Submissions from 2023
Boosting the Item-Based Collaborative Filtering Model with Novel Similarity Measures, Hassan I. Abdalla, Ali A. Amer, Yasmeen A. Amer, Loc Nguyen, and Basheer Al-Maqaleh
Customer churn prediction using composite deep learning technique, Asad Khattak, Zartashia Mehak, Hussain Ahmad, Muhammad Usama Asghar, Muhammad Zubair Asghar, and Aurangzeb Khan
Family planning practices: Examining the link between contraception and child health, Mehreen Mookerjee, Manini Ojha, and Sanket Roy
Learning heterogeneous subgraph representations for team discovery, Radin Hamidi Rad, Hoang Nguyen, Feras Al-Obeidat, Ebrahim Bagheri, Mehdi Kargar, Divesh Srivastava, Jaroslaw Szlichta, and Fattane Zarrinkalam
Mental illness stigma as a moderator in the relationship between religiosity and help-seeking attitudes among Muslims from 16 Arab countries, Feten Fekih-Romdhane, Suhad Daher-Nashif, Manel Stambouli, Amthal Alhuwailah, Mai Helmy, Hanaa Ahmed Mohamed Shuwiekh, Cheikh Mohamed Fadel Mohamed Lemine, Eqbal Radwan, Juliann Saquib, Nazmus Saquib, Mirna Fawaz, Btissame Zarrouq, Abdallah Y. Naser, Sahar Obeid, Maan Saleh, Sanad Haider, Lahmer Miloud, Manal Badrasawi, Ayman Hamdan-Mansour, Mariapaola Barbato, Aisha Motwakil Bakhiet, Najat Sayem Khalil, Samir Adawi, Fatheya Grein, Alexandre Andrade Loch, Majda Cheour, and Souheil Hallit
Occupancy-based one-year-ahead heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning electricity consumption optimization using machine learning, Maher Alaraj, Marianela Parodi, Mohammed Radi, Elaf Alsisi, Maysam F. Abbod, and Munir Majdalawieh
On hierarchical clustering-based approach for RDDBS design, Hassan I. Abdalla, Ali A. Amer, and Sri Devi Ravana
Predicting new crescent moon visibility applying machine learning algorithms, Murad Al-Rajab, Samia Loucif, and Yazan Al Risheh
Recyclability of poly(hydroxybutyrate-co-hydroxyhexanoate) (PHBH) for food packaging applications, Maud Plouzeau, Imane Belyamani, Kateryna Fatyeyeva, Stéphane Marais, Yaroslav Kobzar, and Laurent Cauret
Remediation potential of biochar/copper oxide nanoparticles composite for lead- and cadmium-contaminated wastewater, Muhammad Imran, Liaqat Ali, Liaqat Ali, Muhammad Wakeel, Muhammad Hussnain Siddique, Zia Ul Haq Khan, Behzad Murtaza, Jibran Iqbal, Abdullah A. Al-Kahtani, and Muhammad Shahid
Role of authentication factors in Fin-tech mobile transaction security, Habib Ullah Khan, Muhammad Sohail, Shah Nazir, Tariq Hussain, Babar Shah, and Farman Ali
Segmental reporting, accounting enforcement, and analyst forecast dispersion in the European Union, Ahmed Aboud
Software JimenaE allows efficient dynamic simulations of Boolean networks, centrality and system state analysis, Martin Kaltdorf, Tim Breitenbach, Stefan Karl, Maximilian Fuchs, David Komla Kessie, Eric Psota, Martina Prelog, Edita Sarukhanyan, Regina Ebert, Franz Jakob, Gudrun Dandekar, Muhammad Naseem, Chunguang Liang, and Thomas Dandekar
Instashoppers Users’ Concerns in UAE: Trust and Security Issues, Obsa Sandaba and Mousa Al-Kfairy
Investigating the factors of selecting audit clients: Evidence from an emerging market, Karim Hegazy, H. Gin Chong, and Noha Mahmoud Kamareldawla
The Impact of Adolescent Profiles of Posttraumatic Stress, Emotion Regulation, and Disorganized Attachment on Posttraumatic Growth and Psychiatric Symptoms: Academic Stress and Egocentrism as Covariates, Na Wang, Man Cheung Chung, Yabing Wang, and Fangsong Liu
A Cloud-Native Knowledge Management Framework for Patient-Generated Health Data, Munir Majdalawieh, Anoud Bani Hani, Haleama Al-Sabbah, Oluwasegun Adedugbe, and Elhadj Benkhelifa
A Review of the Factors Influencing Users' Perception of Metaverse Security and Trust, Mousa Al-kfairy, Ayham Alomari, Mahmood Al-Bashayreh, Omar Alfandi, May Altaee, and Mohammad Tubishat
Evaluation of an innovative model for teacher professional development on educational inclusion in the UAE, Mandy Ewen, Anna Ferreira, and Marlieke G.D. Helder
Exploring Sentiment and Topic Patterns in Metaverse Marketplace-Related Tweets, Ahmed Al-Adaileh, Mousa Al-Kfairy, Mahmoud Khasawneh, and Nabil El Moutawakil El Alami
Intelligent biomedical image classification in a big data architecture using metaheuristic optimization and gradient approximation, Laila Almutairi, Ahed Abugabah, Hesham Alhumyani, and Ahmed A. Mohamed
The Impact of Big Data Analytics on the E-Commerce Businesses, Riham Mahmoud Saad, Munir Majdalawieh, Maher AlARaj, and Harry J Foxwell
Antimicrobial resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae: a retrospective analysis of emerging trends in the United Arab Emirates from 2010 to 2021, Abiola Senok, Jens Thomsen, Najiba M. Abdulrazzaq, The UAE AMR Surveillance Consortium, Godfred Antony Menezes, Carole Ayoub Moubareck, and Dean Everett
Effective Task Scheduling in Critical Fog Applications Using Critical Task Indexing Scheduler (CTIS), Ammad Ali, Imran Taj, Asad Khattak, Bashir Hayat, Noman Gul, and Muhammad Ali
Igniting Innovation: The Surge of Youth Entrepreneurship in the UAE, Mouawiya Alawad
Provenance-based smart parking system with multilevel fog nodes, Noman Gul, Asad Masood Khattak, Muhammad Ali, Bashir Hayat, Awais Ahmad, and Wasim Abbas
Digital Healthcare in The Metaverse: Insights into Privacy and Security, Mehdi Letafati and Safa Otoum
Educational Sustainability for Transforming Education: A New Approach of Active Learning in an Interdisciplinary Program in Higher Education, Areej Elsayary and Sandra Baroudi
DOTA functionalized adsorbent DOTA@Sludge@Chitosan derived from recycled shrimp shells and sludge and its application for lead and chromium removal from water, Kehan Xu, Ting He, Long Li, Jibran Iqbal, Yuping Tong, Lin Hua, Zhenbang Tian, Liang Zhao, and Hui Li
Evaluating the Contamination by Indoor Dust in Dubai, Yousef Nazzal, Alina Bărbulescu, Manish Sharma, Fares Howari, and Muhammad Naseem
Immersive Cybersecurity Teaching/Training Using Gamification on the Metaverse: A Hands-On Case Study*, Jamal N. Al-Karaki, Awni Itradat, and Selam Mekonen
Introduction to the Special Issue on Ransomware, Budi Arief, Lena Connolly, Julio Hernandez-Castro, Allan Liska, and Peter Y A. Ryan
On the Viability of Federated Deep Autoencoder for Botnet Threat Detection, Belsabel Teklemariam, Saron Bokretsion, Safa Otoum, and Bassem Ouni
Phishing Detection Using Deep Learning and Machine Learning Algorithms: Comparative Analysis, Betiel Tesfom, Feven Belay, Snit Daniel, Reem Salem, and Safa Otoum
Review of Fundamental, Security, and Privacy in Metaverse, Nadia Mohammed Al-Nowfleh, Nidal A. Al-Dmour, Hussam Al Hamadi, Fatma Taher, and Taher M. Ghazal
Online Learning Habits and Engagement of Male Emirati Students: Exploratory Study, Larysa Nikolayeva
Removal of organic pollutants through hydroxyl radical-based advanced oxidation processes, Zia Ul Haq Khan, Noor Shad Gul, Sana Sabahat, Jingyu Sun, Kamran Tahir, Noor Samad Shah, Nawshad Muhammad, Abdur Rahim, Muhammad Imran, Jibran Iqbal, Taj Malook Khan, Syed Khasim, Umar Farooq, and Jianbo Wu
The Evaluation of Internship in the Digital Information Age, Hussein Fakhry, Mathew Nicho, Emad Bataineh, and Shini Girja
Towards Designing a Knowledge Sharing System for Higher Learning Institutions in the UAE Based on the Social Feature Framework, S. M. F. D. Syed Mustapha, Edmund Evangelista, and Farhi Marir
Auditor practices and auditee responses to corporate governance audit regulation in Nigeria, Zayyad Abdul-Baki and Ahmed Diab
Migrating 120,000 Legacy Publications from Several Systems into a Current Research Information System Using Advanced Data Wrangling Techniques, Yrjö Lappalainen, Matti Lassila, Tanja Heikkilä, Jani Nieminen, and Tapani Lehtilä
GVCs and environmental sustainability in MENA: Do digitalization and institutions make a difference?, Suzanna Elmassah and Eslam A. Hassanein
Towards an Open-Source Based E-Mail Forensic Tool that uses Headers in Digital Investigation, Remilekun Adeopatoye, Richard Adeyemi Ikuesan, Taurai Hungwe, Victor Kebande, and Mehdi Sookhak
The familial occult: Explorations at the margins of critical autoethnography, Alexandra Cotofană
Prepared to Teach Using Technology, but Not Prepared to Teach Online: A Case of Early Childhood Pre-service Teachers in the United Arab Emirates, Lawrence Meda and Laila Mohebi
Call for emergency action to restore dietary diversity and protect global food systems in times of COVID-19 and beyond: Results from a cross-sectional study in 38 countries, Maha Hoteit, Reem Hoteit, Ayoub Aljawaldeh, Kathleen Van Royen, Sara Pabian, Paulien Decorte, Isabelle Cuykx, Lauranna Teunissen, Charlotte De Backer, Ina Bergheim, Raphaela Staltner, Amanda Devine, Ros Sambell, Ruth Wallace, Sabika Salem Allehdan, Tariq Abdulkarim Alalwan, Mariam Ahamad Al-Mannai, Gaëlle Ouvrein, Karolien Poels, Heidi Vandebosch, Katrien Maldoy, Christophe Matthys, Tim Smits, Jules Vrinten, Ann DeSmet, Nelleke Teughels, Maggie Geuens, and Iris Vermeir
Care-based relationship management during remote work in a crisis: Empathy, purpose, and diversity climate as emergent employee-organization relational maintenance strategies, Hilke Steenkamp and Ganga S. Dhanesh
Changes in Shares Outstanding and Country Stock Returns Around the World, Huaigang Long, Mardy Chiah, Adam Zaremba, and Zaghum Umar
Effect of blending of medium-temperature phase change material on the bitumen storage heat, Loubna Najemi, Imane Belyamani, and Mohsine Bouya
Exploring the acquisition behavior of penny stock firms, Shujie Liu, Mohammed Aminu Sualihu, Mingwei Sun, and Alfred Yawson
Globalization of Sociology to the Sociology of Globalization, Habibul Haque Khondker
How sorry are you? Intensified apologies and the mediating role of perceived remorse in corporate crisis communication, Effrosyni Georgiadou
Marine Mammals of the Emirates: Whales, Dolphins, Porpoises and Dugongs, Ada Natoli and Shamsa Al Hameli
Novel Denial-of-Service Attacks Against LoRaWAN on MAC Layer, Mi Chen, Jalel Ben-Othman, and Lynda Mokdad
The Emirates at 2050: Balancing Development and Environmental Stewardship, John A. Burt; Noura Al-Mansoori; Ivonne Bejarano; Gary Brown; Oscar Campbell; Johannes Els; Gary R. Feulner; Guillermo Friis-Montoya; Aaron Henderson; Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi Howarth, Brigitte (Department of Culture and Tourism; , Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates , Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; David M. John; Jacky Judas; Daniel Mateos-Molina; Matthew Mitchell; Ada Natoli; Francesco Paparella; Fadi (Hefaiyah Mountain Conservation Centre Yaghmour; and , Environment and Protected Areas Authority, Kalba, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates , Environment and Protected Areas Authority, Kalba, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Family business in the Arabian Gulf region, John Rice, Muhammad Mustafa Raziq, and Anestis Fotiadis
Analytical Study for Vehicle Mobility Modeling, J. Ben-Othman and L. Mokdad
Clinical Informatics System to Understand Lung Cancer Using Transfer Learning-Based Computer-Aided Application, Ahed Abugabah, Atif Mehmood, and Farah Shahid
FedVANET-TP: Federated Trajectory Prediction Model for VANETs, T. M. Sakho and J. Ben Othman
Associations of Free, Bioavailable, and Total 25-Hydroxyvitamin D with Neonatal Birth Anthropometry and Calcium Homeostasis in Mother-Child Pairs in a Sunny Mediterranean Region., Hana M A Fakhoury, Tarek Ziad Arabi, Hani Tamim, Rene F Chun, William B Grant, Martin Hewison, Fatme AlAnouti, Stefan Pilz, Cedric Annweiler, Georgios Tzimagiorgis, Costas Haitoglou, and Spyridon N Karras
Blockchain for Email Security: A Perspective on Existing and Potential Solutions for Phishing Attacks, Jamal N. Al-Karaki, Amjad Gawanmeh, and Claude Fachkha
Breaking Boundaries: Exploring Blockchain's Impact on UAE Organizations, Ahmed Shuhaiber, Nishara Nizamuddin, and Amal Amer
DocCert: Nostrification, Document Verification and Authenticity Blockchain Solution, Monther Aldwairi, Mohamad Badra, and Rouba Borghol
‘My Household’ Application: A Smart Mobile Application for Household Management, Hamda Almenhali, Meera Almansoori, Noura Alhamed, and Ahmed Shuhaiber
Towards Privacy-Aware Federated Learning for User-Sensitive Data, Muhammad Asad and Safa Otoum
Addressing the Public Health Misinformation Challenge with Real-Time Data Fusion, Anoud Bani Hani, Haleama Alsabbah, Munir Majdalawieh, and Nawel Bessadet
Estimated cost of extra work hours from co‐workers' drinking in Thailand, Udomsak Saengow, Surasak Chaiyasong, Jiraluck Nontarak, Surasak Saokaew, Ali Artaman, Polathep Vichitkunakorn, and Orratai Waleewong
Enhancing Rice Leaf Disease Classification: A Customized Convolutional Neural Network Approach, Ammar Kamal Abasi, Sharif Naser Makhadmeh, Osama Ahmad Alomari, Mohammad Tubishat, and Husam Jasim Mohammed
DDoS Attack Detection in Edge-IIoT using Ensemble Learning, Fariba Laiq, Feras Al-Obeidat, Adnan Amin, and Fernando Moreira
Exploring transfer learning in chest radiographic images within the interplay between COVID-19 and diabetes, Muhammad Shoaib, Nasir Sayed, Babar Shah, Tariq Hussain, Ahmad Ali AlZubi, Sufian Ahmad AlZubi, and Farman Ali
Implementing the Principle of Least Privilege Using Linux Capabilities: Challenges and Perspectives, Eddie Billoir, Romain Laborde, Ahmad Samer Wazan, Yves Rütschlé, and Abdelmalek Benzekri
The Cr(III) Exchange Mechanism of Macroporous Resins: The Effect of Functionality and Chemical Matrix, and the Statistical Verification of Ion Exchange Data, Khizar Hussain Shah, Noor S. Shah, Gul Afshan Khan, Sadaf Sarfraz, Jibran Iqbal, Aneeqa Batool, Ahmad Jwuiyad, Shabnam Shahida, Changseok Han, and Monika Wawrzkiewicz
Intellectual capital in hospitality and tourism: a critical review and future research agenda, Vladimir Dzenopoljac, Vladimir Senic, Thouraya Gherissi Labben, Hasan Evrim Arici, and Mehmet ali Koseoglu
Blockholdings, Dividend Policy, Stock Returns and Return Volatility: Evidence from the UAE, Umar Butt and Trevor William Chamberlain
Evaluating Onsite and Online Internship Mode Using Consumptive Metrics, Mathew Nicho, Tarannum Parkar, and Shini Girija
Impact of Thermal Maturation of the Upper Cretaceous Bituminous Limestone of Attarat Um Ghudran Central Jordan on Calcareous Nannofossil Preservation, Mohammad Alqudah, Mohammad Al Alaween, Adam Fermor, Ezaldeen Ali, Thomas Wagner, Mohammed Hail Alhakimi, and Afikah Rahim
Meta-analysis of research in childhood education program in the United Arab Emirates, Alanood Alshamsi and Laila Mohebi
Asma’ak: An Emarati Sign Language Translator, Maha Ahmed, Shaikha Jasem, Khawla Saleh, Asad Khattak, and Omar Alfandi
China's uneasy balancing in the Persian Gulf, Jonathan Fulton
Deep learning for plant bioinformatics: an explainable gradient-based approach for disease detection, Muhammad Shoaib, Babar Shah, Nasir Sayed, Farman Ali, Rafi Ullah, and Irfan Hussain
Variable elimination algorithm in Bayesian networks: An updated version, Linda Smail
Broadband MIMO Antenna with Self-Complementary Resonating Structures for 5G Smartphones, Tanvir Islam, Fatma Taher, Naser Ojaroudi Parchin, Ahmed S. I. Amar, and Mohamed Fathy Abo Sree
MalFe—Malware Feature Engineering Generation Platform, Avinash Singh, Richard Adeyemi Ikuesan, and Hein Venter
From Analogue to Digital: Evolution of Building Machines Towards Reforming Production and Customization of Housing, Carlo Carbone and Basem Eid Mohamed
Robust Intelligent System for COVID-19 Detection using CT-Scan, Ahmad Al Smadi, Ahed Abugabah, and Ahmad Mohammad Al-smadi
Greening the desert: Emirati youth's perceptions of green branding, Gergana Alzeer and Tilde Rosmer
A Survey of EEG and Machine Learning-Based Methods for Neural Rehabilitation, Jaiteg Singh, Farman Ali, Rupali Gill, Babar Shah, and Daehan Kwak
A dual covariant biomarker approach to Kawasaki disease, implications for coronary pathogenesis using vascular endothelial growth factor A and B gene expression; systematic secondary analysis of clinical datasets, Asrar Rashid, Govind Benakatti, Feras Al-Obeida, Rajesh Phatak, Zainab A. Malik, Javed Sharief, Raziya Kadwa, Wael Hafez, Mohammed Toufiq, Damien Chaussabel, Rayaz Malik, Nasir Quraishi, Syed Ahmed Zaki, Guftar Shaikh, and Amir Hussain
Affective Surveillance Management in Virtual Emotion Based Smart Complex Infrastructure, Sooeon Lee, Seungheyon Lee, Yumin Choi, Jalel Ben-Othman, Lynda Mokdad, Kyungkoo Jun, and Hyunbum Kim
A novel higher order appearance texture analysis to diagnose lung cancer based on a modified local ternary pattern, Ahmed Alksas, Ahmed Shaffie, Mohammed Ghazal, Fatma Taher, Adel Khelifi, Maha Yaghi, Ahmed Soliman, Eric VAN Bogaert, and Ayman El-Baz
Biogas Energy Resources in Pakistan Status, Potential, and Barriers, Muhammad Wakeel, Tasawer Hayat, Noor Samad Shah, Jibran Iqbal, Zia Ul Haq Khan, Ghulam Mustafa Shah, and Atta Rasool
Deconstructing Summary Writing: Further Exploration of L2 Reading and Writing, Jingjing Qin and Timothy Groombridge
Defence response of host plants for cyst nematode: A review on parasitism and defence, Rishil Gupta, Manar Fawzi Bani Mfarrej, Rehab O. Elnour, Mohamed Hashem, and Faheem Ahmad
E-Waste Recycling Behavior in the United Arab Emirates: Investigating the Roles of Environmental Consciousness, Cost, and Infrastructure Support, Kareem Abdul Waheed, Abhilasha Singh, Ayisha Siddiqua, Maisa El Gamal, and Mohammed Laeequddin
Inflation and the war in Ukraine: Evidence using impulse response functions on economic indicators and Twitter sentiment, Efstathios Polyzos
International comparison of gaming disorder symptomatology: Analysis of Ithra’s 30-nation digital wellbeing survey, Justin Thomas, Carl Michael Gaspar, Fahad Al Beyahi, Bahiah Al Bassam, and Yasmin Aljedawi
Nutritional Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices among Family Physician Practitioners in Gulf Countries (Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and UAE), Abeer S. Alzaben, Abeer A. Aljahdali, Lulua F. Alasousi, Ghadeer Alzaben, Lynne Kennedy, and Anwar Alhashem
Regulating Discourse: How Children With and Without SEND Internalize the Evaluative Framework of Adults, Efthymia Efthymiou
Stress state and waves in the lithospheric plate simulation: A 3rd generation AI architecture, Mutaz Mohammad, Alexander Trounev, and Carlo Cattani
Structure Estimation of Adversarial Distributions for Enhancing Model Robustness: A Clustering-Based Approach, Bader Rasheed, Adil Khan, and Asad Masood Khattak