Submissions from 2023
Youth voting and institutional change in the post-Arab Spring MENA region, Ali Fakih, Mohammad Hammoud, and Nagham Sayour
A Transcriptomic Appreciation of Childhood Meningococcal and Polymicrobial Sepsis from a Pro-inflammatory and Trajectorial Perspective, a Role for VEGF-A and VEGF-B Modulation?, Asrar Rashid, Berit S Brusletto, Feras Al-Obeidat, Mohammed Toufiq, Govind Benakatti, Joe Brierley, Zainab A Malik, Zain Hussain, Hoda Alkhazaimi, Javed Sharief, Raziya Kadwa, Amrita Sarpal, Damien Chaussabe, Rayaz A Malik, Nasir Quraishi, Praveen Khilnani, Syed A Zaki, Rashid Nadeem, Guftar Shaikh, Ahmed Al-Dubai, Wael Hafez, and Amir Hussain
Architectura Transtopica: Totems of a Journeyman, Ioannis Galanopoulos Papavasileiou
The Development of Students with Disabilities' Experiences Concerning Distance Learning in the Emirati Universities during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Mona Mohamed Alhammadi and Zeina Hojeij
Sentiment Analysis of Using ChatGPT in Education, Mohammad Tubishat, Feras Al-Obeidat, and Ahmed Shuhaiber
The Social and Technological Incentives for Cybercriminals to Engage in Ransomware Activities, Yichao Wang, Sophia Roscoe, Budi Arief, Lena Connolly, Hervé Borrion, and Sanaa Kaddoura
A finite element approach to the numerical solutions of Leland’s model, Dongming Wei, Yogi Ahmad Erlangga, and Gulzat Zhumakhanova
Algorithmic Nudge: An Approach to Designing Human-Centered Generative Artificial Intelligence, Donghee Shin and Norita Ahmad
Big data analytics and e-governance: Actors, opportunities, tensions, and applications, Mohammad Abuljadail, Ashraf Khalil, Shalini Talwar, and Puneet Kaur
CuNPs loaded zeolite 3 Å as an efficient catalyst for the catalytic reduction of hazardous pollutants, Abdeldjelil Habib Zahmani, Riad Mustapha Kerbadou, Aouicha Benmaati, Mohammed Hachemaoui, Ismail Issam, Jibran Iqbal, Salih Hacini, Bouhadjar Boukoussa, and Hadjira Habib Zahmani
Effective citric acid and EDTA treatments in cadmium stress tolerance in pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) seedlings by regulating specific gene expression, Rana M. Alshegaihi, Manar Fawzi Bani Mfarrej, Muhammad Hamzah Saleem, Abida Parveen, Khawaja Shafique Ahmad, Baber Ali, Amany H.A. Abeed, Dikhnah Alshehri, Sameera A. Alghamdi, Suliman M.S. Alghanem, Javeed Ahmad Lone, Tarek M.A. Soliman, and Fathia A. Soudy
Enabling affordances of blockchain in agri-food supply chains: a value-driver framework using the Q-methodology, Pouyan Jahanbin, Stephen C. Wingreen, Ravishankar Sharma, Behrang Ijadi, and Marlon M. Reis
Greening the Desert: Emirati Youth’s Perceptions of Green Branding, Gergana Alzeer and Tilde Rosmer
Inorganic Hole Transport Materials in Perovskite Solar Cells are Catching Up, Sajid Sajid, Salem Alzahmi, Imen Ben Salem, Jongee Park, and Ihab M. Obaidat
On the privacy and security for e-health services in the metaverse: An overview, Mehdi Letafati and Safa Otoum
On the Utility of Parents' Historical Data to Investigate the Causes of Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Data Mining-Based Framework, Zahid Halim, Gohar Khan, Babar Shah, Rabia Naseer, Sajid Anwar, and Ahsan Shah
Removal of crystal violet dye using a three-dimensional network of date pits powder/sodium alginate hydrogel beads: Experimental optimization and DFT calculation, Adel Mokhtar, Soumia Abdelkrim, Mohammed Hachemaoui, Bouhadjar Boukoussa, Wahiba Chaibi, Amina Sardi, Amal Djelad, Mohammed Sassi, Ismail Issam, Jibran Iqbal, Shashikant P. Patole, and Mohamed Abboud
Social support as the mediator for the relationship between internet gaming disorder and psychological problems among university students, Malakeh Z. Malak, Ahmed H. Shuhaiber, Ahmed Alsswey, and Anwar Tarawneh
The consequences of profound cultural change on the Emirati life script and identity, Christin Camia
The rain deluge and flash floods of summer 2022 in the United Arab Emirates: Causes, analysis and perspectives on flood-risk reduction, James P. Terry, Amna Al Ruheili, Maitha Ali Almarzooqi, Reem Yousuf Almheiri, and Amani Khaled Alshehhi
The study of removal chromium (VI) ions from aqueous solution by bimetallic ZnO/FeO nanocomposite with Siltstone: Isotherm, kinetics and reusability, Behzad Murtaza, Sana Bilal, Muhammad Imran, Noor S. Shah, Muhammad Shahid, Jibran Iqbal, Zia Ul Haq Khan, Naveed Ahmad, Abdullah A. Al-Kahtani, Zeid A. ALOthman, and Umar Farooq
Transformational Leadership Qualities of Teacher Candidates in Classrooms: A Study from UAE, Laila Mohebi and Areej ElSayary
A Crime Scene Reconstruction for Digital Forensic Analysis, Mathew Nicho, Maha Alblooki, Saeed AlMutiwei, Christopher D. McDermott, and Olufemi Ilesanmi
Association of Maternal Pre-Pregnancy Overweight and Obesity with Childhood Anthropometric Factors and Perinatal and Postnatal Outcomes: A Cross-Sectional Study, Eleni Pavlidou, Dimitrios Papandreou, Zainab Taha, Maria Mantzorou, Stefanos Tyrovolas, Dimitrios N. Kiortsis, Evmorfia Psara, Sousana K. Papadopoulou, Marios Yfantis, Maria Spanoudaki, Georgios Antasouras, Maria Mentzelou, and Constantinos Giaginis
Towards CRISP‐BC: 3TIC specification framework for Blockchain use‐cases, Pouyan Jahanbin, Ravi S. Sharma, Stephen T. Wingreen, Nir Kshetri, and Kim‐Kwang Raymond Choo
Antecedents of yacht tourism participants’ satisfaction and word-of-mouth intention, Anestis Fotiadis, John Rice, and Rund Hiyasat
Forensic investigation of small-scale digital devices: a futuristic view, Farkhund Iqbal, Aasia Jaffri, Zainab Khalid, Aine MacDermott, Qazi Ejaz Ali, and Patrick C. K. Hung
Amplifying Voices, Empowering Perspectives: Exploring the Experiences of Children With Disabilities in Inclusive Education During the Pandemic, Efthymia Efthymiou
Building Resilience in the Education System: Safeguarding Children in Inclusive Settings Through Teacher Empowerment and School Preparedness, Salma Daiban and Efthymia Efthymiou
Cultural Competence at Schools: The Effectiveness of Educational Leaders' Intervention Strategies, Alexandros Argyriadis, Efthymia Efthymiou, and Agathi Argyriadis
Examining Teachers' Perspectives on Equitable Digital Education: A Case Study on Delivering High-Quality and Inclusive Learning Experiences in Special Education, Efthymia Efthymiou
Preface, Efthymia Efthymiou
Inclusive Phygital Learning Approaches and Strategies for Students With Special Needs, Efthymia Efthymiou
Architectura Transtopica: Totems of a Journeyman, Ioannis Galanopoulos Papavasileiou
Survey of Personalized Learning Software Systems: A Taxonomy of Environments, Learning Content, and User Models, Heba Ismail, Nada Hussein, Saad Harous, and Ashraf Khalil
Fault aware task scheduling in cloud using min-min and DBSCAN, S. M.F.D.Syed Mustapha and Punit Gupta
Applying Ant Colony Optimisation When Choosing an Individual Learning Trajectory, Rukiya Deetjen-Ruiz, Oleg Ikonnikov, Shahzool Hazimin Azizam, Darío Salguero García, Juan Carlos Orosco Gavilán, Ivan Otcheskiy, and Roman Tsarev
Exogenous application of low and high molecular weight organic acids differentially affected the uptake of cadmium in wheat-rice cropping system in alkaline calcareous soil, Muhammad Zia-ur-Rehman, Manar Fawzi Bani Mfarrej, Muhammad Usman, Muhammad Azhar, Muhammad Rizwan, Hesham F. Alharby, Atif A. Bamagoos, Rahma Alshamrani, and Zahoor Ahmad
Using a Digital Educational Environment to Monitor Student Learning Results, Rukiya Deetjen-Ruiz, Irina Yarygina, Ikhfan Haris, Michael Sabugaa, Aleksey Losev, and Valentina Everstova
DBSCAN inspired task scheduling algorithm for cloud infrastructure, S. M.F.D.Syed Mustapha and Punit Gupta
Multimodal diagnostics in multiple sclerosis: predicting disability and conversion from relapsing-remitting to secondary progressive disease course - protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis, Yauhen Statsenko, Darya Smetanina, Teresa Arora, Linda Östlundh, Tetiana Habuza, Gillian Lylian Simiyu, Sarah Meribout, Tatsiana Talako, Fransina Christina King, Iryna Makhnevych, Juri George Gelovani, Karuna M. Das, Klaus Neidl Van Gorkom, Taleb M. Almansoori, Fatmah Al Zahmi, Miklós Szólics, Fatima Ismail, and Milos Ljubisavljevic
Industry 4.0 and Circular Economy: Opportunities of MENA Countries on the Path to the Sustainable Development, Suzanna Elmassah
Moral Dilemmas in Social Robots: An Exploratory Study for Future Research, Muhammad Umair Shah, Patrick C. K. Hung, Farkhund Iqbal, Robee Kassandra Adajar, and Inon Wiratsin
VR and AR Application in Academia, Overview in the Middle East Universities, Rund Hiyasat, Lindita Bande, Khaled Galal Ahmed, Baraah Hamdoon, Jose Lopez Berengueres, and Abdul-Aziz Banawi
An Approach-Based on Allen’s Interval Algebra to Provision Resources for Disrupted Business Processes, Zakaria Maamar, Fadwa Yahya, and Lassaad Ben Ammar
Applying Neutralisation Theory to Better Understand Ransomware Offenders, Lena Connolly, Hervé Borrion, Budi Arief, and Sanna Kaddoura
Smart Application for Real Time Detection: An Improved Lightweight Detector for Real-Time Vehicle Detection, Ala Alsanabani, Ahed Abugabah, and Licheng Jiao
Smart Health Care Management System for Diagnosis of Lungs Cancer, Ahed Abugabah, Farah Shahid, Amjad Alafeef, and Rizwan Khan
Design of Compact Flexible UWB Antenna Using Different Substrate Materials for WBAN Applications, Sara Yehia Abdel Fatah, Fatma Taher, Taha A. Elwi, Mohamed Fathy Abo Sree, Mohammad Alibakhshikenari, Bal S. Virdee, Patrizia Livreri, Naser Ojaroudi Parchin, Chan Hwang See, Giovanni Pau, Iyad Dayoub, and Ernesto Limiti
Flexible Antenna Design for Wearable Telemedicine Applications, Sara Yehia Abdel Fatah, Fatma Taher, Taha A. Elwi, Mohamed Fathy Abo Sree, Mohammad Alibakhshikenart, Bal S. Virdee, Patrizia Livreri, Naser Ojaroudi Patchin, Chan Hwang See, Giovanni Pau, Iyad Dayoub, and Ernesto Limiti
IoT-Based Surveillance Camera Distribution Using Triangle Geometry, Islam T. Almalkawi, Loiy Al-Abed, Jamal N. Al-Karaki, and Manel Guerrero Zapata
Lessons in Crisis Leadership from 9/11: Delineating the constituents of Crisis Leadership and their utilization in the context of Covid-19, Christina Nizamidou
Arab Media Researchers’ Perceptions of Factors Affecting Their Research Problem Selection, Hossam Mohamed Elhamy and Maha Abdulmajeed
A researcher's commentary on Stephen Evans' “Just wanna give you guys a bit of an update": Insider perspectives on business presentations in Hong Kong (2013), Álvaro Subero-Sáenz
Artificial intelligence tool for the study of COVID-19 microdroplet spread across the human diameter and airborne space, Hesham H. Alsaadi, Monther Aldwairi, Faten Yasin, Sandra C.P. Cachinho, and Abdullah Hussein
DroidDetectMW: A Hybrid Intelligent Model for Android Malware Detection, Fatma Taher, Omar AlFandi, Mousa Al-kfairy, Hussam Al Hamadi, and Saed Alrabaee
Empowering Patient Similarity Networks through Innovative Data-Quality-Aware Federated Profiling, Alramzana Nujum Navaz, Mohamed Adel Serhani, Hadeel T. El Kassabi, and Ikbal Taleb
Female Labor Participation and Mother’s Daycare in Greece Pre- and Post-COVID-19 Pandemic: A Regional Analysis, Costas Siriopoulos and Sophia A. Kassapi
Increasing worker motivation using a reward scheme with probabilistic elements, Adrian R. Camilleri, Katarina Dankova, Jose M. Ortiz, and Ananta Neelim
Maximum Activation 3D Cube Transition System for Virtual Emotion Surveillance, Taewoo Lee, Jalel Ben-Othman, and Hyunbum Kim
Offline Handwritten Chinese Character Using Convolutional Neural Network: State-of-the-Art Methods, Yingna Zhong, Kauthar Mohd Daud, Ain Najiha Binti Mohamad Nor, Richard Adeyemi Ikuesan, and Kohbalan Moorthy
On Ensuring Full Yet Cost-Efficient Survivability of Service Function Chains in NFV Environments, Zakaria Alomari, Mohamed Faten Zhani, Moayad Aloqaily, and Ouns Bouachir
Preface, Cristina Greco and Ibrahim Subeh
Self-Healing in Cyber–Physical Systems Using Machine Learning: A Critical Analysis of Theories and Tools, Obinna Johnphill, Ali Safaa Sadiq, Feras Al-Obeidat, Haider Al-Khateeb, Mohammed Adam Taheir, Omprakash Kaiwartya, and Mohammed Ali
Semiotics, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGpt. Research Lines, Analytical Perspectives and Potential Applications, Marianna Boero and Cristina Greco
Suspicious Behavior Detection with Temporal Feature Extraction and Time-Series Classification for Shoplifting Crime Prevention, Amril Nazir, Rohan Mitra, Hana Sulieman, and Firuz Kamalov
Volatility forecasting in the Bitcoin market: A new proposed measure based on the VS-ACARR approach, Xinyu Wu, Xuebao Yin, Zaghum Umar, and Najaf Iqbal
Universities as Agents for Innovation, Living Values, Sustainable Community Development and Progressive Society Building, Danjoo Ghista and Ravi S. Sharma
Enough of the chit-chat: A comparative analysis of four AI chatbots for calculus and statistics, David Santandreu Calonge, Linda Smail, and Firuz Kamalov
Financial Time Series Modelling Using Fractal Interpolation Functions, Polychronis Manousopoulos, Vasileios Drakopoulos, and Efstathios Polyzos
Transfer Learning-based Forensic Analysis and Classification of E-Mail Content, Farkhund Iqbal, Abdul Rehman Javed, Rutvij H. Jhaveri, Ahmad Almadhor, and Umar Farooq
A Complete Transmitted Message in DTNs with a Stable Coalition in Dynamic Structures, Y. Larabi, K. Ibrahimi, J. Ben-Othman, and E. Amhoud
Decentralized Road Conditions Assessment for Smart Mobility Management in Abu Dhabi, A. Albasir and J. Ben-Othman
How did COVID lockdowns affect firms and workers? Evidence from Jordan and Morocco, Rihab Baltaji, Ali Fakih, and Nagham Sayour
MELoNS - A Modular and Extendable Simulator for LoRaWAN Network, Mi Chen, Lynda Mokdad, and Jalel Ben Othman
Optimizing Traffic Flow with Policy Iteration Method: A Study on 9-Intersection Network Management, A. Merbah and J. Ben-Othman
Simulating Vehicular Mobility: A Comprehensive Framework Using MATLAB SimEvents, H. A. Hachemane and J. Ben-Othman
Dynamic Parameter Allocation with Reinforcement Learning for LoRaWAN, Mi Chen, Lynda Mokdad, Jalel Ben-Othman, and Jean Michel Fourneau
Aisha: A Custom AI Library Chatbot Using the ChatGPT API, Yrjo Lappalainen and Nikesh Narayanan
Legitimising Emirati women’s expanding economic agency via narratives of the past, Valerie Priscilla Goby
Family-supportive supervisor behaviours and family cohesion: the roles of job crafting and passion for work, Maryam Saleem, Balqees Ahmed, Yi Zhang, and Abdelrahman Baqrain
Academic parenthood in the United Arab Emirates in the time of COVID-19, Martina Dickson, Jessica Midraj, Rehab Al Hakmani, Melissa McMinn, Deena Elsori, Mariam Alhashmi, and Prospera Tedam
A novel driver emotion recognition system based on deep ensemble classification, Khalid Zaman, Sun Zhaoyun, Babar Shah, Tariq Hussain, Sayyed Mudassar Shah, Farman Ali, and Umer Sadiq Khan
FedMint: Intelligent Bilateral Client Selection in Federated Learning with Newcomer IoT Devices, Osama Wehbi, Sarhad Arisdakessian, Omar Abdel Wahab, Hadi Otrok, Safa Otoum, Azzam Mourad, and Mohsen Guizani
Integrative Molecular Analysis of DNA Methylation Dynamics Unveils Molecules with Prognostic Potential in Breast Cancer, Rashid Mehmood, Alanoud Alsaleh, Muzamil Y. Want, Ijaz Ahmad, Sami Siraj, Muhammad Ishtiaq, Faizah A. Alshehri, Muhammad Naseem, and Noriko Yasuhara
Perceptions of teacher competencies in a new higher education blended learning programme: An exploratory study, Michael Bowles and Amir Kaviani
Efficient Detection of Skin Cancer Using Deep Learning Techniques and a Comparative Analysis Study, Mehtab Hashim, Asad Masood Khattak, and Imran Taj
A System Dynamics Approach to Evaluate Advanced Persistent Threat Vectors, Mathew Nicho, Christopher D. McDermott, Hussein Fakhry, and Shini Girija
Beyond the Myth: The Perfection of Being an Imperfect Mother in Contemporary Advertising, Marianna Boero and Cristina Greco
Catalytic degradation of carbamazepine by surface modified zerovalent copper via activation of peroxymonosulfate: Mechanism, degradation pathways and ecotoxicity., Faryal Gohar, Murtaza Sayed, Noor S Shah, Faiza Rehman, Ikhtiar Gul, Sajjad Hussain, Jibran Iqbal, Saman Gul, and Qaiser Khan
Characterization of physicochemical parameters and bacterial diversity of composted organic food wastes in Dubai, Carole Ayoub Moubareck, Buthaina Alawlaqi, and Salama Alhajri
Datas Impact on Algorithmic Bias, Donghee Shin and Emily Y. Shin
Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Energy Efficiency Optimization for Flying LoRa Gateways, Mohammed Jouhari, Khalil Ibrahimi, Jalel Ben Othman, and El Mehdi Amhoud
E-entrepreneurial attitudes and behaviours in the United Arab Emirates: an empirical investigation in the digital transformation era, Dhia Qasim, Ahmed Shuhaiber, Ashraf Bany Mohammed, and Marco Valeri
From Massive IoT Toward IoE: Evolution of Energy Efficient Autonomous Wireless Networks, Himanshi Babbar, Shalli Rani, Ouns Bouachir, and Moayad Aloqaily
Human-Centered AI: A Framework for Green and Sustainable AI, Donghee Shin and Emily Y. Shin
Impact and Challenges of Intelligent IoT in Meteorological Science, Yi Chen, Kadhim Hayawi, Jianxin He, Huanhuan Song, and Jiarui Wang
I will be with you Alexa! The impact of intelligent virtual assistant's authenticity and personalization on user reusage intentions, Saifeddin Alimamy and Mohammad Amin Kuhail