Submissions from 2021
Elucidating the effect of information technology capabilities on organizational performance in UAE: a three-wave moderated-mediation model, Haseena Bader Alkatheeri, Fauzia Jabeen, Khalid Mehmood, and Gabriele Santoro
Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Inhibit TRPC4-Mediated Muscarinic Cation Current in Mouse Ileal Myocytes, Lina T. Al Kury, Dimitrios Papandreou, Vasyl V. Hurmach, Dariia O. Dryn, Mariia I. Melnyk, Maxim O. Platonov, Yuriy I. Prylutskyy, Uwe Ritter, Peter Scharff, and Alexander V. Zholos
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
The acceptance of social media video for knowledge acquisition, sharing and application: A comparative study among YouYube users and TikTok users’ for medical purposes, Rana Al-Maroof, Kevin Ayoubi, Khadija Alhumaid, Ahmad Aburayya, Muhammad Alshurideh, Raghad Alfaisal, and Said Salloum
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
The effectiveness of online platforms after the pandemic: Will face-to-face classes affect students’ perception of their behavioural intention (BIU) to use online platforms?, Rana Saeed Al-Maroof, Noha Alnazzawi, Iman A. Akour, Kevin Ayoubi, Khadija Alhumaid, Nafla Mahdi Alahbabi, Maryam Alnnaimi, Sarah Thabit, Raghad Alfaisal, Ahmad Aburayya, and Said Salloum
IoT Protocols – MQTT versus CoAP, Alyaziya Almheiri and Zakaria Maamar
Digital wellbeing tools through users lens, Mohamed Basel Almourad, Amen Alrobai, Tiffany Skinner, Mohammed Hussain, and Raian Ali
A microservices persistence technique for cloud-based online social data analysis, Feras Al-Obeidat, Anoud Bani-Hani, Oluwasegun Adedugbe, Munir Majdalawieh, and Elhadj Benkhelifa
(CDRGI)-Cancer detection through relevant genes identification, Feras Al-Obeidat, Álvaro Rocha, Maryam Akram, Saad Razzaq, and Fahad Maqbool
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
SynergyGrids: blockchain-supported distributed microgrid energy trading, Moayad Aloqaily, Ouns Bouachir, Öznur Özkasap, and Faizan Safdar Ali
An Adaptive UAV Positioning Model for Sustainable Smart Transportation, Moayad Aloqaily, Ouns Bouachir, Ismaeel Al Ridhawi, and Anthony Tzes
Hybrid feature selection approach to identify optimal features of profile metadata to detect social bots in Twitter, Eiman Alothali, Kadhim Hayawi, and Hany Alashwal
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
SpeculoLab: A Protocol and a Tool for Identity Deception Experimentation in Social Networks, Noora Al Roken, Maryam Al Abdooli, Sumaya Khoory, and Hakim Hacid
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
Some Socio-demographic Usage Patterns in Ephemeral Content Sharing Social Networks: The Case of Snapchat, Ons Al-Shamaileh, Anas Aloudat, Amal Alrayes, and Hakim Hacid
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
Files cryptography based on one-time pad algorithm, Ahmad Mohamad Al-Smadi, Ahmad Al-Smadi, Roba Mahmoud Ali Aloglah, Nisrein Abu-darwish, and Ahed Abugabah
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
Carveol Attenuates Seizure Severity and Neuroinflammation in Pentylenetetrazole-Kindled Epileptic Rats by Regulating the Nrf2 Signaling Pathway, Arooj Mohsin Alvi, Lina Tariq Al Kury, Abdullah Alattar, Ikram Ullah, Asmaa Jan Muhammad, Reem Alshaman, Fawad Ali Shah, Arif Ullah Khan, Jinxing Feng, and Shupeng Li
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
An efficient scheme for interference mitigation in 6G-IoT wireless networks, Fahd N. Al-Wesabi, Imran Khan, Nadhem Nemri, Mohammed A. Al-Hagery, Huda G. Iskander, Quang Ngoc Nguyen, Babar Shah, and Ki Il Kim
DL Multi-sensor information fusion service selective information scheme for improving the Internet of Things based user responses, Ahmad A. AlZubi, Ahed Abugabah, Mohammed Al-Maitah, and Firas Ibrahim AlZobi
Enhancing recommendation systems performance using highly-effective similarity measures, Ali A. Amer, Hassan I. Abdalla, and Loc Nguyen
Inflection Points, Kinks, and Jumps: A Statistical Approach to Detecting Nonlinearities, Peren Arin, Maria Minniti, Samuele Murtinu, and Nicola Spagnolo
A mysterious sensation about sleep and health: the role of interoception, Teresa Arora, Mariapaola Barbato, Shaikha Al Hemeiri, Omar M. Omar, and Maryam A. AlJassmi
Effective Cross-cultural Advertising: Moderating Roles of Ethnic Identity and Religiosity in Pitching Controversial Vs. Non-controversial Products to Diasporic Communities, Mian Asim, Azmat Rasul, and Donghee Shin
Law, mobile money drivers and mobile money innovations in developing countries, Simplice A. Asongu, Peter Agyemang-Mintah, and Rexon T. Nting
Towards a personalized recommendation model in location-based social networks, Reem Atassi, Ons Al-Shamaileh, and Hakim Hacid
Human milk microbiota and oligosaccharides: A glimpse into benefits, diversity and correlations, Carole Ayoub Moubareck
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
Societal trust and Sukuk activity, Saqib Aziz, Dawood Ashraf, and Rwan El-Khatib
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
Privacy-Preserving and Efficient Aggregation for Smart Grid based on Blockchain, Mohamad Badra and Rouba Borghol
Changing the narrative on COVID-19: Shifting mindsets and teaching practices in higher education, Fatima Bailey, Amir Kavani, Jason D. Johnson, Jenny Eppard, and Hasan Johnson
Polygyny in Islam: a call for retrospection, Man Baker
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
ENROUTE: An Entropy Aware Routing Scheme for Information-Centric Networks (ICN), Bitan Banerjee, Sibendu Paul, Omar Alfandi, Arnab Raha, and Amitava Mukherjee
Situational ethnicity and identity negotiation: “indifference” as an identity negotiation mechanism, Madhumita Banerjee, Paurav Shukla, and Nicholas J. Ashill
Fandet Semantic Model: An OWL Ontology for Context-Based Fake News Detection on Social Media, Anoud Bani-Hani, Oluwasegun Adedugbe, Elhadj Benkhelifa, and Munir Majdalawieh
Data-fusion for epidemiological analysis of covid-19 variants in UAE, Anoud Bani-Hani, Anaïs Lavorel, and Newel Bessadet
A novel sentiment analysis framework for monitoring the evolving public opinion in real-time: Case study on climate change, May El Barachi, Manar AlKhatib, Sujith Mathew, and Farhad Oroumchian
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
Female leadership in the Arab world: an ethnographic study of educational leaders, Sandra Baroudi and Zeina Hojeij
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
The failure of agricultural-based economic development in Thailand’s far south and the impact on the insurgency, Ornanong Husna Benbourenane
Towards Automatic Narrative Coherence Prediction, Filip Bendevski, Jumana Ibrahim, Tina Krulec, Theodore Waters, Nizar Habash, Hanan Salam, Himadri Mukherjee, and Christin Camia
Utilization of the UAE date palm leaf biochar in carbon dioxide capture and sequestration processes, Imen Ben Salem, Maisa El Gamal, Manish Sharma, Suhaib Hameedi, and Fares M. Howari
Date palm waste pyrolysis into biochar for carbon dioxide adsorption, Imen Ben Salem, Mariam Badawi Saleh, Jibran Iqbal, Maisa El Gamal, and Suhaib Hameed
Dependence measure for length-biased survival data using kernel density estimation with a regression procedure, Rachid Bentoumi, Mayer Alvo, and Mhamed Mesfioui
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
Real-time privacy preserving framework for Covid-19 contact tracing, Akashdeep Bhardwaj, Ahmed A. Mohamed, Manoj Kumar, Mohammed Alshehri, and Ahed Abugabah
A comprehensive review on medical diagnosis using machine learning, Kaustubh Arun Bhavsar, Ahed Abugabah, Jimmy Singla, Ahmad Ali AlZubi, Ali Kashif Bashir, and Nikita
“Emergency Distance Education” Model: How Normal Could The Projected New Normal Be?, Eugene Borokhovski, David Pickup, and Rana Tamim
Periphery fandom: Contrasting fans’ productive experiences across the globe, Vlada Botorić
Lightweight IDS for UAV Networks: A Periodic Deep Reinforcement Learning-based Approach, Omar Bouhamed, Ouns Bouachir, Moayad Aloqaily, and Ismaeel Al Ridhawi
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
Solar Cycle-Modulated Deformation of the Earth–Ionosphere Cavity, Tamás Bozóki, Gabriella Sátori, Earle Williams, Irina Mironova, Péter Steinbach, Emma C. Bland, Alexander Koloskov, Yuri M. Yampolski, Oleg V. Budanov, Mariusz Neska, Ashwini K. Sinha, Rahul Rawat, Mitsuteru Sato, Ciaran D. Beggan, Sergio Toledo-Redondo, Yakun Liu, and Robert Boldi
Watching or not watching? Access to information and the incentive effects of firing threats, Jordi Brandts, Brice Corgnet, Roberto Hernán-González, José Mª Ortiz, and Carles Solà
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
The Longitudinal Influence of Parenting and Parents’ Traces on Narrative Identity in Young Adulthood, Christin Camia, Sonia Sengsavang, Sonja Rohrmann, and Michael W. Pratt
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
Guest editorial, Walid Cheffi, Chrisovaladis Malesios, and Prasanta Kumar Dey
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
The impact of COVID-19 on Italian accommodation: A supply-perspective, Giacomo Del Chiappa, Ilenia Bregoli, and Anestis K. Fotiadis
Reporting Conflict from Afar: Journalists, Social Media, Communication Technologies, and War, Britt Christensen and Ali Khalil
The Impact of Death Anxiety, Meaning and Coping on Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Psychiatric Co-Morbidity Among Iraqi Civilians Exposed to a Car Bomb Attack A Latent Class Analysis, Man Cheung Chung and Fuaad Mohammed Freh
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
Analysis of Newtonian heating and higher-order chemical reaction on a Maxwell nanofluid in a rotating frame with gyrotactic microorganisms and variable heat source/sink, Yu-Ming Chu, Muhammad Ramzan, Naila Shaheen, Jae Dong Chung, Seifedine Kadry, Fares Howari, M.Y. Malik, and Hassan Ali S. Ghazwani
Religion and Transitional Justice in the Czech Republic, Frank Cibulka
Early Adolescents’ Food Selection After Evaluating the Healthiness of Remote Peers’ Food Choices, Ramón Cobo‐Reyes, Juan A. Lacomba, Francisco Lagos, Christina Zenker, and Ernesto Reuben
Validation of the Italian translation of the perceived stigma scale and resilience assessment in inflammatory bowel disease patients, Sara Cococcia, Marco Vincenzo Lenti, Caterina Mengoli, Catherine Klersy, Federica Borrelli de Andreis, Matteo Secco, Jihane Ghorayeb, Mariangela Delliponti, Gino Roberto Corazza, and Antonio Di Sabatino
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
Welcome from the Chairs of CSNet 2021, Frederic Cuppens, Ahmad Samer Wazan, and Omar Alfandi
Applying the computing professional skills assessment method to esl students in a computing program, Maurice Danaher, Anthony Rhodes, and Ashley Ater Kranov
Assessment of learning outcomes through an asynchronous on-line discussion board, Maurice Danaher, Anthony Rhodes, and Ashley Ater Kranov
Student Perceptions of an Asychronous Online Discussion Board Used to Assess the Professional Skills, Maurice Danaher, Anthony Rhodes, and Ashley Ater Kranov
A multi-model based microservices identification approach, Mohamed Daoud, Asmae El Mezouari, Noura Faci, Djamal Benslimane, Zakaria Maamar, and Aziz El Fazziki
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
An Evaluation of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Perceived Social Distancing Policies in Relation to Planning, Selecting, and Preparing Healthy Meals: An Observational Study in 38 Countries Worldwide, Charlotte De Backer, Lauranna Teunissen, Isabelle Cuykx, Paulien Decorte, Sara Pabian, Sarah Gerritsen, Christophe Matthys, Haleama Al Sabbah, and Kathleen Van Royen
Mitigating Disinformation and Building Trust in Social Media, Joanna F. Defranco, Nir Kshetri, Ravi Sharma, Diana Rojas-Torres, and Jeffrey Voas
Special issue: “contemporary issues in ensuring excellence in tourism, travel and hospitality” guest editorial, Giacomo Del Chiappa and Anestis K. Fotiadis
Evidence for involvement of non‐classical pathways in the protection from UV‐induced DNA damage by vitamin D‐related compounds, Warusavithana Gunawardena Manori De Silva, Jeremy Zhuo Ru Han, Chen Yang, Wannit Tongkao‐On, Bianca Yuko McCarthy, Furkan Akif Ince, Andrew J A Holland, Robert Charles Tuckey, Andrzej T Slominski, Myriam Abboud, Katie Marie Dixon, Mark Stephen Rybchyn, and Rebecca Sara Mason