Submissions from 2018
The UAE healthy future study: a pilot for a prospective cohort study of 20,000 United Arab Emirates nationals, Abdishakur Abdulle, Abdullah Alnaeemi, Abdullah Aljunaibi, Abdulrahman Al Ali, Khaled Al Saedi, Eiman Al Zaabi, Naima Oumeziane, Marina Al Bastaki, Mohammed Al-Houqani, Fatma Al Maskari, Ayesha Al Dhaheri, Syed M. Shah, Tom Loney, Mohamed El-Sadig, Abderrahim Oulhaj, Leila Abdel Wareth, Wael Al Mahmeed, Habiba Alsafar, Benjamin Hirsch, Fatme Al Anouti, Jamila Yaaqoub, Claire K. Inman, Aisha Al Hamiz, Ayesha Al Hosani, Muna Haji, Teeb Alsharid, Thekra Al Zaabi, Fatima Al Maisary, Divya Galani, and Tim Sprosen
How customer orientation enhances salespeople’s performance? A case study from an international market, Amjad Abu ELSamen and Mamoun N. Akroush
Green computing: Awareness and practices, Ahed Abugabah and Amira Abubaker
MemSens: Memristor-Based Radiation Sensor, Heba Abunahla, Baker Mohammad, Lama Mahmoud, Muna Darweesh, Mohammad Alhawari, Maguy Abi Jaoude, and George Wesley Hitt
Harm perceptions of waterpipe tobacco smoking among university students in five Eastern Mediterranean Region countries: A cross-sectional study, Niveen M.E. Abu-Rmeileh, Ola Alkhuffash, Khalid Kheirallah, Aya Mostafa, Muhammad Darawad, Yahya Al-Farsi, Afzalhussein Yusufali, Justin Thomas, Mohamed Salama, Randah R. Hamadeh, Rima Nakkash, and Ramzi G. Salloum
Fuzziness-based active learning framework to enhance hyperspectral image classification performance for discriminative and generative classifiers, Muhammad Ahmad, Stanislav Protasov, Adil Mehmood Khan, Rasheed Hussain, Asad Masood Khattak, and Wajahat Ali Khan
Groundwater pollution risk mapping using modified DRASTIC model in parts of hail region of Saudi Arabia, Izrar Ahmed, Yousef Nazzal, and Faisal Zaidi
A novel framework for software defined wireless sensor networks, Khandakar Ahmed, Nazmus S. Nafi, Waleed Ejaz, Mark A. Gregory, and Asad M. Khattak
The effect of explicit instruction of formulaic language on EFL argumentative writing quality, Armağan Bakili Akkoç, Jingjing Qin, and Erkan Karabacak
Revisiting the democracy-private investment nexus: Does inequality matter?, Kemal Kivanç Aköz, Benjamin Barber IV, Jeffrey Jensen, and Christina Zenker
Towards Inclusive Social Networks for the Developing World, Christian Akpona, Rose Gohoue, Herve Ahouantchede, Fatna Belqasmi, Roch Glitho, and Jules Degila
Attitudes towards translanguaging: how future teachers perceive the meshing of Arabic and English in children’s storybooks, Afaf al-Bataineh and Kay Gallagher
Characterizing realistic signature-based intrusion detection benchmarks, Monther Aldwairi, Mohammad A. Alshboul, and Asmaa Seyam
Detecting Fake News in Social Media Networks, Monther Aldwairi and Ali Alwahedi
Anomaly payload signature generation system based on efficient tokenization methodology, Monther Aldwairi, Wail Mardini, and Alaa Alhowaide
A Consumer Perspective on Digital Games: Factors for Successful Game Development, Saiqa Aleem, Luiz Fernando Capretz, and Faheem Ahmed
Seamless WSN Connectivity Using Diverse Wireless Links, Omar Alfandi, Jagadeesha Rb, and John Beachboard
Women’s enactment of leadership in a heavily gender-marked Islamic context: An exploration within the United Arab Emirates, Abdelrahman Alhadhrami, Valerie Priscilla Goby, and Yahya Al-Ansaari
Patterns of tobacco use in the United Arab Emirates healthy future (UAEHFS) pilot study, Mohammed Al-Houqani, Andrea Leinberger-Jabari, Abdullah Al Naeemi, Abdullah Al Junaibi, Eiman Al Zaabi, Naima Oumeziane, Marina Kazim, Fatima Al Maskari, Ayesha Al Dhaheri, Leila Abdel Wareth, Wael Al Mahmeed, Habiba Alsafar, Fatme Al Anouti, Abdishakur Abdulle, Claire K. Inman, Aisha Al Hamiz, Muna Haji, Jiyoung Ahn, Tomas Kirchhoff, Richard B. Hayes, Ravichandran Ramasamy, Ann Marie Schmidt, Omar El Shahawy, Michael Weitzman, Raghib Ali, and Scott Sherman
SafePath: Differentially-private publishing of passenger trajectories in transportation systems, Khalil Al-Hussaeni, Benjamin C.M. Fung, Farkhund Iqbal, Gaby G. Dagher, and Eun G. Park
Differentially private multidimensional data publishing, Khalil Al-Hussaeni, Benjamin C.M. Fung, Farkhund Iqbal, Junqiang Liu, and Patrick C.K. Hung
Knowledge-based reasoning and recommendation framework for intelligent decision making, Rahman Ali, Muhammad Afzal, Muhammad Sadiq, Maqbool Hussain, Taqdir Ali, Sungyoung Lee, and Asad Masood Khattak
Large scale image dataset construction using distributed crawling with hadoop YARN, Rahman Ali, Asmat Ali, Asad Masood Khatak, and Muhammad Saqlain Aslam
A case-based meta-learning and reasoning framework for classifiers selection, Rahman Ali, Aasad Masood Khatak, Francis Chow, and Sungyoung Lee
Anomaly-based intrusion detection system through feature selection analysis and building hybrid efficient model, Shadi Aljawarneh, Monther Aldwairi, and Muneer Bani Yassein
Voltage dependence of the Ca2+ transient in endocardial and epicardial myocytes from the left ventricle of Goto–Kakizaki type 2 diabetic rats, Lina Al Kury, Vadym Sydorenko, Manal M.A. Smail, Muhammad Anwar Qureshi, Anatoliy Shmygol, Murat Oz, Jaipaul Singh, and Frank Christopher Howarth
Natural negative allosteric modulators of 5-HT3 receptors, Lina T. Al Kury, Mohamed Mahgoub, Frank Christopher Howarth, and Murat Oz
Calcium signaling in the ventricular myocardium of the Goto-Kakizaki type 2 diabetic rat, L. Al Kury, M. Smail, M. A. Qureshi, V. Sydorenko, A. Shmygol, M. Oz, J. Singh, and F. C. Howarth
Genetic Research Using Archival Tissue: Ethical, Social, and Legal Considerations in the United Arab Emirates, Saeeda Almarzooqi and Carol Campbell
Malware detection using DNS records and domain name features, Khulood Al Messabi, Monther Aldwairi, Ayesha Al Yousif, Anoud Thoban, and Fatna Belqasmi
Analyzing the Behavior of Autistic and Normal Developing Children Using Eye Tracking Data, Mohamed Basel Almourad, Emad Bataineh, Joana Stocker, and Farhi Marir
Measuring the technical efficiency of cooperative societies in Kuwait, Abdullah Al Mutairi, Dennis Olson, and Bashaer Al Ghanim
Opinions Sandbox: Turning Emotions on Topics into Actionable Analytics, Feras Al-Obeidat, Eleanna Kafeza, and Bruce Spencer
The Opinion Management Framework: Identifying and addressing customer concerns extracted from online product reviews, Feras Al-Obeidat, Bruce Spencer, and Eleanna Kafeza
A best-practice model of university-students relationship development: An empirical study, Raed Musbah Alqirem, Husam Mustafa Alnaimi, and Ahmed Shuhaiber
Detecting Malware Domains: A Cyber-Threat Alarm System, Khalifa AlRoum, Abdulhakim Alolama, Rami Kamel, May El Barachi, and Monther Aldwairi
Penetration and security of openssh remote secure shell service on raspberry Pi 2, Hesham H. Alsaadi, Monther Aldwairi, May Al Taei, Mansoor Albuainain, and Maktoom Alkubaisi
Lifestyle modification in long-term management of Chronic diseases, Haleama Al Sabbah
Detecting Distributed Denial of Service Attacks in Neighbour Discovery Protocol Using Machine Learning Algorithm Based on Streams Representation, Abeer Abdullah Alsadhan, Abir Hussain, Thar Baker, and Omar Alfandi
Intelligent information systems and image processing: A novel pan-sharpening technique based on Multiscale decomposition, Ahmad Al Smadi and Ahed Abugabah
Seasonal impact to air qualities in industrial areas of the arabian gulf region, Ahmed A. Al-Taani, Fares M. Howari, Yousef Nazzal, and Ahmad Yousef
E-Healthcare Knowledge Creation Platform Using Action Research, May Al Taei, Eleanna Kafeza, and Omar Alfandi
Arabic authorship attribution: An extensive study on twitter posts, Malik H. Altakrori, Farkhund Iqbal, Benjamin C.M. Fung, Steven H.H. Ding, and Abdallah Tubaishat
A perspective on women’s spatial experiences in higher education: between modernity and tradition, Gergana Alzeer
Types and dynamics of gendered space: a case of Emirati female learners in a single-gender context, Gergana Alzeer
Just-in-time Customer Churn Prediction: With and Without Data Transformation, Adnan Amin, Babar Shah, Asad Masood Khattak, Thar Baker, Hamood Ur Rahman Durani, and Sajid Anwar
Configurable data acquisition for cloud-centric IoT, Muhammad Bilal Amin, Muhammad Sadiq, Wajahat Ali Khan, Asad Masood Khattak, Usman Akhtar, and Sungyoung Lee
Revisiting loss aversion: Evidence from professional tennis, Nejat Anbarci, K. Peren Arin, Torben Kuhlenkasper, and Christina Zenker
Student attitudes towards technology and their preferences for learning tools/devices at two universities in the UAE, Matthew Andrew, Jennifer Taylorson, Donald J. Langille, Aimee Grange, and Norman Williams
Model course syllabus: Management of security issues in wearable technology, Michelle C. Antero
Adenine-thymine tautomerization under the influence of strong homogeneous electric fields, Alya A. Arabi and Chérif F. Matta
Effects of Intense Electric Fields on the Double Proton Transfer in the Watson-Crick Guanine-Cytosine Base Pair, Alya A. Arabi and Chérif F. Matta
Antecedents to Consumer Peer Communication through Social Advertising: A Self-Disclosure Theory Perspective, Yusfi Ardiansyah, Paul Harrigan, Geoffrey N. Soutar, and Timothy M. Daly
The resource curse revisited: A Bayesian model averaging approach, K. Peren Arin and Elias Braunfels
The Prospective Association Between Electronic Device Use Before Bedtime and Academic Attainment in Adolescents, Teresa Arora, Afnan Albahri, Omar M. Omar, Ahmad Sharara, and Shahrad Taheri
The associations among objectively estimated sleep and obesity indicators in elementary schoolchildren, Teresa Arora, Hoda Gad, Omar M. Omar, Sopna Choudhury, Odette Chagoury, Javaid Sheikh, and Shahrad Taheri
Reactions to psychological contract breaches and organizational citizenship behaviours: An experimental manipulation of severity, Theresa P. Atkinson, Russell A. Matthews, Alexandra A. Henderson, and Christiane Spitzmueller
Clonal emergence of Klebsiella pneumoniae ST14 co-producing OXA-48-type and NDM carbapenemases with high rate of colistin resistance in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Carole Ayoub Moubareck, Shaimaa F. Mouftah, Tibor Pál, Akela Ghazawi, Dalal H. Halat, Anju Nabi, Mouza A. AlSharhan, Zulfa O. AlDeesi, Christabel C. Peters, Handan Celiloglu, Manjunath Sannegowda, Dolla K. Sarkis, and Ágnes Sonnevend
Long-term integrity and non-repudiation protocol for multiple entities, Mohamad Badra and Rouba Borghol
Impact of document representation on neural ad hoc retrieval, Ebrahim Bagheri, Faezeh Ensan, and Feras Al-Obeidat
Neural word and entity embeddings for ad hoc retrieval, Ebrahim Bagheri, Faezeh Ensan, and Feras Al-Obeidat
Capital Punishment for Apostasy in Islam, Man Baker
Cloud-SEnergy: A bin-packing based multi-cloud service broker for energy efficient composition and execution of data-intensive applications, Thar Baker, Bandar Aldawsari, Muhammad Asim, Hissam Tawfik, Zakaria Maamar, and Rajkumar Buyya
Everything as a resource: Foundations and illustration through Internet-of-things, Thar Baker, Emir Ugljanin, Noura Faci, Mohamed Sellami, Zakaria Maamar, and Ejub Kajan
New model for inorganic pollutants dissipation on the northern part of the romanian black sea coast, A. Barbulescu, L. Barbes, and Y. Nazzal
Statistical analysis and estimation of the regional trend of aerosol size over the Arabian Gulf Region during 2002-2016, Alina Barbulescu, Yousef Nazzal, and Fares Howari
Highlighting the Future of Autonomous Vehicle Technology in 2020-2050, Nedaa Baker Al Barghuthi, Deepa Pavithran, and Huwida E. Said
A survey and taxonomy on nonorthogonal multiple-access schemes for 5G networks, Mehak Basharat, Waleed Ejaz, Muhammad Naeem, Asad Masood Khattak, and Alagan Anpalagan
Energy efficient resource allocation for NOMA in cellular IoT with energy harvesting, Mehak Basharat, Waleed Ejaz, Muhammad Naeem, Asad Masood Khattak, Alagan Anpalagan, and Omar Alfandi
An understanding of consumption trends of smart phones on university campus: A comparison study, Emad Bataineh and Sara Alamodi
Visual attention toward socially rich context information for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and normal developing children: An eye tracking study, Emad Bataineh, Mohamed Basel Almourad, Farhi Marir, and Joana Stocker
Usability analysis on Dubai e-government portal using eye tracking methodology, Emad Bataineh, Basel Al Mourad, and Fazouzi Kammoun
Preface, Fatna Belqasmi, Hamid Harroud, and Max Agueh
An analytical study on the holy Quran based on the order of words in Arabic and conjunction, Rahima Bentrcia, Samir Zidat, and Farhi Marir
Extracting semantic relations from the Quranic Arabic based on Arabic conjunctive patterns, Rahima Bentrcia, Samir Zidat, and Farhi Marir
Multi-classifier system for authorship verification task using word embeddings, Nacer Eddine Benzebouchi, Nabiha Azizi, Monther Aldwairi, and Nadir Farah
Leveraging brand touchpoints: A literature review and research agenda, Lars Bergkvist and Marc Mazodier
Online Conference Report: 2018 Annual Electronic Resources & Libraries (ER&L), Austin, Texas, March 4–7, 2018, Mary Jean Bernabe
The state of research on distance, online, and blended learning: Meta-analyses and qualitative systematic reviews, Robert M. Bernard, Eugene Borokhovski, and Rana M. Tamim
Determination of the Global-Average Charge Moment of a Lightning Flash Using Schumann Resonances and the LIS/OTD Lightning Data, Robert Boldi, Earle Williams, and Anirban Guha
Financing innovation through minority acquisitions, Ibrahim Bostan and Mariana Spatareanu
Drone Forensics: Challenges and New Insights, Hana Bouafif, Faouzi Kamoun, Farkhund Iqbal, and Andrew Marrington
TiO2-based hybrid nanocomposites modified by phosphonate molecules as selective PAH adsorbents, Nadine Bou Orm, Quoc An Trieu, and Stephane Daniele
Security and privacy challenges in smart cities, Trevor Braun, Benjamin C.M. Fung, Farkhund Iqbal, and Babar Shah
Real-time? Reframing temporal consciousness in time-based and interactive media, Andrew Buchanan
News, Fake News, and Critical Authority, John M. Budd and Kristine N. Stewart
Estimating meteorological visibility range under foggy weather conditions: A deep learning approach, Hazar Chaabani, Naoufel Werghi, Faouzi Kamoun, Bilal Taha, Fatma Outay, and Ansar Ul Haque Yasar
Population change of Trillium govanianum (Melanthiaceae) amid altered indigenous harvesting practices in the Indian Himalayas, Harsh K. Chauhan, Anil K. Bisht, Indra D. Bhatt, Arvind Bhatt, David Gallacher, and Andrea Santo
Formal specification and verification of cloud resource allocation using timed petri-nets, Saoussen Cheikhrouhou, Nesrine Chabouh, Slim Kallel, and Zakaria Maamar
A novel feature selection-based sequential ensemble learning method for class noise detection in high-dimensional data, Kai Chen, Donghai Guan, Weiwei Yuan, Bohan Li, Asad Masood Khattak, and Omar Alfandi
The impact of trauma exposure characteristics on post-traumatic stress disorder and psychiatric co-morbidity among Syrian refugees, Man Cheung Chung, Nowf AlQarni, Mariam AlMazrouei, Shamsa Al Muhairi, Mudar Shakra, Britt Mitchell, Sara Al Mazrouei, and Shurooq Al Hashimi
Business Groups and Corporate Social Responsibility, Jongmoo Jay Choi, Hoje Jo, Jimi Kim, and Moo Sung Kim
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Psychiatric Co-morbidity among Syrian Refugees of Different Ages: the Role of Trauma Centrality, Man Cheung Chung, Nowf AlQarni, Mariam AlMazrouei, Shamsa Al Muhairi, Mudar Shakra, Britt Mitchell, Sara Al Mazrouei, and Shurooq Al Hashimi
Posttraumatic Stress Among Syrian Refugees: Trauma Exposure Characteristics, Trauma Centrality, and Emotional Suppression, Man Cheung Chung, Mudar Shakra, Nowf AlQarni, Mariam AlMazrouei, Sara Al Mazrouei, and Shurooq Al Hashimi
The dark side of dialog, Justin J. Couchman, Gwenievere A. Birster, and Mariana V.C. Coutinho
Media narratives of gender in the contentious conservative age of Trump, Pam Creedon
Empowering Graduates for Knowledge Economies in Developing Countries, Maurice Danaher, Kevin Shoepp, Ashley Ater Kranov, and Julie Bauld Wallace
Impacts of environmental change on agroecosystems and livelihoods in Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal, Mohan B. Dangi, Ram P. Chaudhary, Kedar Rijal, Peter D. Stahl, Shashidhar Belbase, Kenneth G. Gerow, Deanna Fernandez, and Binod Pyakurel
Culture and Crisis Communication: Nestle India's Maggi Noodles Case, Ganga S. Dhanesh and Krishnamurthy Sriramesh
Finding innovation and imagination in a bag of loose parts, Anna Dillon