Submissions from 2020
Ensuring Reliability and Low Cost When Using a Parallel VNF Processing Approach to Embed Delay-Constrained Slices, Nattakorn Promwongsa, Mohammad Abu-Lebdeh, Somayeh Kianpisheh, Fatna Belqasmi, Roch H. Glitho, Halima Elbiaze, Noel Crespi, and Omar Alfandi
Finding Direction at the Edge of Law and Life: Islamic Fiqh, Correspondence, and UAE Takāful Insurance Regulation, Iyad Mohammad Jadalhaq and Luigi Russi
Fractional nonlinear Volterra–Fredholm integral equations involving Atangana–Baleanu fractional derivative: framelet applications, Mutaz Mohammad and Alexander Trounev
Green Production and Structural Evaluation of Maize Starch–Fatty Acid Complexes Through High Speed Homogenization, Ijaz, Misbah Uddin, Nasir Mehmood Khan, Farman Ali, Zia Ullah Khan, Nawshad Muhammad, Jibran Iqbal, Noor Rehman, Abdul Khaliq Jan, and Shujaat Ahmad
Improving binary classification using filtering based on k-NN proximity graphs, Maher Ala’raj, Munir Majdalawieh, and Maysam F. Abbod
Integrated structural and functional analysis of the protective effects of kinetin against oxidative stress in mammalian cellular systems, Muhammad Naseem, Eman M. Othman, Moustafa Fathy, Jibran Iqbal, Fares M. Howari, Fatima A. AlRemeithi, Geema Kodandaraman, Helga Stopper, Elena Bencurova, Dimitrios Vlachakis, and Thomas Dandekar
Networked Identities: Exploring the Role of Social Networking to Optimize Event Marketing by Higher Education Institutions in the Middle East, Mian Muhammad Asim and Azmat Rasul
Personality, trait EI and coping with COVID 19 measures, Catherine Prentice, Susan Zeidan, and Xuequn Wang
Prescribing laughter to ameliorate mental health, sleep, and wellbeing in university students: A protocol for a feasibility study of a randomised controlled trial, Freda N. Gonot-Schoupinsky, Gulcan Garip, David Sheffield, Omar M. Omar, and Teresa Arora
Rare Earth Elements Around the Barakah Nuclear Power Plant, UAE, Mouza Rashid Al Rashdi, Mohamed El Tokhi, Sulaiman Alaabed, Walid El Mowafi, and Alya A. Arabi
Sufi islamic discourse in Africa: From the greatest jihad to the establishment of the african caliphate, Hamdy A. Hassan
The effect of sleep on lipid profile among emirati obese individuals, M. Karavetian, M. Manal Ali Ahmad, M. Abousamra, T. Mahdi, C. Ayoub Moubareck, and K. Venema
The Gulf Cooperation Council’s “Visions” of Maritime Silk Road Initiative Cooperation, Jonathan Fulton
„The old men who hold us back‟: Clan Elders, elite bargaining and exclusionary politics, Ladan Affi
The static and dynamic connectedness of environmental, social, and governance investments: International evidence, Zaghum Umar, Dimitris Kenourgios, and Sypros Papathanasiou
Video scene parsing: An overview of deep learning methods and datasets, Xiyu Yan, Huihui Gong, Yong Jiang, Shu Tao Xia, Feng Zheng, Xinge You, and Ling Shao
Editorial: Investigating the Impact of Current Issues on Leisure, Tourism, and Hospitality in Psychological Science, Anestis K. Fotiadis, Chris A. Vasilliadis, and Tzung-Cheng Huan
Spillover effects between greece and cyprus: A DCC model on the interdependence of small economies, Aristeidis Samitas, Elias Kampouris, Stathis Polyzos, and Anastasia Ef Spyridou
Dynamic Facial Dataset Capture and Processing for Visual Speech Recognition using an RGB-D Sensor, Naveed Ahmed, Mohammed Lataifeh, and Imran Junejo
Judging Students' Understanding: the Idea of Concept-based Curriculum, Khadija Farhan Alhumaid
VAE-GAN based zero-shot outlier detection, Bekkouch Imad Ibrahim, Dragos Constantin Nicolae, Adil Khan, Syed Imran Ali, and Asad Khattak
Towards a Novel Intrusion Detection Architecture using Artificial Intelligence, Salam Khanji and Asad Khattak
Improving the impact of power efficiency in mobile cloud applications using cloudlet model, Lo'ai Tawalbeh, Mohammad A. Tawalbeh, and Monther Aldwairi
Psychosocial Correlates of Depression and Anxiety in the United Arab Emirates During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Justin Thomas, Mariapaola Barbato, Marina Verlinden, Carl Gaspar, Mona Moussa, Jihane Ghorayeb, Aaina Menon, Maria J. Figueiras, Teresa Arora, and Richard P. Bentall
Stock price forecast with deep learning, Firuz Kamalov, Linda Smail, and Ikhlaas Gurrib
Access Permissions for Apple Watch Applications: A Study on Users' Perceptions, Muhammad Umair Shah, Umair Rehman, Farkhund Iqbal, Fazli Wahid, Mohammed Hussain, and Ali Arsalan
Algorithm Appreciation: Algorithmic Performance, Developmental Processes, and User Interactions, Donghee Shin, Bouziane Zaid, and Mohammed Ibahrine
Digital Forensic Acquisition and Analysis of Discord Applications, Michal Motylinski, Aine MacDermott, Farkhund Iqbal, Mohammed Hussain, and Saiqa Aleem
صِفة المرأة ودِلالاتها في البِنية الصرفية صيغتا فَعول وفاعل في الشّعر العربيّ أنموذجًا, Loay Omar Badran
Internet of Things, Zakaria Maamar
On minimizing synchronization cost in NFV-based environments, Zakaria Alomari, Mohamed Faten Zhani, Moayad Aloqaily, and Ouns Bouachir
Thing Mutation as a Countermeasure to Safeguard IoT, Bita Banihashemi, Zakaria Maamar, Noura Faci, and Emir Ugljanin
A new hotbed for extremism? Jihadism and collective insecurity in the sahel, Hamdy A. Hassan
A novel scalable representative-based forecasting approach of service quality, Hamdi Yahyaoui, Hala S. Own, Ahmed Agwa, and Zakaria Maamar
Applications of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in road safety, traffic and highway infrastructure management: Recent advances and challenges, Fatma Outay, Hanan Abdullah Mengash, and Muhammad Adnan
A Semantic Model for Context-Based Fake News Detection on Social Media, Anoud Bani-Hani, Oluwasegun Adedugbe, Elhadj Benkhelifa, Munir Majdalawieh, and Feras Al-Obeidat
Building Trusted Startup Teams from LinkedIn Attributes: A Higher Order Probabilistic Analysis, Georgios Drakopoulos, Eleana Kafeza, Phivos Mylonas, and Haseena Al Katheeri
Compulsive buying and depressive symptoms in the United Arab Emirates: A mixed-methods exploration, Justin Thomas, Damien Arthur, and Claire Sherman
Dynamic dependence between ETFs and crude oil prices by using EGARCH-Copula approach, Muhammad Naeem, Zaghum Umar, Sheraz Ahmed, and El Mehdi Ferrouhi
Eating habits and lifestyle during covid-19 lockdown in the united arab emirates: A cross-sectional study, Leila Cheikh Ismail, Tareq M. Osaili, Maysm N. Mohamad, Amina Al Marzouqi, Amjad H. Jarrar, Dima O.Abu Jamous, Emmanuella Magriplis, Habiba I. Ali, Haleama Al Sabbah, Hayder Hasan, Latifa M.R. Almarzooqi, Lily Stojanovska, Mona Hashim, Reyad R.Shaker Obaid, Sheima T. Saleh, and Ayesha S.Al Dhaheri
Effects of vitamin d supplementation on lipid profile in adults with the metabolic syndrome: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials, Fatme Alanouti, Myriam Abboud, Dimitrios Papandreou, Nadine Mahboub, Suzan Haidar, and Rana Rizk
Extracting temporal and causal relations based on event networks, Duc Thuan Vo, Feras Al-Obeidat, and Ebrahim Bagheri
From Known to the Unknown: Transferring Knowledge to Answer Questions about Novel Visual and Semantic Concepts, Moshiur R. Farazi, Salman H. Khan, and Nick Barnes
On the dynamical modeling of COVID-19 involving Atangana–Baleanu fractional derivative and based on Daubechies framelet simulations, Mutaz Mohammad and Alexander Trounev
On the Significance of Students’ Appraisals of Their Language Learning Experiences at University: A Phenomenological Approach, Amir Kaviani
Palaeotsunamis in the Sino-Pacific region, James Goff, Rob Witter, James Terry, and Michaela Spiske
Perceptions and misperceptions of smartphone use: Applying the social norms approach, John McAlaney, Mohamed Basel Almourad, Georgina Powell, and Raian Ali
Poor sleep efficiency and daytime napping are risk factors of depersonalization disorder in female university students, Teresa Arora, Eman Alhelali, and Ian Grey
Skeletal muscle and the maintenance of vitamin d status, Mark S. Rybchyn, Myriam Abboud, David A. Puglisi, Clare Gordon-Thomson, Tara C. Brennan-Speranza, Rebecca S. Mason, and David R. Fraser
The Arabic Version of the Personality Inventory for the DSM-5 (PID-5) in a Clinical Sample of United Arab Emirates (UAE) Nationals, Olga Coelho, Rute Pires, Ana Sousa Ferreira, Bruno Gonçalves, Samia A. Alkhoori, Mohamed A. Sayed, Amany ElRasheed, Sara Belhoul, Maryam AlJassmi, and Joana Stocker
The development of social preferences, Ramon Cobo–Reyes, Jose J. Dominguez, Fernando García–Quero, Brit Grosskopf, Juan A. Lacomba, Francisco Lagos, Tracy Xiao Liu, and Graeme Pearce
The role of perceived social support on depression and sleep during the COVID-19 pandemic, Ian Grey, Teresa Arora, Justin Thomas, Ahmad Saneh, Pia Tomhe, and Rudy Abi-Habib
Toward a correct and optimal time-aware cloud resource allocation to business processes, Rania Ben Halima, Slim Kallel, Walid Gaaloul, Zakaria Maamar, and Mohamed Jmaiel
Trustworthy and sustainable smart city services at the edge, Yaser Jararweh, Safa Otoum, and Ismaeel Al Ridhawi
Ubiquitous Health Profile (UHPr): a big data curation platform for supporting health data interoperability, Fahad Ahmed Satti, Taqdir Ali, Jamil Hussain, Wajahat Ali Khan, Asad Masood Khattak, and Sungyoung Lee
Who is unhappy for Brexit? A machine-learning, agent-based study on financial instability, Stathis Polyzos, Aristeidis Samitas, and Marina Selini Katsaiti
A Finite Element Approach to the Numerical Solutions of Leland's Mode, Dongming Wei, Yogi Erlangga, and Gulzat Zhumakhanova
Microbial communities and their predictive functional profiles in the arid soil of Saudi Arabia, Munawwar A. Khan and Shams T. Khan
AI and machine learning: A mixed blessing for cybersecurity, Faouzi Kamoun, Farkhund Iqbal, Mohamed Amir Esseghir, and Thar Baker
Faith-based organizations: humanitarian mission or religious missionary, Riham Ahmed Khafagy
Promoting Teaching Practices in IT Higher Education, Sanaa Kaddoura and Rima Grati
PhishOut: PhishOut: Effective Phishing Detection Using Selected Features, Suhail Paliath, Mohammad Abu Qbeitah, and Monther Aldwairi
Phytosynthesis of cerium oxide nanoparticles and investigation of their photocatalytic potential for degradation of phenol under visible light, Tausif Ahmad, Jibran Iqbal, Mohamad Azmi Bustam, Muhammad Zulfiqar, Nawshad Muhammad, Buthaina Mohamed Al Hajeri, Muhammad Irfan, Hafiz Muhammad Anwaar Asghar, and Sami Ullah
Preregistration as a way to limit questionable research practice in advertising research, Lars Bergkvist
Trade and Security Cooperation in the Arab Maghreb Union Region, Hamdy A. Hassan
A Comprehensive Framework for Accurate Classification of Pulmonary Nodules, Ahmed Shaffie, Ahmed Soliman, Hadil Abu Khalifeh, Mohammed Ghazal, Fatma Taher, Adel Elmaghraby, Robert Keynton, and Ayman El-Baz
A green, energy, and trust-aware multi-objective cloud coalition formation approach, Souad Hadjres, Fatna Belqasmi, May El Barachi, and Nadjia Kara
Analysis of the Importance of Systolic Blood Pressure Versus Diastolic Blood Pressure in Diagnosing Hypertension: MRA Study., Heba Kandil, Ahmed Soliman, Fatma Taher, Mohammed Ghazal, Mohiuddin Hadi, Adel Elmaghraby, and Ayman El-Baz
A postcolonial feminist analysis of official tourism representations of Sri Lanka on Instagram, Sarah N.R. Wijesinghe, Paolo Mura, and Rokhshad Tavakoli
Assessing the groundwater quality in the liwa area, the united arab emirates, Alina Barbulescu, Yousef Nazzal, and Fares Howari
Baseline marine investigation and impact of fish farming on the marine environment in Jebel Ali, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Fares M. Howari, Ahmed A. Al-Taani, and Yousef Nazzal
Behavioral intention to use mobile technology in language teaching: A qualitative analysis of a UAE case study, Ibtehal Mahmoud Aburezeq, Fawzi Fayez Ishtaiwa-Dweikat, and Marielle Patronis
China-Saudi Arabia Relations Through the ‘1 + 2+3’ Cooperation Pattern, Jonathan Fulton
Dynamic framework to mining Internet of Things for multimedia services, Yaser Khamayseh, Wail Mardini, J. William Atwood, and Monther Aldwairi
Insights from the study of Arabic reading, Ehab W. Hermena and Erik D. Reichle
Integrity of financial information and firms' access to energy in developing countries, Charilaos Mertzanis, Samy Garas, and Ahmed Abdel-Maksoud
Intra-plant Inflorescence and Seed Heterogeneity of Deverra triradiata (Apiaceae), Arvind Bhatt, N. R. Bhat, and David Gallacher
Machine learning as an early warning system to predict financial crisis, Aristeidis Samitas, Elias Kampouris, and Dimitris Kenourgios
Nano-zerovalent copper as a Fenton-like catalyst for the degradation of ciprofloxacin in aqueous solution, Noor S. Shah, Javed Ali Khan, Murtaza Sayed, Jibran Iqbal, Zia Ul Haq Khan, Nawshad Muhammad, Kyriaki Polychronopoulou, Sajjad Hussain, Muhammad Imran, Behzad Murtaza, Muhammad Usman, Issam Ismail, Asma Shafique, Fares Howari, and Yousef Nazzal
Nurturing female leadership skills through peer mentoring role: A study among undergraduate students in the United Arab Emirates, Sandra Baroudi and Solomon Arulraj David
On the effect of credit rating announcements on sovereign bonds: International evidence, Dimitrios Kenourgios, Zaghum Umar, and Paraskevi Lemonidi
Perceptions of the UAE's government communicators regarding social media roles, Elsayed Darwish
Positive religious coping and mental health among christians and muslims in response to the covid-19 pandemic, Justin Thomas and Mariapaola Barbato
Precise Cerebrovascular Segmentation, F. Taher, A. Soliman, H. Kandil, A. Mahmoud, A. Shalaby, G. Gimel'farb, and A. El-Baz
The regulatory technology “RegTech” and money laundering prevention in Islamic and conventional banking industry, Meaad Turki, Allam Hamdan, Richard Thomas Cummings, Adel Sarea, Magdalena Karolak, and Mohammad Anasweh
Underlying motivating factors for movie-induced tourism among Emiratis and Indian expatriates in the United Arab Emirates, Noela Michael, Sreejith Balasubramanian, Ian Michael, and Anestis Fotiadis
MetaNorm: Learning to Normalize Few-Shot Batches Across Domains, Yingjun Du, Xiantong Zhen, Ling Shao, and Cees G. M. Snoek
Panel: Autonomy Control at Work: Cars, Robots, Drones and Satellites, Roy Sterritt, Petr Skobelev, Mario Döller, Iaria Dini, Claudius Stern, Giulia De Masi, Timothy Patten, and Pedro Forero
Smart healthcare ecosystem for elderly patient care, A. Abugabah and N. Nizamuddin
Evaluating Citizens' Sentiments in Smart Cities: A Deep Learning Approach, Abdallah Elabora, Manar Alkhatib, Sujith Samuel Mathew, and May El Barachi
Using Artificial Intelligence to Monitor the Evolution of Opinion Leaders' Sentiments: Case Study on Global Warming, Manar Alkhatib, May El Barachi, Sujith Samuel Mathew, and Farhad Oroumchian
A Comprehensive Survey of the Tactile Internet: State-of-the-art and Research Directions, Nattakorn Promwongsa, Amin Ebrahimzadeh, Diala Naboulsi, Somayeh Kianpisheh, Fatna Belqasmi, Roch Glitho, Noel Crespi, and Omar Alfandi
Delineation of Copper Mineralization Zones at Wadi Ham, Northern Oman Mountains, United Arab Emirates Using Multispectral Landsat 8 (OLI) Data, Fares M. Howari, Habes Ghrefat, Yousef Nazzal, Mahmoud A. Galmed, Osman Abdelghany, Abdel Rahman Fowler, Manish Sharma, Fatima AlAydaroos, and Cijo M. Xavier
Examining the text quality of English/Arabic dual language children’s picture books, Anna Marie Dillon, Zeina Hojeij, Alecia Perkins, and Rima Malkawi
A longitudinal cohort study to explore the relationship between depression, anxiety and academic performance among Emirati university students, Suheir Awadalla, E. Bethan Davies, and Cris Glazebrook
The importance of Ukraine's political and economic relationship with the United Arab Emirates for the Lublin Triangle, Adam Krzymowski
Cyberphysical Blockchain-Enabled Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading, Faizan Safdar Ali, Moayad Aloqaily, Omar Alfandi, and Oznur Ozkasap
Kid-Friendly Digital Communication For Hotels And Service Adaptation: Empirical Evidence From Family Hotels, Mustafeed Zaman, Tatiana Dauxert, and Noela Michael
Conflict in the workplace: a 10-year review of toxic leadership in higher education, Natesha Smith and Imani Fredricks-Lowman