Submissions from 2025
Teachers' Experiences of Participating in an Inclusive Education Professional Development Program, Lawrence Meda, Laila Mohebi, and Areej ElSayary
Childhood Cancer and Neuropsychological Challenges Regarding Clinical Assessment and Treatment Plans, Kalliopi Megari, Despina Karagyozova, and Efthymia Efthymiou
Are Neurocognitive Deficits Associated With Gastrointestinal Symptoms in Children due to COVID-19?, Kalliopi Megari, Evanthia Thomaidou, Maria Eleni Palioura, Stelios Parasxiakos, Aglaia Skoutara, Panagiota Stougioude, Maria Theodoratou, Maria Sofologi, Efthymia Efthymiou, Soultana Papadopoulou, and Dimitra V Katsarou
Prevalence, Phenotype, and Correlates of Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder Symptoms in the Gulf Cooperation Council: An Underserved Region, Bernou Melisse, Hassan Fakhri, Lynne Kennedy, Maria J. Figueiras, Munirah Alshebali, Hala Abu Taha, Carine el Khazen, Dalal Alkazemi, and Sandra Mulkens
Association of obesity with musculoskeletal health and functional mobility in females—a systematic review, Dhanya Menoth Mohan, Fatme Al Anouti, Nupur Kohli, and Kinda Khalaf
Association of family history of cardiovascular disease with the prevalence of cardiometabolic risk factors in young adults in the United Arab Emirates: The UAE healthy future study, Fatima Mezhal, Amar Ahmad, Abdishakur Abdulle, Andrea Leinberger-Jabari, Abdulla Aljunaibi, Abdulla Alnaeemi, Ayesha S. Al Dhaheri, Eiman Alzaabi, Fatma Al-Maskari, Fatme Al Anouti, Juma Alkaabi, Marina Kazim, Mohammad Al-Houqani, Mohammad Hag Ali, Naima Oumeziane, Omar El-Shahawy, Scott Sherman, Syed M. Shah, Tom Loney, Wael Almahmeed, Youssef Idaghdour, Luai A. Ahmed, and Raghib Ali
Lysine–Bound Micronutrients Modulate Morpho–Physio–Biochemical Responses and Gene Expression in Cadmium–Stressed Maize (Zea mays L.), Manar Fawzi Bani Mfarrej and Arwa AbdulkreemAL-Huqail
Efficacy of zinc oxide nanoaciculates as antagonists against Meloidogyne javanica on Phaseolus abyssinicus, Manar Fawzi Bani Mfarrej, Faheem Ahmad, Amir Khan, Mohd Sajid Ali, Hamad A. Al-Lohedan, Arshad Iqbal, Khalid Umar, Gulam Rabbani, and Mohd Farhan Khan
Exploring the path to sustainable firm performance: The role of leadership, learning, and procurement in SMEs, Manar Fawzi Bani Mfarrej, Imane Belyamani, Syed Zamberi Ahmad, and Abdul Rahim Abu Bakar
AIoT-Based Smart Traffic Light Management System using YOLO Object Detection and Transfer Learning, Khaldoon M. Mhaidat, Raneem N. Abu Yosef, and Banan A. Sinno
How GenAI Transforms Computer Engineering Education: The Case of the Middle East and North Africa, Mostafa Mohamad, Dababrata Chowdhury, Christopher Russell, Ali Balikel, and Peter Kawalek
Applications of AI in Sustainable Retail in Enhancing Green Marketing in B2B in Middle East, Mostafa Mohamad, Arshi Naim, Hesham Magd, Praveen Kumar Malik, Ahmad Yahya Moustafa Shaheen, Anuj Kumar, and Tareq N. Hashem
Metaverse Fashion Ecosystem: A Sustainable Marketing Perspective, Mostafa Mohamad, Fandi Omeish, and Anna Tarabasz
Bio-polymerized Sulfur for Sustainable Practice in Applied Sciences and Engineering, Abdel Mohsen O. Mohamed and Maisa El Gamal
A Tight Wavelet Frames-Based Method for Numerically Solving Fractional Riccati Differential Equations, Mutaz Mohammad
Cognitive AI and implicit pseudo-spline wavelets for enhanced seismic prediction, Mutaz Mohammad
A novel fractional order model for analyzing counterterrorism operations and mitigating extremism, Mutaz Mohammad, Isa Abdullahi Baba, Evren Hincal, and Fathalla A. Rihan
Advancing Population Dynamics Analysis: Leveraging AI-Enhanced Mathematical Techniques, Mutaz Mohammad and En Bing Lin
Fractal-induced flow dynamics: Viscous flow around Mandelbrot and Julia sets, Mutaz Mohammad and Alexander Trounev
Numerical simulation and nonlinear dynamics in rotating magnetoconvection: Chaos, Attractors, and Stability Transitions, Mutaz Mohammad and Alexander Trounev
An Explainable AI and Optimized Multi-Branch Convolutional Neural Network Model for Eye Anemia Diagnosis, Kamel K. Mohammed, Nadia Dahmani, Rania Ahmed, Ashraf Darwish, and Aboul Ella Hassanien
The effectiveness of a proposed guide to improve the role of parents in developing their kindergarten children English language skills, Laila Mohebi, Ghadah Al Murshidi, Asmaa Awad, Bushra Areashi, Ahmed Al Zaabi, and Ahlam Hendawy
Tourism Case Studies Middle East & North Africa (MENA) and Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) Regions, Naomi Moswete and Paolo Mura
A Lightweight Deep Learning Model for Retinopathy of Prematurity Classification in eHealth Applications, Neazmul Mowla, Md Najmul Mowla, Khaled Rabie, and Belal Alsinglawi
Assessing the adversarial robustness of multimodal medical AI systems: insights into vulnerabilities and modality interactions, Ekaterina Mozhegova, Asad Masood Khattak, Adil Khan, Roman Garaev, Bader Rasheed, and Muhammad Shahid Anwar
Enhancing smart contract security using a code representation and GAN based methodology, Dileep Kumar Murala, Samia Loucif, K. Vara Prasada Rao, and Habib Hamam
Positioning regenerative tourism within tourism qualitative research a methodological inquiry, Paolo Mura
Harnessing Multi-Agent LLMs for Complex Engineering Problem-Solving: A Framework for Senior Design Projects, Abdullah Mushtaq, Rafay Naeem, Ibrahim Ghaznavi, Imran Taj, Imran Hashmi, and Junaid Qadir
Towards Inclusive Educational AI: Auditing Frontier LLMs for Cultural Biases through a Multiplexity Lens, Abdullah Mushtaq, Rafay Naeem, Imran Taj, Ibrahim Ghaznavi, and Junaid Qadir
Leveraging sentiment analysis of food delivery services reviews using deep learning and word embedding, Dheya Mustafa, Safaa M. Khabour, Mousa Al-kfairy, and Ahmed Shatnawi
Dialogism in feedback literacies: a critical review, Tony Myers and Jaime Buchanan
Artificial intelligence and customer-centric marketing in driving sustainable business in the digital age, Arshi Naim, Praveen Kumar Malik, Hesham Magd, Ahmad Yahya Moustafa Shaheen, Mostafa Mohamad, and Raghavan Srinivasan
Impact of Ramadan Intermittent Fasting on Cardiovascular Health and Disease, Huma Naqeeb, Iftikhar Alam, Sharifa AlBlooshi, and Falak Zeb
Association of anthropometric indices with rs9939609 FTO gene polymorphism among overweight/obese women with breast cancer: a case-control study, Huma Naqeeb, Bismillah Sehar, Sami Siraj, Ali Madi Almajwal, Bibi Hajira, Moez Al Islam Faris, Sharifa AlBlooshi, Ali Saad R. Alsubaie, Mahpara Safdar, Iftikhar Alam, and Falak Zeb
Genome editing approaches to harness cytokinin–salicylic acid crosstalk for plant protection, Muhammad Naseem and Khalid Muhammad
Enhanced removal of cationic dyes using copper-based MOF-graphene oxide composite: Synthesis, characterization and performance evaluation, Maryam Naseer, Sadia Nazir, Abida Kausar, Muhammad Abid Rashid, Muhammad Usman, Rehana Naseer, and Jibran Iqbal
AI adoption, ESG disclosure quality and sustainability committee heterogeneity: evidence from Chinese companies, Khwaja Naveed, Muhammad Bilal Farooq, Muhammad Kaleem Zahir-Ul-Hassan, and Fawad Rauf
Enhancing energy consumption forecasting for electric vehicle charging stations with Time Series Dense Encoder (TiDE), Amril Nazir, Abdul Khalique Shaikh, Aftab Ahmed Khan, Abdul Salam Shah, and Nadia Khalique
Heavy Metal Pollution in Arid Urban Environments: Anthropogenic and Geogenic Insights from Road Dust in the United Arab Emirates, Yousef Nazzal, Alina Bărbulescu, Manish Sharma, Fares Howari, Imen Ben Salem, Rania Dghaim, Pramod Kumbhar, Cijo M. Xavier, Suhail Alghafli, Ahmed A. Al-Taani, Mutaz Mohammad, Azzah Nasser Salem Nayem Alkaabi, Saif Nazzal, and Cristian Ștefan Dumitriu
Enhanced Detection of APT Vector Lateral Movement in Organizational Networks Using Lightweight Machine Learning, Mathew Nicho, Oluwasegun Adelaiye, Christopher D. McDermott, and Shini Girija
Assessing IoT intrusion detection computational costs when using a convolutional neural network, Mathew Nicho, Brian Cusack, Christopher D. McDermott, and Shini Girija
Reification, value, and emancipation: Revisiting the normative core of Marx’s critique of capitalism, Nikolaos Nikolakakis
Crisis leadership: forged in adversity, led by foresight, Christina Nizamidou
Social Media Threat Intelligence: A Framework for Collecting and Categorizing Threat-Related Data, Victor Obojo, Haula Galadima, and Richard Ikuesan
The Importance of Dark Web Access in Cyber Threat Intelligence, Victor Obojo, Richard A. Ikuesan, Abdul Kabir Adekanye, and Elias Iortom
Catching them young! A comparative study of teacher retention among beginning teachers in Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, Maxwell Peprah Opoku, Ghadah Morshedi, Negmeldin Alsheikh, Bernadette M. Guirguis, Ashraf Mustafa, Enas Mohamed Abdullah, Fatima Alrashdi, and Ahmed El-Laithy
A Bayesian Network model to integrate blue-green and gray infrastructure systems for different urban conditions, Nur H. Orak and Linda Smail
The association between visit-to-visit variability in risk factors and incident CVD: A Post-hoc analysis of the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis, Abderrahim Oulhaj, Abubaker Suliman, Malak Bentaleb, Mohammed Abdulrahman, Rachid Bentoumi, Stephen J. Sharp, and Harald Sourij
Spatio-Temporal EV Task Offloading, Energy, and Traffic Management for 6G Communication-Power-Transportation Coupling Network, Chao Pan, Ziming Li, Haoyu Ci, Haijun Liao, Zhenyu Zhou, Anwer Al-Dulaimi, and Muhammad Tariq
First national study on genomic profiling of Escherichia coli in United Arab Emirates (UAE) aquatic environments shows diverse Quinolone and Cephalosporin resistance, A. Papadopoulou, C. A. Moubareck, D. Ryder, A. L. Powell, M. Stone, A. W. Joseph, M. A. Khan, E. Light, D. W. Verner-Jeffreys, J. H. Stahl, and W. J.F. Le Quesne
Dysphagia in Rare Diseases and Syndromes: Current Approaches to Management and Therapeutic Innovations—A Systematic Review, Soultana Papadopoulou, Areti Anagnostopouplou, Dimitra V. Katsarou, Kalliopi Megari, Efthymia Efthymiou, Alexandros Argyriadis, Georgios Kougioumtzis, Maria Theodoratou, Maria Sofologi, Agathi Argyriadi, Efterpi Pavlidou, and Eugenia I. Toki
Emirati Student Attitudes Toward People with Intellectual Disabilities, Mazna Patka and Adam Murry
Identifying Licensed Social Care Professionals in the UAE: A Foundation for Developing Psychological, Counseling, and Social Work Practices, Mazna Patka, Hana Shahin, Hamad Almehairi, Shatha Al Hamedi, Meera Bin Thalith, and Linda Smail
Task-Oriented Communication and Optimization Framework for 6G Non-Terrestrial Networks: Challenges and Solutions, Jiaming Pei, Minghui Dai, Anwer Al-Dulaimi, Saba Al-Rubaye, and Shahid Mumtaz
Inclusivity of virtual tourism destinations: An immersive netnographic study of Indonesian wheelchair users in virtual nature-based destinations, Rosliyana Perangin-Angin, Rokhshad Tavakoli, Camelia Kusumo, and Paolo Mura
Sustainable Purpose- and Passionpreneurship: New-Age Lifestyle or a Necessity for Sustainable Development?, Veronika Pereseina
Quantifying Market Efficiency: Information Dissemination Through Social Media, Efstathios Polyzos, Aristeidis Samitas, and Ilias Kampouris
Investigating the impact of global events on cryptocurrency performance: a big data event study approach, Efstathios Polyzos and Layal Youssef
Optimized Cardiovascular Disease Prediction Using Clustered Butterfly Algorithm, Kamepalli S.L. Prasanna, J. Vijaya, Parvathaneni Naga Srinivasu, Babar Shah, and Farman Ali
An asymmetrical pilot resilience model – fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis, Catherine Prentice, Maneerat Tianchai, Susan Zeidan, and Xuequn Wang
The role of knowledge sharing in organisational and individual wellbeing, Catherine Prentice, Susan Zeidan, and Louis Prentice
Too much stress? The moderating effect of role-stress on the nexus of internal auditor competence and internal audit effectiveness, Unggul Purwohedi, Adam Zakaria, Maqsood Memon, and Muhammad Kaleem Zahir-Ul-Hassan
The impact of entrepreneurial orientation on innovation performance: the role of knowledge sharing as a mediating factor, Dhia Qasim, Ahmed Shuhaiber, and Zainab Rawshdeh
What drives weight status among female university students? A machine learning analysis of sociodemographic, dietary, and lifestyle determinants, Radwan Qasrawi, Abir Ajab, Leila Cheikh Ismail, Ayesha Al Dhaheri, Sharifa Alblooshi, Razan Abu Ghoush, Stephanny Vicuna Polo, Malak Amro, Suliman Thwib, Ghada Issa, and Haleama Al Sabbah
Scales for rating the behavioral characteristics of superior students: a preliminary examination of the psychometric properties of the Greek version of the first four scales: learning, creativity, motivation, and leadership scale, Eleni Rachanioti, Theodora Foti, Aikaterini Rafaella Geitona, Anastasia Tzalla, Anna Dougali, Olga Fragkomichelaki, Christina Bourmpou, Maria Staikopoulou, Aphrodite Papantoniou, Fotini Varlami, Irene Dinaki, Maria Tsiountala, Konstantinos Staikopoulos, Magda Dinou, Effie Katsadima, Tryfon Mavropalias, Harilaos Zaragas, Efthymia Efthymiou, Dimitra Katsarou, Georgios Kougioumtzis, Despina Moraitou, Maria Sofologi, and Georgia Papantoniou
ZnO/Co₃O₄/rGO nanocomposite-based electrochemical sensor for highly sensitive detection of L-cysteine in food matrices, Jaweria Sayyam Raja, Abdur Rahim, Sana Sabahat, Muhammad Tariq, Jibran Iqbal, Dalia Fouad, Abdul Qadeer, and Farid S. Ataya
How shifting diplomatic relations affect Gulf foreign investments: the case of Egypt, Ahmed Shoukry Rashad
Socially networked endorsements: Exploring the relationship between social identification and online marketing in multicultural societies, Azmat Rasul, Mian Muhammad Asim, and Donghee Shin
Celebrity Politics: Construction and Validation of a Scale to Measure the Political Influence of Celebrities, Azmat Rasul and Donghee Shin
Unlocking the power of social media: Exploring how Facebook use attitude influences the political participation of young female adults, Azmat Rasul and Donghee Shin
Deep reinforcement learning for cybersecurity, Abdul Rauf, Majid Hussain, M. Sheraz Arshad Malik, and Ashraf Khalil
Modeling Glucose-Insulin Dynamics with Delay Differential Equations, Fathalla A. Rihan, K. Udhayakumar, M. Naim Anwar, and Mutaz Mohammad
Bacillus sp. SW14 isolated from arid mangroves sediments enhances tomato plant growth: insights from genome analysis and greenhouse evaluation, Balamurugan Sadaiappan, Qurban Ali, Mahideen Afridi, Munawwar Ali Khan, and Sunil Mundra
Genomic and Functional Characterisation of Endophytic Bacterium Bacillus Cereus Strain E1 Alleviating Salt Stress and Enhancing Tomato Physiology and Spectral Indices, Balamurugan Sadaiappan, Tanveer Alam Khan, Qurban Ali, Sulamita Santos Correa, Mahideen Afridi, Soumaya Tounsi Hammami, Munawwar Ali Khan, and Sunil Mundra
Multimodal hate speech detection: a novel deep learning framework for multilingual text and images, Furqan Khan Saddozai, Sahar K. Badri, Daniyal Alghazzawi, Asad Khattak, and Muhammad Zubair Asghar
Automated Genre Classification of Urdu Poetry Using CNN-BiLSTM: A Deep Learning Perspective, Furqan Khan Saddozai, Ashraf Khalil, Asad Khattak, Naila Tabassum, and Muhammad Zubair Asghar
‘I’m Maitha! You’re Abdalla, okay?’: role play as a site of agency, cognitive, and multilingual development, Fatma F.S. Said
UAE Bilingual children’s early linguistic environments: nannies and maids as embodied agents of parental language ideologies, Fatma F.S. Said and Nadine Jaafarawi
Comparative Analysis of Differential Privacy Implementations on Synthetic Data, Huwida E. Said, Qusay H. Mahmoud, Mandeep Goyal, and Faiza Hashim
WedOnto: Wedding Event Ontology, Anum Saleem, Abdallah Tubaishat, Saad Razzaq, Sajid Anwar, Muhammad Ilyas, and Fahad Maqbool
Sexual Health Education for Autistic Adolescents in the Arab World: Can Culturally Sensitive Behavioural Activation Help with Inappropriate Sexual Behaviour?, Asmahan Saleh and Karola Dillenburger
Exploring User Intention to Use Generative AI in Music Composition: An SEM-ANN Methodology, Said A. Salloum, Khadija Alhumaid, Rose A. Aljanada, Aseel M. Alfaisal, Afrah Alsharafi, and Raghad Alfaisal
Cultivating managed dependencies in Dubai: education consultants in a stratified international student mobility brokerage market, David Sancho and V. J. Varghese
Upskilling and reskilling in the United Arab Emirates: Future-proofing careers with AI skills, David Santandreu Calonge, Firuz Kamalov, Pablo Medina Aguerrebere, Leisa Hassock, Linda Smail, Dima Yousef, Dimple R. Thadani, Theresa Kwong, and Nadia Abdulla
Radiomic Feature-Based Prediction of Primary Cancer Origins in Brain Metastases Using Machine Learning, Dilek Betül Sarıdede and Sevim Cengiz
Enhancing arrhythmia prediction through an adaptive deep reinforcement learning framework for ECG signal analysis, Mohamed Adel Serhani, Heba Ismail, Hadeel T. El-Kassabi, and Hamda Al Breiki
Meta-XPFL: An Explainable and Personalized Federated Meta-Learning Framework for Privacy-Aware IoMT, Mohamed Adel Serhani, Asadullah Tariq, Tariq Qayyum, Ikbal Taleb, Irfanud Din, and Zouheir Trabelsi
A stacking ensemble model for food demand forecasting: A preventative approach to food waste reduction, Asmaa Seyam, Sujith Samuel Mathew, Bo Du, May El Barachi, and Jun Shen
Deepvoc: a linked open vocabulary for reproducible and reliable deep learning experiments, Laiba Shaheen, Abdallah Tubaishat, Babar Shah, Shynar Mussiraliyeva, Fahad Maqbool, Saad Razzaq, and Sajid Anwar
Trace element removal from wastewater by agricultural biowastes: A data analysis on removal efficacy and optimized conditions, Muhammad Shahid, Sana Khalid, Zeid A. ALOthman, Abdullah A. Al-Kahtani, Irshad Bibi, Rabia Naz, Natasha Natasha, Nabeel Khan Niazi, Jibran Iqbal, Changseok Han, Noor S. Shah, and Behzad Murtaza
Relationality and Learning: Insights from Undergraduate Student Research Assistant Experiences, Hana Shahin, Mazna Patka, Mustafa Aydogan, Ayesha Al Ali, Meera Bin Thalith, and Saeed Alhemeiri
Balancing the local-international dialectic in community psychology pedagogy: Lessons from adapting American curricula in the United Arab Emirates, Hana Shahin, Mazna Patka, and Linda Smail
Blockchain-enhanced electoral integrity: a robust model for secure digital voting systems in Oman, Abdul Shaikh, Naresh Adhikari, Amril Nazir, Abdul Salam Shah, Saranjam Baig, and Hafedh Al Shihi
The Degree to Which Translation Retains Parallelism: A Data-Driven Analysis of King Abdullah II’s Speeches from Arabic to English, Sana Shamaileh
Impacts of AI Usage Ethically on Students, Salem Al Shamsi, Reem Al Hamami, Sara Ali, and Areej Elsayary
A Comprehensive Deep Learning System With MGRF Modeling for Predicting Breast Cancer Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy, Ahmed Sharafeldeen, Fatma Taher, Norah Saleh Alghamdi, Eman Alnaghy, Reham Alghandour, Khadiga M. Ali, Sameh Shamaa, Abdelrahman Gamal, Mohammed Ghazal, Sohail Contractor, and Ayman El-Baz
Oil in Los Angeles: Tenable Futures from Extractive Pasts, Oorvi Sharma
Special Issue on Transformational Artificial Intelligence in the Middle East and Africa, Ravi S. Sharma, Nir Kshetri, Galal H. Galal-Edeen, and Sarah Kohail