Submissions from 2022
Twenty Years of Mobile Banking Services Development and Sustainability: A Bibliometric Analysis Overview (2000–2020), Ayman A. Alsmadi, Ahmed Shuhaiber, Loai N. Alhawamdeh, Rasha Alghazzawi, and Manaf Al-Okaily
Stopover, Filareti Kotsi and Steven Pike
Do Companies Adopt Big Data as Determinants of Sustainability: Evidence from Manufacturing Companies in Jordan, Luay Jum’a, Muhammad Ikram, Ziad Alkalha, and Maher Alaraj
SEL-COVIDNET: An intelligent application for the diagnosis of COVID-19 from chest X-rays and CT-scans, Ahmad Al Smadi, Ahed Abugabah, Ahmad Mohammad Al-smadi, and Sultan Almotairi
Snapshot of Research Issues in Service Robots, Patrick C. K. Hung, Farkhund Iqbal, Saiqa Aleem, and Laura Rafferty
Vitamin D modulates systemic inflammation in patients with severe COVID-19, Fatemeh Saheb Sharif-Askari, Shirin Hafezi, Narjes Saheb Sharif-Askari, Hawra Ali Hussain Alsayed, Bushra Mdkhana, Balachandar Selvakumar, Mohammad-Hani Temsah, Basema Saddik, Fatme Al Anouti, and Rabih Halwani
Efficient Link Prediction Model For Real-World Complex Networks Using Matrix-Forest Metric With Local Similarity Features, Haji Gul, Feras Al-Obeidat, Adnan Amin, Muhammad Tahir, and Kaizhu Huang
The Evolving Menace of Ransomware: A Comparative Analysis of Pre-pandemic and Mid-pandemic Attacks, Michael Lang, Lena Yuryna Connolly, Paul Taylor, and Phillip J. Corner
Guest editorial: Social robots, services and applications, Judith Kelner, Pei-Chun Lin, Kelvin K.F. Tsoi, Zakaria Maamar, Patrick C.K. Hung, Dickson K.W. Chiu, and Kevin K.W. Ho
Did Usage of Mental Health Apps Change during COVID-19? A Comparative Study Based on an Objective Recording of Usage Data and Demographics, Maryam Aziz, Aiman Erbad, Mohamed Basel Almourad, Majid Altuwairiqi, John McAlaney, and Raian Ali
Maternal Early-Life Risk Factors and Later Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the UAE Healthy Future Study (UAEHFS), Nirmin F. Juber, Abdishakur Abdulle, Abdulla AlJunaibi, Abdulla AlNaeemi, Amar Ahmad, Andrea Leinberger-Jabari, Ayesha S. Al Dhaheri, Eiman AlZaabi, Fatima Mezhal, Fatma Al-Maskari, Fatme AlAnouti, Habiba Alsafar, Juma Alkaabi, Laila Abdel Wareth, Mai Aljaber, Marina Kazim, Michael Weitzman, Mohammad Al-Houqani, Mohammed Hag Ali, Naima Oumeziane, Omar El-Shahawy, Scott Sherman, Sharifa AlBlooshi, Syed M. Shah, Tom Loney, Wael Almahmeed, Youssef Idaghdour, and Raghib Ali
ZnO Nano-swirlings for Azo Dye AR183 photocatalytic degradation and antimycotic activity, Khalid Umar, Manar Fawzi Bani Mfarrej, Qazi Inamur Rahman, Mohammad Zuhaib, Amir Khan, Qamar Zia, Saeed Banawas, Hera Nadeem, Mohd. Farhan Khan, and Faheem Ahmad
A Comparative Study of Autoregressive and Neural Network Models: Forecasting the GARCH Process, Firuz Kamalov, Ikhlaas Gurrib, Sherif Moussa, and Amril Nazir
Written to be Erased: Paper Rights and the Visibility of Migrant Domestic Workers, Rima Sabban and Hannah Kasak-Gliboff
Green Intellectual Capital And Green Supply Chain Performance: Does Big Data Analytics Capabilities Matter?, Ayman Wael AL-Khatib and Ahmed Shuhaiber
Bot-Mgat: A Transfer Learning Model Based On A Multi-View Graph Attention Network To Detect Social Bots, Eiman Alothali, Motamen Salih, Kadhim Hayawi, and Hany Alashwal
A Methodological Review of Tools That Assess Dust Microbiomes, Metatranscriptomes and the Particulate Chemistry of Indoor Dust, Yousef Nazzal, Fares M. Howari, Aya Yaslam, Jibran Iqbal, Lina Maloukh, Lakshmi Kesari Ambika, Ahmed A. Al-Taani, Ijaz Ali, Eman M. Othman, Arshad Jamal, and Muhammad Naseem
False Data Injection Attack on Atmospheric Electric Field in Thunderstorm Warning, Xiang Li, Kadhim Hayawi, Yi Chen, Shih Yu Chang, Hong Wen, Pin-Han Ho, Ling Yang, and Qiyuan Yin
The Role of Medical Image Modalities and AI in the Early Detection, Diagnosis and Grading of Retinal Diseases: A Survey., Gehad A Saleh, Nihal M Batouty, Sayed Haggag, Ahmed Elnakib, Fahmi Khalifa, Fatma Taher, Mohamed Abdelazim Mohamed, Rania Farag, Harpal Sandhu, Ashraf Sewelam, and Ayman El-Baz
Global Aggregation Node Selection Scheme in Federated Learning for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs), Zouheir Trabelsi, Tariq Qayyum, Kadhim Hayawi, and Muhammad Ali
An innovative algorithm based on wavelets for solving three-dimensional nanofluid bio-convection model near a stagnation point, Mutaz Mohammad, Alexander Trounev, Mohammed Alshbool, and En-Bing Lin
Does geopolitical risk matter for global asset returns? Evidence from quantile-on-quantile regression, Zaghum Umar, Ahmed Bossman, Sun-Yong Choi, and Tamara Teplova
Does increased credibility of elections lead to higher political competition? Evidence from india, Somdeep Chatterjee, Mehreen Mookerjee, Manini Ojha, and Sanket Roy
Enhanced Gaussian Bare-Bones Grasshopper Optimization: Mitigating the Performance Concerns for Feature Selection, Zhangze Xu, Ali Asghar Heidari, Fangjun Kuang, Ashraf Khalil, Majdi Mafarja, Siyang Zhang, Huiling Chen, and Zhifang Pan
Is greenness an optimal hedge for sectoral stock indices?, Akhtaruzzaman (Australian Catholic University Akhtaruzzaman (Australian Catholic University, Ameet Kumar Banerjee, Wafa Ghardallou, and Zaghum Umar
Reducing Ransomware Crime: Analysis of Victims’ Payment Decisions, Alena Yuryna Connolly and Hervé Borrion
The actualization of meta affordances: Conceptualizing affordance actualization in the metaverse games, Donghee Shin
The global burden of cancer attributable to risk factors, 2010–19: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019, GBD 2019 Cancer Risk Factors Collaborators and Ali Artaman
The impact of the Russia-Ukraine conflict on the connectedness of financial markets, Zaghum Umar, Onur Polat, Sun-Yong Choi, and Tamara Teplova
Twitter and market efficiency in energy markets: Evidence using LDA clustered topic extraction, Efstathios Polyzos and Fang Wang
Systems Dynamics Modeling for Evaluating Socio-Technical Vulnerabilities in Advanced Persistent Threats, Mathew Nicho and Shini Girija
Adaptive Ephemeral Interiority: Upcycling Site Specific Interiors, Marco Sosa, Lina Ahmad, and Karim Musfy
FALSE: Fake News Automatic and Lightweight Solution, Fatema Al Mukhaini, Shaikhah Al Abdoulie, Aisha Al Kharuosi, Amal El Ahmad, and Monther Aldwairi
To what extent are credibility and attractiveness of social media influencer important in developing positive brand image and customer attitude?, Bahtiar Mohamad, Siti Norain Abdullah, Muslim Diekola Akanmu, and Ridwan Adetunji Raji
Design and implementation of 2.6 GHz Phase shift using microstrip technology for mobile broadband application, F. Taher, Ahmed Shokry Tonsy, Hesham Hanafy M T Azab, Hussam Al Hamadi, Mohammad T. Haweel, and Mohamed Fathy Abo Sree
A link between radicalisation models and extremist propaganda, Kyle Msall and Noor Lary
Plants as a Source of Anticancer Agents: from Bench to Bedside, Wamidh H. Talib, Safa Daoud, Asma Ismail Mahmod, Reem Ali Hamed, Dima Awajan, Sara Feras Abuarab, Lena Hisham Odeh, Samar Khater, and Lina T. Al Kury
Determinants of Delayed Initiation of Breastfeeding: A Cross-Sectional Multicenter Study in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates, Zainab Taha, Aysha Ibrahim Al Dhaheri, Ludmilla Wikkeling-Scott, Ahmed Ali Hassan, and Dimitrios Papandreou
Smart Health Care System for Early Detection of COVID-19 Using X-ray Scans, Atif Mehmood, Ahed Abugabah, and Ahmad Al Smadi
Arabic Reading Fluency Rates: An Exploratory Study, Hanada Taha Thomure, Gail Brown, Richard Speaker, Haitham Taha, Rana Tamim, and Nerolie O'Neill
A Visual Identity-Based Approach of Southeast Asian City Branding: A Netnography Analysis, Bahtiar Mohamad, Ridwan Adetunji Raji, Ghadah Alarifi, Ahmed Rageh Ismail, and Muslim Diekola Akanmu
An Adaptive Multi-Level Quantization-Based Reinforcement Learning Model for Enhancing UAV Landing on Moving Targets, Najmaddin Abo Mosali, Syariful Syafiq Shamsudin, Salama A. Mostafa, Omar Alfandi, Rosli Omar, Najib Al-Fadhali, Mazin Abed Mohammed, R. Q. Malik, Mustafa Musa Jaber, and Abdu Saif
Synthesis of Boron-Doped Zinc Oxide Nanosheets by Using Phyllanthus Emblica Leaf Extract: A Sustainable Environmental Applications, Awais Khalid, Pervaiz Ahmad, Saleh Muhammad, Abdulhameed Khan, Mayeen Uddin Khandaker, Md Mottahir Alam, Mohd Asim, Israf Ud Din, Jibran Iqbal, Ibad Ur Rehman, Zohaib Razzaq, Sivakumar Pandian, Rohit Sharma, Talha Bin Emran, M. I. Sayyed, Saad Aldawood, and Abdelmoneim Sulieman
Arabic vis-à-vis English in the Gulf: Bridging the ideological divide, Sarah Hopkyns and Tariq Elyas
Climate Change and Weather Extremes in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, G. Zittis, M. Almazroui, P. Alpert, P. Ciais, W. Cramer, Y. Dahdal, M. Fnais, D. Francis, P. Hadjinicolaou, F. Howari, A. Jrrar, D. G. Kaskaoutis, M. Kulmala, G. Lazoglou, N. Mihalopoulos, X. Lin, Y. Rudich, J. Sciare, G. Stenchikov, E. Xoplaki, and J. Lelieveld
Contaminant Removal by Adsorption, Marc Calvo-Schwarzwalder, Abel Valverde, Francesc Font, Maria Aguareles, and Timothy G. Myers
Glocal identities in the Gulf: Narratives of Bangladeshi third culture kids, Habibul Haque Khondker
Introduction: Linguistic identities in the Arab Gulf states: Waves of change, Sarah Hopkyns and Wafa Zoghbor
Linguistic Identities in the Arab Gulf States: Waves of change, Sarah Hopkyns and Wafa Zoghbor
Linguistic inclusion and exclusion on Abu Dhabi coronavirus signage, Sarah Hopkyns and Melanie van den Hoven
No Mary Poppins in sight: Linguistic effects of the nanny culture on Gulf identities, Hanada Taha-Thomure
Unifying multiple identities through Arabic varieties: An analysis of Arabic dialects in Kawaja Abdulqader's discourse, Wafa Zoghbor and Muneer Alqahtani
Achieving the Promise of a First-Rate Education: The UAE’s Attempt at Transforming Education Through the Lens of the Leadership for Learning Theoretical Framework, Frederic E. Conde
A Deep Learning Approach for Real-time Detection of Epileptic Seizures using EEG, Kiyan Afsari, May El Barachi, Stefano Fasciani, and Fatna Belqasmi
A Sensor-Embedded Smart Carton for the Real-Time Monitoring of Perishable Foods' Lifetime, May El Barachi, Sinan Salman, and Sujith Mathew
Combining Named Entity Recognition and Emotion Analysis of Tweets for Early Warning of Violent Actions, May El Barachi, Sujith Samuel Mathew, and Manar AlKhatib
Innovative Practices Implemented by Preservice Teachers During Their Field Experience: Lesson Learnt from Face-to-Face and Online Field Placement, Sandra Baroudi and Zeina Hojeij
Virtual Radar: A Novel and Advanced Tool for Monitoring Virtualized Networks, Fatna Belqasmi, May El Barachi, and Hani (Microsoft Nemati
Structural and Electrical Remodeling of the Sinoatrial Node in Diabetes: New Dimensions and Perspectives, Lina T. Al Kury, Stephanie Chacar, Eman Alefishat, Ali A. Khraibi, and Moni Nader
Academic Advising Policy and Procedure in a Selected Federal University in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Alanood Alshamsi and Laila Mohebi
A deep reinforcement learning-based multi-agent area coverage control for smart agriculture, Ahmad Din, Muhammed Yousoof Ismail, Babar Shah, Mohammad Babar, Farman Ali, and Siddique Ullah Baig
Assistive Technologies used in Canadian University Libraries for the Visually Impaired, Ramina Mukundan and Nikesh Narayanan
COVID-19 related media sentiment and the yield curve of G-7 economies, David Y. Aharon, Zaghum Umar, Mukhriz Izraf Azman Aziz, and Xuan vinh Vo
Empirically Evaluating the Effect of the Physics of Notations on Model Construction, Mohamed El-Attar
Evaluating the effects of different mitigation strategies on the warm thermal environment of an urban square in Athens, Greece, A. Tseliou, I. Koletsis, K. Pantavou, E. Thoma, S. Lykoudis, and I. X. Tsiros
Kinetin Ameliorates Cisplatin‐Induced Hepatotoxicity and Lymphotoxicity via Attenuating Oxidative Damage, Cell Apoptosis and Inflammation in Rats, Moustafa Fathy, Mostafa A. Darwish, Al Shaimaa M. Abdelhamid, Gehad M. Alrashedy, Othman Ali Othman, Muhammad Naseem, Thomas Dandekar, and Eman M. Othman
Mass Customization of Housing: A Framework for Harmonizing Individual Needs with Factory Produced Housing, Basem Eid Mohamed and Carlo Carbone
Network analysis on the relationship between posttraumatic stress disorder, psychiatric co-morbidity and posttraumatic growth among Chinese adolescents, Na Wang, Man Cheung Chung, Jieting Zhang, and Siqi Fang
Network Connectedness of Environmental Attention—Green and Dirty Assets, Zaghum Umar, Afsheen Abrar, Adam Zaremba, Tamara Teplova, and Xuan Vinh Vo
Measures of Education and Training to Support the Long-Term Skills of Teachers After the COVID-19 Crisis: It Is Imperative to Leave No Student With Special Needs Behind, Efthymia Efthymiou
A machine learning-based approach for smart agriculture via stacking-based ensemble learning and feature selection methods, Emna Ben Abdallah, Rima Grati, and Khouloud Boukadi
Covid-19 Detection Based on Chest X-Ray Images Using DCT Compression and NN, Fatma Taher, Reem T Haweel, Usama Mohammad Hassan Al Bastaki, Eman Abdelwahed, Tariq Rehman, and Tarek I Haweel
Analytical and numerical solutions to describe water table fluctuations due to canal seepage and time-varying recharge, Ashutosh Upadhyaya and Manisha M. Kankarej
Forensic Analysis of Microsoft Teams: Investigating Memory, Disk and Network, Zainab Khalid, Farkhund Iqbal, Khalil Al-Hussaeni, Aine MacDermott, and Mohammed Hussain
UX in the Arab World - Research Trends and Challenges for a Better Understanding and Collaboration, Ons Al-Shamaileh and Ahmed Seffah
NFTGAN: Non-Fungible Token Art Generation Using Generative Adversarial Networks, Sakib Shahriar and Kadhim Hayawi
Simulating Blockchain Consensus Protocols in Julia: Proof of Work vs Proof of Stake, Georgios Drakopoulos, Eleanna Kafeza, Ioanna Giannoukou, Phivos Mylonas, and Spyros Sioutas
The Covid-19 Impact On Emerging Markets, Rwan El-Khatib and Anis Samet
Authorship identification using ensemble learning, Ahmed Abbasi, Abdul Rehman Javed, Farkhund Iqbal, Zunera Jalil, Thippa Reddy Gadekallu, and Natalia Kryvinska
Oil price shocks and the term structure of the US yield curve: a time–frequency analysis of spillovers and risk transmission, Zaghum Umar, Mariya Gubareva, Tamara Teplova, and Wafa Alwahedi
Engaging Students With a Chatbot-Based Academic Advising System, Mohammad Amin Kuhail, Haseena Al Katheeri, Joao Negreiros, Ahmed Seffah, and Omar Alfandi
Job satisfaction in emergency departments: a comparative study of public and private hospitals, Audai Naji Al Smadi, Mohammad Ariff Tengku, Ahed Abugabah, and Wan Pauzi Bin Wan
The Return and Volatility Connectedness of NFT Segments and Media Coverage: Fresh Evidence Based on News About the COVID-19 Pandemic, Zaghum Umar, Afsheen Abrar, Adam Zaremba, Tamara Teplova, and Xuan Vinh Vo
Accelerating Innovation Efficiency through Agile Leadership: The CEO Network Effects in China, Xihui Chen, Kienpin Tee, and Victor Chang
An overview of technologies deployed in GCC Countries to combat COVID-19, Samia Loucif, Murad Al-Rajab, Reem Salem, and Nadine Akkila
Covid-19 impact on NFTs and major asset classes interrelations: Insights from the wavelet coherence analysis, Zaghum Umar, Mariya Gubareva, Tamara Teplova, and Dang K. Tran
Do Stock Market Fear And Economic Policy Uncertainty Co-Move With Covid-19 Fear? Evidence From The Us And Uk, Ghulame Rubbaniy, Ali Awais Khalid, Abiot Tessema, and Abdelrahman Baqrain
Ethnic Entrepreneurial Success Factors: Evidence from the United Arab Emirates, Suzanna Elmassah, Reynold James, and Shereen Bacheer
Fractional Bernstein operational matrices for solving integro-differential equations involved by Caputo fractional derivative, M.H.T. Alshbool, Mutaz Mohammad, Osman Isik, and Ishak Hashim
Implementing artificial intelligence in forecasting the risk of personal bankruptcies in Poland and Taiwan, Tomasz Korol and Anestis K. Fotiadis
Modelling mass transfer from a packed bed by fluid extraction, Timothy G. Myers, Abel Valverde, Maria Aguareles, Marc Calvo-Schwarzwalder, and Francesc Font
Monolithic ontological methodology (MOM): An effective software project management approach, Kamal Uddin Sarker, Aziz Deraman, Raza Hasan, Ali Abbas, Babar Shah, and Abrar Ullah
Oral health status and related risk factors among adolescents attending high schools in Khartoum, Sudan: A cross-sectional study, Hajir Omara and Amal Elamin
Return and volatility connectedness of the non-fungible tokens segments, Zaghum Umar, Wafa Alwahedi, Adam Zaremba, and Xuan Vinh Vo
Social media engagement with organization-generated content: Role of visuals in enhancing public engagement with organizations on Facebook and Instagram, Ganga Dhanesh, Gaelle Duthler, and Kang Li
The Smart in Smart Cities: A Framework for Image Classification Using Deep Learning, Rabiah Al-Qudah, Yaser Khamayseh, Monther Aldwairi, and Sarfraz Khan
Trust-based management in IoT federations, Hamdi Yahyaoui, Zakaria Maamar, Mohamed Alkhafajiy, and Hamid Al-Hamadi
What Business Model is Suitable for Online Arab Newspapers? Journalists’ Perspectives, Elsayed B. Darwish
A comparative study of country satisfaction of UAE and Bahrain teachers: The mediating effect of job satisfaction on organizational commitment, Laura L Matherly, Yi Zhang, and Balqees Ahmed