Submissions from 2017
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
Arabic Language Arts Standards and Performance Indicators, Hanada Taha Thomure
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
Beyond the random location of shopping malls: A GIS perspective in Amman, Jordan, Amjad Ahmad Abu ELSamen and Rund Ibrahim Hiyasat
Biliteracy as policy in academic institutions, Beverly Baker, David M. Palfreyman, Gwenn Hiller, Wilson Poha, and Zina Manu
Bridging the gap between the business and social worlds: A data artifact-driven approach, Zakaria Maamar, Vanilson Burégio, Mohamed Sellami, Nelson Souto Rosa, Zhengshuai Peng, Zachariah Subin, Nayana Prakash, Djamal Benslimane, and Roosevelt Silva
Characteristics of real backdaters, Kienpin Tee and Marilyn Wiley
China-Gulf Economic Relationship under the “Belt and Road” Initiative, Xuming QIAN and Jonathan FULTON
Contributor Biographical Sketches, Christopher J. Anderson, Angela H. Balius, Amy Barlow, Jayne Blodgett, Cassie Brand, Hilary Bussell, Mary Ann Cullen, Emy Nelson Decker, Scott Fralin, Carolyn White Gamtso, Christy Groves, Jessica Hagman, Lauren Hays, Corinne Laverty, Corinne Laverty, Melissa Mannon, Brian Mathews, Judith Mavodza, Pete McDonnell, Lauren Pressley, Keith Russell, Elizabeth A. Sanders, Stephen A. Sanders, Corey Seeman, Ashley Shealy, Amy R. Stalker, Jennifer A. Townes, Karen Viars, Sandy Whipple, and Sally Ziph
ConVeh: Driving Safely into a Connected Future, Fatma Outay, Faouzi Kamoun, Ansar Yasar, Elhadi Shakshuki, and Samar El-Amine
Coral larvae for restoration and research: A large-scale method for rearing Acropora millepora larvae, inducing settlement, and establishing symbiosis, F. Joseph Pollock, Sefano M. Katz, Jeroen A.J.M. van de Water, Sarah W. Davies, Margaux Hein, Gergely Torda, Mikhail V. Matz, Victor H. Beltran, Patrick Buerger, Eneour Puill-Stephan, David Abrego, David G. Bourne, and Bette L. Willis
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) for ethical corporate identity management: Framing CSR as a tool for managing the CSR-luxury paradox online, Jia Yun Wong and Ganga Sasidharan Dhanesh
Decision-making in a public hospital during economic crisis, Anestis K. Fotiadis and Tzung Cheng Huan
"Der Sozialismus Siegt": Women's ordinary lives in an East German factory, Susanne Kranz
Developing a framework towards design understanding for crowdsourcing research: A content analysis, Shah Jahan Miah, Najmul Hasan, Don Kerr, and John G. Gammack
Dividend Yields and Stock Returns under a Tax-Free Environment, Kienpin Tee and Abiot Tessema
Domains of public activity in touristic flamenco shows, Marta Wieczorek
Efficiency of nearly periodic structures for mitigation of ground vibration, Lars V. Andersen, Andrew Peplow, and P. Bucinskas
Empowering culturally foreign teachers by fostering cultural competence, Lydia Barza
Enterprise systems: The quality of system outputs and their perceived business value, Ahed Abugabah
Environmental vibration reduction utilizing an array of mass scatterers, A. T. Peplow, L. V. Andersen, and P. Bucinskas
Factorization of computations in Bayesian networks: Interpretation of factors, Linda Smail and Zineb Azouz
Factors associated with continuing emergence of β-thalassemia major despite prenatal testing: A cross-sectional survey, Haleama Al Sabbah, Sarah Khan, Abdallah Hamadna, Lamia Abu Ghazaleh, Anwar Dudin, and Bashar Adnan Karmi
Gea Group Aktiengesellschaft: Doing Business In The Middle East, Ian Michael, Melodena Stephens Balakrishnan, and Zeenath Khan
Global Modernity and Environmentality, Habibul Haque Khondker
Identifying Major Tasks from On-line Reviews, Feras Al-Obeidat and Bruce Spencer
Impact of Ideological Disagreements on International Relations: a Study on Islam and the West, Bashir AbulQaraya
Improving Academic Decision-Making through Course Evaluation Technology, Adam Marks, Maytha Al-Ali, Munir Majdalawieh, and Anoud Bani-Hani
Integrating Experiential Learning Into Information Literacy Curriculum, J. Mavodza
Integrating RFID with Healthcare Information Systems: Toward Smart Hospitals, Ahed Abugabah
Interventionist external agents make specific advice less demotivating, Jamel Khenfer, Kristin Laurin, Eric Tafani, Elyette Roux, and Aaron C. Kay
Introduction, Martha Chaiklin
Introduction: Biliteracies in Higher Education, David M. Palfreyman and Christa Van Der Walt
Investing in Cutting Edge Arabic Language Education, Hanada Taha Thomure
Labour migrations to resource-rich countries: Comparative perspectives on migrants' rights in Canada, Norway and the United Arab Emirates, Marko Valenta, Zan Strabac, Jo Jakobsen, Jeffrey Reitz, and Mouawiya Al Awad
Learner autonomy and groups, David M. Palfreyman
Leveraging the affordances of mobile learning for vocabulary gains, Michael Bowles
Lincoln mediated: The president and the press through nineteenth–century media, Gregory A. Borchard, David W. Bulla, and David B. Sachsman