Submissions from 2021
The Visegrad Group countries: The United Arab Emirates perspective, Adam Krzymowski
Towards a Cell-Inspired Approach for a Sustainable Internet-of-Things, Zakaria Maamar, Noura Faci, Emir Ugljanin, Thar Baker, and Vanilson Burégio
Visual comparison of clustering using link-based clustering method (Lbcm) without predetermining initial centroid information, S. M.F.D. Syed Mustapha, Biju Theruvil, and Mukesh Madanan
Marine Mammals of the Arabian Seas, Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara, Robert Baldwin, Gillian Braulik, Tim Collins, and Ada Natoli
A Plug&Play approach for modeling and simulating applications in the era of internet of social things, Zakaria Maamar, Mohamed Sellami, Fatma Masmoudi, Muhammad Asim, Abdul Haseeb, Thar Baker, and Fadwa Yahya
Solving the Multi-objective 2-Dimensional Vector Packing Problem Using ϵ-constraint Method, Nadia Dahmani, Saoussen Krichen, El-Ghazali Talbi, and Sanaa Kaddoura
IT Teaching Labs: Innovations in a Distance Education Era, Ahmed Seffah, Mohammad Amin Kuhail, and Joao Negreiros
Framing the role of higher education in sustainable development: a case study analysis, Suzanna Elmassah, Marwa Biltagy, and Doaa Gamal
The Arabic Version of the Cohen Perceived Stress Scale: Factorial Validity and Measurement Invariance, Amira Mohammed Ali, Amin Omar Hendawy, Ohoud Ahmad, Haleama Al Sabbah, Linda Smail, and Hiroshi Kunugi
Introduction: “Speaking to the Eyes”—Reassessing the Enlightenment in the Digital Age, Ileana Baird
Outliers, Connectors, and Textual Periphery: John Dennis’s Social Network in The Dunciad in Four Books, Ileana Baird
Cloud-edge coupling to mitigate execution failures, Zakaria Maamar and Mohammed Al Khafajiy
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming The Unseen Forces That Stand In The Way Of True Inspiration, Javeria Mohsin Ali Khan, Sumitra Anilkumar, Sarah Azzam, Shahbano Farooq, and Lama Mahmoud
Hybrid Deep Learning Architecture to Forecast Maximum Load Duration Using Time-of-Use Pricing Plans, Jinseok Kim, Babar Shah, and Ki Il Kim
Positive Academic Leadership: How To Stop Putting Out Fires And Start Making A Difference, Sy Jobila, Mariam Hariri, and Simar Azzam
Liquidity Connectedness of Cryptocurrencies and Stock Markets during COVID-19: A Wavelet Coherence Approach, Muhammad Umar, Ghulame Rubbaniy, and Yan Xu
Lessons for Euro markets from the first wave of COVID-19, Costas Siriopoulos, Argyro Svingou, and Jagadish Dandu
The Influence of Reading Texts on L2 Reading-to-Write Argumentative Writing, Jingjing Qin and Yingliang Liu
Did David Win a Battle or the War Against Goliath? Dynamic Return and Volatility Connectedness between the GameStop Stock and the High Short Interest Indices, David Y. Aharon, Renatas Kizys, Zaghum Umar, and Adam Zaremba
Freya Stark’s Tales of Travel on the Coast of Incense, Zoe Hurley
Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic (COVID-19) Lockdown on Mental Health and Well-Being in the United Arab Emirates, Leila Cheikh Ismail, Maysm N. Mohamad, Mo'ath F. Bataineh, Abir Ajab, Amina M. Al-Marzouqi, Amjad H. Jarrar, Dima O. Abu Jamous, Habiba I. Ali, Haleama Al Sabbah, Hayder Hasan, Lily Stojanovska, Mona Hashim, Reyad R. Shaker Obaid, Sheima T. Saleh, Tareq M. Osaili, and Ayesha S. Al Dhaheri
Muslim Women Travellers’ Constraints: A Critical Review, Rokhshad Tavakoli and Paolo Mura
Asymmetric oil price and Asian economies: A nonlinear ARDL approach, Salah A. Nusair and Dennis Olson
A framework for managing innovation in higher education: lessons learnt from the UAE iPad initiative, Kenesha Wilson and Jobila Sy
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, Jing Bo 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 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