Submissions from 2019
A Novel Fully Automated CAD System for Left Ventricle Volume Estimation, Omar Dekhil, Fatma Taher, Fahmi Khalifa, Garth Beache, Adel Elmaghraby, and Ayman El-Baz
Relationship management through social media influencers: Effects of followers’ awareness of paid endorsement, Ganga S. Dhanesh and Gaelle Duthler
Public relations in the Middle East: an editorial introduction, Ganga S. Dhanesh and Gaelle P. Duthler
Facts Over Stories for Involved Publics: Framing Effects in CSR Messaging and the Roles of Issue Involvement, Message Elaboration, Affect, and Skepticism, Ganga S. Dhanesh and Elmie Nekmat
Using songs to improve literacy in a dual-language kindergarten in the United Arab Emirates, Anna Dillon, Hanan Aguleh, and Nadia Al Seyabi
Global nomads, cultural chameleons, strange ones or immigrants? An exploration of Third Culture Kid terminology with reference to the United Arab Emirates, Anna Dillon and Tabassim Ali
The experience of co-teaching for emergent Arabic-English literacy, Anna M. Dillon and Kay Gallagher
Country-specific determinants of FDI inflows to the MENA region: A systematic review and future research directions, Anna Dimitrova, Tim Rogmans, and Dora Triki
Learning Stylometric Representations for Authorship Analysis, Steven H.H. Ding, Benjamin C.M. Fung, Farkhund Iqbal, and William K. Cheung
Proof systems in blockchains: A survey, Georgios Drakopoulos, Eleanna Kafeza, and Haseena Al Katheeri
Unmanned aerial vehicles enabled IoT platform for disaster management, Waleed Ejaz, Muhammad Awais Azam, Salman Saadat, Farkhund Iqbal, and Abdul Hanan
Political instability and corporate social responsibility: the case of Egypt, Dina El-Bassiouny and Peter Letmathe
Leadership curricula in UAE business and education management programmes: A Habermasian analysis within an Islamic context, Eman ElKaleh
Bootstrapping the empirical distribution of a stationary process with change-point, Farid El Ktaibi and B. Gail Ivanoff
Where are Islamic finance indices pointing towards?: Lessons from experimental ‘pockets’ of Islamic financial regulation on international stock markets, Mohammed El Hadi El Maknouzi and Iyad Mohammad Jadalhaq
Swings in the economic relations between Egypt and the UAE, Suzanna Elmassah
Liquidity in the UAE Islamic banks, Suzanna ElMassah, Ola AlSayed, and Shereen Mostafa Bacheer
An assessment of the influence of personal branding on financing entrepreneurial ventures, Suzanna ElMassah, Ian Michael, Reynold James, and Ionica Ghimpu
Stages of change, smoking behavior and acceptability of a textmessaging intervention for tobacco cessation among cigarette, dokha and shishasmokers: A qualitative research study, Yusra Elhidaia Elobaid, Andrea Leinberger Jabari, Aisha Al Hamiz, Abdul Rizzak Al Kaddour, Sherif Bakir, Heba Barazi, Elisa Kazim, Scott Sherman, and Raghib Ali
Relevance-based entity selection for ad hoc retrieval, Faezeh Ensan and Feras Al-Obeidat
Using mobile learning tools in higher education: A UAE Case, Jenny Eppard, Zeina Hojeij, Pinar Ozdemir-Ayber, Marlieke Rodjan-Helder, and Sandra Baroudi
Implementing bi-temporal properties into various NoSQL database categories, Mohammed Eshtay, Azzam Sleit, and Monther Aldwairi
Heterogeneous effects in the international transmission of the US monetary policy: a factor-augmented VAR perspective, Anastasios Evgenidis, Dionisis Philippas, and Costas Siriopoulos
Forecasting value-at-risk in oil prices in the presence of volatility shifts, Bradley T. Ewing, Farooq Malik, and Hassan Anjum
In Situ Mutation for Active Things in the IoT Context, Noura Faci, Zakaria Maamar, Thar Baker, Emir Ugljanin, and Mohamed Sellami
Imaging of hydrothermal altered zones in Wadi Al-Bana, in southern Yemen, using remote sensing techniques and very low frequency–electromagnetic data, Karam S.I. Farag, Fares M. Howari, and Karim W. Abdelmalik
Intraday price discovery and volatility spillovers in an emerging market, Athanasios P. Fassas and Costas Siriopoulos
The socio-net of things modeling framework, Amjad Fayoumi, Juliana Sutanto, and Zakaria Maamar
The mediating roles of psychological autonomy, competence and relatedness on work-life balance and well-being, Anestis Fotiadis, Khadija Abdulrahman, and Anastasia Spyridou
The impact of EU sponsorship, size, and geographic characteristics on rural tourism development, Anestis Fotiadis, Guych Nuryyev, Jennet Achyldurdyyeva, and Anastasia Spyridou
The Evolution of the Incubator: Past, Present, and Future, Brendan Galbraith, Rodney McAdam, and Stephen Edward Cross
Student voice: perceptions of fair treatment in a Foundations program, Kay Gallagher
A review of the nutritional guidelines for children at nurseries and schools in Middle Eastern countries, Malin Garemo, Amal Elamin, and Anzelle Van De Venter
Cationic antimicrobial peptides: Alternatives and/or adjuvants to antibiotics active against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Regina Geitani, Carole Ayoub Moubareck, Lhousseine Touqui, and Dolla Karam Sarkis
Calculation of the natural frequencies and mode shapes of a Euler–Bernoulli beam which has any combination of linear boundary conditions, Paulo J.Paupitz Gonçalves, Michael J. Brennan, Andrew Peplow, and Bin Tang
The impact of behavioural skills training on the knowledge, skills and well-being of front line staff in the intellectual disability sector: a clustered randomised control trial, L. Gormley, O. Healy, B. O'Sullivan, D. O'Regan, I. Grey, and M. Bracken
Variations in 25-hydroxyvitamin d in countries from the middle east and europe: The roles of uvb exposure and diet, William B. Grant, Hana M.A. Fakhoury, Spyridon N. Karras, Fatme Al Anouti, and Harjit P. Bhattoa
Parental satisfaction with early intensive behavioral intervention, Ian Grey, Barry Coughlan, Helena Lydon, Olive Healy, and Justin Thomas
National Identity, Implicit In-Group Evaluation, and Psychological Well-Being Among Emirati Women, Ian Grey and Justin Thomas
Enhanced label noise filtering with multiple voting, Donghai Guan, Maqbool Hussain, Weiwei Yuan, Asad Masood Khattak, Muhammad Fahim, and Wajahat Ali Khan
Neutrosophic cubic Heronian mean operators with applications in multiple attribute group decision-making using cosine similarity functions, Muhammad Gulistan, Mutaz Mohammad, Faruk Karaaslan, Seifedine Kadry, Salma Khan, and Hafiz Abdul Wahab
Message from the mobile data & ai special track chairs, Guibing Guo, Xiuqiang He, Fabrizio Lamberti, Liang Lan, Bin Li, Wengen Li, Zakaria Maamar, Zhengyu Niu, Stephan Reiff-Marganiec, Christian Ritz, Benyun Shi, Feng Wang, Shuaiqiang Wang, Wen Wu, Weicheng Xie, Haiqin Yang, and Zhou Zhao
Strategic fit: microfoundations of firm’s environmental performance, Vipin Gupta and Yi Zhang
Human Activity Recognition Using Deep Models and Its Analysis from Domain Adaptation Perspective, Nikita Gurov, Adil Khan, Rasheed Hussain, and Asad Khattak
National Culture and Women Managers: Evidence From Microfinance Institutions Around the World, Ernest Gyapong and Godfred Adjapong Afrifa
Preface, Hakim Hacid, Quan Z. Sheng, Tetsuya Yoshida, Azadeh Sarkheyli, and Rui Zhou
Association between β-amino-isobutyric acid (BAIBA) and cardiometabolic risk factors, Suzan A. Haidar, Nanne K. De Vries, Mirey Karavetian, Alessandro Laviano, and Mohammad Rached
University Lebanese students are not immune to the metabolic syndrome, Suzan A. Haidar, Mirey Karavetian, Hadia Radwan, and Nanne K.De Vries
Portraying China as an alternative to U. S. Hegemony: The China daily’s framing of the arab spring, Jae Sik Ha and Donghee Shin
Drone forensics: A case study on DJI phantom 4, Dua'a Abu Hamdi, Farkhund Iqbal, Saiqa Alam, Abdulla Kazim, and Aine MacDermott
‘Mother Weight Carried across Borders’: Migrant Materiality and the Maternal in Meena Alexander’s Fault Lines: A Memoir (2003), Szidonia Haragos
Selves and identities in the Arabian Gulf: The year in the Gulf Cooperation Council, Szidonia Haragos
Hanada's Text Leveling System (HTLS) from Text Engagement to Text Engagingness, Majed Harb
Internet of Things Platform for Transparency and Traceability of Food Supply Chain, Ahmed Haroon, Mehak Basharat, Asad Masood Khattak, and Waleed Ejaz
Detection of SQL Injection Attacks: A Machine Learning Approach, Musaab Hasan, Zayed Balbahaith, and Mohammed Tarique
Enhancing the teaching and learning process using video streaming servers and forecasting techniques, Raza Hasan, Sellappan Palaniappan, Salman Mahmood, Babar Shah, Ali Abbas, and Kamal Uddin Sarker
Assessment of Bottle-Feeding Practices in Kassala, Eastern Sudan: A Community-Based Study, Ahmed A. Hassan, Zainab Taha, Mohamed A. Abdulla, Abdel Aziem A. Ali, and Ishag Adam
The Use of Differential Reinforcement of Other Behaviours to Establish Inhibitory Stimulus Control for the Management of Vocal Stereotypy in Children with Autism, Olive Healy, Sinéad Lydon, Thérèse Brady, Mandy Rispoli, Jennifer Holloway, Leslie Neely, and Ian Grey
The color of support: The effect of sponsor–team visual congruence on sponsorship performance, Conor M. Henderson, Marc Mazodier, and Aparna Sundar
Orthographic and root frequency effects in Arabic: Evidence from eye movements and lexical decision, Ehab W. Hermena, Simon P. Liversedge, Sana Bouamama, and Denis Drieghe
Selecting high quality dual language texts for young children in multicultural contexts: A uae case, Zeina Hojeij, Anna Marie Dillon, Alecia Perkins, and Ian Grey
Are library electronic resources providing adequate support for research? A case study of a federal university in the United Arab Emirates, Lilly Hoi Sze Ho
Do LGBT Workplace Diversity Policies Create Value for Firms?, Mohammed Hossain, Muhammad Atif, Ammad Ahmed, and Lokman Mia
Environmental service-learning in the United Arab Emirates: Is it mediated by the effects of biographical and demographical variables?, Fares Howari, Nida Qafisheh, and Yousef Nazzal
Show, Not Tell: The Contingency Role of Infographics Versus Text in the Differential Effects of Message Strategies on Optimistic Bias, Guanxiong Huang, Kang Li, and Hairong Li
Development and validation of a prediction model for fat mass in children and adolescents: Meta-analysis using individual participant data, Mohammed T. Hudda, Mary S. Fewtrell, Dalia Haroun, Sooky Lum, Jane E. Williams, Jonathan C.K. Wells, Richard D. Riley, Christopher G. Owen, Derek G. Cook, Alicja R. Rudnicka, Peter H. Whincup, and Claire M. Nightingale
Clinical and Demographic Predictors of Interdisciplinary Chronic Pain Rehabilitation Program Treatment Response, Kelly L. Huffman, Darcy Mandell, Jennifer K. Lehmann, Xavier F. Jimenez, and Brittany R. Lapin
Why I No Longer Believe Social Media Is Cool..., Zoe Hurley
Smart Home Systems Security, Abir Hussain, Deimante Marcinonyte, Farkhund Iqbal, Hissam Tawfik, Thar Baker, and Dhiya Al-Jumeily
Market basket analysis of student attendance records, Mohammed Hussain and Abdullah Hussein
Determinants of innovative behaviors among self-initiated expatriates, Taiba Hussain, Perihan Iren, and John Rice
Social-media based assessment of academic programs, Abdullah Hussein and Mohammed Hussain
Backtracking assessment of IT and engineering courses, Abdullah M. Hussein and Mohammed Hussain
Wordnet-Based Criminal Networks Mining for Cybercrime Investigation, Farkhund Iqbal, Benjamin C.M. Fung, Mourad Debbabi, Rabia Batool, and Andrew Marrington
A Hybrid Framework for Sentiment Analysis Using Genetic Algorithm Based Feature Reduction, Farkhund Iqbal, Jahanzeb Maqbool Hashmi, Benjamin C.M. Fung, Rabia Batool, Asad Masood Khattak, Saiqa Aleem, and Patrick C.K. Hung
Drone forensics: Examination and analysis, Farkhund Iqbal, Benjamin Yankson, Maryam A. AlYammahi, Naeema AlMansoori, Suaad Mohammed Qayed, Babar Shah, and Thar Baker
COSMO-RS predictions, hydrogen bond basicity values and experimental evaluation of amino acid-based ionic liquids for lignocellulosic biomass dissolution, Jibran Iqbal, Nawshad Muhammad, Abdur Rahim, Amir Sada Khan, Zahoor Ullah, Girma Gonfa, and Pervaiz Ahmad
Synergistic effects of activated carbon and nano-zerovalent copper on the performance of hydroxyapatite-alginate beads for the removal of As3+ from aqueous solution, Jibran Iqbal, Noor S. Shah, Murtaza Sayed, Muhammad Imran, Nawshad Muhammad, Fares M. Howari, Sara A. Alkhoori, Javed Ali Khan, Zia Ul Haq Khan, Amit Bhatnagar, Kyriaki Polychronopoulou, Issam Ismail, and Mohammad Abu Haija
Dynamic Adaptation for WPANs Collision Prevention in eHealth Environments, Youssef Iraqi and Loubna Mekouar
Individual variations in intestinal microbiota were higher in preterm infants with necrotising enterocolitis than healthy controls, Tarek Itani, Carole Ayoub Moubareck, Irène Mangin, Marie José Butel, and Dolla Karam Sarkis
The protection of minors in UAE law as persons in need: An analytical study, Iyad Mohammad Jadalhaq and Ibrahim Sulaiman Al-Qatawnah
The Toyota Way or the unions’ way?: Examining the nexus between lean and unions in Toyota Australia, Reynold James
Novel robust digital watermarking in mid-rank co-efficient based on DWT and RT transform, Zahoor Jan, Inayat Ullah, Faryal Tahir, Naveed Islam, and Babar Shah
A fog-based architecture for remote phobia treatment, Yassine Jebbar, Fatna Belqasmi, Roch Glitho, and Omar Alfandi
Psychological vulnerability as an integral component of comprehensive vulnerability assessment: Informing policy and practice in disaster risk reduction, Jigar Jogia and Gayan Wedawatta
Restriction-based fragmentation of business processes over the cloud, Slim Kallel, Zakaria Maamar, Mohamed Sellami, Noura Faci, Ahmed Ben Arab, Walid Gaaloul, and Thar Baker
Gender Equality and Corporate Social Responsibility in the Middle East, Nicolina Kamenou-Aigbekaen
IP/MPLS networks with hardened pipes: service concepts, traffic engineering and design considerations, Faouzi Kamoun and Fatma Outay
Novel Approaches For Segmenting Cerebral Vasculature, Heba Kandil, Ahmed Soliman, Ali Mahmoud, Ahmed Shalaby, Fatma Taher, Mohammed Ghazal, Adel Elmagraby, and Ayman El-Baz
A CAD System for the Early Prediction of Hypertension based on Changes in Cerebral Vasculature, Heba Kandil, Ahmed Soliman, Fatma Taher, Mohammed Ghazal, Mohiuddin Hadi, Guruprasad Giridharan, and Ayman El-Baz
Using 3-D CNNs and Local Blood Flow Information to Segment Cerebral Vasculature, Heba Kandil, Ahmed Soliman, Fatma Taher, Ali Mahmoud, Adel Elmaghraby, and Ayman El-Baz
Malnutrition-inflammation score VS phase angle in the era of GLIM criteria: A cross-sectional study among hemodialysis patients in UAE, Mirey Karavetian, Nada Salhab, Rana Rizk, and Kalliopi Anna Poulia
Social media and urban social movements: The anatomy of continued protest in authoritarian contexts, Magdalena Karolak
Memory Forensics: Recovering Chat Messages and Encryption Master Key, Abdullah Kazim, Fadya Almaeeni, Shamsah Al Ali, Farkhund Iqbal, and Khalil Al-Hussaeni
Congestion Control in Wireless Sensor Networks based on Support Vector Machine, Grey Wolf Optimization and Differential Evolution, Hafiza Syeda Zainab Kazmi, Nadeem Javaid, Muhammad Imran, and Fatma Outay
An Application of Using Support Vector Machine Based on Classification Technique for Predicting Medical Data Sets, Mohammed Khalaf, Abir Jaafar Hussain, Omar Alfandi, Dhiya Al-Jumeily, Mohamed Alloghani, Mahmood Alsaadi, Omar A. Dawood, and Dhafar Hamed Abd
Urban sensing: Towards security efficient sensing network scheme, Salam Khanji, Mohamad Badra, Omar Alfandi, and Rouba Borghol
ZigBee Security Vulnerabilities: Exploration and Evaluating, Salam Khanji, Farkhund Iqbal, and Patrick Hung
Boosting IoT Efficiency and Security through Blockchain: Blockchain-based Car Insurance Process - A Case Study, Salam Khanji, Farkhund Iqbal, Zakaria Maamar, and Hakim Hacid