Submissions from 2017
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
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
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
Reading rate and comprehension for text presented on tablet and paper: Evidence from Arabic, Ehab W. Hermena, Mercedes Sheen, Maryam AlJassmi, Khulood AlFalasi, Maha AlMatroushi, and Timothy R. Jordan
Oxygen dynamics in shelf seas sediments incorporating seasonal variability, N. Hicks, G. R. Ubbara, B. Silburn, H. E.K. Smith, S. Kröger, E. R. Parker, D. Sivyer, V. Kitidis, A. Hatton, D. J. Mayor, and H. Stahl
The knowledge and practice of workers toward occupational hazards: Case study from United Arab Emirates, Fares M. Howari, Yousef Nazzal, and Mustaffah Awad
Body mass index adjustments to increase the validity of body fatness assessment in UK Black African and South Asian children, M. T. Hudda, C. M. Nightingale, A. S. Donin, M. S. Fewtrell, D. Haroun, S. Lum, J. E. Williams, C. G. Owen, A. R. Rudnicka, J. C.K. Wells, D. G. Cook, and P. H. Whincup
Ethnicity and low wage traps: favouritism, homosocial reproduction and economic marginalization, Maria Hudson, Gina Netto, Mike Noon, Filip Sosenko, Philomena de Lima, and Nicolina Kamenou-Aigbekaen
A study of children facial recognition for privacy in smart TV, Patrick C.K. Hung, Kamen Kanev, Farkhund Iqbal, David Mettrick, Laura Rafferty, Guan Pu Pan, Shih Chia Huang, and Benjamin C.M. Fung
A novel approach for analyzing student interaction with educational systems, Mohammed Hussain, M. Basel Al-Mourad, Abdullah Hussein, Sujith Mathew, and Essam Morsy
Mining Educational Data for Academic Accreditation: Aligning Assessment with Outcomes, Mohammed Hussain, Mohamed Al-Mourad, Sujith Mathew, and Abdullah Hussein
Parliamentary debates, Cornelia Ilie
The AGE-RAGE axis in an Arab population: The United Arab Emirates Healthy Futures (UAEHFS) pilot study, Claire K. Inman, Abdullah Aljunaibi, Hyunwook Koh, Abdishakur Abdulle, Raghib Ali, Abdullah Alnaeemi, Eiman Al Zaabi, Naima Oumeziane, Marina Al Bastaki, Mohammed Al-Houqani, Fatma Al-Maskari, Ayesha Al Dhaheri, Syed M. Shah, Laila Abdel Wareth, Wael Al Mahmeed, Habiba Alsafar, Fatme Al Anouti, Ayesha Al Hosani, Muna Haji, Divya Galani, Matthew J. O'Connor, Jiyoung Ahn, Tomas Kirchhoff, Scott Sherman, Richard B. Hayes, Huilin Li, Ravichandran Ramasamy, and Ann Marie Schmidt
An application of ionic liquid for preparation of homogeneous collagen and alginate hydrogels for skin dressing, Bushra Iqbal, Nawshad Muhammad, Arshad Jamal, Pervaiz Ahmad, Zia Ul Haq Khan, Abdur Rahim, Amir Sada Khan, Girma Gonfa, Jibran Iqbal, and Ihtesham Ur Rehman
Simultaneous enrichment & on-line detection of low-concentration Copper, Cobalt, & Nickel Ions in Water by Near-Infrared diffuse reflectance spectroscopy combined with chemometrics, Jibran Iqbal, Yiping Du, Fares M. Howari, Mahmoud Bataineh, Nawshad Muhammad, and Abdur Rahim
Establishment and development of the intestinal microbiota of preterm infants in a Lebanese tertiary hospital, Tarek Itani, Carole Ayoub Moubareck, Imad Melki, Clotilde Rousseau, Irène Mangin, Marie José Butel, and Dolla Karam Sarkis
Cellulose‐based Materials for the Removal of Heavy Metals from Wastewater – An Overview, Anum Jamshaid, Almas Hamid, Nawshad Muhammad, Ayesha Naseer, Moinuddin Ghauri, Jibran Iqbal, Sikander Rafiq, and Noor Samad Shah
Reflections of Academic Experiences From Formerly Incarcerated African American Males, Adam R. Jeffers
Continuous health monitoring using smartphones-A case-study for monitoring diabetic patients in UAE, A. J. Jihad, Sujith Samuel Mathew, Sujni Paul, and D. Ponmary Pushpalatha
Isms and schisms: A meta-analysis of the prejudice-discrimination relationship across racism, sexism, and ageism, Kristen P. Jones, Isaac E. Sabat, Eden B. King, Afra Ahmad, Tracy C. McCausland, and Tiffani Chen
What's in a typeface? Evidence of the existence of print personalities in Arabic, Timothy R. Jordan, Alya S. Al Shamsi, Hajar A.K. Yekani, Maryam Al Jassmi, Nada Al Dosari, Ehab W. Hermena, and Mercedes Sheen
Investigating the effectiveness of spatial frequencies to the left and right of central vision during reading: Evidence from reading times and eye movements, Timothy R. Jordan, Victoria A. McGowan, Stoyan Kurtev, and Kevin B. Paterson
Coral larvae for restoration and research: A large-scale method for rearing Acropora millepora larvae, inducing settlement, and establishing symbiosis, F. Joseph Pollock, Sefano M. Katz, Jeroen A.J.M. van de Water, Sarah W. Davies, Margaux Hein, Gergely Torda, Mikhail V. Matz, Victor H. Beltran, Patrick Buerger, Eneour Puill-Stephan, David Abrego, David G. Bourne, and Bette L. Willis
Exploiting Time Series Analysis in Twitter to Measure a Campaign Process Performance, Eleanna Kafeza, Christos Makris, and Gerasimos Rompolas
Cognitive biases in investors’ behaviour under stress: Evidence from the London Stock Exchange, Spyridon Kariofyllas, Dionisis Philippas, and Costas Siriopoulos
The use of social media from revolution to democratic consolidation: The Arab Spring and the case of Tunisia, Magdalena Karolak
Negotiating space for women's academic leadership within the Arab Gulf States, Linzi J. Kemp, Christina Gitsaki, and Wafa Zoghbor
Vibrational spectroscopy of selective dental restorative materials, Abdul S. Khan, Hina Khalid, Zenab Sarfraz, Maria Khan, Jibran Iqbal, Nawshad Muhammad, Muhammad A. Fareed, and Ihtesham Ur Rehman
Forensic analysis of xbox one and playstation 4 gaming consoles, Salam Khanji, Raja Jabir, Farkhund Iqbal, and Andrew Marrington
Assessment of microbial quality in household water tanks in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Munawwar Ali Khan and Asma Mohammad Abdulrahman Ahmad Almadani
Exploratory study into awareness of heart disease and health care seeking behavior among Emirati women (UAE) - Cross sectional descriptive study, Sarah Khan and Syed Adnan Ali
Aging study of the powdered magnetite nanoparticles, Umar Saeed Khan, Abdur Rahim, Nasrullah Khan, Nawshad Muhammad, Fozia Rehman, Khalid Ahmad, and Jibran Iqbal
Privacy Requirements for mobile e-Service in the Health Authority-Abu Dhabi (HAAD), Asad M. Khattak, Farkhund Iqbal, Patrick C.K. Hung, Jwo Shiun Sun, Guan Pu Pan, and Jing Jie Lin
Interventionist external agents make specific advice less demotivating, Jamel Khenfer, Kristin Laurin, Eric Tafani, Elyette Roux, and Aaron C. Kay
When God's (not) needed: Spotlight on how belief in divine control influences goal commitment, Jamel Khenfer, Elyette Roux, Eric Tafani, and Kristin Laurin
Citizen-centered governance Lessons from high-performing Asian economies for Bangladesh, Habibul Haque Khondker
Globalization and inequality, Habibul Haque Khondker