Submissions from 2018
Learning-oriented quality assurance in higher education institutions, Burcu Tezcan-Unal, Kalman Winston, and Anne Qualter
TRIBAL AFFILIATIONS IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE, Dahlia Mahmoud
Advertisement typicality: A longitudinal experiment: Can sponsors transfer the image of a sporting event to their brand?, Marc Mazodier, Armando Maria Corsi, and Pascale G. Quester
An investigation into the urban water cycle in the city of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Rashed Karkain, Moetaz El Sergany, and Evan Diamadopoulos
Assessment of potential usability and reliability of an Arabic dietary mobile application (KELA.AE) for hemodialysis patients: a qualitative analysis of user and healthcare professionals’ feedback, C. ElKhoury Fakih, M. Karavetian, R. Crutzen, R.J. Halfens, and J.M. Schols
Bridging Theory to Practice: Utilizing the Culture-Centered Approach (CCA) to Address Gaps in Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) Processes, Sydney Dillard, Agaptus Anaele, Rati Kumar, and Raihan Jamil
Cloud-SEnergy: A bin-packing based multi-cloud service broker for energy efficient composition and execution of data-intensive applications, Thar Baker, Bandar Aldawsari, Muhammad Asim, Hissam Tawfik, Zakaria Maamar, and Rajkumar Buyya
Cost-effectiveness of dedicated dietitians for hyperphosphatemia management among hemodialysis patients in Lebanon: Results from the nutrition education for management of osteodystrophy trial, R. Rizk, M. Karavetian, M. Hiligsmann, and S. Evers
Culture and Crisis Communication: Nestle India's Maggi Noodles Case, Ganga S. Dhanesh and Krishnamurthy Sriramesh
Differentially private multidimensional data publishing, Khalil Al-Hussaeni, Benjamin C.M. Fung, Farkhund Iqbal, Junqiang Liu, and Patrick C.K. Hung
Do lebanese freshman students gain weight?, S. Haidar, M. Karavetian, and N. De vries
Effect of intradialytic-aerobic exercise on clinical outcomes of hemodialysis patients in the United Arab Emirates, M. Karavetian, N. Salhab, M. Alrukhaimi, J. Kooman, E. Fiaccadori, H. Muthana, and R. Rizk
Financing innovation through minority acquisitions, Ibrahim Bostan and Mariana Spatareanu
How can arts-based educational research be emancipatory? Insights from three research projects, Majed Harb
Hydrochemical processes determining the groundwater quality for irrigation use in an arid environment: The case of Liwa Aquifer, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Jibran Iqbal, Yousef Nazzal, Fares Howari, Cijo Xavier, and Ahmad Yousef
Revisiting loss aversion: Evidence from professional tennis, Nejat Anbarci, K. Peren Arin, Torben Kuhlenkasper, and Christina Zenker
Stopover destination image: A comparison of salient attributes elicited from French and Australian travellers, Steven Pike, Filareti Kotsi, and Vesselina Tossan
Use of collocations in freshman composition: Implications for L1 English and Arabic ESL writers, Asif Qureshi and Ulugbek Nurmukhamedov
Voltage dependence of the Ca2+ transient in endocardial and epicardial myocytes from the left ventricle of Goto–Kakizaki type 2 diabetic rats, Lina Al Kury, Vadym Sydorenko, Manal M.A. Smail, Muhammad Anwar Qureshi, Anatoliy Shmygol, Murat Oz, Jaipaul Singh, and Frank Christopher Howarth
Toward a reliable service-based approach to software application development, Qusay Mahmoud, Ian Andrusiak, and May AlTaei
A Novel Autoencoder-Based Diagnostic System for Early Assessment of Lung Cancer, Ahmed Shaffie, Ahmed Soliman, Mohammed Ghazal, Fatma Taher, Neal Dunlap, Brian Wang, Victor Van Berkel, Georgy Gimelfarb, Adel Elmaghraby, and Ayman El-Baz
Welcome Message from the WSDF Workshop Organizers, Richard E. Overill, Virginia N.L. Franqueira, Andrew Marrington, and Andrew Jones
Book review: 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 Overcome Malnutrition in Pregnant Mothers for Improving Offspring 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
Editor's introduction, David M. Palfreyman
Editor's Introduction, David M. Palfreyman
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