Submissions from 2019
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
Enablers of entrepreneurial self-efficacy in a developing country, Maqsood Memon, Bahadur Ali Soomro, and Naimatullah Shah
Organizational communication and job satisfaction: what role do generational differences play?, Payal Mehra and Catherine Nickerson
Blockchain technology as a support infrastructure in E-Government evolution at Dubai economic department, Shafaq Naheed Khan, Mohammed Shael, and Munir Majdalawieh
Attitudes and Barriers to Physical Activity in Hemodialysis Patients: Could Intradialytic Exercise Modify These Factors?, Nada Salhab, Jeroen Kooman, Enrico Fiaccadori, Harith Aljubori, and Mirey Karavetian
Public relations in the Middle East: an editorial introduction, Ganga S. Dhanesh and Gaelle P. Duthler
Morpho-orthographic preferences among typical and poor native Arab readers, Haitham Taha and Hanada Taha Thomure
Developing Oracy Skills for Student Voice Work, Marion Heron and David M. Palfreyman
The effect of SOX on audit quality, Moo Sung Kim, Jagadish Dandu, and Perihan Iren
A numerical solution of fredholm integral equations of the second kind based on tight framelets generated by the oblique extension principle, Mutaz Mohammad
Assessment of heavy metals in roadside dust along the Abu Dhabi–Al Ain National Highway, UAE, Ahmed A. Al-Taani, Yousef Nazzal, and Fares M. Howari
Behind the research beliefs and practices of Asian tourism scholars in Malaysia, Vietnam and Thailand, Paolo Mura and Sarah N.R. Wijesinghe
BTEM: Belief based trust evaluation mechanism for Wireless Sensor Networks, Raja Waseem Anwar, Anazida Zainal, Fatma Outay, Ansar Yasar, and Saleem Iqbal
C60 fullerenes selectively inhibit BKCa but not Kv channels in pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells, Mariia I. Melnyk, Irina V. Ivanova, Dariia O. Dryn, Yuriy I. Prylutskyy, Vasyl V. Hurmach, Maxim Platonov, Lina T. Al Kury, Uwe Ritter, Anatoly I. Soloviev, and Alexander V. Zholos
Delay and energy based message delivery in delay tolerant networks, Ali Abbas, Babar Shah, Muhammad Habib, Francis Chow, Raza Hasan, and Ki Il Kim
Entropy analysis of carbon nanotubes based nanofluid flow past a vertical cone with thermal radiation, Muhammad Ramzan, Mutaz Mohammad, Fares Howari, and Jae Dong Chung
Forecasting value-at-risk in oil prices in the presence of volatility shifts, Bradley T. Ewing, Farooq Malik, and Hassan Anjum
Hanada's Text Leveling System (HTLS) from Text Engagement to Text Engagingness, Majed Harb
IFRS and institutional work in the accounting domain, Dina Aburous
Instructional mode: A better predictor of performance than student preferred learning styles, Jase Moussa-Inaty, Fida Atallah, and Mark Causapin
IP/MPLS networks with hardened pipes: service concepts, traffic engineering and design considerations, Faouzi Kamoun and Fatma Outay
Negotiating with Terrorists: The Costs of Compliance, Kerim Peren Arin, Eberhard Feess, Torben Kuhlenkasper, and Otto F.M. Reich
New insights on sand dust storm from historical records, UAE, Yousef Nazzal, Alina Barbulescu, Fares Howari, Ahmad Yousef, Ahmed A. Al-Taani, Fatima Al Aydaroos, and Muhammad Naseem
Nonenzymatic amperometric dopamine sensor based on a carbon ceramic electrode of type SiO2/C modified with Co3O4 nanoparticles, Abdur Rehman Younus, Jibran Iqbal, Nawshad Muhammad, Fozia Rehman, Muhammad Tariq, Abdul Niaz, Syed Badshah, Tawfik A. Saleh, and Abdur Rahim
Role of outer membrane permeability, efflux mechanism, and carbapenemases in carbapenem-nonsusceptible Pseudomonas aeruginosa from Dubai hospitals: Results of the first cross-sectional survey, Carole Ayoub Moubareck, Dalal Hammoudi Halat, Charbel Akkawi, Anju Nabi, Mouza A. AlSharhan, Zulfa O. AlDeesi, Christabel C. Peters, Handan Celiloglu, and Dolla Karam Sarkis
The social facilitation of performance, emotions, and motivation in a high challenge video game: Playing people and playing game characters, Russell Blair Williams
The socio-net of things modeling framework, Amjad Fayoumi, Juliana Sutanto, and Zakaria Maamar
Towards a Resource-aware Thing Composition Approach, Zakaria Maamar, Saoussen Cheikhrouhou, Muhammad Asim, Ayesha Qamar, Thar Bake, and Emir Ugljanin
We tweet Arabic; I tweet English: self-concept, language and social media, Justin Thomas, A. Al-Shehhi, M. Al-Ameri, and Ian Grey
Oral health status of athletes with intellectual disabilities: a review, Shahd Omar Al-Shamlan, Mutaz Mohammad, and Dimitrios Papandreou
Ecosystems as Commodity Frontiers - Challenges Faced by Land Set Aside as Protected Areas (PAs) in the Dubai Emirate, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Brigitte Howarth, Tamer Khafaga, Greg Simkins, and Sabrina Joseph
Gendering Farmer Producer companies at the Agricultural Frontier of India: Empowerment or Burden?, Indrakshi Tandon
Major Risk Factors in the Onset of End-Stage Renal Disease, Haleama Al-Sabbah, Kazem Nazme Basheer, Kristina Lu, and Mustafa Younis
An Efficient Real-Time Data Dissemination Multicast Protocol for Big Data in Wireless Sensor Networks, Beom Su Kim, Monther Aldwairi, and Ki Il Kim
Preparation of cellulosic Ag-nanocomposites using an ionic liquid, Zuhra Tayyab, Sher Zaman Safi, Abdur Rahim, Amir Sada Khan, Faiza Sharif, Zia Ul Haq Khan, Fozia Rehman, Zahoor Ullah, Jibran Iqbal, and Nawshad Muhammad