Submissions from 2020
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
VAE-GAN based zero-shot outlier detection, Bekkouch Imad Ibrahim, Dragos Constantin Nicolae, Adil Khan, Syed Imran Ali, and Asad Khattak
Detection and Analysis of Drive-by Downloads and Malicious Websites, Saeed Ibrahim, Nawwaf Al Herami, Ebrahim Al Naqbi, and Monther Aldwairi
Green Production and Structural Evaluation of Maize Starch–Fatty Acid Complexes Through High Speed Homogenization, Ijaz, Misbah Uddin, Nasir Mehmood Khan, Farman Ali, Zia Ullah Khan, Nawshad Muhammad, Jibran Iqbal, Noor Rehman, Abdul Khaliq Jan, and Shujaat Ahmad
Benzimidazole containing acetamide derivatives attenuate neuroinflammation and oxidative stress in ethanol-induced neurodegeneration, Muhammad Imran, Lina Tariq Al Kury, Humaira Nadeem, Fawad Ali Shah, Muzaffar Abbas, Shagufta Naz, Arif Ullah Khan, and Shupeng Li
Potential of siltstone and its composites with biochar and magnetite nanoparticles for the removal of cadmium from contaminated aqueous solutions: Batch and column scale studies, Muhammad Imran, Zia Ul Haq Khan, Jibran Iqbal, Noor Samad Shah, Saima Muzammil, Shafaqat Ali, Nawshad Muhammad, Arwa Aziz, Behzad Murtaza, Muhammad Asif Naeem, Muhammad Amjad, Muhammad Shahid, Ali Zakir, and Muhammad Rizwan
Effect of biochar modified with magnetite nanoparticles and HNO3 for efficient removal of Cr(VI) from contaminated water: A batch and column scale study, Muhammad Imran, Zia Ul Haq Khan, Muhammad Mohsin Iqbal, Jibran Iqbal, Noor Samad Shah, Saba Munawar, Shafaqat Ali, Behzad Murtaza, Muhammad Asif Naeem, and Muhammad Rizwan
Synthesis of nitrogen-doped Ceria nanoparticles in deep eutectic solvent for the degradation of sulfamethaxazole under solar irradiation and additional antibacterial activities, Jibran Iqbal, Noor S. Shah, Murtaza Sayed, Javed Ali Khan, Nawshad Muhammad, Zia Ul Haq Khan, Saif-ur-Rehman, Muhammad Naseem, Fares M. Howari, Yousef Nazzal, Nabeel Khan Niazi, Aseel Hussein, and Kyriaki Polychronopoulou
Deep eutectic solvent-mediated synthesis of ceria nanoparticles with the enhanced yield for photocatalytic degradation of flumequine under UV-C, Jibran Iqbal, Noor S. Shah, Murtaza Sayed, Nawshad Muhammad, Saif ur Rehman, Javed Ali Khan, Zia Ul Haq Khan, Fares M. Howari, Yousef Nazzal, Cijo Xavier, Sidra Arshad, Aseel Hussein, and Kyriaki Polychronopoulou
Comparison of vibration and acoustic responses in a rotary machine balancing process, Javad Isavand, Afshar Kasaei, Andrew Peplow, Babak Afzali, and Ebrahim Shirzadi
Performing building vibration assessments by acoustic measurements, Javad Isavand, Andrew Peplow, and Afshar Kasaei
Eating habits and lifestyle during covid-19 lockdown in the united arab emirates: A cross-sectional study, Leila Cheikh Ismail, Tareq M. Osaili, Maysm N. Mohamad, Amina Al Marzouqi, Amjad H. Jarrar, Dima O.Abu Jamous, Emmanuella Magriplis, Habiba I. Ali, Haleama Al Sabbah, Hayder Hasan, Latifa M.R. Almarzooqi, Lily Stojanovska, Mona Hashim, Reyad R.Shaker Obaid, Sheima T. Saleh, and Ayesha S.Al Dhaheri
Gross Fraud in the UAE Civil Code: From Its Roots in Islamic Jurisprudence to Contemporary Proposals for Reform, Iyad Mohammad Jadalhaq
Tort law makes a quantum leap: a review of the civil liability regime for nuclear operators in UAE law, Iyad Mohammad Jadalhaq and Enas Mohammad Alqodsi
Finding Direction at the Edge of Law and Life: Islamic Fiqh, Correspondence, and UAE Takāful Insurance Regulation, Iyad Mohammad Jadalhaq and Luigi Russi
Culture, Structure, and Health: Narratives of Low-income Bangladeshi Migrant Workers from the United Arab Emirates, Raihan Jamil and Rati Kumar
Philosophy of education in a new key: Who remembers Greta Thunberg? Education and environment after the coronavirus, Petar Jandrić, Jimmy Jaldemark, Zoe Hurley, Brendan Bartram, Adam Matthews, Michael Jopling, Julia Mañero, Alison MacKenzie, Jones Irwin, Ninette Rothmüller, Benjamin Green, Shane J. Ralston, Olli Pyyhtinen, Sarah Hayes, Jake Wright, Michael A. Peters, and Marek Tesar
Integrity verification and behavioral classification of a large dataset applications pertaining smart OS via blockchain and generative models, Salman Jan, Shahrulniza Musa, Toqeer Ali, Mohammad Nauman, Sajid Anwar, Tamleek Ali Tanveer, and Babar Shah
Trustworthy and sustainable smart city services at the edge, Yaser Jararweh, Safa Otoum, and Ismaeel Al Ridhawi
Prosocial Motivation as a Driver of Social Innovation in the UAE, Sophia Soyoung Jeong and Dhia Waddah Talib Ali Alhanaee
The dark side of bright traits: How context cues misdirect facets of conscientiousness, Sophia Soyoung Jeong, M. Audrey Korsgaard, and Daniel Morrell
Softening the Hearts of Business Students: The Role of Emotions in Ethical Decision Making, Sophia S. Jeong, Cong Sun, and Ping Ping Fu
Does size really matter in university preparatory english language classrooms?, Wayne Jones, Kay Gallagher, and Jessica Midraj
A multi-branch separable convolution neural network for pedestrian attribute recognition, Imran N. Junejo and Naveed Ahmed
Developing a green curriculum for introduction to information technology course, Sanaa Kaddoura
A Spam Email Detection Mechanism for English Language Text Emails Using Deep Learning Approach, Sanaa Kaddoura, Omar Alfandi, and Nadia Dahmani
Promoting Teaching Practices in IT Higher Education, Sanaa Kaddoura and Rima Grati
Preface, E. Kafeza, B. Benatallah, F. Martinelli, H. Hacid, A. Bouguettaya, and H. Motahari
Legal smart contracts in ethereum block chain: Linking the dots, Eleanna Kafeza, Syed Juned Ali, Irene Kafeza, and Haseena Alkatheeri
T-PCCE: Twitter Personality based Communicative Communities Extraction System for Big Data, Eleanna Kafeza, Andreas Kanavos, Christos Makris, Georgios Pispirigos, and Pantelis Vikatos
Behavioral and Migration Analysis of the Dynamic Customer Relationships on Twitter, Eleanna Kafeza, Christos Makris, Gerasimos Rompolas, and Feras Al-Obeidat
Real-time tracking and mining of users’ actions over social media, Ejub Kajan, Noura Faci, Zakaria Maamar, Mohamed Sellami, Emir Ugljanin, Hamamache Kheddouci, Dragan H. Stojanović, and Djamal Benslimane
A deep learning framework for malware classification, Mahmoud Kalash, Mrigank Rochan, Noman Mohammed, Neil Bruce, Yang Wang, and Farkhund Iqbal
Forecasting with deep learning: S&P 500 index, Firuz Kamalov, Linda Smail, and Ikhlaas Gurrib
Stock price forecast with deep learning, Firuz Kamalov, Linda Smail, and Ikhlaas Gurrib
A geolocation-aware mobile crowdsourcing solution for the emergency supply of oxygen cylinders, Faouzi Kamoun, May El Barachi, Abderrazak Hachani, Fatna Belqasmi, Amir Ben Said, and Imed Amri
AI and machine learning: A mixed blessing for cybersecurity, Faouzi Kamoun, Farkhund Iqbal, Mohamed Amir Esseghir, and Thar Baker
Analysis of the Importance of Systolic Blood Pressure Versus Diastolic Blood Pressure in Diagnosing Hypertension: MRA Study., Heba Kandil, Ahmed Soliman, Fatma Taher, Mohammed Ghazal, Mohiuddin Hadi, Adel Elmaghraby, and Ayman El-Baz
A novel computer-aided diagnosis system for the early detection of hypertension based on cerebrovascular alterations, Heba Kandil, Ahmed Soliman, Fatma Taher, Mohammed Ghazal, Ashraf Khalil, Guruprasad Giridharan, Robert Keynton, J. Richard Jennings, and Ayman El-Baz
The adaptation of anthropomorphism and archetypes for marketing artificial intelligence, Gulnara Z. Karimova and Valerie Priscilla Goby
Linguistic landscape in a city of migrants: a study of Souk Naif area in Dubai, Magdalena Karolak
Social media in democratic transitions and consolidations: what can we learn from the case of Tunisia?, Magdalena Karolak
Saudi Women as Decision Makers: Analyzing the Media Portrayal of Female Political Participation in Saudi Arabia, Magdalena Karolak and Hala Guta
Vitamin D receptor Fokl polymorphism is a determinant of both maternal and neonatal vitamin D concentrations at birth, Spyridon N. Karras, Theocharis Koufakis, Vasiliki Antonopoulou, Dimitrios G. Goulis, Merve Alaylıoğlu, Erdinc Dursun, Duygu Gezen-Ak, Cedric Annweiler, Stefan Pilz, Hana Fakhoury, Fatme Al Anouti, Vikentia Harizopoulou, Declan P. Naughton, Pantelis Zebekakis, and Kalliopi Kotsa
Development of new organic-inorganic, hybrid bionanocomposite from cellulose and clay for enhanced removal of Drimarine Yellow HF-3GL dye, Abida Kausar, Ramsha Shahzad, Jibran Iqbal, Nawshad Muhammad, Sobhy M. Ibrahim, and Munawar Iqbal
On the Significance of Students’ Appraisals of Their Language Learning Experiences at University: A Phenomenological Approach, Amir Kaviani
On the effect of credit rating announcements on sovereign bonds: International evidence, Dimitrios Kenourgios, Zaghum Umar, and Paraskevi Lemonidi
Changing systems and challenging inequalities: The ford foundation's mission and programs, Riham Ahmed Khafagy
IoT-Enabled flood severity prediction via ensemble machine learning models, Mohammed Khalaf, Haya Alaskar, Abir Jaafar Hussain, Thar Baker, Zakaria Maamar, Rajkumar Buyya, Panos Liatsis, Wasiq Khan, Hissam Tawfik, and Dhiya Al-Jumeily
An Assortment of Evolutionary Computation Techniques (AECT) in gaming, Maham Khalid, Feras Al-Obeidat, Abdallah Tubaishat, Babar Shah, Saad Razzaq, Fahad Maqbool, and Muhammad Ilyas
Gender stereotypes in television advertising in the Middle East: Time for marketers and advertisers to step up, Ali Khalil and Ganga S. Dhanesh
Social media and connective action: The case of the Saudi women’s movement for the right to drive, Ali Khalil and Leysan Khakimova Storie
Investigating Bias in Facial Analysis Systems: A Systematic Review, Ashraf Khalil, Soha Glal Ahmed, Asad Masood Khattak, and Nabeel Al-Qirim
On the optimality of route selection in grid wireless sensor networks: Theory and applications, Yaser Khamayseh, Wail Mardini, Monther Aldwairi, and Hussein Mouftah
Dynamic framework to mining Internet of Things for multimedia services, Yaser Khamayseh, Wail Mardini, J. William Atwood, and Monther Aldwairi
Towards a Novel Intrusion Detection Architecture using Artificial Intelligence, Salam Khanji and Asad Khattak
Microbial communities and their predictive functional profiles in the arid soil of Saudi Arabia, Munawwar A. Khan and Shams T. Khan
Occurrence of extended spectrum beta-lactamase gram-negative bacteria from non-clinical sources in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Munawwar A. Khan, Nicola E. Thurgood, Sultan M. Faheem, Naushad Rais, Mohammad Z. Ansari, Sultan M. Kaleem, and Shams T. Khan
Epidemiology of brain tumors in the United Arab Emirates: A National Registry Cross-sectional Study, Sarah Khan, Mona El Kouatly Kambris, and Eman T. Alshamsi
Biomedical and photocatalytic applications of biosynthesized silver nanoparticles: Ecotoxicology study of brilliant green dye and its mechanistic degradation pathways, Zia Ul Haq Khan, Noor Samad Shah, Jibran Iqbal, Arif Ullah Khan, Muhammad Imran, Saad M. Alshehri, Nawshad Muhammad, Murtaza Sayed, Naveed Ahmad, Amina Kousar, Munazza Ashfaq, Fares Howari, and Kamran Tahir
A survey on sentiment analysis in Urdu: A resource-poor language, Asad Khattak, Muhammad Zubair Asghar, Anam Saeed, Ibrahim A. Hameed, Syed Asif Hassan, and Shakeel Ahmad