Submissions from 2020
Advancing social media derived information messaging and management: A multi-mode development perspective, Nigel Martin, John Rice, and Damien Arthur
A new intra-cluster scheduling scheme for real-time flows in wireless sensor networks, Gohar Ali, Fernando Moreira, Omar Alfandi, Babar Shah, and Mohammed Ilyas
A WUSN-based Smart System for Water Flow Control, Nahom Aron, Bereket Yemane, Temesgen Mikael, Reem Salem, and Fatna Belqasmi
Blockchain Solution for IoT-based Critical Infrastructures: Byzantine Fault Tolerance, Omar Alfandi, Safa Otoum, and Yaser Jararweh
Can mindsets influence college students’ motivation to learn? Findings from the United States and the United Arab Emirates, Antje von Suchodoletz, Johanna Rahn, Iryna Nadyukova, Lydia Barza, and Anja Achtziger
Connecting literacy to curriculum ideologies, Majed Harb and Hanada Taha Thomure
Contextualizing privacy on health-related use of information technology, Yong Jin Park and Donghee Shin
Controllable phytosynthesis of gold nanoparticles and investigation of their size and morphology-dependent photocatalytic activity under visible light, Tausif Ahmad, Mohamad Azmi Bustam, Muhammad Zulfiqar, Muhammad Moniruzzaman, Alamin Idris, Jibran Iqbal, Hafiz Muhammad Anwaar Asghar, and Sami Ullah
Drone Forensics: A Detailed Analysis of Emerging DJI Models, Maryam Yousef, Farkhund Iqbal, and Mohammed Hussain
Effects of prolactin on ventricular myocyte shortening and calcium transport in the streptozotocin-induced diabetic rat, Frank C. Howarth, Gunnar Norstedt, Oleksiy I. Boldyriev, Muhammad A. Qureshi, Ozaz Mohamed, Khatija Parekh, Balaji Venkataraman, Sandeep Subramanya, Anatoliy Shmygol, and Lina T. Al Kury
Financial Integration in the GCC Region: Market Size Versus National Effects, Kerim Peren Arin, Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Kyriacos Kyriacou, and Nicola Spagnolo
I-docs: the Evolving Practices of Interactive Documentary, Michael R. Ogden
Legal smart contracts in ethereum block chain: Linking the dots, Eleanna Kafeza, Syed Juned Ali, Irene Kafeza, and Haseena Alkatheeri
Leveraging cloud computing for the semantic web: review and trends, Oluwasegun Adedugbe, Elhadj Benkhelifa, Russell Campion, Feras Al-Obeidat, Anoud Bani Hani, and Uchitha Jayawickrama
Lignin/alginate/hydroxyapatite composite beads for the efficient removal of copper and nickel ions from aqueous solutions, Ayesha Naseer, Almas Hamid, Moinuddin Ghauri, Asma Nasrullah, Jibran Iqbal, Noor Samad Shah, Sikander Rafiq, Masooma Irfan, and Nawshad Muhammad
Message from the Conference Chairs, Hany El Kady, Qusay H. Mahmoud, Huwida Said, and Omar AlFandi
On data-driven curation, learning, and analysis for inferring evolving internet-of-Things (IoT) botnets in the wild, Morteza Safaei Pour, Antonio Mangino, Kurt Friday, Matthias Rathbun, Elias Bou-Harb, Farkhund Iqbal, Sagar Samtani, Jorge Crichigno, and Nasir Ghani
On the Pilot Contamination Attack in Multi-Cell Multiuser Massive MIMO Networks, Noman Akbar, Shihao Yan, Asad Masood Khattak, and Nan Yang
Potential of siltstone and its composites with biochar and magnetite nanoparticles for the removal of cadmium from contaminated aqueous solutions: Batch and column scale studies, Muhammad Imran, Zia Ul Haq Khan, Jibran Iqbal, Noor Samad Shah, Saima Muzammil, Shafaqat Ali, Nawshad Muhammad, Arwa Aziz, Behzad Murtaza, Muhammad Asif Naeem, Muhammad Amjad, Muhammad Shahid, Ali Zakir, and Muhammad Rizwan
Preface, Hany El Kady, Qusay H. Mahmoud, Huwida Said, and Omar AlFandi
Prevalence and factors associated with overweight and central obesity among adults in the Eastern Sudan, Saeed M. Omar, Zainab Taha, Ahmed Ali Hassan, Osama Al-Wutayd, and Ishag Adam
Putting Research into Practice: Beyond Textbook Email Task Design for Pre-experience Business English Learners, Robyn Albers, Paola Trejo Vences, and Catherine Nickerson
Restructuring the Small and Medium Enterprises in response to COVID-19 effect on Emerging Economies, Fady Tawakol and WalaaEldeen Ibrahim
Should We Rush to Implement Password-less Single Factor FIDO2 based Authentication?, Fatima Alqubaisi, Ahmad Samer Wazan, Liza Ahmad, and David W. Chadwick
Smart infrastructure technologies: Crowdsourcing future development and benefits for Australian communities, John Rice and Nigel Martin
Staff Training in Intellectual and Developmental Disability Settings: a Scoping Review, Laura Gormley, Olive Healy, Amanda Doherty, Darragh O’Regan, and Ian Grey
State of the Art in Digital Forensics for Small Scale Digital Devices, Haifa Al Hosani, Maryam Yousef, Shaima Al Shouq, and Farkhund Iqbal
Suitability of Blockchain for Collaborative Intrusion Detection Systems, Nahom Aron Dawit, Sujith Samuel Mathew, and Kadhim Hayawi
Synthetic Rewiring of Plant CO2 Sequestration Galvanizes Plant Biomass Production, Muhammad Naseem, Özge Osmanoglu, and Thomas Dandekar
The current burden of carbapenemases: Review of significant properties and dissemination among gram-negative bacteria, Dalal Hammoudi Halat and Carole Ayoub Moubareck
UAV-Assisted Vehicular Communication for Densely Crowded Environments, Ouns Bouachir, Moayad Aloqaily, Ismaeel Al Ridhawi, Omar Alfandi, and Haythem Bany Salameh
UniBud: A Virtual Academic Adviser, Abdulrahman Alkhoori, Mohammad Amin Kuhail, and Abdulla Alkhoori
Vitamin d supplementation and blood pressure in children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis, Myriam Abboud
Water quality assessment of lower Jhelum canal in Pakistan by using geographic information system (GIS), Nusrat Bashir, Rashid Saeed, Muhammad Afzaal, Ashfaq Ahmad, Nawshad Muhammad, Jibran Iqbal, Abdullah Khan, Yusra Maqbool, and Saman Hameed
What do the value-at-risk measure and the respective legislative framework really offer to financial stability? Critical views and pro-cyclicality, Evangelos Vasileiou and Themistoclis Pantos
Paternalistic leadership style, employee voice and creativity among entrepreneurs: empirical evidence from SMEs of a developing country, Bahadur Ali Soomro, Maqsood Memon, and Naimatullah Shah
NF-κB Inhibitors Attenuate MCAO Induced Neurodegeneration and Oxidative Stress—A Reprofiling Approach, Awais Ali, Fawad Ali Shah, Alam Zeb, Imran Malik, Arooj Mohsin Alvi, Lina Tariq Alkury, Sajid Rashid, Ishtiaq Hussain, Najeeb Ullah, Arif Ullah Khan, Phil Ok Koh, and Shupeng Li
Evaluating IT Governance Structure Implementation in the Gulf Cooperation Council Region, Mathew Nicho and Suadad Muamaar
A Hybrid Approach for Counting Templates in Images, Maher Ala'raj and Munir Majdalawieh
Carbon on the Northwest European Shelf: Contemporary Budget and Future Influences, Oliver Legge, Martin Johnson, Natalie Hicks, Tim Jickells, Markus Diesing, John Aldridge, Julian Andrews, Yuri Artioli, Dorothee C.E. Bakker, Michael T. Burrows, Nealy Carr, Gemma Cripps, Stacey L. Felgate, Liam Fernand, Naomi Greenwood, Susan Hartman, Silke Kröger, Gennadi Lessin, Claire Mahaffey, Daniel J. Mayor, Ruth Parker, Ana M. Queirós, Jamie D. Shutler, Tiago Silva, Henrik Stahl, Jonathan Tinker, Graham J.C. Underwood, Johan Van Der Molen, Sarah Wakelin, and Keith Weston
ECCV (22) - Latent Embedding Feedback and Discriminative Features for Zero-Shot Classification, Sanath Narayan, Akshita Gupta, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Cees G. M. Snoek, and Ling Shao
Learning Enriched Features for Real Image Restoration and Enhancement., Syed Waqas Zamir, Aditya Arora, Salman Khan, Munawar Hayat, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Ming-Hsuan Yang, and Ling Shao
Solar light responsive bismuth doped titania with Ti3+ for efficient photocatalytic degradation of flumequine: Synergistic role of peroxymonosulfate, Ikhtiar Gul, Murtaza Sayed, Noor S. Shah, Javed Ali Khan, Kyriaki Polychronopoulou, Jibran Iqbal, and Faiza Rehman
Clubbing in Dubai: The Making of a “Party Capital”, Magdalena Karolak
Linguistic Hybridity and Cultural Multiplicity in Emirati Identity Construction, Sarah Hopkyns
Music for Thought: Examining Saudi Identities Expressed Through Music on Social Media, Magdalena Karolak
Exploring autobiographical memory specificity and narrative emotional processing in alexithymia, Christin Camia, Olivier Desmedt, and Olivier Luminet
Expat or citizen? Raising the question of a potential impact of status on leader behavior, Valerie Priscilla Goby and Abdelrahman Alhadhrami
Domestic Politics as Fuel for China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative: The Case of the Gulf Monarchies, Jonathan Fulton
Word-of-art: contribution of artists-in-residence to a creative tourism destination, Nataša Slak Valek
Adaptive real-time routing protocol for (M,k)-firm in industrial wireless multimedia sensor networks, Beom Su Kim, Sangdae Kim, Kyong Hoon Kim, Tae Eung Sung, Babar Shah, and Ki Il Kim
Age and knowledge of morphosyntax in english as an additional language: Grammatical judgment and error correction, Muhammad Asif Qureshi
A multi-branch separable convolution neural network for pedestrian attribute recognition, Imran N. Junejo and Naveed Ahmed
Assessment of the performance of CHROMagar KPC and Xpert Carba-R assay for the detection of carbapenem-resistant bacteria in rectal swabs: First comparative study from Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Carole Ayoub Moubareck, Dalal Hammoudi Halat, Mohammad Sartawi, Karen Lawlor, Dolla Karam Sarkis, and Adnan Alatoom
Board gender diversity and environmental, social, and economic value creation: Does family ownership matter?, Muhammad Nadeem, Ernest Gyapong, and Ammad Ahmed
Can bioelectrical impedance analysis and BMI be a prognostic tool in head and neck cancer patients? A review of the evidence, Maria Mantzorou, Maria Tolia, Antigoni Poultsidi, Eleni Pavlidou, Sousana K. Papadopoulou, Dimitrios Papandreou, and Constantinos Giaginis
Digital transformation and localizing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Suzanna ElMassah and Mahmoud Mohieldin
Efficient Wu-Manber Pattern Matching Hardware for Intrusion and Malware Detection., Monther Aldwairi, Yahya Flaifel, and Khaldoon Mhaidat
Is there an illiquidity premium in frontier markets?, Szymon Stereńczak, Adam Zaremba, and Zaghum Umar
Learning paradigms for communication and computing technologies in IoT systems, Waleed Ejaz, Mehak Basharat, Salman Saadat, Asad Masood Khattak, Muhammad Naeem, and Alagan Anpalagan
Mitigating the Impact of Congestion Minimization on Vehicles’ Emissions in a Transportation Road Network, S. Salman and S. Alaswad
Modified biochar from Moringa seed powder for the removal of diclofenac from aqueous solution, Afrouz Bagheri, Emmanuel Abu-Danso, Jibran Iqbal, and Amit Bhatnagar
Performing building vibration assessments by acoustic measurements, Javad Isavand, Andrew Peplow, and Afshar Kasaei
Stigmatisation and resilience in inflammatory bowel disease, Marco Vincenzo Lenti, Sara Cococcia, Jihane Ghorayeb, Antonio Di Sabatino, and Christian P. Selinger
Targeted 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentration measurements and vitamin D3 supplementation can have important patient and public health benefits, William B. Grant, Fatme Al Anouti, and Meis Moukayed
The Dunning-Kruger effect in Emirati college students: Evidence for Generalizability across cultures, Mariana V.C. Coutinho, Justin Thomas, Imani Fredricks-Lowman, and Marina Verlinden Bondaruk
The Propensity to Use FinTech: Input from Bankers in the Kingdom of Bahrain, Anjum Razzaque, Richard Thomas Cummings, Magdalena Karolak, and Allam Hamdan
User community detection via embedding of social network structure and temporal content, Hossein Fani, Eric Jiang, Ebrahim Bagheri, Feras Al-Obeidat, Weichang Du, and Mehdi Kargar
Emirati women’s professional legitimacy: Synergy of the political and the personal amid constraint and self-determination, Valerie Priscilla Goby
Visual Attention toward Human Face Recognizing for Autism Spectrum Disorder and Normal Developing Children: An Eye Tracking Study, Mohamed Basel Almourad and Emad Bataineh
Location, Integration, Interruption: Visual Properties and Recognition of Video Game Advertising, Russell B. Williams
Residents' perceptions of smart energy metres, Ahmed Haitham Shuhaiber
Effect of Online Product Presentation on the Purchase Intention of Wearable Devices: The Role of Mental Imagery and Individualism–Collectivism, Jinnan Wu, Fang Wang, Lin Liu, and Donghee Shin
Exploiting Deep Neural Networks for Intention Mining, Anam Habib, Nosheen Jelani, Asad Masood Khattak, Saima Akbar, and Muhammad Zubair Asghar
Growth of ZnO nanorods on FTO glass substrate, Hamza Slimani, Noureddine Bessous, Sawsan Dagher, Ali Hilal-Alnaqbi, Maisa El Gamal, Boshra Akhozheya, and Mudasir Mohammed
Chitosan/Al2O3-HA nanocomposite beads for efficient removal of estradiol and chrysoidin from aqueous solution, Long Li, Jibran Iqbal, Ying Zhu, Fang Wang, Feiyu Zhang, Wanchao Chen, Ting Wu, and Yiping Du
Synergistic effects of H2O2 and S2O82− in the gamma radiation induced degradation of congo-red dye: Kinetics and toxicities evaluation, Noor S. Shah, Javed Ali Khan, Murtaza Sayed, Zia Ul Haq Khan, Jibran Iqbal, Sidra Arshad, Muhammad Junaid, and Hasan M. Khan
Tuning tetracycline removal from aqueous solution onto activated 2:1 layered clay mineral: Characterization, sorption and mechanistic studies, Ali Maged, Jibran Iqbal, Sherif Kharbish, Ismael Sayed Ismael, and Amit Bhatnagar
Nano zerovalent zinc catalyzed peroxymonosulfate based advanced oxidation technologies for treatment of chlorpyrifos in aqueous solution: A semi-pilot scale study, Noor S. Shah, Javed Ali Khan, Murtaza Sayed, Zia Ul Haq Khan, Jibran Iqbal, Muhammad Imran, Behzad Murtaza, Ali Zakir, and Kyriaki Polychronopoulou
No effect of probiotics on leptin levels. An updated mini review, Dimitrios Papandreou
The asymmetric role of corporate governance in CEO pay determination: evidence from South Africa, Ernest Gyapong, Maithm M.R. Khaghaany, and Ammad Ahmed
Rapid determination of fumonisin (FB1) by syringe SPE coupled with solid-phase fluorescence spectrometry, Long Li, Wanchao Chen, Hui Li, Jibran Iqbal, Ying Zhu, Ting Wu, and Yiping Du
Effective Patient Similarity Computation for Clinical Decision Support Using Time Series and Static Data, Mohammad M. Masud, Kadhim Hayawi, Sujith Samuel Mathew, Ahmed Dirir, and Muhsin Cheratta
A closing call’s impact on market quality: evidence from Abu Dhabi stock exchange, Eda Orhun
Factors associated with preterm birth and low birth weight in Abu Dhabi, The United Arab Emirates, Zainab Taha, Ahmed Ali Hassan, Ludmilla Wikkeling-Scott, and Dimitrios Papandreou
Deep eutectic solvent-mediated synthesis of ceria nanoparticles with the enhanced yield for photocatalytic degradation of flumequine under UV-C, Jibran Iqbal, Noor S. Shah, Murtaza Sayed, Nawshad Muhammad, Saif ur Rehman, Javed Ali Khan, Zia Ul Haq Khan, Fares M. Howari, Yousef Nazzal, Cijo Xavier, Sidra Arshad, Aseel Hussein, and Kyriaki Polychronopoulou
Lean-green manufacturing practices and their link with sustainability: A critical review, Wadhah Abualfaraa, Konstantinos Salonitis, Ahmed Al-Ashaab, and Maher Ala'raj
Ligand based sustainable composite material for sensitive nickel(II) capturing in aqueous media, Md Rabiul Awual, Md Munjur Hasan, Jibran Iqbal, Md Aminul Islam, Aminul Islam, Shahjalal Khandaker, Abdullah M. Asiri, and Mohammed M. Rahman
Quality-dependent adaptation in a swarm of drones for environmental monitoring, Giulia De Masi and Eliseo Ferrante
Sustainable Development Goals in Arab Region – United Arab Emirates’ Case Study, Adam Krzymowski
Temporary Labour–Migration System and Long–term Residence Strategies in the United Arab Emirates, Marko Valenta, Kaley Elizabeth Knowlton, Jo Jakobsen, Mouawiya Al Awad, and Zan Strabac
Topic and sentiment aware microblog summarization for twitter, Syed Muhammad Ali, Zeinab Noorian, Ebrahim Bagheri, Chen Ding, and Feras Al-Obeidat
A Framework for online social network volatile data analysis: A case for the fast fashion industry, Anoud Bani-Hani, Feras Al-Obeidat, Elhadj Benkhelifa, and Oluwasegun Adedugbe
Binding energies of van der Waals complexes at non-equilibrium geometries, Alya A. Arabi
Optimal conditions for olive mill wastewater treatment using ultrasound and advanced oxidation processes, Abeer Al-Bsoul, Mohammad Al-Shannag, Muhammad Tawalbeh, Ahmed A. Al-Taani, Walid K. Lafi, Amani Al-Othman, and Mohammad Alsheyab
Joint audit, audit market concentration, and audit quality: Perceptions of stakeholders in the UAE, Yasser Barghathi, Esinath Ndiweni, and Alhashmi Aboubaker Lasyoud
Causes and risk factors of hospitalization among under-five children in kassala, eastern sudan, Ahmed A. Hassan, Zainab Taha, Mohammed A. Abdulla, Abdelaziem A. Ali, and Ishag Adam
Does language really matter when solving mathematical word problems in a second language? A cognitive load perspective, Jase Moussa-Inaty, Mark Causapin, and Timothy Groombridge