatic pollutants, Zahra Shirani, Chella Santhosh, Jibran Iqbal, and Amit Bhatnagar
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
The relationship between community sporting event participants and the media. The case of Abu Dhabi, Nataša Slak Valek