Submissions from 2019
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
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 Overcome Malnutrition in Pregnant Mothers for Improving Offspring 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
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
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
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
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 analysis of market reactions to the UK's referendum results – How strong will Brexit be?, Aristeidis Samitas and Elias Kampouris
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
Is tourism really an escape from everyday life? Everyday leisure activities vs leisure travel activities of expats and emirati nationals living in the UAE, Natasa Slak Valek and Anestis Fotiadis
The support of the UAE nationals towards EXPO 2020 - A fuzzy logic approach, Nataša Slak Valek and Anestis Fotiadis
One place, two perspectives: Destination image for tourists and nationals in Abu Dhabi, Nataša Slak Valek and Russell Blair Williams
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
RObustness of the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB): A Comparative study between Pakistan and Thailand, Bahadur Ali Soomro, Naimatullah Shah, and Maqsood Memon
Indian Ocean navigation in Islamic sources 850–1560 CE, Eric Staples
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
Arabic Language Arts Standards: Revolution or Disruption?, Hanada Taha Thomure and Richard B. Speaker
The role of diet and lifestyle in women with breast cancer: An update review of related research in the Middle East, Zainab Taha and Sakina E. Eltom
Predictors of glucose control in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes: Results of a cross-sectional study in Khartoum, Sudan, Zainab Taha, Zeinab Eltoum, and Sidiga Washi
Patterns of breastfeeding practices among infants and young children in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Zainab Taha, Malin Garemo, and Joy Nanda
Parthenolide inhibits tumor-promoting effects of nicotine in lung cancer by inducing P53 - dependent apoptosis and inhibiting VEGF expression, Wamidh H. Talib and Lina T. Al Kury
Blended Learning for Learner Empowerment: Voices from the Middle East, Rana M. Tamim
Backdating of executive stock options: comparing financial and nonfinancial industries, Kienpin Tee and Marilyn Wiley
Major typhoon phases in the upper Gulf of Thailand over the last 1.5 millennia, determined from coastal deposits on rock islands, James P. Terry, James Goff, and Kruawun Jankaew
The Delhi ‘gas chamber’: smog, air pollution and the health emergency of November 2017, James P. Terry, Gensuo Jia, Robert Boldi, and Sarah Khan
Magnitudes of nearshore waves generated by tropical cyclone Winston, the strongest landfalling cyclone in South Pacific records. Unprecedented or unremarkable?, James P. Terry and A. Y.Annie Lau
Earnings smoothing and CEO cash bonus compensation: The role of mandatory derivatives disclosure policy, Abiot Tessema
SFAS 133 and income smoothing via discretionary accruals: The role of hedge effectiveness and market volatility, Abiot Tessema and Rogier Deumes
The impact of ownership structure on earnings quality: the case of South Korea, Abiot Tessema, Moo Sung Kim, and Jagadish Dandu
Action research on a collegial model of peer observations, Burcu Tezcan-Unal
Learning-oriented quality assurance in higher education institutions, Burcu Tezcan-Unal, Kalman Winston, and Anne Qualter
Sun Exposure and Behavioral Activation for Hypovitaminosis D and Depression: A Controlled Pilot Study, Justin Thomas and Fatme Al-Anouti
Macbeth Arabia: moral threat and cleansing-related construct accessibility in Arab women, Justin Thomas, Ian Grey, and Salama Al-Romaithi
Acculturation, out-group positivity and eating disorders symptoms among Emirati women, Justin Thomas, Lily O’Hara, Susanne Quadflieg, and Sophia Christin Weissgerber
Holy anorexia: Eating disorders symptomatology and religiosity among Muslim women in the United Arab Emirates, Justin Thomas, Lily O'Hara, Sabrina Tahboub-Schulte, Ian Grey, and Nayeefa Chowdhury
Making warnings about misleading advertising and product recalls more effective: An implicit attitude perspective, Olivier Trendel, Marc Mazodier, and Kathleen D. Vohs
An assessment to evaluate potential passive cooling patterns for climate change adaptation in a residential neighbourhood of a Mediterranean coastal city (Athens, Greece), Ioannis X. Tsiros, Milo E. Hoffman, Areti Tseliou, Vasiliki Christopoulou, and Spyridon Lykoudis
An Assessment To Evaluate Potential Passive Cooling Patterns For Climate Change Adaptation In A Residential Neighbourhood Of A Mediterranean Coastal City (Athens, Greece), Ioannis X. Tsiros, Milo E. Hoffman, Areti Tseliou, Vasiliki Christopoulou, and Spyridon Lykoudis
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
Does Shariah compliance make interest rate sensitivity of Islamic equities lower? An industry level analysis under different market states, Zaghum Umar, Syed Jawad Hussain Shahzad, Román Ferrer, and Francisco Jareño
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
The Interactive Effect of Authentic Leadership and Leader Competency on Followers’ Job Performance: The Mediating Role of Work Engagement, Feng Wei, Yi Li, Yi Zhang, and Shubo Liu
Conceptual models and mental models in operation: Frustration, performance and flow with two different video game controllers, Russell B. Williams
Hijacked destination images? Autonomous representations of Dubai and Abu Dhabi in The Amazing Race, U.S.A, Russell B. Williams
Recent Evidence on the Oil Price Shocks on Gulf Cooperation Council Stock Markets, Victor S.H. Wong and Suzanna El Massah
Collusion attacks mitigation in internet of things: a fog based model, Qussai Yaseen, Monther Aldwairi, Yaser Jararweh, Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub, and Brij Gupta
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
Classification with class noises through probabilistic sampling, Weiwei Yuan, Donghai Guan, Tinghuai Ma, and Asad Masood Khattak
Socialized healthcare service recommendation using deep learning, Weiwei Yuan, Chenliang Li, Donghai Guan, Guangjie Han, and Asad Masood Khattak
Ferrão, R. Benedito. The Many Lives of Vamona Navelcar. Cinnamon Teal, 2017., Alia Yunis
Rapid determination of illegal additives chrysoidin and malachite green by surface-enhanced Raman scattering with silanized support based substrate, Han Zhang, Lin Sun, Yuan Zhang, Yan Kang, Huilian Hu, Jibran Iqbal, and Yiping Du
Making meaning from student evaluations of teaching: Seeing beyond our own horizons, Carina Jia Yan Zhu, Diana White, Janet Rankin, and Christina Jean Davison
Revisiting English as a Foreign Language (EFL) vs English Lingua Franca (ELF): The case for pronunciation, Wafa Zoghbor
Teaching English pronunciation to multi-dialect first language learners: The revival of the Lingua Franca Core (LFC), Wafa Shahada Zoghbor
Submissions from 2017
Comparing internal and external impacts of sustainable innovation: an exploratory study, Wasseem Abaza
Adaptive Forwarding Scheme for Bounded Time Constraint in Delay Tolerant Networks, Ali Abbas, Babar Shah, and Ki Il Kim
The effect of parathyroid hormone on the uptake and retention of 25-hydroxyvitamin D in skeletal muscle cells, M. Abboud, M. S. Rybchyn, J. Liu, Y. Ning, C. Gordon-Thomson, T. C. Brennan-Speranza, L. Cole, H. Greenfield, D. R. Fraser, and R. S. Mason
Sunlight exposure is just one of the factors which influence Vitamin D status, M. Abboud, M. S. Rybchyn, R. Rizk, D. R. Fraser, and R. S. Mason
Beyond the random location of shopping malls: A GIS perspective in Amman, Jordan, Amjad Ahmad Abu ELSamen and Rund Ibrahim Hiyasat
Integrating RFID with Healthcare Information Systems: Toward Smart Hospitals, Ahed Abugabah
Refurbishment of public housing villas in the United Arab Emirates (UAE): energy and economic impact, Bassam Abu-Hijleh, Abeer Manneh, Athari AlNaqbi, Wafaa AlAwadhi, and Ayoub Kazim
Cloud applications in language teaching: Examining pre-service teachers' expertise, perceptions and integration, Ibtehal Mahmoud Aburezeq and Fawzi Fayez Ishtaiwa Dweikat
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
A model of system limiting availability under imperfect maintenance, Suzan Alaswad, Richard Cassady, Edward Pohl, and Xiaoping Li
A review on condition-based maintenance optimization models for stochastically deteriorating system, Suzan Alaswad and Yisha Xiang
Feature extraction and selection for Arabic tweets authorship authentication, Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub, Yaser Jararweh, Abdullateef Rabab’ah, and Monther Aldwairi
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
Antecedents and Consequences of Marital Satisfaction in an Emirati Sample: A Structural Equation Model Analysis, Fatima Rashed Al-Darmaki, Shaima Ahammed, Sofoh H. Hassane, Abdullah Seif Abdullah, Saad Ibrahim Yaaqeib, and Hamzeh Dodeen
Management of the dead from the Islamic law and international humanitarian law perspectives: Considerations for humanitarian forensics, Ahmed Al-Dawoody
Pattern matching of signature-based ids using myers algorithm under mapreduce framework, Monther Aldwairi, Ansam M. Abu-Dalo, and Moath Jarrah
Detection of drive-by download attacks using machine learning approach, Monther Aldwairi, Musaab Hasan, and Zayed Balbahaith
Extending information system models to the health care context: An empirical study and experience from developing countries, Osama Alfarraj and Ahed Abugabah
Effects of Dietary Fiber Intake on Body Weight and Waist Circumference, Eiman Al Hammadi
Analyzing students’ performance using multi-criteria classification, Feras Al-Obeidat, Abdallah Tubaishat, Anna Dillon, and Babar Shah
Distribution of heavy metals around the Barakah nuclear power plant in the United Arab Emirates, Mouza Rashid Al Rashdi, Sulaiman Alaabed, Mohamed El Tokhi, Fares M. Howari, Walid El Mowafi, and Alya A. Arabi
Factors associated with continuing emergence of β-thalassemia major despite prenatal testing: a cross-sectional survey., Haleama Al Sabbah, Sarah Khan, Abdallah Hamadna, Lamia Abu Ghazaleh, Anwar Dudin, and Bashar Adnan Karmi
Factors associated with continuing emergence of β-thalassemia major despite prenatal testing: A cross-sectional survey, Haleama Al Sabbah, Sarah Khan, Abdallah Hamadna, Lamia Abu Ghazaleh, Anwar Dudin, and Bashar Adnan Karmi
Disordered Eating Attitudes and Exercise Behavior among Female Emirati College Students in the United Arab Emirates: A Cross- Sectional Study, Haleama Al Sabbah and Shatha Muhsineh
A Study on Foodborne Bacterial Cross-contamination During Fresh Chicken Preparation, Shamma Ebrahim AlZaabi and Munawwar Ali Khan
Cocoons as a space of their own: a case of Emirati women learners, Gergana Alzeer
A prudent based approach for compromised user credentials detection, Adnan Amin, Babar Shah, Sajid Anwar, Feras Al-Obeidat, Asad Masood Khattak, and Awais Adnan
Is Roger Federer more loss averse than Serena Williams?, Nejat Anbarci, K. Peren Arin, Cagla Okten, and Christina Zenker
Type 2 diabetes and its correlates in a first nationwide study among Cypriot adults, Eleni Andreou, Dimitrios Papandreou, Photos Hajigeorgiou, Katia Kyriakou, Thalia Avraam, Georgia Chappa, Procopis Kallis, Christalleni Lazarou, Christiana Philippou, Christoforos Christoforou, Rebecca Kokkinofta, Christos Dioghenous, Savvas Savva, Antony Kafatos, and Antonios Zampelas
Routes to drug design via bioisosterism of carboxyl and sulfonamide groups, Alya A. Arabi
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
Real-time routing protocols for (m,k)-firm streams based on multi-criteria in wireless sensor networks, Mohammad Abdul Azim, Beom Su Kim, Babar Shah, and Ki Il Kim
Lightweight and efficient privacy-preserving data aggregation approach for the Smart Grid, Mohamad Badra and Sherali Zeadally
Strategic Communication and Public Engagement: The UAE E-Brainstorming Session, Badran A. Badran
C–O isotope geochemistry of the Florida phosphate of Four Corners and Hardee County mines, USA: Implication for genesis and diagenesis, Ashraf R. Baghdady, Fares M. Howari, and Mohamed I. Al-Wakeel
Does customer satisfaction have directional predictability for U.S. discretionary spending?, Hamid Baghestani and Paul Williams
Misplaced: language, remitting and development practice among Zimbabwean migrants, Adrian J. Bailey, Liberty Mupakati, and Farai M. Magunha
Method Development for Selective and Nontargeted Identification of Nitro Compounds in Diesel Particulate Matter, Mahmoud Bataineh, Alya A. Arabi, Jibran Iqbal, Fares M. Howari, and Werner Brack
Grammar, spelling error rates persist in digital news, Park Beede and Michael W. Mulnix
Attitudinal and cognitive beliefs of two preservice secondary mathematics teachers, Shashidhar Belbase
Network layer inter-operation of Device-to-Device communication technologies in Internet of Things (IoT), Oladayo Bello, Sherali Zeadally, and Mohamad Badra
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
Bifurcated Effects of Place-of-Origin Diversity on Individual and Team Performance: Evidence from Ten Seasons of German Soccer, Avner Ben-Ner, John Gabriel Licht, and Jin Park
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
Perianth colour dimorphism is related to germination properties and salinity tolerance in Salsola vermiculata in the Arabian deserts, Arvind Bhatt, Shyam S. Phartyal, Prakash C. Phondani, and David J. Gallacher
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
Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill, David W. Bulla
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
Introduction, Martha Chaiklin
The relationship between trauma centrality, self-efficacy, posttraumatic stress and psychiatric co-morbidity among Syrian refugees: Is gender a moderator?, Man Cheung Chung, Nowf AlQarni, Shamsa Al Muhairi, and Britt Mitchell
Instructor's Use of Student-Generated Annotated Concept Sketches in Formative Assessment in General Science, Eddia Copeland Solas and Kenesha Wilson
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
Are students in graduate programmes adequately attaining professional skills?, Maurice Danaher, Kevin Schoepp, and Ashley Ater Kranov
Emirati women do not shy away from competition: evidence from a patriarchal society in transition, Aurelie Dariel, Curtis Kephart, Nikos Nikiforakis, and Christina Zenker
The effectiveness of the use of social media in government communication in the UAE, Elsayed B. Darwish
Book review: Small teaching: everyday lessons from the science of learning (Lang, J.M., 2016, Jossey-Bass), Christina J. Davison
Memory of absence: Contemporary counter-monuments, Sabrina DeTurk
Antibacterial effects and microbial quality of commonly consumed herbs in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, R. Dghaim, H. Al Sabbah, A. H. Al Zarooni, and M. A. Khan
Putting engagement in its PRoper place: State of the field, definition and model of engagement in public relations, Ganga S. Dhanesh
Putative periodontopathic bacteria and herpes viruses interactions in the subgingival plaque of patients with aggressive periodontitis and healthy controls, Amal Elamin, Raouf Wahab Ali, and Vidar Bakken
Performance of modified sulfur concrete exposed to actual sewerage environment with variable temperature, humidity and gases, Maisa M. El Gamal, Amr S. El-Dieb, Abdel Mohsen O. Mohamed, and Khaled M. El Sawy
Impact of Shareholder Proposals on the Functioning of the Market for Corporate Control, Rwan El-Khatib, Kathy Fogel, and Tomas Jandik
Predictors of Academic Performance for Finance Students: Women at Higher Education in the UAE, Suzanna Sobhy El Massah and Dalia Fadly
Motivation of Emirati males and females to study at higher education in the United Arab Emirates, Marion Engin and Kara McKeown
Towards an asymmetric long run equilibrium between stock market uncertainty and the yield spread. A threshold vector error correction approach, Anastasios Evgenidis, Athanasios Tsagkanos, and Costas Siriopoulos
Modelling asymmetric volatility in oil prices under structural breaks, Bradley T. Ewing and Farooq Malik
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
Web 2.0 applications in the workplace: How to ensure their proper use?, Noura Faci, Zakaria Maamar, Vanilson Burégio, Emir Ugljanin, and Djamal Benslimane
Communitarian norms and regional security: The GCC as a security community, Mona Farag
Decision-making in a public hospital during economic crisis, Anestis K. Fotiadis and Tzung Cheng Huan
Managing the perception of service quality; the importance of understanding differences between demographic and behavioural customer segments amongst theme park visitors, Anestis Fotiadis and Metin Kozak
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
Book Review: China's Global Engagement: Cooperation, Competition, And Influence In The 21st Century, Jonathan Fulton
No Great Wall: Trade, Tariffs, and Nationalism in Republican China, 1927–1945, written by Felix Boecking, Jonathan Fulton
The impact of Islamic Financial Services Board Standard No. 3 on corporate governance of listed firms in Kuwait, Samy Garas, Abiot Tessema, and Kienpin Tee
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
Impact of building characteristics and occupants’ behaviour on the electricity consumption of households in Abu Dhabi (UAE), L. Giusti and M. Almoosawi
Workforce localization, information sharing, and the imperative of culture: A preliminary exploration of expatriate-Emirati information sharing in Dubai’s private sector, Valerie Priscilla Goby, Hamad Mohammed Ahmad Ali, Mohammed Ahmad Abdulwahed Lanjawi, and Khalil Ibrahim Mohammed Ahmad Al Haddad
MACROECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL REPORTING STANDARDS (IFRS) ADOPTION: EVIDENCE FROM THE MIDDLE EAST NORTH AFRICA (MENA) REGION, Allan Graham, Anup Menon Nandialath, Debra Skaradzinski, and Elzotkeb Rustambekov
Emerging media and press freedoms as determinants of nonviolent and violent political conflicts, 1990–2006, Jacob Groshek and Britt Christensen
Cost-sensitive elimination of mislabeled training data, Donghai Guan, Weiwei Yuan, Tinghuai Ma, Asad Masood Khattak, and Francis Chow
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
Revealing determinant factors for early breast cancer recurrence by decision tree, Jimin Guo, Benjamin C.M. Fung, Farkhund Iqbal, Peter J.K. Kuppen, Rob A.E.M. Tollenaar, Wilma E. Mesker, and Jean Jacques Lebrun
An Ontological Derivation of the Dynamic Conditionality for Environmental Performance Management, Vipin Gupta and Yi Zhang
Adapting selection strategies of executors of business processes based on profit and social qualities, Hakim Hacid, Emir Ugljanin, Mohamed Sellami, and Zakaria Maamar
Heterogeneity of Carbapenem Resistance Mechanisms among Gram-Negative Pathogens in Lebanon: Results of the First Cross-Sectional Countrywide Study, Dalal Hammoudi Halat, Carole Ayoub Moubareck, and Dolla Karam Sarkis
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
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
Mining Educational Data for Academic Accreditation: Aligning Assessment with Outcomes, Mohammed Hussain, Mohamed Al-Mourad, Sujith Mathew, and Abdullah Hussein
The AGE-RAGE axis in an Arab population: The United Arab Emirates Healthy Futures (UAEHFS) pilot study, Claire K. Inman, Abdullah Aljunaibi, Hyunwook Koh, Abdishakur Abdulle, Raghib Ali, Abdullah Alnaeemi, Eiman Al Zaabi, Naima Oumeziane, Marina Al Bastaki, Mohammed Al-Houqani, Fatma Al-Maskari, Ayesha Al Dhaheri, Syed M. Shah, Laila Abdel Wareth, Wael Al Mahmeed, Habiba Alsafar, Fatme Al Anouti, Ayesha Al Hosani, Muna Haji, Divya Galani, Matthew J. O'Connor, Jiyoung Ahn, Tomas Kirchhoff, Scott Sherman, Richard B. Hayes, Huilin Li, Ravichandran Ramasamy, and Ann Marie Schmidt
An application of ionic liquid for preparation of homogeneous collagen and alginate hydrogels for skin dressing, Bushra Iqbal, Nawshad Muhammad, Arshad Jamal, Pervaiz Ahmad, Zia Ul Haq Khan, Abdur Rahim, Amir Sada Khan, Girma Gonfa, Jibran Iqbal, and Ihtesham Ur Rehman
Simultaneous enrichment & on-line detection of low-concentration Copper, Cobalt, & Nickel Ions in Water by Near-Infrared diffuse reflectance spectroscopy combined with chemometrics, Jibran Iqbal, Yiping Du, Fares M. Howari, Mahmoud Bataineh, Nawshad Muhammad, and Abdur Rahim
Establishment and development of the intestinal microbiota of preterm infants in a Lebanese tertiary hospital, Tarek Itani, Carole Ayoub Moubareck, Imad Melki, Clotilde Rousseau, Irène Mangin, Marie José Butel, and Dolla Karam Sarkis
Cellulose‐based Materials for the Removal of Heavy Metals from Wastewater – An Overview, Anum Jamshaid, Almas Hamid, Nawshad Muhammad, Ayesha Naseer, Moinuddin Ghauri, Jibran Iqbal, Sikander Rafiq, and Noor Samad Shah
Reflections of Academic Experiences From Formerly Incarcerated African American Males, Adam R. Jeffers
Isms and schisms: A meta-analysis of the prejudice-discrimination relationship across racism, sexism, and ageism, Kristen P. Jones, Isaac E. Sabat, Eden B. King, Afra Ahmad, Tracy C. McCausland, and Tiffani Chen
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
Cognitive biases in investors’ behaviour under stress: Evidence from the London Stock Exchange, Spyridon Kariofyllas, Dionisis Philippas, and Costas Siriopoulos
The use of social media from revolution to democratic consolidation: The Arab Spring and the case of Tunisia, Magdalena Karolak
Book review: What our stories teach us: a guide to critical reflection for college faculty, Amir Kaviani
Vibrational spectroscopy of selective dental restorative materials, Abdul S. Khan, Hina Khalid, Zenab Sarfraz, Maria Khan, Jibran Iqbal, Nawshad Muhammad, Muhammad A. Fareed, and Ihtesham Ur Rehman
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
Aging study of the powdered magnetite nanoparticles, Umar Saeed Khan, Abdur Rahim, Nasrullah Khan, Nawshad Muhammad, Fozia Rehman, Khalid Ahmad, and Jibran Iqbal
Interventionist external agents make specific advice less demotivating, Jamel Khenfer, Kristin Laurin, Eric Tafani, Elyette Roux, and Aaron C. Kay
When God's (not) needed: Spotlight on how belief in divine control influences goal commitment, Jamel Khenfer, Elyette Roux, Eric Tafani, and Kristin Laurin
Globalization and inequality, Habibul Haque Khondker
Global Modernity and Environmentality, Habibul Haque Khondker
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
"Der Sozialismus Siegt": Women's ordinary lives in an East German factory, Susanne Kranz
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
The Influence of a Firms' Business Strategy on the Downside Risk of Earnings, Accruals and Cash Flow, Panagiotis Loukopoulos, Georgios Loukopoulos, Anastasios Evgenidis, and Costas Siriopoulos
Bridging the gap between the business and social worlds: A data artifact-driven approach, Zakaria Maamar, Vanilson Burégio, Mohamed Sellami, Nelson Souto Rosa, Zhengshuai Peng, Zachariah Subin, Nayana Prakash, Djamal Benslimane, and Roosevelt Silva
On business process monitoring using cross-flow coordination, Zakaria Maamar, Noura Faci, Mohamed Sellami, Khouloud Boukadi, Fadwa Yahya, Ahmed Barnawi, and Sherif Sakr
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
An investigation of gender and generational differences in attitudes toward the importance of a college degree in the UAE, Laura L. Matherly, Sheikha Shamma bint Sultan bin Khalifa Al Nahyan, and Nadia Amin
The impact of generation and socioeconomic status on the value of higher education in the UAE: A longitudinal study, Laura L. Matherly, Nadia Amin, and Shamma Sultan Khalifa Al Nahyan
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
On-Cloud Healthcare Clinic: An e-health consultancy approach for remote communities in a developing country, Shah J. Miah, Jahidul Hasan, and John G. Gammack
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
The escape motivation as a push and pull factor influencing Emiratis' travel behaviour, 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
Fundamentals of Geoenvironmental Engineering: Understanding Soil, Water, and Pollutant Interaction and Transport, Abdel Mohsen Onsy Mohamed and Evan K. Paleologos
The Effects of Utilizing Social Media Tools During Crisis from Public Relations Practitioners' Views in the UAE, Hamza Saad Mohamed
Project-Based Learning in Higher Education in the UAE: A Case Study of Arab Students in Emirati Studies, Noorah Mohammed
Assessing the effect of customer perceptions of corporate social responsibility on customer trust within a low cultural trust context, Claudel Mombeuil and Anestis K. Fotiadis
Use of remote sensing data in assessment land cover changes, land use patterns and land capabilities in AL-Qassim region, Saudi Arabia, Yousef Nazzal, Fares M. Howari, Habes Ghrefat, and H. A. Kishawy
New Lamps for Old: The Gulf Leadership Communication Framework, Catherine Nickerson and Valerie Priscilla Goby
Mobile or Not? Assessing the Instructional Value of Mobile Learning, Catherine Nickerson, Chrysi Rapanta, and Valerie Priscilla Goby
School-going teenage mothers and fathers: Gender, challenges and the negotiation of learner-parent roles, Thobeka Ntini and Vishanthie Sewpaul