Submissions from 2021
Convolutional Neural Network Based Vehicle Classification in Adverse Illuminous Conditions for Intelligent Transportation Systems, Muhammad Atif Butt, Asad Masood Khattak, Sarmad Shafique, Bashir Hayat, Saima Abid, Ki Il Kim, Muhammad Waqas Ayub, Ahthasham Sajid, and Awais Adnan
Autobiographical meaning making protects the sense of self-continuity past forced migration, Christin Camia and Rida Zafar
CSR initiatives, organizational performance and the mediating role of integrating CSR into management control systems: Testing an inclusive model within SMEs in an emerging economy, Walid Cheffi, Ahmed Abdel-Maksoud, and Muhammad Omer Farooq
Guest editorial, Walid Cheffi, Chrisovaladis Malesios, and Prasanta Kumar Dey
Corporate social responsibility antecedents and practices as a path to enhance organizational performance: The case of small and medium sized enterprises in an emerging economy country, Walid Cheffi, Chrisovalantis Malesios, Ahmed Abdel-Maksoud, Sonia Abdennadher, and Prasanta Dey
Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19) Lockdown on Mental Health and Well-Being in the United Arab Emirates, Leila Cheikh Ismail, Maysm N. Mohamad, Mo'ath F. Bataineh, Abir Ajab, Amina M. Al-Marzouqi, Amjad H. Jarrar, Dima O. Abu Jamous, Habiba I. Ali, Haleama Al Sabbah, Hayder Hasan, Lily Stojanovska, Mona Hashim, Reyad R. Shaker Obaid, Sheima T. Saleh, Tareq M. Osaili, and Ayesha S. Al Dhaheri
A comparative study of academic literacy in English medium instruction programs in UAE and Finland, Geraldine Chell, Mirjamaija Mikkilä-Erdmann, Tuike Iiskala, and Anna Dillon
Variational Autoencoders and Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Networks for Improving the Anti-Money Laundering Process, ZhiYuan Chen, Waleed Soliman, Amril Nazir, and Mohammad Shorfuzzaman
The impact of COVID-19 on Italian accommodation: A supply-perspective, Giacomo Del Chiappa, Ilenia Bregoli, and Anestis K. Fotiadis
Reporting Conflict from Afar: Journalists, Social Media, Communication Technologies, and War, Britt Christensen and Ali Khalil
Linking posttraumatic stress disorder with eating disorders among Emirati university female students: The role of self-concealment, Man Cheung Chung, Zilan Ye, Na Wang, and Justin Thomas
Early Adolescents’ Food Selection After Evaluating the Healthiness of Remote Peers’ Food Choices, Ramón Cobo‐Reyes, Juan A. Lacomba, Francisco Lagos, Christina Zenker, and Ernesto Reuben
Validation of the Italian translation of the perceived stigma scale and resilience assessment in inflammatory bowel disease patients, Sara Cococcia, Marco Vincenzo Lenti, Caterina Mengoli, Catherine Klersy, Federica Borrelli de Andreis, Matteo Secco, Jihane Ghorayeb, Mariangela Delliponti, Gino Roberto Corazza, and Antonio Di Sabatino
Sense of effort is distorted in people with chronic low back pain, Michel W. Coppieters, Jesper Andersen, Håvard Selbæk, Kjell Herland, Rahma Ajja, Harald Markussen, and Paul W. Hodges
Pluriversal Politics: The Real and the Possible. Arturo Escobar (Durham: Duke University Press, 2020), Alexandra Cotofana
Dunning-Kruger Effect: Intuitive Errors Predict Overconfidence on the Cognitive Reflection Test, Mariana V. C. Coutinho, Justin Thomas, Alia S. M. Alsuwaidi, and Justin J. Couchman
Applying the computing professional skills assessment method to esl students in a computing program, Maurice Danaher, Anthony Rhodes, and Ashley Ater Kranov
Assessment of learning outcomes through an asynchronous on-line discussion board, Maurice Danaher, Anthony Rhodes, and Ashley Ater Kranov
Student Perceptions of an Asychronous Online Discussion Board Used to Assess the Professional Skills, Maurice Danaher, Anthony Rhodes, and Ashley Ater Kranov
A multi-model based microservices identification approach, Mohamed Daoud, Asmae El Mezouari, Noura Faci, Djamal Benslimane, Zakaria Maamar, and Aziz El Fazziki
Psychometric Properties of the Brazilian Version of the Revised Illness Perception Questionnaire for Healthy Women (IPQ-RH), Rebeca Veras de Andrade Vieira, Juliana Burges Sbicigo, Maria Júlia Armiliato, Elisa Kern de Castro, and Maria João Figueiras
An Evaluation of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Perceived Social Distancing Policies in Relation to Planning, Selecting, and Preparing Healthy Meals: An Observational Study in 38 Countries Worldwide, Charlotte De Backer, Lauranna Teunissen, Isabelle Cuykx, Paulien Decorte, Sara Pabian, Sarah Gerritsen, Christophe Matthys, Haleama Al Sabbah, and Kathleen Van Royen
Special issue: “contemporary issues in ensuring excellence in tourism, travel and hospitality” guest editorial, Giacomo Del Chiappa and Anestis K. Fotiadis
Visual communication and public relations: Visual frame building strategies in war and conflict stories, Ganga S. Dhanesh and Nadia Rahman
THECOG - Transforms in Behavioral and Affective Computing, Georgios Drakopoulos and Eleanna Kafeza
Transform-based graph topology similarity metrics, Georgios Drakopoulos, Eleanna Kafeza, Phivos Mylonas, and Lazaros Iliadis
Determinants of dental caries in children in the Middle East and North Africa region: a systematic review based on literature published from 2000 to 2019, Amal Elamin, Malin Garemo, and Anzelle Mulder
A Hybrid Machine Learning Approach for Sentiment Analysis of Partially Occluded Faces, May El Barachi, Manar Alkhatib, and Sujith Samuel Mathew
Integrated mixing machine for sulfur concrete production, Maisa El Gamal, Khaled El-Sawy, and Abdel-Mohsen O. Mohamed
Smart Dynamic Traffic Monitoring and Enforcement System, Youssef El-Hansali, Fatma Outay, Ansar Yasar, Siham Farrag, Muhammad Shoaib, Muhammad Imran, and Hammad Hussain Awan
Network centrality, connections, and social capital: Evidence from CEO insider trading gains, Rwan El‐Khatib, Dobrina Jandik, and Tomas Jandik
Framing the role of higher education in sustainable development: a case study analysis, Suzanna Elmassah, Marwa Biltagy, and Doaa Gamal
Islamic labeled firms: Revisiting Dow Jones measure of compliance, Ahmed Elnahas, Ghada Ismail, Rwan El‐Khatib, and M. Kabir Hassan
Teaching and assessing creativity in STEAM education, Areej ElSayary
Transdisciplinary STEAM Curriculum Design and Authentic Assessment in Online Learning: A Model of Cognitive, Psychomotor, and Affective Domains, Areej ElSayary
Transforming preservice teachers' learning in online courses: A framework of instructional design, Areej Elsayary
Using a Reflective Practice Model to Teach STEM Education in a Blended Learning Environment, Areej ElSayary
Early assessment of lung function in coronavirus patients using invariant markers from chest X-rays images, Mohamed Elsharkawy, Ahmed Sharafeldeen, Fatma Taher, Ahmed Shalaby, Ahmed Soliman, Ali Mahmoud, Mohammed Ghazal, Ashraf Khalil, Norah Saleh Alghamdi, Ahmed Abdel Khalek Abdel Razek, Eman Alnaghy, Moumen T. El-Melegy, Harpal Singh Sandhu, Guruprasad A. Giridharan, and Ayman El-Baz
Expatriate faculty and student perspectives on teaching and learning in a United Arab Emirates university, Jenny Eppard, Fatima Bailey, Kara McKeown, and Herveen Singh
Integrating Flipped Learning into an English Pre-Sessional Class at a Public University in the UAE: Reports from an SLL University Classroom, Jenny Eppard, Marlieke Gerdie Danique Rodjan-Helder, Sandra Baroudi, and Preeya Reddy
Lens on International Clinical Supervision: Lessons Learned from a Cross-National Comparison of Supervision, Carol Falender, Rodney Goodyear, Changming Duan, Fatima Al-Darmaki, Keeyeon Bang, Ayşe Çiftçi, Verónica Ruiz González, Maria del Pilar Grazioso, Majeda Humeidan, Xiaoming Jia, D. Yelda Kağnıcı, and Susan Partridge
Testing the pain paradox: a longitudinal study on PTSD from past trauma, alexithymia, mindfulness, and psychological distress, Siqi Fang and Man Cheung Chung
A review on the integration of deep learning and service-oriented architecture, Marcelo Fantinato, Sarajane Marques Peres, Eleanna Kafeza, Dickson K.W. Chiu, and Patrick C.K. Hung
Improving higher-order comprehension skills of Grade 3 learners in a second language at a quintile 2 school, in Cape Town, South Africa, Vuyokazi Fatyela, Janet Condy, Lawrence Meda, and Heather Phillips
The Dark Side of Social Media Engagement: An Analysis of User-Generated Content in Online Wildlife Trade Communities, Kim Feddema, Paul Harrigan, and Shasha Wang
Re-evaluating the notion of value in wildlife trade research from a service marketing perspective, Kim Feddema, K. A.I. Nekaris, Vincent Nijman, and Paul Harrigan
Levels of Trust in Information Sources as a Predictor of Protective Health Behaviors During COVID-19 Pandemic: A UAE Cross-Sectional Study, Maria J. Figueiras, Jihane Ghorayeb, Mariana V. C. Coutinho, João Marôco, and Justin Thomas
Novel coronavirus and tourism: coping, recovery, and regeneration issues, Anestis K. Fotiadis, Arch G. Woodside, Giacomo Del Chiappa, Hugues Séraphin, and Henning Otte Hansen
The good, the bad and the ugly on COVID-19 tourism recovery, Anestis Fotiadis, Stathis Polyzos, and Tzung Cheng T.C. Huan
UAE-Israel diplomatic normalization: a response to a turbulent Middle East region, Jonathan Fulton and Roie Yellinek
Limited tourism: travel bubbles for a sustainable future, Francesc Fusté-Forné and Noela Michael
Quality of learning experience, student satisfaction and perceived overall experience in the COVID-19 context, Venugopal Prabhakar Gantasala, Swapna Bhargavi Gantasala, Tareq Na'el Al Tawil, and Prerana Prasad
A Coarse-to-Fine Facial Landmark Detection Method Based on Self-attention Mechanism, Pengcheng Gao, Ke Lu, Jian Xue, Ling Shao, and Jiayi Lyu
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
Marketing strategies in communicating CSR in the Muslim market of the United Arab Emirates: insights from the banking sector, Effrosyni Georgiadou and Catherine Nickerson
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
#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
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
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