Submissions from 2020
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
Advantages of first-derivative reflectance spectroscopy in the VNIR-SWIR for the quantification of olivine and hematite, Nadine Bou-Orm, Amna Abdulrahman AlRomaithi, Mariam Elrmeithi, Fatima Mohammad Ali, Yousef Nazzal, Fares M. Howari, and Fatima Al Aydaroos
An approach to the acquisition of tacit knowledge based on an ontological model, Wahid Chergui, Samir Zidat, and Farhi Marir
A Spam Email Detection Mechanism for English Language Text Emails Using Deep Learning Approach, Sanaa Kaddoura, Omar Alfandi, and Nadia Dahmani
Blockchain and Fog Computining for Cyberphysical Systems: The Case of Smart Industry, Ouns Bouachir, Moayad Aloqaily, Lewis Tseng, and Azzedine Boukerche
Blockchain-based database in an IoT environment: challenges, opportunities, and analysis, Lewis Tseng, Xinyu Yao, Safa Otoum, Moayad Aloqaily, and Yaser Jararweh
Considering students’ abilities in the academic advising process, Samia Loucif, Laila Gassoumi, and Joao Negreiros
Consistently accurate forecasts of temperature within buildings from sensor data using ridge and lasso regression, Feras Al-Obeidat, Bruce Spencer, and Omar Alfandi
Customer empowerment in the face of perceived Incompetence: Effect on preference for anthropomorphized brands, Jamel Khenfer, Steven Shepherd, and Olivier Trendel
Data mining techniques for analyzing healthcare conditions of urban space-person lung using meta-heuristic optimized neural networks, Ahed Abugabah, Ahmad Ali AlZubi, Feras Al-Obeidat, Abdulaziz Alarifi, and Ayed Alwadain
Digital innovation & enterprise in the sharing economy: An action research agenda, Aijaz A. Shaikh, Ravishankar Sharma, and Heikki Karjaluoto
Does Belief in Human Evolution Entail Kufr (Disbelief)? Evaluating the Concerns of a Muslim Theologian, Shoaib Ahmed Malik and Elvira Kulieva
Employability Under The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Alexandrina Maria Pauceanu, Nada Rabie, and Ayman Moustafa
Engendering sustainable development competencies in higher education: The case of Egypt, Suzanna Elmassah, Marwa Biltagy, and Doaa Gamal
Gender stereotypes in television advertising in the Middle East: Time for marketers and advertisers to step up, Ali Khalil and Ganga S. Dhanesh
Identifying major tasks and minor tasks within online reviews, Feras Al-Obeidat, Bruce Spencer, and May Al Taei
Implicit Riesz wavelets based-method for solving singular fractional integro-differential equations with applications to hematopoietic stem cell modeling, Mutaz Mohammad and Alexander Trounev
Labor, Health, and Marginalization: A Culture-Centered Analysis of the Challenges of Male Bangladeshi Migrant Workers in the Middle East, Rati Kumar and Raihan Jamil
Occurrence of extended spectrum beta-lactamase gram-negative bacteria from non-clinical sources in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Munawwar A. Khan, Nicola E. Thurgood, Sultan M. Faheem, Naushad Rais, Mohammad Z. Ansari, Sultan M. Kaleem, and Shams T. Khan
One Dimensional Cross-Correlation Methods for Deterministic and Stochastic Graph Signals with A Twitter Application in Julia, Georgios Drakopoulos and Eleanna Kafeza
Particle Swarm Optimization Based Swarm Intelligence for Active Learning Improvement: Application on Medical Data Classification, Nawel Zemmal, Nabiha Azizi, Mokhtar Sellami, Soraya Cheriguene, Amel Ziani, Monther AlDwairi, and Nadjette Dendani
Preface to the special issue on web information systems engineering (WISE 2018), Hakim Hacid, Wojciech Cellary, Hua Wang, and Yanchun Zhang
Resveratrol and tumor microenvironment: mechanistic basis and therapeutic targets, Wamidh H. Talib, Ahmad Riyad Alsayed, Faten Farhan, and Lina T. Al Kury
The impact of herbal infusion consumption on oxidative stress and cancer: The good, the bad, the misunderstood, Wamidh H. Talib, Israa A. AL-Ataby, Asma Ismail Mahmod, Sajidah Jawarneh, Lina T. Al Kury, and Intisar Hadi AL-Yasari
Thingsourcing to Enable IoT Collaboration, Zakaria Maamar, Khouloud Boukadi, Bamory Koné, Muhammad Asim, Djamal Benslimane, and Said Elnaffar
Towards an Automatic Identification of Microservices from Business Processes, Mohamed Daoud, Asmae El Mezouari, Noura Faci, Djamal Benslimane, Zakaria Maamar, and Aziz El Fazziki
Towards a Quality-of-Thing based approach for assigning things to federations, Zakaria Maamar, Muhammad Asim, Khouloud Boukadi, Thar Baker, Saad Saeed, Ikbel Guidara, Fadwa Yahya, Emir Ugljanin, and Djamal Benslimane
Complementary feeding practices among infants and young children in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Zainab Taha, Malin Garemo, and Joy Nanda
Of Limestone Coasts and Giant Robber Crabs Rediscovering Niu Island in the Central Pacific Ocean, James P. Terry and Randolph R. Thaman
4P based forensics investigation framework for smart connected toys, Benjamin Yankson, Farkhund Iqbal, and Patrick C.K. Hung
Blockchain-based chain of custody: Towards real-time tamper-proof evidence management, Liza Ahmad, Salam Khanji, Farkhund Iqbal, and Faouzi Kamoun
The 13th international workshop on digital forensics (WSDF 2020), Richard E. Overill, Virginia N.L. Franqueira, Andrew Marrington, Andrew Jones, and Kim Kwang Raymond Choo
Synthesis of nitrogen-doped Ceria nanoparticles in deep eutectic solvent for the degradation of sulfamethaxazole under solar irradiation and additional antibacterial activities, Jibran Iqbal, Noor S. Shah, Murtaza Sayed, Javed Ali Khan, Nawshad Muhammad, Zia Ul Haq Khan, Saif-ur-Rehman, Muhammad Naseem, Fares M. Howari, Yousef Nazzal, Nabeel Khan Niazi, Aseel Hussein, and Kyriaki Polychronopoulou
Epidemiology of brain tumors in the United Arab Emirates: A National Registry Cross-sectional Study, Sarah Khan, Mona El Kouatly Kambris, and Eman T. Alshamsi
Bridging the gap between business processes and IoT, Zakaria Maamar, Ejub Kajan, Ikbel Guidara, Leyla Moctar-M'baba, and Mohamed Sellami
A knowledge-based approach to manage configurable business processes, Wehbi Benallal, Mahmoud Barhamgi, Djamal Benslimane, Zakaria Maamar, Noura Faci, and Ameni Bellaaj
International ownership and firm performance in Arab economies, Stefan Lutz, Karim Hegazy, Ehab K. A. Mohamed, and Mohamed A. K. Basuony
Investigating the role of leader-member exchange for goal commitment in system implementation, Yujong Hwang, Soyean Kim, and Donghee Shin
Dancing between English and Arabic: Complexities in Emirati Cultural Identities, Sarah Hopkyns
The socio-technical assemblages of blockchain system: how blockchains are framed and how the framing reflects societal contexts, Donghee Shin and Mohammed Ibahrine
Mapping of internal audit research: a post-Enron structured literature review, Amr Kotb, Hany Elbardan, and Hussein Halabi
Integrated framework of the immune-defense transcriptional signatures in the arabidopsis shoot apical meristem, Muhammad Naseem, Özge Osmanoğlu, Martin Kaltdorf, Afnan Ali M.A. Alblooshi, Jibran Iqbal, Fares M. Howari, Mugdha Srivastava, and Thomas Dandekar
A collocation method via the quasi-affine biorthogonal systems for solving weakly singular type of Volterra-Fredholm integral equations, Mutaz Mohammad and Carlo Cattani
An efficient method based on framelets for solving fractional volterra integral equations, Mutaz Mohammad, Alexander Trounev, and Carlo Cattani
An energy efficient routing approach for IoT enabled underwater wsns in smart cities, Nighat Usman, Omar Alfandi, Saeeda Usman, Asad Masood Khattak, Muhammad Awais, Bashir Hayat, and Ahthasham Sajid
Assessment of hospital rooming-in practice in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates: A cross-sectional multi-center study, Zainab Taha, Ahmed Ali Hassan, Ludmilla Wikkeling-Scott, Ruba Eltoum, and Dimitrios Papandreou
Blockchain-assisted Decentralized Virtual Prosumer Grouping for P2P Energy Trading, Faizan Safdar Ali, Moayad Aloqaily, Oznur Ozkasap, and Ouns Bouachir
Co-consumption of vegetables and fruit, whole grains, and fiber reduces the cancer risk of red and processed meat in a large prospective cohort of adults from Alberta’s tomorrow project, Katerina Maximova, Elham Khodayari Moez, Julia Dabravolskaj, Alexa R. Ferdinands, Irina Dinu, Geraldine Lo Siou, Ala Al Rajabi, and Paul J. Veugelers
Constructing Z-scheme LaTiO2N/g-C3N4@Fe3O4 magnetic nano heterojunctions with promoted charge separation for visible and solar removal of indomethacin, Anu Kumari, Amit Kumar, Gaurav Sharma, Jibran Iqbal, Mu Naushad, and Florian J. Stadler
Effects of prebiotic dietary fibers and probiotics on human health: With special focus on recent advancement in their encapsulated formulations, Bakht Ramin Shah, Bin Li, Haleama Al Sabbah, Wei Xu, and Jan Mráz
Efficient and secure flash-based gaming CAPTCHA, Monther Aldwairi, Suaad Mohammed, and Megana Lakshmi Padmanabhan
Evaluating active traffc management (ATM) strategies under non-recurring congestion: Simulation-based with benefit cost analysis case study, Siham G. Farrag, Fatma Outay, Ansar Ul Haque Yasar, and Moulay Youssef El-Hansali
Evaluation of the gulf of aqaba coastal water, Jordan, Ahmed A. Al-Taani, Maen Rashdan, Yousef Nazzal, Fares Howari, Jibran Iqbal, Abdulla Al-Rawabdeh, Abeer Al Bsoul, and Safaa Khashashneh
Far from the eyes, close to the heart: Psychological Impact of COVID-19 in a Sample of Italian foreign workers, Mariapaola Barbato and Justin Thomas
Health behaviour changes during COVID-19 and the potential consequences: A mini-review, Teresa Arora and Ian Grey
How do users interact with algorithm recommender systems? The interaction of users, algorithms, and performance, Donghee Shin