Submissions from 2018
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
Mobile Technology and its Use among Media Students at Zayed University in Dubai, Najat AlSaied and Fokiya Akhtar
A Study on Foodborne Bacterial Cross-contamination During Fresh Chicken Preparation, Shamma Ebrahim AlZaabi and Munawwar Ali Khan
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
Liquidity networks in banking, Eda Orhun
Cellular and molecular targets of menthol actions, Murat Oz, Eslam G. El Nebrisi, Keun Hang S. Yang, Frank C. Howarth, and Lina T. Al Kury
Academic biliteracies: Multilingual repertoires in higher education, David M. Palfreyman and Christa Van Der Walt
Investigating physiological glucose excursions before, during, and after Ramadan in adults without diabetes mellitus, Maria Pallayova, Hadeel B. Zaghloul, Teresa Arora, Sopna M. Choudhury, Omar M. Omar, Odette L. Chagoury, and Shahrad Taheri
Celiac Disease or Gluten Sensitivity? A mini update review, Dimitrios Papandreou
Vitamin E effects on paediatric non-alcoholic fatty liver disease - Mini review, Dimitrios Papandreou
Obese Children with Metabolic Syndrome Have 3 Times Higher Risk to Have Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Compared with Those without Metabolic Syndrome, Dimitrios Papandreou, Mirey Karavetian, Zacharoula Karabouta, and Eleni Andreou
Fasting ghrelin levels are decreased in obese subjects and are significantly related with insulin resistance and body mass index, Dimitrios Papandreou, Christos Karavolias, Fotini Arvaniti, Eleana Kafeza, and Fatima Sidawi
A tree based broadcast scheme for (m, k)-firm real-time stream in wireless sensor networks, Ho Sung Park, Beom Su Kim, Kyong Hoon Kim, Babar Shah, and Ki Il Kim
Three-dimensional wireless ad hoc and sensor networks 2016, Soo Chang Park, Babar Shah, Euisin Lee, and Ki Il Kim
OS2: Oblivious similarity based searching for encrypted data outsourced to an untrusted domain, Zeeshan Pervez, Mahmood Ahmad, Asad Masood Khattak, Naeem Ramzan, and Wajahat Ali Khan
Book review: How to talk about hot topics on campus, James Piecowye
Generation Z consumers' expectations of interactions in smart retailing: A future agenda, Constantinos Vasilios Priporas, Nikolaos Stylos, and Anestis K. Fotiadis
Al-Aqsa Mosque and The Third Palestinian Intifada, Bashir Abul Qaraya
China-Gulf Economic Relationship under the “Belt and Road” Initiative, Xuming QIAN and Jonathan FULTON
Age of exposure, task stimulus, and type of second language knowledge, Muhammad Asif Qureshi
Asymptotic inference for non-supercritical partially observed branching processes, I. Rahimov
Statistical inference for partially observed branching processes with immigration, Ibrahim Rahimov
mlCAF: Multi-level cross-domain semantic context fusioning for behavior identification, Muhammad Asif Razzaq, Claudia Villalonga, Sungyoung Lee, Usman Akhtar, Maqbool Ali, Eun Soo Kim, Asad Masood Khattak, Hyonwoo Seung, Taeho Hur, Jaehun Bang, Dohyeong Kim, and Wajahat Ali Khan
Assessing students' foundation skills prior to the STEM majors, Anthony Rhodes, Maurice M. 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, Rana Rizk, Mickaël Hiligsmann, Mirey Karavetian, and Silvia M.A.A. Evers
Effect of stage-based education provided by dedicated dietitians on hyperphosphataemic haemodialysis patients: results from the Nutrition Education for Management of Osteodystrophy randomised controlled trial, R. Rizk, M. Karavetian, M. Hiligsmann, and S. M.A.A. Evers
Agents of Change: How Islamist Women Activists in Israel Are Challenging the Status Quo, Tilde Rosmer
Reach-scale river metabolism across contrasting sub-catchment geologies: Effect of light and hydrology, Lorenzo Rovelli, Karl M. Attard, Andrew Binley, Catherine M. Heppell, Henrik Stahl, Mark Trimmer, and Ronnie N. Glud
Protein-energy wasting and nutritional supplementation in patients with end-stage renal disease on hemodialysis, A. Sabatino, G. Regolisti, T. Karupaiah, S. Sahathevan, B. K. Sadu Singh, B. H. Khor, N. Salhab, M. Karavetian, A. Cupisti, and E. Fiaccadori
How prior knowledge of LGB identities alters the effects of workplace disclosure, Isaac E. Sabat, Alex P. Lindsey, Eden B. King, Afra S. Ahmad, Ashley Membere, and David F. Arena
Policy-relevant context of waterpipe tobacco smoking among university students in six countries across the Eastern Mediterranean region: A qualitative study, Ramzi G. Salloum, Niveen Abu-Rmeileh, Randah Hamadeh, Justin Thomas, Aya Mostafa, Afzalhussein Yusufali, Khalid A. Kheirallah, Mark M. Macauda, Ryan P. Theis, Lama El Kadi, Evan J. Johnson, Muhammad W. Darawad, and Rima Nakkash
Family Food Environment and Child Eating Behavior in a Private School of Abu Dhabi, Al Amoodi Sara Ahmed Abdulla Saeed
ICT, mathematics and critical thinking, Fayez Sayed
Examining the Effectiveness of a Learning Outcomes Assessment Program: a Four Frames Perspective, Kevin Schoepp and Burcu Tezcan-Unal
Teaching About Psychological Disorders: A Case for Using Discussion Boards in the Classroom, Mercedes Sheen, Maryam A. AlJassmi, and Timothy R. Jordan
Gender premium and economic downswings, Elona Shehu, Khurram Shahzad, Ghulame Rubbaniy, and Abida Perveen
How many sleep diary entries are needed to reliably estimate adolescent sleep?, Michelle A. Short, Teresa Arora, Michael Gradisar, Shahrad Taheri, and Mary A. Carskadon
Intercultural Communication With Arabs: Studies In Educational, Professional And Societal Contexts, Ginger Silvera
Social work education in the Arabian Gulf: Challenges and opportunities, Lacey M. Sloan, Nicole F. Bromfield, John Matthews, and Karen Smith Rotabi
Comparing The Effectiveness Of Processing Instruction And Production-Based Instruction On L2 Grammar Learning: The Role Of Explicit Information, Adem Soruc, Jingjing Qin, and YouJin Kim
Explicit integration of a generic Hénon-Heiles system with quartic potential, Nicola Sottocornola
North Africa: Implications for Information Creation and Access, Kristine N. Stewart and Heather Moulaison Sandy
Relationship Cultivation in Public Diplomacy: A Qualitative Study of Relational Antecedents and Cultivation Strategies, Leysan Khakimova Storie
The Advising Palaver Hut: Case Study in West African Higher Education, Jobila Williams Sy
Trends of Breastfeeding in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Zainab Taha
The Effect of Breakfast on Academic Performance among High School Students in Abu Dhabi, Zainab Taha and Ayesha S. Rashed
Dividend Yields and Stock Returns under a Tax-Free Environment, Kienpin Tee and Abiot Tessema
Characteristics of real backdaters, Kienpin Tee and Marilyn Wiley
Comment on “Late Cenozoic sea level and the rise of modern rimmed atolls” by Toomey et al. (2016), Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 451: 73–83, James P. Terry and James Goff
Past and potential tsunami sources in the South China Sea: A brief synthesis, James P. Terry, Nigel Winspear, James Goff, and P. H.Hannah Tan
The impact of Islamic accounting standards on information asymmetry: The case of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) member countries, Abiot Mindaye Tessema, Samy Garas, and Kienpin Tee
Ethnic identity and paranoid thinking: Implicit out-group preference and language dominance predict paranoia in Emirati women, Justin Thomas, Richard P. Bentall, Lowri Hadden, and Lily O'Hara
The rise of mindfulness and its resonance with the Islamic tradition, Justin Thomas, Steven W. Furber, and Ian Grey
Seasonal differences in thermal sensation in the outdoor urban environment of Mediterranean climates – the example of Athens, Greece, Areti Tseliou, Ioannis X. Tsiros, and Marialena Nikolopoulou
Implementation guidelines for green data centres, Abdallah Tubaishat and Sara Sumaidaa
Labour migrations to resource-rich countries: Comparative perspectives on migrants' rights in Canada, Norway and the United Arab Emirates, Marko Valenta, Zan Strabac, Jo Jakobsen, Jeffrey Reitz, and Mouawiya Al Awad
Translating reference expertise, Diane VanderPol and El Shaimaa Sakr
Challenges in technology transfer: an actor perspective in a quadruple helix environment, Constance Van Horne and Vincent Dutot
Stigma of Seeking Psychological Services: Examining College Students Across Ten Countries/Regions, David L. Vogel, Haley A. Strass, Patrick J. Heath, Fatima R. Al-Darmaki, Patrick I. Armstrong, Makilim N. Baptista, Rachel E. Brenner, Marta Gonçalves, Daniel G. Lannin, Hsin Ya Liao, Corey S. Mackenzie, Winnie W.S. Mak, Mark Rubin, Nursel Topkaya, Nathaniel G. Wade, Ying Fen Wang, and Alina Zlati
Contemporary Art and Migrant Identity “Construction” in the UAE and Qatar, Sarina Wakefield
Domains of public activity in touristic flamenco shows, Marta Wieczorek
Review of Health Literacy and Nutrition-Related Research in the Middle East, Ludmilla F. Wikkeling-Scott and R.V. Rikard
Dwelling discreetly: Undocumented migrants in Cape Town, James Williams
The efforts of dwelling: An introduction, James Williams
Communicating Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the Luxury Industry: Managing CSR–Luxury Paradox Online Through Acceptance Strategies of Coexistence and Convergence, Jia Yun Wong and Ganga S. Dhanesh
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) for ethical corporate identity management: Framing CSR as a tool for managing the CSR-luxury paradox online, Jia Yun Wong and Ganga Sasidharan Dhanesh
Natural radioactivity and groundwater quality assessment in the northern area of the Western Desert of Egypt, Mohamed Yehia, Ashraf Baghdady, Fares M. Howari, Samir Awad, and Ahmed Gad
Barriers to implementing green management in the hospitality industry, Shih Shuo Yeh, Anestis K. Fotiadis, Mei Ling Huang, and Tzung Cheng Huan
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
Association of beverage consumption with obesity in healthy adults, Sirine Maher Zahran
Exploring the use of social networking tools among Lebanese students, Rana Zein, Hani Lababidi, and Maysoun Dimashkieh
Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants, Bin Zhou, James Bentham, Mariachiara Di Cesare, Honor Bixby, Goodarz Danaei, Melanie J. Cowan, Christopher J. Paciorek, Gitanjali Singh, Kaveh Hajifathalian, James E. Bennett, Cristina Taddei, Ver Bilano, Rodrigo M. Carrillo-Larco, Shirin Djalalinia, Shahab Khatibzadeh, Charles Lugero, Niloofar Peykari, Wan Zhu Zhang, Yuan Lu, Gretchen A. Stevens, Leanne M. Riley, Pascal Bovet, Paul Elliott, Dongfeng Gu, Nayu Ikeda, Rod T. Jackson, Michel Joffres, Andre Pascal Kengne, Tiina Laatikainen, and Tai Hing Lam
Submissions from 2016
Building Mobile Brand Equity: The Mediating Roles of Perceived Values, Amjad A. Abu ELSamen
The Western Understanding to the Meaning of the Prophethood, Bashir AbulQaraya
Understanding cultural capital and habitus in Corporate Accounting: A postcolonial context, Dina Aburous
The Political Consequences of Ethnic Tension: Theory and Evidence, Kemal KKvann Akkz, K. Peren Arin, and Christina Zenker
Mental Health Beliefs Amongst Emirati Female College Students, Fatima Al-Darmaki, Justin Thomas, and Saad Yaaqeib
Bloom Filters Optimized Wu-Manber for Intrusion Detection, Monther Aldwairi, Koloud Al-Khamaiseh, Fatima Alharbi, and Babar Shah
Critical Success Factors to Improve the Game Development Process from a Developer’s Perspective, Saiqa Aleem, Luiz Fernando Capretz, and Faheem Ahmed
Game development software engineering process life cycle: a systematic review, Saiqa Aleem, Luiz Fernando Capretz, and Faheem Ahmed
Integrating Ethics Training into an Undergraduate Research Program: Applying the Triplex Model, Shurooq al Hashimi, Mercedes Sheen, Jessica Essary, and Majeda Humeidan
Interference aware real-time flows scheduling in cluster based wireless sensor networks, Gohar Ali, Kyong Hoon Kim, Ki Il Kim, and Monther Aldwairi
Cross Cultural Indicators of Independent Learning in Young Children: A Jordanian Case, Qais Almeqdad, Firas Al-Hamouri, Rafe'A A. Zghoul, Ayoub Al-Rousan, and David Whitebread
Auto-Configuration of ACL Policy in Case of Topology Change in Hybrid SDN, Rashid Amin, Nadir Shah, Babar Shah, and Omar Alfandi
Electrostatic potentials and average electron densities of bioisosteres in methylsquarate and acetic acid, Alya A. Arabi and Chérif F. Matta
Brutality or frequency? An empirical investigation of the effects of terrorism on economic growth in India, K. Peren Arin, Fabio Spagnolo, and Nicola Spagnolo
Consumer socialisation in a marketer-sponsored edutainment centre, Damien Arthur and Claire Eloise Sherman
Significant Predictors of e-Learning Readiness for Faculty and Students in a Public University in the UAE, Fida Atallah and Jase Moussa-Inaty
An improved privacy solution for the smart grid, Mohamad Badra and Sherali Zeadally
On the mineral characteristics and geochemistry of the Florida phosphate of Four Corners and Hardee County mines, Ashraf R. Baghdady, Fares M. Howari, and Mohamed I. Al-Wakeel
Home literacy as cultural transmission: Parent preferences for shared reading in the United Arab Emirates, Lydia Barza and Antje von Suchodoletz
Book Review: The scholarship of teaching and learning in and across the disciplines, Shashidhar Belbase
Endogenous, very small embryonic-like stem cells: Critical review, therapeutic potential and a look ahead, Deepa Bhartiya, Ambreen Shaikh, Sandhya Anand, Hiren Patel, Sona Kapoor, Kalpana Sriraman, Seema Parte, and Sreepoorna Unni
Germination response of Salsola schweinfurthii (Chenopodiaceae) to salinity and winged perianth removal, A. Bhatt, F. Pérez-García, M. Mercedes Carón, and D. Gallacher
Influence of aerial seed banks on germination response in three desert plant species, Arvind Bhatt, Prakash Chandra Phondani, Shyam S. Phartyal, Andrea Santo, and David Gallacher
Seed mucilage effect on water uptake and germination in five species from the hyper-arid Arabian desert, Arvind Bhatt, Andrea Santo, and David Gallacher
Development of a DSS and Online Tools to Support Sleep Disorder Consultations using Design Science., Jacqueline Blake, Don Kerr, and John Gammack
Streamlining patient consultations for sleep disorders with a knowledge-based CDSS, Jacqueline N. Blake, Don V. Kerr, and John G. Gammack
Assessment of online information literacy learning objects for first year community college english composition, Mara Bordignon, Alana Otis, Adele Georgievski, Jennifer Peters, Gail Strachan, Joy Muller, and Rana Tamin
Reconsidering the migrant letter: from the experience of migrants to the language of migrants, Marcelo J. Borges and Sonia Cancian
Technology-supported student interaction in post-secondary education: A meta-analysis of designed versus contextual treatments, Eugene Borokhovski, Robert M. Bernard, Rana M. Tamim, Richard F. Schmid, and Anna Sokolovskaya
Innovation and Insider Trading, Ibrahim Bostan
Social networks and information retrieval, how are they converging? A survey, a taxonomy and an analysis of social information retrieval approaches and platforms, Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek, Hakim Hacid, and Mokrane Bouzeghoub
PerSaDoR: Personalized social document representation for improving web search, Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek, Hakim Hacid, Mokrane Bouzeghoub, and Athena Vakali
Divorce from Arranged Marriages: An Exploration of Lived Experiences, Nicole F. Bromfield, Sanaa Ashour, and Kennon Rider
Vitamin D supplements: Magic pill or overkill?, Ronald B Brown, Fatme Al Anouti, and Mohammed S Razzaque
Revisiting Software Engineering in the Social Era, Vanilson Burégio, Ejub Kajan, Mohamed Sellami, Noura Faci, Zakaria Maamar, and Djamal Benslimane
Accruals and Real Earnings Management: Testing the Debt Covenant Hypothesis, Umar Butt, Trevor Chamberlain, and Sudipto Sarkar
Reconsidering the Yokohama “gold rush” of 1859, Simon James Bytheway and Martha Chaiklin
From montreal and venice with love: Migrant letters and romantic intimacy in Italian migration to postwar Canada, Sonia Cancian
‘If it is not too expensive, then you can send me sugar’: money matters among migrants and their families, Sonia Cancian and Simone A. Wegge
Structure of Moves in Research Article Abstracts in Applied Linguistics, Seden Can, Erkan Karabacak, and Jingjing Qin
Book review: Student writing in the quantitative disciplines: a guide for college faculty, Mark Causapin
Whistleblower Protection Laws in the Financial Markets: Lessons for Emerging Markets, Christian Chamorro-Courtland and Marc Cohen
Constructs for quality in on-line learning, Maurice M. Danaher
A new approach for assessing ABET's professional skills in computing, Maurice Danaher, Kevin Schoepp, and Ashley Ater Kranov
Assessing variations in foreign direct investments under international financial reporting standards (IFRS) adoption, macro-socioeconomic developments and credit ratings, Evangelos Daskalopoulos, Anastasios Evgenidis, Athanasios Tsagkanos, and Costas Siriopoulos
Teaching For Quality Learning At University, Christina (CJ) Davison
Picture This: Developing a Model for the Analysis of Visual Metadiscourse, Elizabeth De Groot, Catherine Nickerson, Hubert Korzilius, and Marinel Gerritsen
An exploration of linguistic Neo-Colonialism through educational language Policy-An Irish perspective, Anna Marie Dillon
The application of item response theory in developing and validating a shortened version of the Emirate Marital Satisfaction Scale, Hamzeh Dodeen and Fatima Al-Darmaki
Robustness of Firm-Specific and Macroeconomic Determinants of Exploration Investments: Implications from Egyptian Oil & Gas Industry, Tarek Eldomiaty, Ibrahim Safwat Lotfy, Mohamed Rashwan, and Mohamed Bahaa El Din
Change-point detection in the marginal distribution of a linear process, Farid El Ktaibi and B. Gail Ivanoff
Local Sustainable Development: Local Agenda 21 for Egypt and the Arab Countries, Suzanna El Massah
Undergraduate employability training and employment: A UAE study, Osama El-Temtamy, K. Kathleen O'Neill, and Sadiq Midraj
Assessing IT disaster recovery plans the case of publicly listed firms on Abu Dhabi/UAE security exchange, Osama El-Temtamy, Munir Majdalawieh, and Lela Pumphrey
Instructional videos as part of a 'flipped' approach in academic writing, Marion Engin and Senem Donanci
The Next Generation of Technology: Mobile Apps in the English Language Classroom, Jenny Eppard, Omaima Nasser, and Preeya Reddy
An explanation of spread’s ability to predict economic activity: A regime switching model, Anastasios Evgenidis and Costas Siriopoulos
Volatility spillovers between oil prices and the stock market under structural breaks, Bradley T. Ewing and Farooq Malik
China’s Growing Role in the Middle East, Jonathan Fulton
China's strong arm: protecting citizens and assets abroad. By Jonas Parello-Plesner and Mathieu Duchâtel, Jonathan Fulton
Drones to manage the urban environment: Risks, rewards, alternatives, David Gallacher
Macromorphology and recruitment of Prosopis cineraria in the United Arab Emirates, David J. Gallacher and All El-Keblawy
The role of proficiency, speaking habits and error-tolerance in the self-repair behaviour of Emirati EFL learners, Effrosyni S. Georgiadou
The risk in capital controls, Konstantinos Gkillas (Gillas), Athanasios Tsagkanos, and Costas Siriopoulos
Benthic Carbon Mineralization and Nutrient Turnover in a Scottish Sea Loch: An Integrative In Situ Study, Ronnie N. Glud, Peter Berg, Henrik Stahl, Andrew Hume, Morten Larsen, Bradley D. Eyre, and Perran L.M. Cook
Conceptualization of CSR Among Muslim Consumers in Dubai: Evolving from Philanthropy to Ethical and Economic Orientations, Valerie Priscilla Goby and Catherine Nickerson
Defining tsunamis: Yoda strikes back?, James Goff, Yuichi Ebina, Kazuhisa Goto, and James Terry
Anthropogenic disruption to the seismic driving of beach ridge formation: The Sendai coast, Japan, James Goff, Jasper Knight, Daisuke Sugawara, and James P. Terry
Tsunamigenic slope failures: the Pacific Islands ‘blind spot’?, James Goff and James P. Terry
An updated mini review of Vitamin D and obesity: Adipogenesis and inflammation state, Zujaja Tul Noor Hamid Mehmood and Dimitrios Papandreou
A cyber forensics needs analysis survey: Revisiting the domain's needs a decade later, Vikram S. Harichandran, Frank Breitinger, Ibrahim Baggili, and Andrew Marrington
Assessing knowledge of, and attitudes to, HIV/AIDS among university students in the United Arab Emirates, Dalia Haroun, Ola El Saleh, Lesley Wood, Rola Mechli, Nada Al Marzouqi, and Samir Anouti
"Islamic State" and the Transformation of Islamic Discourse in the Middle East, Hamdy A. Hassan
Help-Seeking Attitudes of United Arab Emirates Students, Patrick J. Heath, David L. Vogel, and Fatima R. Al-Darmaki
Metallogenic evolution of uranium deposits in the Middle East and North Africa deposits, Fares Howari, Philip Goodell, and Abdulaty Salman
Gravity investigations of recent sinkholes and karst pits of Dahal Al-Hamam, State of Qatar, Fares M. Howari, Raed Aldouri, and Abdulali Sadiq
Host adaptation and unexpected symbiont partners enable reef-building corals to tolerate extreme temperatures, Emily J. Howells, David Abrego, Eli Meyer, Nathan L. Kirk, and John A. Burt
Body-mass index adjustments to increase the validity of body fatness assessment in UK black African and South Asian children: a cross-sectional calibration study, Mohammed T Hudda, Claire M Nightingale, Angela S Donin, Mary S Fewtrell, Dalia Haroun, Sooky Lum, Jane E Williams, Christopher G Owen, Alicja R Rudnicka, Jonathan C K Wells, Derek G Cook, and Peter H Whincup
A glance of child’s play privacy in smart toys, Patrick C.K. Hung, Farkhund Iqbal, Shih Chia Huang, Mohammed Melaisi, and Kevin Pang
Metadiscursive strategies in dialogue: Legitimising confrontational rhetoric, Cornelia Ilie
Gender diversity of boardrooms and firm financial performance, Perihan Iren
The use of Google apps to support teaching and learning: A UAE case study, Fawzi Fayez Ishtaiwa-Dweikat and Ibtehal M. Aburezeq
Effects of spatial frequencies on word identification by fast and slow readers: Evidence from eye movements, Timothy R. Jordan, Jasmine Dixon, Victoria A. McGowan, Stoyan Kurtev, and Kevin B. Paterson
Fast and slow readers and the effectiveness of the spatial frequency content of text: Evidence from reading times and eye movements, Timothy R. Jordan, Jasmine Dixon, Victoria A. McGowan, Stoyan Kurtev, and Kevin B. Paterson
A further look at postview effects in reading: An eye-movements study of influences from the left of fixation, Timothy R. Jordan, Victoria A. McGowan, Stoyan Kurtev, and Kevin B. Paterson
Women in Middle-Eastern organisations: career experiences, opportunities and work-life balance, Nicolina Kamenou-Aigbekaen and Kathryn Thory
A survey on network simulators in three-dimensional wireless ad hoc and sensor networks, Seokyoon Kang, Monther Aldwairi, and Ki Il Kim
Associations of Apolipoprotein A, High-Sensitivity C-Reactive Protein and Fasting Plasma Insulin in Obese Children With and Without Family History of Cardiovascular Disease, Zacharoula Karabouta, Dimitrios Papandreou, Areti Makedou, Israel Rousso, and Fani Athanassiadou
Development and evaluation of continuing education course in renal nutrition, Mirey Karavetian and Rana Rizk
Book review: Undisciplining knowledge, Magdalena Karolak
Utilizing ERP System in Higher Education: A Case of a HEI in the UAE, Maitha Khalifa Alshaer
Wireless sensor network virtualization: A survey, Imran Khan, Fatna Belqasmi, Roch Glitho, Noel Crespi, Monique Morrow, and Paul Polakos
Microbial quality of treated wastewater used for irrigation of public parks in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Munawwar Khan and Rania Dghaim
Exploratory study into the awareness of heart diseases among Emirati women (UAE) and their health seeking behaviour- a qualitative study, Sarah Khan, Ayesha Khoory, Dhabia Al Zaffin, and Meera Al Suwaidi
Perspectives on cervical cancer screening in Muslim women of Dubai (UAE): A qualitative study, Sarah Khan and Gillian Woolhead
Towards a self adaptive system for social wellness, Asad Masood Khattak, Wajahat Ali Khan, Zeeshan Pervez, Farkhund Iqbal, and Sungyoung Lee
Privacy-preserving data mashup model for trading person-specific information, Rashid Hussain Khokhar, Benjamin C.M. Fung, Farkhund Iqbal, Dima Alhadidi, and Jamal Bentahar
Stock markets and effective exchange rates in European countries: threshold cointegration findings, Christos Kollias, Stephanos Papadamou, and Costas Siriopoulos
Understanding the history of extreme wave events in the Tuamotu Archipelago of French Polynesia from large carbonate boulders on Makemo Atoll, with implications for future threats in the central South Pacific, A. Y.Annie Lau, James P. Terry, Alan D. Ziegler, Adam D. Switzer, Yingsin Lee, and Samuel Etienne
An architecture for (m, k)-firm real-time streams in wireless sensor networks, Chung Jae Lee, Babar Shah, and Ki Il Kim
Network-based social coordination of business processes, Zakaria Maamar, Noura Faci, Sherif Sakr, Mohamed Boukhebouze, and Ahmed Barnawi
Relaciones padre-hijo en los emiratos árabes unidos (EAU), Joana Novaes Machado Stocker and Khairia Ghuloum Ali Mohamed Hassan Ali
Feeling culture: The emotional experience of six early childhood educators while teaching in a cross-cultural context, Samara Madrid, Nikki Baldwin, and Shashidhar Belbase
Accidental burns in children under five years of age: The gendered burden of care and socio-economic deprivation, Sharmilla Maharaj and Vishanthie Sewpaul
Towards an open source architecture for multi-operator LTE core networks, Ricardo Marco Alaez, Jose M. Alcaraz Calero, Fatna Belqasmi, May El-Barachi, Mohamad Badra, and Omar Alfandi
Learning Management Systems: A Shift Toward Learning and Academic Analytics, Adam Marks, Maytha AL-Ali, and Kees Rietsema
Assessing the Status of Housing Conditions for Workers of Farms in Liwa within the United Arab Emirates, Fatima Marzouq AlMehairbi
The effects of Culture on Emirati Tourist motivation and destination choice, Noela Michael, Charlotte Wien, and Depaa Kumar
Outsourcing in the Persian Gulf petroleum supply chain, Batoul Modarress, Al Ansari, and Emil Thies
The distribution of blow fly (Diptera: Calliphoridae) larval lengths and its implications for estimating post mortem intervals, Colin Moffatt, Viv Heaton, and Dorine De Haan
An Improved Equation for TBS and ADD: Establishing a Reliable Postmortem Interval Framework for Casework and Experimental Studies, Colin Moffatt, Tal Simmons, and Jeanne Lynch-Aird
Uses and Gratifications of Social Media in the Production of Political Information during the 2015 Egyptian Parliamentary Election, Hamza Saad Mohamed
Designing an Interactive Visualization to Explore Eye-movement Data, Jim Morey and John Gammack
English Language Learners' Cognitive Load and Conceptual Understanding of Probability Distributions after Using an Animated Simulation Program, Jase Moussa-Inaty and Mark Causapin
From Their Perspective: Parental Involvement In The UAE, Jase Moussa-Inaty and Esperanza De la Vega
A comparative study of information literacy provision at university libraries in South Africa and the United Arab Emirates: A literature review, Mathew Moyo and Judith Mavodza
Risk assessment through evaluation of potentially toxic metals in the surface soils of the Qassim area, Central Saudi Arabia, Yousef Nazzal, Fares M. Howari, Muhammad Kamran Jafri, Muhammad Naeem, and Habes Ghrefat
Evaluation of metals that are potentially toxic to agricultural surface soils, using statistical analysis, in northwestern Saudi Arabia, Yousef Nazzal, Faisal K. Zaidi, Bassam A. Abuamarah, Izrar Ahmed, Fares M. Howari, Muhammad Naeem, Nassir S.N. Al-Arifi, Muhammad Kamran Jafri, and Khaled M. Al-Kahtany
Archer, A., and Breuer, E.: Multimodality in Writing: The State of the Art in Theory, Methodology and Pedagogy, Edward Nichols
Book review: Erika Darics (ed.), Digital Business Discourse, Catherine Nickerson
From philanthropy to broader social engagement: Muslim consumers’ response to corporate social marketing strategies in Dubai, Catherine Nickerson and Valerie Priscilla Goby
Managing Trust in the Cloud: State of the Art and Research Challenges, Talal H. Noor, Quan Z. Sheng, Zakaria Maamar, and Sherali Zeadally
Weight-related teasing and internalized weight stigma predict abnormal eating attitudes and behaviours in Emirati female university students, Lily O'Hara, Sabrina Tahboub-Schulte, and Justin Thomas
Woman's Place In The Field Of Public Relations In Turkey: Perspectives Of Academics, Practitioners, And Representatives Of Professional Organizations On It, Burcu Oksuz and Serra Gorpe
Economic Crisis and Investor Behaviour, Tolga Omay and Perihan Iren
Message from the WSDF 2016 workshop organizers, Richard E. Overill, Virginia N.L. Franqueira, Andrew Marrington, and Andrew Jones
Impact of Vitamin D on cardiovascular disease-mini review, Dimitrios Papandreou
Relation of neck circumference with total body fat and BMI, Dimitrios Papandreou, Mark Causapin, Zujaja Tul-Noor, and Pavlos Malindretos
Are dietary intakes related to obesity in children?, Dimitrios Papandreou, Kali Makedou, Areti Zormpa, Maria Karampola, Anastasia Ioannou, and Areti Hitoglou-Makedou
SHOULD WE CARE ABOUT THE COMPOSITION OF TAX-BASED STIMULUS PACKAGES?, K. Peren Arin, Peter Harald Helles, Murat Koyuncu, and Otto F. M. Reich
Privacy-aware relevant data access with semantically enriched search queries for untrusted cloud storage services, Zeeshan Pervez, Mahmood Ahmad, Asad Masood Khattak, Sungyoung Lee, and Tae Choong Chung
Stopover destination image - Using the Repertory Test to identify salient attributes, Steven Pike and Filareti Kotsi
Leader-member exchange: Moderating the health and safety outcomes of job insecurity, Tahira M. Probst, Lixin Jiang, and Maja Graso
A meta-analysis: Age and second language grammar acquisition, Muhammad Asif Qureshi
Estimation of the offspring mean in a branching process with non stationary immigration, I. Rahimov
Stream turbidity responses to storm events in a pristine rainforest watershed on the Coral Coast of southern Fiji, Arishma R. Ram and James P. Terry
Supporting Emirati females leadership skills through teaching them how to debate: Design, assessment, and considerations, Chrysi Rapanta and Dany Badran
Diabetes education program for people with type 2 diabetes: An international perspective, Osama A. Rashed, Haleama Al Sabbah, Mustafa Z. Younis, Adnan Kisa, and Jai Parkash
Measuring attainment of foundation skills in general education at a public university in the United Arab Emirates, Anthony Rhodes, Maurice M. Danaher, Ashley Ater Kranov, and Lisa Isaacson
Governance and Reporting in a Complex Global Environment, Claire Richards, Mary Ann Reynolds, and Jesse Dillard
Economic evaluations of interventions to manage hyperphosphataemia in adult haemodialysis patients: A systematic review, Rana Rizk, Mickaël Hiligsmann, Mirey Karavetian, and Silvia Maa Evers
A societal cost-of-illness study of hemodialysis in Lebanon, Rana Rizk, Mickaël Hiligsmann, Mirey Karavetian, Pascale Salameh, and Silvia M.A.A. Evers
Effective Use of Business Simulation Games in International Business Courses, Tim Rogmans
A framework for evaluating sustainability indicators in the real estate industry, Tim Rogmans and Mohammad Ghunaim
Book review: Increasing student engagement and retention using classroom technologies: classroom response systems and mediated discourse technologies, David Sanford Ramsey
A fuzzy-based credibility model to assess Web services trust under uncertainty, Zohra Saoud, Noura Faci, Zakaria Maamar, and Djamal Benslimane
Effects of Energetic Solar Emissions on the Earth–Ionosphere Cavity of Schumann Resonances, Gabriella Sátori, Earle Williams, Colin Price, Robert Boldi, Alexander Koloskov, Yuri Yampolski, Anirban Guha, and Veronika Barta
Meta-Assessment: Assessing the Learning Outcomes Assessment Program, Kevin Schoepp and Scott Benson
An innovative approach to assessing professional skills learning outcomes: a UAE pilot study, Kevin Schoepp and Maurice Danaher
IELTS and academic success in higher education: A UAE perspective, Kevin Schoepp and Dawn Garinger
Supporting Sensemaking of Complex Objects with Visualizations: Visibility and Complementarity of Interactions, Kamran Sedig, Paul Parsons, Hai-Ning Liang, and Jim Morey
The West and the Rest Divide: Human Rights, Culture and Social Work, Vishanthie Sewpaul
Managing and Leading a Diverse Workforce: One of the Main Challenges in Management, Aya Shaban