Submissions from 2018
Welcome Message from the WSDF Workshop Organizers, Richard E. Overill, Virginia N.L. Franqueira, Andrew Marrington, and Andrew Jones
Editor's Introduction, David M. Palfreyman
Introducing Multimodality, Zoe Hurley
Marketing Communications: Objectives, Strategy, Tactics, John R. Rossiter, Larry Percy, and Lars Bergkvist
An SLA-Aware Cloud Coalition Formation Approach for Virtualized Networks, Souad Hadjres, Nadjia Kara, May El Barachi, and Fatna Belqasmi
Fuzzy Energy Efficient Routing for Internet of Things (IoT), Babar Shah
Leading Learning: Women Making a Difference, Lauren Stephenson, Barbara Harold, and Rashida Badri
A Survey of Resource Management Challenges in Multi-cloud Environment: Taxonomy and Empirical Analysis, Bandar Aldawsari, Thar Baker, Muhammad Asim, Zakaria Maamar, Dhiya Al-Jumeily, and Mohammed Alkhafajiy
The Red Sea under the Caliphal Dynasties, c. 639–1171, Timothy Power
Action research on a collegial model of peer observations, Burcu Tezcan-Unal
Student perceptions on peer feedback training using a blended method: A UAE case, Zeina Hojeij and Sandra Baroudi
Quo Vadis? External Powers in a Changing Gulf Region, Li-Chen Sim and Jonathan Fulton
Reactions to psychological contract breaches and organizational citizenship behaviours: An experimental manipulation of severity, Theresa P. Atkinson, Russell A. Matthews, Alexandra A. Henderson, and Christiane Spitzmueller
Short-selling and credit default swap spreads—Where do informed traders trade?, Steven Lecce, Andrew Lepone, Michael D. McKenzie, Jin Boon Wong, and Jin Young Yang
Sun Exposure and Behavioral Activation for Hypovitaminosis D and Depression: A Controlled Pilot Study, Justin Thomas and Fatme Al-Anouti
The impact of ownership structure on earnings quality: the case of South Korea, Abiot Tessema, Moo Sung Kim, and Jagadish Dandu
China's relations with the Arab Gulf monarchies, Jonathan Fulton
Indian Ocean navigation in Islamic sources 850–1560 CE, Eric Staples
Cloud vs edge: Who serves the Internet‐of‐Things better?, Zakaria Maamar, Thar Baker, Mohamed Sellami, Muhammad Asim, Emir Ugljanin, and Noura Faci
Assessment of initiation of breastfeeding practice in Kassala, Eastern Sudan: A community-based study, Ahmed A. Hassan, Zainab Taha, Mohammed Ahmed A. Ahmed, Abdel Aziem A. Ali, and Ishag Adam
Leveraging brand touchpoints: A literature review and research agenda, Lars Bergkvist and Marc Mazodier
Gender and Gender Roles, Jane Bristol-Rhys
How to agentify the Internet-of-Things?, Zakaria Maamar, Noura Faci, Khouloud Boukadi, Emir Ugljanin, Mohamed Sellami, Thar Baker, and Rafael Angarita
Analysis of symbolic models of biometric data and their use for action and user identification, James Alexander Hughes, Joseph Alexander Brown, Adil Mehmood Khan, Asad Masood Khattak, and Mark Daley
Ionic liquid as a potential solvent for preparation of collagen-alginate-hydroxyapatite beads as bone filler, Bushra Iqbal, Zenab Sarfaraz, Nawshad Muhammad, Pervaiz Ahmad, Jibran Iqbal, Zia Ul Haq Khan, Girma Gonfa, Farasat Iqbal, Arshad Jamal, and Abdur Rahim
Online Conference Report: 2018 Annual Electronic Resources & Libraries (ER&L), Austin, Texas, March 4–7, 2018, Mary Jean Bernabe
The relationship between community sporting event participants and the media. The case of Abu Dhabi, Nataša Slak Valek
Collection assessment for a Middle Eastern, English curriculum university library, Lilly Hoi Sze Ho
Highlighting the Future of Autonomous Vehicle Technology in 2020-2050, Nedaa Baker Al Barghuthi, Deepa Pavithran, and Huwida E. Said
Large scale image dataset construction using distributed crawling with hadoop YARN, Rahman Ali, Asmat Ali, Asad Masood Khatak, and Muhammad Saqlain Aslam
Rumor Detection in Business Reviews Using Supervised Machine Learning, Ammara Habib, Saima Akbar, Muhammad Zubair Asghar, Asad Masood Khattak, Rahman Ali, and Ulfat Batool
Clonal emergence of Klebsiella pneumoniae ST14 co-producing OXA-48-type and NDM carbapenemases with high rate of colistin resistance in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Carole Ayoub Moubareck, Shaimaa F. Mouftah, Tibor Pál, Akela Ghazawi, Dalal H. Halat, Anju Nabi, Mouza A. AlSharhan, Zulfa O. AlDeesi, Christabel C. Peters, Handan Celiloglu, Manjunath Sannegowda, Dolla K. Sarkis, and Ágnes Sonnevend
Collusion attacks mitigation in internet of things: a fog based model, Qussai Yaseen, Monther Aldwairi, Yaser Jararweh, Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub, and Brij Gupta
Customer engagement and the relationship between involvement, engagement, self-brand connection and brand usage intent, Paul Harrigan, Uwana Evers, Morgan P. Miles, and Tim Daly
Development and application of artificial neural network models to estimate values of a complex human thermal comfort index associated with urban heat and cool island patterns using air temperature data from a standard meteorological station, Konstantinos Moustris, Ioannis X. Tsiros, Areti Tseliou, and Panagiotis Nastos
Do Managers Disclose or Withhold Bad News? Evidence from Short Interest, Dichu Bao, Yongtae Kim, G. Mujtaba Mian, and Lixin (Nancy) Su
Empirical investigation of co-authorship in the field of finance: A network perspective, Aristeidis Samitas and Elias Kampouris
Extracting semantic relations from the Quranic Arabic based on Arabic conjunctive patterns, Rahima Bentrcia, Samir Zidat, and Farhi Marir
Immunomodulatory roles of bacterial toxins: Impacts on the innate pulmonary defense of the host, Charlotte Abrial, Jennifer da Silva, Régina Geitani, Carole Ayoub Moubareck, and Lhousseine Touqui
Long-term integrity and non-repudiation protocol for multiple entities, Mohamad Badra and Rouba Borghol
Neural word and entity embeddings for ad hoc retrieval, Ebrahim Bagheri, Faezeh Ensan, and Feras Al-Obeidat
One place, two perspectives: Destination image for tourists and nationals in Abu Dhabi, Nataša Slak Valek and Russell Blair Williams
The associations among objectively estimated sleep and obesity indicators in elementary schoolchildren, Teresa Arora, Hoda Gad, Omar M. Omar, Sopna Choudhury, Odette Chagoury, Javaid Sheikh, and Shahrad Taheri
Toxicities, kinetics and degradation pathways investigation of ciprofloxacin degradation using iron-mediated H2O2 based advanced oxidation processes, Noor S. Shah, Allah Ditta Rizwan, Javed Ali Khan, Murtaza Sayed, Zia Ul Haq Khan, Behzad Murtaza, Jibran Iqbal, Salah Ud Din, Muhammad Imran, Muhammad Nadeem, Ala'a H. Al-Muhtaseb, Nawshad Muhammad, Hasan M. Khan, Moinuddin Ghauri, and Gohar Zaman
Bab al-Maqam: From Beginnings to Caricatures of Banality, Samirah Alkassim and Nezar Andary
Behind the Scenes and Films in the Making, Samirah Alkassim and Nezar Andary
Collaborations and Documentary, Samirah Alkassim and Nezar Andary
Early Years and Memories, Samirah Alkassim and Nezar Andary
Excerpts from The Dream: A Diary of a Film, Samirah Alkassim and Nezar Andary
Filmmaking in the New Millennium, Samirah Alkassim and Nezar Andary
From Quneitra to Moscow and Back, Samirah Alkassim and Nezar Andary
Ladder to Damascus : On Patriarchy and Resistance, Samirah Alkassim and Nezar Andary
On Cinema al-Dunya by Muhammad Malas, Samirah Alkassim and Nezar Andary
Poignancy and Memoir in Documentary, Samirah Alkassim and Nezar Andary
Reflections on Memory, Intertextuality, and Banned Films, Samirah Alkassim and Nezar Andary
The Cinema of Memory, Samirah Alkassim and Nezar Andary
A decision matrix model to identify and evaluate APT vulnerabilities at the user plane, Mathew Nicho and Shafaq Naheed Khan
Green computing: Awareness and practices, Ahed Abugabah and Amira Abubaker
Steve A. Yetiv and Katerina Oskarsson, Challenged Hegemony: The United States, China, and Russia in the Persian Gulf, Jonathan Fulton
Malware detection using DNS records and domain name features, Khulood Al Messabi, Monther Aldwairi, Ayesha Al Yousif, Anoud Thoban, and Fatna Belqasmi
Achievement and attitudes in technology-supported postsecondary education: Complexity of relationships through the lens of meta-analysis, Eugene Borokhovski, Robert M. Bernard, Rana M. Tamim, and Richard F. Schmid
Cinema technologies, M. R. Ogden
An Enhanced Temperature Aware Routing Protocol in Wireless Body Area Networks, Beom Su Kim, Ki Il Kim, and Babar Shah
Dental caries and their association with socioeconomic characteristics, oral hygiene practices and eating habits among preschool children in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - the NOPLAS project, Amal Elamin, Malin Garemo, and Andrew Gardner
Education and Supplementation to OvercomeMalnutrition in Pregnant Mothers for ImprovingOffspring Development, Teresa Arora and Ayesha Salem-Al Murry
Review - Challenges of mobility aware MAC protocols in WSN, Sijo Sudheendran, Ons Bouachir, Sherif Moussa, and Adel Omar Dahmane
Opinion: A Resurgent Russia and A Rising UAE in the Gulf, Li-Chen Sim
Multi-classifier system for authorship verification task using word embeddings, Nacer Eddine Benzebouchi, Nabiha Azizi, Monther Aldwairi, and Nadir Farah
Concurrent direct assessment of foundation skills for general education, Anthony Rhodes, Maurice Danaher, and Ashley Ater Kranov
Is tourism really an escape from everyday life? Everyday leisure activities vs leisure travel activities of expats and emirati nationals living in the UAE, Natasa Slak Valek and Anestis Fotiadis
Contributions of mean and shape of blood pressure distribution to worldwide trends and variations in raised blood pressure: A pooled analysis of 1018 population-based measurement studies with 88.6 million participants, Majid Ezzati, Bin Zhou, James Bentham, Mariachiara Di Cesare, Honor Bixby, Goodarz Danaei, Kaveh Hajifathalian, Cristina Taddei, Rodrigo M. Carrillo-Larco, Shirin Djalalinia, Shahab Khatibzadeh, Charles Lugero, Niloofar Peykari, Wan Zhu Zhang, James Bennett, Ver Bilano, Gretchen A. Stevens, Melanie J. Cowan, Leanne M. Riley, Zhengming Chen, Ian R. Hambleton, Rod T. Jackson, Andre Pascal Kengne, Young Ho Khang, Avula Laxmaiah, Jing Liu, Reza Malekzadeh, Hannelore K. Neuhauser, Maroje Sorić, and Gregor Starc
Information literacy outside the classroom, Melanie Wood
Librarians participating in service learning at federal universities in the United Arab Emirates, Mary Sengati-Zimba and Judith Mavodza
Mobile and multidimensional: Flipping the business English classroom, Catherine Nickerson
Rapid determination of illegal additives chrysoidin and malachite green by surface-enhanced Raman scattering with silanized support based substrate, Han Zhang, Lin Sun, Yuan Zhang, Yan Kang, Huilian Hu, Jibran Iqbal, and Yiping Du
Seasonal impact to air qualities in industrial areas of the arabian gulf region, Ahmed A. Al-Taani, Fares M. Howari, Yousef Nazzal, and Ahmad Yousef
SFAS 133 and income smoothing via discretionary accruals: The role of hedge effectiveness and market volatility, Abiot Tessema and Rogier Deumes
Trade asymmetries in the Mediterranean basin, Konstantinos Konstantaras, Dionisis Philippas, and Costas Siriopoulos
Bio-regeneration of activated carbon: A comprehensive review, Maisa El Gamal, Hussein A. Mousa, Muftah H. El-Naas, Renju Zacharia, and Simon Judd
Islamic pedagogy: Potential and perspective, Nadeem A. Memon and Mariam Alhashmi
A new perspective on the swiss cheese model applied to understanding the anatomy of healthcare data breaches, Faouzi Kamoun and Mathew Nicho
Attitudes towards translanguaging: how future teachers perceive the meshing of Arabic and English in children’s storybooks, Afaf al-Bataineh and Kay Gallagher
Creative hybridity over linguistic purity: the status of English in the United Arab Emirates, Sarah Hopkyns, Wafa Zoghbor, and Peter John Hassall
Dynamic malware analysis of phishing emails, Mohammad Abu Qbeitah and Monther Aldwairi
Hollywood’s transnational imaginaries: colonial agency and vision from Indiana Jones to World War Z*, Lena Jayyusi
Recent Evidence on the Oil Price Shocks on Gulf Cooperation Council Stock Markets, Victor S.H. Wong and Suzanna El Massah
Recommending with limited number of trusted users in social networks, Weiwei Yuan, Donghai Guan, and Asad Masood Khattak
A Consumer Perspective on Digital Games: Factors for Successful Game Development, Saiqa Aleem, Luiz Fernando Capretz, and Faheem Ahmed
Classification with class noises through probabilistic sampling, Weiwei Yuan, Donghai Guan, Tinghuai Ma, and Asad Masood Khattak
Earnings smoothing and CEO cash bonus compensation: The role of mandatory derivatives disclosure policy, Abiot Tessema
Glocalization, consumption, and cricket: The Indian Premier League, Habibul Haque Khondker and Roland Robertson
Harm perceptions of waterpipe tobacco smoking among university students in five Eastern Mediterranean Region countries: A cross-sectional study, Niveen M.E. Abu-Rmeileh, Ola Alkhuffash, Khalid Kheirallah, Aya Mostafa, Muhammad Darawad, Yahya Al-Farsi, Afzalhussein Yusufali, Justin Thomas, Mohamed Salama, Randah R. Hamadeh, Rima Nakkash, and Ramzi G. Salloum
Opportunistic mining of top-n high utility patterns, Junqiang Liu, Xingxing Zhang, Benjamin C.M. Fung, Jiuyong Li, and Farkhund Iqbal
Patterns of tobacco use in the United Arab Emirates healthy future (UAEHFS) pilot study, Mohammed Al-Houqani, Andrea Leinberger-Jabari, Abdullah Al Naeemi, Abdullah Al Junaibi, Eiman Al Zaabi, Naima Oumeziane, Marina Kazim, Fatima Al Maskari, Ayesha Al Dhaheri, Leila Abdel Wareth, Wael Al Mahmeed, Habiba Alsafar, Fatme Al Anouti, Abdishakur Abdulle, Claire K. Inman, Aisha Al Hamiz, Muna Haji, Jiyoung Ahn, Tomas Kirchhoff, Richard B. Hayes, Ravichandran Ramasamy, Ann Marie Schmidt, Omar El Shahawy, Michael Weitzman, Raghib Ali, and Scott Sherman
Security and privacy challenges in smart cities, Trevor Braun, Benjamin C.M. Fung, Farkhund Iqbal, and Babar Shah
Short-term CO2 exposure and temperature rise effects on metazoan meiofauna and free-living nematodes in sandy and muddy sediments: Results from a flume experiment, Jeroen Ingels, Giovanni dos Santos, Natalie Hicks, Yirina Valdes Vazquez, Patricia Fernandes Neres, Leticia Pereira Pontes, Mayara Nataly Amorim, Sara Romain, Yongfen Du, Henrik Stahl, Paul J. Somerfield, and Stephen Widdicombe
The role of diet and lifestyle in women with breast cancer: An update review of related research in the Middle East, Zainab Taha and Sakina E. Eltom
Intradialytic Aerobic Exercise in the United Arab Emirates: a Descriptive Study, Nada Salhab, Mirey Karavetian, Jeroen Kooman, and Enrico Fiaccadori
Foreign language learning policy in the United Arab Emirates: Local and global agents of change, Mira Al Hussein and Christina Gitsaki
MemSens: Memristor-Based Radiation Sensor, Heba Abunahla, Baker Mohammad, Lama Mahmoud, Muna Darweesh, Mohammad Alhawari, Maguy Abi Jaoude, and George Wesley Hitt