Submissions from 2021
The extent of pilgrims and umrah performers’ reliance on the mobile exhibition using hologram technology during the performance of the rituals, Osman Bakur Gazzaz and Hamza Saad Mohamed
Bactericidal effects and stability of LL-37 and CAMA in the presence of human lung epithelial cells, Regina Geitani, Carole Ayoub Moubareck, Floriane Costes, Léa Marti, Gabrielle Dupuis, Dolla Karam Sarkis, and Lhousseine Touqui
Marketing strategies in communicating CSR in the Muslim market of the United Arab Emirates: insights from the banking sector, Effrosyni Georgiadou and Catherine Nickerson
Urinary minerals excretion among primary schoolchildren in Dubai—United Arab Emirates, Rola Al Ghali, Carla El-Mallah, Omar Obeid, Ola El-Saleh, Linda Smail, and Dalia Haroun
Assessment of Heavy Metal Contamination in the Soils of the Gulf of Aqaba (Northwestern Saudi Arabia): Integration of Geochemical, Remote Sensing, GIS, and Statistical Data, Habes Ghrefat, Haider Zaman, Awni Batayneh, Mahmoud M. El Waheidi, Saleh Qaysi, Ahmed Al-Taani, Chokri Jallouli, and Omar Badhris
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
Astonishing insights: emerging market debt spreads throughout the pandemic, Mariya Gubareva, Zaghum Umar, Tatiana Sokolova, and Xuan Vinh Vo
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
Bitcoin Price Forecasting: Linear Discriminant Analysis with Sentiment Evaluation, Ikhlaas Gurrib, Firuz Kamalov, and Linda Smail
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
Bridges within the arts: Bob Dylan and Martin Scorsese, Doris Hambuch and Ioannis Galanopoulos Papavasileiou
Daughter of saul, or saul leanya: The gendered place of atrocity in László Nemes’s son of saul, Szidonia Haragos
Escape words: From solitary confinement to female solidarity in lena constante’s post-communist prison memoirs, Szidonia Haragos
An Effective Hash-Based Assessment and Recovery Algorithm for Healthcare Systems, Ramzi A. Haraty, Bahia Boukhari, and Sanaa Kaddoura
How trust leads to online purchase intention founded in perceived usefulness and peer communication, Maggie Harrigan, Kim Feddema, Shasha Wang, Paul Harrigan, and Emmanuelle Diot
Identifying influencers on social media, Paul Harrigan, Timothy M. Daly, Kristof Coussement, Julie A. Lee, Geoffrey N. Soutar, and Uwana Evers
Recent technologies for nutrient removal and recovery from wastewaters: A review, Mohd Najibul Hasan, Mohd Musheer Altaf, Nadeem A. Khan, Afzal Husain Khan, Abid Ali Khan, Sirajuddin Ahmed, P. Senthil Kumar, Mu Naushad, Anushka Upamali Rajapaksha, Jibran Iqbal, Vineet Tirth, and Saiful Islam
The securitisation of COVID-19 in Africa: Socio-economic and political implications, Hamdy A. Hassan
Vaccine versus variants (3Vs): Are the COVID-19 vaccines effective against the variants? A systematic review, Kadhim Hayawi, Sakib Shahriar, Mohamed Adel Serhani, Hany Alashwal, and Mohammad M. Masud
ANTi-Vax: A Novel Twitter Dataset for COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation Detection, Kadhim Hayawi, Sakib Shahriar, Mohamed Adel Serhani, Ikbal Taleb, and Sujith Samuel Mathew
A meta-analysis of sleep and work performance: An examination of moderators and mediators, Alexandra A. Henderson and Kristin A. Horan
Political affiliation dissimilarity: Exploring lone affiliate employees' work attitudes and experiences, Alexandra A. Henderson and Sophia S. Jeong
Leading When Overweight: the Influence of Supervisor Body Weight on Subordinates’ Perceptions and Citizenship Behaviors, Alexandra A. Henderson, Russell A. Matthews, Sara J. McKersie, and Marilyn V. Whitman
When does presenteeism harm productivity the most? Employee motives as a key moderator of the presenteeism–productivity relationship, Alexandra A. Henderson and Claire E. Smith
Manipulating Interword and Interletter Spacing in Cursive Script: An Eye Movements Investigation of Reading Persian, Ehab W. Hermena
Does diacritics-based lexical disambiguation modulate word frequency, length, and predictability effects? An eye-movements investigation of processing Arabic diacritics, Ehab W. Hermena, Sana Bouamama, Simon P. Liversedge, and Denis Drieghe
Parafoveal processing of orthographic, morphological, and semantic information during reading Arabic: A boundary paradigm investigation, Ehab W. Hermena, Eida J. Juma, and Maryam AlJassmi
Tutors’ beliefs about language and roles: practice as language policy in EMI contexts, Marion Heron, Doris Dippold, Necmi Aksit, Tijen Aksit, Jill Doubleday, and Kara McKeown
Talking about talk: tutor and student expectations of oracy skills in higher education, Marion Heron, Doris Dippold, Anesa Hosein, Ameena Khan Sullivan, Tijen Aksit, Necmi Aksit, Jill Doubleday, and Kara McKeown
Exploring Higher-Order Thinking in Higher Education Seminar Talk, Marion Heron and David M. Palfreyman
Challenges for practice teaching in uae schools: Supervisors’ and pre-service teachers’ perceptions, Zeina Hojeij, Fida Atallah, Sandra Baroudi, and Rana Tamim
Engaging pre-service teachers in virtual field experience during COVID-19: Designing a framework to inform the practice, Zeina Hojeij and Sandra Baroudi
Using reflective journals for analysing pre-service, early childhood teachers' perceptions of practicum experiences, Zeina Hojeij, Lawrence Meda, and Amir Kaviani
Cultural and linguistic struggles and solidarities of Emirati learners in online classes during the COVID-19 pandemic, Sarah Hopkyns
Linguistic diversity and inclusion in Abu Dhabi’s linguistic landscape during the COVID-19 period, Sarah Hopkyns and Melanie van den Hoven
Chronological Analysis and Remote Sensing of Craters on the Surface of Mars, Fares M. Howari, Manish Sharma, Cijo M. Xavier, Yousef Nazzal, and Fatima AlAydaroos
Remote sensing and GIS based approaches to estimate evapotranspiration in the arid and semi-arid regions, Fares M. Howari, Manish Sharma, Cijo M. Xavier, Yousef Nazzal, Imen Ben Salem, and Fatima Al Aydaroos
Enhancing the heat tolerance of reef-building corals to future warming, Emily J. Howells, David Abrego, Yi Jin Liew, John A. Burt, Eli Meyer, and Manuel Aranda
Get Vaccinated for Loved Ones: Effects of Self-Other Appeal and Message Framing in Promoting HPV Vaccination among Heterosexual Young Men, Guanxiong Huang and Kang Li
#reimagining Arab Women’s Social Media Empowerment and the Postdigital Condition, Zoe Hurley
Arab women’s veiled affordances on Instagram: A feminist semiotic inquiry, Zoë Hurley
Feminist Postdigital Inquiry in the Ruins of Pandemic Universities, Zoë Hurley and Khadija Al-Ali
Smart Guest Virtual Assistant with Automatic Guest Registration, Mohammed Hussain, Abdullah Hussein, and Mohamed Basel AlMourad
Arsenic biogeochemical cycling in paddy soil-rice system: Interaction with various factors, amendments and mineral nutrients, Muhammad Mahroz Hussain, Irshad Bibi, Nabeel Khan Niazi, Muhammad Shahid, Jibran Iqbal, Muhammad Bilal Shakoor, Arslan Ahmad, Noor Samad Shah, Prosun Bhattacharya, Kang Mao, Jochen Bundschuh, Yong Sik Ok, and Hua Zhang
Arsenic speciation and biotransformation pathways in the aquatic ecosystem: The significance of algae, Muhammad Mahroz Hussain, Jianxu Wang, Irshad Bibi, Muhammad Shahid, Nabeel Khan Niazi, Jibran Iqbal, Ishaq Ahmad Mian, Sabry M. Shaheen, Safdar Bashir, Noor Samad Shah, Kiran Hina, and Jörg Rinklebe
The Moderating Effects of Leader-Member Exchange for Technology Acceptance: An Empirical Study Within Organizations, Yujong Hwang, Soyean Kim, Kamel Rouibah, and Donghee Shin
Efficacy of Group Work in the Online Platform: An Exploration of Multicultural Undergraduates’ Attitudes in Online Academic Writing Classes, Ajrina Hysaj, Doaa Hamam, and Sandra Baroudi
Adversarial Reconstruction Loss for Domain Generalization, Bekkouch Imad Eddine Ibrahim, Dragos Constantin Nicolae, Adil Khan, S. M. Ahsan Kazmi, Asad Masood Khattak, and Bulat Ibragimov
Synthesis, characterization and application of novel MnO and CuO impregnated biochar composites to sequester arsenic (As) from water: Modeling, thermodynamics and reusability, Muhammad Imran, Muhammad Mohsin Iqbal, Jibran Iqbal, Noor Samad Shah, Zia Ul Haq Khan, Behzad Murtaza, Muhammad Amjad, Shafaqat Ali, and Muhammad Rizwan
Tweet-to-Act: Towards Tweet-Mining Framework for Extracting Terrorist Attack-related Information and Reporting, Farkhund Iqbal, Rabia Batool, Benjamin C. M. Fung, Saiqa Aleem, Ahmed Abbasi, and Abdul Rehman Javed
Discord Server Forensics: Analysis and Extraction of Digital Evidence, Farkhund Iqbal, Michał Motyliński, and Áine MacDermott
Chapter 20 Assessment of radiation pollution from nuclear power plants, Jibran Iqbal, Fares M. Howari, Abdel-Mohsen O. Mohamed, and Evan K. Paleologos
Exploring the potential of nano-zerovalent copper modified biochar for the removal of ciprofloxacin from water, Jibran Iqbal, Noor S. Shah, Murtaza Sayed, Javed Ali Khan, Muhammad Imran, Zia Ul Haq Khan, Nabeel Khan Niazi, Ahmed A. Al-Taani, Fares Howari, and Yousef Nazzal
Nano-zerovalent manganese/biochar composite for the adsorptive and oxidative removal of Congo-red dye from aqueous solutions, Jibran Iqbal, Noor S. Shah, Murtaza Sayed, Nabeel Khan Niazi, Muhammad Imran, Javed Ali Khan, Zia Ul Haq Khan, Aseel Gamal Suliman Hussien, Kyriaki Polychronopoulou, and Fares Howari
COVID-19 Patient Count Prediction Using LSTM, Muhammad Iqbal, Feras Al-Obeidat, Fahad Maqbool, Saad Razzaq, Sajid Anwar, Abdallah Tubaishat, Muhammad Shahrose Khan, and Babar Shah
Opposition-based Quantum Bat Algorithm to Eliminate Lower-order Harmonics of Multilevel Inverters, Jahedul Islam, Sheikh Tanzim Meraj, Ammar Masaoud, Md Apel Mahmud, Amril Nazir, Muhammad Ashad Kabir, Md Moinul Hossain, and Farhan Mumtaz
Heterogeneous contributions of change in population distribution of body mass index to change in obesity and underweight, Maria L.C. Iurilli, Bin Zhou, James E. Bennett, Rodrigo M. Carrillo-Larco, Marisa K. Sophiea, Andrea Rodriguez-Martinez, Honor Bixby, Bethlehem D. Solomon, Cristina Taddei, Goodarz Danaei, Mariachiara Di Cesare, Gretchen A. Stevens, Leanne M. Riley, Stefan Savin, Melanie J. Cowan, Pascal Bovet, Albertino Damasceno, Adela Chirita-Emandi, Alison J. Hayes, Nayu Ikeda, Rod T. Jackson, Young Ho Khang, Avula Laxmaiah, and Dimitrios Papandreou
How does interpretive tour guiding promote tourists’ pro-environmental behaviour? Evidence from Tanzania, Malek M. Jamaliah, John T. Mgonja, Mohammad M. Alazaizeh, and Robert B. Powell
Dying from envy: The role of inequality, Irakli Japaridze and Nagham Sayour
Community Search in a Multi-Attributed Graph using Collaborative Similarity Measure and Node Filtering, Naveed Javaid, Kifayat Ullah Khan, Asad Masood Khattak, and Waqas Nawaz
A Case Study on the Deployment of a Tactile Internet Application in a Hybrid Cloud, Edge, and Mobile Ad Hoc Cloud Environment, Yassine Jebbar, Nattakorn Promwongsa, Fatna Belqasmi, and Roch H. Glitho
Buenos aires: Authentically Straight-Friendly, Heather L. Jeffrey and Martin Sposato
EXPRESS: Individual- and Group-Level Consequences of Divergence in Perceived Group Affect, Sophia Soyoung Jeong and M. Audrey Korsgaard
Combining Fields of Experts (FoE) and K-SVD methods in pursuing natural image priors, Feng Jiang, Zhi Yuan Chen, Amril Nazir, Wu Zhen Shi, Wei Xiang Lim, Shao Hui Liu, and Seung Min Rho
Factors affecting managers' intention to adopt green supply chain management practices: evidence from manufacturing firms in Jordan, Luay Jum'a, Muhammad Ikram, Ziad Alkalha, and Maher Alaraj
Multi-branch Gabor Wavelet Layers for Pedestrian Attribute Recognition, Imran N. Junejo
Pedestrian attribute recognition using two-branch trainable Gabor wavelets network, Imran N. Junejo
Depthwise Separable Convolutional Neural Networks for Pedestrian Attribute Recognition, Imran N. Junejo and Naveed Ahmed
Pedestrian attribute recognition using trainable Gabor wavelets, Imran N Junejo, Naveed Ahmed, and Mohammad Lataifeh
An approach to reinforce active learning in higher education for IT students, Sanaa Kaddoura and Fatima Al Husseiny
Evaluation of Supervised Machine Learning Algorithms for Multi-class Intrusion Detection Systems, Sanaa Kaddoura, Amal El Arid, and Mirna Moukhtar
A parallelized database damage assessment approach after cyberattack for healthcare systems, Sanaa Kaddoura, Ramzi A. Haraty, Karam Al Kontar, and Omar Alfandi
On-Line Learning on Information Security Based on Critical Thinking Andragogy, Sanaa Kaddoura and Fatima Al Husseiny
Analyzing the effect of negation in sentiment polarity of facebook dialectal arabic text, Sanaa Kaddoura, Maher Itani, and Chris Roast
Message from the EAIoT 2021 Workshop Chairs, Ejub Kajan, Zakaria Maamar, and Yucong Duan
From generating process views over inter-organizational business processes to achieving their temporal consistency, Slim Kallel, Saoussen Cheikhrouhou, Zakaria Maamar, Nawal Guermouche, and Mohamed Jmaiel
A smart dynamic crowd evacuation system for exhibition centers, Faouzi Kamoun, May El Barachi, Fatna Belqasmi, and Abderrazak Hachani
Identification of malnutrition upon hospital admission using the Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition criteria, Mirey Karavetian, Mona Sharef Hashim, Wafa Ayesh, Leila Cheikh Ismail, and Cosette Fakih El Khoury
Authoritarian Upgrading and the “Pink Wave”, Magdalena Karolak
Youth and Leadership: Future Human Capital in the United Arab Emirates in the Making, Magdalena Karolak
E-services and M-services Using IoT: An Assessment of the Kingdom of Bahrain, Magdalena Karolak, Anjum Razzaque, and Abdalmuttaleb Al-Sartawi
Investigating the role of functional polymorphism of maternal and neonatal vitamin D binding protein in the context of 25‐hydroxyvitamin D cutoffs as determinants of maternal‐neonatal vitamin D status profiles in a sunny mediterranean region, Spyridon N. Karras, Erdinç Dursun, Merve Alaylıoğlu, Duygu Gezen‐ak, Cedric Annweiler, Fatme Al Anouti, Hana M.A. Fakhoury, Alkiviadis Bais, and Dimitrios Kiortsis
Experimental and theoretical studies of Rhodamine B direct dye sorption onto clay-cellulose composite, Abida Kausar, Ramsha Shahzad, Sadia Asim, Shamsa BiBi, Jibran Iqbal, Nawshad Muhammad, Mika Sillanpaa, and Israf Ud Din
Reflections on teachers and students’ views on teaching and learning experiences at university: A diary study, Amir Kaviani, Kara McKeown, and Jenny Eppard
An Adaptive Protection of Flooding Attacks Model for Complex Network Environments, Bashar Ahmad Khalaf, Salama A. Mostafa, Aida Mustapha, Mazin Abed Mohammed, Moamin A. Mahmoud, Bander Ali Saleh Al-Rimy, Shukor Abd Razak, Mohamed Elhoseny, and Adam Marks
Playing First-Person Perspective Games with Deep Reinforcement Learning Using the State-of-the-Art Game-AI Research Platforms, Adil Khan, Asad Masood Khattak, Muhammad Zubair Asghar, Muhammad Naeem, and Aziz Ud Din
Playing Doom with Anticipator-A3C Based Agents Using Deep Reinforcement Learning and the ViZDoom Game-AI Research Platform, Adil Khan, Muhammad Naeem, Asad Masood Khattak, Muhammad Zubair Asghar, and Abdul Haseeb Malik
Sustainable green nanoadsorbents for remediation of pharmaceuticals from water and wastewater: A critical review, Afzal Husain Khan, Nadeem Ahmad Khan, Mukarram Zubair, Mohd Azfar Shaida, Mohammad Saood Manzar, Ahmed Abutaleb, Mu Naushad, and Jibran Iqbal
Congestion avoidance in wireless sensor network using software defined network, Ahmed Nawaz Khan, Muhammad Adnan Tariq, Muhammad Asim, Zakaria Maamar, and Thar Baker
Supplementing Pochonia chlamydosporia with botanicals for management of Meloidogyne incognita infesting chickpea, Amir Khan, Manar Fawzi Bani Mfarrej, Moh Tariq, Mohd Asif, Hera Nadeem, Mansoor Ahmad Siddiqui, Mohamed Hashem, Saad Alamri, and Faheem Ahmad
Preparation of sustainable activated carbon-alginate beads impregnated with ionic liquid for phenol decontamination, Amir Sada Khan, Taleb H. Ibrahim, Mustafa I. Khamis, Paul Nancarrow, Jibran Iqbal, Inas AlNashef, Nabil Abdel Jabbar, Muhammad Faheem Hassan, and Farouq Sabri Mjalli