Submissions from 2017
Detection of drive-by download attacks using machine learning approach, Monther Aldwairi, Musaab Hasan, and Zayed Balbahaith
Architecture guidelines for SaaS development process, Saiqa Aleem, Rabia Batool, Faheem Ahmed, Asad Khatak, and Raja Muhammad Ubaid Ullah
Extending information system models to the health care context: An empirical study and experience from developing countries, Osama Alfarraj and Ahed Abugabah
The best practice in implementing itil service transition for successful it service production, Mohamed Basel Almourad, Mohammed Hussain, and Feras Al-Obeidat
Identifying Major Tasks from On-line Reviews, Feras Al-Obeidat and Bruce Spencer
Analyzing students’ performance using multi-criteria classification, Feras Al-Obeidat, Abdallah Tubaishat, Anna Dillon, and Babar Shah
Distribution of heavy metals around the Barakah nuclear power plant in the United Arab Emirates, Mouza Rashid Al Rashdi, Sulaiman Alaabed, Mohamed El Tokhi, Fares M. Howari, Walid El Mowafi, and Alya A. Arabi
Factors associated with continuing emergence of β-thalassemia major despite prenatal testing: A cross-sectional survey, Haleama Al Sabbah, Sarah Khan, Abdallah Hamadna, Lamia Abu Ghazaleh, Anwar Dudin, and Bashar Adnan Karmi
Cocoons as a space of their own: a case of Emirati women learners, Gergana Alzeer
Compromised user credentials detection using temporal features: A prudent based approach, Adnan Amin, Sajid Anwar, Babar Shah, and Asad Masood Khattak
A prudent based approach for compromised user credentials detection, Adnan Amin, Babar Shah, Sajid Anwar, Feras Al-Obeidat, Asad Masood Khattak, and Awais Adnan
Is Roger Federer more loss averse than Serena Williams?, Nejat Anbarci, K. Peren Arin, Cagla Okten, and Christina Zenker
Efficiency of nearly periodic structures for mitigation of ground vibration, Lars V. Andersen, Andrew Peplow, and P. Bucinskas
Variation in models for simple dynamic structure-soil-structure interaction problems, L. V. Andersen, A. Peplow, P. Bucinskas, P. Persson, and K. Persson
Type 2 diabetes and its correlates in a first nationwide study among Cypriot adults, Eleni Andreou, Dimitrios Papandreou, Photos Hajigeorgiou, Katia Kyriakou, Thalia Avraam, Georgia Chappa, Procopis Kallis, Christalleni Lazarou, Christiana Philippou, Christoforos Christoforou, Rebecca Kokkinofta, Christos Dioghenous, Savvas Savva, Antony Kafatos, and Antonios Zampelas
Routes to drug design via bioisosterism of carboxyl and sulfonamide groups, Alya A. Arabi
Revisiting the Growth Effects of Fiscal Policy: A Bayesian Model Averaging Approach, K. Peren Arin and Elias Braunfels
A note on the macroeconomic consequences of ethnic/racial tension, K. Peren Arin, Murat Koyuncu, and Nicola Spagnolo
Real-time routing protocols for (m,k)-firm streams based on multi-criteria in wireless sensor networks, Mohammad Abdul Azim, Beom Su Kim, Babar Shah, and Ki Il Kim
Variants of spray and forwarding scheme in delay tolerant networks, Mohammad Abdul Azim, Babar Shah, Beom Su Kim, Kyong Hoon Kim, and Ki Il Kim
Preface, Mohamad Badra
Lightweight and efficient privacy-preserving data aggregation approach for the Smart Grid, Mohamad Badra and Sherali Zeadally
C–O isotope geochemistry of the Florida phosphate of Four Corners and Hardee County mines, USA: Implication for genesis and diagenesis, Ashraf R. Baghdady, Fares M. Howari, and Mohamed I. Al-Wakeel
Does customer satisfaction have directional predictability for U.S. discretionary spending?, Hamid Baghestani and Paul Williams
Misplaced: language, remitting and development practice among Zimbabwean migrants, Adrian J. Bailey, Liberty Mupakati, and Farai M. Magunha
Biliteracy as policy in academic institutions, Beverly Baker, David M. Palfreyman, Gwenn Hiller, Wilson Poha, and Zina Manu
The Creation of an Arabic Emotion Ontology Based on E-Motive, Anoud Bani-Hani, Munir Majdalweieh, and Feras Obeidat
Empowering culturally foreign teachers by fostering cultural competence, Lydia Barza
Method Development for Selective and Nontargeted Identification of Nitro Compounds in Diesel Particulate Matter, Mahmoud Bataineh, Alya A. Arabi, Jibran Iqbal, Fares M. Howari, and Werner Brack
Grammar, spelling error rates persist in digital news, Park Beede and Michael W. Mulnix
Attitudinal and cognitive beliefs of two preservice secondary mathematics teachers, Shashidhar Belbase
Obstacle-aware resource allocation in business processes, Farah Bellaaj, Mohamed Sellami, Sami Bhiri, and Zakaria Maamar
Network layer inter-operation of Device-to-Device communication technologies in Internet of Things (IoT), Oladayo Bello, Sherali Zeadally, and Mohamad Badra
Configurable structure tree as a means to manage configurable business processes, Wehbi Benallal, Mahmoud Barhamgi, Djamal Benslimane, and Zakaria Maamar
MADONA: a method for automated provisioning of cloud-based component-oriented business applications, Hind Benfenatki, Catarina Ferreira Da Silva, Gavin Kemp, Aïcha Nabila Benharkat, Parisa Ghodous, and Zakaria Maamar
Bifurcated Effects of Place-of-Origin Diversity on Individual and Team Performance: Evidence from Ten Seasons of German Soccer, Avner Ben-Ner, John Gabriel Licht, and Jin Park
Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults, James Bentham, Mariachiara Di Cesare, Ver Bilano, Honor Bixby, Bin Zhou, Gretchen A. Stevens, Leanne M. Riley, Cristina Taddei, Kaveh Hajifathalian, Yuan Lu, Stefan Savin, Melanie J. Cowan, Christopher J. Paciorek, Adela Chirita-Emandi, Alison J. Hayes, Joanne Katz, Roya Kelishadi, Andre Pascal Kengne, Young Ho Khang, Avula Laxmaiah, Yanping Li, Jun Ma, J. Jaime Miranda, Aya Mostafa, Martin Neovius, Cristina Padez, Lekhraj Rampal, Aubrianna Zhu, James E. Bennett, and Goodarz Danaei
Perianth colour dimorphism is related to germination properties and salinity tolerance in Salsola vermiculata in the Arabian deserts, Arvind Bhatt, Shyam S. Phartyal, Prakash C. Phondani, and David J. Gallacher
Public perceptions and practices of solid waste recycling in the city of laramie in wyoming, U.S.A., Upendra B. Bom, Shashidhar Belbase, and Reni Bibriven Lila
Lincoln mediated: The president and the press through nineteenth–century media, Gregory A. Borchard, David W. Bulla, and David B. Sachsman
Leveraging the affordances of mobile learning for vocabulary gains, Michael Bowles
Newspaper coverage of the rise of Lincoln in 1860: Cooper Union, the Republican convention, and the election, David W. Bulla
The suppression of the Mid-Atlantic Copperhead Press, David W. Bulla
"Freely and fearlessly": The 1863 New York editors' resolutions, D. W. Bulla
The effects of language simplification and pictures on the ability of Emirati university students to comprehend and solve mathematics word problems, Mark Causapin and Timothy Groombridge
A Neural network approach to visibility range estimation under foggy weather conditions, Hazar Chaabani, Faouzi Kamoun, Hichem Bargaoui, Fatma Outay, and Ansar Ul Haque Yasar
Introduction, Martha Chaiklin
An evaluation of seasonal patterns of thermal conditions inside a vegetated courtyard area of a Mediterranean city (Athens), Ioannis Charalampopoulos, Fotoula Droulia, Areti Tseliou, and Ioannis Tsiros
The relationship between trauma centrality, self-efficacy, posttraumatic stress and psychiatric co-morbidity among Syrian refugees: Is gender a moderator?, Man Cheung Chung, Nowf AlQarni, Shamsa Al Muhairi, and Britt Mitchell
Instructor's use of student-generated annotated concept sketches in formative assessment in general science, Eddia Copeland Solas and Kenesha Wilson
Marine microbial gene abundance and community composition in response to ocean acidification and elevated temperature in two contrasting coastal marine sediments, Ashleigh R. Currie, Karen Tait, Helen Parry, Beatriz de Francisco-Mora, Natalie Hicks, A. Mark Osborn, Steve Widdicombe, and Henrik Stahl
The computing professional skills assessment utilized with graduate students, Maurice Danaher, Kevin Schoepp, and Ashley Ater Kranov
Are students in graduate programmes adequately attaining professional skills?, Maurice Danaher, Kevin Schoepp, and Ashley Ater Kranov
The effectiveness of the use of social media in government communication in the UAE, Elsayed B. Darwish
Antibacterial effects and microbial quality of commonly consumed herbs in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, R. Dghaim, H. Al Sabbah, A. H. Al Zarooni, and M. A. Khan
Putting engagement in its PRoper place: State of the field, definition and model of engagement in public relations, Ganga S. Dhanesh
Large residual multiple view 3D CNN for false positive reduction in pulmonary nodule detection, Anton Dobrenkii, Ramil Kuleev, Adil Khan, Adin Ramirez Rivera, and Asad Masood Khattak
The French intellectuals in the face of Stalinism: André Gide and L.F. Céline in the Soviet Union (1936), Annick Durand
Charging infrastructure placement for electric vehicles: An optimization prospective, Waleed Ejaz, M. Naeem, M. R. Ramzan, Farkhund Iqbal, and A. Anpalagan
Putative periodontopathic bacteria and herpes viruses interactions in the subgingival plaque of patients with aggressive periodontitis and healthy controls, Amal Elamin, Raouf Wahab Ali, and Vidar Bakken
Production of durable and cost effective sewer pipes using petroleum and industrial waste by-products, Maisa El Gamal, Amr El-Dieb, Khaled El-Sawy, Amr Sweedan, and Abdel Mohsen Mohamed
Performance of modified sulfur concrete exposed to actual sewerage environment with variable temperature, humidity and gases, Maisa M. El Gamal, Amr S. El-Dieb, Abdel Mohsen O. Mohamed, and Khaled M. El Sawy
Impact of Shareholder Proposals on the Functioning of the Market for Corporate Control, Rwan El-Khatib, Kathy Fogel, and Tomas Jandik
Predictors of Academic Performance for Finance Students: Women at Higher Education in the UAE, Suzanna Sobhy El Massah and Dalia Fadly
Beyond the random location of shopping malls: A GIS perspective in Amman, Jordan, Amjad Ahmad Abu ELSamen and Rund Ibrahim Hiyasat
Motivation of Emirati males and females to study at higher education in the United Arab Emirates, Marion Engin and Kara McKeown
Academic reading on a collaborative, online platform, Jenny Eppard and Preeya Reddy
Localising content for an XMOOC in the UAE, Jenny Eppard and Preeya Reddy
A framework for flipped learning, Jenny Eppard and Aicha Rochdi
Towards an asymmetric long run equilibrium between stock market uncertainty and the yield spread. A threshold vector error correction approach, Anastasios Evgenidis, Athanasios Tsagkanos, and Costas Siriopoulos
Modelling asymmetric volatility in oil prices under structural breaks, Bradley T. Ewing and Farooq Malik
Low recruitment due to altered settlement substrata as primary constraint for coral communities under ocean acidification, Katharina E. Fabricius, Sam H.C. Noonan, David Abrego, Lindsay Harrington, and Glenn De’Ath
Web 2.0 applications in the workplace: How to ensure their proper use?, Noura Faci, Zakaria Maamar, Vanilson Burégio, Emir Ugljanin, and Djamal Benslimane
Alert me: Enhancing active lifestyle via observing sedentary behavior using mobile sensing systems, Muhammad Fahim, Thar Baker, Asad Masood Khattak, and Omar Alfandi
Physical activity recognizer based on multimodal sensors in smartphone for ubiquitous-lifecare services, Muhammad Fahim, Asad Masood Khattak, Saiqa Aleem, and Haseena Al Katheeri
Communitarian norms and regional security: The GCC as a security community, Mona Farag
Joint workload scheduling and BBU allocation in cloud-RAN for 5G networks, Lilatul Ferdouse, Waleed Ejaz, Alagan Anpalagan, and Asad Masood Khattak
Basis independence of implicitly defined hamiltonian circuit dynamics, Jon Pierre Fortney
Decision-making in a public hospital during economic crisis, Anestis K. Fotiadis and Tzung Cheng Huan
Managing the perception of service quality; the importance of understanding differences between demographic and behavioural customer segments amongst theme park visitors, Anestis Fotiadis and Metin Kozak
The effects of online social networking on retail consumer dynamics in the attractions industry: The case of ‘E-da’ theme park, Taiwan, Anestis K. Fotiadis and Nikolaos Stylos
Destination image, customer satisfaction and behavioural intentions: The state-of-the-art and a new research agenda, A. Fotiadis, M. Sotiriadis, and C. A. Vassiliadis
The promise and perils of wearable technologies, John Gammack and Andrew Marrington
The impact of Islamic Financial Services Board Standard No. 3 on corporate governance of listed firms in Kuwait, Samy Garas, Abiot Tessema, and Kienpin Tee
Investigating Executive Working Memory and Phonological Short-Term Memory in Relation to Fluency and Self-Repair Behavior in L2 Speech, Effrosyni Georgiadou and Karen Roehr-Brackin
Impact of building characteristics and occupants’ behaviour on the electricity consumption of households in Abu Dhabi (UAE), L. Giusti and M. Almoosawi
Workforce localization, information sharing, and the imperative of culture: A preliminary exploration of expatriate-Emirati information sharing in Dubai’s private sector, Valerie Priscilla Goby, Hamad Mohammed Ahmad Ali, Mohammed Ahmad Abdulwahed Lanjawi, and Khalil Ibrahim Mohammed Ahmad Al Haddad
Emerging media and press freedoms as determinants of nonviolent and violent political conflicts, 1990–2006, Jacob Groshek and Britt Christensen
Cost-sensitive elimination of mislabeled training data, Donghai Guan, Weiwei Yuan, Tinghuai Ma, Asad Masood Khattak, and Francis Chow
Aliasing of the Schumann resonance background signal by sprite-associated Q-bursts, Anirban Guha, Earle Williams, Robert Boldi, Gabriella Sátori, Tamás Nagy, József Bór, Joan Montanyà, and Pascal Ortega
Revealing determinant factors for early breast cancer recurrence by decision tree, Jimin Guo, Benjamin C.M. Fung, Farkhund Iqbal, Peter J.K. Kuppen, Rob A.E.M. Tollenaar, Wilma E. Mesker, and Jean Jacques Lebrun
Deep learning models for bone suppression in chest radiographs, Maxim Gusarev, Ramil Kuleev, Adil Khan, Adin Ramirez Rivera, and Asad Masood Khattak
Adapting selection strategies of executors of business processes based on profit and social qualities, Hakim Hacid, Emir Ugljanin, Mohamed Sellami, and Zakaria Maamar
The application of narrow-band NDVI as a tool for mapping mangrove environment in Abu Dhabi, Hassan Hajjdiab, Haitham Farok, and Fares M. Howari
Multimedia File Signature Analysis for Smartphone Forensics, D. Hamdi, F. Iqbal, T. Baker, and B. Shah
Heterogeneity of Carbapenem Resistance Mechanisms among Gram-Negative Pathogens in Lebanon: Results of the First Cross-Sectional Countrywide Study, Dalal Hammoudi Halat, Carole Ayoub Moubareck, and Dolla Karam Sarkis
Africa and the middle east: Shifting alliances and strategic partnerships, Hamdy A. Hassan and Hala Thabet
Securing the internet of things: A worst-case analysis of trade-off between query-anonymity and communication-cost, Kadhim Hayawi, Pin Han Ho, Sujith Samuel Mathew, and Limei Peng
Local mean consistency on numerical solutions of stochastic wave equation with cubic nonlinearities on 2D rectangles, Haziem M. Hazaimeh
Mean Square Consistency on Numerical Solutions of Stochastic Wave Equation with Cubic Nonlinearities on 2D Rectangles, Haziem M. Hazaimeh