Submissions from 2017
A note on the macroeconomic consequences of ethnic/racial tension, K. Peren Arin, Murat Koyuncu, and Nicola Spagnolo
Emerging media and press freedoms as determinants of nonviolent and violent political conflicts, 1990–2006, Jacob Groshek and Britt Christensen
Feature extraction and selection for Arabic tweets authorship authentication, Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub, Yaser Jararweh, Abdullateef Rabab’ah, and Monther Aldwairi
Gender premium and economic downswings, Elona Shehu, Khurram Shahzad, Ghulame Rubbaniy, and Abida Perveen
Healthcare support for underserved communities using a mobile social media platform, Shah Jahan Miah, Najmul Hasan, Rashadul Hasan, and John Gammack
Mobile or Not? Assessing the Instructional Value of Mobile Learning, Catherine Nickerson, Chrysi Rapanta, and Valerie Priscilla Goby
On business process monitoring using cross-flow coordination, Zakaria Maamar, Noura Faci, Mohamed Sellami, Khouloud Boukadi, Fadwa Yahya, Ahmed Barnawi, and Sherif Sakr
Protein-energy wasting and nutritional supplementation in patients with end-stage renal disease on hemodialysis, A. Sabatino, G. Regolisti, T. Karupaiah, S. Sahathevan, B. K. Sadu Singh, B. H. Khor, N. Salhab, M. Karavetian, A. Cupisti, and E. Fiaccadori
Web 2.0 applications in the workplace: How to ensure their proper use?, Noura Faci, Zakaria Maamar, Vanilson Burégio, Emir Ugljanin, and Djamal Benslimane
Analyzing students’ performance using multi-criteria classification, Feras Al-Obeidat, Abdallah Tubaishat, Anna Dillon, and Babar Shah
Antecedents and Consequences of Marital Satisfaction in an Emirati Sample: A Structural Equation Model Analysis, Fatima Rashed Al-Darmaki, Shaima Ahammed, Sofoh H. Hassane, Abdullah Seif Abdullah, Saad Ibrahim Yaaqeib, and Hamzeh Dodeen
Multimedia File Signature Analysis for Smartphone Forensics, D. Hamdi, F. Iqbal, T. Baker, and B. Shah
Negotiating space for women's academic leadership within the Arab Gulf States, Linzi J. Kemp, Christina Gitsaki, and Wafa Zoghbor
Towards safer roads through cooperative hazard awareness and avoidance in connected vehicles, Fatma Outay, Faouzi Kammoun, Florent Kaisser, and Mohammed Atiquzzaman
Automated malicious advertisement detection using VirusTotal, URLVoid, and TrendMicro, Rima Masri and Monther Aldwairi
Detecting and tackling run-time obstacles in social business processes, Zakaria Maamar, Mohamed Sellami, Noura Faci, and Sylvain Lefebvre
Securing the internet of things: A worst-case analysis of trade-off between query-anonymity and communication-cost, Kadhim Hayawi, Pin Han Ho, Sujith Samuel Mathew, and Limei Peng
Performance of modified sulfur concrete exposed to actual sewerage environment with variable temperature, humidity and gases, Maisa M. El Gamal, Amr S. El-Dieb, Abdel Mohsen O. Mohamed, and Khaled M. El Sawy
Real-time routing protocols for (m,k)-firm streams based on multi-criteria in wireless sensor networks, Mohammad Abdul Azim, Beom Su Kim, Babar Shah, and Ki Il Kim
School-going teenage mothers and fathers: Gender, challenges and the negotiation of learner-parent roles, Thobeka Ntini and Vishanthie Sewpaul
When God's (not) needed: Spotlight on how belief in divine control influences goal commitment, Jamel Khenfer, Elyette Roux, Eric Tafani, and Kristin Laurin
Hindu identity as a site of liminality, Leena Taneja
A prudent based approach for compromised user credentials detection, Adnan Amin, Babar Shah, Sajid Anwar, Feras Al-Obeidat, Asad Masood Khattak, and Awais Adnan
Destination image, customer satisfaction and behavioural intentions: The state-of-the-art and a new research agenda, A. Fotiadis, M. Sotiriadis, and C. A. Vassiliadis
Travel review websites and interactive travel forums, M. Sotiriadis, A. Fotiadis, and C. A. Vassiliadis
Collusion attacks in Internet of Things: Detection and mitigation using a fog based model, Qussai Yaseen, Yaser Jararweh, Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub, and Monther Al Dwairi
Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill, David W. Bulla
Joint workload scheduling and BBU allocation in cloud-RAN for 5G networks, Lilatul Ferdouse, Waleed Ejaz, Alagan Anpalagan, and Asad Masood Khattak
Reflections of Academic Experiences From Formerly Incarcerated African American Males, Adam R. Jeffers
Social work education in the Arabian Gulf: Challenges and opportunities, Lacey M. Sloan, Nicole F. Bromfield, John Matthews, and Karen Smith Rotabi
Challenges in technology transfer: an actor perspective in a quadruple helix environment, Constance Van Horne and Vincent Dutot
New Lamps for Old: The Gulf Leadership Communication Framework, Catherine Nickerson and Valerie Priscilla Goby
Past and potential tsunami sources in the South China Sea: A brief synthesis, James P. Terry, Nigel Winspear, James Goff, and P. H.Hannah Tan
Refurbishment of public housing villas in the United Arab Emirates (UAE): energy and economic impact, Bassam Abu-Hijleh, Abeer Manneh, Athari AlNaqbi, Wafaa AlAwadhi, and Ayoub Kazim
The computing professional skills assessment utilized with graduate students, Maurice Danaher, Kevin Schoepp, and Ashley Ater Kranov
The effectiveness of the use of social media in government communication in the UAE, Elsayed B. Darwish
Type 2 diabetes and its correlates in a first nationwide study among Cypriot adults, Eleni Andreou, Dimitrios Papandreou, Photos Hajigeorgiou, Katia Kyriakou, Thalia Avraam, Georgia Chappa, Procopis Kallis, Christalleni Lazarou, Christiana Philippou, Christoforos Christoforou, Rebecca Kokkinofta, Christos Dioghenous, Savvas Savva, Antony Kafatos, and Antonios Zampelas
Determinants of Corporate Leverage in Publicly Listed GCC Companies – Conventional versus Sukuk, Rwan El-Khatib
A sequential inspection and replacement policy for degradation-based systems, Zhicheng Zhu, Yisha Xiang, Suzan Alaswad, and C. Richard Cassady
Continuous health monitoring using smartphones-A case-study for monitoring diabetic patients in UAE, A. J. Jihad, Sujith Samuel Mathew, Sujni Paul, and D. Ponmary Pushpalatha
From the Internet of Things to the web of things-enabling by sensing as-A service, Sujith Samuel Mathew, Yacine Atif, and May El-Barachi
Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh: Politics, Personality and Policies, Habibul Haque Khondker
Network layer inter-operation of Device-to-Device communication technologies in Internet of Things (IoT), Oladayo Bello, Sherali Zeadally, and Mohamad Badra
Curriculum as a Discourse: Using Critical Discourse Analysis to Revive Curriculum Reconceptualists' Thought, Majed Harb
Aging study of the powdered magnetite nanoparticles, Umar Saeed Khan, Abdur Rahim, Nasrullah Khan, Nawshad Muhammad, Fozia Rehman, Khalid Ahmad, and Jibran Iqbal
A relational perspective on the contract-control-trust nexus in an interfirm relationship, Reinald A. Minnaar, Ed Vosselman, Paula M.G. van Veen-Dirks, and Muhammad Kaleem Zahir-ul-Hassan
Arts and the Super-Rich: Emerging Relations in the Gulf and the East, Sarina Wakefield
Assessment of microbial quality in household water tanks in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Munawwar Ali Khan and Asma Mohammad Abdulrahman Ahmad Almadani
Comment on “Late Cenozoic sea level and the rise of modern rimmed atolls” by Toomey et al. (2016), Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 451: 73–83, James P. Terry and James Goff
Communitarian norms and regional security: The GCC as a security community, Mona Farag
Extending information system models to the health care context: An empirical study and experience from developing countries, Osama Alfarraj and Ahed Abugabah
Globalization and inequality, Habibul Haque Khondker
How many sleep diary entries are needed to reliably estimate adolescent sleep?, Michelle A. Short, Teresa Arora, Michael Gradisar, Shahrad Taheri, and Mary A. Carskadon
MADONA: a method for automated provisioning of cloud-based component-oriented business applications, Hind Benfenatki, Catarina Ferreira Da Silva, Gavin Kemp, Aïcha Nabila Benharkat, Parisa Ghodous, and Zakaria Maamar
Mining Educational Data for Academic Accreditation: Aligning Assessment with Outcomes, Mohammed Hussain, Mohamed Al-Mourad, Sujith Mathew, and Abdullah Hussein
Modelling asymmetric volatility in oil prices under structural breaks, Bradley T. Ewing and Farooq Malik
Preface, Mohamad Badra
Statistical inference for partially observed branching processes with immigration, Ibrahim Rahimov
Bangladesh and the Banality of Violence: Civility, Culture, and Crime, Habibul Haque Khondker
The application of narrow-band NDVI as a tool for mapping mangrove environment in Abu Dhabi, Hassan Hajjdiab, Haitham Farok, and Fares M. Howari
Reading rate and comprehension for text presented on tablet and paper: Evidence from Arabic, Ehab W. Hermena, Mercedes Sheen, Maryam AlJassmi, Khulood AlFalasi, Maha AlMatroushi, and Timothy R. Jordan
Compromised user credentials detection using temporal features: A prudent based approach, Adnan Amin, Sajid Anwar, Babar Shah, and Asad Masood Khattak
Privacy Requirements for mobile e-Service in the Health Authority-Abu Dhabi (HAAD), Asad M. Khattak, Farkhund Iqbal, Patrick C.K. Hung, Jwo Shiun Sun, Guan Pu Pan, and Jing Jie Lin
Unsupervised geometrical feature learning from hyperspectral data, Muhammad Ahmad, Adil Mehmood Khan, Rasheed Hussain, Stanislav Protasov, Francis Chow, and Asad Masood Khattak
Comparing The Effectiveness Of Processing Instruction And Production-Based Instruction On L2 Grammar Learning: The Role Of Explicit Information, Adem Soruc, Jingjing Qin, and YouJin Kim
Communicating Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the Luxury Industry: Managing CSR–Luxury Paradox Online Through Acceptance Strategies of Coexistence and Convergence, Jia Yun Wong and Ganga S. Dhanesh
Establishment and development of the intestinal microbiota of preterm infants in a Lebanese tertiary hospital, Tarek Itani, Carole Ayoub Moubareck, Imad Melki, Clotilde Rousseau, Irène Mangin, Marie José Butel, and Dolla Karam Sarkis
On-Cloud Healthcare Clinic: An e-health consultancy approach for remote communities in a developing country, Shah J. Miah, Jahidul Hasan, and John G. Gammack
Stigma of Seeking Psychological Services: Examining College Students Across Ten Countries/Regions, David L. Vogel, Haley A. Strass, Patrick J. Heath, Fatima R. Al-Darmaki, Patrick I. Armstrong, Makilim N. Baptista, Rachel E. Brenner, Marta Gonçalves, Daniel G. Lannin, Hsin Ya Liao, Corey S. Mackenzie, Winnie W.S. Mak, Mark Rubin, Nursel Topkaya, Nathaniel G. Wade, Ying Fen Wang, and Alina Zlati
The Triple Flip: Using Technology for Peer and Self-Editing of Writing, Zeina Hojeij and Zoe Hurley
Comparing internal and external impacts of sustainable innovation: an exploratory study, Wasseem Abaza
Forensic analysis of xbox one and playstation 4 gaming consoles, Salam Khanji, Raja Jabir, Farkhund Iqbal, and Andrew Marrington
Worldwide trends in blood pressure from 1975 to 2015: a pooled analysis of 1479 population-based measurement studies with 19·1 million participants, Bin Zhou, James Bentham, Mariachiara Di Cesare, Honor Bixby, Goodarz Danaei, Melanie J. Cowan, Christopher J. Paciorek, Gitanjali Singh, Kaveh Hajifathalian, James E. Bennett, Cristina Taddei, Ver Bilano, Rodrigo M. Carrillo-Larco, Shirin Djalalinia, Shahab Khatibzadeh, Charles Lugero, Niloofar Peykari, Wan Zhu Zhang, Yuan Lu, Gretchen A. Stevens, Leanne M. Riley, Pascal Bovet, Paul Elliott, Dongfeng Gu, Nayu Ikeda, Rod T. Jackson, Michel Joffres, Andre Pascal Kengne, Tiina Laatikainen, and Tai Hing Lam
Learning systems' learning analytics, Adam Marks, Maytha Al-Ali, and Kees Rietsema
North Africa: Implications for Information Creation and Access, Kristine N. Stewart and Heather Moulaison Sandy
Academic biliteracies: Multilingual repertoires in higher education, David M. Palfreyman and Christa Van Der Walt
Academic reading on a collaborative, online platform, Jenny Eppard and Preeya Reddy
A Decision support framework for public healthcare: An approach to follow-up support service, Shah Jahan Miah, John G. Gammack, Rashadul Hasan, and Najmul Hasan
A Dynamic Theory of Environmental Performance Management and Exploratory Evidence in Chinese Context, Vipin Gupta and Yi Zhang
A framework for flipped learning, Jenny Eppard and Aicha Rochdi
Africa and the middle east: Shifting alliances and strategic partnerships, Hamdy A. Hassan and Hala Thabet
A fuzzy logic-based approach for assessing the quality of business process models, Fadwa Yahya, Khouloud Boukadi, Hanêne Ben Abdallah, and Zakaria Maamar
Agents of Change: How Islamist Women Activists in Israel Are Challenging the Status Quo, Tilde Rosmer
A model of system limiting availability under imperfect maintenance, Suzan Alaswad, Richard Cassady, Edward Pohl, and Xiaoping Li
An alternative perspective for political science in North Africa, Hamdy A. Hassan
A Neural network approach to visibility range estimation under foggy weather conditions, Hazar Chaabani, Faouzi Kamoun, Hichem Bargaoui, Fatma Outay, and Ansar Ul Haque Yasar
An evaluation of seasonal patterns of thermal conditions inside a vegetated courtyard area of a Mediterranean city (Athens), Ioannis Charalampopoulos, Fotoula Droulia, Areti Tseliou, and Ioannis Tsiros
An investigation of gender and generational differences in attitudes toward the importance of a college degree in the UAE, Laura L. Matherly, Sheikha Shamma bint Sultan bin Khalifa Al Nahyan, and Nadia Amin
An Ontological Derivation of the Dynamic Conditionality for Environmental Performance Management, Vipin Gupta and Yi Zhang
A reference framework for enterprise computing curriculum, Munir Majdalawieh and Adam Marks
Are students in graduate programmes adequately attaining professional skills?, Maurice Danaher, Kevin Schoepp, and Ashley Ater Kranov
A review on condition-based maintenance optimization models for stochastically deteriorating system, Suzan Alaswad and Yisha Xiang
A Security Threat Analysis of Smart Home Network with Vulnerable Dynamic Agents, Laura Rafferty, Farkhund Iqbal, and Patrick C. K. Hung
Assessing students' foundation skills prior to the STEM majors, Anthony Rhodes, Maurice M. Danaher, and Ashley Ater Kranov
Assessing the effect of customer perceptions of corporate social responsibility on customer trust within a low cultural trust context, Claudel Mombeuil and Anestis K. Fotiadis
A study of children facial recognition for privacy in smart TV, Patrick C.K. Hung, Kamen Kanev, Farkhund Iqbal, David Mettrick, Laura Rafferty, Guan Pu Pan, Shih Chia Huang, and Benjamin C.M. Fung
Attitudinal and cognitive beliefs of two preservice secondary mathematics teachers, Shashidhar Belbase
Barriers to implementing green management in the hospitality industry, Shih Shuo Yeh, Anestis K. Fotiadis, Mei Ling Huang, and Tzung Cheng Huan
Basis independence of implicitly defined hamiltonian circuit dynamics, Jon Pierre Fortney