Submissions from 2024
User acceptance of AI voice assistants in Jordan's telecom industry, Mousa Al-Kfairy, Dheya Mustafa, Ahmed Al-Adaileh, Samah Zriqat, and Obsa Sendaba
Voices from Afar: Cross-national study of parental perspectives towards implementation of a smart learning environment in schools in the United Arab Emirates, Maria Efstratopoulou, Maxwell Peprah Opoku, Christina Davison, Abdulrafi Jaffarul, and Aalya Mesmar
Computational Study of Gas-Solid, Two-Phase Interaction System and Particle Kinetics Establishing 3D Analysis, Maisa El Gamal, Ameera Mohammad, Basim Abu-Jdayil, and Imen Ben Salem
Editorial: Liveable cities for locals and visitors: challenges and opportunities for destinations, Hugues Seraphin, Anestis Fotiadis, and Vanessa Gowreesunkar
Ethical Pathways in VR and the Metaverse: Frameworks for Responsible Innovation, Mousa Al-Kfairy, Saed Alrabaee, and Omar Alfandi
Federated Learning for Personalized User Experiences in the Metaverse, Muhammad Asad and Safa Otoum
Message from the General Chairs, Farina Bhuiyan and Moayad Aloqaily
MetaGuard: A Zero-Trust-Based Access Control for Metaverse, Asma Alshamsi, Amal Adel, Mezoun Al Ghfeli, and Ouns Bouachir
Accelerated Historical and Future Warming in the Middle East and North Africa, Abdul Malik, Georgiy Stenchikov, Suleiman Mostamandi, Sagar Parajuli, Jos Lelieveld, George Zittis, Muhammad Sheraz Ahsan, Luqman Atique, and Muhammad Usman
Bppfl: a blockchain-based framework for privacy-preserving federated learning, Muhammad Asad and Safa Otoum
Entrevista a Soyelgas, fotógrafo de los conflictos del 2019, Ximena Córdova Oviedo
La crisis política de Bolivia en 2019 y los desafíos al proyecto plurinacional : Una reflexión en torno a los artículos reunidos en esta edición especial, M. Ximena Postigo and Ximena Córdova Oviedo
Towards a Comprehensive Metaverse Forensic Framework Based on Technology Task Fit Model, Amna AlMutawa, Richard Adeyemi Ikuesan, and Huwida Said
PHR-NFT: Decentralized Blockchain Framework with Hyperledger and NFTs for Secure and Transparent Patient Health Records, Huwida E. Said, Nedaa B. Al Barghuthi, Sulafa M. Badi, Faiza Hashim, and Shini Girija
Social Inequality in the MENA Region, Habibul Haque Khondker
DualRep: Knowledge Graph Completion by Utilizing Dual Representation of Relational Paths and Tail Node Density Insights, Haji Gul, Feras Al-Obeidat, Adnan Amin, Muhammad Wasim, and Fernando Moreira
Implementing Bernstein Operational Matrices to Solve a Fractional‐Order Smoking Epidemic Model, Jalal Al Hallak, Mohammed Alshbool, and Ishak Hashim
Collage-based narratives of mothers of third culture kids: the in-between space of transnational families in the UAE, Anna Marie Dillon and Tabassim Ali
Evaluating the usefulness of date seed (Phoenix Dactylifera) derived biochar for the removal of caffeine from aqueous media: Isothermal and kinetic studies, Kenesha Wilson, Imane Belyamani, Nora Jamal Saleh, and Fatema Jamal Hasan Haji
Federated Learning in Vehicular Networks: A Review of Emerging Trends and Future Directions, Muhammad Asad, Safa Otoum, and Bassem Ouni
Harnessing LLMs for IoT Malware Detection: A Comparative Analysis of BERT and GPT-2, Marwan Omar, Hewa Majeed Zangana, Jamal N. Al-Karaki, and Derek Mohammed
Analyzing the Influence of Eggshell Powder (ESP) as Partial Replacement with Cement in Concrete, Jasir Mushtaq, Peerzada Danish, Imen Ben Salem, Nadeem Gulzar Shahmir, Towseef Ahmad Gilani, Tawfeeq Wani, and Iftekar Gull
Factors Impacting the Adoption and Acceptance of ChatGPT in Educational Settings: A Narrative Review of Empirical Studies, Mousa Al-kfairy
The altered landscape as heterotopia, Shane Hulbert and Ioannis Galanopoulos Papavasileiou
Educational leadership's role in fostering innovation and entrepreneurship in education: A narrative literature review, Zeina Hojeij
EnhancedBERT: A python software tailored for arabic word sense disambiguation, Sanaa Kaddoura and Reem Nassar
Global Initiatives on Safer and More Responsible Artificial Intelligence, Ravi S. Sharma, Samia Loucif, Nir Kshetri, and Jeffrey Voas
Green recovery in BRICS economies: The role of mineral resources, energy productivity, and green innovation in sustainable development, Muhammad Umar, Nawazish Mirza, Zaghum Umar, and Tatiana Sokolova
Hawaiian legends of coastal devastation and paleotsunami reconstruction, Nu'u, Kaupō, Maui, Hawai'i, Scott Fisher, James Goff, Andrew Cundy, David Sear, James Terry, Randall J. LeVeque, Loyce M. Adams, and Diana Sahy
Higher moments interaction between the US treasury yields, energy assets, and green cryptos: Dynamic analysis with portfolio implications, Najaf Iqbal, Zaghum Umar, Zhang Shaoyong, and Tatiana Sokolova
Phosphorus sources enhance barley growth and mitigate lead stress via antioxidant responses, proline metabolism, and gene expression, Manar Fawzi Bani Mfarrej, Sadia Javed, Rafa Almeer, Rawidh Alsaidalani, Mohamed Kamel, Muhammad Hamzah Saleem, and Shafaqat Ali
Triglyceride and Glucose Index as an Optimal Predictor of Metabolic Syndrome in Lebanese Adults, Suzan Haidar, Nadine Mahboub, Dimitrios Papandreou, Myriam Abboud, and Rana Rizk
Comparison Despite Uniqueness: A Thematic Analysis of the PISA 2022 Results for the United Arab Emirates, Emily Winchip
A Neuroimaging Yolov8-Based Cad Framework for Anosmia Grading in Covid-19, Hossam Magdy Balaha, Mayada Elgendy, Ahmed Alksas, Mohamed Shehata, Norah Saleh Alghamdi, Fatma Taher, Mohammed Ghazal, Mahitab Ghoneim, Eslam Hamed, Fatma Sherif, Ahmed Elgarayhi, Mohammed Sallah, Mohamed Abdelbadie Salem, Elsharawy Kamal, Harpal Sandhu, and Ayman El-Baz
A Novel Approach for 3D Renal Segmentation Using a Modified GAN Model and Texture Analysis, Israa Sharaby, Ahmed Alksas, Hossam Magdy Balaha, Ali Mahmoud, Mohammed Badawy, Mohamed Abou El-Ghar, Ashraf Khalil, Mohammed Ghazal, Sohail Contractor, and Ayman El-Baz
Comparative analysis of moral decision-making and trust dynamics: human reasoning vs. ChatGPT-3 narratives, Umair Rehman, Muhammad Umair Shah, Farkhund Iqbal, and Ramsha Fatima
Semioethics as an axiology of care for the self-other: A Welbian genealogy, Zoe Hurley
Enhancing IoT Protocol Security Through AI and ML: A Comprehensive Analysis, Babar Shah, Muhammad Junaid, and Mohammad Habib
Enhancing Sentiment Analysis of Movie Reviews with PySpark, Ibtissam Youb, Feras Al-Obeidat, Mohamed Hamlich, and Alami Essaadoui
Gender Inequality in the Global South, Yasmin Sultana and Habibul Haque Khondker
Leveraging Large Language Models for Enhancing Literature-Based Discovery, Ikbal Taleb, Alramzana Nujum Navaz, and Mohamed Adel Serhani
Early Detection and Categorization of Cervical Cancer Cells Using Smoothing Cross Entropy-Based Multi-Deep Transfer Learning, Rania Ahmed, Nadia Dahmani, Ghada Dahy, Ashraf Darwish, and Aboul Ella Hassanien
Next-Generation Block Ciphers: Achieving Superior Memory Efficiency and Cryptographic Robustness for IoT Devices, Saadia Aziz, Ijaz Ali Shoukat, Mohsin Iftikhar, Mohsin Murtaza, Abdulmajeed M. Alenezi, Cheng-Chi Lee, and Imran Taj
Guest editorial: Women and Gulf Cities. The transformative impact of women influencing the architectural and urban developments of the gulf region, Daniela A. Ottmann, Anna Grichting Solder, and Adina Hempel
Greenland summer blocking characteristics: an evaluation of a high-resolution multi-model ensemble, Linh N. Luu, Edward Hanna, Dilkushi de Alwis Pitts, Jacob Maddison, James A. Screen, Jennifer L. Catto, and Xavier Fettweis
From science to society: Exploring the nexus between obesity research and public awareness in Brazil, Sofia Lafetá Pinto Santos, Renata Miyabara, Rym Ghimouz, Mirela Dobre, Andrei Brateanu, Luciana Aparecida Campos, and Ovidiu Constantin Baltatu
Visible light driven ZnFe2O4 for the degradation of oxytetracycline in the presence of HSO5− at semi-pilot scale and additional H2 production, Jibran Iqbal, Noor S. Shah, Javed Ali Khan, Anood Ibrahim, Bilal Masood Pirzada, Mu Naushad, and Changseok Han
Knocking on Heaven’s Door? Entrepreneurship, Firm Growth, and Health Risks, Jukka Partanen, Aino Tenhiälä, Teemu Kautonen, Markus Jokela, Daniel A. Lerner, and Alexander McKelvie
Performance enhancement of vanadium redox flow battery with novel streamlined design: Simulation and experimental validation, Abdulmonem Fetyan, Bronston P. Benetho, Tawaddod Alkindi, Anugrah Andisetiawan, Musbaudeen O. Bamgbopa, Ayoob Alhammadi, and Gumaa A. El-Nagar
Is Silence Golden In Political Workplace? The Dual Effects Of Silence On Career Success In China, Yi Li, Cangyan Li, Yi Zhang, Xiaomei Gong, and Xiaolong Hu
Reacting to criticism: What motivates top leaders to respond substantively to negative social performance feedback?, Myrto Chliova, Gabriella Cacciotti, Teemu Kautonen, and Ignacio Pavez
Framing of the FIFA world cup 2022: An examination of message appeal in the english language press in the UAE, Magdalena Karolak
Public-Private Partnership: A New Policy to Ameliorate the Quality of Public Utility Services to the Public, Karem Sayed Aboelazm, Fady Tawakol, Khalid Mohamed Dganni, and Nada Zuhair Alfil
Robotic Judges: A New Step Towards Justice or the Exclusion of Humans?, Karem Sayed Aboelazm, Khalid Mohamed Dganni, Fady Tawakol, and Hanadi Sharif
From living heritage values to value-based policymaking: exploring new indicators for Abu Dhabi’s sustainable development, Elena Raevskikh, Giovanna Di Mauro, and Maxime Jaffré
A Novel Bipolar Valued Fuzzy Group based on Dib’s approach, Fadi Al-Zu’bi, Abdul Ghaffur Ahmad, Abd Ulazeez Alkouri, and Maslina Darus
A Novel Polymerized Sulfur Concrete for Underground Hydrogen Storage in Lined Rock Caverns, Abdel Mohsen O. Mohamed and Maisa El Gamal
Editorial: Tourism in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) – Changes, Challenges and Opportunities, Paolo Mura and Mohammad Alazaizeh
Effectiveness of Field Experience Program in the United Arab Emirates (UAE): A Mixed-Methods Study of Stakeholders’ Perceptions in the Light of Vision 2030, Fatima Al Mohsen and Laila Mohebi
Enhancing microgrid forecasting accuracy with SAQ-MTCLSTM: A self-adjusting quantized multi-task ConvLSTM for optimized solar power and load demand predictions, Ehtisham Lodhi, Nadia Dahmani, Syed Muhammad Salman Bukhari, Sujan Gyawali, Sanjog Thapa, Lin Qiu, Muhammad Hamza Zafar, and Naureen Akhtar
Exploring the Factors Affecting Career Choices of Undergraduate Emirati Students, Laila Mohebi and Solomon Arulraj David
S299 Artificial Intelligence in the Identification of Colon Adenocarcinoma on Biopsies: The Dawn of a New Age, Mohammad Aloqaily, Alexander Rabadi, Nisreen Abu Shahin, Wafi Aloqaily, Safa Otoum, Malek Aloqaili, Othmane Benlamlih, Tala Ar'ar, and Bahaa Abdelrahim
The asymmetric impact of Twitter Sentiment and emotions: Impulse response analysis on European tourism firms using micro-data, Efstathios Polyzos, Anestis Fotiadis, and Tzung Cheng Huan
Towards a unified XAI-based framework for digital forensic investigations, Zainab Khalid, Farkhund Iqbal, and Benjamin C.M. Fung
Scoping the literature on Professional Development for Educators and Educational Leaders in the UAE, Zeina Hojeij, Shayma Ali Alsuwaidi, and Shanzila Ahmed
Multi-agent system-based framework for an intelligent management of competency building, Fatma Outay, Nafaa Jabeur, Fahmi Bellalouna, and Tasnim Al Hamzi
Enhancing resilience and reducing waste in food supply chains: a systematic review and future directions leveraging emerging technologies, Asmaa Seyam, May EI Barachi, Cheng Zhang, Bo Du, Jun Shen, and Sujith Samuel Mathew
Body, Loss, Memory and Healing: Three Emerging Emirati Women Artists, Ioannis Galanopoulos Papavasileiou, Aysha Al Dhaheri, Mariam Al Mansoori, and Sara Alqardaeai
Enabling secure and inclusive education for students with disabilities and ensuring data through machine learning, Bader Muteb Alsulami, Abdullah Baihan, and Ahed Abugabah
Attention-Based Load Forecasting with Bidirectional Finetuning, Firuz Kamalov, Inga Zicmane, Murodbek Safaraliev, Linda Smail, Mihail Senyuk, and Pavel Matrenin
The Effect of Student Loan Debt on Emergency Savings and the Moderating Role of Financial Knowledge: Evidence from the U.S. Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking, Thomas Korankye, Blain Pearson, and Peter Agyemang-Mintah
Administrative Empowerment Among Academic Leaders And its Relationship to the Quality of Work Life of Faculty Members, Najwa Abdel Hamid Darawsheh, Hanadi Alrashdan, Mohammad Alzawaideh, Thaer Ajouly, Abdulla Sultan Bin Hareb Almheiri, and Ibrahim Abdelrahman Eisa Aldarmaki
Advancing Emotional Health Assessments: A Hybrid Deep Learning Approach Using Physiological Signals for Robust Emotion Recognition, Amna Waheed Awan, Imran Taj, Shehzad Khalid, Syed Muhammad Usman, Ali Shariq Imran, and Muhammad Usman Akram
Designing a Haptic Boot for Space with Prompt Engineering: Process, Insights, and Implications, Mohammad Amin Kuhail, Jose Berengueres, Fatma Taher, Sana Khan, and Ansah Siddiqui
Biochar and biosorbents derived from biomass for arsenic remediation, Gaurav Sharma, Yaksha Verma, Chin Wei Lai, Mu Naushad, Jibran Iqbal, Amit Kumar, and Pooja Dhiman
Exploring the Impact of Conceptual Bottlenecks on Adversarial Robustness of Deep Neural Networks, Bader Rasheed, Mohamed Abdelhamid, Adil Khan, Igor Menezes, and Asad Masood Khatak
Palestinian Islamist Nationalists in Israel: A Paradox, Tilde Rosmer
Evaluating the cost of classifier discrimination choices for IoT sensor attack detection, Mathew Nicho, Brian Cusack, Shini Girija, and Nalin Arachchilage
Analyzing student prompts and their effect on ChatGPT’s performance, Ghadeer Sawalha, Imran Taj, and Abdulhadi Shoufan
SaaS Application Maturity Assessment Model, Saiqa Aleem, Rabia Batool, Shayma Alkobaisi, Faheem Ahmed, and Asad Masood Khattak
A new fractional derivative extending classical concepts: Theory and applications, Mutaz Mohammad and Mohamed Saadaoui
Dynamic impact of the US yield curve on green bonds: Navigating through recent crises, Zaghum Umar, Najaf Iqbal, Tamara Teplova, and Duojiao Tan
Elevation and age of a raised beach in the upper Gulf of Thailand, as evidence for regional sea level during the Late Holocene, James P. Terry, James Goff, Kruawun Jankaew, Kasidis Lhosupasirirat, Tanghua Li, Jeffrey Oalmann, Grahame J.H. Oliver, and Peter R. Parham
Embracing Conversational AI Agents: The Agentic Future of Libraries, Yrjo Lappalainen and Nikesh Narayanan
Graph Neural Network Enabled Propagation Graph Method For Channel Modeling, Xiping Wang, Ke Guan, Danping He, Andrej Hrovat, Ruiqi Liu, Zhangdui Zhong, Anwer Al-Dulaimi, and Keping Yu
Improved genetic algorithm for mobile robot path planning in static environments, Mohd Nadhir Ab Wahab, Amril Nazir, Ashraf Khalil, Wong Jun Ho, Muhammad Firdaus Akbar, Mohd Halim Mohd Noor, and Ahmad Sufril Azlan Mohamed
Navigating Digital Identities: The Influence of Online Interactions on Youth Cyber Psychology and Cyber Behavior, Areej ElSayary, Rafeeah Abdulaziz Alzaffin, and Maryam Eisa Alsuwaidi
Negative Effects on Productivity and Life Satisfaction Through Social Media, Abdulla Binsafwan, Zayed AlHameli, and Areej ElSayary
Putting GPT-4o to the Sword: A Comprehensive Evaluation of Language, Vision, Speech, and Multimodal Proficiency, Sakib Shahriar, Brady D. Lund, Nishith Reddy Mannuru, Muhammad Arbab Arshad, Kadhim Hayawi, Ravi Varma Kumar Bevara, Aashrith Mannuru, and Laiba Batool
Realist or utopian pacifist? Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the question of war, Nikolaos Nikolakakis
The Effect of Social Media on Anxiety and Stress, Alyazia AlAhbabi, Alyazia AlTeneiji, Amira AlShaer, Ghaya AlJaberi, and Areej ElSayary
The Effects of Social Media on Self-Esteem, Alyazia Al Ahbabi, Alyazia Al Teneiji, Amira Al Shaer, Ghaya Al Jaberi, and Areej ElSayary
The Enlightenment’s Dark Spaces: Library as Heterotopia in The Dunciad in Four Books (1743), Ileana Baird
The impact of data recovery criteria, data backup schedule and data backup prosses on the efficiency of data recovery management in data centers, Maen T. Alrashdan, Mutaz Abdel Wahed, Emran Aljarrah, Mohammad Tubishat, Malek Alzaqebah, and Nader Aljawarneh
The Relationship Between Personality Traits and Sustaining Young People's Well-Being: A Comprehensive Literature Review, Areej ElSayary, Maitha Aljneibi, and Reem Abuali
The role of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in the pathophysiology and pharmacotherapy of autism spectrum disorder: Focus on α7 nicotinic receptors, Murat Oz, Lina Al Kury, Bassem Sadek, and Mohamed Omer Mahgoub
Adversarial Variational Autoencoders to Extend and Improve Generative Model, Loc Nguyen, Hassan I. Abdalla, and Ali A. Amer
What are the contrasting types of proactivity that manifest at work? A systematic literature review, content analysis, and future directions, Rawia Ahmed, Said Al-Riyami, Nisar Ahmad, and Aqsa Bibi
Social anxiety, voice confrontation and voice recognition: A bilingual exploration, Jigar Jogia, Justin Thomas, Mariapaola Barbato, and Richard Bentall