Submissions from 2020
How safe are school and bus environments? Parents’ perception of risks and hazards in the emirate of Dubai, Rania Dghaim, Mona El Kouatly Kambris, and Caroline Barakat
Who cares about organizational purpose and corporate social responsibility, and how can organizations adapt? A hypermodern perspective, Ganga S. Dhanesh
Examining the text quality of English/Arabic dual language children’s picture books, Anna Marie Dillon, Zeina Hojeij, Alecia Perkins, and Rima Malkawi
CLNet: A Compact Latent Network for Fast Adjusting Siamese Trackers, Xingping Dong, Jianbing Shen, Ling Shao, and Fatih Porikli
Building Trusted Startup Teams from LinkedIn Attributes: A Higher Order Probabilistic Analysis, Georgios Drakopoulos, Eleana Kafeza, Phivos Mylonas, and Haseena Al Katheeri
One Dimensional Cross-Correlation Methods for Deterministic and Stochastic Graph Signals with A Twitter Application in Julia, Georgios Drakopoulos and Eleanna Kafeza
Learning to Learn with Variational Information Bottleneck for Domain Generalization, Yingjun Du, Jun Xu, Huan Xiong, Qiang Qiu, Xiantong Zhen, Cees G.M. Snoek, and Ling Shao
Learning paradigms for communication and computing technologies in IoT systems, Waleed Ejaz, Mehak Basharat, Salman Saadat, Asad Masood Khattak, Muhammad Naeem, and Alagan Anpalagan
IoV-based Deployment and Scheduling of Charging Infrastructure in Intelligent Transportation Systems, Waleed Ejaz, Muhammad Naeem, Shree Krishna Sharma, Asad Masood Khattak, Muhammad Rashid Ramzan, Amjad Ali, and Alagan Anpalagan
Evaluating Citizens' Sentiments in Smart Cities: A Deep Learning Approach, Abdallah Elabora, Manar Alkhatib, Sujith Samuel Mathew, and May El Barachi
Scoping the evolution of corporate social responsibility (CSR) research in the sustainable development goals (SDGS) era, Amr ElAlfy, Nicholas Palaschuk, Dina El-Bassiouny, Jeffrey Wilson, and Olaf Weber
A location-based ubiquitous crowdsourcing approach for the emergency supply of oxygen cylinders, May El Barachi, Faouzi Kamoun, Abderrazek Hachani, Fatna Belqasmi, Amir Ben Said, and Imed Amri
The challenge of online privacy preservation in Muslim-majority countries during the COVID-19 pandemic, Dina El-Bassiouny and Noha El-Bassiouny
Personalized Computer-Aided Diagnosis for Mild Cognitive Impairment in Alzheimer's Disease Based on sMRI and C PiB-PET Analysis, Fatma El Zahraa A. El-Gamal, Mohammed M. Elmogy, Ashraf Khalil, Mohammed Ghazal, Jawad Yousaf, Xiaolu Qiu, Hassan H. Soliman, Ahmed Atwan, Hermann B. Frieboes, Gregory Neal Barnes, and Ayman S. El-Baz
Treatment of Industrial Alkaline Solid Wastes Using Carbon Dioxide, Maisa El Gamal, Abdel Mohsen Mohamed, and Suhaib Hameedi
Stabilization of active acetylene by-product via sequestration of co2, M. El Gamal, A. M.O. Mohamed, and S. Hameedi
Implication of genetic variants in overweight and obesity susceptibility among the young Arab population of the United Arab Emirates, Sarah El Hajj Chehadeh, Wael Osman, Suna Nazar, Laila Jerman, Ameera Alghafri, Ali Sajwani, Mohamed Alawlaqi, Mohamed AlObeidli, Herbert F. Jelinek, Fatme AlAnouti, Kinda Khalaf, and Habiba Alsafar
Message from the Conference Chairs, Hany El Kady, Qusay H. Mahmoud, Huwida Said, and Omar AlFandi
Preface, Hany El Kady, Qusay H. Mahmoud, Huwida Said, and Omar AlFandi
Do Women Directors Improve Firm Performance and Risk in India?, Rwan El-Khatib and Nishi Joy
Towards more secure EMV purchase transactions: A new security protocol formally analyzed by the Scyther tool, Nour El Madhoun, Emmanuel Bertin, Mohamad Badra, and Guy Pujolle
Spatiotemporal Mapping and Monitoring of Mangrove Forests Changes From 1990 to 2019 in the Northern Emirates, UAE Using Random Forest, Kernel Logistic Regression and Naive Bayes Tree Models, Samy I. Elmahdy, Tarig A. Ali, Mohamed M. Mohamed, Fares M. Howari, Mohamed Abouleish, and Daniel Simonet
What shapes students' perceptions of group work: personality or past experience?, Suzanna Elmassah, Shereen Mostafa Bacheer, and Reynold James
Engendering sustainable development competencies in higher education: The case of Egypt, Suzanna Elmassah, Marwa Biltagy, and Doaa Gamal
Digital transformation and localizing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Suzanna ElMassah and Mahmoud Mohieldin
Polyphenols are potential nutritional adjuvants for targeting COVID-19, Mohamed A. El-Missiry, Ahmed Fekri, Lakshmi A. Kesar, and Azza I. Othman
Computer Aided Autism Diagnosis Using Diffusion Tensor Imaging, Yaser A. Elnakieb, Mohamed T. Ali, Ahmed Soliman, Ali H. Mahmoud, Ahmed M. Shalaby, Norah Saleh Alghamdi, Mohammed Ghazal, Ashraf Khalil, Andrew Switala, Robert S. Keynton, Gregory Neal Barnes, and Ayman El-Baz
A case study on improving reading fluency at a university in the UAE, Jenny Eppard, Sandra Baroudi, and Aicha Rochdi
Value at risk, legislative framework, crises, and procyclicality: What goes wrong?, Vasileiou Evangelos and Aristeidis Samitas
The yield spread's ability to forecast economic activity: What have we learned after 30 years of studies?, Anastasios Evgenidis, Stephanos Papadamou, and Costas Siriopoulos
A Field Study of Arab Data Journalism Practices in the Digital Era, Nagwa Fahmy and Maha Abdul majeed Attia
Vitamin D and intestinal homeostasis: Barrier, microbiota, and immune modulation, Hana M.A. Fakhoury, Peter R. Kvietys, Wael AlKattan, Fatme Al Anouti, Muhammad Affan Elahi, Spyridon N. Karras, and William B. Grant
User community detection via embedding of social network structure and temporal content, Hossein Fani, Eric Jiang, Ebrahim Bagheri, Feras Al-Obeidat, Weichang Du, and Mehdi Kargar
Evaluating active traffc management (ATM) strategies under non-recurring congestion: Simulation-based with benefit cost analysis case study, Siham G. Farrag, Fatma Outay, Ansar Ul Haque Yasar, and Moulay Youssef El-Hansali
Toward the improvement of traffic incident management systems using Car2X technologies, Siham G. Farrag, Fatma Outay, Ansar Ul Haque Yasar, Davy Janssens, Bruno Kochan, and Nafaa Jabeur
Implied volatility indices – A review, Athanasios P. Fassas and Costas Siriopoulos
When staying long enough is enough?, Peter Fieger, Girish Prayag, C. Michael Hall, John Rice, and Stefan Gössling
Delivering quality and memorable tourism experience, Anestis K. Fotiadis and Anastasia Ef Spyridou
Editorial: Investigating the Impact of Current Issues on Leisure, Tourism, and Hospitality in Psychological Science, Anestis K. Fotiadis, Chris A. Vasilliadis, and Tzung-Cheng Huan
Travelling to compete: antecedents of individuals’ involvement in small-scale sports events, Anestis Fotiadis, Nikolaos Stylos, and Chris A. Vassiliadis
China in the Persian Gulf: Hedging under the US umbrella, Jonathan Fulton
Domestic Politics as Fuel for China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative: The Case of the Gulf Monarchies, Jonathan Fulton
Parallax visions of the belt and road initiative, Jonathan Fulton
Regions in the Belt and Road Initiative, Jonathan Fulton
Hyper-arid tall shrub species have differing long-term responses to browsing management, David J. Gallacher and Tamer Khafaga
An investigation into the linguistic landscape of translingual storybooks for Arabic-English bilingual children, Kay Gallagher and Afaf Bataineh
How the rate of change and control of a modular product architecture impact firm-level outcomes, Peter Galvin, Nicholas Burton, Norbert Bach, and John Rice
Home packed food for nursery children in United Arab Emirates provides suboptimal quality, Malin Garemo, Amal Elamin, and Andrew Gardner
Expression and Roles of Antimicrobial Peptides in Innate Defense of Airway Mucosa: Potential Implication in Cystic Fibrosis, Regina Geitani, Carole Ayoub Moubareck, Zhengzhong Xu, Dolla Karam Sarkis, and Lhousseine Touqui
Exploring strategic CSR communication on UAE banks' corporate websites, Effrosyni Georgiadou and Catherine Nickerson
Do economic news releases affect tail risk? Evidence from an emerging market, Konstantinos Gkillas, Christoforos Konstantatos, Athanasios Tsagkanos, and Costas Siriopoulos
Uncertainty in Euro area and the bond spreads, Konstantinos Gkillas, Athanasios Tsagkanos, Argyro Svingou, and Costas Siriopoulos
A point of view: can a narrative imagination approach to the business curriculum contribute to global citizenship and sustainability?, Valerie Priscilla Goby
Emirati women’s professional legitimacy: Synergy of the political and the personal amid constraint and self-determination, Valerie Priscilla Goby
Expat or citizen? Raising the question of a potential impact of status on leader behavior, Valerie Priscilla Goby and Abdelrahman Alhadhrami
Palaeotsunamis in the Sino-Pacific region, James Goff, Rob Witter, James Terry, and Michaela Spiske
Prescribing laughter to ameliorate mental health, sleep, and wellbeing in university students: A protocol for a feasibility study of a randomised controlled trial, Freda N. Gonot-Schoupinsky, Gulcan Garip, David Sheffield, Omar M. Omar, and Teresa Arora
Staff Training in Intellectual and Developmental Disability Settings: a Scoping Review, Laura Gormley, Olive Healy, Amanda Doherty, Darragh O’Regan, and Ian Grey
Targeted 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentration measurements and vitamin D3 supplementation can have important patient and public health benefits, William B. Grant, Fatme Al Anouti, and Meis Moukayed
The role of perceived social support on depression and sleep during the COVID-19 pandemic, Ian Grey, Teresa Arora, Justin Thomas, Ahmad Saneh, Pia Tomhe, and Rudy Abi-Habib
Preferred therapist characteristics of Muslim college women in the United Arab Emirates: implications for psychotherapy, Ian Grey, Pia Tohme, Justin Thomas, Mariam Al Mazrouie, and Rudy Abi-Habib
Emerging market debt and the COVID-19 pandemic: A time–frequency analysis of spreads and total returns dynamics, Mariya Gubareva and Zaghum Umar
Solar light responsive bismuth doped titania with Ti3+ for efficient photocatalytic degradation of flumequine: Synergistic role of peroxymonosulfate, Ikhtiar Gul, Murtaza Sayed, Noor S. Shah, Javed Ali Khan, Kyriaki Polychronopoulou, Jibran Iqbal, and Faiza Rehman
Is an Auditor's Propensity to Issue Going Concern Opinions a Valid Measure of Audit Quality?, Yihan Guo, Deborah Delaney, and Ammad Ahmed
Investigating environmental performance management, Vipin Gupta and Yi Zhang
The asymmetric role of corporate governance in CEO pay determination: evidence from South Africa, Ernest Gyapong, Maithm M.R. Khaghaany, and Ammad Ahmed
Exploiting Deep Neural Networks for Intention Mining, Anam Habib, Nosheen Jelani, Asad Masood Khattak, Saima Akbar, and Muhammad Zubair Asghar
Preface to the special issue on web information systems engineering (WISE 2018), Hakim Hacid, Wojciech Cellary, Hua Wang, and Yanchun Zhang
A green, energy, and trust-aware multi-objective cloud coalition formation approach, Souad Hadjres, Fatna Belqasmi, May El Barachi, and Nadjia Kara
Gender differences in waterpipe tobacco smoking among university students in four eastern mediterranean countries, Randah R. Hamadeh, Juhan Lee, Niveen M.E. Abu-Rmeileh, Muhammad Darawad, Aya Mostafa, Khalid A. Kheirallah, Afzalhussein Yusufali, Justin Thomas, Mohamed Salama, Rima Nakkash, and Ramzi G. Salloum
A Supply Chain Equilibrium Model with General Price-Dependent Demand, Younes Hamdouch and Kilani Ghoudi
The current burden of carbapenemases: Review of significant properties and dissemination among gram-negative bacteria, Dalal Hammoudi Halat and Carole Ayoub Moubareck
Elaboration and Characterization of ZnO/FTO thin films under different concentrations - Study dedicated to the photovoltaic systems - Study d, Slimani Hamza, Dagher Sawsan, Bessous Noureddine, Benhaoua Atmane, Laouini Salah Eddine, Mimouni Mourad, Ghougali Mebrouk, Chaabia Nacer, Fawwaz Al Khatib, Boshra Akhozheya, Maisa El Gamal, and Ali Tliba
Biography of a Tolerant Nation the Year in the United Arab Emirates, Szidonia Haragos
Connecting literacy to curriculum ideologies, Majed Harb and Hanada Taha Thomure
Mentoring and Coaching for English Language Teachers, Barbara Harold
Causes and risk factors of hospitalization among under-five children in kassala, eastern sudan, Ahmed A. Hassan, Zainab Taha, Mohammed A. Abdulla, Abdelaziem A. Ali, and Ishag Adam
A new hotbed for extremism? Jihadism and collective insecurity in the sahel, Hamdy A. Hassan
Sufi islamic discourse in Africa: From the greatest jihad to the establishment of the african caliphate, Hamdy A. Hassan
Thwarting ICMP low-rate attacks against firewalls while minimizing legitimate traffic loss, Kadhim Hayawi, Zouheir Trabelsi, Safaa Zeidan, and Mohammad Mehedy Masud
After-school care, child care arrangements, and child development, Ailin He and Nagham Sayour
The Balanced Scorecard: Measures That Drive Performance Evaluation in Auditing Firms, Mohamed Hegazy, Karim Hegazy, and Mohamed Eldeeb
A Psychometric Assessment of OCB: Clarifying the Distinction Between OCB and CWB and Developing a Revised OCB Measure, Alexandra A. Henderson, Garett C. Foster, Russell A. Matthews, and Michael J. Zickar
Insights from the study of Arabic reading, Ehab W. Hermena and Erik D. Reichle
Reforming Undergraduate Statistics Education in the Arab World in the Era of Information, Rafiq Hijazi and Ibrahim Alfaki
Dancing between English and Arabic: Complexities in Emirati Cultural Identities, Sarah Hopkyns
The use of English and linguistic hybridity among Emirati millennials, Sarah Hopkyns, Wafa Zoghbor, and Peter John Hassall
Baseline marine investigation and impact of fish farming on the marine environment in Jebel Ali, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Fares M. Howari, Ahmed A. Al-Taani, and Yousef Nazzal
Delineation of Copper Mineralization Zones at Wadi Ham, Northern Oman Mountains, United Arab Emirates Using Multispectral Landsat 8 (OLI) Data, Fares M. Howari, Habes Ghrefat, Yousef Nazzal, Mahmoud A. Galmed, Osman Abdelghany, Abdel Rahman Fowler, Manish Sharma, Fatima AlAydaroos, and Cijo M. Xavier
Meteorology of the Red Planet by dust devils, Fares M. Howari, Imen Ben Salem, Manish Sharma, Cijo Xavier, Yousef Nazzal, and Fatima Alaydaroos
Application of hyperspectral imaging technique to determine the quality of Photo and Thermal exposed and contaminated pharmaceutical formulations: A cost effective way of quality testing, Fares M. Howari, Cijo Xavier, Manish Sharma, Yousef Nazzal, Imen Ben Salem, and Fatima Alaydaroos
Effects of prolactin on ventricular myocyte shortening and calcium transport in the streptozotocin-induced diabetic rat, Frank C. Howarth, Gunnar Norstedt, Oleksiy I. Boldyriev, Muhammad A. Qureshi, Ozaz Mohamed, Khatija Parekh, Balaji Venkataraman, Sandeep Subramanya, Anatoliy Shmygol, and Lina T. Al Kury
Annual outbreaks of coral disease coincide with extreme seasonal warming, E. J. Howells, G. O. Vaughan, T. M. Work, J. A. Burt, and D. Abrego
Layer-Wise Conditioning Analysis in Exploring the Learning Dynamics of DNNs, Lei Huang, Jie Qin, Li Liu, Fan Zhu, and Ling Shao
Postdigital Feminism and Cultural Visual Regimes: Covid-19 at Women’s Only University in the Gulf, Zoe Hurley
AI Techniques for COVID-19, Adedoyin Ahmed Hussain, Ouns Bouachir, Fadi Al-Turjman, and Moayad Aloqaily
Plant-Associated Microbes Alter Root Growth by Modulating Root Apical Meristem, Anwar Hussain
Asymmetric capital structure speed of adjustment, equity mispricing and Shari'ah compliance of Malaysian firms, Hafezali Iqbal Hussain, Mohsin Ali, M. Kabir Hassan, and Rwan El-Khatib
Investigating the role of leader-member exchange for goal commitment in system implementation, Yujong Hwang, Soyean Kim, and Donghee Shin