Submissions from 2023
Introduction to the Special Issue on Ransomware, Budi Arief, Lena Connolly, Julio Hernandez-Castro, Allan Liska, and Peter Y A. Ryan
On the Viability of Federated Deep Autoencoder for Botnet Threat Detection, Belsabel Teklemariam, Saron Bokretsion, Safa Otoum, and Bassem Ouni
Phishing Detection Using Deep Learning and Machine Learning Algorithms: Comparative Analysis, Betiel Tesfom, Feven Belay, Snit Daniel, Reem Salem, and Safa Otoum
Review of Fundamental, Security, and Privacy in Metaverse, Nadia Mohammed Al-Nowfleh, Nidal A. Al-Dmour, Hussam Al Hamadi, Fatma Taher, and Taher M. Ghazal
Online Learning Habits and Engagement of Male Emirati Students: Exploratory Study, Larysa Nikolayeva
Removal of organic pollutants through hydroxyl radical-based advanced oxidation processes, Zia Ul Haq Khan, Noor Shad Gul, Sana Sabahat, Jingyu Sun, Kamran Tahir, Noor Samad Shah, Nawshad Muhammad, Abdur Rahim, Muhammad Imran, Jibran Iqbal, Taj Malook Khan, Syed Khasim, Umar Farooq, and Jianbo Wu
The Evaluation of Internship in the Digital Information Age, Hussein Fakhry, Mathew Nicho, Emad Bataineh, and Shini Girja
Towards Designing a Knowledge Sharing System for Higher Learning Institutions in the UAE Based on the Social Feature Framework, S. M. F. D. Syed Mustapha, Edmund Evangelista, and Farhi Marir
Auditor practices and auditee responses to corporate governance audit regulation in Nigeria, Zayyad Abdul-Baki and Ahmed Diab
Migrating 120,000 Legacy Publications from Several Systems into a Current Research Information System Using Advanced Data Wrangling Techniques, Yrjö Lappalainen, Matti Lassila, Tanja Heikkilä, Jani Nieminen, and Tapani Lehtilä
GVCs and environmental sustainability in MENA: Do digitalization and institutions make a difference?, Suzanna Elmassah and Eslam A. Hassanein
Towards an Open-Source Based E-Mail Forensic Tool that uses Headers in Digital Investigation, Remilekun Adeopatoye, Richard Adeyemi Ikuesan, Taurai Hungwe, Victor Kebande, and Mehdi Sookhak
The familial occult: Explorations at the margins of critical autoethnography, Alexandra Cotofană
More on complex hesitant fuzzy graphs, Abdulazeez Alkouri, Eman A. Abuhijleh, Ghada Alafifi, Eman Almuhur, and Fadi M.A. Al-Zubi
Prepared to Teach Using Technology, but Not Prepared to Teach Online: A Case of Early Childhood Pre-service Teachers in the United Arab Emirates, Lawrence Meda and Laila Mohebi
Call for emergency action to restore dietary diversity and protect global food systems in times of COVID-19 and beyond: Results from a cross-sectional study in 38 countries, Maha Hoteit, Reem Hoteit, Ayoub Aljawaldeh, Kathleen Van Royen, Sara Pabian, Paulien Decorte, Isabelle Cuykx, Lauranna Teunissen, Charlotte De Backer, Ina Bergheim, Raphaela Staltner, Amanda Devine, Ros Sambell, Ruth Wallace, Sabika Salem Allehdan, Tariq Abdulkarim Alalwan, Mariam Ahamad Al-Mannai, Gaëlle Ouvrein, Karolien Poels, Heidi Vandebosch, Katrien Maldoy, Christophe Matthys, Tim Smits, Jules Vrinten, Ann DeSmet, Nelleke Teughels, Maggie Geuens, and Iris Vermeir
Care-based relationship management during remote work in a crisis: Empathy, purpose, and diversity climate as emergent employee-organization relational maintenance strategies, Hilke Steenkamp and Ganga S. Dhanesh
Changes in Shares Outstanding and Country Stock Returns Around the World, Huaigang Long, Mardy Chiah, Adam Zaremba, and Zaghum Umar
Effect of blending of medium-temperature phase change material on the bitumen storage heat, Loubna Najemi, Imane Belyamani, and Mohsine Bouya
Exploring the acquisition behavior of penny stock firms, Shujie Liu, Mohammed Aminu Sualihu, Mingwei Sun, and Alfred Yawson
Globalization of Sociology to the Sociology of Globalization, Habibul Haque Khondker
How sorry are you? Intensified apologies and the mediating role of perceived remorse in corporate crisis communication, Effrosyni Georgiadou
Marine Mammals of the Emirates: Whales, Dolphins, Porpoises and Dugongs, Ada Natoli and Shamsa Al Hameli
Novel Denial-of-Service Attacks Against LoRaWAN on MAC Layer, Mi Chen, Jalel Ben-Othman, and Lynda Mokdad
The Emirates at 2050: Balancing Development and Environmental Stewardship, John A. Burt; Noura Al-Mansoori; Ivonne Bejarano; Gary Brown; Oscar Campbell; Johannes Els; Gary R. Feulner; Guillermo Friis-Montoya; Aaron Henderson; Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi Howarth, Brigitte (Department of Culture and Tourism; , Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates , Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; David M. John; Jacky Judas; Daniel Mateos-Molina; Matthew Mitchell; Ada Natoli; Francesco Paparella; Fadi (Hefaiyah Mountain Conservation Centre Yaghmour; and , Environment and Protected Areas Authority, Kalba, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates , Environment and Protected Areas Authority, Kalba, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Family business in the Arabian Gulf region, John Rice, Muhammad Mustafa Raziq, and Anestis Fotiadis
Analytical Study for Vehicle Mobility Modeling, J. Ben-Othman and L. Mokdad
Clinical Informatics System to Understand Lung Cancer Using Transfer Learning-Based Computer-Aided Application, Ahed Abugabah, Atif Mehmood, and Farah Shahid
FedVANET-TP: Federated Trajectory Prediction Model for VANETs, T. M. Sakho and J. Ben Othman
Associations of Free, Bioavailable, and Total 25-Hydroxyvitamin D with Neonatal Birth Anthropometry and Calcium Homeostasis in Mother-Child Pairs in a Sunny Mediterranean Region., Hana M A Fakhoury, Tarek Ziad Arabi, Hani Tamim, Rene F Chun, William B Grant, Martin Hewison, Fatme AlAnouti, Stefan Pilz, Cedric Annweiler, Georgios Tzimagiorgis, Costas Haitoglou, and Spyridon N Karras
Blockchain for Email Security: A Perspective on Existing and Potential Solutions for Phishing Attacks, Jamal N. Al-Karaki, Amjad Gawanmeh, and Claude Fachkha
Breaking Boundaries: Exploring Blockchain's Impact on UAE Organizations, Ahmed Shuhaiber, Nishara Nizamuddin, and Amal Amer
DocCert: Nostrification, Document Verification and Authenticity Blockchain Solution, Monther Aldwairi, Mohamad Badra, and Rouba Borghol
‘My Household’ Application: A Smart Mobile Application for Household Management, Hamda Almenhali, Meera Almansoori, Noura Alhamed, and Ahmed Shuhaiber
Towards Privacy-Aware Federated Learning for User-Sensitive Data, Muhammad Asad and Safa Otoum
Addressing the Public Health Misinformation Challenge with Real-Time Data Fusion, Anoud Bani Hani, Haleama Alsabbah, Munir Majdalawieh, and Nawel Bessadet
Estimated cost of extra work hours from co‐workers' drinking in Thailand, Udomsak Saengow, Surasak Chaiyasong, Jiraluck Nontarak, Surasak Saokaew, Ali Artaman, Polathep Vichitkunakorn, and Orratai Waleewong
Enhancing Rice Leaf Disease Classification: A Customized Convolutional Neural Network Approach, Ammar Kamal Abasi, Sharif Naser Makhadmeh, Osama Ahmad Alomari, Mohammad Tubishat, and Husam Jasim Mohammed
DDoS Attack Detection in Edge-IIoT using Ensemble Learning, Fariba Laiq, Feras Al-Obeidat, Adnan Amin, and Fernando Moreira
Exploring transfer learning in chest radiographic images within the interplay between COVID-19 and diabetes, Muhammad Shoaib, Nasir Sayed, Babar Shah, Tariq Hussain, Ahmad Ali AlZubi, Sufian Ahmad AlZubi, and Farman Ali
Implementing the Principle of Least Privilege Using Linux Capabilities: Challenges and Perspectives, Eddie Billoir, Romain Laborde, Ahmad Samer Wazan, Yves Rütschlé, and Abdelmalek Benzekri
The Cr(III) Exchange Mechanism of Macroporous Resins: The Effect of Functionality and Chemical Matrix, and the Statistical Verification of Ion Exchange Data, Khizar Hussain Shah, Noor S. Shah, Gul Afshan Khan, Sadaf Sarfraz, Jibran Iqbal, Aneeqa Batool, Ahmad Jwuiyad, Shabnam Shahida, Changseok Han, and Monika Wawrzkiewicz
Intellectual capital in hospitality and tourism: a critical review and future research agenda, Vladimir Dzenopoljac, Vladimir Senic, Thouraya Gherissi Labben, Hasan Evrim Arici, and Mehmet ali Koseoglu
Blockholdings, Dividend Policy, Stock Returns and Return Volatility: Evidence from the UAE, Umar Butt and Trevor William Chamberlain
Evaluating Onsite and Online Internship Mode Using Consumptive Metrics, Mathew Nicho, Tarannum Parkar, and Shini Girija
Impact of Thermal Maturation of the Upper Cretaceous Bituminous Limestone of Attarat Um Ghudran Central Jordan on Calcareous Nannofossil Preservation, Mohammad Alqudah, Mohammad Al Alaween, Adam Fermor, Ezaldeen Ali, Thomas Wagner, Mohammed Hail Alhakimi, and Afikah Rahim
Meta-analysis of research in childhood education program in the United Arab Emirates, Alanood Alshamsi and Laila Mohebi
Asma’ak: An Emarati Sign Language Translator, Maha Ahmed, Shaikha Jasem, Khawla Saleh, Asad Khattak, and Omar Alfandi
China's uneasy balancing in the Persian Gulf, Jonathan Fulton
Deep learning for plant bioinformatics: an explainable gradient-based approach for disease detection, Muhammad Shoaib, Babar Shah, Nasir Sayed, Farman Ali, Rafi Ullah, and Irfan Hussain
Variable elimination algorithm in Bayesian networks: An updated version, Linda Smail
Broadband MIMO Antenna with Self-Complementary Resonating Structures for 5G Smartphones, Tanvir Islam, Fatma Taher, Naser Ojaroudi Parchin, Ahmed S. I. Amar, and Mohamed Fathy Abo Sree
MalFe—Malware Feature Engineering Generation Platform, Avinash Singh, Richard Adeyemi Ikuesan, and Hein Venter
From Analogue to Digital: Evolution of Building Machines Towards Reforming Production and Customization of Housing, Carlo Carbone and Basem Eid Mohamed
Robust Intelligent System for COVID-19 Detection using CT-Scan, Ahmad Al Smadi, Ahed Abugabah, and Ahmad Mohammad Al-smadi
A Survey of EEG and Machine Learning-Based Methods for Neural Rehabilitation, Jaiteg Singh, Farman Ali, Rupali Gill, Babar Shah, and Daehan Kwak
A dual covariant biomarker approach to Kawasaki disease, implications for coronary pathogenesis using vascular endothelial growth factor A and B gene expression; systematic secondary analysis of clinical datasets, Asrar Rashid, Govind Benakatti, Feras Al-Obeida, Rajesh Phatak, Zainab A. Malik, Javed Sharief, Raziya Kadwa, Wael Hafez, Mohammed Toufiq, Damien Chaussabel, Rayaz Malik, Nasir Quraishi, Syed Ahmed Zaki, Guftar Shaikh, and Amir Hussain
Affective Surveillance Management in Virtual Emotion Based Smart Complex Infrastructure, Sooeon Lee, Seungheyon Lee, Yumin Choi, Jalel Ben-Othman, Lynda Mokdad, Kyungkoo Jun, and Hyunbum Kim
A novel higher order appearance texture analysis to diagnose lung cancer based on a modified local ternary pattern, Ahmed Alksas, Ahmed Shaffie, Mohammed Ghazal, Fatma Taher, Adel Khelifi, Maha Yaghi, Ahmed Soliman, Eric VAN Bogaert, and Ayman El-Baz
Biogas Energy Resources in Pakistan Status, Potential, and Barriers, Muhammad Wakeel, Tasawer Hayat, Noor Samad Shah, Jibran Iqbal, Zia Ul Haq Khan, Ghulam Mustafa Shah, and Atta Rasool
Deconstructing Summary Writing: Further Exploration of L2 Reading and Writing, Jingjing Qin and Timothy Groombridge
Defence response of host plants for cyst nematode: A review on parasitism and defence, Rishil Gupta, Manar Fawzi Bani Mfarrej, Rehab O. Elnour, Mohamed Hashem, and Faheem Ahmad
E-Waste Recycling Behavior in the United Arab Emirates: Investigating the Roles of Environmental Consciousness, Cost, and Infrastructure Support, Kareem Abdul Waheed, Abhilasha Singh, Ayisha Siddiqua, Maisa El Gamal, and Mohammed Laeequddin
Inflation and the war in Ukraine: Evidence using impulse response functions on economic indicators and Twitter sentiment, Efstathios Polyzos
International comparison of gaming disorder symptomatology: Analysis of Ithra’s 30-nation digital wellbeing survey, Justin Thomas, Carl Michael Gaspar, Fahad Al Beyahi, Bahiah Al Bassam, and Yasmin Aljedawi
Nutritional Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices among Family Physician Practitioners in Gulf Countries (Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and UAE), Abeer S. Alzaben, Abeer A. Aljahdali, Lulua F. Alasousi, Ghadeer Alzaben, Lynne Kennedy, and Anwar Alhashem
Regulating Discourse: How Children With and Without SEND Internalize the Evaluative Framework of Adults, Efthymia Efthymiou
Stress state and waves in the lithospheric plate simulation: A 3rd generation AI architecture, Mutaz Mohammad, Alexander Trounev, and Carlo Cattani
Structure Estimation of Adversarial Distributions for Enhancing Model Robustness: A Clustering-Based Approach, Bader Rasheed, Adil Khan, and Asad Masood Khattak
Predictive Analysis of Students’ Learning Performance Using Data Mining Techniques: A Comparative Study of Feature Selection Methods, S. M. F. D. Syed Mustapha
An Improved Dandelion Optimizer Algorithm for Spam Detection: Next-Generation Email Filtering System, Mohammad Tubishat, Feras Al-Obeidat, Ali Safaa Sadiq, and Seyedali Mirjalili
Postdigital Cityscapes, Zoe Hurley
The Management Accounting Usage in Automotive Servitized Companies: An Initial Attempt, Unggul Purwohedi, Muhammad Kaleem Zahir-ul-Hassan, and Maqsood Memon
Postdigital Feminisms, Zoe Hurley
The Benefits of Considering Gender in Economic Development, Sujata Ganguly and Elena Nikolova
Numerical Similarity Measures Versus Jaccard for Collaborative Filtering, Hassan I. Abdalla, Yasmeen A. Amer, Loc Nguyen, Ali A. Amer, and Basheer Mohamad Al-Maqaleh
The Impact of Data Normalization on KNN Rendering, Hassan I. Abdalla and Aneela Altaf
Machine learning techniques for the identification of risk factors associated with food insecurity among adults in Arab countries during the COVID-19 pandemic, Radwan Qasrawi, Maha Hoteit, Reema Tayyem, Khlood Bookari, Haleama Al Sabbah, Iman Kamel, Somaia Dashti, Sabika Allehdan, Hiba Bawadi, Mostafa Waly, Mohammed O. Ibrahim, Stephanny Vicuna Polo, and Diala Abu Al-Halawa
Multimodal Religiously Hateful Social Media Memes Classification based on Textual and Image Data, Ameer Hamza, Abdul Rehman Javed, Farkhund Iqbal, Amanullah Yasin, Gautam Srivastava, Dawid Połap, Thippa Reddy Gadekallu, and Zunera Jalil
Effect of iron nanoparticles and conventional sources of Fe on growth, physiology and nutrient accumulation in wheat plants grown on normal and salt-affected soils, Muhammad Zia-ur-Rehman, Manar Fawzi Bani Mfarrej, Muhammad Usman, Sidra Anayatullah, Muhammad Rizwan, Hesham F. Alharby, Isam M. Abu Zeid, Nadiyah M. Alabdallah, and Shafaqat Ali
Efficient power management optimization based on whale optimization algorithm and enhanced differential evolution, Khalid Zaman, Sun Zhaoyun, Babar Shah, Altaf Hussain, Tariq Hussain, Umer Sadiq Khan, Farman Ali, and Boukansous Sarra
Rethinking higher education for the 4th Industrial Revolution: Synergetics in global social transformations and society building, Danjoo N. Ghista and Ravi S. Sharma
The Effect of Using iPad Apps in Developing Components of Cooperative Learning Among Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Ayesha Alktebi
Domestic Counseling Student Viewpoints on Their Relationships with International Classmates: A Q Methodology Study, Mustafa Aydogan and Marty Jencius
The effect of COVID-19 on the academic performance of Zayed University students in the United Arab Emirates, Sharifa AlBlooshi, Linda Smail, Alyaa Albedwawi, Mariam Al Wahedi, and Maha AlSafi
Exploring differences in ethical decision-making processes between humans and ChatGPT-3 model: a study of trade-offs, Umair Rehman, Farkhund Iqbal, and Muhammad Umair Shah
Guest editorial: Entrepreneurship activities among the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) enterprising communities, Ramo Palalić, Shqipe Gerguri-Rashiti, Jusuf Zeqiri, and Vladimir Dzenopoljac
A configurable composition language for the social IoT, Soura Boulaares, Salma Sassi, Djamal Benslimane, Zakaria Maamar, and Sami Faiz
A new approach to seasonal energy consumption forecasting using temporal convolutional networks, Abdul Khalique Shaikh, Amril Nazir, Nadia Khalique, Abdul Salam Shah, and Naresh Adhikari
Associations between Birth Weight and Adult Sleep Characteristics: A Cross-Sectional Analysis from the UAEHFS, Nirmin F. Juber, Abdishakur Abdulle, Amar Ahmad, Andrea Leinberger-Jabari, Ayesha S.Al Dhaheri, Fatma Al-Maskari, Fatme AlAnouti, Mohammad Al-Houqani, Mohammed Hag Ali, Omar El-Shahawy, Scott Sherman, Syed M. Shah, Tom Loney, Youssef Idaghdour, and Raghib Ali
A unifying approach to measuring climate change impacts and adaptation, Antonio M. Bento, Noah Miller, Mehreen Mookerjee, and Edson Severnini
BeneWinD: An Adaptive Benefit Win–Win Platform with Distributed Virtual Emotion Foundation, Hyunbum Kim and Jalel Ben-Othman
Conclusion: What We Found and What Is the Way Forward?, Nataša Slak Valek
Dynamic connectedness between global commodity sectors, news sentiment, and sub-Saharan African equities, Samuel Kwaku Agyei, Zaghum Umar, Ahmed Bossman, and Tamara Teplova
How Can Blockchain Technology Be Used to Manage the COVID-19 Vaccine Supply Chain? A Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Directions, Huwida Said, Nedaa Baker Al Barghuthi, Sulafa Badi, and Shini Girija
Intersectional Feminist Autoethnographic Snaphots of Socotra, Yemen, Zoe Hurley and Widad Abdulmalik Abdu Mohammed
Sentence Embedding Approach using LSTM Auto-encoder for Discussion Threads Summarization, Abdul Wali Khan, Feras Al-Obeidat, Afsheen Khalid, Adnan Amin, and Fernando Moreira
Tastes of Socotra in New Media: What do we know About Socotri from Looking at Their (Digital) Plate?, Danica Čigoja Piper