Submissions from 2023
Understanding Influencers of College Major Decision: The UAE Case, Mohammad Amin Kuhail, Joao Negreiros, Haseena Al Katheeri, Sana Khan, and Shurooq Almutairi
Aisha: A Custom AI Library Chatbot Using the ChatGPT API, Yrjo Lappalainen and Nikesh Narayanan
Harvesting publication data to the institutional repository from Scopus, Web of Science, Dimensions and Unpaywall using a custom R Script, Yrjo Lappalainen and Nikesh Narayanan
Reciprocity and asymmetry in digital diplomacy: Geopolitics of national identity in South Korea–Japan and South Korea–US relations, Kyungsun Karen Lee and Saif Shahin
GeoSS: Geographic Segmentation Security Barriers for Virtual Emotion Detection With Discriminative Priorities in Intelligent Cooperative Vehicular System, Seungheyon Lee, Sooeon Lee, Yumin Choi, Jalel Ben-Othman, and Hyunbum Kim
Time Varied Self-Reliance Aerial Ground Traffic Monitoring System With Pre-Recognition Collision Avoidance, Seungheyon Lee, Sooeon Lee, Yumin Choi, Jalel Ben-Othman, Lynda Mokdad, and Hyunbum Kim
Task-Oriented Surveillance Framework for Virtual Emotion Informatics in Polygon Spaces, Sooeon Lee, Seungheyon Lee, Yumin Choi, Jalel Ben-Othman, Lynda Mokdad, Kwang Il Hwang, and Hyunbum Kim
Affective Surveillance Management in Virtual Emotion Based Smart Complex Infrastructure, Sooeon Lee, Seungheyon Lee, Yumin Choi, Jalel Ben-Othman, Lynda Mokdad, Kyungkoo Jun, and Hyunbum Kim
Maximum Activation 3D Cube Transition System for Virtual Emotion Surveillance, Taewoo Lee, Jalel Ben-Othman, and Hyunbum Kim
Understanding religious influence through elevation on green advertising effectiveness among Muslims: an examination from the UAE and the USA, Kang Li, Ridwan Raji, and Azmat Rasul
Air Quality Improvement Following COVID-19 Lockdown Measures and Projected Benefits for Environmental Health, Yuei An Liou, Trong Hoang Vo, Kim Anh Nguyen, and James P. Terry
Heterosexist events and psychological problems: internalized homophobia as a mediator and perceived parental support as a moderator, Fangsong Liu, Na Wang, Man Cheung Chung, and Harold Chui
Of Stances, Themes, and Anomalies in COVID-19 Mask-Wearing Tweets, Jwen Fai Low, Benjamin C.M. Fung, Farkhund Iqbal, and Ebrahim Bagheri
Social support as the mediator for the relationship between internet gaming disorder and psychological problems among university students, Malakeh Z. Malak, Ahmed H. Shuhaiber, Ahmed Alsswey, and Anwar Tarawneh
Challenges and Opportunities in Teaching Interdisciplinary Courses on Islam and Evolution: A Theology-Centric Perspective, Shoaib Ahmed Malik
Introduction to the Special Issue on Philosophy of Science and Islamic Thought, Shoaib Ahmed Malik
The Use of Philosophy of Science in the Creationism-Evolution Debate: An Ashʿarī Perspective, Shoaib Ahmed Malik
CARLA+: An Evolution of the CARLA Simulator for Complex Environment Using a Probabilistic Graphical Model, Sumbal Malik, Manzoor Ahmed Khan, Aadam, Hesham El-Sayed, Farkhund Iqbal, Jalal Khan, and Obaid Ullah
Metagenomic Analysis of the Outdoor Dust Microbiomes: A Case Study from Abu Dhabi, UAE, Lina Maloukh, Yousef Nazzal, Alagappan Kumarappan, Fares Howari, Lakshmi Kesari Ambika, Rihab Yahmadi, Manish Sharma, Jibran Iqbal, Ahmed A. Al-Taani, Imen Ben Salem, Cijo M. Xavier, and Muhamad Naseem
Institutional isomorphism and performance management: exploring the linkage and relationship in English social housing, Graham Manville and Richard Greatbanks
UAE: Improving Internal Service: Leveraging HRM to Drive Organizational Change, Scott L. Martin
User acceptance and adoption of smart homes: A decade long systematic literature review, Ibrahim Mashal, Ahmed Shuhaiber, and Ayman Wael Al-Khatib
Synergizing organizational inclusion and IT competencies through resource orchestration: a longitudinal exploration, Ayesha Masood, Anas A. Salameh, Ashraf Khalil, Qingyu Zhang, and Armando Papa
Conceptualizing and Reimagining the Future of Inclusive Education in the UAE, Lawrence Meda, Efthymia Efthymiou, Muna Alhammadi, Cara Williams, and Mohamed Fteiha
Exploration of In-Service Teachers' Preparedness and Perceived Challenges about Inclusive Education in the United Arab Emirates, Lawrence Meda, Areej ElSayary, and Laila Mohebi
Does News Platform Matter? Comparing Online Journalistic Role Performance to Newspaper, Radio, and Television, Claudia Mellado, Nicole Blanchett, Agnieszka Stępińska, Cornelia Mothes, Sophie Lecheler, David Blanco-Herrero, Yi Ning Katherine Chen, Akiba A. Cohen, Sergey Davydov, Mariana De Maio, Filip Dingerkus, Hassam Elhamy, Miguel Garcés-Prettel, Cyriac Gousset, Daniel C. Hallin, María Luisa Humanes, Marju Himma-Kadakas, Claudia Kozman, Misook Lee, Christi I.Hsuan Lin, Mireya Márquez-Ramírez, Jorge Maza-Córdova, Kieran McGuinness, Karen McIntyre, Jacques Mick, Ana Milojevic, Cristina Navarro, and Dasniel Olivera
Comparing Journalistic Role Performance Across Thematic Beats: A 37-Country Study, Claudia Mellado, Mireya Márquez-Ramírez, Sarah Van Leuven, Daniel Jackson, Cornelia Mothes, Carlos Arcila-Calderón, Jérome Berthaut, Nicole Blanchett, Sandrine Boudana, Katherine Y.N. Chen, Sergey Davydov, Mariana De Maio, Nagwa Fahmy, Martina Ferrero, Miguel Garcés, Lutz Hagen, Daniel C. Hallin, María Luisa Humanes, Marju Himma-Kadakas, Guido Keel, Claudia Kozman, Aleksandra Krstić, Sophie Lecheler, Misook Lee, Christi I.Hsuan Lin, Marco Mazzoni, Kieran McGuinness, and Karen McIntyre
‘An Gorta Mor (The Great Hunger): Passage to India’ – Exploring genealogy and roots tourism through documentary filmmaking, Ian Michael and Paolo Mura
Emiratization and hospitality sector destination branding of Dubai: An impact analysis, Noela Michael, Anestis K. Fotiadis, and Ian Michael
Diminishing benefits of urban living for children and adolescents’ growth and development, Anu Mishra, Bin Zhou, Andrea Rodriguez-Martinez, Honor Bixby, Rosie K. Singleton, Rodrigo M. Carrillo-Larco, Kate E. Sheffer, Christopher J. Paciorek, James E. Bennett, Victor Lhoste, Maria L.C. Iurilli, Mariachiara Di Cesare, James Bentham, Nowell H. Phelps, Marisa K. Sophiea, Gretchen A. Stevens, Goodarz Danaei, Melanie J. Cowan, Stefan Savin, Leanne M. Riley, Edward W. Gregg, Wichai Aekplakorn, Noor Ani Ahmad, Jennifer L. Baker, Adela Chirita-Emandi, Farshad Farzadfar, Günther Fink, and Mirjam Heinen
Bridging the Gap Between Gulf Higher Education and Labor Market in Industry 4.0, Ashraf Mishrif, Magdalena Karolak, and Cameron Mirza
The Nexus Between Higher Education, Labour Market, and Industry 4.0 in the Context of the Arab Gulf States, Ashraf Mishrif, Magdalena Karolak, and Cameron Mirza
Design and delivery of national housing in the UAE: an alternative approach, Basem Eid Mohamed, Mohamed Elkaftangui, Rana Zureikat, and Rund Hiyasat
Stress state and waves in the lithospheric plate simulation: A 3rd generation AI architecture, Mutaz Mohammad, Alexander Trounev, and Carlo Cattani
Allelic Discrimination of Vitamin D Receptor Polymorphisms and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Case-Controlled Study, Amal Ahmed Mohammed, Dina M.Abo El-Matty, Rola Abdel-Azeem, Khaled Raafat, Mona A. Hussein, Amira R. El-Ansary, Wael Hafez, Hatem Ahmed Hassan, Nourelhuda Ahmed Nassar, Nora Mahmoud Selim, Doaa Ghaith, Amal A.El Kholy, Soha M. Abd El Salam, Fatme Al Anouti, and Alaa S. Wahba
Students’ Online Engagement and Usage of Discussion Boards on Blackboard: a Study From the UAE, Laila Mohebi
Triumphs and Tribulations of Teaching Practicum Experiences: Reflections from Preservice Teachers in UAE, Laila Mohebi
Realigning online teacher training modules to COVID-19: An evaluation of the online training module among pre-service and in-service teachers in Pakistan, Laila Mohebi, Fatima AlMohsen, and Alanood Alshamsi
Developing Young Science and Technology Parks: Recent Findings from Industrial Nations Using the Data-Driven Approach, Charles Mondal, Mousa Al-Kfairy, and Robert B. Mellor
Family planning practices: Examining the link between contraception and child health, Mehreen Mookerjee, Manini Ojha, and Sanket Roy
Nanopesticides in comparison with agrochemicals: Outlook and future prospects for sustainable agriculture, Iqra Mubeen, Manar Fawzi Bani Mfarrej, Zarafshan Razaq, Shehzad Iqbal, Syed Atif Hasan Naqvi, Fahad Hakim, Walid F.A. Mosa, Mahmoud Moustafa, Yuan Fang, and Bin Li
Chromium removal from aqueous solution using bimetallic Bi0/Cu0-based nanocomposite biochar, Behzad Murtaza, Aqsa Naseer, Muhammad Imran, Noor S. Shah, Abdullah A. Al-Kahtani, Zeid A. ALOthman, Muhammad Shahid, Jibran Iqbal, Ghulam Abbas, Natasha Natasha, and Muhammad Amjad
An alternative parameter free clustering algorithm using data point positioning analysis (DPPA) – comparison with DBScan, S. M.F.D.Syed Mustapha
DBSCAN inspired task scheduling algorithm for cloud infrastructure, S. M.F.D.Syed Mustapha and Punit Gupta
Fault aware task scheduling in cloud using min-min and DBSCAN, S. M.F.D.Syed Mustapha and Punit Gupta
Navigating through difficult times with ethical marketing: Assessing consumers' willingness-to-pay in the sharing economy, Waqar Nadeem, Saifeddin Alimamy, and Abdul Rehman Ashraf
Logical conditions in programming languages: review, discussion and generalization, Benedek Nagy, Khaled Abuhmaidan, and Monther Aldwairi
Effect of blending of medium-temperature phase change material on the bitumen storage heat, Loubna Najemi, Imane Belyamani, and Mohsine Bouya
Empowering Patient Similarity Networks through Innovative Data-Quality-Aware Federated Profiling, Alramzana Nujum Navaz, Mohamed Adel Serhani, Hadeel T. El Kassabi, and Ikbal Taleb
Suspicious Behavior Detection with Temporal Feature Extraction and Time-Series Classification for Shoplifting Crime Prevention, Amril Nazir, Rohan Mitra, Hana Sulieman, and Firuz Kamalov
Exploring the Variables of the Psychological Well-Being of Mothers of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Through Self-Compassion and Psychological Hardiness, Shahrooz Nemati, Nazila Shojaeian, Mohammad Bardel, Rukiya Deetjen-Ruiz, Zahra Khani, and Louise McHugh
Resilience, crisis management and continuous improvement against the impact of COVID-19 on employees’ engagement and emotions. Insights from a Cypriot SME, Christina Nizamidou
Linking Palliative Homecare to the Universal Health Coverage Principles and the United Nations Sustainability Development Goals Using the i* Framework’s Strategic and Social Requirements Modelling, Applied to a Cancer Care Organisation, Yousra Odeh, Dina Tbaishat, Faten F. Kharbat, Omar Shamieh, and Mohammed Odeh
Intellectual capital before and during COVID-19 in the hotel industry: the moderating role of tangible assets, Jasmina Ognjanovic, Vladimir Dzenopoljac, and Stefano Cavagnetto
The effect of loss aversion and entitlement on cheating: An online experiment, Jose M. Ortiz, Marcia Zindel, and Sergio Da Silva
Addressing hazardous weather conditions on Middle East highways with smart infrastructure and connected vehicles using agent-based simulation, Fatma Outay, Stéphane Galland, Abdeljalil Abbas-Turki, Thomas Martinet, Alexandre Lombard, and Nicolas Gaud
Guest editorial: Entrepreneurship activities among the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) enterprising communities, Ramo Palalić, Shqipe Gerguri-Rashiti, Jusuf Zeqiri, and Vladimir Dzenopoljac
Intelligent Green Communication Network for Internet of Things, Rajan Patel, Nimisha Patel, Linda Smail, Pariza Kamboj, and Mukesh Soni
Critical Consciousness: The Mixed Effect of Sense of Community on Sociopolitical Action, Mazna Patka, Adam Murry, Jennifer Wallin-Ruschman, and Maryam Sabt
Ability of detecting and willingness to share fake news, K. Peren Arin, Deni Mazrekaj, and Marcel Thum
Recyclability of poly(hydroxybutyrate-co-hydroxyhexanoate) (PHBH) for food packaging applications, Maud Plouzeau, Imane Belyamani, Kateryna Fatyeyeva, Stéphane Marais, Yaroslav Kobzar, and Laurent Cauret
Inflation and the war in Ukraine: Evidence using impulse response functions on economic indicators and Twitter sentiment, Efstathios Polyzos
Want to feel better, share what you know, Catherine Prentice, Susan Zeidan, and Mai Nguyen
Optimizing operational parameters through minimization of running costs for shared mobility public transit service: an application of decision tree models, Adnan Qadir, Fatma Outay, Uneb Gazder, and Muhammad Bilal Khalid
The impact of differentiated empowering leadership on employees’ depression: moderation of employees’ envy and gender, Neelam Qasim, Muhammad Arshad, Omer Farooq, and Rabeeya Raoof
Machine learning techniques for the identification of risk factors associated with food insecurity among adults in Arab countries during the COVID-19 pandemic, Radwan Qasrawi, Maha Hoteit, Reema Tayyem, Khlood Bookari, Haleama Al Sabbah, Iman Kamel, Somaia Dashti, Sabika Allehdan, Hiba Bawadi, Mostafa Waly, Mohammed O. Ibrahim, Stephanny Vicuna Polo, and Diala Abu Al-Halawa
Flexible Global Aggregation and Dynamic Client Selection for Federated Learning in Internet of Vehicles, Tariq Qayyum, Zouheir Trabelsi, Asadullah Tariq, Muhammad Ali, Kadhim Hayawi, and Irfan Ud Din
Deconstructing Summary Writing: Further Exploration of L2 Reading and Writing, Jingjing Qin and Timothy Groombridge
The impact of economic policy uncertainty on sustainability (ESG) performance: the role of the firm life cycle, Muhammad Azeem Qureshi, Tanveer Ahsan, Ammar Ali Gull, and Zaghum Umar
Advances in Halloysite Nanotubes (HNTs)-Based Mixed-Matrix Membranes for CO2 Capture, Sikander Rafiq, Muhammad Saeed, Asif Jamil, Muhammad Imran Rashid, Muhammad Irfan, Tanveer Iqbal, Abrar Inayat, Farrukh Jamil, Jibran Iqbal, Muhammad Shahzad Khurram, and Muhammad Shozab Mehadi
Structure Estimation of Adversarial Distributions for Enhancing Model Robustness: A Clustering-Based Approach, Bader Rasheed, Adil Khan, and Asad Masood Khattak
Application of a gene modular approach for clinical phenotype genotype association and sepsis prediction using machine learning in meningococcal sepsis, Asrar Rashid, Arif R. Anwary, Feras Al-Obeidat, Joe Brierley, Mohammed Uddin, Hoda Alkhzaimi, Amrita Sarpal, Mohammed Toufiq, Zainab A. Malik, Raziya Kadwa, Praveen Khilnani, M. Guftar Shaikh, Govind Benakatti, Javed Sharief, Syed Ahmed Zaki, Abdulrahman Zeyada, Ahmed Al-Dubai, Wael Hafez, and Amir Hussain
A passage to India: The Indian film market and the political economy of Disney’s transnational operations, Azmat Rasul
Identification and political advertising: Exploring the role of ethnic identification in political advertising campaigns, Azmat Rasul and Mian Muhammad Asim
Improving paraphrase generation using supervised neural-based statistical machine translation framework, Abdur Razaq, Babar Shah, Gohar Khan, Omar Alfandi, Abrar Ullah, Zahid Halim, and Atta Ur Rahman
The debt crisis and the adoption of Asset-Light and Fee-Orientated (ALFO) arrangements at Marriott: 1980-1995, John Rice, Muhammad Mustafa Raziq, Nigel Martin, Peter Fieger, and Bridget Rice
Stability and Bifurcation Analysis of the Caputo Fractional-Order Asymptomatic COVID-19 Model with Multiple Time-Delays, Fathalla A. Rihan, K. Udhayakumar, Nicola Sottocornola, M. Naim Anwar, and Abdul Q.M. Khaliq
Self-Assessed Personality Traits and Adherence to the COVID-19 Lockdown, Jakub Jan Rojek, Przemysław Waszak, Ilona Bidzan-Bluma, Aleksandra Sanewska, Joanna Stępień, Tomasz Michalski, Liliana Lorettu, Roberta Meloni, Che Sheng Chu, Myriam Abboud, and Jakub Grabowski
Cyclicality of liquidity creation: Nonlinear evidence from US bank holding companies, Ghulame Rubbaniy, Ali Awais Khalid, Shoaib Ali, and Stathis Polyzos
Arabic Heritage Schools as Sites of Multilingualism and Positive Identity Building in the UK, Fatma F.S. Said
2-Uniform covering groups of elementary abelian 2-groups, Dana Saleh and Rachel Quinlan
Academic Historiographic Remedies of Colonialist Images of Egypt’s Nationalist Party, Ahmed Ali Salem
COVID-19 pandemic and the cyberthreat landscape: Research challenges and opportunities, Heba Saleous, Muhusina Ismail, Saleh H. AlDaajeh, Nisha Madathil, Saed Alrabaee, Kim Kwang Raymond Choo, and Nabeel Al-Qirim
The prevalence of potential side effects of COVID-19 vaccines among vaccinated Iraqi people: a prospective cross-sectional study, Hamzah Abdulrahman Salman, Amer M. Hussin, Arshad Hamed Hassan, Haleama Al Sabbah, and Khattab Al-Khafaji
Kinetics and Thermodynamic Studies for Removal of Trypan Blue and Methylene Blue from Water Using Nano Clay Filled Composite of HTAB and PEG and its Antibacterial Activity, Amina Sardi, Boumediene Bounaceur, Adel Mokhtar, Bouhadjar Boukoussa, Miloud Tahar Abbes, Wahiba Chaibi, Amina Nacer, Kradra Brahma Khadidja, Ismail Issam, Jibran Iqbal, Shashikant P. Patole, and Mohamed Abboud
Dynamic Data Sample Selection and Scheduling in Edge Federated Learning, Mohamed Adel Serhani, Haftay Gebreslasie Abreha, Asadullah Tariq, Mohammad Hayajneh, Yang Xu, and Kadhim Hayawi
Harnessing Customer Mindset Metrics to Boost Consumer Spending: A Cross-Country Study on Routes to Economic and Business Growth, Ahmed Shaalan, Gomaa Agag, and Marwa Tourky
A comparative assessment of human factors in cybersecurity: Implications for cyber governance, Muhammad Umair Shah, Farkhund Iqbal, Umair Rehman, and Patrick C.K. Hung
A new approach to seasonal energy consumption forecasting using temporal convolutional networks, Abdul Khalique Shaikh, Amril Nazir, Nadia Khalique, Abdul Salam Shah, and Naresh Adhikari
Complete Study of an Original Power-Exponential Transformation Approach for Generalizing Probability Distributions, Mustafa S. Shama, Farid El Ktaibi, Jamal N. Al Abbasi, Christophe Chesneau, and Ahmed Z. Afify
Prediction of Wilms’ Tumor Susceptibility to Preoperative Chemotherapy Using a Novel Computer-Aided Prediction System, Israa Sharaby, Ahmed Alksas, Ahmed Nashat, Hossam Magdy Balaha, Mohamed Shehata, Mallorie Gayhart, Ali Mahmoud, Mohammed Ghazal, Ashraf Khalil, Rasha T. Abouelkheir, Ahmed Elmahdy, Ahmed Abdelhalim, Ahmed Mosbah, and Ayman El-Baz
Examining Factors Determining the Behavioral Intention to Use Mobile Learning Systems in Higher Education: An Integrative Framework during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Nessrin Shaya, Sandra Baroudi, and Laila Mohebi
The Nudging Effect of Accuracy Alerts for Combating the Diffusion of Misinformation: Algorithmic News Sources, Trust in Algorithms, and Users’ Discernment of Fake News, Donghee Shin, Kerk F. Kee, and Emily Y. Shin
A deep learning-assisted visual attention mechanism for anomaly detection in videos, Muhammad Shoaib, Babar Shah, Tariq Hussain, Bailin Yang, Asad Ullah, Jahangir Khan, and Farman Ali
Validation of measurement scales for undergraduate students' self-perceived employability and university commitment in the United Arab Emirates, Aizhan Shomotova and Ali Ibrahim
A Best Practice Model of CDIO Implementation in IT Classrooms: Gamification Crowdsourcing Approach, Ahmed Shuhaiber and Monther Aldwairi
The Development of Smart E-Portfolio Generator System for University students: An SDLC Approach, Ahmed Shuhaiber, Aysha Alkuwaiti, Mera Alremeithi, and Hamda Almenhali
Investigating trust and perceived value in cryptocurrencies: do optimism, FinTech literacy and perceived financial and security risks matter?, Ahmed Shuhaiber, Khaled Saleh Al-Omoush, and Ayman Abdalmajeed Alsmadi
A Smart Desk: A Smart Solution for Young Students, Ahmed Shuhaiber, Rund Hiyasat, Amjad Abuelsamen, Nasreen Ghanem, Mouza Alhammadi, and Alreem Alghafri
3D indoor modeling and game theory based navigation for pre and post COVID-19 situation, Jaiteg Singh, Noopur Tyagi, Saravjeet Singh, Babar Shah, Farman Ali, Ahmad Ali AlZubi, and Abdulrhman Alkhanifer