Submissions from 2016
Defining tsunamis: Yoda strikes back?, James Goff, Yuichi Ebina, Kazuhisa Goto, and James Terry
Anthropogenic disruption to the seismic driving of beach ridge formation: The Sendai coast, Japan, James Goff, Jasper Knight, Daisuke Sugawara, and James P. Terry
Tsunamigenic slope failures: the Pacific Islands ‘blind spot’?, James Goff and James P. Terry
Teaching gender in other classrooms: A view from the outside, Jyoti Grewal
Social-based semantic framework for cloud resource management in business processes, Emna Hachicha, Walid Gaaloul, and Zakaria Maamar
Carbapenem-Resistant, Gram-Negative Bacilli: The State of the Art. The State of the Art, D. H. Halat, D. K. Sarkis, and Carole Ayoub Moubareck
An updated mini review of Vitamin D and obesity: Adipogenesis and inflammation state, Zujaja Tul Noor Hamid Mehmood and Dimitrios Papandreou
A cyber forensics needs analysis survey: Revisiting the domain's needs a decade later, Vikram S. Harichandran, Frank Breitinger, Ibrahim Baggili, and Andrew Marrington
Assessing knowledge of, and attitudes to, HIV/AIDS among university students in the United Arab Emirates, Dalia Haroun, Ola El Saleh, Lesley Wood, Rola Mechli, Nada Al Marzouqi, and Samir Anouti
Yakuglas’ legacy: The art and times of Charlie James, Ronald W. Hawker
Help-Seeking Attitudes of United Arab Emirates Students, Patrick J. Heath, David L. Vogel, and Fatima R. Al-Darmaki
Towards strategic information & communication technology (ICT) framework for smart cities decision-makers, Mahmoud El Hendy, Sami Miniaoui, and Hussein Fakhry
Emirati cultural identity in the age of 'Englishisation': Voices from an Abu Dhabi university, Sarah Hopkyns
Metallogenic evolution of uranium deposits in the Middle East and North Africa deposits, Fares Howari, Philip Goodell, and Abdulaty Salman
Gravity investigations of recent sinkholes and karst pits of Dahal Al-Hamam, State of Qatar, Fares M. Howari, Raed Aldouri, and Abdulali Sadiq
Host adaptation and unexpected symbiont partners enable reef-building corals to tolerate extreme temperatures, Emily J. Howells, David Abrego, Eli Meyer, Nathan L. Kirk, and John A. Burt
A glance of child’s play privacy in smart toys, Patrick C.K. Hung, Farkhund Iqbal, Shih Chia Huang, Mohammed Melaisi, and Kevin Pang
A crowdsource model for quality assurance in cloud computing, Mohammed Hussain and Mohamed Basel Al-Mourad
Collect, scope, and verify big data - A framework for institution accreditation, Mohammed Hussain, Mohamed Basel Al-Mourad, and Sujith Samuel Mathew
Parliament and parliamentarism: A comparative history of a European concept, Pasi Ihalainen, Cornelia Ilie, and Kari Palonen
Parliament as a conceptual nexus, Pasi Ihalainen, Cornelia Ilie, and Kari Palonen
Metadiscursive strategies in dialogue: Legitimising confrontational rhetoric, Cornelia Ilie
Parliamentary discourse and deliberative rhetoric, Cornelia Ilie
Central and Eastern European parliamentary rhetoric since the nineteenth century: The case of Romania and Poland, Cornelia Ilie and Cezar M. Ornatowski
Interdiscursive strategies of metaphor-driven rhetoric in Romanian discourses on a political crisis, Cornelia Ilie and Ariadna ŞtefǍnescu
Gender diversity of boardrooms and firm financial performance, Perihan Iren
The use of Google apps to support teaching and learning: A UAE case study, Fawzi Fayez Ishtaiwa-Dweikat and Ibtehal M. Aburezeq
Analysis of cloud computing attacks and countermeasures, Raja Mohamed Jabir, Salam Ismail Rasheed Khanji, Liza Abdallah Ahmad, Omar Alfandi, and Huwida Said
Effects of spatial frequencies on word identification by fast and slow readers: Evidence from eye movements, Timothy R. Jordan, Jasmine Dixon, Victoria A. McGowan, Stoyan Kurtev, and Kevin B. Paterson
Fast and slow readers and the effectiveness of the spatial frequency content of text: Evidence from reading times and eye movements, Timothy R. Jordan, Jasmine Dixon, Victoria A. McGowan, Stoyan Kurtev, and Kevin B. Paterson
A further look at postview effects in reading: An eye-movements study of influences from the left of fixation, Timothy R. Jordan, Victoria A. McGowan, Stoyan Kurtev, and Kevin B. Paterson
A survey on network simulators in three-dimensional wireless ad hoc and sensor networks, Seokyoon Kang, Monther Aldwairi, and Ki Il Kim
Development and evaluation of continuing education course in renal nutrition, Mirey Karavetian and Rana Rizk
Social media and the Arab spring in Bahrain: From mobilization to confrontation, Magdalena Karolak
Conclusions: Where next for wearables?, Don Kerr and John Gammack
Local consequences of global recognition: The “value” of world heritage status for Zanzibar Stone Town, Akbar Keshodkar
Wireless sensor network virtualization: A survey, Imran Khan, Fatna Belqasmi, Roch Glitho, Noel Crespi, Monique Morrow, and Paul Polakos
Database auditing and forensics: Exploration and evaluation, Salam Ismail Rasheed Khanji, Asad Masood Khattak, and Hakim Hacid
Evaluation of Linux SMTP server security aspects - A case study, Salam Khanji, Raja Jabir, Liza Ahmad, Omar Alfandi, and Huwida Said
Smart meter: Toward client centric energy efficient smartphone based solution, Salam Khanji, Asad Masood Khattak, and Omar Alfandi
Exploratory study into the awareness of heart diseases among Emirati women (UAE) and their health seeking behaviour- a qualitative study, Sarah Khan, Ayesha Khoory, Dhabia Al Zaffin, and Meera Al Suwaidi
Towards a self adaptive system for social wellness, Asad Masood Khattak, Wajahat Ali Khan, Zeeshan Pervez, Farkhund Iqbal, and Sungyoung Lee
Privacy-preserving data mashup model for trading person-specific information, Rashid Hussain Khokhar, Benjamin C.M. Fung, Farkhund Iqbal, Dima Alhadidi, and Jamal Bentahar
Nationalism and the 'politics of national identity', Habibul Haque Khondker
Stock markets and effective exchange rates in European countries: threshold cointegration findings, Christos Kollias, Stephanos Papadamou, and Costas Siriopoulos
The presocratics in the thought of Martin Heidegger, W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz
Understanding the history of extreme wave events in the Tuamotu Archipelago of French Polynesia from large carbonate boulders on Makemo Atoll, with implications for future threats in the central South Pacific, A. Y.Annie Lau, James P. Terry, Alan D. Ziegler, Adam D. Switzer, Yingsin Lee, and Samuel Etienne
An architecture for (m, k)-firm real-time streams in wireless sensor networks, Chung Jae Lee, Babar Shah, and Ki Il Kim
Communication overload management through social interactions clustering, Juan Antonio Lossio-Ventura, Hakim Hacid, Mathieu Roche, and Pascal Poncelet
Social web services management, Zakaria Maamar, Noura Faci, Ejub Kajan, and Emir Ugljanin
Network-based social coordination of business processes, Zakaria Maamar, Noura Faci, Sherif Sakr, Mohamed Boukhebouze, and Ahmed Barnawi
On capturing and quantifying social qualities in business processes, Zakaria Maamar, Hakim Hacid, Emir Ugljanin, and Mohamed Sellami
Feeling culture: The emotional experience of six early childhood educators while teaching in a cross-cultural context, Samara Madrid, Nikki Baldwin, and Shashidhar Belbase
Accidental burns in children under five years of age: The gendered burden of care and socio-economic deprivation, Sharmilla Maharaj and Vishanthie Sewpaul
Towards an open source architecture for multi-operator LTE core networks, Ricardo Marco Alaez, Jose M. Alcaraz Calero, Fatna Belqasmi, May El-Barachi, Mohamad Badra, and Omar Alfandi
Mining the Web and Literature to Discover New Knowledge about Diabetes, Farhi Marir, Huwida Said, and Feras Al-Obeidat
Analytics within UAE higher education context, Adam Marks and Maytha Al-Ali
Learning Management Systems: A Shift Toward Learning and Academic Analytics, Adam Marks, Maytha AL-Ali, and Kees Rietsema
Managing Security Issues and the Hidden Dangers of Wearable Technologies, Andrew Marrington, Don Kerr, and John Gammack
Citation Tracking in Academic Libraries: An Overview, Judith Mavodza
Design methodologies for M-health innovations: A content analysis, Shah Jahan Miah, John Gammack, Najmul Hasan, and Md Rakibul Hoque
Outsourcing in the Persian Gulf petroleum supply chain, Batoul Modarress, Al Ansari, and Emil Thies
The distribution of blow fly (Diptera: Calliphoridae) larval lengths and its implications for estimating post mortem intervals, Colin Moffatt, Viv Heaton, and Dorine De Haan
An Improved Equation for TBS and ADD: Establishing a Reliable Postmortem Interval Framework for Casework and Experimental Studies, Colin Moffatt, Tal Simmons, and Jeanne Lynch-Aird
A data visualisation for horizontal eye-movements, Jim Morey and John Gammack
A comparative study of information literacy provision at university libraries in South Africa and the United Arab Emirates: A literature review, Mathew Moyo and Judith Mavodza
Extending TLS with KMIP protocol for cloud computing, Mounira Msahli, Ahmed Serhrouchni, and Mohamad Badra
Risk assessment through evaluation of potentially toxic metals in the surface soils of the Qassim area, Central Saudi Arabia, Yousef Nazzal, Fares M. Howari, Muhammad Kamran Jafri, Muhammad Naeem, and Habes Ghrefat
Evaluation of metals that are potentially toxic to agricultural surface soils, using statistical analysis, in northwestern Saudi Arabia, Yousef Nazzal, Faisal K. Zaidi, Bassam A. Abuamarah, Izrar Ahmed, Fares M. Howari, Muhammad Naeem, Nassir S.N. Al-Arifi, Muhammad Kamran Jafri, and Khaled M. Al-Kahtany
From philanthropy to broader social engagement: Muslim consumers’ response to corporate social marketing strategies in Dubai, Catherine Nickerson and Valerie Priscilla Goby
Managing Trust in the Cloud: State of the Art and Research Challenges, Talal H. Noor, Quan Z. Sheng, Zakaria Maamar, and Sherali Zeadally
Cinema technologies, M. R. Ogden
Weight-related teasing and internalized weight stigma predict abnormal eating attitudes and behaviours in Emirati female university students, Lily O'Hara, Sabrina Tahboub-Schulte, and Justin Thomas
Message from the WSDF 2016 workshop organizers, Richard E. Overill, Virginia N.L. Franqueira, Andrew Marrington, and Andrew Jones
Impact of Vitamin D on cardiovascular disease-mini review, Dimitrios Papandreou
Relation of neck circumference with total body fat and BMI, Dimitrios Papandreou, Mark Causapin, Zujaja Tul-Noor, and Pavlos Malindretos
Are dietary intakes related to obesity in children?, Dimitrios Papandreou, Kali Makedou, Areti Zormpa, Maria Karampola, Anastasia Ioannou, and Areti Hitoglou-Makedou
The effect of using mobile devices on students' performance in writing, Marielle Patronis
SHOULD WE CARE ABOUT THE COMPOSITION OF TAX-BASED STIMULUS PACKAGES?, K. Peren Arin, Peter Harald Helles, Murat Koyuncu, and Otto F. M. Reich
Privacy-aware relevant data access with semantically enriched search queries for untrusted cloud storage services, Zeeshan Pervez, Mahmood Ahmad, Asad Masood Khattak, Sungyoung Lee, and Tae Choong Chung
Stopover destination image - Using the Repertory Test to identify salient attributes, Steven Pike and Filareti Kotsi
Companies’ Accountability in Sustainability: A Comparative Analysis of SDGs in Five Countries, Kamala Vainy Pillai, Pavel Slutsky, Katharina Wolf, Gaelle Duthler, and Inka Stever
Al Ain Oases Mapping Project: Qattārah Oasis, past and present (poster), Timothy Power, Peter Sheehan, Shamsa Mohamed Al Dhaheri, Mariyam Abd Al Aziz Al Hammadi, Khuloud Ibrahim Al Hammadi, Afra Adnan Al Noaimi, Ayesha Muhsen Al Subaihi, Hamda Hasan Al Omar, Fatima Thani Al-Romeithi, Muzna Khalifa Al Mansoori, Leqa Jawher Al Zaabi, Zainab Rubaiya Al Naemi, Mohamed Khalifa, and Mohamed Al Dhaheri
Leader-member exchange: Moderating the health and safety outcomes of job insecurity, Tahira M. Probst, Lixin Jiang, and Maja Graso
A meta-analysis: Age and second language grammar acquisition, Muhammad Asif Qureshi
An Elastic Hybrid Sensing Platform: Architecture and Research Challenges, Sleiman Rabah, Fatna Belqasmi, Rabeb Mizouni, and Rachida Dssouli
Estimation of the offspring mean in a branching process with non stationary immigration, I. Rahimov
Security analysis of IoT protocols: A focus in CoAP, Reem Abdul Rahman and Babar Shah
Stream turbidity responses to storm events in a pristine rainforest watershed on the Coral Coast of southern Fiji, Arishma R. Ram and James P. Terry
Supporting Emirati females leadership skills through teaching them how to debate: Design, assessment, and considerations, Chrysi Rapanta and Dany Badran
Diabetes education program for people with type 2 diabetes: An international perspective, Osama A. Rashed, Haleama Al Sabbah, Mustafa Z. Younis, Adnan Kisa, and Jai Parkash
Measuring attainment of foundation skills in general education at a public university in the United Arab Emirates, Anthony Rhodes, Maurice M. Danaher, Ashley Ater Kranov, and Lisa Isaacson
Economic evaluations of interventions to manage hyperphosphataemia in adult haemodialysis patients: A systematic review, Rana Rizk, Mickaël Hiligsmann, Mirey Karavetian, and Silvia Maa Evers
A societal cost-of-illness study of hemodialysis in Lebanon, Rana Rizk, Mickaël Hiligsmann, Mirey Karavetian, Pascale Salameh, and Silvia M.A.A. Evers
A framework for evaluating sustainability indicators in the real estate industry, Tim Rogmans and Mohammad Ghunaim
A fuzzy-based credibility model to assess Web services trust under uncertainty, Zohra Saoud, Noura Faci, Zakaria Maamar, and Djamal Benslimane
Effects of Energetic Solar Emissions on the Earth–Ionosphere Cavity of Schumann Resonances, Gabriella Sátori, Earle Williams, Colin Price, Robert Boldi, Alexander Koloskov, Yuri Yampolski, Anirban Guha, and Veronika Barta
Meta-Assessment: Assessing the Learning Outcomes Assessment Program, Kevin Schoepp and Scott Benson