Submissions from 2021
Media students using mobile phones in the Arabian Gulf to improve English writing and video production skills, Najat AlSaied and Fokiya Akhtar
Cultural determinants affecting pedagogical decisions in content design: a case study, Michael Pazinas
Editorial, Christina Gitsaki
Financial Markets are Not Efficient: Financial Literacy as an Effective Risk Management Tool, Costas Siriopoulos
Quantitative analysis and performance evaluation of target-oriented replication strategies in cloud computing, Quadri Waseem, Wan Isni Sofiah Wan Din, Sultan S. Alshamrani, Abdullah Alharbi, and Amril Nazir
A cross-national study on the perception of algorithm news in the east and the west, Donghee Shin
Bridges within the arts: Bob Dylan and Martin Scorsese, Doris Hambuch and Ioannis Galanopoulos Papavasileiou
Cognitive Vulnerability and Depressive Symptoms among Emirati College Students Before and After the Enactment of COVID-19 Curfew and Home-learning Measures, Justin Thomas, Omnya Alkatheeri, and Ian Grey
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
Design Guidelines for Blockchain-Assisted 5G-UAV Networks, Moayad Aloqaily, Ouns Bouachir, Azzedine Boukerche, and Ismaeel Al Ridhawi
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
Generalizing AI: Challenges and Opportunities for Plug and Play AI Solutions, Ismaeel Al Ridhawi, Safa Otoum, Moayad Aloqaily, and Azzedine Boukerche
Global uncertainty and Global Economic Policy Uncertainty: Different implications for firm investment, Hyunduk Suh and Jin Young Yang
Heterogeneous contributions of change in population distribution of body mass index to change in obesity and underweight, Maria L.C. Iurilli, Bin Zhou, James E. Bennett, Rodrigo M. Carrillo-Larco, Marisa K. Sophiea, Andrea Rodriguez-Martinez, Honor Bixby, Bethlehem D. Solomon, Cristina Taddei, Goodarz Danaei, Mariachiara Di Cesare, Gretchen A. Stevens, Leanne M. Riley, Stefan Savin, Melanie J. Cowan, Pascal Bovet, Albertino Damasceno, Adela Chirita-Emandi, Alison J. Hayes, Nayu Ikeda, Rod T. Jackson, Young Ho Khang, Avula Laxmaiah, and Dimitrios Papandreou
Identifying service product features associated with visitor satisfaction and revisit intention: A focus on sports events, Chris A. Vassiliadis, Claudel Mombeuil, and Anestis K. Fotiadis
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
Information, communications and media technologies for sustainability: Constructing data-driven policy narratives, Ravishankar Sharma, Aijaz A. Shaikh, Stephen Bekoe, and Gautam Ramasubramanian
Power outages, climate events and renewable energy: Reviewing energy storage policy and regulatory options for Australia, Nigel Martin and John Rice
Smart Dynamic Traffic Monitoring and Enforcement System, Youssef El-Hansali, Fatma Outay, Ansar Yasar, Siham Farrag, Muhammad Shoaib, Muhammad Imran, and Hammad Hussain Awan
Stopover destination attractiveness: A quasi-experimental approach, Steven Pike, Nicolas Pontes, and Filareti Kotsi
The good, the bad and the ugly on COVID-19 tourism recovery, Anestis Fotiadis, Stathis Polyzos, and Tzung Cheng T.C. Huan
Vector arithmetic in the triangular grid, Khaled Abuhmaidan, Monther Aldwairi, and Benedek Nagy
Visual communication and public relations: Visual frame building strategies in war and conflict stories, Ganga S. Dhanesh and Nadia Rahman
COVID-19 and Stock Market Liquidity: An International Evidence, Muhammad Umar, Ghulame Rubbaniy, and Syed Kumail Abbas Rizvi
Depthwise Separable Convolutional Neural Networks for Pedestrian Attribute Recognition, Imran N. Junejo and Naveed Ahmed
Labour-friendly practices and value maximization: a SEM approach, Tareq Na’el Al-Tawil, Venugopal Prabhakar Gantasala, and Hassan Younies
Are ESG Stocks Safe-Haven during COVID-19?, Ghulame Rubbaniy, Ali Awais Khalid, Aristeidis Samitas, and Shoaib Ali
Arsenic speciation and biotransformation pathways in the aquatic ecosystem: The significance of algae, Muhammad Mahroz Hussain, Jianxu Wang, Irshad Bibi, Muhammad Shahid, Nabeel Khan Niazi, Jibran Iqbal, Ishaq Ahmad Mian, Sabry M. Shaheen, Safdar Bashir, Noor Samad Shah, Kiran Hina, and Jörg Rinklebe
(CDRGI)-Cancer detection through relevant genes identification, Feras Al-Obeidat, Álvaro Rocha, Maryam Akram, Saad Razzaq, and Fahad Maqbool
Nano-zerovalent manganese/biochar composite for the adsorptive and oxidative removal of Congo-red dye from aqueous solutions, Jibran Iqbal, Noor S. Shah, Murtaza Sayed, Nabeel Khan Niazi, Muhammad Imran, Javed Ali Khan, Zia Ul Haq Khan, Aseel Gamal Suliman Hussien, Kyriaki Polychronopoulou, and Fares Howari
What you see is what you hear: creativity and communication in audiovisual texts, Zoe Hurley
An Evaluation of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Perceived Social Distancing Policies in Relation to Planning, Selecting, and Preparing Healthy Meals: An Observational Study in 38 Countries Worldwide, Charlotte De Backer, Lauranna Teunissen, Isabelle Cuykx, Paulien Decorte, Sara Pabian, Sarah Gerritsen, Christophe Matthys, Haleama Al Sabbah, and Kathleen Van Royen
Noise annoyance in the UAE: A twitter case study via a data-mining approach, Andrew Peplow, Justin Thomas, and Aamna Alshehhi
Computing and socioeconomic transformations, Nir Kshetri, Jeffrey Voas, and Ravi Sharma
Entropy based features distribution for anti-ddos model in SDN, Raja Majid Ali Ujjan, Zeeshan Pervez, Keshav Dahal, Wajahat Ali Khan, Asad Masood Khattak, and Bashir Hayat
Identifying influencers on social media, Paul Harrigan, Timothy M. Daly, Kristof Coussement, Julie A. Lee, Geoffrey N. Soutar, and Uwana Evers
Is this real? Cocreation of value through authentic experiential augmented reality: the mediating effect of perceived ethics and customer engagement, Saifeddin Alimamy and Waqar Nadeem
Marketing strategies in communicating CSR in the Muslim market of the United Arab Emirates: insights from the banking sector, Effrosyni Georgiadou and Catherine Nickerson
Network centrality, connections, and social capital: Evidence from CEO insider trading gains, Rwan El‐Khatib, Dobrina Jandik, and Tomas Jandik
Oil shocks and equity markets: The case of GCC and BRIC economies, Zaghum Umar, Nader Trabelsi, and Adam Zaremba
Return and volatility transmission between oil price shocks and agricultural commodities, Zaghum Umar, Mariya Gubareva, Muhammad Naeem, and Ayesha Akhter
Spatio-temporal characteristics of PM2.5, PM10, and AOD over the central line project of China’s South-NorthWater diversion in Henan Province (China), Bo Su, Dongyu Wu, Miao Zhang, Muhammad Bilal, Yuying Li, Bai Lian Li, Luqman Atique, Ziyue Zhang, and Fares M. Howari
Sweet Tongues: The Rhetoric of Politeness in Damascus, Anke Reichenbach
The effects of age of exposure on knowledge of english grammar in english-medium instruction, Muhammad Asif Qureshi
The effects of explainability and causability on perception, trust, and acceptance: Implications for explainable AI, Donghee Shin
Teachers’ Experiences of Marketization in the United Arab Emirates, Emily Winchip
Carveol a Naturally-Derived Potent and Emerging Nrf2 Activator Protects Against Acetaminophen-Induced Hepatotoxicity, Zaif Ur Rahman, Lina Tariq Al Kury, Abdullah Alattar, Zhen Tan, Reem Alshaman, Imran Malik, Haroon Badshah, Zia Uddin, Atif Ali Khan Khalil, Naveed Muhammad, Saifullah Khan, Amjad Ali, Fawad Ali Shah, Shupeng Li, and Shupeng Li
Modulatory and Toxicological Perspectives on the Effects of the Small Molecule Kinetin, Eman M. Othman, Moustafa Fathy, Amany Abdlrehim Bekhit, Abdel-Razik H. Abdel-Razik, Arshad Jamal, Yousef Nazzal, Shabana Shams, Thomas Dandekar, and Muhammad Naseem
The relationship between the Covid-19 media coverage and the Environmental, Social and Governance leaders equity volatility: a time-frequency wavelet analysis, Zaghum Umar and Mariya Gubareva
Impact of Newtonian heating and Fourier and Fick’s laws on a magnetohydrodynamic dusty Casson nanofluid flow with variable heat source/sink over a stretching cylinder, Muhammad Ramzan, Naila Shaheen, Jae Dong Chung, Seifedine Kadry, Yu-Ming Chu, and Fares Howari
Parallel tensor factorization for relational learning, Feras Al-Obeidat, Álvaro Rocha, Muhammad Shahrose Khan, Fahad Maqbool, and Saad Razzaq
Quality of learning experience, student satisfaction and perceived overall experience in the COVID-19 context, Venugopal Prabhakar Gantasala, Swapna Bhargavi Gantasala, Tareq Na'el Al Tawil, and Prerana Prasad
Quantitative Estimation of Biocapped Surface Chemistry Driven Interparticle Interactions and Growth Kinetics of Gold Nanoparticles, Tausif Ahmad, Mohamad Azmi Bustam, Humbul Suleman, Muhammad Irfan, Jibran Iqbal, and Hafiz Muhammad Anwaar Asghar
The Relationship between Stock Returns, Bitcoin Returns, and Risk Aversion: Evidence from a Multivariate GARCH Model, Ayşen Sivrikaya, Perihan Iren, and Tolga Umay
Migration from Millennium and Symphony to KOHA: Khalifa University experience, Nikesh Narayanan, Shaju Badarudeen, and Walter Brian Hall
Linking posttraumatic stress disorder with eating disorders among Emirati university female students: The role of self-concealment, Man Cheung Chung, Zilan Ye, Na Wang, and Justin Thomas
Taxes and Firm Investment, K. Peren Arin, Kevin Devereux, and Mieszko Mazur
Analysing the AAOIFI Sharīʿah standard on zakat, Khurram Parvez Raja
Escape words: From solitary confinement to female solidarity in lena constante’s post-communist prison memoirs, Szidonia Haragos
Reflections on teachers and students’ views on teaching and learning experiences at university: A diary study, Amir Kaviani, Kara McKeown, and Jenny Eppard
Cardiac Inflammation, Oxidative Stress, Nrf2 Expression, and Coagulation Events in Mice with Experimental Chronic Kidney Disease, Abderrahim Nemmar, Suhail Al-Salam, Sumaya Beegam, Nur Elena Zaaba, Javed Yasin, Naserddine Hamadi, and Badreldin H. Ali
P2P islamic investments using blockchain, smart contract and E-negotiation, Hasan Al-Sakran and Ons Al-Shamaileh
Silicate glass matrix@Cu2O/Cu2V2O7 p-n heterojunction for enhanced visible light photo-degradation of sulfamethoxazole: High charge separation and interfacial transfer, Amit Kumar, Sunil K. Sharma, Gaurav Sharma, Changsheng Guo, Dai-Viet N. Vo, Jibran Iqbal, Mu. Naushad, and Florian J. Stadler
A novel route for catalytic activation of peroxymonosulfate by oxygen vacancies improved bismuth-doped titania for the removal of recalcitrant organic contaminant, Ikhtiar Gul, Murtaza Sayed, and Noor S. Shah
Designing a relational model to identify relationships between suspicious customers in anti-money laundering (AML) using social network analysis (SNA), Abdul Khalique Shaikh, Malik Al-Shamli, and Amril Nazir
Looking within: Interoceptive sensibility in young adults with psychotic-like experiences, Mariapaola Barbato, Teresa Arora, Shaikha Al Hemeiri, and Maryam A. AlJassmi
Mindfulness, Stress Reactivity, and Depressive Symptoms Among “Third Culture Kids” in the United Arab Emirates, Justin Thomas, Majeda Humeidan, Carmen Barrack, and Kelly L. Huffman
Hedonic housing prices and environmental quality in Lebanon, Walid Marrouch and Nagham Sayour
Semantic eSystems: Engineering methods, techniques, and tools, Thar Baker, Dhiya Al‐Jumeily, Zakaria Maamar, and Zahir Tari
Spillover and risk transmission in the components of the term structure of eurozone yield curve, Zaghum Umar, Yasir Riaz, and Adam Zaremba
Formal Modeling and Verification of Property-based Resource Consumption Cycles, Rania Ben Halima, Kais Klai, Mohamed Sellami, and Zakaria Maamar
Antecedents of Employee Thriving at Work: The Roles of Formalization, Ethical Leadership and Interpersonal Justice, HM Saidur Rahaman, Jeroen Stouten, Stijn Decoster, and Jeroen Camps
“Simple rules” as an approach to corporate selection of CSR strategies, Valerie Priscilla Goby and Gulnara Z. Karimova
Upshot of heterogeneous catalysis in a nanofluid flow over a rotating disk with slip effects and Entropy optimization analysis, Muhammad Ramzan, Saima Riasat, Jae Dong Chung, Yu-Ming Chu, M. Sheikholeslami, Seifedine Kadry, and Fares Howari
Luteolin inhibits proliferation, triggers apoptosis and modulates Akt/mTOR and MAP kinase pathways in HeLa cells, Ritu Raina, Sreepoorna Pramodh, Naushad Rais, Shafiul Haque, Jasmin Shafarin, Khuloud Bajbouj, Mawieh Hamad, and Arif Hussain
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
Optimal Clustering in Wireless Sensor Networks for the Internet of Things Based on Memetic Algorithm: MemeWSN, Masood Ahmad, Babar Shah, Abrar Ullah, Fernando Moreira, Omar Alfandi, Gohar Ali, and Abdul Hameed
Synthesis, characterization and application of novel MnO and CuO impregnated biochar composites to sequester arsenic (As) from water: Modeling, thermodynamics and reusability, Muhammad Imran, Muhammad Mohsin Iqbal, Jibran Iqbal, Noor Samad Shah, Zia Ul Haq Khan, Behzad Murtaza, Muhammad Amjad, Shafaqat Ali, and Muhammad Rizwan
Community Search in a Multi-Attributed Graph using Collaborative Similarity Measure and Node Filtering, Naveed Javaid, Kifayat Ullah Khan, Asad Masood Khattak, and Waqas Nawaz
التسامح في مناهج التربية الإسلامية الإماراتية, Mariam Alhashmi and Naved Bakali
Islamic labeled firms: Revisiting Dow Jones measure of compliance, Ahmed Elnahas, Ghada Ismail, Rwan El‐Khatib, and M. Kabir Hassan
2 Left ventricle segmentation for cine MR using deep learning, Hisham Abdeltawab, Fahmi Khalifa, Fatma Taher, Mohammed Ghazal, Ali H. Mahmoud, Ayman El-Baz, and Jasjit S. Suri
3 Computational methods for identifying left ventricle heart pathologies, Ahmed Elnakib, Mohammed Ghazal, Fatma Taher, Ali H. Mahmoud, and Ayman El-Baz
Abstraction-Based Outlier Detection for Image Data, Kirill Yakovlev, Imad Eddine Ibrahim Bekkouch, Adil Mehmood Khan, and Asad Masood Khattak
A Case Study on the Deployment of a Tactile Internet Application in a Hybrid Cloud, Edge, and Mobile Ad Hoc Cloud Environment, Yassine Jebbar, Nattakorn Promwongsa, Fatna Belqasmi, and Roch H. Glitho
Accounting for Emissions: Evidence from Auditor Pricing of Climate Change Risk, Yezen H. Kannan, Kimberly C. Gleason, and Philip Molyneux
A Coarse-to-Fine Facial Landmark Detection Method Based on Self-attention Mechanism, Pengcheng Gao, Ke Lu, Jian Xue, Ling Shao, and Jiayi Lyu
A comprehensive review on medical diagnosis using machine learning, Kaustubh Arun Bhavsar, Ahed Abugabah, Jimmy Singla, Ahmad Ali AlZubi, Ali Kashif Bashir, and Nikita
Active Learning Strategy for COVID-19 Annotated Dataset, Amril Nazir and Ricky Maulana Fajri
A Data-based Guiding Framework for Digital Transformation, Zakaria Maamar, Saoussen Cheikhrouhou, and Said Elnaffar
A Deep Learning Approach for Real-Time Analysis of Attendees’ Engagement in Public Events, Sujith Samuel Mathew, Manar AlKhatib, and May El Barachi
Adversarial Reconstruction Loss for Domain Generalization, Bekkouch Imad Eddine Ibrahim, Dragos Constantin Nicolae, Adil Khan, S. M. Ahsan Kazmi, Asad Masood Khattak, and Bulat Ibragimov
A Machine Learning Framework for Handling Delayed/Lost Packets in Tactile Internet Remote Robotic Surgery, Boabang Francis, Amin Ebrahimzadeh, Roch Glitho, Halima Elbiaze, Martin Maier, and Fatna Belqami
A meta-analysis of sleep and work performance: An examination of moderators and mediators, Alexandra A. Henderson and Kristin A. Horan
A Meta-analysis: Shape of Age Effects and Second Language Grammar Acquisition, Muhammad Asif Qureshi
A microservices persistence technique for cloud-based online social data analysis, Feras Al-Obeidat, Anoud Bani-Hani, Oluwasegun Adedugbe, Munir Majdalawieh, and Elhadj Benkhelifa
An Adaptive Protection of Flooding Attacks Model for Complex Network Environments, Bashar Ahmad Khalaf, Salama A. Mostafa, Aida Mustapha, Mazin Abed Mohammed, Moamin A. Mahmoud, Bander Ali Saleh Al-Rimy, Shukor Abd Razak, Mohamed Elhoseny, and Adam Marks
An approach to forecast impact of Covid-19 using supervised machine learning model, Senthilkumar Mohan, A. John, Ahed Abugabah, M. Adimoolam, Shubham Kumar Singh, Ali kashif Bashir, and Louis Sanzogni
An approach to reinforce active learning in higher education for IT students, Sanaa Kaddoura and Fatima Al Husseiny