Submissions from 2021
Efficient In-Network Caching in NDN-based Connected Vehicles, Hasan Ali Khattak, Farkhanda Zafar Raja, Moayad Aloqaily, and Ouns Bouachir
A digital maturity model for the education enterprise, Maytha AL-Ali and Adam Marks
ANTi-Vax: A Novel Twitter Dataset for COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation Detection, Kadhim Hayawi, Sakib Shahriar, Mohamed Adel Serhani, Ikbal Taleb, and Sujith Samuel Mathew
Strategies to Counter Zinc Deficiency, Current Status and Future Directions, Shams Tabrez Khan and Munawwar Ali Khan
Super-Node Topology In Collaborative Learning: Concrete Examples And Benefits, Loubna Mekouar, Fatna Belqasmi, and Muna Bader
The Mineral Composition of Date Palm Fruits (Phoenix dactylifera L.) under Low to High Salinity Irrigation, Rania Dghaim, Zied Hammami, Rola Al Ghali, Linda Smail, and Dalia Haroun
Cyclicality of capital adequacy ratios in heterogeneous environment: A nonlinear panel smooth transition regression explanation, Ghulame Rubbaniy, Ali Awais Khalid, Stathis Polyzos, and Balqees Naser Almessabi
Inflection Points, Kinks, and Jumps: A Statistical Approach to Detecting Nonlinearities, Peren Arin, Maria Minniti, Samuele Murtinu, and Nicola Spagnolo
Remote internal crisis communication (RICC) – role of internal communication in predicting employee engagement during remote work in a crisis, Ganga Sasidharan Dhanesh and Gaelle Picherit-Duthler
Accelerometer measured physical activity patterns of children during segmented school day in Abu Dhabi, Rahma Ajja, Ludmilla F. Wikkeling-Scott, Keith Brazendale, Rafiq Hijazi, and Abdishakur Abdulle
An Adaptive UAV Positioning Model for Sustainable Smart Transportation, Moayad Aloqaily, Ouns Bouachir, Ismaeel Al Ridhawi, and Anthony Tzes
Application of response surface methodology on the nanofluid flow over a rotating disk with autocatalytic chemical reaction and entropy generation optimization, Tahir Mehmood, Muhammad Ramzan, Fares Howari, Seifedine Kadry, and Yu Ming Chu
Cardiovascular Segmentation Methods Based on Weak or no Prior, Fatma Taher and Neema Prakash
Characterizing individuals accessing mental health services in the UAE: a focus on youth living in Dubai, Mariapaola Barbato, Shaikha Al Hemeiri, Shorouk Nafie, Baraa A. Dhuhair, and Nadia T. Dabbagh
Comparative analysis of activation functions in neural networks, Firuz Kamalov, Amril Nazir, Murodbek Safaraliev, Aswani Kumar Cherukuri, and Rita Zgheib
Determinants of dental caries in children in the Middle East and North Africa region: a systematic review based on literature published from 2000 to 2019, Amal Elamin, Malin Garemo, and Anzelle Mulder
Dynamic spillovers between the term structure of interest rates, bitcoin, and safe-haven currencies, David Y. Aharon, Zaghum Umar, and Xuan Vinh Vo
Economics of Artificial Intelligence in the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries, Mamduh M. Hanafi, Nir Kshetri, and Ravi Sharma
Effect of Ketogenic Diet on Quality of Life in Adults with Chronic Disease: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials, Myriam Abboud, Fatme Alanouti, Evridiki Georgaki, and Dimitrios Papandreou
Emerging contaminants of high concern for the environment: Current trends and future research, Shamshad Khan, Mu Naushad, Muthusamy Govarthanan, Jibran Iqbal, and Sulaiman M. Alfadul
Enabling Trustworthiness in Sustainable Energy Infrastructure Through Blockchain and AI-Assisted Solutions, Safa Otoum and Hussein T. Mouftah
Estimation and Interpretation of Machine Learning Models with Customized Surrogate Model, Mudabbir Ali, Asad Masood Khattak, Zain Ali, Bashir Hayat, Muhammad Idrees, Zeeshan Pervez, Kashif Rizwan, Tae Eung Sung, and Ki Il Kim
Examining the Association between Bank Competition, Regulatory Capital, and Bank Risk-Taking, Rana Shahin, Helmy Sallam, and Heba Abou-El-Sood
Exercise and nutrition impact on osteoporosis and sarcopenia—the incidence of osteosarcopenia: A narrative review, Sousana K. Papadopoulou, Konstantinos Papadimitriou, Gavriela Voulgaridou, Evridiki Georgaki, Eudoxia Tsotidou, Olga Zantidou, and Dimitrios Papandreou
Hybrid feature selection approach to identify optimal features of profile metadata to detect social bots in Twitter, Eiman Alothali, Kadhim Hayawi, and Hany Alashwal
Irreversibility minimization analysis of ferromagnetic Oldroyd-B nanofluid flow under the influence of a magnetic dipole, Muhammad Ramzan, Fares Howari, Jae Dong Chung, Seifedine Kadry, and Yu Ming Chu
Maternal investment, life-history trajectory of the off-spring and cardiovascular disease risk in Emirati females in the United Arab Emirates, Rola Al Ghali, Linda Smail, Maryam Muqbel, and Dalia Haroun
Modelling customers credit card behaviour using bidirectional LSTM neural networks, Maher Ala’raj, Maysam F. Abbod, and Munir Majdalawieh
Multiomic analysis of the Arabian camel (Camelus dromedarius) kidney reveals a role for cholesterol in water conservation, Fernando Alvira-Iraizoz, Benjamin T. Gillard, Panjiao Lin, Alex Paterson, Audrys G. Pauža, Mahmoud A. Ali, Ammar H. Alabsi, Pamela A. Burger, Naserddine Hamadi, Abdu Adem, David Murphy, and Michael P. Greenwood
Partners in learning: ‘An exploration of multi-cultural faculty and Emirati students' perspectives of university learning experiences’, Herveen Singh, Fatima Bailey, Jenny Eppard, and Kara McKeown
Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Inhibit TRPC4-Mediated Muscarinic Cation Current in Mouse Ileal Myocytes, Lina T. Al Kury, Dimitrios Papandreou, Vasyl V. Hurmach, Dariia O. Dryn, Mariia I. Melnyk, Maxim O. Platonov, Yuriy I. Prylutskyy, Uwe Ritter, Peter Scharff, and Alexander V. Zholos
State and COVID-19 Response in the Asian Tiger Economies Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore, Habibul Haque Khondker
The dynamics of COVID-19 in the UAE based on fractional derivative modeling using Riesz wavelets simulation, Mutaz Mohammad, Alexander Trounev, and Carlo Cattani
The effectiveness of online platforms after the pandemic: Will face-to-face classes affect students’ perception of their behavioural intention (BIU) to use online platforms?, Rana Saeed Al-Maroof, Noha Alnazzawi, Iman A. Akour, Kevin Ayoubi, Khadija Alhumaid, Nafla Mahdi Alahbabi, Maryam Alnnaimi, Sarah Thabit, Raghad Alfaisal, Ahmad Aburayya, and Said Salloum
The effect of different methods to identify, and scenarios used to address energy intake misestimation on dietary patterns derived by cluster analysis, Geraldine Lo Siou, Alianu K. Akawung, Nathan M. Solbak, Kathryn L. McDonald, Ala Al Rajabi, Heather K. Whelan, and Sharon I. Kirkpatrick
The interrelationship and accumulation of cardiometabolic risk factors amongst young adults in the United Arab Emirates: The UAE Healthy Future Study, Fatima Mezhal, Abderrahim Oulhaj, Abdishakur Abdulle, Abdulla AlJunaibi, Abdulla Alnaeemi, Amar Ahmad, Andrea Leinberger-Jabari, Ayesha S. Al Dhaheri, E. Murat Tuzcu, Eiman AlZaabi, Fatma Al-Maskari, Fatme Alanouti, Fayza Alameri, Habiba Alsafar, Hamad Alblooshi, Juma Alkaabi, Laila Abdel Wareth, Mai Aljaber, and Marina Kazim
Theoretical Models of Integration of Interactive Learning Technologies into Teaching: A Systematic Literature Review, Laila Mohebi
The use of mobile payment systems in post-COVID-19 economic recovery: Primary research on an emerging market for experience goods, Maiya M. Suyunchaliyeva, Raghav Nautiyal, Aijaz A. Shaikh, and Ravishankar Sharma
Trustworthy Cooperative UAV-Based Data Management in Densely Crowded Environments, Moayad Aloqaily, Yaser Jararweh, and Ouns Bouachir
Utility and Professional Attitudes toward Assistive Technology in UAE Special Needs Centers, Mohammad Fteiha, Deena Elsori, Ashraf Khalil, and Ghanem AlBustami
Utilization of the UAE date palm leaf biochar in carbon dioxide capture and sequestration processes, Imen Ben Salem, Maisa El Gamal, Manish Sharma, Suhaib Hameedi, and Fares M. Howari
Vitamin D status and blood pressure in children and adolescents: a systematic review of observational studies, Myriam Abboud, Fatme Al Anouti, Dimitrios Papandreou, Rana Rizk, Nadine Mahboub, and Suzan Haidar
Water as a Weapon of War in the Tigris-Euphrates Basin, Adam Krzymowski
Water Diplomacy and Its Strategic Significance for Sustainable Development Goals and Global Security Architecture, Adam Krzymowski
Zinc in soil-plant-human system: A data-analysis review, Natasha Natasha, Muhammad Shahid, Irshad Bibi, Jibran Iqbal, Sana Khalid, Behzad Murtaza, Hafiz Faiq Bakhat, Abu Bakr Umer Farooq (COMSATS University Islamabad Abu Bakr Umer Farooq (COMSATS University Islamabad, Muhammad Amjad, Hafiz Mohkum Hammad, Nabeel Khan Niazi, and Muhammad Arshad
Bitcoin Price Forecasting: Linear Discriminant Analysis with Sentiment Evaluation, Ikhlaas Gurrib, Firuz Kamalov, and Linda Smail
A comprehensive review on the removal of noxious pollutants using carrageenan based advanced adsorbents, Gaurav Sharma, Atul Khosla, Amit Kumar, Nikhil Kaushal, Shweta Sharma, Mu Naushad, Dai-Viet N Vo, Jibran Iqbal, and Florian J Stadler
Clustered, Stacked and Imbricated Large Coastal Rock Clasts on Ludao Island, Southeast Taiwan, and Their Application to Palaeotyphoon Intensity Assessment, James P. Terry, A.Y. Annie Lau, Kim Anh Nguyen, Yuei-An Liou, and Adam D. Switzer
IoT Protocols – MQTT versus CoAP, Alyaziya Almheiri and Zakaria Maamar
EdTech Culturation: Integrating A Culturally Relevant Pedagogy into Educational Technology, Jenny Eppard, Amir Kaviani, Michael Bowles, and Jason Johnson
The Three Seas Initiative and the Graz Triangle Relations Towards the United Arab Emirates, Adam Krzymowski
Afterword: All Things Collected, Hülya Yağcıoğlu
All Things Arabia: Arabian Identity and Material Culture, Ileana Baird and Hülya Yağcıoğlu
Cine-Things: The Revival of the Emirati Past in Nojoom Alghanem’s Cinemascape, Chrysavgi Papagianni
Circulating Things, Circulating Stereotypes: Representations of Arabia in Eighteenth-Century Imagination, Ileana Baird
From Cradle to Grave: A Life Story in Jewelry, Marie-Claire Bakker and Kara McKeown
Introduction: Complex Legacies: Materiality, Memory, and Myth in the Arabian Peninsula, Ileana Baird
Written in Silver: Protective Medallions from Inner Oman, James Redman
Influential factors in physician burnout in the United Arab Emirates, Sarah Siddiqui and Martin Sposato
Scalable Edge Computing for IoT and Multimedia Applications Using Machine Learning, Mohammad Babar, Muhammad Sohail Khan, Usman Habib, Babar Shah, Farman Ali, and Dongho Song
AI-based Energy Model for Adaptive Duty Cycle Scheduling in Wireless Networks, Nadia Charef, Adel Ben Mnaouer, and Ouns Bouachir
Improving Emirati students’ social responsibility competence through global citizenship education, Shytance T. Wren
A Comparative Study of AI-Based Intrusion Detection Techniques in Critical Infrastructures, Safa Otoum, Burak Kantarci, and Hussein Mouftah
Associations between genetic variants in the vitamin d metabolism pathway and severity of covid-19 among uae residents, Fatme Al-Anouti, Mira Mousa, Spyridon N. Karras, William B. Grant, Zainab Alhalwachi, Laila Abdel-Wareth, Maimunah Uddin, Nawal Alkaabi, Guan K. Tay, Bassam Mahboub, and Habiba Alsafar
Book Review: Children Affected By Conflict In The Borderlands Of Thailand, Ornanong Husna Benbourenane
Contining a Corona Misinfeelernic and Covidiocy: Political Talk Shows on German Public-Service IV, Jana Fedtke, Mohammed Ibahrine, Bouziane Zaid, and Don Donghee Shin
Data-driven based HVAC optimisation approaches: A Systematic Literature Review, Maher Ala’raj, Mohammed Radi, Maysam F. Abbod, Munir Majdalawieh, and Marianela Parodi
Designing and development of polyvinylpyrrolidone-tungsten trioxide (PVP-WO3) nanocomposite conducting film for highly sensitive, stable, and room temperature humidity sensing, Hizb Ullah Khan, Muhammad Tariq, Mutabar Shah, Sajid Ullah, Abdul Razaq Ahsan, Abdur Rahim, Jibran Iqbal, Renu Pasricha, and Issam Ismail
DL Multi-sensor information fusion service selective information scheme for improving the Internet of Things based user responses, Ahmad A. AlZubi, Ahed Abugabah, Mohammed Al-Maitah, and Firas Ibrahim AlZobi
Does diacritics-based lexical disambiguation modulate word frequency, length, and predictability effects? An eye-movements investigation of processing Arabic diacritics, Ehab W. Hermena, Sana Bouamama, Simon P. Liversedge, and Denis Drieghe
Entrepreneurial leadership and sustainable development—a systematic literature review, Alexandrina Maria Pauceanu, Nada Rabie, Ayman Moustafa, and Daniel Constantin Jiroveanu
Firm, institutional and short sellers' trading behavior around share repurchases, Reuben Segara and Jin Young Yang
Immersive Services over 5G and Beyond Mobile Systems, Zinelaabidine Nadir, Tarik Taleb, Hannu Flinck, Ouns Bouachir, and Miloud Bagaa
Investors’ mood and herd investing: a quantile-on-quantile regression explanation from crypto market, Ghulame Rubbaniy, Kienpin Tee, Perihan Iren, and Sonia Abdennadher
Production and harvesting of microalgae and an efficient operational approach to biofuel production for a sustainable environment, Shamshad Khan, M. Naushad, Jibran Iqbal, Chinna Bathula, and Gaurav Sharma
Study of atmospheric pollution and health risk assessment: A case study for the sharjah and ajman emirates (uae), Yousef Nazzal, Nadine Bou Orm, Alina Barbulescu, Fares Howari, Manish Sharma, Alaa E. Badawi, Ahmed A. Al-Taani, Jibran Iqbal, Farid El Ktaibi, Cijo M. Xavier, and Cristian Stefan Dumitriu
The Longitudinal Influence of Parenting and Parents’ Traces on Narrative Identity in Young Adulthood, Christin Camia, Sonia Sengsavang, Sonja Rohrmann, and Michael W. Pratt
Topological Analysis of the Carbon-Concentrating CETCH Cycle and a Photorespiratory Bypass Reveals Boosted CO2-Sequestration by Plants, Özge Osmanoglu, Mariam Khaled AlSeiari, Hasa Abduljaleel AlKhoori, Shabana Shams, Elena Bencurova, Thomas Dandekar, and Muhammad Naseem
Vaccine versus variants (3Vs): Are the COVID-19 vaccines effective against the variants? A systematic review, Kadhim Hayawi, Sakib Shahriar, Mohamed Adel Serhani, Hany Alashwal, and Mohammad M. Masud
Semantic composition of cloud services, Mouna Rekik, Khouloud Boukadi, and Rima Grati
Emiratization and Workforce Innovation in Banking Sector, Kienpin Tee and Xiaoshu Li
THECOG - Transforms in Behavioral and Affective Computing, Georgios Drakopoulos and Eleanna Kafeza
Evaluation of Supervised Machine Learning Algorithms for Multi-class Intrusion Detection Systems, Sanaa Kaddoura, Amal El Arid, and Mirna Moukhtar
Multicriteria Decision Making Using TOPSIS Method: An Accurate Selection of Deserving Candidates, Rahman Ali and Asad Masood Khatak
Systematic privacy impact assessment scheme for smart connected toys data privacy compliance, Benjamin Yankson, Farkhund Iqbal, and Patrick C.K. Hung
Sustainable green nanoadsorbents for remediation of pharmaceuticals from water and wastewater: A critical review, Afzal Husain Khan, Nadeem Ahmad Khan, Mukarram Zubair, Mohd Azfar Shaida, Mohammad Saood Manzar, Ahmed Abutaleb, Mu Naushad, and Jibran Iqbal
Validation of the Italian translation of the perceived stigma scale and resilience assessment in inflammatory bowel disease patients, Sara Cococcia, Marco Vincenzo Lenti, Caterina Mengoli, Catherine Klersy, Federica Borrelli de Andreis, Matteo Secco, Jihane Ghorayeb, Mariangela Delliponti, Gino Roberto Corazza, and Antonio Di Sabatino
Towards Automatic Narrative Coherence Prediction, Filip Bendevski, Jumana Ibrahim, Tina Krulec, Theodore Waters, Nizar Habash, Hanan Salam, Himadri Mukherjee, and Christin Camia
Hybrid Approach for Resource Allocation in Cloud Infrastructure Using Random Forest and Genetic Algorithm, Madhusudhan H S, Satish Kumar T, S.M.F D Syed Mustapha, Punit Gupta, and Rajan Prasad Tripathi
AI based Login System using Facial Recognition, Siem Girmay, Faniel Samsom, and Asad Masood Khattak
Blockchain-based Secure CIDS Operation, Imran Makhdoom, Kadhim Hayawi, Mohammed Kaosar, Sujith Samuel Mathew, and Mohammad Mehedy Masud
Classification of malicious and benign websites by network features using supervised machine learning algorithms, Sanaa Kaddoura
Forensic Analysis of the Cisco WebEx Application, Zainab Khalid, Farkhund Iqbal, Faouzi Kamoun, Mohammed Hussain, and Liaqat Ali Khan
Modeling Evasive Malware Authoring Techniques, Mathew Nicho and Maitha Alkhateri
Real Time Detection of Social Bots on Twitter Using Machine Learning and Apache Kafka, Eiman Alothali, Hany Alashwal, Motamen Salih, and Kadhim Hayawi
Efficient online portfolio simulation using dynamic moving average model and benchmark index, Amril Nazir
Employer and employee perspectives of HRM practices within SMEs, Tim Mazzarol, Geoffrey N. Soutar, Tui McKeown, Sophie Reboud, Sujana Adapa, John Rice, and Delwyn Clark
Effects of word predictability on eye movements during Arabic reading, Maryam A. AlJassmi, Kayleigh L. Warrington, Victoria A. McGowan, Sarah J. White, and Kevin B. Paterson
An efficient deep learning technique for facial emotion recognition, Asad Khattak, Muhammad Zubair Asghar, Mushtaq Ali, and Ulfat Batool
Inverse properties of a class of seven-diagonal (near) Toeplitz matrices, Bakytzhan Kurmanbek, Yogi Erlangga, and Yerlan Amanbek