Submissions from 2021
A digital maturity model for the education enterprise, Maytha AL-Ali and Adam Marks
Activated carbon-alginate beads impregnated with surfactant as sustainable adsorbent for efficient removal of methylene blue, Noor Ul Alamin, Amir Sada Khan, Asma Nasrullah, Jibran Iqbal, Zahoor Ullah, Israf Ud Din, Nawshad Muhammad, and Shahan Zeb Khan
Associations between genetic variants in the vitamin d metabolism pathway and severity of covid-19 among uae residents, Fatme Al-Anouti, Mira Mousa, Spyridon N. Karras, William B. Grant, Zainab Alhalwachi, Laila Abdel-Wareth, Maimunah Uddin, Nawal Alkaabi, Guan K. Tay, Bassam Mahboub, and Habiba Alsafar
Modelling customers credit card behaviour using bidirectional LSTM neural networks, Maher Ala’raj, Maysam F. Abbod, and Munir Majdalawieh
Modeling and forecasting of COVID-19 using a hybrid dynamic model based on SEIRD with ARIMA corrections, Maher Ala'raj, Munir Majdalawieh, and Nishara Nizamuddin
Data-driven based HVAC optimisation approaches: A Systematic Literature Review, Maher Ala’raj, Mohammed Radi, Maysam F. Abbod, Munir Majdalawieh, and Marianela Parodi
Impact of COVID-19 on mental health and quality of life: Is there any effect? A crosssectional study of the MENA region, Ayesha S. Al Dhaheri, Mo'Ath F. Bataineh, Maysm N. Mohamad, Abir Ajab, Amina Al Marzouqi, Amjad H. Jarrar, Carla Habib-Mourad, Dima O.Abu Jamous, Habiba I. Ali, Haleama Al Sabbah, Hayder Hasan, Lily Stojanovska, Mona Hashim, Osama A.Abd Elhameed, Reyad R.Shaker Obaid, Samar ElFeky, Sheima T. Saleh, Tareq M. Osaili, and Leila Cheikh Ismail
Maternal investment, life-history trajectory of the off-spring and cardiovascular disease risk in Emirati females in the United Arab Emirates, Rola Al Ghali, Linda Smail, Maryam Muqbel, and Dalia Haroun
Conclusion: Emerging Insights on Islamic Education Curriculum Renewal, Mariam Alhashmi
Examining the use of Robots as Teacher Assistants in Uae Classrooms: Teacher and Student Perspectives, Mariam Alhashmi, Omar Mubin, and Rama Baroud
Developing an educational framework for using mobile learning during the era of COVID-19, Khadija Alhumaid
Examining the factors influencing the mobile learning usage during COVID-19 Pandemic: An Integrated SEM-ANN Method, Khadija Alhumaid, Mohammed Habes, and Said A. Salloum
Counterfactual explanation of Bayesian model uncertainty, Gohar Ali, Feras Al-Obeidat, Abdallah Tubaishat, Tehseen Zia, Muhammad Ilyas, and Alvaro Rocha
War Without End: Why Are Peace Efforts Faltering in Yemen?, Hassanein Ali
Customer perceived value through quality augmented reality experiences in retail: The mediating effect of customer attitudes, Saifeddin Alimamy and Samer Al-Imamy
The Impact of Co-Creating Through AR in Retail Stores on Purchase Intentions: The Mediating Role of Customer Trust and Risk, Saifeddin Alimamy, Juergen Gnoth, and Kenneth Richard Deans
Estimation and Interpretation of Machine Learning Models with Customized Surrogate Model, Mudabbir Ali, Asad Masood Khattak, Zain Ali, Bashir Hayat, Muhammad Idrees, Zeeshan Pervez, Kashif Rizwan, Tae Eung Sung, and Ki Il Kim
Multicriteria Decision Making Using TOPSIS Method: An Accurate Selection of Deserving Candidates, Rahman Ali and Asad Masood Khatak
On computing linearizing coordinates from the symmetry algebra, Sajid Ali, Hassan Azad, Said Waqas Shah, and Fazal M. Mahomed
Quaternion Codes in MIMO System of Dual-Polarized Antennas, Sajid Ali, Sara Shakil Qureshi, and Syed Ali Hassan
Effects of word predictability on eye movements during Arabic reading, Maryam A. AlJassmi, Kayleigh L. Warrington, Victoria A. McGowan, Sarah J. White, and Kevin B. Paterson
Elucidating the effect of information technology capabilities on organizational performance in UAE: a three-wave moderated-mediation model, Haseena Bader Alkatheeri, Fauzia Jabeen, Khalid Mehmood, and Gabriele Santoro
Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Inhibit TRPC4-Mediated Muscarinic Cation Current in Mouse Ileal Myocytes, Lina T. Al Kury, Dimitrios Papandreou, Vasyl V. Hurmach, Dariia O. Dryn, Mariia I. Melnyk, Maxim O. Platonov, Yuriy I. Prylutskyy, Uwe Ritter, Peter Scharff, and Alexander V. Zholos
Immunomodulatory and anticancer activities of hyacinthus orientalis l.: An in vitro and in vivo study, Lina T. Al Kury, Zainab Taha, and Wamidh H. Talib
The acceptance of social media video for knowledge acquisition, sharing and application: A comparative study among YouYube users and TikTok users’ for medical purposes, Rana Al-Maroof, Kevin Ayoubi, Khadija Alhumaid, Ahmad Aburayya, Muhammad Alshurideh, Raghad Alfaisal, and Said Salloum
User acceptance of smart watch for medical purposes: An empirical study, Rana Saeed Al-Maroof, Khadija Alhumaid, Ahmad Qasim Alhamad, Ahmad Aburayya, and Said Salloum
The effectiveness of online platforms after the pandemic: Will face-to-face classes affect students’ perception of their behavioural intention (BIU) to use online platforms?, Rana Saeed Al-Maroof, Noha Alnazzawi, Iman A. Akour, Kevin Ayoubi, Khadija Alhumaid, Nafla Mahdi Alahbabi, Maryam Alnnaimi, Sarah Thabit, Raghad Alfaisal, Ahmad Aburayya, and Said Salloum
IoT Protocols – MQTT versus CoAP, Alyaziya Almheiri and Zakaria Maamar
Digital wellbeing tools through users lens, Mohamed Basel Almourad, Amen Alrobai, Tiffany Skinner, Mohammed Hussain, and Raian Ali
A microservices persistence technique for cloud-based online social data analysis, Feras Al-Obeidat, Anoud Bani-Hani, Oluwasegun Adedugbe, Munir Majdalawieh, and Elhadj Benkhelifa
(CDRGI)-Cancer detection through relevant genes identification, Feras Al-Obeidat, Álvaro Rocha, Maryam Akram, Saad Razzaq, and Fahad Maqbool
Parallel tensor factorization for relational learning, Feras Al-Obeidat, Álvaro Rocha, Muhammad Shahrose Khan, Fahad Maqbool, and Saad Razzaq
Design Guidelines for Blockchain-Assisted 5G-UAV Networks, Moayad Aloqaily, Ouns Bouachir, Azzedine Boukerche, and Ismaeel Al Ridhawi
SynergyGrids: blockchain-supported distributed microgrid energy trading, Moayad Aloqaily, Ouns Bouachir, Öznur Özkasap, and Faizan Safdar Ali
An Adaptive UAV Positioning Model for Sustainable Smart Transportation, Moayad Aloqaily, Ouns Bouachir, Ismaeel Al Ridhawi, and Anthony Tzes
Hybrid feature selection approach to identify optimal features of profile metadata to detect social bots in Twitter, Eiman Alothali, Kadhim Hayawi, and Hany Alashwal
Towards refining WCRF/AICR cancer prevention recommendations for red and processed meat intake: Insights from Alberta's Tomorrow Project cohort, Ala Al Rajabi, Geraldine Lo Siou, Alianu K. Akawung, Kathryn L. McDonald, Tiffany R. Price, Grace Shen-Tu, Paula J. Robson, Paul J. Veugelers, and Katerina Maximova
SpeculoLab: A Protocol and a Tool for Identity Deception Experimentation in Social Networks, Noora Al Roken, Maryam Al Abdooli, Sumaya Khoory, and Hakim Hacid
Drone Forensics: A Case Study of Digital Forensic Investigations Conducted on Common Drone Models, Khalifa Al-Room, Farkhund Iqbal, Thar Baker, Babar Shah, Benjamin Yankson, Aine MacDermott, and Patrick C.K. Hung
COVID-19 disease severity and death in relation to vitamin D status among SARS-CoV-2-positive UAE residents, Habiba Alsafar, William B. Grant, Rafiq Hijazi, Maimunah Uddin, Nawal Alkaabi, Guan Tay, Bassam Mahboub, and Fatme Al Anouti
Media students using mobile phones in the Arabian Gulf to improve English writing and video production skills, Najat AlSaied and Fokiya Akhtar
P2P islamic investments using blockchain, smart contract and E-negotiation, Hasan Al-Sakran and Ons Al-Shamaileh
Some Socio-demographic Usage Patterns in Ephemeral Content Sharing Social Networks: The Case of Snapchat, Ons Al-Shamaileh, Anas Aloudat, Amal Alrayes, and Hakim Hacid
The Acceptance of Social Media Sites: An Empirical Study Using PLS-SEM and ML Approaches, Sawsan Al-Skaf, Enaam Youssef, Mohammed Habes, Khadija Alhumaid, and Said A. Salloum
Files cryptography based on one-time pad algorithm, Ahmad Mohamad Al-Smadi, Ahmad Al-Smadi, Roba Mahmoud Ali Aloglah, Nisrein Abu-darwish, and Ahed Abugabah
Contamination assessment of heavy metals in agricultural soil, in the liwa area (UAE), Ahmed A. Al-Taani, Yousef Nazzal, Fares M. Howari, Jibran Iqbal, Nadine Bou Orm, Cijo Madathil Xavier, Alina Bărbulescu, Manish Sharma, and Cristian Stefan Dumitriu
Labour-friendly practices and value maximization: a SEM approach, Tareq Na’el Al-Tawil, Venugopal Prabhakar Gantasala, and Hassan Younies
Carveol Attenuates Seizure Severity and Neuroinflammation in Pentylenetetrazole-Kindled Epileptic Rats by Regulating the Nrf2 Signaling Pathway, Arooj Mohsin Alvi, Lina Tariq Al Kury, Abdullah Alattar, Ikram Ullah, Asmaa Jan Muhammad, Reem Alshaman, Fawad Ali Shah, Arif Ullah Khan, Jinxing Feng, and Shupeng Li
Multiomic analysis of the Arabian camel (Camelus dromedarius) kidney reveals a role for cholesterol in water conservation, Fernando Alvira-Iraizoz, Benjamin T. Gillard, Panjiao Lin, Alex Paterson, Audrys G. Pauža, Mahmoud A. Ali, Ammar H. Alabsi, Pamela A. Burger, Naserddine Hamadi, Abdu Adem, David Murphy, and Michael P. Greenwood
An efficient scheme for interference mitigation in 6G-IoT wireless networks, Fahd N. Al-Wesabi, Imran Khan, Nadhem Nemri, Mohammed A. Al-Hagery, Huda G. Iskander, Quang Ngoc Nguyen, Babar Shah, and Ki Il Kim
DL Multi-sensor information fusion service selective information scheme for improving the Internet of Things based user responses, Ahmad A. AlZubi, Ahed Abugabah, Mohammed Al-Maitah, and Firas Ibrahim AlZobi
Enhancing recommendation systems performance using highly-effective similarity measures, Ali A. Amer, Hassan I. Abdalla, and Loc Nguyen
Inflection Points, Kinks, and Jumps: A Statistical Approach to Detecting Nonlinearities, Peren Arin, Maria Minniti, Samuele Murtinu, and Nicola Spagnolo
A mysterious sensation about sleep and health: the role of interoception, Teresa Arora, Mariapaola Barbato, Shaikha Al Hemeiri, Omar M. Omar, and Maryam A. AlJassmi
Effective Cross-cultural Advertising: Moderating Roles of Ethnic Identity and Religiosity in Pitching Controversial Vs. Non-controversial Products to Diasporic Communities, Mian Asim, Azmat Rasul, and Donghee Shin
Law, mobile money drivers and mobile money innovations in developing countries, Simplice A. Asongu, Peter Agyemang-Mintah, and Rexon T. Nting
Towards a personalized recommendation model in location-based social networks, Reem Atassi, Ons Al-Shamaileh, and Hakim Hacid
Detection of OXA-23, GES-11 and NDM-1 among carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in Dubai: A preliminary study, Carole Ayoub Moubareck, Dalal Hammoudi Halat, Anju Nabi, Mouza A. AlSharhan, Zulfa O. AlDeesi, Aaron Han, Handan Celiloglu, and Dolla Karam Sarkis
Societal trust and Sukuk activity, Saqib Aziz, Dawood Ashraf, and Rwan El-Khatib
Being ignored by loved ones: Understanding when and why family ostracism inhibits creativity at work, Mayowa T. Babalola, Ho Kwong Kwan, Shuang Ren, Peter Agyemang‐Mintah, Haixiao Chen, and Jinsong Li
Privacy-Preserving and Efficient Aggregation for Smart Grid based on Blockchain, Mohamad Badra and Rouba Borghol
Changing the narrative on COVID-19: Shifting mindsets and teaching practices in higher education, Fatima Bailey, Amir Kavani, Jason D. Johnson, Jenny Eppard, and Hasan Johnson
Polygyny in Islam: a call for retrospection, Man Baker
Semantic eSystems: Engineering methods, techniques, and tools, Thar Baker, Dhiya Al‐Jumeily, Zakaria Maamar, and Zahir Tari
Crude Oil futures contracts and commodity markets: New evidence from a TVP-VAR extended joint connectedness approach, Mehmet Balcilar, David Gabauer, and Zaghum Umar
ENROUTE: An Entropy Aware Routing Scheme for Information-Centric Networks (ICN), Bitan Banerjee, Sibendu Paul, Omar Alfandi, Arnab Raha, and Amitava Mukherjee
Situational ethnicity and identity negotiation: “indifference” as an identity negotiation mechanism, Madhumita Banerjee, Paurav Shukla, and Nicholas J. Ashill
Fandet Semantic Model: An OWL Ontology for Context-Based Fake News Detection on Social Media, Anoud Bani-Hani, Oluwasegun Adedugbe, Elhadj Benkhelifa, and Munir Majdalawieh
Data-fusion for epidemiological analysis of covid-19 variants in UAE, Anoud Bani-Hani, Anaïs Lavorel, and Newel Bessadet
A novel sentiment analysis framework for monitoring the evolving public opinion in real-time: Case study on climate change, May El Barachi, Manar AlKhatib, Sujith Mathew, and Farhad Oroumchian
Characterizing individuals accessing mental health services in the UAE: a focus on youth living in Dubai, Mariapaola Barbato, Shaikha Al Hemeiri, Shorouk Nafie, Baraa A. Dhuhair, and Nadia T. Dabbagh
Looking within: Interoceptive sensibility in young adults with psychotic-like experiences, Mariapaola Barbato, Teresa Arora, Shaikha Al Hemeiri, and Maryam A. AlJassmi
In this together: Psychological wellbeing of foreign workers in the United Arab Emirates during the COVID-19 pandemic, Mariapaola Barbato and Justin Thomas
Female leadership in the Arab world: an ethnographic study of educational leaders, Sandra Baroudi and Zeina Hojeij
One pot preparation of CeO2@Alginate composite beads for the catalytic reduction of MB dye: Effect of cerium percentage, Fadila Benali, Bouhadjar Boukoussa, Issam Ismail, Mohammed Hachemaoui, Jibran Iqbal, Inas Taha, Zakaria Cherifi, and Adel Mokhtar
The failure of agricultural-based economic development in Thailand’s far south and the impact on the insurgency, Ornanong Husna Benbourenane
Towards Automatic Narrative Coherence Prediction, Filip Bendevski, Jumana Ibrahim, Tina Krulec, Theodore Waters, Nizar Habash, Hanan Salam, Himadri Mukherjee, and Christin Camia
Dependence measure for length-biased survival data using kernel density estimation with a regression procedure, Rachid Bentoumi, Mayer Alvo, and Mhamed Mesfioui
A new family of bivariate exponential distributions with negative dependence based on counter-monotonic shock method, Rachid Bentoumi, Farid El Ktaibi, and Mhamed Mesfioui
A Survey on Blockchain for Information Systems Management and Security, David Berdik, Safa Otoum, Nikolas Schmidt, Dylan Porter, and Yaser Jararweh
Real-time privacy preserving framework for Covid-19 contact tracing, Akashdeep Bhardwaj, Ahmed A. Mohamed, Manoj Kumar, Mohammed Alshehri, and Ahed Abugabah
A comprehensive review on medical diagnosis using machine learning, Kaustubh Arun Bhavsar, Ahed Abugabah, Jimmy Singla, Ahmad Ali AlZubi, Ali Kashif Bashir, and Nikita
“Emergency Distance Education” Model: How Normal Could The Projected New Normal Be?, Eugene Borokhovski, David Pickup, and Rana Tamim
Periphery fandom: Contrasting fans’ productive experiences across the globe, Vlada Botorić
Lightweight IDS for UAV Networks: A Periodic Deep Reinforcement Learning-based Approach, Omar Bouhamed, Ouns Bouachir, Moayad Aloqaily, and Ismaeel Al Ridhawi
Design of hybrid pah nanoadsorbents by surface functionalization of zro2 nanoparticles with phosphonic acids, Nadine Bou Orm, Thomas Gréa, Marwa Hamandi, Alexandre Lambert, Florent Lafay, Emmanuelle Vulliet, and Stéphane Daniele
Solar Cycle-Modulated Deformation of the Earth–Ionosphere Cavity, Tamás Bozóki, Gabriella Sátori, Earle Williams, Irina Mironova, Péter Steinbach, Emma C. Bland, Alexander Koloskov, Yuri M. Yampolski, Oleg V. Budanov, Mariusz Neska, Ashwini K. Sinha, Rahul Rawat, Mitsuteru Sato, Ciaran D. Beggan, Sergio Toledo-Redondo, Yakun Liu, and Robert Boldi
Watching or not watching? Access to information and the incentive effects of firing threats, Jordi Brandts, Brice Corgnet, Roberto Hernán-González, José Mª Ortiz, and Carles Solà
Convolutional Neural Network Based Vehicle Classification in Adverse Illuminous Conditions for Intelligent Transportation Systems, Muhammad Atif Butt, Asad Masood Khattak, Sarmad Shafique, Bashir Hayat, Saima Abid, Ki Il Kim, Muhammad Waqas Ayub, Ahthasham Sajid, and Awais Adnan
The Longitudinal Influence of Parenting and Parents’ Traces on Narrative Identity in Young Adulthood, Christin Camia, Sonia Sengsavang, Sonja Rohrmann, and Michael W. Pratt
Autobiographical meaning making protects the sense of self-continuity past forced migration, Christin Camia and Rida Zafar
CSR initiatives, organizational performance and the mediating role of integrating CSR into management control systems: Testing an inclusive model within SMEs in an emerging economy, Walid Cheffi, Ahmed Abdel-Maksoud, and Muhammad Omer Farooq
Guest editorial, Walid Cheffi, Chrisovaladis Malesios, and Prasanta Kumar Dey
Corporate social responsibility antecedents and practices as a path to enhance organizational performance: The case of small and medium sized enterprises in an emerging economy country, Walid Cheffi, Chrisovalantis Malesios, Ahmed Abdel-Maksoud, Sonia Abdennadher, and Prasanta Dey
Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19) Lockdown on Mental Health and Well-Being in the United Arab Emirates, Leila Cheikh Ismail, Maysm N. Mohamad, Mo'ath F. Bataineh, Abir Ajab, Amina M. Al-Marzouqi, Amjad H. Jarrar, Dima O. Abu Jamous, Habiba I. Ali, Haleama Al Sabbah, Hayder Hasan, Lily Stojanovska, Mona Hashim, Reyad R. Shaker Obaid, Sheima T. Saleh, Tareq M. Osaili, and Ayesha S. Al Dhaheri
A comparative study of academic literacy in English medium instruction programs in UAE and Finland, Geraldine Chell, Mirjamaija Mikkilä-Erdmann, Tuike Iiskala, and Anna Dillon
Variational Autoencoders and Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Networks for Improving the Anti-Money Laundering Process, ZhiYuan Chen, Waleed Soliman, Amril Nazir, and Mohammad Shorfuzzaman
The impact of COVID-19 on Italian accommodation: A supply-perspective, Giacomo Del Chiappa, Ilenia Bregoli, and Anestis K. Fotiadis
Reporting Conflict from Afar: Journalists, Social Media, Communication Technologies, and War, Britt Christensen and Ali Khalil
The Impact of Death Anxiety, Meaning and Coping on Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Psychiatric Co-Morbidity Among Iraqi Civilians Exposed to a Car Bomb Attack A Latent Class Analysis, Man Cheung Chung and Fuaad Mohammed Freh