Submissions from 2018
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
Terrorist incidents and tourism demand: Evidence from Greece, Aristeidis Samitas, Dimitrios Asteriou, Stathis Polyzos, and Dimitris Kenourgios
Empirical investigation of co-authorship in the field of finance: A network perspective, Aristeidis Samitas and Elias Kampouris
Brexit and financial stability: An agent-based simulation, Aristeidis Samitas, Stathis Polyzos, and Costas Siriopoulos
An effective rubric norming process, Kevin Schoepp, Maurice Danaher, and Ashley Ater Kranov
Developing Information Literacy in Interdisciplinary Classrooms: Engaging with Diverse Literacies, Kristen M. Schuster and Kristine N. Stewart
Developing Information Literacy in Interdisciplinary Classrooms: Engaging with Diverse Literacies, Kristen M. Schuster and Kristine N. Stewart
Total Interpretive Structural Modelling of predictors for graduate employability for the information technology sector, Nidhi Sehgal and Saboohi Nasim
Towards the transversal detection of DDoS network attacks in 5G multi-tenant overlay networks, Ana Serrano Mamolar, Zeeshan Pervez, Jose M. Alcaraz Calero, and Asad Masood Khattak
A generalized deep learning-based diagnostic system for early diagnosis of various types of pulmonary nodules, Ahmed Shaffie, Ahmed Soliman, Luay Fraiwan, Mohammed Ghazal, Fatma Taher, Neal Dunlap, Brian Wang, Victor van Berkel, Robert Keynton, Adel Elmaghraby, and Ayman El-Baz
A Novel Autoencoder-Based Diagnostic System for Early Assessment of Lung Cancer, Ahmed Shaffie, Ahmed Soliman, Mohammed Ghazal, Fatma Taher, Neal Dunlap, Brian Wang, Victor Van Berkel, Georgy Gimelfarb, Adel Elmaghraby, and Ayman El-Baz
Fuzzy Energy Efficient Routing for Internet of Things (IoT), Babar Shah
Fuzzy searching and routing in unstructured mobile peer-to-peer networks, Babar Shah, Farkhund Iqbal, Omar Alfandi, Yoonsoo Kim, Seok Yoon Kang, and Ki Il Kim
Toxicities, kinetics and degradation pathways investigation of ciprofloxacin degradation using iron-mediated H2O2 based advanced oxidation processes, Noor S. Shah, Allah Ditta Rizwan, Javed Ali Khan, Murtaza Sayed, Zia Ul Haq Khan, Behzad Murtaza, Jibran Iqbal, Salah Ud Din, Muhammad Imran, Muhammad Nadeem, Ala'a H. Al-Muhtaseb, Nawshad Muhammad, Hasan M. Khan, Moinuddin Ghauri, and Gohar Zaman
Audit quality during the global financial crisis: The investors’ perspective, Khurram Shahzad, Thierry Pouw, Ghulame Rubbaniy, and Osama El-Temtamy
Investigating the effect of wearing the hijab: Perception of facial attractiveness by Emirati Muslim women living in their native Muslim country, Mercedes Sheen, Hajar Aman Key Yekani, and Timothy R. Jordan
Waste Moringa oleifera seed pods as green sorbent for efficient removal of toxic aquatic pollutants, Zahra Shirani, Chella Santhosh, Jibran Iqbal, and Amit Bhatnagar
Sociodemographic predictors of tobacco smoking among expatriate and national adolescents in the United Arab Emirates, Ayesha Siddiqua, Rania Dghaim, and Caroline Barakat-Haddad
The relationship between community sporting event participants and the media. The case of Abu Dhabi, Nataša Slak Valek
Is tourism really an escape from everyday life? Everyday leisure activities vs leisure travel activities of expats and emirati nationals living in the UAE, Natasa Slak Valek and Anestis Fotiadis
One place, two perspectives: Destination image for tourists and nationals in Abu Dhabi, Nataša Slak Valek and Russell Blair Williams
Bayesian network model for temperature forecasting in Dubai, L. Smail
Junction trees construction: Application to Bayesian networks, L. Smail
American universities in the middle east: A student’s perspective, Linda Smail and Ginger Silvera
Cell shortening and calcium dynamics in epicardial and endocardial myocytes from the left ventricle of Goto-Kakizaki type 2 diabetic rats, Manal Smail, Lina Al Kury, Muhammad Anwar Qureshi, Anatoliy Shmygol, Murat Oz, Jaipaul Singh, and Frank Christopher Howarth
A Cloud-Based Architecture for Multimedia Conferencing Service Provisioning, Abbas Soltanian, Fatna Belqasmi, Sami Yangui, Mohammad A. Salahuddin, Roch Glitho, and Halima Elbiaze
RObustness of the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB): A Comparative study between Pakistan and Thailand, Bahadur Ali Soomro, Naimatullah Shah, and Maqsood Memon
A Refinement of Lasso Regression Applied to Temperature Forecasting, Bruce Spencer, Omar Alfandi, and Feras Al-Obeidat
Personal conceptions of competence and academic achievement: Longitudinal study in Portuguese secondary school, Joana Stocker and Luisa Faria
Review - Challenges of mobility aware MAC protocols in WSN, Sijo Sudheendran, Ons Bouachir, Sherif Moussa, and Adel Omar Dahmane
Arabic Language Arts Standards: Revolution or Disruption?, Hanada Taha Thomure and Richard B. Speaker
The role of diet and lifestyle in women with breast cancer: An update review of related research in the Middle East, Zainab Taha and Sakina E. Eltom
Predictors of glucose control in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes: Results of a cross-sectional study in Khartoum, Sudan, Zainab Taha, Zeinab Eltoum, and Sidiga Washi
Patterns of breastfeeding practices among infants and young children in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Zainab Taha, Malin Garemo, and Joy Nanda
Parthenolide inhibits tumor-promoting effects of nicotine in lung cancer by inducing P53 - dependent apoptosis and inhibiting VEGF expression, Wamidh H. Talib and Lina T. Al Kury
Blended Learning for Learner Empowerment: Voices from the Middle East, Rana M. Tamim
Backdating of executive stock options: comparing financial and nonfinancial industries, Kienpin Tee and Marilyn Wiley
Major typhoon phases in the upper Gulf of Thailand over the last 1.5 millennia, determined from coastal deposits on rock islands, James P. Terry, James Goff, and Kruawun Jankaew
The Delhi ‘gas chamber’: smog, air pollution and the health emergency of November 2017, James P. Terry, Gensuo Jia, Robert Boldi, and Sarah Khan
Magnitudes of nearshore waves generated by tropical cyclone Winston, the strongest landfalling cyclone in South Pacific records. Unprecedented or unremarkable?, James P. Terry and A. Y.Annie Lau
Earnings smoothing and CEO cash bonus compensation: The role of mandatory derivatives disclosure policy, Abiot Tessema
SFAS 133 and income smoothing via discretionary accruals: The role of hedge effectiveness and market volatility, Abiot Tessema and Rogier Deumes
The impact of ownership structure on earnings quality: the case of South Korea, Abiot Tessema, Moo Sung Kim, and Jagadish Dandu
Action research on a collegial model of peer observations, Burcu Tezcan-Unal
Learning-oriented quality assurance in higher education institutions, Burcu Tezcan-Unal, Kalman Winston, and Anne Qualter
Sun Exposure and Behavioral Activation for Hypovitaminosis D and Depression: A Controlled Pilot Study, Justin Thomas and Fatme Al-Anouti
Macbeth Arabia: moral threat and cleansing-related construct accessibility in Arab women, Justin Thomas, Ian Grey, and Salama Al-Romaithi
Acculturation, out-group positivity and eating disorders symptoms among Emirati women, Justin Thomas, Lily O’Hara, Susanne Quadflieg, and Sophia Christin Weissgerber
Holy anorexia: Eating disorders symptomatology and religiosity among Muslim women in the United Arab Emirates, Justin Thomas, Lily O'Hara, Sabrina Tahboub-Schulte, Ian Grey, and Nayeefa Chowdhury
Making warnings about misleading advertising and product recalls more effective: An implicit attitude perspective, Olivier Trendel, Marc Mazodier, and Kathleen D. Vohs
An assessment to evaluate potential passive cooling patterns for climate change adaptation in a residential neighbourhood of a Mediterranean coastal city (Athens, Greece), Ioannis X. Tsiros, Milo E. Hoffman, Areti Tseliou, Vasiliki Christopoulou, and Spyridon Lykoudis
Adoption Challenges of the Internet of Things: ASurvey, Abdallah Tubaishat and Suhail Paliath
Initiating and tracking social actions to adapt and improve smart city's business processes, Emir Ugljanin, Dragan H. Stojanović, Ejub Kajan, and Zakaria Maamar
Does Shariah compliance make interest rate sensitivity of Islamic equities lower? An industry level analysis under different market states, Zaghum Umar, Syed Jawad Hussain Shahzad, Román Ferrer, and Francisco Jareño
The support of the UAE nationals towards EXPO 2020 - A fuzzy logic approach, Nataša Slak Valek and Anestis Fotiadis
Types of tobacco consumption and the oral microbiome in the United Arab Emirates Healthy Future (UAEHFS) Pilot Study, Yvonne Vallès, Claire K. Inman, Brandilyn A. Peters, Raghib Ali, Laila Abdel Wareth, Abdishakur Abdulle, Habiba Alsafar, Fatme Al Anouti, Ayesha Al Dhaheri, Divya Galani, Muna Haji, Aisha Al Hamiz, Ayesha Al Hosani, Mohammed Al Houqani, Abdulla Al Junaibi, Marina Kazim, Tomas Kirchhoff, Wael Al Mahmeed, Fatma Al Maskari, Abdullah Alnaeemi, Naima Oumeziane, Ravichandran Ramasamy, Ann Marie Schmidt, Michael Weitzman, Eiman Al Zaabi, Scott Sherman, Richard B. Hayes, and Jiyoung Ahn
Asymmetric and nonlinear inter-relations of US stock indices, Dimitrios Vortelinos, Konstantinos Gkillas (Gillas), Costas Syriopoulos, and Argyro Svingou
The Interactive Effect of Authentic Leadership and Leader Competency on Followers’ Job Performance: The Mediating Role of Work Engagement, Feng Wei, Yi Li, Yi Zhang, and Shubo Liu
Improved label noise identification by exploiting unlabeled data, Hongqiang Wei, Donghai Guan, Qi Zhu, Weiwei Yuan, Asad Masood Khattak, and Francis Chow
Conceptual models and mental models in operation: Frustration, performance and flow with two different video game controllers, Russell B. Williams
Hijacked destination images? Autonomous representations of Dubai and Abu Dhabi in The Amazing Race, U.S.A, Russell B. Williams
Recent Evidence on the Oil Price Shocks on Gulf Cooperation Council Stock Markets, Victor S.H. Wong and Suzanna El Massah
Application of fuzzy logic to assess the quality of BPMN models, Fadwa Yahya, Khouloud Boukadi, Hanêne Ben-Abdallah, and Zakaria Maamar
Collusion attacks mitigation in internet of things: a fog based model, Qussai Yaseen, Monther Aldwairi, Yaser Jararweh, Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub, and Brij Gupta
An Enhanced AODV Protocol for Avoiding Black Holes in MANET, Qussai M. Yaseen and Monther Aldwairi
Energy-efficient region shift scheme to support mobile sink group in wireless sensor networks, Yongbin Yim, Kyong Hoon Kim, Monther Aldwairi, and Ki Il Kim
Recommending with limited number of trusted users in social networks, Weiwei Yuan, Donghai Guan, and Asad Masood Khattak
Classification with class noises through probabilistic sampling, Weiwei Yuan, Donghai Guan, Tinghuai Ma, and Asad Masood Khattak
Socialized healthcare service recommendation using deep learning, Weiwei Yuan, Chenliang Li, Donghai Guan, Guangjie Han, and Asad Masood Khattak
Rapid determination of illegal additives chrysoidin and malachite green by surface-enhanced Raman scattering with silanized support based substrate, Han Zhang, Lin Sun, Yuan Zhang, Yan Kang, Huilian Hu, Jibran Iqbal, and Yiping Du
Improving Human Action Recognition through Hierarchical Neural Network Classifiers, Pavel Zhdanov, Adil Khan, Adin Ramirez Rivera, and Asad Masood Khattak
Making meaning from student evaluations of teaching: Seeing beyond our own horizons, Carina Jia Yan Zhu, Diana White, Janet Rankin, and Christina Jean Davison
Revisiting English as a Foreign Language (EFL) vs English Lingua Franca (ELF): The case for pronunciation, Wafa Zoghbor
Teaching English pronunciation to multi-dialect first language learners: The revival of the Lingua Franca Core (LFC), Wafa Shahada Zoghbor
Submissions from 2017
Adaptive Forwarding Scheme for Bounded Time Constraint in Delay Tolerant Networks, Ali Abbas, Babar Shah, and Ki Il Kim
The effect of parathyroid hormone on the uptake and retention of 25-hydroxyvitamin D in skeletal muscle cells, M. Abboud, M. S. Rybchyn, J. Liu, Y. Ning, C. Gordon-Thomson, T. C. Brennan-Speranza, L. Cole, H. Greenfield, D. R. Fraser, and R. S. Mason
Sunlight exposure is just one of the factors which influence Vitamin D status, M. Abboud, M. S. Rybchyn, R. Rizk, D. R. Fraser, and R. S. Mason
Enterprise systems: The quality of system outputs and their perceived business value, Ahed Abugabah
Evaluation of healthcare enterprise information systems: A structural equation model, Ahed Abugabah
Refurbishment of public housing villas in the United Arab Emirates (UAE): energy and economic impact, Bassam Abu-Hijleh, Abeer Manneh, Athari AlNaqbi, Wafaa AlAwadhi, and Ayoub Kazim
Cloud applications in language teaching: Examining pre-service teachers' expertise, perceptions and integration, Ibtehal Mahmoud Aburezeq and Fawzi Fayez Ishtaiwa Dweikat
Unsupervised geometrical feature learning from hyperspectral data, Muhammad Ahmad, Adil Mehmood Khan, Rasheed Hussain, Stanislav Protasov, Francis Chow, and Asad Masood Khattak
A model of system limiting availability under imperfect maintenance, Suzan Alaswad, Richard Cassady, Edward Pohl, and Xiaoping Li
A review on condition-based maintenance optimization models for stochastically deteriorating system, Suzan Alaswad and Yisha Xiang
Feature extraction and selection for Arabic tweets authorship authentication, Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub, Yaser Jararweh, Abdullateef Rabab’ah, and Monther Aldwairi
Secure approximation of edit distance on genomic data, Md Momin Al Aziz, Dima Alhadidi, and Noman Mohammed
Inquiry-based learning: Emirati university students choose WhatsApp for collaboration, Robyn Albers, Christina Davison, and Bradley Johnson
Antecedents and Consequences of Marital Satisfaction in an Emirati Sample: A Structural Equation Model Analysis, Fatima Rashed Al-Darmaki, Shaima Ahammed, Sofoh H. Hassane, Abdullah Seif Abdullah, Saad Ibrahim Yaaqeib, and Hamzeh Dodeen
Pattern matching of signature-based ids using myers algorithm under mapreduce framework, Monther Aldwairi, Ansam M. Abu-Dalo, and Moath Jarrah
FLUKES: Autonomous log forensics, intelligence and visualization tool, Monther Aldwairi and Hesham H. Alsaadi