Submissions from 2021
Accelerometer measured physical activity patterns of children during segmented school day in Abu Dhabi, Rahma Ajja, Ludmilla F. Wikkeling-Scott, Keith Brazendale, Rafiq Hijazi, and Abdishakur Abdulle
Application of response surface methodology on the nanofluid flow over a rotating disk with autocatalytic chemical reaction and entropy generation optimization, Tahir Mehmood, Muhammad Ramzan, Fares Howari, Seifedine Kadry, and Yu Ming Chu
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
Determinants of dental caries in children in the Middle East and North Africa region: a systematic review based on literature published from 2000 to 2019, Amal Elamin, Malin Garemo, and Anzelle Mulder
Irreversibility minimization analysis of ferromagnetic Oldroyd-B nanofluid flow under the influence of a magnetic dipole, Muhammad Ramzan, Fares Howari, Jae Dong Chung, Seifedine Kadry, and Yu Ming Chu
Modelling customers credit card behaviour using bidirectional LSTM neural networks, Maher Ala’raj, Maysam F. Abbod, and Munir Majdalawieh
The dynamics of COVID-19 in the UAE based on fractional derivative modeling using Riesz wavelets simulation, Mutaz Mohammad, Alexander Trounev, and Carlo Cattani
The effect of different methods to identify, and scenarios used to address energy intake misestimation on dietary patterns derived by cluster analysis, Geraldine Lo Siou, Alianu K. Akawung, Nathan M. Solbak, Kathryn L. McDonald, Ala Al Rajabi, Heather K. Whelan, and Sharon I. Kirkpatrick
Vitamin D status and blood pressure in children and adolescents: a systematic review of observational studies, Myriam Abboud, Fatme Al Anouti, Dimitrios Papandreou, Rana Rizk, Nadine Mahboub, and Suzan Haidar
Afterword: All Things Collected, Hülya Yağcıoğlu
All Things Arabia: Arabian Identity and Material Culture, Ileana Baird and Hülya Yağcıoğlu
Cine-Things: The Revival of the Emirati Past in Nojoom Alghanem’s Cinemascape, Chrysavgi Papagianni
Circulating Things, Circulating Stereotypes: Representations of Arabia in Eighteenth-Century Imagination, Ileana Baird
From Cradle to Grave: A Life Story in Jewelry, Marie-Claire Bakker and Kara McKeown
Introduction: Complex Legacies: Materiality, Memory, and Myth in the Arabian Peninsula, Ileana Baird
Written in Silver: Protective Medallions from Inner Oman, James Redman
Agricultural commodity markets and oil prices: An analysis of the dynamic return and volatility connectedness, Zaghum Umar, Francisco Jareño, and Ana Escribano
Existence of long memory in crude oil and petroleum products: Generalised Hurst exponent approach, Aviral Kumar Tiwari, Zaghum Umar, and Faisal Alqahtani
The impact of Covid-19 on commodity markets volatility: Analyzing time-frequency relations between commodity prices and coronavirus panic levels, Zaghum Umar, Mariya Gubareva, and Tamara Teplova
Understanding the dynamics of resource curse in G7 countries: The role of natural resource rents and the three facets of financial development, Zongyun Li, Syed Kumail Abbas Rizvi, Ghulame Rubbaniy, and Muhammad Umar
Automatic cerebrovascular segmentation methods - a review, Fatma Taher and Neema Prakash
CuNPs-loaded amines-functionalized-SBA-15 as effective catalysts for catalytic reduction of cationic and anionic dyes, Mohammed Hachemaoui, Bouhadjar Boukoussa, Issam Ismail, Adel Mokhtar, Inas Taha, Jibran Iqbal, Salih Hacini, Abdelkader Bengueddach, and Rachida Hamacha
A critical review on phytosynthesis of gold nanoparticles: Issues, challenges and future perspectives, Tausif Ahmad, Jibran Iqbal, Mohamad Azmi Bustam, Muhammad Irfan, and Hafiz Muhammad Anwaar Asghar
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
Recent technologies for nutrient removal and recovery from wastewaters: A review, Mohd Najibul Hasan, Mohd Musheer Altaf, Nadeem A. Khan, Afzal Husain Khan, Abid Ali Khan, Sirajuddin Ahmed, P. Senthil Kumar, Mu Naushad, Anushka Upamali Rajapaksha, Jibran Iqbal, Vineet Tirth, and Saiful Islam
SMEs’ charismatic leadership, product life cycle, environmental performance, and financial performance: A mediated moderation model, Yi Zhang and Feng Wei
3D Bio-convective nanofluid Bödewadt slip flow comprising gyrotactic microorganisms over a stretched stationary disk with modified Fourier law, Shuang Shuang Zhou, Muhammad Ramzan, Fares Howari, Seifedine Kadry, Yu Ming Chu, and M. Y. Malik
Combining Fields of Experts (FoE) and K-SVD methods in pursuing natural image priors, Feng Jiang, Zhi Yuan Chen, Amril Nazir, Wu Zhen Shi, Wei Xiang Lim, Shao Hui Liu, and Seung Min Rho
Integrating Flipped Learning into an English Pre-Sessional Class at a Public University in the UAE: Reports from an SLL University Classroom, Jenny Eppard, Marlieke Gerdie Danique Rodjan-Helder, Sandra Baroudi, and Preeya Reddy
Law, mobile money drivers and mobile money innovations in developing countries, Simplice A. Asongu, Peter Agyemang-Mintah, and Rexon T. Nting
Oil price shocks and the return and volatility spillover between industrial and precious metals, Zaghum Umar, Francisco Jareño, and Ana Escribano
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
The Moderating Effects of Leader-Member Exchange for Technology Acceptance: An Empirical Study Within Organizations, Yujong Hwang, Soyean Kim, Kamel Rouibah, and Donghee Shin
Does augmented reality augment user affordance? The effect of technological characteristics on game behaviour, Donghee Shin
Securing Critical IoT Infrastructures with Blockchain-Supported Federated Learning, Safa Otoum, Ismaeel Al Ridhawi, and Hussein Mouftah
Early assessment of lung function in coronavirus patients using invariant markers from chest X-rays images, Mohamed Elsharkawy, Ahmed Sharafeldeen, Fatma Taher, Ahmed Shalaby, Ahmed Soliman, Ali Mahmoud, Mohammed Ghazal, Ashraf Khalil, Norah Saleh Alghamdi, Ahmed Abdel Khalek Abdel Razek, Eman Alnaghy, Moumen T. El-Melegy, Harpal Singh Sandhu, Guruprasad A. Giridharan, and Ayman El-Baz
CropWaterNeed: A Machine Learning Approach for Smart Agriculture, Malek Fredj, Rima Grati, and Khouloud Boukadi
Morality, Technology, and Enjoyment: Meta Analyzing the Enjoyment of Mediated Violence, Azmat Rasul and Donghee Shin
Adequate management of phosphorus in patients undergoing hemodialysis using a dietary smartphone app: Prospective pilot study, Cosette Fakih El Khoury, Rik Crutzen, Jos MGA Schols, Ruud J.G. Halfens, and Mirey Karavetian
A multi-model based microservices identification approach, Mohamed Daoud, Asmae El Mezouari, Noura Faci, Djamal Benslimane, Zakaria Maamar, and Aziz El Fazziki
Analyzing the effect of negation in sentiment polarity of facebook dialectal arabic text, Sanaa Kaddoura, Maher Itani, and Chris Roast
An application of the Kowalewski Conditions, Nicola Sottocornola
Arsenic biogeochemical cycling in paddy soil-rice system: Interaction with various factors, amendments and mineral nutrients, Muhammad Mahroz Hussain, Irshad Bibi, Nabeel Khan Niazi, Muhammad Shahid, Jibran Iqbal, Muhammad Bilal Shakoor, Arslan Ahmad, Noor Samad Shah, Prosun Bhattacharya, Kang Mao, Jochen Bundschuh, Yong Sik Ok, and Hua Zhang
A tale of company fundamentals vs sentiment driven pricing: The case of GameStop, Zaghum Umar, Mariya Gubareva, Imran Yousaf, and Shoaib Ali
Blockchain for automotive: An insight towards the IPFS blockchain-based auto insurance sector, Nishara Nizamuddin and Ahed Abugabah
Comovements between Heavily Shorted Stocks during a Market Squeeze: Lessons from the GameStop Trading Frenzy, Zaghum Umar, Imran Yousaf, and Adam Zaremba
Do analysts' forecast properties deter suboptimal labor investment decisions? Evidence from Regulation Fair Disclosure, Mohammed Aminu Sualihu, Alfred Yawson, and Iliyas Yusoff
Effect of individual, simultaneous and sequential inoculation of pseudomonas fluorescens and meloidogyne incognita on growth, biochemical, enzymatic and nonenzymatic antioxidants of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum l.), Ahmed Noureldeen, Mohd Asif, Taruba Ansari, Faryad Khan, Mohammad Shariq, Faheem Ahmad, Manar Fawzi Bani Mfarrej, Amir Khan, Moh Tariq, Mansoor Ahmad Siddiqui, Amal Al-Barty, and Hadeer Darwish
Factors Associated with Delayed Initiation and Cessation of Breastfeeding Among Working Mothers in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates, Zainab Taha, Ahmed Ali Hassan, Ludmilla Wikkeling-Scott, and Dimitrios Papandreou
Faith-based investments and the Covid-19 pandemic: Analyzing equity volatility and media coverage time-frequency relations, Zaghum Umar and Mariya Gubareva
Integrated mixing machine for sulfur concrete production, Maisa El Gamal, Khaled El-Sawy, and Abdel-Mohsen O. Mohamed
Making the right stopover destination choice: The effect of assessment orientation on attitudinal stopover destination loyalty, Steven Pike, Filareti Kotsi, Frank Mathmann, and Di Wang
Niching grey wolf optimizer for multimodal optimization problems, Rasel Ahmed, Amril Nazir, Shuhaimi Mahadzir, Mohammad Shorfuzzaman, and Jahedul Islam
Pedestrian attribute recognition using two-branch trainable Gabor wavelets network, Imran N. Junejo
Return and volatility transmission between emerging markets and US debt throughout the pandemic crisis, Zaghum Umar, Youssef Manel, Yasir Riaz, and Mariya Gubareva
Sense of effort is distorted in people with chronic low back pain, Michel W. Coppieters, Jesper Andersen, Håvard Selbæk, Kjell Herland, Rahma Ajja, Harald Markussen, and Paul W. Hodges
Stopover destination loyalty: The influence of perceived ambience and sensation seeking tendency, Di Wang, Filareti Kotsi, Steven Pike, and Jun Yao
The impact of COVID-19 induced panic on the return and volatility of precious metals, Zaghum Umar, Saqib Aziz, and Dima Tawil
The relationship between yield curve components and equity sectorial indices: Evidence from China, Zaghum Umar, Imran Yousaf, and David Y. Aharon
Towards a model of muslim women’s management empowerment: Philosophical and historical evidence and critical approaches, Eugenie Samier and Eman Elkaleh
Identification of malnutrition upon hospital admission using the Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition criteria, Mirey Karavetian, Mona Sharef Hashim, Wafa Ayesh, Leila Cheikh Ismail, and Cosette Fakih El Khoury
Big data quality framework: a holistic approach to continuous quality management, Ikbal Taleb, Mohamed Adel Serhani, Chafik Bouhaddioui, and Rachida Dssouli
Blending of Physicians’ Leadership and Decision-Making Style Within Virtual Platforms for Improving Service Quality, Anjum Razzaque and Magdalena Karolak
E-services and M-services Using IoT: An Assessment of the Kingdom of Bahrain, Magdalena Karolak, Anjum Razzaque, and Abdalmuttaleb Al-Sartawi
Organic Reach on YouTube: What Makes People Click on Videos from Social Media Influencers?, Jason Weismueller and Paul Harrigan
Gaming Disorder and Well-Being Among Emirati College Women, Marina Verlinden, Justin Thomas, Mahra Hasan Abdulla Ahamed Almansoori, and Shamil Wanigaratne
“Emergency Distance Education” Model: How Normal Could The Projected New Normal Be?, Eugene Borokhovski, David Pickup, and Rana Tamim
Rookies connected: Interpersonal relationships among newcomers, newcomer adjustment processes, and socialization outcomes., Le Zhou, Jin Park, John D Kammeyer-Mueller, Priti Pradhan Shah, and Elizabeth M Campbell
Nutritional status and eating habits of people who use drugs and/or are undergoing treatment for recovery: a narrative review, Nadine Mahboub, Rana Rizk, Mirey Karavetian, and Nanne de Vries
A Transactional Approach to Enforce Resource Availabilities: Application to the Cloud, Zakaria Maamar, Mohamed Sellami, and Fatma Masmoudi
Construction of dual Z-scheme g-C3N4/Bi4Ti3O12/Bi4O5I2 heterojunction for visible and solar powered coupled photocatalytic antibiotic degradation and hydrogen production: Boosting via I−/I3− and Bi3+/Bi5+ redox mediators, Amit Kumar, Gaurav Sharma, Anu Kumari, Changsheng Guo, Mu Naushad, Dai Viet N. Vo, Jibran Iqbal, and Florian J. Stadler
A comprehensive review of retinal vascular and optical nerve diseases based on optical coherence tomography angiography, Fatma Taher, Heba Kandil, Hatem Mahmoud, Ali Mahmoud, Ahmed Shalaby, Mohammed Ghazal, Marah Talal Alhalabi, Harpal Singh Sandhu, and Ayman El-Baz
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 Novel MRA-Based Framework for Segmenting the Cerebrovascular System and Correlating Cerebral Vascular Changes to Mean Arterial Pressure, Fatma Taher, Heba Kandil, Yitzhak Gebru, Ali Mahmoud, Ahmed Shalaby, Shady El‐mashad, and Ayman El‐Baz
Assessment of metals concentrations in soils of Abu Dhabi emirate using pollution indices and multivariate statistics, Yousef Nazzal, Alina Bărbulescu, Fares Howari, Ahmed A. Al-Taani, Jibran Iqbal, Cijo M. Xavier, Manish Sharma, and Cristian Ștefan Dumitriu
A systematic review of emerging information technologies for sustainable data-centric health-care, Arnob Zahid, Jennifer Kay Poulsen, Ravi Sharma, and Stephen C. Wingreen
Board gender diversity, power, and bank risk taking, Heba Abou-El-Sood
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
COVID-19 media coverage and ESG leader indices, Md Akhtaruzzaman, Sabri Boubaker, and Zaghum Umar
Development of allelic discrimination assay to detect Mediterranean G6PD mutation and its linked inheritance with normal vision/colorblindness loci for 4 generations among Egyptian and Emirati families, Lina Maloukh, Alagappan Kumarappan, Houssam El-Din El-Wakil, Fatima Al-Kamali, Fatma Gomma, Amin Akhondi, and T.V. Rajya Lakshmi
SIEs’ interaction and adaptation to their task performance, Yi Zhang and Taiba Hussain
Spousal beliefs and intimate partner violence: Are we conditioned to internalize patriarchal norms?, Mehreen Mookerjee, Manini Ojha, and Sanket Roy
Chronological Analysis and Remote Sensing of Craters on the Surface of Mars, Fares M. Howari, Manish Sharma, Cijo M. Xavier, Yousef Nazzal, and Fatima AlAydaroos
An Innovative and Decentralized Identity Framework Based on Blockchain Technology, Daniel Maldonado-Ruiz, Jenny Torres, Nour El Madhoun, and Mohamad Badra
Discord Server Forensics: Analysis and Extraction of Digital Evidence, Farkhund Iqbal, Michał Motyliński, and Áine MacDermott
Privacy-Preserving and Efficient Aggregation for Smart Grid based on Blockchain, Mohamad Badra and Rouba Borghol
Security Assessment for Zenbo Robot Using Drozer and mobSF Frameworks, Benjamin Yankson, Javed Vali K, Patrick C. K. Hung, Farkhund Iqbal, and Liaqat Ali
WhatsApp Network Forensics: Discovering the IP Addresses of Suspects, Waqas Ahmed, Faisal Shahzad, Abdul Rehman Javed, Farkhund Iqbal, and Liaqat Ali
A Novel Framework for Accurate and Non-Invasive Pulmonary Nodule Diagnosis by Integrating Texture and Contour Descriptors, Ahmed Shaffie, Ahmed Soliman, Hadil Abu Khalifeh, Mohammed Ghazal, Fatma Taher, Adel Elmaghraby, and Ayman El-Baz
Dialogic theorising of Emirati women’s technology enhanced learning in the United Arab Emirates, Zoe Hurley
#reimagining Arab Women’s Social Media Empowerment and the Postdigital Condition, Zoe Hurley
A Guiding Framework for IoT Servitization, Zakaria Maamar, Noura Faci, and Fadwa Yahya
Diabetes and Cancer: Metabolic Association, Therapeutic Challenges, and the Role of Natural Products, Wamidh H. Talib, Asma Ismail Mahmod, Sara Feras Abuarab, Eliza Hasen, Amer A. Munaim, Shatha Khaled Haif, Amani Marwan Ayyash, Samar Khater, Intisar Hadi Al-Yasari, and Lina T. Al Kury
Dunning-Kruger Effect: Intuitive Errors Predict Overconfidence on the Cognitive Reflection Test, Mariana V. C. Coutinho, Justin Thomas, Alia S. M. Alsuwaidi, and Justin J. Couchman
Local content implementation and development in Ghana’s upstream oil and gas sector for sustainable development: contemporary issues on policy management, Shafic Suleman and Joshua Jebuntie Zaato
Enhancing recommendation systems performance using highly-effective similarity measures, Ali A. Amer, Hassan I. Abdalla, and Loc Nguyen
Linguistic diversity and inclusion in Abu Dhabi’s linguistic landscape during the COVID-19 period, Sarah Hopkyns and Melanie van den Hoven
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
Using reflective journals for analysing pre-service, early childhood teachers' perceptions of practicum experiences, Zeina Hojeij, Lawrence Meda, and Amir Kaviani
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