Submissions from 2019
China’s challenge to US dominance in the Middle East, Jonathan Fulton
Synergistic effects of activated carbon and nano-zerovalent copper on the performance of hydroxyapatite-alginate beads for the removal of As3+ from aqueous solution, Jibran Iqbal, Noor S. Shah, Murtaza Sayed, Muhammad Imran, Nawshad Muhammad, Fares M. Howari, Sara A. Alkhoori, Javed Ali Khan, Zia Ul Haq Khan, Amit Bhatnagar, Kyriaki Polychronopoulou, Issam Ismail, and Mohammad Abu Haija
Liquidity in the UAE Islamic banks, Suzanna ElMassah, Ola AlSayed, and Shereen Mostafa Bacheer
Speculo: A tool for multiple identities exploration and detection in social networks, Sumaya Khoory, Noora Al Roken, Maryam Al Abdooli, and Hakim Hacid
Towards an end-user layer for data integrity, Lu'ay Abu-Rayyan, Hakim Hacid, and Andrew Leoncé
Autonomy and Its Role in English Language Learning: Practice and Research, David M. Palfreyman and Philip Benson
The Pandora's box of corporate social irresponsibility: An exploratory study within a failed State context, Claudel Mombeuil, Anestis K. Fotiadis, and Zhao hua Wang
Applying system dynamics to model advanced persistent threats, Mathew Nicho and Hussein Fakhry
How do technological properties influence user affordance of wearable technologies?, Donghee Shin
Environmental service-learning in the United Arab Emirates: Is it mediated by the effects of biographical and demographical variables?, Fares Howari, Nida Qafisheh, and Yousef Nazzal
Achievement and self-concept relation: An evidence of the adequacy of the I/E model with a short version of the self-description questionnaire-ii among school students in oman, Maher M. Abu-Hilal, Sulaiman Al-Maamari, Ibrahim S. Al-Harthy, Joana Stocker, and Hilal Z. Al-Nabhani
A Novel Deep Learning Approach for Left Ventricle Automatic Segmentation in Cardiac Cine MR, Hisham Abdeltawab, Fahmi Khalifa, Fatma Taher, Garth Beache, Tamer Mohamed, Adel Elmaghraby, Mohammed Ghazal, Robert Keynton, and Ayman El-Baz
A Sentiment Analysis Approach of Data Volatility for Consumer Satisfaction in the Fashion Industry, Feras Al-Obeidat, Anoud Bani Hani, Elhadj Benkhelifa, Oluwasegun Adedugbe, and Munir Majdalawieh
Buffer capital, loan portfolio quality and the performance of microfinance institutions: A global analysis, Godfred Adjapong Afrifa, Ernest Gyapong, and Alaa Mansour Zalata
Bullying in Schools in the United Arab Emirates and the Personal Safety of Students, Ken Rigby, Dalia Haroun, and Essam Ali
Coal Seam Gas projects: Proposed policy model for compensation and benefits sharing, N. Martin and John Rice
Curriculum Review: Analysis through a Learning Organization Lens, Burcu Tezcan-Unal, Wayne Jones, and Suzanne Littlewood
Dietary application for the management of patients with hemodialysis: A formative development study, Cosette Fakih El Khoury, Mirey Karavetian, Ruud J.G. Halfens, Rik Crutzen, Dayana El Chaar, and Jos M.G.A. Schols
Dominant Language Acquisition in Destination Countries: Structure, Agency and Reflexivity, Gina Netto, Maria Hudson, Nicolina Kamenou-Aigbekaen, and Filip Sosenko
Dynamic connectedness of oil price shocks and exchange rates, Farooq Malik and Zaghum Umar
Effect of gold and iron nanoparticles on photocatalytic behaviour of titanium dioxide towards 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride ionic liquid, Tausif Ahmad, Mohamad Azmi Bustam, Muhammad Irfan, Muhammad Moniruzzaman, Mohamad Fakhrul Ridhwan Samsudin, Hafiz Muhammad Anwaar Asghar, Nawshad Muhammad, Jibran Iqbal, and Sekhar Bhattacharjee
Effect of intradialytic exercise on hyperphosphatemia and malnutrition, Nada Salhab, Mona Alrukhaimi, Jeroen Kooman, Enrico Fiaccadori, Harith Aljubori, Rana Rizk, and Mirey Karavetian
Follow-up decision support tool for public healthcare: A design research perspective, Shah J. Miah, Najmul Hasan, and John Gammack
Four Ways Technology Has Negatively Changed Education, Khadija Alhumaid
God, information and the world: The metaphysics of william Dembski and al-ghazālī, Shoaib Ahmed Malik
Hedging U.S. metals & mining Industry's credit risk with industrial and precious metals, Zaghum Umar, Syed Jawad Hussain Shahzad, and Dimitris Kenourgios
Internet of Things Platform for Transparency and Traceability of Food Supply Chain, Ahmed Haroon, Mehak Basharat, Asad Masood Khattak, and Waleed Ejaz
IT governance practices in the Gulf Cooperation Council region, Suadad Muammar and Mathew Nicho
On the gibbs effect based on the quasi-affine dual tight framelets system generated using the mixed oblique extension principle, Mutaz Mohammad
Parking availability forecasting model, Mohammad Amin Kuhail, Manohar Boorlu, Neeraj Padarthi, and Collin Rottinghaus
Solving MAX-SAT Problem by Binary Biogeograph-based Optimization Algorithm, Hafiz Munsub Ali, Waleed Ejaz, May Al Taei, and Farkhund Iqbal
Materialism in the United Arab Emirates: A grounded model of materialism in an emerging market, Damien Arthur, Claire Eloise Sherman, Noora Saeed Al Hameli, and Salama Yousef Al Marzooqi
The Orthodox Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia: Survival of a Minority Faith in a Secular Society, Frank Cibulka
Testing the Static Trade-Off Theory of Capital Structure: A Corporate Governance Perspective, Umar Butt
The Role of Skeletal Muscle in Maintaining Vitamin D Status in Winter, Rebecca S. Mason, Mark S. Rybchyn, Myriam Abboud, Tara C. Brennan-Speranza, and David R. Fraser
A comparative study of magnetic chitosan (Chi@Fe3O4) and graphene oxide modified magnetic chitosan (Chi@Fe3O4GO) nanocomposites for efficient removal of Cr(VI) from water, Nabin Subedi, Anna Lähde, Emmanuel Abu-Danso, Jibran Iqbal, and Amit Bhatnagar
Prevalence of overweight and obesity and their associations with dietary habits among students from a major university in Palestine: A cross-sectional study, Bassam Abu Shanab and Haleama Al-Sabbah
Consumption of Raw Orange, 100% Fresh Orange Juice, and Nectar- Sweetened Orange Juice-Effects on Blood Glucose and Insulin Levels on Healthy Subjects, Dimitrios Papandreou, Emmanouella Magriplis, Myriam Abboud, Zainab Taha, Eleftheria Karavolia, Christos Karavolias, and Antonis Zampelas
Vulnerability of Vietnam to typhoons: A spatial assessment based on hazards, exposure and adaptive capacity, Kim Anh Nguyen, Yuei An Liou, and James P. Terry
Leadership curricula in UAE business and education management programmes: A Habermasian analysis within an Islamic context, Eman ElKaleh
Information technology in the British and Irish undergraduate accounting degrees, Amr Kotb, Magdy Abdel-Kader, Amir Allam, Hussein Halabi, and Ellie Franklin
Mining biosynthetic gene clusters in Virgibacillus genomes, Ghofran Othoum, Salim Bougouffa, Ameerah Bokhari, Feras F. Lafi, Takashi Gojobori, Heribert Hirt, Ivan Mijakovic, Vladimir B. Bajic, and Magbubah Essack
Negotiated matter: a robotic exploration of craft-driven innovation, Alejandro Veliz Reyes, Wassim Jabi, Mohamed Gomaa, Aikaterini Chatzivasileiadi, Lina Ahmad, and Nicholas Mario Wardhana
Open challenges in vetting the internet‐of‐things, Zakaria Maamar, Ejub Kajan, Muhammad Asim, and Thar Baker Shamsa
The sacred and the profane: social media and temporal patterns of religiosity in the United Arab Emirates, Justin Thomas, Aamna Al Shehhi, and Ian Grey
What makes Jordanian residents buy smart home devices?: A factorial investigation using PLS-SEM, Ibrahim Mashal and Ahmed Shuhaiber
A Novel CT-Based Descriptors for Precise Diagnosis of Pulmonary Nodules, Ahmed Shaffie, Ahmed Soliman, Hadil Abu Khalifeh, Fatma Taher, Mohammed Ghazal, Neal Dunlap, Adel Elmaghraby, Robert Keynton, and Ayman El-Baz
Bacterial community structure in anaerobic digesters of a full scale municipal wastewater treatment plant - Case study of dubai, united arab emirates, Munawwar A. Khan, Noorun N. Ashar, Arpitha G. Ganesh, Naushad Rais, Sultan M. Faheem, and Shams T. Khan
Calculation of the natural frequencies and mode shapes of a Euler–Bernoulli beam which has any combination of linear boundary conditions, Paulo J.Paupitz Gonçalves, Michael J. Brennan, Andrew Peplow, and Bin Tang
Defining new technological traditions of Late Islamic Arabia: a view on Bahlā Ware from al-Ain (UAE) and the lead-barium glaze production, Jelena Živković, Timothy Power, Myrto Georgakopoulou, and José Cristobal Carvajal López
Dimensions of 'socio' vulnerabilities of advanced persistent threats, Mathew Nicho and Christopher D. McDermott
Holistic User eXperience in Mobile Augmented Reality Using User eXperience Measurement Index, Fahad Ahmed Satti, Jamil Hussain, Hafiz Syed Muhammad Bilal, Wajahat Ali Khan, Asad Masood Khattak, Ju Eun Yeon, and Sungyoung Lee
How do users experience the interaction with an immersive screen?, Donghee Shin
Imaging of hydrothermal altered zones in Wadi Al-Bana, in southern Yemen, using remote sensing techniques and very low frequency–electromagnetic data, Karam S.I. Farag, Fares M. Howari, and Karim W. Abdelmalik
MultiPLZW: A novel multiple pattern matching search in LZW-compressed data, Monther Aldwairi, Abdulmughni Y. Hamzah, and Moath Jarrah
Parental satisfaction with early intensive behavioral intervention, Ian Grey, Barry Coughlan, Helena Lydon, Olive Healy, and Justin Thomas
Proof systems in blockchains: A survey, Georgios Drakopoulos, Eleanna Kafeza, and Haseena Al Katheeri
Relationship management through social media influencers: Effects of followers’ awareness of paid endorsement, Ganga S. Dhanesh and Gaelle Duthler
Relevance-based entity selection for ad hoc retrieval, Faezeh Ensan and Feras Al-Obeidat
Resource Allocation in Moving Small Cell Network using Deep Learning based Interference Determination, Saniya Zafar, Sobia Jangsher, Moayad Aloqaily, Ouns Bouachir, and Jalel Ben Othman
Role of fairness, accountability, and transparency in algorithmic affordance, Donghee Shin and Yong Jin Park
Social-media based assessment of academic programs, Abdullah Hussein and Mohammed Hussain
Stages of change, smoking behavior and acceptability of a textmessaging intervention for tobacco cessation among cigarette, dokha and shishasmokers: A qualitative research study, Yusra Elhidaia Elobaid, Andrea Leinberger Jabari, Aisha Al Hamiz, Abdul Rizzak Al Kaddour, Sherif Bakir, Heba Barazi, Elisa Kazim, Scott Sherman, and Raghib Ali
The impact of the Arab Spring on democracy and development in the MENA region, Habibul Haque Khondker
Variations in 25-hydroxyvitamin d in countries from the middle east and europe: The roles of uvb exposure and diet, William B. Grant, Hana M.A. Fakhoury, Spyridon N. Karras, Fatme Al Anouti, and Harjit P. Bhattoa
Secret Shisha: A Qualitative Study of Waterpipe Tobacco Smoking among Emirati College Women, Justin Thomas, Adam Jeffers, Ludmilla Scott, and Ramzi Salloum
Prevalence of Complications in Type 2 Diabetics in Dubai, UAE: A Cross-sectional Study, Haleama Al Sabbah, Moaza Alketbi, and Rania Dghaim
Whose Responsibility is it Anyway?, Kristine N. Stewart and Judith Mavodza
Data-driven curation, learning and analysis for inferring evolving IoT botnets in the wild, Morteza Safaei Pour, Antonio Mangino, Kurt Friday, Matthias Rathbun, Elias Bou-Harb, Farkhund Iqbal, Khaled Shaban, and Abdelkarim Erradi
Profits, financial leverage and corporate governance, Umar Butt
Employers’ Perception on the Antecedents of Graduate Employability for the Information Technology Sector, Nidhi Sehgal and Saboohi Nasim
The impact of religious salience on purchase intentions: evidence from the UAE, Catherine Nickerson and Anup Menon Nandialath
The Visual and Multimodal Entanglements of Gulf-Arab Women's Social Media Learning, Zoe Hurley
Are library electronic resources providing adequate support for research? A case study of a federal university in the United Arab Emirates, Lilly Hoi Sze Ho
The mediating effect of brand image on the relationships between social media advertising content, sales promotion content and behaviuoral intention, Ridwan Adetunji Raji, Sabrina Rashid, and Sobhi Ishak
Chinese Economic Statecraft and the Gulf Cooperation Council, Jonathan Fulton
Macau’s Heterotopias: Ruins of St. Paul’s as a Spatial and Temporal Disruption, Marta Wieczorek
Drone-Based Vegetation Assessment in Arid Ecosystems, David Gallacher
Stock price movements and trading behaviors around merger and acquisition announcements: Evidence from the Korean stock market, Jin Young Yang, Reuben Segara, and Jingwei Feng
Effects of intradialytic aerobic exercise on hemodialysis patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis, Nada Salhab, Mirey Karavetian, Jeroen Kooman, Enrico Fiaccadori, and Cosette F. El Khoury
Energy production predication via Internet of Thing based machine learning system, Pedro P. Rebouças Filho, Samuel L. Gomes, Navar M.Mendonça e Nascimento, Cláudio M.S. Medeiros, Fatma Outay, and Victor Hugo C. de Albuquerque
Global lightning activity and the hiatus in global warming, Earle Williams, Anirban Guha, Robert Boldi, Hugh Christian, and Dennis Buechler
Inflation hedging with commodities: A wavelet analysis of seven centuries worth of data, Adam Zaremba, Zaghum Umar, and Mateusz Mikutowski
Predictors of life satisfaction in a large nationally representative Japanese sample, Joonha Park, Mohsen Joshanloo, and Heinz Scheifinger
UK's stock market reaction to Brexit process: A tale of two halves, Khurram Shahzad, Ghulame Rubbaniy, M. A.P.E. Lensvelt, and Tariq Bhatti
Understanding users’ acceptance of smart homes, Ahmed Shuhaiber and Ibrahim Mashal
Weaving cognition into the internet-of-things: Application to water leaks, Zakaria Maamar, Thar Baker, Noura Faci, Mohammed Al-Khafajiy, Emir Ugljanin, Yacine Atif, and Mohamed Sellami
n‐Grams exclusion and inclusion filter for intrusion detection in Internet of Energy big data systems, Monther Aldwairi and Duaa Alansari
The Experience of Quality in Higher Education in the United Arab Emirates: In Times of Rapid Change and Complexities, Burcu Tezcan-Unal
Traditional, state-of-the-art and renewable thermal building insulation materials: An overview, Basim Abu-Jdayil, Abdel Hamid Mourad, Waseem Hittini, Muzamil Hassan, and Suhaib Hameedi
‘Mother Weight Carried across Borders’: Migrant Materiality and the Maternal in Meena Alexander’s Fault Lines: A Memoir (2003), Szidonia Haragos
Market development and market efficiency: evidence based on nonlinear panel unit root tests, Ceyda Aktan, Perihan Iren, and Tolga Omay
The demand for eurozone stocks and bonds in a time-varying asset allocation framework, Zaghum Umar, Choudhry Tanveer Shehzad, and Aristeidis Samitas
ER-AE: Differentially-private Text Generation for Authorship Anonymization, Haohan Bo, Steven H. H. Ding, Benjamin C. M. Fung, and Farkhund Iqbal
Media Urbanism and the development of local creative communities, Adina Hempel and Janet Bellotto
A New Approach to Information Extraction in User-Centric E-Recruitment Systems, Malik Nabeel Ahmed Awan, Sharifullah Khan, Khalid Latif, and Asad Masood Khattak
Strategic fit: microfoundations of firm’s environmental performance, Vipin Gupta and Yi Zhang
Language Assessment Literacy in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region, Peter Davidson and Christine Coombe
Short communication: Recognising the perils of landslide-generated tsunamis in the Asia–Pacific region, James P. Terry, James Goff, Nigel Winspear, and Vena Pearl Bongolan
Tracing the evolution of advertising account planning, Park Beede