Submissions from 2022
Exclusive Breastfeeding for at Least Four Months Is Associated with a Lower Prevalence of Overweight and Obesity in Mothers and Their Children after 2–5 Years from Delivery, Maria Mantzorou, Dimitrios Papandreou, Georgios K. Vasios, Eleni Pavlidou, Georgios Antasouras, Evmorfia Psara, Zainab Taha, Efthymios Poulios, and Constantinos Giaginis
Adherence to Mediterranean Diet and Nutritional Status in Women with Breast Cancer: What Is Their Impact on Disease Progression and Recurrence-Free Patients’ Survival?, Maria Mantzorou, Maria Tolia, Antigoni Poultsidi, Georgios K. Vasios, Dimitrios Papandreou, Stamatios Theocharis, Nikolaos Kavantzas, Andreas Y. Troumbis, and Constantinos Giaginis
Smart Online Exam Proctoring Assist for Cheating Detection, Mohammad M. Masud, Kadhim Hayawi, Sujith Samuel Mathew, Temesgen Michael, and Mai El Barachi
A comparative study of country satisfaction of UAE and Bahrain teachers: The mediating effect of job satisfaction on organizational commitment, Laura L Matherly, Yi Zhang, and Balqees Ahmed
CrowdPower: A Novel Crowdsensing-as-a-Service Platform for Real-Time Incident Reporting, Sujith Samuel Mathew, May El Barachi, and Mohammad Amin Kuhail
Integration of blockchain and collaborative intrusion detection for secure data transactions in industrial IoT: a survey, Sujith Samuel Mathew, Kadhim Hayawi, Nahom Aron Dawit, Ikbal Taleb, and Zouheir Trabelsi
Research Data Management: A review of UAE academic library experience, Judith Mavodza
The impact of brand familiarity, perceived trust and attitude on investors’ decision-making in Islamic stock market, Maizaitulaidawati Md Husin, Shahab Aziz, and Tariq Bhatti
Exploring special need students’ perceptions of remote learning using the multimodal model of online education, Lawrence Meda and Zayd Waghid
Moderation Effects of Language Skills, Residential Tenure, and Education on Immigrants’ Learning From News, Yulia S. Medvedeva and Glenn M. Leshner
Early Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s Disease Based on Convolutional Neural Networks, Atif Mehmood, Ahed Abugabah, Ahmed Ali AlZubi, and Louis Sanzogni
An Intelligent Information System and Application for the Diagnosis and Analysis of COVID-19, Atif Mehmood, Ahed Abugabah, Ahmad A. L. Smadi, and Reyad Alkhawaldeh
Systems genomics of nucleoporins provides prognostic insights into breast cancer, Rashid Mehmood, Kazuya Jibiki, Zakeya J. Alsafwani, Muhammad Naseem, and Noriko Yasuhara
Metabolic Syndrome in Fasting and Non-Fasting Participants: The UAE Healthy Future Study, Fatima Mezhal, Amar Ahmad, Abdishakur Abdulle, Andrea Leinberger-Jabari, Abderrahim Oulhaj, Abdulla AlJunaibi, Abdulla Alnaeemi, Ayesha S. Al Dhaheri, Eiman AlZaabi, Fatma Al-Maskari, Fatme AlAnouti, Habiba Alsafar, Juma Alkaabi, Laila Abdel Wareth, Mai Aljaber, Marina Kazim, Manal Alblooshi, Mohammad Al-Houqani, Mohammad Hag Ali, Naima Oumeziane, Omar El-Shahawy, Rami H. Al-Rifai, Scott Sherman, Syed M. Shah, Tom Loney, Wael Almahmeed, Youssef Idaghdour, and Luai A. Ahmed
Floating Treatment Wetlands (FTWs) is an Innovative Approach for the Remediation of Petroleum Hydrocarbons-Contaminated Water, Manar Fawzi Bani Mfarrej, Xiukang Wang, Muhammad Fahid, Muhammad Hamzah Saleem, Aishah Alatawi, Shafaqat Ali, Ghulam Shabir, Rehman Zafar, Muhammad Afzal, and Shah Fahad
Marketing of luxurious gastronomic experiences on social media: The visual storytelling of luxury hotels, Noela Michael and Francesc Fusté-Forné
To what extent are credibility and attractiveness of social media influencer important in developing positive brand image and customer attitude?, Bahtiar Mohamad, Siti Norain Abdullah, Muslim Diekola Akanmu, and Ridwan Adetunji Raji
A Visual Identity-Based Approach of Southeast Asian City Branding: A Netnography Analysis, Bahtiar Mohamad, Ridwan Adetunji Raji, Ghadah Alarifi, Ahmed Rageh Ismail, and Muslim Diekola Akanmu
Food Consumption Frequency, Perceived Stress, and Depressive Symptoms Among Female University Students in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Ohoud Mohamad, Haleama Al Sabbah, Linda Smail, Ehab W. Hermena, and Rola Al Ghali
Mass Customization of Housing: A Framework for Harmonizing Individual Needs with Factory Produced Housing, Basem Eid Mohamed and Carlo Carbone
Evaluating Preservice Teachers’ Performance in a Blended Field Experience Course During the Quarantine of COVID-19, Laila Mohebi and Areej Elsayary
Fertility targets: linkages between desire for sons and sterilization in India, Mehreen Mookerjee, Manini Ojha, and Sanket Roy
Collaborative Multi-domain Routing in SDN Environments, Tarik Moufakir, Mohamed Faten Zhani, Abdelouahed Gherbi, and Ouns Bouachir
Nonattachment as a Mediator of the Mindfulness-Well-being Relationship: Comparing Emirati and Australian Students, Mona Merhej Moussa, Brad Elphinstone, Justin Thomas, Ehab W. Hermena, Mariapaola Barbato, Richard Whitehead, and Glen Bates
Carveol Promotes Nrf2 Contribution in Depressive Disorders through an Anti-inflammatory Mechanism, Asmaa Jan Muhammad, Liangliang Hao, Lina Tariq Al Kury, Najeeb Ur Rehman, Arooj Mohsin Alvi, Haroon Badshah, Ikram Ullah, Fawad Ali Shah, and Shupeng Li
Ph.D. Students' experiences and emotions in neoliberal tourism academia, Paolo Mura and Sarah N.R. Wijesinghe
The UAE Employees’ Perceptions towards Factors for Sustaining Big Data Implementation and Continuous Impact on Their Organization’s Performance, S. M.F.D.Syed Mustapha
Towards building general framework for designing knowledge sharing tool based on actor network theory, S. M.F.D.Syed Mustapha
Modelling mass transfer from a packed bed by fluid extraction, Timothy G. Myers, Abel Valverde, Maria Aguareles, Marc Calvo-Schwarzwalder, and Francesc Font
The Potential Impact Of The 2020 Uae Fdi Decree And Side Agreements, Tareq Na'el Al-Tawil, Venugopal Prabhakar Gantasala, and Walaaeldeen Ibraheem
MDVA-GAN: multi-domain visual attribution generative adversarial networks, Muhammad Nawaz, Feras Al-Obeidat, Abdallah Tubaishat, Tehseen Zia, Fahad Maqbool, and Alvaro Rocha
Interpretable deep learning for the prediction of ICU admission likelihood and mortality of COVID-19 patients, Amril Nazir and Hyacinth Kwadwo Ampadu
Early Fire Detection: A New Indoor Laboratory Dataset and Data Distribution Analysis, Amril Nazir, Husam Mosleh, Maen Takruri, Abdul Halim Jallad, and Hamad Alhebsi
Synthesis, In Silico and Pharmacological Evaluation of New Thiazolidine-4-Carboxylic Acid Derivatives Against Ethanol-Induced Neurodegeneration and Memory Impairment, Shagufta Naz, Lina Tariq Al Kury, Humaira Nadeem, Fawad Ali Shah, Rehan Zafar Paracha, Muhammad Imran, Shupeng Li, and Aman Ullah
A Methodological Review of Tools That Assess Dust Microbiomes, Metatranscriptomes and the Particulate Chemistry of Indoor Dust, Yousef Nazzal, Fares M. Howari, Aya Yaslam, Jibran Iqbal, Lina Maloukh, Lakshmi Kesari Ambika, Ahmed A. Al-Taani, Ijaz Ali, Eman M. Othman, Arshad Jamal, and Muhammad Naseem
The Effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Training Program on the Level of Academic Stress and Academic Burnout in Students with Specific Learning Disability, Shahrooz Nemati, Narges Pourtaleb, Rahim BadriGargari, Touraj Hashemi, Rukiya Deetjen, and Nazila Shojaeian
Resilience, attachment to God, and hope in mothers of children with a specific learning disability, Shahrooz Nemati, Nazila Shojaeian, Rukiya Deetjen-Ruiz, Rahul Pratapsingh Kaurav, Rahim Badri, and Zahra Khani
The significance of eighteen rice genotypes on arsenic accumulation, physiological response and potential health risk, Nabeel Khan Niazi, Muhammad Mahroz Hussain, Irshad Bibi, Natasha (COMSATS University Islamabad Natasha (COMSATS University Islamabad, Muhammad Shahid, Fawad Ali, Jibran Iqbal, Sabry M. Shaheen, Hamada Abdelrahman, Waseem Akhtar, Hailong Wang, and Jörg Rinklebe
Replacing Human Input in Spam Email Detection Using Deep Learning, Mathew Nicho, Farzan Majdani, and Christopher D. McDermott
Religious affiliation and religiosity: do Islamic appeals in advertising lead to higher purchase intentions among Muslim consumers in Dubai?, Catherine Nickerson, Effrosyni Georgiadou, and Anup Menon Nandialath
Children and female employment in Mongolia, Elena Nikolova and Jakub Polansky
Provocative products, the boomerang effect, the shooting star crisis and the panacea of workforce diversity, Christina Nizamidou
Five Grade 7 learners' understanding of comprehension skills at a quintile 5 school in South Africa, Nomonde Ntshikila, Janet L. Condy, Lawrence Meda, and Heather N. Phillips
Dynamic relationship between exchange rates and stock prices for the G7 countries: A nonlinear ARDL approach, Salah A. Nusair and Dennis Olson
Climate anxiety, wellbeing and pro-environmental action: correlates of negative emotional responses to climate change in 32 countries, Charles A. Ogunbode, Rouven Doran, Daniel Hanss, Maria Ojala, Katariina Salmela-Aro, Karlijn L. van den Broek, Navjot Bhullar, Sibele D. Aquino, Tiago Marot, Julie Aitken Schermer, Anna Wlodarczyk, Su Lu, Feng Jiang, Daniela Acquadro Maran, Radha Yadav, Rahkman Ardi, Razieh Chegeni, Elahe Ghanbarian, Somayeh Zand, Reza Najafi, Joonha Park, Takashi Tsubakita, Chee Seng Tan, John Bosco Chika Chukwuorji, Kehinde Aderemi Ojewumi, Hajra Tahir, Mai Albzour, and Marc Eric S. Reyes
Ambiguity in performance management systems of complex multi-stakeholder organisations, Udechukwu Ojiako, Umit Bititci, Alasdair Marshall, Maxwell Chipulu, Graham Manville, Subha Jayanti Muthalagu, and Thomas Farrington
Oral health status and related risk factors among adolescents attending high schools in Khartoum, Sudan: A cross-sectional study, Hajir Omara and Amal Elamin
Random forest models for motorcycle accident prediction using naturalistic driving based big data, Fatma Outay, Muhammad Adnan, Uneb Gazder, Syed Fazal Abbas Baqueri, and Hammad Hussain Awan
A Framework for Self-Inspection Buildings Based on Augmented Reality Agents, Fatma Outay, Nafaa Jabeur, Hedi Haddad, and Zied Bouyahia
Comparison of Feedforward Perceptron Network with LSTM for Solar Cell Radiation Prediction, Tugba Ozdemir, Fatma Taher, Babajide O. Ayinde, Jacek M. Zurada, and Ozge Tuzun Ozmen
Why a bilingual writer corpus? Motivations and approaches, David M. Palfreyman
"Social media has invaded our homes, our lives, even our dining tables": Metaphor in bilingual writers' discourse about social media, David M. Palfreyman and Omnia Amin
Comparison of the inter-item correlations of the Big Five Inventory-10 (BFI-10) between Western and non-Western contexts, Joonha Park, Karlijn L. van den Broek, Navjot Bhullar, Charles Adedayo Ogunbode, Julie Aitken Schermer, Rouven Doran, Rahkman Ardi, Daniel Hanss, Daniela Acquadro Maran, Mai Albzour, Sibele D. Aquino, Arin H. Ayanian, Razieh Chegeni, JohnBosco Chika Chukwuorji, Violeta Enea, Elahe Ghanbarian, Jihane Ghorayeb, Feng Jiang, Ojewumi Aderemi Kehinde, Samuel Lins, Michael J. Lomas, Su Lu, Tiago Marot, Winfred Mbungu, Ginés Navarro-Carrillo, Charles Onyutha, Marc Eric S. Reyes, Katariina Salmela-Aro, Tomas Sollar, and Hajra Tahir
An exploratory study of the perceptions of auditors on the impact on Blockchain technology in the United Arab Emirates, Abdollah Mohammad Parmoodeh, Esinath Ndiweni, and Yasser Barghathi
Categorizations of the interface of evolution and religion, Rachel S. A. Pear and Shoaib Ahmed Malik
Does global value chain participation induce economic growth? Evidence from panel threshold regression, Jithin P, Sania Ashraf, and Zaghum Umar
Examining the asymmetric impact of macroeconomic policy in the UAE: Evidence from quartile impulse responses and machine learning, Efstathios Polyzos
Demographic Change and Economic Growth: The Role of Natural Resources in the MENA Region, Efstathios Polyzos, Simon Kuck, and Khadija Abdulrahman
Determining Terrorism Proxies for the Relationship With Tourism Demand: A Global View, Efstathios Polyzos, Georgia Papadopoulou, and Anestis Fotiadis
Islamic banking, efficiency and societal welfare: a machine-learning, agent-based study, Efstathios Polyzos, Aristeidis Samitas, and Konstantinos Syriopoulos
Twitter and market efficiency in energy markets: Evidence using LDA clustered topic extraction, Efstathios Polyzos and Fang Wang
Luteolin Causes 5′CpG Demethylation of the Promoters of TSGs and Modulates the Aberrant Histone Modifications, Restoring the Expression of TSGs in Human Cancer Cells, Sreepoorna Pramodh, Ritu Raina, Arif Hussain, Sali Abubaker Bagabir, Shafiul Haque, Syed Tasleem Raza, Mohammad Rehan Ajamal, Shalini Behl, and Deepika Bhagavatula
Machine learning techniques for predicting depression and anxiety in pregnant and postpartum women during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional regional study, Radwan Qasrawi, Malak Amro, Stephanny VicunaPolo, Diala Abu Al-Halawa, Hazem Agha, Rania Abu Seir, Maha Hoteit, Reem Hoteit, Sabika Allehdan, Nouf Behzad, Khlood Bookari, Majid AlKhalaf, Haleama Al-Sabbah, Eman Badran, and Reema Tayyem
Trajectory design for uav-based data collection using clustering model in smart farming, Tariq Qayyum, Zouheir Trabelsi, Asad Malik, and Kadhim Hayawi
Technology in Second Language Writing: Advances in Composing, Translation, Writing Pedagogy and Data-Driven Learning, Jingjing Qin and Paul Stapleton
Age of Onset, English-medium Instruction, and Gains in Second Language Grammar Knowledge, Muhammad Asif Qureshi
The Age of Exposure to English Medium Instruction, Atypical Contexts, and Vocabulary Knowledge in a Second Language, Muhammad Asif Qureshi
Extended ICA and M-CSP with BiLSTM towards improved classification of EEG signals, Atta Ur Rahman, Abdallah Tubaishat, Feras Al-Obeidat, Zahid Halim, Madiha Tahir, and Fawad Qayum
Excess cash holding and audit pricing: a further consideration of precautionary motives and other factors, Jayalakshmy Ramachandran, Yezen H. Kannan, and Samuel Jebaraj Benjamin
An Unsupervised Approach for Sentiment Analysis on Social Media Short Text Classification in Roman Urdu, Toqir A. Rana, Kiran Shahzadi, Tauseef Rana, Ahsan Arshad, and Mohammad Tubishat
Fictional politainment: Exposure to international television drama and attitude toward female politicians, Azmat Rasul, Donghee Shin, and Park Beede
Object-Oriented Software Testing: A Review, Ali Raza, Babar Shah, Madnia Ashraf, and Muhammad Ilyas
DeepClassRooms: a deep learning based digital twin framework for on-campus class rooms, Saad Razzaq, Babar Shah, Farkhund Iqbal, Muhammad Ilyas, Fahad Maqbool, and Alvaro Rocha
Mapping Agricultural Soil in Greenhouse Using an Autonomous Low-Cost Robot and Precise Monitoring, Amine Saddik, Rachid Latif, Fatma Taher, Abdelhafid El Ouardi, and Mohamed Elhoseny
Guidelines for Fabricating Highly Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells with Cu2O as the Hole Transport Material, Sajid Sajid, Salem Alzahmi, Imen Ben Salem, and Ihab M. Obaidat
Perovskite-Surface-Confined Grain Growth for High-Performance Perovskite Solar Cells, Sajid Sajid, Salem Alzahmi, Imen Ben Salem, and Ihab M. Obaidat
Silicon Enhances Morpho–Physio–Biochemical Responses in Arsenic Stressed Spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.) by Minimizing Its Uptake, Muhammad Hamzah Saleem, Manar Fawzi Bani Mfarrej, Aishah Alatawi, Sahar Mumtaz, Muhammad Imran, Muhammad Arslan Ashraf, Muhammad Rizwan, Kamal Usman, Parvaiz Ahmad, and Shafaqat Ali
Characterization of biochar produced from Al Ghaf Tree for CO2 Capture, Imen Ben Salem, Maisa El Gamal, Manish Sharma, Fares M. Howari, Yousef Nazzal, Cijo Xavier, and Fareeda M. Almenhali
Geospatial Assessment of Groundwater Quality with the Distinctive Portrayal of Heavy Metals in the United Arab Emirates, Imen Ben Salem, Yousef Nazzal, Fares M. Howari, Manish Sharma, Jagadish Kumar Mogaraju, and Cijo M. Xavier
An Investigation on the Morphological and Mineralogical Characteristics of Posidonius Floor Fractured Lunar Impact Crater Using Lunar Remote Sensing Data, Imen Ben Salem, Manish Sharma, P. R. Kumaresan, A. Karthi, Fares M. Howari, Yousef Nazzal, and Cijo M. Xavier
Are Timber and Water Investments Safe-Havens? A Volatility Spillover Approach and Portfolio Hedging Strategies for Investors, Aristeidis Samitas, Spyros Papathanasiou, Drosos Koutsokostas, and Elias Kampouris
Volatility spillovers between fine wine and major global markets during COVID-19: A portfolio hedging strategy for investors, Aristeidis Samitas, Spyros Papathanasiou, Drosos Koutsokostas, and Elias Kampouris
Education and the making of mobile livelihoods: Dubai Indian families’ trajectories over time and space, David Sancho
Teacher–Artist Partnership Framework Within School Makerspaces to Foster Students’ Creativity, Ieda M. Santos, Luisa Menano, and Claudine Habak
Monolithic ontological methodology (MOM): An effective software project management approach, Kamal Uddin Sarker, Aziz Deraman, Raza Hasan, Ali Abbas, Babar Shah, and Abrar Ullah
Exploring the human factors in moral dilemmas of autonomous vehicles, Muhammad Umair Shah, Umair Rehman, Farkhund Iqbal, and Hassan Ilahi
Enhanced solar light photocatalytic performance of Fe-ZnO in the presence of H2O2, S2O82−, and HSO5− for degradation of chlorpyrifos from agricultural wastes: Toxicities investigation, Noor S. Shah, Jibran Iqbal, Murtaza Sayed, Ayman A. Ghfar, Javed Ali Khan, Zia Ul Haq Khan, Behzad Murtaza, Grzegorz Boczkaj, and Farrukh Jamil
NFTGAN: Non-Fungible Token Art Generation Using Generative Adversarial Networks, Sakib Shahriar and Kadhim Hayawi
How can generative adversarial networks impact computer generated art? Insights from poetry to melody conversion, Sakib Shahriar and Noora Al Roken
MXsorption of mercury: Exceptional reductive behavior of titanium carbide/carbonitride MXenes, Asif Shahzad, Kashif Rasool, Jibran Iqbal, Jiseon Jang, Youngsu Lim, Bolam Kim, Jae Min Oh, and Dae Sung Lee
Short term energy consumption forecasting using neural basis expansion analysis for interpretable time series, Abdul Khalique Shaikh, Amril Nazir, Imran Khan, and Abdul Salam Shah
Linguistic Aspects of Political Discourse with Reference to English and Arabic Languages, Sana Fadi Shamaileh
The Translation of Parallelism in Arabic Political Speeches between Loss and Compensation: A Comparative Study, Sana Fadi Shamaileh
Lexical collocations in Arabic-English bilinguals' writing across two proficiency levels, Ali Kamel Al Sharef and Michael Bowles
Vitamin D modulates systemic inflammation in patients with severe COVID-19, Fatemeh Saheb Sharif-Askari, Shirin Hafezi, Narjes Saheb Sharif-Askari, Hawra Ali Hussain Alsayed, Bushra Mdkhana, Balachandar Selvakumar, Mohammad-Hani Temsah, Basema Saddik, Fatme Al Anouti, and Rabih Halwani
High interfacial charge separation in visible-light active Z- scheme g-C3N4/MoS2 heterojunction: Mechanism and degradation of sulfasalazine, Gaurav Sharma, Mu Naushad, Zeid A ALOthman, Jibran Iqbal, and Chinna Bathula
Activated Carbon as Superadsorbent and Sustainable Material for Diverse Applications, Gaurav Sharma, Shweta Sharma, Amit Kumar, Chin Wei Lai, Mu. Naushad, Shehnaz (Panjab University Shehnaz (Panjab University, Jibran Iqbal, and Florian J. Stadler
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on perishable food supply chain management: a contingent Resource-Based View (RBV) perspective, Mahak Sharma, Haseena Alkatheeri, Fauzia Jabeen, and Rajat Sehrawat
The digital transformation of higher education–“uni for nothin’, MOOCs for free”?, Ravi Sharma, Kevin Jones, Warwick Anderson, Anushia Inthiran, and Maryam Tabatabaee