Submissions from 2021
Determinants of Early Retirement in the UAE, Eda Orhun, Wifag Adnan, and Mouawiya Alawad
The expansion of e-learning in the UAE: Implications and opportunities in the post-COVID-19 era, Shytance Wren
Carveol Attenuates Seizure Severity and Neuroinflammation in Pentylenetetrazole-Kindled Epileptic Rats by Regulating the Nrf2 Signaling Pathway, Arooj Mohsin Alvi, Lina Tariq Al Kury, Abdullah Alattar, Ikram Ullah, Asmaa Jan Muhammad, Reem Alshaman, Fawad Ali Shah, Arif Ullah Khan, Jinxing Feng, and Shupeng Li
Testing the pain paradox: a longitudinal study on PTSD from past trauma, alexithymia, mindfulness, and psychological distress, Siqi Fang and Man Cheung Chung
Political affiliation dissimilarity: Exploring lone affiliate employees' work attitudes and experiences, Alexandra A. Henderson and Sophia S. Jeong
Towards a Modular Ontology for Cloud Consumer Review Mining, Emna Ben Abdallah, Khouloud Boukadi, and Rima Grati
Urinary minerals excretion among primary schoolchildren in Dubai—United Arab Emirates, Rola Al Ghali, Carla El-Mallah, Omar Obeid, Ola El-Saleh, Linda Smail, and Dalia Haroun
Perennial Forage Grass Production on the Marginal Arabian Peninsula Land, M. Iftikhar Hussain, Nosheen Akhtar, Asad Sarwar Qureshi, and David Gallacher
Tweet-to-Act: Towards Tweet-Mining Framework for Extracting Terrorist Attack-related Information and Reporting, Farkhund Iqbal, Rabia Batool, Benjamin C. M. Fung, Saiqa Aleem, Ahmed Abbasi, and Abdul Rehman Javed
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
Advances in the synthesis and application of anti-fouling membranes using two-dimensional nanomaterials, Asif Shahzad, Jae Min Oh, Mudassar Azam, Jibran Iqbal, Sabir Hussain, Waheed Miran, and Kashif Rasool
A novel numerical method for solving fractional diffusion-wave and nonlinear fredholm and volterra integral equations with zero absolute error, Mutaz Mohammad, Alexandre Trounev, and Mohammed Alshbool
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
Contextual cueing is not flexible, Youcai Yang, Mariana V.C. Coutinho, Anthony J. Greene, and Deborah E. Hannula
Does religiosity matter for corporate labor investment decisions?, Mehdi Khedmati, Mohammed Aminu Sualihu, and Alfred Yawson
Explicit inverse of near Toeplitz pentadiagonal matrices related to higher order difference operators, Bakytzhan Kurmanbek, Yogi Erlangga, and Yerlan Amanbek
M (M: Cu, Co, Cr or Fe) nanoparticles-loaded metal-organic framework MIL-101(Cr) material by sonication process: Catalytic activity and antibacterial properties, Mohammed Hachemaoui, Adel Mokhtar, Issam Ismail, Mohamed Walid Mohamedi, Jibran Iqbal, Inas Taha, Farid Bennabi, Farouk Zaoui, Abdelkader Bengueddach, Rachida Hamacha, and Bouhadjar Boukoussa
Parafoveal processing of orthographic, morphological, and semantic information during reading Arabic: A boundary paradigm investigation, Ehab W. Hermena, Eida J. Juma, and Maryam AlJassmi
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
Synthesis, Crystal structure, DFT calculations and antimicrobial activity of 4-(4-fluoro-phenyl)-2,6-dimethyl-1,4-dihydro-pyridine-3,5-dicarboxylic acid diethyl ester, D. Parthasarathi, M. Syed Ali Padusha, S. Suganya, P. Kumaradhas, Fares M. Howari, Yousef Nazzal, Cijo Madathil Xavier, A. Meera Moydeen, and Ayyiliath M. Sajith
The Systematic Implementation of an Innovative Postgraduate Online Learning Model in the Middle East, Nessrin Shaya and Laila Mohebi
The Public Interior Space Within Louvre Abu Dhabi Dome: A Visual Reflection, Karim Musfy, Marco Sosa, and Lina Ahmad
Accepting Evolution Entails Kufr? A Critical Appraisal of Nuh Ha Mim Keller’s Fatwa, Shoaib Ahmed Malik, Elvira Kulieva, and Ayub Ayub
Bruun Jensen, Casper and Atsuro Morita (eds.) 2019. Multiple nature‐cultures, diverse anthropologies. New York: Berghahn Books. 158 pp. Pb.: US$27.95. ISBN: 9781789205398., Alexandra Cotofana
Boolean logic algebra driven similarity measure for text based applications, Hassan I. Abdalla and Ali A. Amer
An Effective Hash-Based Assessment and Recovery Algorithm for Healthcare Systems, Ramzi A. Haraty, Bahia Boukhari, and Sanaa Kaddoura
EXPRESS: Individual- and Group-Level Consequences of Divergence in Perceived Group Affect, Sophia Soyoung Jeong and M. Audrey Korsgaard
Levels of Trust in Information Sources as a Predictor of Protective Health Behaviors During COVID-19 Pandemic: A UAE Cross-Sectional Study, Maria J. Figueiras, Jihane Ghorayeb, Mariana V. C. Coutinho, João Marôco, and Justin Thomas
Population structure associated with Bioregion and seasonal prey distribution for Indo‐Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) in South Africa, O. Alejandra Vargas‐Fonseca, Paige Yates, Stephan P. Kirkman, Pierre A. Pistorius, Daniel M. Moore, Ada Natoli, Victor Cockcroft, and A. Rus Hoelzel
Blockchain-based solution for Secure and Transparent Food Supply Chain Network, Munir Majdalawieh, Nishara Nizamuddin, Maher Alaraj, Shafaq Khan, and Anoud Bani-Hani
English Medium Instruction and the potential of translanguaging practices in higher education, Anna Dillon, Geraldine Chell, Jase Moussa-Inaty, Kay Gallagher, and Ian Grey
Giant palaeotsunami in Kiribati: Converging evidence from geology and oral history, James P. Terry, Robert Karoro, Gennady A. Gienko, Marta Wieczorek, and A. Y. Annie Lau
Afghan Refugees in Greece: Overcoming Traumatic Events and Post-Traumatic Growth, Melissa Kerr Chiovenda
Examining the factors influencing the mobile learning usage during COVID-19 Pandemic: An Integrated SEM-ANN Method, Khadija Alhumaid, Mohammed Habes, and Said A. Salloum
Get Vaccinated for Loved Ones: Effects of Self-Other Appeal and Message Framing in Promoting HPV Vaccination among Heterosexual Young Men, Guanxiong Huang and Kang Li
Brominated flame retardants extraction from waste electrical and electronic equipment-derived ABS using supercritical carbon dioxide, Layla Gripon, Imane Belyamani, Benoît Legros, Karine Seaudeau-Pirouley, Eric Lafranche, and Laurent Cauret
De-Linking From Western Epistemologies: Using Guanxi-Type Relationships To Attract And Retain Hotel Guests In The Middle East, Ahmed Shaalan, Riyad Eid, and Marwa Tourky
Early Adolescents’ Food Selection After Evaluating the Healthiness of Remote Peers’ Food Choices, Ramón Cobo‐Reyes, Juan A. Lacomba, Francisco Lagos, Christina Zenker, and Ernesto Reuben
SMEs’ charismatic leadership, product life cycle, environmental performance, and financial performance: A mediated moderation model, Yi Zhang and Feng Wei
Cultural and linguistic struggles and solidarities of Emirati learners in online classes during the COVID-19 pandemic, Sarah Hopkyns
Discovering Influential Twitter Authors Via Clustering And Ranking On Apache Storm, Christina Saravanos, Georgios Drakopoulos, Andreas Kanavos, Eleanna Kafeza, and Christos Makris
Trainee Teachers’ Perceptions of Online Teaching During Field Experience with Young Children, Laila Mohebi and Lawrence Meda
Investor sentiment and mutual fund stock picking, Timothy K. Chue and G. Mujtaba Mian
Modeling Immune Dynamics in Plants Using JIMENA-Package, Özge Osmanoglu, Shabana Shams, Thomas Dandekar, and Muhammad Naseem
Some Socio-demographic Usage Patterns in Ephemeral Content Sharing Social Networks: The Case of Snapchat, Ons Al-Shamaileh, Anas Aloudat, Amal Alrayes, and Hakim Hacid
Transform-based graph topology similarity metrics, Georgios Drakopoulos, Eleanna Kafeza, Phivos Mylonas, and Lazaros Iliadis
Classifier Performance Evaluation for Lightweight IDS Using Fog Computing in IoT Security, Belal Sudqi Khater, Ainuddin Wahid Abdul Wahab, Mohd YamaniIdna Idris, Mohammed Abdulla Hussain, Ashraf Ahmed Ibrahim, Mohammad Arif Amin, and Hisham A. Shehadeh
Corporate Social Responsibility in Egypt, Noha El-Bassiouny, Dina El-Bassiouny, Salma Karem Kolkailah, Nada Zahran, and Sara Moharram
Efficacy of Group Work in the Online Platform: An Exploration of Multicultural Undergraduates’ Attitudes in Online Academic Writing Classes, Ajrina Hysaj, Doaa Hamam, and Sandra Baroudi
COVID-19 and the Way to Authoritarian Rule in Ethiopia, Hala Thabet
Ethnicity, Insecurity and Geostrategic Transformation in the Horn of Africa, Hamdy A. Hassan
Patterns of tobacco smoking and nicotine vaping among university students in the united arab emirates: A cross-sectional study, Luai A. Ahmed, Marina Verlinden, Mariam Ali Alobeidli, Reem Hamad Alahbabi, Radeya Alkatheeri, Basema Saddik, Abderrahim Oulhaj, and Rami H. Al-Rifai
Risk, Identity and Conflict: A Critical Overview, Steven Ratuva, Hamdy A. Hassan, and Radomir Compel
Risk, Identity and Conflict: Some Concluding Remarks, Steven Ratuva, Hamdy A. Hassan, and Radomir Compel
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
Administering a combination of online dietary assessment tools, the Automated Self-Administered 24-Hour Dietary Assessment Tool, and Diet History Questionnaire II, in a cohort of adults in Alberta's Tomorrow Project, Nathan M. Solbak, Paula J. Robson, Geraldine Lo Siou, Ala Al Rajabi, Seol Paek, Jennifer E. Vena, and Sharon I. Kirkpatrick
A review on the integration of deep learning and service-oriented architecture, Marcelo Fantinato, Sarajane Marques Peres, Eleanna Kafeza, Dickson K.W. Chiu, and Patrick C.K. Hung
Assessment of Heavy Metal Contamination in the Soils of the Gulf of Aqaba (Northwestern Saudi Arabia): Integration of Geochemical, Remote Sensing, GIS, and Statistical Data, Habes Ghrefat, Haider Zaman, Awni Batayneh, Mahmoud M. El Waheidi, Saleh Qaysi, Ahmed Al-Taani, Chokri Jallouli, and Omar Badhris
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
Engaging pre-service teachers in virtual field experience during COVID-19: Designing a framework to inform the practice, Zeina Hojeij and Sandra Baroudi
Impact of the Covid-19 induced panic on the Environmental, Social and Governance leaders equity volatility: A time-frequency analysis, Zaghum Umar, Mariya Gubareva, and Dang Khoa Tran
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
Patterns and motivations predicting mobile hard news and soft news consumption: The case of the UAE, Hamza Saad and Mahinaz Hamza
Return and volatility connectedness of Chinese onshore, offshore, and forward exchange rate, Yanping Zhao, Zaghum Umar, and Vo Xuan Vinh
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 impact of COVID-19-related media coverage on the return and volatility connectedness of cryptocurrencies and fiat currencies, Zaghum Umar, Francisco Jareño, and María de la O González
The impact of the Covid-19 related media coverage upon the five major developing markets, Zaghum Umar, Mariya Gubareva, and Tatiana Sokolova
The Moderating Effects of Leader-Member Exchange for Technology Acceptance: An Empirical Study Within Organizations, Yujong Hwang, Soyean Kim, Kamel Rouibah, and Donghee Shin
Pedestrian attribute recognition using trainable Gabor wavelets, Imran N Junejo, Naveed Ahmed, and Mohammad Lataifeh
A Hybrid Machine Learning Approach for Sentiment Analysis of Partially Occluded Faces, May El Barachi, Manar Alkhatib, and Sujith Samuel Mathew
Swarm Differential Privacy for Purpose-Driven Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom Architecture, Yingbo Li, Yucong Duan, Zakaria Maamar, Haoyang Che, Anamaria-Beatrice Spulber, and Stelios Fuentes
Palm Tree Detection in Drone Images Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks: Investigating the Effective Use of YOLO V3, R. Y. Aburasain, E. A. Edirisinghe, and Ali Albatay
Disclosure of Patient’s Medical Record to the Spouse An Islamic Law Perspective, Man Baker and Anas Jerab
Energy-Efficient Load Balancing Algorithm for Workflow Scheduling in Cloud Data Centers Using Queuing and Thresholds, Nimra Malik, Muhammad Sardaraz, Muhammad Tahir, Babar Shah, Gohar Ali, and Fernando Moreira
Federated Reinforcement Learning-Supported IDS for IoT-steered Healthcare Systems, Safa Otoum, Nadra Guizani, and Hussein Mouftah
Hard Disk Failure Prediction via Transfer Learning, Rui Zhao, Donghai Guan, Yuanfeng Jin, Hui Xiao, Weiwei Yuan, Yaofeng Tu, and Asad Masood Khattak
Semi-supervised Time Series Anomaly Detection Model Based on LSTM Autoencoder, Hui Xiao, Donghai Guan, Rui Zhao, Weiwei Yuan, Yaofeng Tu, and Asad Masood Khattak
Classification and Analysis of Android Malware Images Using Feature Fusion Technique, Jaiteg Singh, Deepak Thakur, Tanya Gera, Babar Shah, Tamer Abuhmed, and Farman Ali
Islam and Evolution: Al-Ghazali and the Modern Evolutionary Paradigm, Shoaib Ahmed Malik
Selection of Islamic banking in a multicultural context: the role of gender and religion, Suzanna ElMassah and Heba Abou-El-Sood
Challenges for practice teaching in uae schools: Supervisors’ and pre-service teachers’ perceptions, Zeina Hojeij, Fida Atallah, Sandra Baroudi, and Rana Tamim
Expatriate faculty and student perspectives on teaching and learning in a United Arab Emirates university, Jenny Eppard, Fatima Bailey, Kara McKeown, and Herveen Singh
Dependence measure for length-biased survival data using kernel density estimation with a regression procedure, Rachid Bentoumi, Mayer Alvo, and Mhamed Mesfioui
Toward an Intelligent Driving Behavior Adjustment Based on Legal Personalized Policies Within the Context of Connected Vehicles, Fatma Outay, Nafaa Jabeur, Hedi Haddad, Zied Bouyahia, and Hana Gharrad
RootAsRole: Towards a Secure Alternative to sudo/su Commands for Home Users and SME Administrators, Ahmad Samer Wazan, David W. Chadwick, Remi Venant, Romain Laborde, and Abdelmalek Benzekri
Buenos aires: Authentically Straight-Friendly, Heather L. Jeffrey and Martin Sposato
Automatic Detection of Citrus Fruit and Leaves Diseases Using Deep Neural Network Model, Asad Khattak, Muhammad Usama Asghar, Ulfat Batool, Muhammad Zubair Asghar, Hayat Ullah, Mabrook Al-Rakhami, and Abdu Gumaei
Internal and External Auditors Responsibilities and Relationships With Audit Committees in Two English Public Sector Settings, Karim Hegazy and Anne Stafford
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
Measuring Mental Health Literacy: Adaptation and Validation of the Portuguese Version of the Mental Health Literacy Scale (MHLS), David Dias Neto, Ines Rocha, Maria João Figueiras, and Ana Nunes Da Silva
Analysing the AAOIFI Shari'ah standard on zakat, Khurram Parvez Raja
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
An Alternate Account on the Ethical Implications of Autonomous Vehicles, Muhammad Umair Shah, Umair Rehman, Farkhund Iqbal, Mohammed Hussain, and Fazli Wahid