Submissions from 2016
A societal cost-of-illness study of hemodialysis in Lebanon, Rana Rizk, Mickaël Hiligsmann, Mirey Karavetian, Pascale Salameh, and Silvia M.A.A. Evers
Benthic Carbon Mineralization and Nutrient Turnover in a Scottish Sea Loch: An Integrative In Situ Study, Ronnie N. Glud, Peter Berg, Henrik Stahl, Andrew Hume, Morten Larsen, Bradley D. Eyre, and Perran L.M. Cook
Home literacy as cultural transmission: Parent preferences for shared reading in the United Arab Emirates, Lydia Barza and Antje von Suchodoletz
Stream turbidity responses to storm events in a pristine rainforest watershed on the Coral Coast of southern Fiji, Arishma R. Ram and James P. Terry
The application of item response theory in developing and validating a shortened version of the Emirate Marital Satisfaction Scale, Hamzeh Dodeen and Fatima Al-Darmaki
The impact of Ias 36 on equity values: Empirical evidence from UAE, Yousef Shahwan and Jamal Roudaki
Tsunamigenic slope failures: the Pacific Islands ‘blind spot’?, James Goff and James P. Terry
Towards a meta-modeling approach for social business process requirements capture, Fadwa Yahya, Khouloud Boukadi, Zakaria Maamar, and Hanêne Ben-Abdallah
Emirati cultural identity in the age of 'Englishisation': Voices from an Abu Dhabi university, Sarah Hopkyns
Book review: Erika Darics (ed.), Digital Business Discourse, Catherine Nickerson
Robustness of Firm-Specific and Macroeconomic Determinants of Exploration Investments: Implications from Egyptian Oil & Gas Industry, Tarek Eldomiaty, Ibrahim Safwat Lotfy, Mohamed Rashwan, and Mohamed Bahaa El Din
Women in Middle-Eastern organisations: career experiences, opportunities and work-life balance, Nicolina Kamenou-Aigbekaen and Kathryn Thory
Brutality or frequency? An empirical investigation of the effects of terrorism on economic growth in India, K. Peren Arin, Fabio Spagnolo, and Nicola Spagnolo
Evaluating dispersion forces for optimization of van der Waals complexes using a non-empirical functional, Alya A. Arabi
Development of a DSS and Online Tools to Support Sleep Disorder Consultations using Design Science., Jacqueline Blake, Don Kerr, and John Gammack
PerSaDoR: Personalized social document representation for improving web search, Mohamed Reda Bouadjenek, Hakim Hacid, Mokrane Bouzeghoub, and Athena Vakali
Android device hacking tricks and countermeasures, Khulood Al Zaabi
Game development software engineering process life cycle: a systematic review, Saiqa Aleem, Luiz Fernando Capretz, and Faheem Ahmed
Exploratory study into the awareness of heart diseases among Emirati women (UAE) and their health seeking behaviour- a qualitative study, Sarah Khan, Ayesha Khoory, Dhabia Al Zaffin, and Meera Al Suwaidi
Companies’ Accountability in Sustainability: A Comparative Analysis of SDGs in Five Countries, Kamala Vainy Pillai, Pavel Slutsky, Katharina Wolf, Gaelle Duthler, and Inka Stever
Calculating the speed of vehicles using Wireless Sensor Networks, Omar Alfandi, Arne Bochem, Mehdi Akbari Gurabi, Alberto Rivera Diaz, Md Istiak Mehedi, and Dieter Hogrefe
Cinema technologies, M. R. Ogden
Preface, M. Badra
The risk in capital controls, Konstantinos Gkillas (Gillas), Athanasios Tsagkanos, and Costas Siriopoulos
Towards an open source architecture for multi-operator LTE core networks, Ricardo Marco Alaez, Jose M. Alcaraz Calero, Fatna Belqasmi, May El-Barachi, Mohamad Badra, and Omar Alfandi
Gait fingerprinting-based user identification on smartphones, Muhammad Ahmad, Adil Mehmood Khan, Joseph Alexander Brown, Stanislav Protasov, and Asad Masood Khattak
Supporting Sensemaking of Complex Objects with Visualizations: Visibility and Complementarity of Interactions, Kamran Sedig, Paul Parsons, Hai-Ning Liang, and Jim Morey
Android forensics: Investigating social networking cybercrimes against man-in-the-middle attacks, Khulood Ali Al Zaabi
Utilizing ERP System in Higher Education: A Case of a HEI in the UAE, Maitha Khalifa Alshaer
A survey on network simulators in three-dimensional wireless ad hoc and sensor networks, Seokyoon Kang, Monther Aldwairi, and Ki Il Kim
Building Mobile Brand Equity: The Mediating Roles of Perceived Values, Amjad A. Abu ELSamen
Estimation of the offspring mean in a branching process with non stationary immigration, I. Rahimov
The use of Google apps to support teaching and learning: A UAE case study, Fawzi Fayez Ishtaiwa-Dweikat and Ibtehal M. Aburezeq
Understanding the history of extreme wave events in the Tuamotu Archipelago of French Polynesia from large carbonate boulders on Makemo Atoll, with implications for future threats in the central South Pacific, A. Y.Annie Lau, James P. Terry, Alan D. Ziegler, Adam D. Switzer, Yingsin Lee, and Samuel Etienne
Whistleblower Protection Laws in the Financial Markets: Lessons for Emerging Markets, Christian Chamorro-Courtland and Marc Cohen
A privacy-preserving and power-efficient bicycle tracking scheme for theft mitigation, Arne Bochem, Kevin Freeman, Martin Schwarzmaier, Omar Alfandi, and Dieter Hogrefe
Assessing the Status of Housing Conditions for Workers of Farms in Liwa within the United Arab Emirates, Fatima Marzouq AlMehairbi
Effects of spatial frequencies on word identification by fast and slow readers: Evidence from eye movements, Timothy R. Jordan, Jasmine Dixon, Victoria A. McGowan, Stoyan Kurtev, and Kevin B. Paterson
How to Restrict Web 2.0 Applications Use in the Workplace? Example of Google+ Hangouts, Emir Ugljanin, Noura Faci, Vanilson Buregio, and Zakaria Maamar
Relaciones padre-hijo en los emiratos árabes unidos (EAU), Joana Novaes Machado Stocker and Khairia Ghuloum Ali Mohamed Hassan Ali
An updated mini review of Vitamin D and obesity: Adipogenesis and inflammation state, Zujaja Tul Noor Hamid Mehmood and Dimitrios Papandreou
Elephants and the making of early modern India, Martha Chaiklin
Accidental burns in children under five years of age: The gendered burden of care and socio-economic deprivation, Sharmilla Maharaj and Vishanthie Sewpaul
Critical Success Factors to Improve the Game Development Process from a Developer’s Perspective, Saiqa Aleem, Luiz Fernando Capretz, and Faheem Ahmed
China's strong arm: protecting citizens and assets abroad. By Jonas Parello-Plesner and Mathieu Duchâtel, Jonathan Fulton
Social-based semantic framework for cloud resource management in business processes, Emna Hachicha, Walid Gaaloul, and Zakaria Maamar
Conclusions: Where next for wearables?, Don Kerr and John Gammack
Managing Security Issues and the Hidden Dangers of Wearable Technologies, Andrew Marrington, Don Kerr, and John Gammack
Model course syllabus: Management of security issues in wearable technology, Michelle C. Antero
Feeling culture: The emotional experience of six early childhood educators while teaching in a cross-cultural context, Samara Madrid, Nikki Baldwin, and Shashidhar Belbase
Micro-context recognition of sedentary behaviour using smartphone, Muhammad Fahim, Asad Masood Khattak, Thar Baker, Francis Chow, and Babar Shah
Dynamic and efficient brokering of energy suppliers and consumers in a smart grid, Waltenegus Dargie, Omar Alfandi, and Mohamad Badra
An explanation of spread’s ability to predict economic activity: A regime switching model, Anastasios Evgenidis and Costas Siriopoulos
On capturing and quantifying social qualities in business processes, Zakaria Maamar, Hakim Hacid, Emir Ugljanin, and Mohamed Sellami
Tracking users' actions over social media: Application to Facebook, Emir Ugljanin, Noura Faci, Mohamed Sellami, and Zakaria Maamar
Economic diversification in Russia: Nuclear to the rescue?, Li Chen Sim
A meta-analysis: Age and second language grammar acquisition, Muhammad Asif Qureshi
Defining tsunamis: Yoda strikes back?, James Goff, Yuichi Ebina, Kazuhisa Goto, and James Terry
Famine, Habibul Haque Khondker
Fast and slow readers and the effectiveness of the spatial frequency content of text: Evidence from reading times and eye movements, Timothy R. Jordan, Jasmine Dixon, Victoria A. McGowan, Stoyan Kurtev, and Kevin B. Paterson
Host adaptation and unexpected symbiont partners enable reef-building corals to tolerate extreme temperatures, Emily J. Howells, David Abrego, Eli Meyer, Nathan L. Kirk, and John A. Burt
Meta-Assessment: Assessing the Learning Outcomes Assessment Program, Kevin Schoepp and Scott Benson
On the mineral characteristics and geochemistry of the Florida phosphate of Four Corners and Hardee County mines, Ashraf R. Baghdady, Fares M. Howari, and Mohamed I. Al-Wakeel
Privacy-aware relevant data access with semantically enriched search queries for untrusted cloud storage services, Zeeshan Pervez, Mahmood Ahmad, Asad Masood Khattak, Sungyoung Lee, and Tae Choong Chung
Stock markets and effective exchange rates in European countries: threshold cointegration findings, Christos Kollias, Stephanos Papadamou, and Costas Siriopoulos
Vitamin D supplements: Magic pill or overkill?, Ronald B Brown, Fatme Al Anouti, and Mohammed S Razzaque
Structure of Moves in Research Article Abstracts in Applied Linguistics, Seden Can, Erkan Karabacak, and Jingjing Qin
Ancient high-energy storm boulder deposits on Ko Samui, Thailand, and their significance for identifying coastal hazard risk, James P. Terry, Grahame J.H. Oliver, and Daniel A. Friess
The effect of using mobile devices on students' performance in writing, Marielle Patronis
Secure and efficient multiparty computation on genomic data, Md Momin Al Aziz, Mohammad Z. Hasan, Noman Mohammed, and Dima Alhadidi
Database auditing and forensics: Exploration and evaluation, Salam Ismail Rasheed Khanji, Asad Masood Khattak, and Hakim Hacid
China’s Growing Role in the Middle East, Jonathan Fulton
‘If it is not too expensive, then you can send me sugar’: money matters among migrants and their families, Sonia Cancian and Simone A. Wegge
Reconsidering the migrant letter: from the experience of migrants to the language of migrants, Marcelo J. Borges and Sonia Cancian
A framework for evaluating sustainability indicators in the real estate industry, Tim Rogmans and Mohammad Ghunaim
Effects of Energetic Solar Emissions on the Earth–Ionosphere Cavity of Schumann Resonances, Gabriella Sátori, Earle Williams, Colin Price, Robert Boldi, Alexander Koloskov, Yuri Yampolski, Anirban Guha, and Veronika Barta
SHOULD WE CARE ABOUT THE COMPOSITION OF TAX-BASED STIMULUS PACKAGES?, K. Peren Arin, Peter Harald Helles, Murat Koyuncu, and Otto F. M. Reich
Stress Reactivity, Depressive Symptoms, and Mindfulness: A Gulf Arab Perspective, Justin Thomas, Monique Raynor, and Eman Bahussain
Supporting Emirati females leadership skills through teaching them how to debate: Design, assessment, and considerations, Chrysi Rapanta and Dany Badran
Weight-related teasing and internalized weight stigma predict abnormal eating attitudes and behaviours in Emirati female university students, Lily O'Hara, Sabrina Tahboub-Schulte, and Justin Thomas
Carbapenem-Resistant, Gram-Negative Bacilli: The State of the Art. The State of the Art, D. H. Halat, D. K. Sarkis, and Carole Ayoub Moubareck
Cross Cultural Indicators of Independent Learning in Young Children: A Jordanian Case, Qais Almeqdad, Firas Al-Hamouri, Rafe'A A. Zghoul, Ayoub Al-Rousan, and David Whitebread
Governance and control as mediating instruments in an inter-firm relationship: Towards collaboration or transactions?, Muhammad Kaleem Zahir-Ul-Hassan, Reinald A. Minnaar, and Ed Vosselman
Beyond the more the merrier: The variety effect and consumer heterogeneity in system markets, Li Sun, Surendra Rajiv, and Junhong Chu
Conceptualization of CSR Among Muslim Consumers in Dubai: Evolving from Philanthropy to Ethical and Economic Orientations, Valerie Priscilla Goby and Catherine Nickerson
Diabetes education program for people with type 2 diabetes: An international perspective, Osama A. Rashed, Haleama Al Sabbah, Mustafa Z. Younis, Adnan Kisa, and Jai Parkash
Drones to manage the urban environment: Risks, rewards, alternatives, David Gallacher
Gender diversity of boardrooms and firm financial performance, Perihan Iren
IoT end-user applications provisioning in the cloud: State of the art, Sami Yangui, Roch H. Glitho, Fatna Belqasmi, Monique J. Morrow, and Paul A. Polakos
Network-based social coordination of business processes, Zakaria Maamar, Noura Faci, Sherif Sakr, Mohamed Boukhebouze, and Ahmed Barnawi
Reconsidering the Yokohama “gold rush” of 1859, Simon James Bytheway and Martha Chaiklin
Risk assessment through evaluation of potentially toxic metals in the surface soils of the Qassim area, Central Saudi Arabia, Yousef Nazzal, Fares M. Howari, Muhammad Kamran Jafri, Muhammad Naeem, and Habes Ghrefat
Waqf et sociétés modernes: Des enjeux légaux aux besoins sociaux, Abdallah Tarak
A data visualisation for horizontal eye-movements, Jim Morey and John Gammack
Evaluation of Linux SMTP server security aspects - A case study, Salam Khanji, Raja Jabir, Liza Ahmad, Omar Alfandi, and Huwida Said
Towards strategic information & communication technology (ICT) framework for smart cities decision-makers, Mahmoud El Hendy, Sami Miniaoui, and Hussein Fakhry
The computing professional skills assessment: An innovative method for assessing ABET's student outcomes, Kevin Schoepp, Maurice Danaher, and Ashley Ater Kranov