Submissions from 2018
Preterm infants with necrotising enterocolitis demonstrate an unbalanced gut microbiota, Tarek Itani, Carole Ayoub Moubareck, Imad Melki, Clotilde Rousseau, Irène Mangin, Marie José Butel, and Dolla Karam-Sarkis
Cloud Digital Forensics Evaluation and Crimes Detection, Raja Jabir and Omar Alfandi
Fabrication and Evaluation of Cellulose-Alginate-Hydroxyapatite Beads for the Removal of Heavy Metal Ions from Aqueous Solutions, Anum Jamshaid, Jibran Iqbal, Almas Hamid, Moinuddin Ghauri, Nawshad Muhammad, Asma Nasrullah, Sikander Rafiq, and Noor Samad Shah
Hollywood’s transnational imaginaries: colonial agency and vision from Indiana Jones to World War Z*, Lena Jayyusi
Farming the desert: Agriculture in the oil frontier, the case of the United Arab Emirates, 1940s to 1990s, Sabrina Joseph
Malware Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks, Mahmoud Kalash, Mrigank Rochan, Noman Mohammed, Neil D.B. Bruce, Yang Wang, and Farkhund Iqbal
A new perspective on the swiss cheese model applied to understanding the anatomy of healthcare data breaches, Faouzi Kamoun and Mathew Nicho
Patient education for hyperphosphatemia management: Improving outcomes while decreasing costs?, Mirey Karavetian and Rana Rizk
An investigation into the urban water cycle in the city of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Rashed Karkain, Moetaz El Sergany, and Evan Diamadopoulos
Cruise tourism in the Middle East, Magdalena Karolak
Impact of IoT device saturation on home WiFi networks, Dylan Kauling, May AlTaei, and Qusay H. Mahmoud
Global crises and contagion: Does the capitalization size matter?, Dimitris Kenourgios, Dimitrios Dimitriou, and Aristeidis Samitas
Conclusions: Where next for wearables?, Don Kerr and John Gammack
Proximity to urban fringe recreational facilities increases native biodiversity in an arid rangeland, Tamer Khafaga, Greg Simkins, and David Gallacher
In situ immobilization of CuO on SiO2/graphite matrix, modified with benzimidazolium-1-acatate ionic liquid: Application as catechol sensor, Bilal Khalid, Abdur Rahim, Mazhar Amjad Gilani, Nawshad Muhammad, Abdur Rehman Younus, Sobia Tabassum, Jibran Iqbal, and Abdulrahman I. Alharthi
An overview of real-time quantitative PCR: Principles and formats for environmental microbiology studies, M. A. Khan, A. G. Ganesh, and Naushad Rais
Applications of real-time quantitative PCR for environmental microbiology studies, M. A. Khan, A. G. Ganesh, and Naushad Rais
Assessing methanogenic archaeal community in full scale anaerobic sludge digester systems in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Munawwar A. Khan, Poojabahen G. Patel, Arpitha G. Ganesh, Naushad Rais, Sultan M. Faheem, and Shams T. Khan
Class, identity, and insecurity: Bangladeshi temporary migrants in the United Arab Emirates, Habibul Haque Khondker
Glocalization, Habibul Haque Khondker
Making sociology universal: Revisiting the contributions of Syed Hussein Alatas, Habibul Haque Khondker
Glocalization, consumption, and cricket: The Indian Premier League, Habibul Haque Khondker and Roland Robertson
Epilepsy, identity, and the experience of the body, Stephanie Kılınç, Carol Campbell, Alison Guy, and Anna van Wersch
An Enhanced Temperature Aware Routing Protocol in Wireless Body Area Networks, Beom Su Kim, Ki Il Kim, and Babar Shah
Mobility and Temperature Aware QoS Routing Protocol in Wireless Body Area Networks, Beom Su Kim, Kyong Hoon Kim, Babar Shah, and Ki Il Kim
An enhanced mobility and temperature aware routing protocol through multi-criteria decision making method in wireless body area networks, Beom Su Kim, Babar Shah, Feras Al-Obediat, Sana Ullah, Kyong Hoon Kim, and Ki Il Kim
Genomic and transcriptomic signals of thermal tolerance in heat-tolerant corals (Platygyra daedalea) of the Arabian/Persian Gulf, Nathan L. Kirk, Emily J. Howells, David Abrego, John A. Burt, and Eli Meyer
Trade asymmetries in the Mediterranean basin, Konstantinos Konstantaras, Dionisis Philippas, and Costas Siriopoulos
Why a world state is unnecessary: The continuing debate on world government, W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz
The auditor-to-client revolving door: A structured literature review, Amr Kotb, Hussein Halabi, and Hany Elbardan
Place branding: Aligning multiple stakeholder perception of visual and auditory communication elements, Filareti Kotsi, Melodena Stephens Balakrishnan, Ian Michael, and Thomas Zoëga Ramsøy
Consumer-based brand equity (CBBE) in the context of an international stopover destination: Perceptions of Dubai in France and Australia, Filareti Kotsi, Steven Pike, and Udo Gottlieb
Flying with Nicole Kidman or Jennifer Aniston? Brand funnel stages’ influence on brand personality, Filareti Kotsi and Natasa Slak Valek
Medical images protection and authentication using hybrid DWT-DCT and SHA256-MD5 hash functions, Alavi Kunhu, Hussain Al-Ahmad, and Fatma Taher
When and why does belief in a controlling God strengthen goal commitment?, Mark J. Landau, Jamel Khenfer, Lucas A. Keefer, Trevor J. Swanson, and Aaron C. Kay
Matching experimental and three dimensional numerical models for structural vibration problems with uncertainties, P. Langer, K. Sepahvand, C. Guist, J. Bär, A. Peplow, and S. Marburg
Boulder emplacement and remobilisation by cyclone and submarine landslide tsunami waves near Suva City, Fiji, A. Y.Annie Lau, James P. Terry, Alan Ziegler, Arti Pratap, and Daniel Harris
Short-selling and credit default swap spreads—Where do informed traders trade?, Steven Lecce, Andrew Lepone, Michael D. McKenzie, Jin Boon Wong, and Jin Young Yang
Real-Time Communication in Wireless Sensor Networks, Jeongcheol Lee, Babar Shah, Giovanni Pau, Javier Prieto, and Ki Il Kim
Message traffic restrictions and relative pricing efficiency: Evidence from index futures contracts and exchange-traded funds, Andrew Lepone, Jun Wen, and Jin Young Yang
The Aesthetics of Liminality: Augmentation as an Art Form, Patrick Lichty
Chitosan/Ag-hydroxyapatite nanocomposite beads as a potential adsorbent for the efficient removal of toxic aquatic pollutants, Long Li, Jibran Iqbal, Ying Zhu, Peng Zhang, Wanchao Chen, Amit Bhatnagar, and Yiping Du
Opportunistic mining of top-n high utility patterns, Junqiang Liu, Xingxing Zhang, Benjamin C.M. Fung, Jiuyong Li, and Farkhund Iqbal
Appraising offsets as a tool for integrated environmental planning and management, Sumit Lodhia, Nigel Martin, and John Rice
One Stop Shopping as a regime: a crowdsourced analysis of integrated environmental approval policy, Sumit Lodhia, Nigel Martin, and John Rice
Thing federation as a service: Foundations and demonstration, Zakaria Maamar, Khouloud Boukadi, Emir Ugljanin, Thar Baker, Muhammad Asim, Mohammed Al-Khafajiy, Djamal Benslimane, and Hasna El Alaoui El Abdallaoui
How to agentify the Internet-of-Things?, Zakaria Maamar, Noura Faci, Khouloud Boukadi, Emir Ugljanin, Mohamed Sellami, Thar Baker, and Rafael Angarita
Storytelling integration of the internet of things into business processes, Zakaria Maamar, Mohamed Sellami, Noura Faci, Emir Ugljanin, and Quan Z. Sheng
Modelling undesirable outputs in multiple objective data envelopment analysis, Mahdi Mahdiloo, Abdol Hossein Jafarzadeh, Reza Farzipoor Saen, Yong Wu, and John Rice
TRIBAL AFFILIATIONS IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE, Dahlia Mahmoud
Toward a reliable service-based approach to software application development, Qusay Mahmoud, Ian Andrusiak, and May AlTaei
Developing Adaptive Islamic Law Business Processes Models for Islamic Finance and Banking by Text Mining the Holy Qur'an and Hadith, Munir Majdalawieh, Farhi Marir, and Issam Tiemsani
Defining Atheism and the Burden of Proof, Shoaib Ahmed Malik
Higher education analytics: New trends in program assessments, Adam Marks and Maytha AL-Ali
Enhanced teamwork communication model for electronic clinical pathways in healthcare, Wasef Mater, Monther Aldwairi, and Roliana Ibrahim
Health literacy among female university students in the United Arab Emirates, John D. Matthews
Advertisement typicality: A longitudinal experiment: Can sponsors transfer the image of a sporting event to their brand?, Marc Mazodier, Armando Maria Corsi, and Pascale G. Quester
The long reach of sponsorship: How fan isolation and identification jointly shape sponsorship performance, Marc Mazodier, Conor M. Henderson, and Joshua T. Beck
Islamic pedagogy: Potential and perspective, Nadeem A. Memon and Mariam Alhashmi
Investor sentiment and advertising expenditure, G. Mujtaba Mian, Piyush Sharma, and Ferdinand A. Gul
Australia’s cognitive, affective and conative destination image: an Emirati tourist perspective, Noela Michael, Reynold James, and Ian Michael
A case study of developing leadership and creativity skills in Higher education (He) students, Noela Michael, Mustafeed Zaman, and T. Serra Gorpe
An Analytical Study Towards the UAE Universities Smart Education Innovated Approaches, Shaikha Saleh Mohamed, Nedaa Baker Al Barghuthi, and Huwida Said
Gibbs effects using Daubechies and Coiflet tight framelet systems, Mutaz Mohammad and En Bing Lin
Gibbs phenomenon in tight framelet expansions, Mutaz Mohammad and En Bing Lin
Development and application of artificial neural network models to estimate values of a complex human thermal comfort index associated with urban heat and cool island patterns using air temperature data from a standard meteorological station, Konstantinos Moustris, Ioannis X. Tsiros, Areti Tseliou, and Panagiotis Nastos
The Adoption of Renewable Energy Policies in a Rentier State: A Case Study of the United Arab Emirates, Hessa Murooshid
The Cytokinin-Activating LOG-Family Proteins Are Not Lysine Decarboxylases, Muhammad Naseem, Elena Bencurova, and Thomas Dandekar
Curcumin potentiates the function of human α 7 -nicotinic acetylcholine receptors expressed in SH-EP1 cells, Eslam El Nebrisi, Lina T. Al Kury, Keun Hang Susan Yang, Petrilla Jayaprakash, Frank C. Howarth, Nadine Kabbani, and Murat Oz
When spear phishers craft contextually convincing emails, Mathew Nicho, Hussein Fakhry, and Uche Egbue
A decision matrix model to identify and evaluate APT vulnerabilities at the user plane, Mathew Nicho and Shafaq Naheed Khan
Identifying vulnerabilities in APT Attacks: A simulated approach, Mathew Nicho, Adelaiye Oluwasegun, and Faouzi Kamoun
Mobile and multidimensional: Flipping the business English classroom, Catherine Nickerson
Convergence and collaboration: co-creating meaning within culturally diverse workforces, Catherine Nickerson and Valerie Priscilla Goby
The Effect of Faculty Perceptions and Leadership Support on Social Media Utilization in Higher Education, Mariyam Al Obaidli, Lydia Barza, and Laura Matherly
Explore like a local: Student generated websites as representation of emirati perspectives on Dubai tourism, Michael R. Ogden, Melissa Lee Price, and Noela Michael
Cinema technologies, M. R. Ogden
Welcome Message from the WSDF Workshop Organizers, Richard E. Overill, Virginia N.L. Franqueira, Andrew Marrington, and Andrew Jones
Editor's introduction, David M. Palfreyman
‘This is my life style, Arabic and English’: students’ attitudes to (trans)languaging in a bilingual university context, David M. Palfreyman and Afaf Al-Bataineh
Computation of a well-conditioned dynamic stiffness matrix for elastic layers overlying a half-space, Andrew T. Peplow
Stopover destination image–perceptions of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, among French and Australian travellers, Steven Pike and Filareti Kotsi
Stopover destination image: A comparison of salient attributes elicited from French and Australian travellers, Steven Pike, Filareti Kotsi, and Vesselina Tossan
Non-technical skills assessment scale in nursing: Construction, development and validation, Sara Martins Pereira Pires, Sara Otília Marques Monteiro, Anabela Maria Sousa Pereira, Joana Novaes Machado Stocker, Daniela de Mascarenhas Chaló, and Elsa Maria de Oliveira Pinho de Melo
Good management or good finances? An agent-based study on the causes of bank failure, Stathis Polyzos, Khadija Abdulrahman, and Apostolos Christopoulos
The best-of-n problem with dynamic site qualities: Achieving adaptability with stubborn individuals, Judhi Prasetyo, Giulia De Masi, Pallavi Ranjan, and Eliseo Ferrante
The effect of sport tourists' travel style, destination and event choices, and motivation on their involvement in small-scale sports events, Constantinos Vasilios Priporas, Chris A. Vassiliadis, Nikolaos Stylos, and Anestis K. Fotiadis
Dynamic malware analysis of phishing emails, Mohammad Abu Qbeitah and Monther Aldwairi
Use of collocations in freshman composition: Implications for L1 English and Arabic ESL writers, Asif Qureshi and Ulugbek Nurmukhamedov
The epidemiology and economic burden of obesity and related cardiometabolic disorders in the United Arab Emirates: A systematic review and qualitative synthesis, Hadia Radwan, Rami A. Ballout, Hayder Hasan, Nader Lessan, Mirey Karavetian, and Rana Rizk
Intelligent multi-agent collaboration model for smart home IoT security, Laura Rafferty, Farkhund Iqbal, Saiqa Aleem, Zhihui Lu, Shih Chia Huang, and Patrick C.K. Hung
Concurrent direct assessment of foundation skills for general education, Anthony Rhodes, Maurice Danaher, and Ashley Ater Kranov
Encountering Domestic Slavery: A Narrative from the Arabian Gulf, Rima Sabban
Qatar and Bahrain, Rima Sabban
United Arab Emirates and Oman, Rima Sabban
Vitamin D receptor gene polymorphisms among Emirati patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, Habiba Al Safar, Sarah El Hajj Chehadeh, Laila Abdel-Wareth, Afrozul Haq, Herbert F. Jelinek, Gehad ElGhazali, and Fatme Al Anouti
Business process analytics and big data systems: A roadmap to bridge the gap, Sherif Sakr, Zakaria Maamar, Ahmed Awad, Boualem Benatallah, and Wil M.P. Van Der Aalst
Promoting or resisting change?: The United States and the Egyptian uprising, 2011–2012, Ahmed Ali Salem
Alleviating road network congestion: Traffic pattern optimization using Markov chain traffic assignment, Sinan Salman and Suzan Alaswad
The X-supply game, Sinan Salman and Suzan Alaswad