Submissions from 2017
Seasonal differences in thermal sensation in the outdoor urban environment of Mediterranean climates – the example of Athens, Greece, Areti Tseliou, Ioannis X. Tsiros, and Marialena Nikolopoulou
Safe city: Introducing a flawless model and implementation guidelines to reduce crime rate and response time, Abdallah Tubaishat and Rami Elsayed
Labour migrations to resource-rich countries: Comparative perspectives on migrants' rights in Canada, Norway and the United Arab Emirates, Marko Valenta, Zan Strabac, Jo Jakobsen, Jeffrey Reitz, and Mouawiya Al Awad
Translating reference expertise, Diane VanderPol and El Shaimaa Sakr
Challenges in technology transfer: an actor perspective in a quadruple helix environment, Constance Van Horne and Vincent Dutot
Stigma of Seeking Psychological Services: Examining College Students Across Ten Countries/Regions, David L. Vogel, Haley A. Strass, Patrick J. Heath, Fatima R. Al-Darmaki, Patrick I. Armstrong, Makilim N. Baptista, Rachel E. Brenner, Marta Gonçalves, Daniel G. Lannin, Hsin Ya Liao, Corey S. Mackenzie, Winnie W.S. Mak, Mark Rubin, Nursel Topkaya, Nathaniel G. Wade, Ying Fen Wang, and Alina Zlati
Contemporary Art and Migrant Identity “Construction” in the UAE and Qatar, Sarina Wakefield
Transnational heritage in Abu Dhabi: Power, politics and identity, Sarina Wakefield
Domains of public activity in touristic flamenco shows, Marta Wieczorek
Dwelling discreetly: Undocumented migrants in Cape Town, James Williams
The efforts of dwelling: An introduction, James Williams
Communicating Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the Luxury Industry: Managing CSR–Luxury Paradox Online Through Acceptance Strategies of Coexistence and Convergence, Jia Yun Wong and Ganga S. Dhanesh
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) for ethical corporate identity management: Framing CSR as a tool for managing the CSR-luxury paradox online, Jia Yun Wong and Ganga Sasidharan Dhanesh
A fuzzy logic-based approach for assessing the quality of business process models, Fadwa Yahya, Khouloud Boukadi, Hanêne Ben Abdallah, and Zakaria Maamar
Collusion attacks in Internet of Things: Detection and mitigation using a fog based model, Qussai Yaseen, Yaser Jararweh, Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub, and Monther Al Dwairi
Natural radioactivity and groundwater quality assessment in the northern area of the Western Desert of Egypt, Mohamed Yehia, Ashraf Baghdady, Fares M. Howari, Samir Awad, and Ahmed Gad
Barriers to implementing green management in the hospitality industry, Shih Shuo Yeh, Anestis K. Fotiadis, Mei Ling Huang, and Tzung Cheng Huan
Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants, Bin Zhou, James Bentham, Mariachiara Di Cesare, Honor Bixby, Goodarz Danaei, Melanie J. Cowan, Christopher J. Paciorek, Gitanjali Singh, Kaveh Hajifathalian, James E. Bennett, Cristina Taddei, Ver Bilano, Rodrigo M. Carrillo-Larco, Shirin Djalalinia, Shahab Khatibzadeh, Charles Lugero, Niloofar Peykari, Wan Zhu Zhang, Yuan Lu, Gretchen A. Stevens, Leanne M. Riley, Pascal Bovet, Paul Elliott, Dongfeng Gu, Nayu Ikeda, Rod T. Jackson, Michel Joffres, Andre Pascal Kengne, Tiina Laatikainen, and Tai Hing Lam
A sequential inspection and replacement policy for degradation-based systems, Zhicheng Zhu, Yisha Xiang, Suzan Alaswad, and C. Richard Cassady
Submissions from 2016
Bounded message delay with threshold time constraint in delay tolerant networks (DTNs), Ali Abbas, Babar Shah, Feras Al-Obeidat, and Farkhund Iqbal
Building Mobile Brand Equity: The Mediating Roles of Perceived Values, Amjad A. Abu ELSamen
Information quality of enterprise systems in healthcare: An empirical study, Ahed Abugabah
An Architecture for QoS-Enabled Mobile Video Surveillance Applications in a 4G EPC and M2M Environment, Mohammad Abu-Lebdeh, Fatna Belqasmi, and Roch Glitho
Understanding cultural capital and habitus in Corporate Accounting: A postcolonial context, Dina Aburous
Gait fingerprinting-based user identification on smartphones, Muhammad Ahmad, Adil Mehmood Khan, Joseph Alexander Brown, Stanislav Protasov, and Asad Masood Khattak
Challenges in managing real-time data in health information system (HIS), Usman Akhtar, Asad Masood Khattak, and Sungyoung Lee
Secure and efficient multiparty computation on genomic data, Md Momin Al Aziz, Mohammad Z. Hasan, Noman Mohammed, and Dima Alhadidi
Mental Health Beliefs Amongst Emirati Female College Students, Fatima Al-Darmaki, Justin Thomas, and Saad Yaaqeib
Critical Success Factors to Improve the Game Development Process from a Developer’s Perspective, Saiqa Aleem, Luiz Fernando Capretz, and Faheem Ahmed
Calculating the speed of vehicles using Wireless Sensor Networks, Omar Alfandi, Arne Bochem, Mehdi Akbari Gurabi, Alberto Rivera Diaz, Md Istiak Mehedi, and Dieter Hogrefe
Interference aware real-time flows scheduling in cluster based wireless sensor networks, Gohar Ali, Kyong Hoon Kim, Ki Il Kim, and Monther Aldwairi
Cross Cultural Indicators of Independent Learning in Young Children: A Jordanian Case, Qais Almeqdad, Firas Al-Hamouri, Rafe'A A. Zghoul, Ayoub Al-Rousan, and David Whitebread
An Algorithm for Inferring Big Data Objects Correlation Using Word Net, M. Basel Almourad, Mohammed Hussain, and Talal Bonny
Forensic investigation of cyberstalking cases using Behavioural Evidence Analysis, Noora Al Mutawa, Joanne Bryce, Virginia N.L. Franqueira, and Andrew Marrington
Cloud-based Lineament Extraction of Topographic Lineaments from NASA Shuttle Radar Topography Mission Data, Feras Al-Obeidat, Leonardo Feltrin, and Farhi Marir
A meta-heuristic approach for developing PROAFTN with decision tree, Feras Al-Obeidat, Babar Shah, Asad Masood Khattak, and Ali Abbas
Predicting students' performance using mutli-criteria classification: A case study, Feras Al-Obeidat and Abdallah Tubasihat
Towards on Demand Road Condition Monitoring Using Mobile Phone Sensing as a Service, Wael Alrahal AlOrabi, Sawsan Abdul Rahman, May El Barachi, and Azzam Mourad
Magec: An image searching tool for detecting forged images in forensic investigation, S. Al Sharif, M. Al Ali, N. Al Reqabi, F. Iqbal, T. Baker, and A. Marrington
White-Hat Hacking Framework for Promoting Security Awareness, S. Al-Sharif, F. Iqbal, T. Baker, and A. Khattack
Auto-Configuration of ACL Policy in Case of Topology Change in Hybrid SDN, Rashid Amin, Nadir Shah, Babar Shah, and Omar Alfandi
Model course syllabus: Management of security issues in wearable technology, Michelle C. Antero
Evaluating dispersion forces for optimization of van der Waals complexes using a non-empirical functional, Alya A. Arabi
Electrostatic potentials and average electron densities of bioisosteres in methylsquarate and acetic acid, Alya A. Arabi and Chérif F. Matta
Brutality or frequency? An empirical investigation of the effects of terrorism on economic growth in India, K. Peren Arin, Fabio Spagnolo, and Nicola Spagnolo
The ethicality of immersive sponsorship within a children’s edutainment centre, Damien Arthur
Consumer socialisation in a marketer-sponsored edutainment centre, Damien Arthur and Claire Eloise Sherman
A credibility and classification-based approach for opinion analysis in social networks, Lobna Azaza, Fatima Zohra Ennaji, Zakaria Maamar, Abdelaziz El Fazziki, Marinette Savonnet, Mohamed Sadgal, Eric Leclercq, Idir Amine Amarouche, and Djamal Benslimane
Preface, M. Badra
A Lightweight Security Protocol for NFC-based Mobile Payments, Mohamad Badra and Rouba Borghol Badra
An improved privacy solution for the smart grid, Mohamad Badra and Sherali Zeadally
On the mineral characteristics and geochemistry of the Florida phosphate of Four Corners and Hardee County mines, Ashraf R. Baghdady, Fares M. Howari, and Mohamed I. Al-Wakeel
Home literacy as cultural transmission: Parent preferences for shared reading in the United Arab Emirates, Lydia Barza and Antje von Suchodoletz
Monetizing Personal Data: A Two-Sided Market Approach, Ahmed Saleh Bataineh, Rabeb Mizouni, May El Barachi, and Jamal Bentahar
A MOF-based social web services description metamodel, Amel Benna, Zakaria Maamar, and Mohamed Ahmed Nacer
Endogenous, very small embryonic-like stem cells: Critical review, therapeutic potential and a look ahead, Deepa Bhartiya, Ambreen Shaikh, Sandhya Anand, Hiren Patel, Sona Kapoor, Kalpana Sriraman, Seema Parte, and Sreepoorna Unni
Germination response of Salsola schweinfurthii (Chenopodiaceae) to salinity and winged perianth removal, A. Bhatt, F. Pérez-García, M. Mercedes Carón, and D. Gallacher
Influence of aerial seed banks on germination response in three desert plant species, Arvind Bhatt, Prakash Chandra Phondani, Shyam S. Phartyal, Andrea Santo, and David Gallacher
Seed mucilage effect on water uptake and germination in five species from the hyper-arid Arabian desert, Arvind Bhatt, Andrea Santo, and David Gallacher
Sedentary behavior-based user life-log monitoring for wellness services, Hafiz Syed Muhammad Bilal, Asad Masood Khattak, and Sungyoung Lee
Streamlining patient consultations for sleep disorders with a knowledge-based CDSS, Jacqueline N. Blake, Don V. Kerr, and John G. Gammack
A privacy-preserving and power-efficient bicycle tracking scheme for theft mitigation, Arne Bochem, Kevin Freeman, Martin Schwarzmaier, Omar Alfandi, and Dieter Hogrefe
Assessment of online information literacy learning objects for first year community college english composition, Mara Bordignon, Alana Otis, Adele Georgievski, Jennifer Peters, Gail Strachan, Joy Muller, and Rana Tamin
Reconsidering the migrant letter: from the experience of migrants to the language of migrants, Marcelo J. Borges and Sonia Cancian
Technology-supported student interaction in post-secondary education: A meta-analysis of designed versus contextual treatments, Eugene Borokhovski, Robert M. Bernard, Rana M. Tamim, Richard F. Schmid, and Anna Sokolovskaya
PerSaDoR: Personalized social document representation for improving web search, Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek, Hakim Hacid, Mokrane Bouzeghoub, and Athena Vakali
Divorce from Arranged Marriages: An Exploration of Lived Experiences, Nicole F. Bromfield, Sanaa Ashour, and Kennon Rider
Reconsidering the Yokohama “gold rush” of 1859, Simon James Bytheway and Martha Chaiklin
From montreal and venice with love: Migrant letters and romantic intimacy in Italian migration to postwar Canada, Sonia Cancian
‘If it is not too expensive, then you can send me sugar’: money matters among migrants and their families, Sonia Cancian and Simone A. Wegge
Structure of Moves in Research Article Abstracts in Applied Linguistics, Seden Can, Erkan Karabacak, and Jingjing Qin
Elephants and the making of early modern India, Martha Chaiklin
Fusion: Privacy-preserving distributed protocol for high-dimensional data mashup, Gaby G. Dagher, Farkhund Iqbal, Mahtab Arafati, and Benjamin C.M. Fung
Constructs for quality in on-line learning, Maurice M. Danaher
A new approach for assessing ABET's professional skills in computing, Maurice Danaher, Kevin Schoepp, and Ashley Ater Kranov
Dynamic and efficient brokering of energy suppliers and consumers in a smart grid, Waltenegus Dargie, Omar Alfandi, and Mohamad Badra
Assessing variations in foreign direct investments under international financial reporting standards (IFRS) adoption, macro-socioeconomic developments and credit ratings, Evangelos Daskalopoulos, Anastasios Evgenidis, Athanasios Tsagkanos, and Costas Siriopoulos
Picture This: Developing a Model for the Analysis of Visual Metadiscourse, Elizabeth De Groot, Catherine Nickerson, Hubert Korzilius, and Marinel Gerritsen
An exploration of linguistic Neo-Colonialism through educational language Policy-An Irish perspective, Anna Marie Dillon
The application of item response theory in developing and validating a shortened version of the Emirate Marital Satisfaction Scale, Hamzeh Dodeen and Fatima Al-Darmaki
Change-point detection in the marginal distribution of a linear process, Farid El Ktaibi and B. Gail Ivanoff
Local Sustainable Development: Local Agenda 21 for Egypt and the Arab Countries, Suzanna El Massah
Impact of piracy on Somalia: Society, economy, and state building, Afyare A. Elmi, Said Mohamed, and Ladan Affi
Undergraduate employability training and employment: A UAE study, Osama El-Temtamy, K. Kathleen O'Neill, and Sadiq Midraj
Assessing IT disaster recovery plans the case of publicly listed firms on Abu Dhabi/UAE security exchange, Osama El-Temtamy, Munir Majdalawieh, and Lela Pumphrey
Instructional videos as part of a 'flipped' approach in academic writing, Marion Engin and Senem Donanci
The Next Generation of Technology: Mobile Apps in the English Language Classroom, Jenny Eppard, Omaima Nasser, and Preeya Reddy
An explanation of spread’s ability to predict economic activity: A regime switching model, Anastasios Evgenidis and Costas Siriopoulos
Volatility spillovers between oil prices and the stock market under structural breaks, Bradley T. Ewing and Farooq Malik
Micro-context recognition of sedentary behaviour using smartphone, Muhammad Fahim, Asad Masood Khattak, Thar Baker, Francis Chow, and Babar Shah
Tracking the sedentary lifestyle using smartphone: A pilot study, Muhammad Fahim, Asad Masood Khattak, Francis Chow, and Babar Shah
Combining Weights of Evidence Analysis with Feature Extraction - A Case Study from the Hauraki Goldfield, New Zealand, Leonardo Feltrin, João Gabriel Motta, Feras Al-Obeidat, Farhi Marir, and Martina Bertelli
Drones to manage the urban environment: Risks, rewards, alternatives, David Gallacher
Macromorphology and recruitment of Prosopis cineraria in the United Arab Emirates, David J. Gallacher and All El-Keblawy
The role of proficiency, speaking habits and error-tolerance in the self-repair behaviour of Emirati EFL learners, Effrosyni S. Georgiadou
The risk in capital controls, Konstantinos Gkillas (Gillas), Athanasios Tsagkanos, and Costas Siriopoulos
Benthic Carbon Mineralization and Nutrient Turnover in a Scottish Sea Loch: An Integrative In Situ Study, Ronnie N. Glud, Peter Berg, Henrik Stahl, Andrew Hume, Morten Larsen, Bradley D. Eyre, and Perran L.M. Cook
Lightweight context-aware activity recognition, Byung Gill Go, Asad Masood Khattak, Babar Shah, and Adil Mehmood Khan
Conceptualization of CSR Among Muslim Consumers in Dubai: Evolving from Philanthropy to Ethical and Economic Orientations, Valerie Priscilla Goby and Catherine Nickerson