Submissions from 2019
Early Diagnosis System For Lung Nodules Based On The Integration Of A Higher-Order Mgrf Appearance Feature Model And 3d-Cnn, Ahmed Shaffie, Ahmed Soliman, Ali Mahmoud, Hadil Abu Khalifeh, Fatma Taher, Mohammed Ghazal, Adel Elmaghraby, and Ayman El-Baz
Effects of vitamin D status and supplements on anthropometric and biochemical indices in a clinical setting: A retrospective study, Myriam Abboud, Xiaoying Liu, Flavia Fayet-Moore, Kaye E. Brock, Dimitrios Papandreou, Tara C. Brennan-Speranza, and Rebecca S. Mason
Enhanced label noise filtering with multiple voting, Donghai Guan, Maqbool Hussain, Weiwei Yuan, Asad Masood Khattak, Muhammad Fahim, and Wajahat Ali Khan
Exploring the time and frequency domain connectedness of oil prices and metal prices, Zaghum Umar, Samia Nasreen, Sakiru Adebola Solarin, and Aviral Kumar Tiwari
Genistein modulates signaling pathways and targets several epigenetic markers in hela cells, Madhumitha Kedhari Sundaram, Sreepoorna Unni, Pallavi Somvanshi, Tulika Bhardwaj, Raju K. Mandal, Arif Hussain, and Shafiul Haque
Higher Education 4.0: Uni for nothin’, MOOCs for free?, Ravi Sharma, Kevin Jones, Warwick Anderson, and Anushia Inthiran
Impact of nonlinear chemical reaction and melting heat transfer on an MHD nanofluid flow over a thin needle in porous media, Muhammad Ramzan, Hina Gul, Seifedine Kadry, Chhayly Lim, Yunyoung Nam, and Fares Howari
Improved Identity Management with Verifiable Credentials and FIDO, David W. Chadwick, Romain Laborde, Arnaud Oglaza, Remi Venant, Samer Wazan, and Manreet Nijjar
Incense Burning is Associated with Human Oral Microbiota Composition, Yvonne Vallès, Claire K. Inman, Brandilyn A. Peters, Laila Abdel Wareth, Abdishakur Abdulle, Habiba Alsafar, Fatme Al Anouti, Ayesha Al Dhaheri, Divya Galani, Muna Haji, Aisha Al Hamiz, Ayesha Al Hosani, Mohammed Al Houqani, Abdulla Aljunaibi, Marina Kazim, Tomas Kirchhoff, Wael Al Mahmeed, Fatma Al Maskari, Abdullah Alnaeemi, Naima Oumeziane, Ravichandran Ramasamy, Ann Marie Schmidt, Henri Vallès, Eiman Al Zaabi, Scott Sherman, Raghib Ali, Jiyoung Ahn, and Richard B. Hayes
Incentive Based Relaying in D2D Social Networks, Jagadeesha R. Bhat, C. V. Anoop, and Omar Alfandi
Individual-level determinants of waterpipe smoking demand in four Eastern-Mediterranean countries, Ramzi G. Salloum, Rima Nakkash, Niveen M.E. Abu-Rmeileh, Randah R. Hamadeh, Muhammad W. Darawad, Khalid A. Kheirallah, Yahya Al-Farsi, Afzalhussein Yusufali, Justin Thomas, Aya Mostafa, Mohamed Salama, Lama El Kadi, Sukaina Alzyoud, Nihaya Al-Sheyab, and James F. Thrasher
Individual variations in intestinal microbiota were higher in preterm infants with necrotising enterocolitis than healthy controls, Tarek Itani, Carole Ayoub Moubareck, Irène Mangin, Marie José Butel, and Dolla Karam Sarkis
Literacy Learning in the UAE: A Case for Exploration: NorthStar International School, United Arab Emirates, Fatima Bailey
Magnetized suspended carbon nanotubes based nanofluid flow with bio-convection and entropy generation past a vertical cone, Muhammad Ramzan, Mutaz Mohammad, and Fares Howari
Marathon TV watching among emiratis in the interactive media environment, Azza Ahmed
Pokémon GO is serious leisure that increases the touristic engagement, physical activity and sense of happiness of players, Russell B. Williams and Natasa Slak-Valek
Revisiting the Growth Effects of Fiscal Policy: A Bayesian Model Averaging Approach, K. Peren Arin, Elias Braunfels, and Gernot Doppelhofer
Show, Not Tell: The Contingency Role of Infographics Versus Text in the Differential Effects of Message Strategies on Optimistic Bias, Guanxiong Huang, Kang Li, and Hairong Li
Temporal and Effort cost Decision-making in Healthy Individuals with Subclinical Psychotic Symptoms, Damiano Terenzi, Elena Mainetto, Mariapaola Barbato, Raffaella Ida Rumiati, and Marilena Aiello
There is nothing so practical as good theory for tracking destination image over time, Steven Pike, H. S. Jin, and Filareti Kotsi
Why some people do not use Facebook?, Anas Aloudat, Ons Al-Shamaileh, and Katina Michael
A positive Living-in-History effect: the case of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Christin Camia, Christina Menzel, and Annette Bohn
Testbed of QoS Ad-Hoc network designed for cooperative multi-drone tasks, Ouns Bouachir, Moayad Aloqaily, Fabien Garcia, Nicolas Larrieu, and Thierry Gayraud
Data Mining in Health Care Sector: Literature Notes, Ahed Abugabah, Ahmad Al Smadi, and Alaa Abuqabbeh
Where are Islamic finance indices pointing towards?: Lessons from experimental ‘pockets’ of Islamic financial regulation on international stock markets, Mohammed El Hadi El Maknouzi and Iyad Mohammad Jadalhaq
Guidelines for key organizational factors for saas organizations, Saiqa Aleem, Rabia Batool, Faheem Ahmed, and Asad Khattak
Pakistan, Habibul Haque Khondker
Country-specific determinants of FDI inflows to the MENA region: A systematic review and future research directions, Anna Dimitrova, Tim Rogmans, and Dora Triki
Construct heterogeneity and proliferation in advertising research, Lars Bergkvist and Tobias Langner
Lexical sophistication across languages: a preliminary study of undergraduate writing in Arabic (L1) and English (L2), David M. Palfreyman and Suha Karaki
Life outside your comfort zone: The power of reflection for cultural adjustment, Jobila Sy and Natalie Cruz
Pathological Comparisons of the Hippocampal Changes in the Transient and Permanent Middle Cerebral Artery Occlusion Rat Models, Fawad Ali Shah, Tao Li, Lina Tariq Al Kury, Alam Zeb, Shehla Khatoon, Gongping Liu, Xifei Yang, Fang Liu, Huo Yao, Arif Ullah Khan, Phil Ok Koh, Yuhua Jiang, and Shupeng Li
Does female representation on corporate boards improve intellectual capital efficiency?, Muhammad Nadeem, Muhammad Bilal Farooq, and Ammad Ahmed
Investigating the intention to adopt smartphone apps among the entrepreneurs of a developing country, Bahadur Ali Soomro, Naimatullah Shah, and Maqsood Memon
Determinants of innovative behaviors among self-initiated expatriates, Taiba Hussain, Perihan Iren, and John Rice
Does technology divide or unite generations?: Testing media richness and communication climate effects on communication satisfaction in the Indian workplace, Payal Mehra and Catherine Nickerson
Accurately forecasting temperatures in smart buildings using fewer sensors, Bruce Spencer, Feras Al-Obeidat, and Omar Alfandi
A comparative analysis of cyberbullying and cyberstalking laws in the UAE, US, UK and Canada, Haifa Al Hosani, Maryam Yousef, Shaima Al Shouq, Farkhund Iqbal, and Djedjiga Mouheb
Aggregate investor sentiment and stock return synchronicity, Timothy K. Chue, Ferdinand A. Gul, and G. Mujtaba Mian
A Noninvasive Image-Based Approach Toward An Early Diagnosis Of Autism, Yaser ElNakieb, Ahmed Shalaby, Ali Mahmoud, Hassan Hajjdiab, Ashraf Khalil, Mohammed Ghazal, Fatma Taher, Ahmed Soliman, Robert Keynton, Gregory Barnes, and Ayman El-Baz
A Privacy-Preserving Context Ontology (PPCO) for Smart Connected Toys, Benjamin Yankson, Farkhund Iqbal, Saiqa Aleem, Babar Shah, Patrick C.K. Hung, and Anna Priscilla De Albuquerque
Biorthogonal-wavelet-based method for numerical solution of volterra integral equations, Mutaz Mohammad
Boosting IoT Efficiency and Security through Blockchain: Blockchain-based Car Insurance Process - A Case Study, Salam Khanji, Farkhund Iqbal, Zakaria Maamar, and Hakim Hacid
Computational Analysis Techniques: A Case Study On Fmri For Autism Spectrum Disorder, Omar Dekhil, Ali Mahmoud, Ahmed Shalaby, Ahmed Soliman, Fatma Taher, Hassan Hajjdiab, Ashraf Khalil, Mohammed Ghazal, Robert Keynton, Gregory Barnes, and Ayman El-Baz
Detection of SQL Injection Attacks: A Machine Learning Approach, Musaab Hasan, Zayed Balbahaith, and Mohammed Tarique
Domain Adaptation for Car Accident Detection in Videos, Elizaveta Batanina, Imad Eddine Ibrahim Bekkouch, Youssef Youssry, Adil Khan, Asad Masood Khattak, and Mikhail Bortnikov
Drone forensics: A case study on a DJI mavic air, Maryam Yousef and Farkhund Iqbal
Drone forensics: A case study on DJI phantom 4, Dua'a Abu Hamdi, Farkhund Iqbal, Saiqa Alam, Abdulla Kazim, and Aine MacDermott
Enabling high performance fog computing through fog-2-fog coordination model, Mohammed Al-Khafajiy, Thar Baker, Atif Waraich, Omar Alfandi, and Aseel Hussien
Facial image pre-processing and emotion classification: A deep learning approach, Alramzana Nujum Navaz, Serhani Mohamed Adel, and Sujith Samuel Mathew
Fog computing enabling industrial internet of things: State-of-the-art and research challenges, Rabeea Basir, Saad Qaisar, Mudassar Ali, Monther Aldwairi, Muhammad Ikram Ashraf, Aamir Mahmood, and Mikael Gidlund
Hybrid multicriteria fuzzy classification of network traffic patterns, anomalies, and protocols, F. Al-Obeidat and E. S.M. El-Alfy
Improving fog computing performance via Fog-2-Fog collaboration, Mohammed Al-khafajiy, Thar Baker, Hilal Al-Libawy, Zakaria Maamar, Moayad Aloqaily, and Yaser Jararweh
Investigation of the impact of a wireless Fog Warning System with respect to road traffic on a highway, Fatma Outay, Absar Ul Haque Ahmar, Faouzi Kamoun, Ansar Ul Haque Yasar, Christoph Sommer, Nafaa Jabeur, and Samar El-Amine
Malnutrition-inflammation score VS phase angle in the era of GLIM criteria: A cross-sectional study among hemodialysis patients in UAE, Mirey Karavetian, Nada Salhab, Rana Rizk, and Kalliopi Anna Poulia
Novel Approaches For Segmenting Cerebral Vasculature, Heba Kandil, Ahmed Soliman, Ali Mahmoud, Ahmed Shalaby, Fatma Taher, Mohammed Ghazal, Adel Elmagraby, and Ayman El-Baz
Prevalence and associated factors of caesarean section and its impact on early initiation of breastfeeding in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Zainab Taha, Ahmed Ali Hassan, Ludmilla Wikkeling-Scott, and Dimitrios Papandreou
Readiness, Safety, and Privacy on Adopting Autonomous Vehicle Technology: UAE Case Study, Nedaa Baker Al Barghuthi and Huwida Said
Smart homes as an IoT application: Predicting attitudes and behaviours, Ahmed Shuhaiber, Ibrahim Mashal, and Osama Alsaryrah
State of Art of the Effectiveness in Adopting Blockchain Technology-UAE Survey Study, Nedaa Baker Al Barghuthi, Cornelius Ncube, and Huwida Said
The impact of behavioural skills training on the knowledge, skills and well-being of front line staff in the intellectual disability sector: a clustered randomised control trial, L. Gormley, O. Healy, B. O'Sullivan, D. O'Regan, I. Grey, and M. Bracken
The Role of Smart Homes' Attributes on Users' Acceptance, Ahmed Shuhaiber, Ibrahim Mashal, and Osama Alsaryrah
Towards A Robust Cad System For Early Diagnosis Of Autism Using Structural Mri, Ali Mahmoud, Yaser ElNakieb, Ahmed Shalaby, Ahmed Soliman, Fatma Taher, Hassan Hajjdiab, Ashraf Khalil, Mohammed Ghazal, Robert Keynton, Jasjit S. Suri, Gregory N. Barnes, and Ayman El-Baz
Using Data Mining Techniques to Identify Construction Claims Causes: A Case Study, Vasila Al Khaldi, Nazar Zaki, Essam Zaneldin, and Elfadil A. Mohamed
Women on boards, firm risk and the profitability nexus: Does gender diversity moderate the risk and return relationship?, Muhammad Nadeem, T. Suleman, and A. Ahmed
Comparing the behaviour of human face capturing attention of autistic & normal developing children using eye tracking data analysis approach, Mohamed Basel Almourad and Emad Bataineh
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