Submissions from 2023
MalFe—Malware Feature Engineering Generation Platform, Avinash Singh, Richard Adeyemi Ikuesan, and Hein Venter
From Analogue to Digital: Evolution of Building Machines Towards Reforming Production and Customization of Housing, Carlo Carbone and Basem Eid Mohamed
Robust Intelligent System for COVID-19 Detection using CT-Scan, Ahmad Al Smadi, Ahed Abugabah, and Ahmad Mohammad Al-smadi
A Survey of EEG and Machine Learning-Based Methods for Neural Rehabilitation, Jaiteg Singh, Farman Ali, Rupali Gill, Babar Shah, and Daehan Kwak
A dual covariant biomarker approach to Kawasaki disease, implications for coronary pathogenesis using vascular endothelial growth factor A and B gene expression; systematic secondary analysis of clinical datasets, Asrar Rashid, Govind Benakatti, Feras Al-Obeida, Rajesh Phatak, Zainab A. Malik, Javed Sharief, Raziya Kadwa, Wael Hafez, Mohammed Toufiq, Damien Chaussabel, Rayaz Malik, Nasir Quraishi, Syed Ahmed Zaki, Guftar Shaikh, and Amir Hussain
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
A novel higher order appearance texture analysis to diagnose lung cancer based on a modified local ternary pattern, Ahmed Alksas, Ahmed Shaffie, Mohammed Ghazal, Fatma Taher, Adel Khelifi, Maha Yaghi, Ahmed Soliman, Eric VAN Bogaert, and Ayman El-Baz
Biogas Energy Resources in Pakistan Status, Potential, and Barriers, Muhammad Wakeel, Tasawer Hayat, Noor Samad Shah, Jibran Iqbal, Zia Ul Haq Khan, Ghulam Mustafa Shah, and Atta Rasool
Deconstructing Summary Writing: Further Exploration of L2 Reading and Writing, Jingjing Qin and Timothy Groombridge
Defence response of host plants for cyst nematode: A review on parasitism and defence, Rishil Gupta, Manar Fawzi Bani Mfarrej, Rehab O. Elnour, Mohamed Hashem, and Faheem Ahmad
E-Waste Recycling Behavior in the United Arab Emirates: Investigating the Roles of Environmental Consciousness, Cost, and Infrastructure Support, Kareem Abdul Waheed, Abhilasha Singh, Ayisha Siddiqua, Maisa El Gamal, and Mohammed Laeequddin
Inflation and the war in Ukraine: Evidence using impulse response functions on economic indicators and Twitter sentiment, Efstathios Polyzos
International comparison of gaming disorder symptomatology: Analysis of Ithra’s 30-nation digital wellbeing survey, Justin Thomas, Carl Michael Gaspar, Fahad Al Beyahi, Bahiah Al Bassam, and Yasmin Aljedawi
Nutritional Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices among Family Physician Practitioners in Gulf Countries (Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and UAE), Abeer S. Alzaben, Abeer A. Aljahdali, Lulua F. Alasousi, Ghadeer Alzaben, Lynne Kennedy, and Anwar Alhashem
Regulating Discourse: How Children With and Without SEND Internalize the Evaluative Framework of Adults, Efthymia Efthymiou
Stress state and waves in the lithospheric plate simulation: A 3rd generation AI architecture, Mutaz Mohammad, Alexander Trounev, and Carlo Cattani
Structure Estimation of Adversarial Distributions for Enhancing Model Robustness: A Clustering-Based Approach, Bader Rasheed, Adil Khan, and Asad Masood Khattak
Predictive Analysis of Students’ Learning Performance Using Data Mining Techniques: A Comparative Study of Feature Selection Methods, S. M. F. D. Syed Mustapha
An Improved Dandelion Optimizer Algorithm for Spam Detection: Next-Generation Email Filtering System, Mohammad Tubishat, Feras Al-Obeidat, Ali Safaa Sadiq, and Seyedali Mirjalili
Postdigital Cityscapes, Zoe Hurley
The Management Accounting Usage in Automotive Servitized Companies: An Initial Attempt, Unggul Purwohedi, Muhammad Kaleem Zahir-ul-Hassan, and Maqsood Memon
Postdigital Feminisms, Zoe Hurley
The Benefits of Considering Gender in Economic Development, Sujata Ganguly and Elena Nikolova
Numerical Similarity Measures Versus Jaccard for Collaborative Filtering, Hassan I. Abdalla, Yasmeen A. Amer, Loc Nguyen, Ali A. Amer, and Basheer Mohamad Al-Maqaleh
The Impact of Data Normalization on KNN Rendering, Hassan I. Abdalla and Aneela Altaf
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
Multimodal Religiously Hateful Social Media Memes Classification based on Textual and Image Data, Ameer Hamza, Abdul Rehman Javed, Farkhund Iqbal, Amanullah Yasin, Gautam Srivastava, Dawid Połap, Thippa Reddy Gadekallu, and Zunera Jalil
Effect of iron nanoparticles and conventional sources of Fe on growth, physiology and nutrient accumulation in wheat plants grown on normal and salt-affected soils, Muhammad Zia-ur-Rehman, Manar Fawzi Bani Mfarrej, Muhammad Usman, Sidra Anayatullah, Muhammad Rizwan, Hesham F. Alharby, Isam M. Abu Zeid, Nadiyah M. Alabdallah, and Shafaqat Ali
Efficient power management optimization based on whale optimization algorithm and enhanced differential evolution, Khalid Zaman, Sun Zhaoyun, Babar Shah, Altaf Hussain, Tariq Hussain, Umer Sadiq Khan, Farman Ali, and Boukansous Sarra
Rethinking higher education for the 4th Industrial Revolution: Synergetics in global social transformations and society building, Danjoo N. Ghista and Ravi S. Sharma
The Effect of Using iPad Apps in Developing Components of Cooperative Learning Among Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Ayesha Alktebi
Domestic Counseling Student Viewpoints on Their Relationships with International Classmates: A Q Methodology Study, Mustafa Aydogan and Marty Jencius
The effect of COVID-19 on the academic performance of Zayed University students in the United Arab Emirates, Sharifa AlBlooshi, Linda Smail, Alyaa Albedwawi, Mariam Al Wahedi, and Maha AlSafi
Exploring differences in ethical decision-making processes between humans and ChatGPT-3 model: a study of trade-offs, Umair Rehman, Farkhund Iqbal, and Muhammad Umair Shah
Guest editorial: Entrepreneurship activities among the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) enterprising communities, Ramo Palalić, Shqipe Gerguri-Rashiti, Jusuf Zeqiri, and Vladimir Dzenopoljac
A configurable composition language for the social IoT, Soura Boulaares, Salma Sassi, Djamal Benslimane, Zakaria Maamar, and Sami Faiz
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
Associations between Birth Weight and Adult Sleep Characteristics: A Cross-Sectional Analysis from the UAEHFS, Nirmin F. Juber, Abdishakur Abdulle, Amar Ahmad, Andrea Leinberger-Jabari, Ayesha S.Al Dhaheri, Fatma Al-Maskari, Fatme AlAnouti, Mohammad Al-Houqani, Mohammed Hag Ali, Omar El-Shahawy, Scott Sherman, Syed M. Shah, Tom Loney, Youssef Idaghdour, and Raghib Ali
A unifying approach to measuring climate change impacts and adaptation, Antonio M. Bento, Noah Miller, Mehreen Mookerjee, and Edson Severnini
BeneWinD: An Adaptive Benefit Win–Win Platform with Distributed Virtual Emotion Foundation, Hyunbum Kim and Jalel Ben-Othman
Conclusion: What We Found and What Is the Way Forward?, Nataša Slak Valek
Dynamic connectedness between global commodity sectors, news sentiment, and sub-Saharan African equities, Samuel Kwaku Agyei, Zaghum Umar, Ahmed Bossman, and Tamara Teplova
How Can Blockchain Technology Be Used to Manage the COVID-19 Vaccine Supply Chain? A Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Directions, Huwida Said, Nedaa Baker Al Barghuthi, Sulafa Badi, and Shini Girija
Intersectional Feminist Autoethnographic Snaphots of Socotra, Yemen, Zoe Hurley and Widad Abdulmalik Abdu Mohammed
Sentence Embedding Approach using LSTM Auto-encoder for Discussion Threads Summarization, Abdul Wali Khan, Feras Al-Obeidat, Afsheen Khalid, Adnan Amin, and Fernando Moreira
Tastes of Socotra in New Media: What do we know About Socotri from Looking at Their (Digital) Plate?, Danica Čigoja Piper
The relationship between R&D intensity, conservatism, and management earnings forecast issuance, Yezen Kannan, Ashraf Khallaf, Kimberly Gleason, and Ibrahim Bostan
UAE Women’s Knowledge and Attitudes towards Physical Activity during Pregnancy, Sharifa AlBlooshi, Rafiq Hijazi, Lynne Kennedy, and Ala Al Rajabi
Zinc nanoparticles encapsulated in porous biopolymer beads for reduction of water pollutants and antimicrobial activity, Fadila Benali, Bouhadjar Boukoussa, Ismail Issam, Jibran Iqbal, Adel Mokhtar, Mohammed Hachemaoui, Fatima Habeche, Salih Hacini, and Mohamed Abboud
A Social View of Socotra Island: People, Culture, Heritage, Nataša Slak Valek and Ahmad Abdelmoniem Zedan
IT governance matter: A structured literature review, Nariman Osama Kandil, Ehab Kamel Abou-Elkheir, and Amr M. Kotb
Triumphs and Tribulations of Teaching Practicum Experiences: Reflections from Preservice Teachers in UAE, Laila Mohebi
Digital literacies as policy catalysts of social innovation and socioeconomic transformation: Interpretive analysis from Singapore and the UAE, Ravi S. Sharma, Intan Azura Mokhtar, Dhanjoo N. Ghista, Amril Nazir, and Sana Z. Khan
A Proposed Artificial Intelligence Model for Android-Malware Detection, Fatma Taher, Omar Al Fandi, Mousa Al Kfairy, Hussam Al Hamadi, and Saed Alrabaee
Autoregressive Random Forests: Machine Learning and Lag Selection for Financial Research, Efstathios Polyzos and Costas Siriopoulos
A Subclass of Close-to-Convex Function Involving Srivastava-Tomovski Operator, Elangho Umadevi and Kadhavoor R. Karthikeyan
Religious Coping and Levels of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptomatology After the Beirut Explosion, Ian Grey, Justin Thomas, Jana Mansour Jamaleddine, Toufic Yaktine, and Man Cheung Chung
Youth voting and institutional change in the post-Arab Spring MENA region, Ali Fakih, Mohammad Hammoud, and Nagham Sayour
A Transcriptomic Appreciation of Childhood Meningococcal and Polymicrobial Sepsis from a Pro-inflammatory and Trajectorial Perspective, a Role for VEGF-A and VEGF-B Modulation?, Asrar Rashid, Berit S Brusletto, Feras Al-Obeidat, Mohammed Toufiq, Govind Benakatti, Joe Brierley, Zainab A Malik, Zain Hussain, Hoda Alkhazaimi, Javed Sharief, Raziya Kadwa, Amrita Sarpal, Damien Chaussabe, Rayaz A Malik, Nasir Quraishi, Praveen Khilnani, Syed A Zaki, Rashid Nadeem, Guftar Shaikh, Ahmed Al-Dubai, Wael Hafez, and Amir Hussain
Architectura Transtopica: Totems of a Journeyman, Ioannis Galanopoulos Papavasileiou
The Development of Students with Disabilities' Experiences Concerning Distance Learning in the Emirati Universities during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Mona Mohamed Alhammadi and Zeina Hojeij
Sentiment Analysis of Using ChatGPT in Education, Mohammad Tubishat, Feras Al-Obeidat, and Ahmed Shuhaiber
The Social and Technological Incentives for Cybercriminals to Engage in Ransomware Activities, Yichao Wang, Sophia Roscoe, Budi Arief, Lena Connolly, Hervé Borrion, and Sanaa Kaddoura
A finite element approach to the numerical solutions of Leland’s model, Dongming Wei, Yogi Ahmad Erlangga, and Gulzat Zhumakhanova
Algorithmic Nudge: An Approach to Designing Human-Centered Generative Artificial Intelligence, Donghee Shin and Norita Ahmad
Big data analytics and e-governance: Actors, opportunities, tensions, and applications, Mohammad Abuljadail, Ashraf Khalil, Shalini Talwar, and Puneet Kaur
CuNPs loaded zeolite 3 Å as an efficient catalyst for the catalytic reduction of hazardous pollutants, Abdeldjelil Habib Zahmani, Riad Mustapha Kerbadou, Aouicha Benmaati, Mohammed Hachemaoui, Ismail Issam, Jibran Iqbal, Salih Hacini, Bouhadjar Boukoussa, and Hadjira Habib Zahmani
Effective citric acid and EDTA treatments in cadmium stress tolerance in pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) seedlings by regulating specific gene expression, Rana M. Alshegaihi, Manar Fawzi Bani Mfarrej, Muhammad Hamzah Saleem, Abida Parveen, Khawaja Shafique Ahmad, Baber Ali, Amany H.A. Abeed, Dikhnah Alshehri, Sameera A. Alghamdi, Suliman M.S. Alghanem, Javeed Ahmad Lone, Tarek M.A. Soliman, and Fathia A. Soudy
Enabling affordances of blockchain in agri-food supply chains: a value-driver framework using the Q-methodology, Pouyan Jahanbin, Stephen C. Wingreen, Ravishankar Sharma, Behrang Ijadi, and Marlon M. Reis
Greening the Desert: Emirati Youth’s Perceptions of Green Branding, Gergana Alzeer and Tilde Rosmer
Inorganic Hole Transport Materials in Perovskite Solar Cells are Catching Up, Sajid Sajid, Salem Alzahmi, Imen Ben Salem, Jongee Park, and Ihab M. Obaidat
On the privacy and security for e-health services in the metaverse: An overview, Mehdi Letafati and Safa Otoum
On the Utility of Parents' Historical Data to Investigate the Causes of Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Data Mining-Based Framework, Zahid Halim, Gohar Khan, Babar Shah, Rabia Naseer, Sajid Anwar, and Ahsan Shah
Removal of crystal violet dye using a three-dimensional network of date pits powder/sodium alginate hydrogel beads: Experimental optimization and DFT calculation, Adel Mokhtar, Soumia Abdelkrim, Mohammed Hachemaoui, Bouhadjar Boukoussa, Wahiba Chaibi, Amina Sardi, Amal Djelad, Mohammed Sassi, Ismail Issam, Jibran Iqbal, Shashikant P. Patole, and Mohamed Abboud
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
The consequences of profound cultural change on the Emirati life script and identity, Christin Camia
The rain deluge and flash floods of summer 2022 in the United Arab Emirates: Causes, analysis and perspectives on flood-risk reduction, James P. Terry, Amna Al Ruheili, Maitha Ali Almarzooqi, Reem Yousuf Almheiri, and Amani Khaled Alshehhi
The study of removal chromium (VI) ions from aqueous solution by bimetallic ZnO/FeO nanocomposite with Siltstone: Isotherm, kinetics and reusability, Behzad Murtaza, Sana Bilal, Muhammad Imran, Noor S. Shah, Muhammad Shahid, Jibran Iqbal, Zia Ul Haq Khan, Naveed Ahmad, Abdullah A. Al-Kahtani, Zeid A. ALOthman, and Umar Farooq
Transformational Leadership Qualities of Teacher Candidates in Classrooms: A Study from UAE, Laila Mohebi and Areej ElSayary
A Crime Scene Reconstruction for Digital Forensic Analysis, Mathew Nicho, Maha Alblooki, Saeed AlMutiwei, Christopher D. McDermott, and Olufemi Ilesanmi
Association of Maternal Pre-Pregnancy Overweight and Obesity with Childhood Anthropometric Factors and Perinatal and Postnatal Outcomes: A Cross-Sectional Study, Eleni Pavlidou, Dimitrios Papandreou, Zainab Taha, Maria Mantzorou, Stefanos Tyrovolas, Dimitrios N. Kiortsis, Evmorfia Psara, Sousana K. Papadopoulou, Marios Yfantis, Maria Spanoudaki, Georgios Antasouras, Maria Mentzelou, and Constantinos Giaginis
Towards CRISP‐BC: 3TIC specification framework for Blockchain use‐cases, Pouyan Jahanbin, Ravi S. Sharma, Stephen T. Wingreen, Nir Kshetri, and Kim‐Kwang Raymond Choo
Antecedents of yacht tourism participants’ satisfaction and word-of-mouth intention, Anestis Fotiadis, John Rice, and Rund Hiyasat
Forensic investigation of small-scale digital devices: a futuristic view, Farkhund Iqbal, Aasia Jaffri, Zainab Khalid, Aine MacDermott, Qazi Ejaz Ali, and Patrick C. K. Hung
Amplifying Voices, Empowering Perspectives: Exploring the Experiences of Children With Disabilities in Inclusive Education During the Pandemic, Efthymia Efthymiou
Building Resilience in the Education System: Safeguarding Children in Inclusive Settings Through Teacher Empowerment and School Preparedness, Salma Daiban and Efthymia Efthymiou
Cultural Competence at Schools: The Effectiveness of Educational Leaders' Intervention Strategies, Alexandros Argyriadis, Efthymia Efthymiou, and Agathi Argyriadis
Examining Teachers' Perspectives on Equitable Digital Education: A Case Study on Delivering High-Quality and Inclusive Learning Experiences in Special Education, Efthymia Efthymiou
Preface, Efthymia Efthymiou
Inclusive Phygital Learning Approaches and Strategies for Students With Special Needs, Efthymia Efthymiou
Architectura Transtopica: Totems of a Journeyman, Ioannis Galanopoulos Papavasileiou
Survey of Personalized Learning Software Systems: A Taxonomy of Environments, Learning Content, and User Models, Heba Ismail, Nada Hussein, Saad Harous, and Ashraf Khalil
Fault aware task scheduling in cloud using min-min and DBSCAN, S. M.F.D.Syed Mustapha and Punit Gupta
Applying Ant Colony Optimisation When Choosing an Individual Learning Trajectory, Rukiya Deetjen-Ruiz, Oleg Ikonnikov, Shahzool Hazimin Azizam, Darío Salguero García, Juan Carlos Orosco Gavilán, Ivan Otcheskiy, and Roman Tsarev
Exogenous application of low and high molecular weight organic acids differentially affected the uptake of cadmium in wheat-rice cropping system in alkaline calcareous soil, Muhammad Zia-ur-Rehman, Manar Fawzi Bani Mfarrej, Muhammad Usman, Muhammad Azhar, Muhammad Rizwan, Hesham F. Alharby, Atif A. Bamagoos, Rahma Alshamrani, and Zahoor Ahmad
Using a Digital Educational Environment to Monitor Student Learning Results, Rukiya Deetjen-Ruiz, Irina Yarygina, Ikhfan Haris, Michael Sabugaa, Aleksey Losev, and Valentina Everstova
DBSCAN inspired task scheduling algorithm for cloud infrastructure, S. M.F.D.Syed Mustapha and Punit Gupta
Multimodal diagnostics in multiple sclerosis: predicting disability and conversion from relapsing-remitting to secondary progressive disease course - protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis, Yauhen Statsenko, Darya Smetanina, Teresa Arora, Linda Östlundh, Tetiana Habuza, Gillian Lylian Simiyu, Sarah Meribout, Tatsiana Talako, Fransina Christina King, Iryna Makhnevych, Juri George Gelovani, Karuna M. Das, Klaus Neidl Van Gorkom, Taleb M. Almansoori, Fatmah Al Zahmi, Miklós Szólics, Fatima Ismail, and Milos Ljubisavljevic