Submissions from 2021
Economics of capital adjustment in the US commercial banks: empirical analysis, Faisal Abbas, Shoaib Ali, and Ghulame Rubbaniy
Vitamin D, VDR, and probiotics in health and disease, Myriam Abboud
Vitamin D status and blood pressure in children and adolescents: a systematic review of observational studies, Myriam Abboud, Fatme Al Anouti, Dimitrios Papandreou, Rana Rizk, Nadine Mahboub, and Suzan Haidar
Board gender diversity, power, and bank risk taking, Heba Abou-El-Sood
Exploring the effectiveness of total quality management in accounting education: the case of Egypt, Heba Abou-El-Sood and Waleed Ghoniem
Vector arithmetic in the triangular grid, Khaled Abuhmaidan, Monther Aldwairi, and Benedek Nagy
Drone-Based Cattle Detection Using Deep Neural Networks, R. Y. Aburasain, E. A. Edirisinghe, and Ali Albatay
Optimal Clustering in Wireless Sensor Networks for the Internet of Things Based on Memetic Algorithm: MemeWSN, Masood Ahmad, Babar Shah, Abrar Ullah, Fernando Moreira, Omar Alfandi, Gohar Ali, and Abdul Hameed
Single-step synthesis of magnesium-iron borates composite; an efficient electrocatalyst for dopamine detection, Pervaiz Ahmad, Muhammad Inam Khan, Mahmood Hassan Akhtar, Ghulam Muhammad, Jibran Iqbal, Abdur Rahim, and Nawshad Muhammad
Quantitative Estimation of Biocapped Surface Chemistry Driven Interparticle Interactions and Growth Kinetics of Gold Nanoparticles, Tausif Ahmad, Mohamad Azmi Bustam, Humbul Suleman, Muhammad Irfan, Jibran Iqbal, and Hafiz Muhammad Anwaar Asghar
A critical review on phytosynthesis of gold nanoparticles: Issues, challenges and future perspectives, Tausif Ahmad, Jibran Iqbal, Mohamad Azmi Bustam, Muhammad Irfan, and Hafiz Muhammad Anwaar Asghar
Niching grey wolf optimizer for multimodal optimization problems, Rasel Ahmed, Amril Nazir, Shuhaimi Mahadzir, Mohammad Shorfuzzaman, and Jahedul Islam
WhatsApp Network Forensics: Discovering the IP Addresses of Suspects, Waqas Ahmed, Faisal Shahzad, Abdul Rehman Javed, Farkhund Iqbal, and Liaqat Ali
Accelerometer measured physical activity patterns of children during segmented school day in Abu Dhabi, Rahma Ajja, Ludmilla F. Wikkeling-Scott, Keith Brazendale, Rafiq Hijazi, and Abdishakur Abdulle
Modelling customers credit card behaviour using bidirectional LSTM neural networks, Maher Ala’raj, Maysam F. Abbod, and Munir Majdalawieh
Modeling and forecasting of COVID-19 using a hybrid dynamic model based on SEIRD with ARIMA corrections, Maher Ala'raj, Munir Majdalawieh, and Nishara Nizamuddin
Impact of COVID-19 on mental health and quality of life: Is there any effect? A crosssectional study of the MENA region, Ayesha S. Al Dhaheri, Mo'Ath F. Bataineh, Maysm N. Mohamad, Abir Ajab, Amina Al Marzouqi, Amjad H. Jarrar, Carla Habib-Mourad, Dima O.Abu Jamous, Habiba I. Ali, Haleama Al Sabbah, Hayder Hasan, Lily Stojanovska, Mona Hashim, Osama A.Abd Elhameed, Reyad R.Shaker Obaid, Samar ElFeky, Sheima T. Saleh, Tareq M. Osaili, and Leila Cheikh Ismail
Maternal investment, life-history trajectory of the off-spring and cardiovascular disease risk in Emirati females in the United Arab Emirates, Rola Al Ghali, Linda Smail, Maryam Muqbel, and Dalia Haroun
Examining the use of Robots as Teacher Assistants in Uae Classrooms: Teacher and Student Perspectives, Mariam Alhashmi, Omar Mubin, and Rama Baroud
Customer perceived value through quality augmented reality experiences in retail: The mediating effect of customer attitudes, Saifeddin Alimamy and Samer Al-Imamy
The Impact of Co-Creating Through AR in Retail Stores on Purchase Intentions: The Mediating Role of Customer Trust and Risk, Saifeddin Alimamy, Juergen Gnoth, and Kenneth Richard Deans
On computing linearizing coordinates from the symmetry algebra, Sajid Ali, Hassan Azad, Said Waqas Shah, and Fazal M. Mahomed
Quaternion Codes in MIMO System of Dual-Polarized Antennas, Sajid Ali, Sara Shakil Qureshi, and Syed Ali Hassan
Immunomodulatory and anticancer activities of hyacinthus orientalis l.: An in vitro and in vivo study, Lina T. Al Kury, Zainab Taha, and Wamidh H. Talib
User acceptance of smart watch for medical purposes: An empirical study, Rana Saeed Al-Maroof, Khadija Alhumaid, Ahmad Qasim Alhamad, Ahmad Aburayya, and Said Salloum
A microservices persistence technique for cloud-based online social data analysis, Feras Al-Obeidat, Anoud Bani-Hani, Oluwasegun Adedugbe, Munir Majdalawieh, and Elhadj Benkhelifa
Parallel tensor factorization for relational learning, Feras Al-Obeidat, Álvaro Rocha, Muhammad Shahrose Khan, Fahad Maqbool, and Saad Razzaq
Design Guidelines for Blockchain-Assisted 5G-UAV Networks, Moayad Aloqaily, Ouns Bouachir, Azzedine Boukerche, and Ismaeel Al Ridhawi
Towards refining WCRF/AICR cancer prevention recommendations for red and processed meat intake: Insights from Alberta's Tomorrow Project cohort, Ala Al Rajabi, Geraldine Lo Siou, Alianu K. Akawung, Kathryn L. McDonald, Tiffany R. Price, Grace Shen-Tu, Paula J. Robson, Paul J. Veugelers, and Katerina Maximova
Drone Forensics: A Case Study of Digital Forensic Investigations Conducted on Common Drone Models, Khalifa Al-Room, Farkhund Iqbal, Thar Baker, Babar Shah, Benjamin Yankson, Aine MacDermott, and Patrick C.K. Hung
COVID-19 disease severity and death in relation to vitamin D status among SARS-CoV-2-positive UAE residents, Habiba Alsafar, William B. Grant, Rafiq Hijazi, Maimunah Uddin, Nawal Alkaabi, Guan Tay, Bassam Mahboub, and Fatme Al Anouti
Media students using mobile phones in the Arabian Gulf to improve English writing and video production skills, Najat AlSaied and Fokiya Akhtar
P2P islamic investments using blockchain, smart contract and E-negotiation, Hasan Al-Sakran and Ons Al-Shamaileh
The Acceptance of Social Media Sites: An Empirical Study Using PLS-SEM and ML Approaches, Sawsan Al-Skaf, Enaam Youssef, Mohammed Habes, Khadija Alhumaid, and Said A. Salloum
Contamination assessment of heavy metals in agricultural soil, in the liwa area (UAE), Ahmed A. Al-Taani, Yousef Nazzal, Fares M. Howari, Jibran Iqbal, Nadine Bou Orm, Cijo Madathil Xavier, Alina Bărbulescu, Manish Sharma, and Cristian Stefan Dumitriu
Labour-friendly practices and value maximization: a SEM approach, Tareq Na’el Al-Tawil, Venugopal Prabhakar Gantasala, and Hassan Younies
Multiomic analysis of the Arabian camel (Camelus dromedarius) kidney reveals a role for cholesterol in water conservation, Fernando Alvira-Iraizoz, Benjamin T. Gillard, Panjiao Lin, Alex Paterson, Audrys G. Pauža, Mahmoud A. Ali, Ammar H. Alabsi, Pamela A. Burger, Naserddine Hamadi, Abdu Adem, David Murphy, and Michael P. Greenwood
Enhancing recommendation systems performance using highly-effective similarity measures, Ali A. Amer, Hassan I. Abdalla, and Loc Nguyen
Law, mobile money drivers and mobile money innovations in developing countries, Simplice A. Asongu, Peter Agyemang-Mintah, and Rexon T. Nting
Detection of OXA-23, GES-11 and NDM-1 among carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in Dubai: A preliminary study, Carole Ayoub Moubareck, Dalal Hammoudi Halat, Anju Nabi, Mouza A. AlSharhan, Zulfa O. AlDeesi, Aaron Han, Handan Celiloglu, and Dolla Karam Sarkis
Being ignored by loved ones: Understanding when and why family ostracism inhibits creativity at work, Mayowa T. Babalola, Ho Kwong Kwan, Shuang Ren, Peter Agyemang‐Mintah, Haixiao Chen, and Jinsong Li
Semantic eSystems: Engineering methods, techniques, and tools, Thar Baker, Dhiya Al‐Jumeily, Zakaria Maamar, and Zahir Tari
Crude Oil futures contracts and commodity markets: New evidence from a TVP-VAR extended joint connectedness approach, Mehmet Balcilar, David Gabauer, and Zaghum Umar
Data-fusion for epidemiological analysis of covid-19 variants in UAE, Anoud Bani-Hani, Anaïs Lavorel, and Newel Bessadet
Characterizing individuals accessing mental health services in the UAE: a focus on youth living in Dubai, Mariapaola Barbato, Shaikha Al Hemeiri, Shorouk Nafie, Baraa A. Dhuhair, and Nadia T. Dabbagh
Looking within: Interoceptive sensibility in young adults with psychotic-like experiences, Mariapaola Barbato, Teresa Arora, Shaikha Al Hemeiri, and Maryam A. AlJassmi
In this together: Psychological wellbeing of foreign workers in the United Arab Emirates during the COVID-19 pandemic, Mariapaola Barbato and Justin Thomas
One pot preparation of CeO2@Alginate composite beads for the catalytic reduction of MB dye: Effect of cerium percentage, Fadila Benali, Bouhadjar Boukoussa, Issam Ismail, Mohammed Hachemaoui, Jibran Iqbal, Inas Taha, Zakaria Cherifi, and Adel Mokhtar
A new family of bivariate exponential distributions with negative dependence based on counter-monotonic shock method, Rachid Bentoumi, Farid El Ktaibi, and Mhamed Mesfioui
A Survey on Blockchain for Information Systems Management and Security, David Berdik, Safa Otoum, Nikolas Schmidt, Dylan Porter, and Yaser Jararweh
A comprehensive review on medical diagnosis using machine learning, Kaustubh Arun Bhavsar, Ahed Abugabah, Jimmy Singla, Ahmad Ali AlZubi, Ali Kashif Bashir, and Nikita
Periphery fandom: Contrasting fans’ productive experiences across the globe, Vlada Botorić
Design of hybrid pah nanoadsorbents by surface functionalization of zro2 nanoparticles with phosphonic acids, Nadine Bou Orm, Thomas Gréa, Marwa Hamandi, Alexandre Lambert, Florent Lafay, Emmanuelle Vulliet, and Stéphane Daniele
Convolutional Neural Network Based Vehicle Classification in Adverse Illuminous Conditions for Intelligent Transportation Systems, Muhammad Atif Butt, Asad Masood Khattak, Sarmad Shafique, Bashir Hayat, Saima Abid, Ki Il Kim, Muhammad Waqas Ayub, Ahthasham Sajid, and Awais Adnan
Autobiographical meaning making protects the sense of self-continuity past forced migration, Christin Camia and Rida Zafar
CSR initiatives, organizational performance and the mediating role of integrating CSR into management control systems: Testing an inclusive model within SMEs in an emerging economy, Walid Cheffi, Ahmed Abdel-Maksoud, and Muhammad Omer Farooq
Corporate social responsibility antecedents and practices as a path to enhance organizational performance: The case of small and medium sized enterprises in an emerging economy country, Walid Cheffi, Chrisovalantis Malesios, Ahmed Abdel-Maksoud, Sonia Abdennadher, and Prasanta Dey
Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19) Lockdown on Mental Health and Well-Being in the United Arab Emirates, Leila Cheikh Ismail, Maysm N. Mohamad, Mo'ath F. Bataineh, Abir Ajab, Amina M. Al-Marzouqi, Amjad H. Jarrar, Dima O. Abu Jamous, Habiba I. Ali, Haleama Al Sabbah, Hayder Hasan, Lily Stojanovska, Mona Hashim, Reyad R. Shaker Obaid, Sheima T. Saleh, Tareq M. Osaili, and Ayesha S. Al Dhaheri
A comparative study of academic literacy in English medium instruction programs in UAE and Finland, Geraldine Chell, Mirjamaija Mikkilä-Erdmann, Tuike Iiskala, and Anna Dillon
Variational Autoencoders and Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Networks for Improving the Anti-Money Laundering Process, ZhiYuan Chen, Waleed Soliman, Amril Nazir, and Mohammad Shorfuzzaman
Reporting Conflict from Afar: Journalists, Social Media, Communication Technologies, and War, Britt Christensen and Ali Khalil
Linking posttraumatic stress disorder with eating disorders among Emirati university female students: The role of self-concealment, Man Cheung Chung, Zilan Ye, Na Wang, and Justin Thomas
Sense of effort is distorted in people with chronic low back pain, Michel W. Coppieters, Jesper Andersen, Håvard Selbæk, Kjell Herland, Rahma Ajja, Harald Markussen, and Paul W. Hodges
Pluriversal Politics: The Real and the Possible. Arturo Escobar (Durham: Duke University Press, 2020), Alexandra Cotofana
Dunning-Kruger Effect: Intuitive Errors Predict Overconfidence on the Cognitive Reflection Test, Mariana V. C. Coutinho, Justin Thomas, Alia S. M. Alsuwaidi, and Justin J. Couchman
Psychometric Properties of the Brazilian Version of the Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire for Healthy Women (IPQ-RH), Rebeca Veras de Andrade Vieira, Juliana Burges Sbicigo, Maria Júlia Armiliato, Elisa Kern de Castro, and Maria João Figueiras
Visual communication and public relations: Visual frame building strategies in war and conflict stories, Ganga S. Dhanesh and Nadia Rahman
Determinants of dental caries in children in the Middle East and North Africa region: a systematic review based on literature published from 2000 to 2019, Amal Elamin, Malin Garemo, and Anzelle Mulder
Integrated mixing machine for sulfur concrete production, Maisa El Gamal, Khaled El-Sawy, and Abdel-Mohsen O. Mohamed
Smart Dynamic Traffic Monitoring and Enforcement System, Youssef El-Hansali, Fatma Outay, Ansar Yasar, Siham Farrag, Muhammad Shoaib, Muhammad Imran, and Hammad Hussain Awan
Network centrality, connections, and social capital: Evidence from CEO insider trading gains, Rwan El‐Khatib, Dobrina Jandik, and Tomas Jandik
Framing the role of higher education in sustainable development: a case study analysis, Suzanna Elmassah, Marwa Biltagy, and Doaa Gamal
Islamic labeled firms: Revisiting Dow Jones measure of compliance, Ahmed Elnahas, Ghada Ismail, Rwan El‐Khatib, and M. Kabir Hassan
Teaching and assessing creativity in STEAM education, Areej ElSayary
Transforming preservice teachers' learning in online courses: A framework of instructional design, Areej Elsayary
Using a Reflective Practice Model to Teach STEM Education in a Blended Learning Environment, Areej ElSayary
Expatriate faculty and student perspectives on teaching and learning in a United Arab Emirates university, Jenny Eppard, Fatima Bailey, Kara McKeown, and Herveen Singh
Integrating Flipped Learning into an English Pre-Sessional Class at a Public University in the UAE: Reports from an SLL University Classroom, Jenny Eppard, Marlieke Gerdie Danique Rodjan-Helder, Sandra Baroudi, and Preeya Reddy
Lens on International Clinical Supervision: Lessons Learned from a Cross-National Comparison of Supervision, Carol Falender, Rodney Goodyear, Changming Duan, Fatima Al-Darmaki, Keeyeon Bang, Ayşe Çiftçi, Verónica Ruiz González, Maria del Pilar Grazioso, Majeda Humeidan, Xiaoming Jia, D. Yelda Kağnıcı, and Susan Partridge
A review on the integration of deep learning and service-oriented architecture, Marcelo Fantinato, Sarajane Marques Peres, Eleanna Kafeza, Dickson K.W. Chiu, and Patrick C.K. Hung
The Dark Side of Social Media Engagement: An Analysis of User-Generated Content in Online Wildlife Trade Communities, Kim Feddema, Paul Harrigan, and Shasha Wang
Re-evaluating the notion of value in wildlife trade research from a service marketing perspective, Kim Feddema, K. A.I. Nekaris, Vincent Nijman, and Paul Harrigan
Novel coronavirus and tourism: coping, recovery, and regeneration issues, Anestis K. Fotiadis, Arch G. Woodside, Giacomo Del Chiappa, Hugues Séraphin, and Henning Otte Hansen
The good, the bad and the ugly on COVID-19 tourism recovery, Anestis Fotiadis, Stathis Polyzos, and Tzung Cheng T.C. Huan
Quality of learning experience, student satisfaction and perceived overall experience in the COVID-19 context, Venugopal Prabhakar Gantasala, Swapna Bhargavi Gantasala, Tareq Na'el Al Tawil, and Prerana Prasad
A Coarse-to-Fine Facial Landmark Detection Method Based on Self-attention Mechanism, Pengcheng Gao, Ke Lu, Jian Xue, Ling Shao, and Jiayi Lyu
Marketing strategies in communicating CSR in the Muslim market of the United Arab Emirates: insights from the banking sector, Effrosyni Georgiadou and Catherine Nickerson
The effect of green human resource management on environmental performance: The mediating role of employee eco-friendly behavior, Atif Ali Gill, Balqees Ahmad, and Shiza Kazmi
Editorial, Christina Gitsaki
Uncertainty due to infectious diseases and stock–bond correlation, Konstantinos Gkillas, Christoforos Konstantatos, and Costas Siriopoulos
“Simple rules” as an approach to corporate selection of CSR strategies, Valerie Priscilla Goby and Gulnara Z. Karimova
Q-learning based routing protocol for congestion avoidance, Daniel Godfrey, Beom Su Kim, Haoran Miao, Babar Shah, Bashir Hayat, Imran Khan, Tae Eung Sung, and Ki Il Kim
Comparative biogeography and the evolution of population structure for bottlenose and common dolphins in the Indian Ocean, Howard W.I. Gray, Ing Chen, André E. Moura, Ada Natoli, Shin Nishida, Shinsuke Tanabe, Gianna Minton, Louisa S. Ponnampalam, Muhammad S. Kiani, Ross Culloch, Mauvis Gore, Anna Särnblad, Omar Amir, Per Berggren, Tim Collins, Andrew J. Willson, Robert Baldwin, and A. Rus Hoelzel
Brominated flame retardants extraction from waste electrical and electronic equipment-derived ABS using supercritical carbon dioxide, Layla Gripon, Imane Belyamani, Benoît Legros, Karine Seaudeau-Pirouley, Eric Lafranche, and Laurent Cauret
A novel route for catalytic activation of peroxymonosulfate by oxygen vacancies improved bismuth-doped titania for the removal of recalcitrant organic contaminant, Ikhtiar Gul, Murtaza Sayed, and Noor S. Shah
Religiosity, borrower gender and loan losses in microfinance institutions: a global evidence, Ernest Gyapong, Daniel Gyimah, and Ammad Ahmed
Managerial entrenchment and payout policy: A catering effect, Daniel Gyimah and Ernest Gyapong
CuNPs-loaded amines-functionalized-SBA-15 as effective catalysts for catalytic reduction of cationic and anionic dyes, Mohammed Hachemaoui, Bouhadjar Boukoussa, Issam Ismail, Adel Mokhtar, Inas Taha, Jibran Iqbal, Salih Hacini, Abdelkader Bengueddach, and Rachida Hamacha
M (M: Cu, Co, Cr or Fe) nanoparticles-loaded metal-organic framework MIL-101(Cr) material by sonication process: Catalytic activity and antibacterial properties, Mohammed Hachemaoui, Adel Mokhtar, Issam Ismail, Mohamed Walid Mohamedi, Jibran Iqbal, Inas Taha, Farid Bennabi, Farouk Zaoui, Abdelkader Bengueddach, Rachida Hamacha, and Bouhadjar Boukoussa
Escape words: From solitary confinement to female solidarity in lena constante’s post-communist prison memoirs, Szidonia Haragos