Submissions from 2021
IT Teaching Labs: Innovations in a Distance Education Era, Ahmed Seffah, Mohammad Amin Kuhail, and Joao Negreiros
Early screening for post-stroke depression, and the effect on functional outcomes, quality of life and mortality: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis, Sudhakar Selvaraj, Teresa Arora, Tahani Casameni Montiel, Ian Grey, Hind Alfraih, Melissa Fadipe, Robert Suchting, Sean Savitz, Jennifer E. Sanner Beauchamp, and Linda Östlundh
A Novel Framework for Accurate and Non-Invasive Pulmonary Nodule Diagnosis by Integrating Texture and Contour Descriptors, Ahmed Shaffie, Ahmed Soliman, Hadil Abu Khalifeh, Mohammed Ghazal, Fatma Taher, Adel Elmaghraby, and Ayman El-Baz
An Alternate Account on the Ethical Implications of Autonomous Vehicles, Muhammad Umair Shah, Umair Rehman, Farkhund Iqbal, Mohammed Hussain, and Fazli Wahid
Ionic liquid functionalized nano-zerovalent cerium for catalytic degradation of carbamazepine and colorimetric sensing of H2O2, Noor S. Shah, Jibran Iqbal, Murtaza Sayed, Sajid Rauf, Munirah D. Albaqami, Javed Ali Khan, Zia Ul Haq Khan, Faiza Rehman, Ajmal Khan, Muhammad Naseem, and Aleena Imtiaz Hashmi
Advances in the synthesis and application of anti-fouling membranes using two-dimensional nanomaterials, Asif Shahzad, Jae Min Oh, Mudassar Azam, Jibran Iqbal, Sabir Hussain, Waheed Miran, and Kashif Rasool
Designing a relational model to identify relationships between suspicious customers in anti-money laundering (AML) using social network analysis (SNA), Abdul Khalique Shaikh, Malik Al-Shamli, and Amril Nazir
A comprehensive review on the removal of noxious pollutants using carrageenan based advanced adsorbents, Gaurav Sharma, Atul Khosla, Amit Kumar, Nikhil Kaushal, Shweta Sharma, Mu Naushad, Dai-Viet N Vo, Jibran Iqbal, and Florian J Stadler
Information, communications and media technologies for sustainability: Constructing data-driven policy narratives, Ravishankar Sharma, Aijaz A. Shaikh, Stephen Bekoe, and Gautam Ramasubramanian
Designing Recommendation or Suggestion Systems: looking to the future, Ravi S. Sharma, Aijaz A. Shaikh, and Eldon Li
The Systematic Implementation of an Innovative Postgraduate Online Learning Model in the Middle East, Nessrin Shaya and Laila Mohebi
Panic buying or preparedness? The effect of information, anxiety and resilience on stockpiling by Muslim consumers during the COVID-19 pandemic, Claire Eloise Sherman, Damien Arthur, and Justin Thomas
A cross-national study on the perception of algorithm news in the east and the west, Donghee Shin
Does augmented reality augment user affordance? The effect of technological characteristics on game behaviour, Donghee Shin
How do people judge the credibility of algorithmic sources?, Donghee Shin
The effects of explainability and causability on perception, trust, and acceptance: Implications for explainable AI, Donghee Shin
The perception of humanness in conversational journalism: An algorithmic information-processing perspective, Donghee Shin
Why Does Explainability Matter in News Analytic Systems? Proposing Explainable Analytic Journalism, Donghee Shin
Why am I seeing this? Deconstructing algorithm literacy through the lens of users, Donghee Shin, Azmat Rasul, and Anestis Fotiadis
Partners in learning: ‘An exploration of multi-cultural faculty and Emirati students' perspectives of university learning experiences’, Herveen Singh, Fatima Bailey, Jenny Eppard, and Kara McKeown
Classification and Analysis of Android Malware Images Using Feature Fusion Technique, Jaiteg Singh, Deepak Thakur, Tanya Gera, Babar Shah, Tamer Abuhmed, and Farman Ali
The effect of different methods to identify, and scenarios used to address energy intake misestimation on dietary patterns derived by cluster analysis, Geraldine Lo Siou, Alianu K. Akawung, Nathan M. Solbak, Kathryn L. McDonald, Ala Al Rajabi, Heather K. Whelan, and Sharon I. Kirkpatrick
Lessons for Euro markets from the first wave of COVID-19, Costas Siriopoulos, Argyro Svingou, and Jagadish Dandu
Art tourism: definitions, opportunities, and discussions based on a case study from Abu Dhabi, Nataša Slak Valek
Hybrid Approach for Resource Allocation in Cloud Infrastructure Using Random Forest and Genetic Algorithm, Madhusudhan H S, Satish Kumar T, S.M.F D Syed Mustapha, Punit Gupta, and Rajan Prasad Tripathi
Smart pansharpening approach using kernel-based image filtering, Ahmad A.L. Smadi, Shuyuan Yang, Atif Mehmood, Ahed Abugabah, Min Wang, and Muzaffar Bashir
Auditor liability and excess cash holdings: Evidence from audit fees of foreign incorporated firms, Deborah Drummond Smith, Kimberly C. Gleason, and Yezen H. Kannan
Administering a combination of online dietary assessment tools, the Automated Self-Administered 24-Hour Dietary Assessment Tool, and Diet History Questionnaire II, in a cohort of adults in Alberta's Tomorrow Project, Nathan M. Solbak, Paula J. Robson, Geraldine Lo Siou, Ala Al Rajabi, Seol Paek, Jennifer E. Vena, and Sharon I. Kirkpatrick
An application of the Kowalewski Conditions, Nicola Sottocornola
A new case of separability in a quartic hénon-heiles system, Nicola Sottocornola
Remote working in the time of covid-19: developing a web-based community, Martin Sposato
"We should not bury our language by our hands": Crafting creative translanguaging spaces in higher education in the UAE, Telma Gharibian Steinhagen and Fatma Said
Internal/external frame of reference model and dimensional comparison theory: a novel exploration of their applicability among Arab high school students, Joana Stocker, Maher Abu-Hilal, Ehab Hermena, Maryam AlJassmi, and Mariapaola Barbato
Beyond smart systems adoption: Enabling diffusion and assimilation of smartness in hospitality, Nikolaos Stylos, Anestis K. Fotiadis, Donghee Shin, and Tzung-Cheng TC Huan
Do analysts' forecast properties deter suboptimal labor investment decisions? Evidence from Regulation Fair Disclosure, Mohammed Aminu Sualihu, Alfred Yawson, and Iliyas Yusoff
Spatio-temporal characteristics of PM2.5, PM10, and AOD over the central line project of China’s South-NorthWater diversion in Henan Province (China), Bo Su, Dongyu Wu, Miao Zhang, Muhammad Bilal, Yuying Li, Bai Lian Li, Luqman Atique, Ziyue Zhang, and Fares M. Howari
Global uncertainty and Global Economic Policy Uncertainty: Different implications for firm investment, Hyunduk Suh and Jin Young Yang
The use of mobile payment systems in post-COVID-19 economic recovery: Primary research on an emerging market for experience goods, Maiya M. Suyunchaliyeva, Raghav Nautiyal, Aijaz A. Shaikh, and Ravishankar Sharma
Online self-assessments need to be regular and reflective to foster student engagement and success, Arthur J. Swart and Lawrence Meda
Visual comparison of clustering using link-based clustering method (Lbcm) without predetermining initial centroid information, S. M.F.D. Syed Mustapha, Biju Theruvil, and Mukesh Madanan
A review of the efficacy of the dietary intervention in autism spectrum disorder, Zainab Taha and Khalid A. Abdalhai
Factors Associated with Delayed Initiation and Cessation of Breastfeeding Among Working Mothers in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates, Zainab Taha, Ahmed Ali Hassan, Ludmilla Wikkeling-Scott, and Dimitrios Papandreou
A Novel MRA-Based Framework for Segmenting the Cerebrovascular System and Correlating Cerebral Vascular Changes to Mean Arterial Pressure, Fatma Taher, Heba Kandil, Yitzhak Gebru, Ali Mahmoud, Ahmed Shalaby, Shady El‐mashad, and Ayman El‐Baz
A comprehensive review of retinal vascular and optical nerve diseases based on optical coherence tomography angiography, Fatma Taher, Heba Kandil, Hatem Mahmoud, Ali Mahmoud, Ahmed Shalaby, Mohammed Ghazal, Marah Talal Alhalabi, Harpal Singh Sandhu, and Ayman El-Baz
Automatic cerebrovascular segmentation methods - a review, Fatma Taher and Neema Prakash
Early detection of lung cancer - A challenge, Fatma Taher, Neema Prakash, and Ashraf AlZaabi
An Overview of Lung Cancer Classification Algorithms and their Performances, F. Taher, N. Prakash, A. Shaffie, A. Soliman, and A. El-Baz
Big data quality framework: a holistic approach to continuous quality management, Ikbal Taleb, Mohamed Adel Serhani, Chafik Bouhaddioui, and Rachida Dssouli
Diabetes and Cancer: Metabolic Association, Therapeutic Challenges, and the Role of Natural Products, Wamidh H. Talib, Asma Ismail Mahmod, Sara Feras Abuarab, Eliza Hasen, Amer A. Munaim, Shatha Khaled Haif, Amani Marwan Ayyash, Samar Khater, Intisar Hadi Al-Yasari, and Lina T. Al Kury
A study of meta-analyses reporting quality in the large and expanding literature of educational technology, Rana M. Tamim, Evgueni Borokhovski, Robert M. Bernard, Richard F. Schmid, Philip C. Abrami, and David I. Pickup
The Legal Basis for a Holding Company's Liability for Its Subsidiary's Debt: Comparative Analysis of the UAE and the Egyptian Legal Systems, Fady Tawakol, Walaa Eldeen Ibrahim, and Nayel Musa Alomran
International financial reporting standards, domestic debt finance and institutional quality: Evidence from developing countries, Vincent Tawiah and Ernest Gyapong
Emiratization and Workforce Innovation in Banking Sector, Kienpin Tee and Xiaoshu Li
Giant palaeotsunami in Kiribati: Converging evidence from geology and oral history, James P. Terry, Robert Karoro, Gennady A. Gienko, Marta Wieczorek, and A. Y. Annie Lau
Clustered, Stacked and Imbricated Large Coastal Rock Clasts on Ludao Island, Southeast Taiwan, and Their Application to Palaeotyphoon Intensity Assessment, James P. Terry, A.Y. Annie Lau, Kim Anh Nguyen, Yuei-An Liou, and Adam D. Switzer
Cognitive Vulnerability and Depressive Symptoms among Emirati College Students Before and After the Enactment of COVID-19 Curfew and Home-learning Measures, Justin Thomas, Omnya Alkatheeri, and Ian Grey
Mindfulness, Stress Reactivity, and Depressive Symptoms Among “Third Culture Kids” in the United Arab Emirates, Justin Thomas, Majeda Humeidan, Carmen Barrack, and Kelly L. Huffman
Containing COVID-19 risk in the UAE: Mass quarantine, mental health, and implications for crisis management, Justin Thomas and James P. Terry
Existence of long memory in crude oil and petroleum products: Generalised Hurst exponent approach, Aviral Kumar Tiwari, Zaghum Umar, and Faisal Alqahtani
Multi source retinal fundus image classification using convolution neural networks fusion and Gabor-based texture representation, Radia Touahri, Nabiha Azizi, Nacer Eddine Hammami, Monther Aldwairi, Nacer Eddine Benzebouchi, and Ouided Moumene
Improved sine cosine algorithm with simulated annealing and singer chaotic map for Hadith classification, Mohammad Tubishat, Salinah Ja’afar, Norisma Idris, Mohammed Azmi Al-Betar, Mohammed Alswaitti, Hazim Jarrah, Maizatul Akmar Ismail, and Mardian Shah Omar
Entropy based features distribution for anti-ddos model in SDN, Raja Majid Ali Ujjan, Zeeshan Pervez, Keshav Dahal, Wajahat Ali Khan, Asad Masood Khattak, and Bashir Hayat
Media sentiment and short stocks performance during a systemic crisis, Zaghum Umar, Oluwasegun Babatunde Adekoya, Johnson Ayobami Oliyide, and Mariya Gubareva
The impact of COVID-19 induced panic on the return and volatility of precious metals, Zaghum Umar, Saqib Aziz, and Dima Tawil
Faith-based investments and the Covid-19 pandemic: Analyzing equity volatility and media coverage time-frequency relations, Zaghum Umar and Mariya Gubareva
The relationship between the Covid-19 media coverage and the Environmental, Social and Governance leaders equity volatility: a time-frequency wavelet analysis, Zaghum Umar and Mariya Gubareva
Return and volatility transmission between oil price shocks and agricultural commodities, Zaghum Umar, Mariya Gubareva, Muhammad Naeem, and Ayesha Akhter
The impact of the Covid-19 related media coverage upon the five major developing markets, Zaghum Umar, Mariya Gubareva, and Tatiana Sokolova
The impact of Covid-19 on commodity markets volatility: Analyzing time-frequency relations between commodity prices and coronavirus panic levels, Zaghum Umar, Mariya Gubareva, and Tamara Teplova
Impact of the Covid-19 induced panic on the Environmental, Social and Governance leaders equity volatility: A time-frequency analysis, Zaghum Umar, Mariya Gubareva, and Dang Khoa Tran
A tale of company fundamentals vs sentiment driven pricing: The case of GameStop, Zaghum Umar, Mariya Gubareva, Imran Yousaf, and Shoaib Ali
The impact of COVID-19-related media coverage on the return and volatility connectedness of cryptocurrencies and fiat currencies, Zaghum Umar, Francisco Jareño, and María de la O González
Agricultural commodity markets and oil prices: An analysis of the dynamic return and volatility connectedness, Zaghum Umar, Francisco Jareño, and Ana Escribano
Dynamic return and volatility connectedness for dominant agricultural commodity markets during the COVID-19 pandemic era, Zaghum Umar, Francisco Jareño, and Ana Escribano
Oil price shocks and the return and volatility spillover between industrial and precious metals, Zaghum Umar, Francisco Jareño, and Ana Escribano
Return and volatility transmission between emerging markets and US debt throughout the pandemic crisis, Zaghum Umar, Youssef Manel, Yasir Riaz, and Mariya Gubareva
Strategic asset allocation and the demand for real estate: international evidence, Zaghum Umar and Dennis Olson
Patterns of Spillover in Energy, Agricultural, and Metal Markets: A Connectedness Analysis for Years 1780-2020, Zaghum Umar, Yasir Riaz, and Adam Zaremba
Spillover and risk transmission in the components of the term structure of eurozone yield curve, Zaghum Umar, Yasir Riaz, and Adam Zaremba
Connectedness between cryptocurrency and technology sectors: International evidence, Zaghum Umar, Nader Trabelsi, and Faisal Alqahtani
Oil shocks and equity markets: The case of GCC and BRIC economies, Zaghum Umar, Nader Trabelsi, and Adam Zaremba
The relationship between yield curve components and equity sectorial indices: Evidence from China, Zaghum Umar, Imran Yousaf, and David Y. Aharon
Comovements between Heavily Shorted Stocks during a Market Squeeze: Lessons from the GameStop Trading Frenzy, Zaghum Umar, Imran Yousaf, and Adam Zaremba
Population structure associated with Bioregion and seasonal prey distribution for Indo‐Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) in South Africa, O. Alejandra Vargas‐Fonseca, Paige Yates, Stephan P. Kirkman, Pierre A. Pistorius, Daniel M. Moore, Ada Natoli, Victor Cockcroft, and A. Rus Hoelzel
Identifying service product features associated with visitor satisfaction and revisit intention: A focus on sports events, Chris A. Vassiliadis, Claudel Mombeuil, and Anestis K. Fotiadis
Gaming Disorder and Well-Being Among Emirati College Women, Marina Verlinden, Justin Thomas, Mahra Hasan Abdulla Ahamed Almansoori, and Shamil Wanigaratne
Assessing cognitive, social and teaching presences during emergency remote teaching at a South African university, Zayd Waghid, Lawrence Meda, and Jane Adhiambo Chiroma
EfficientNet-Lite and Hybrid CNN-KNN Implementation for Facial Expression Recognition on Raspberry Pi, Mohd Nadhir Ab Wahab, Anthony Tan Zhen Ren, Amril Nazir, Mohd Halim Mohd Noor, Muhammad Firdaus Akbar, and Ahmad Sufril Azlan Mohamed
Introduction: Gender, cultural constructions and representations in the Gulf, Sarina Wakefield and Sabrina DeTurk
Stopover destination loyalty: The influence of perceived ambience and sensation seeking tendency, Di Wang, Filareti Kotsi, Steven Pike, and Jun Yao
Quantitative analysis and performance evaluation of target-oriented replication strategies in cloud computing, Quadri Waseem, Wan Isni Sofiah Wan Din, Sultan S. Alshamrani, Abdullah Alharbi, and Amril Nazir
RootAsRole: Towards a Secure Alternative to sudo/su Commands for Home Users and SME Administrators, Ahmad Samer Wazan, David W. Chadwick, Remi Venant, Romain Laborde, and Abdelmalek Benzekri
Which Virtualization Technology is Right for My Online IT Educational Labs?, Ahmad Samer Wazan, Mohammad Amin Kuhail, Kadhim Hayawi, and Rémi Venant
Organic Reach on YouTube: What Makes People Click on Videos from Social Media Influencers?, Jason Weismueller and Paul Harrigan
Forensic Analysis of Fitbit Versa: Android vs iOS, Joseph Williams, Aine Macdermott, Kellyann Stamp, and Farkhund Iqbal
Pokemon GO: Serious Leisure and Game-Playing Tourists, Russell B. Williams
Understanding Games and Gamified Experiences: The MAPS-AIM Model, Russell B. Williams
A framework for managing innovation in higher education: lessons learnt from the UAE iPad initiative, Kenesha Wilson and Jobila Sy
The expansion of e-learning in the UAE: Implications and opportunities in the post-COVID-19 era, Shytance Wren