Submissions from 2020
The Impact of Terrorism on Turkish Banks' Stocks and Cross-bank Variation of Abnormal Returns, Eda Orhun
Vitamin D and intestinal homeostasis: Barrier, microbiota, and immune modulation, Hana M.A. Fakhoury, Peter R. Kvietys, Wael AlKattan, Fatme Al Anouti, Muhammad Affan Elahi, Spyridon N. Karras, and William B. Grant
China in the Persian Gulf: Hedging under the US umbrella, Jonathan Fulton
Ginkgo biloba Extract Protects against Methotrexate-Induced Hepatotoxicity: A Computational and Pharmacological Approach, Lina Tariq Al Kury, Fazli Dayyan, Fawad Ali Shah, Zulkifal Malik, Atif Ali Khan Khalil, Abdullah Alattar, Reem Alshaman, Amjad Ali, and Zahid Khan
Explaining change in content of life narratives over time, Christin Camia and Tilmann Habermas
Exposed to Dubai: education and belonging among young Indian residents in the Gulf, David Sancho
Post-Treatment of Synthetic Polyphenolic 1,3,4 Oxadiazole Compound A3, Attenuated Ischemic Stroke-Induced Neuroinflammation and Neurodegeneration, Arooj Mohsin Alvi, Lina Tariq Al Kury, Muhammad Umar Ijaz, Fawad Ali Shah, Muhammad Tariq Khan, Ahmed Sadiq Sheikh, Humaira Nadeem, Arif Ullah Khan, Alam Zeb, and Shupeng Li
The effects of security and traceability of blockchain on digital affordance, Donghee Shin and Yujong Hwang
Implication of genetic variants in overweight and obesity susceptibility among the young Arab population of the United Arab Emirates, Sarah El Hajj Chehadeh, Wael Osman, Suna Nazar, Laila Jerman, Ameera Alghafri, Ali Sajwani, Mohamed Alawlaqi, Mohamed AlObeidli, Herbert F. Jelinek, Fatme AlAnouti, Kinda Khalaf, and Habiba Alsafar
Postdigital Feminism and Cultural Visual Regimes: Covid-19 at Women’s Only University in the Gulf, Zoe Hurley
Delivering quality and memorable tourism experience, Anestis K. Fotiadis and Anastasia Ef Spyridou
T31. TIME TO TALK MENTAL HEALTH IN DUBAI: DESCRIBING A SAMPLE OF ADOLESCENT HELP-SEEKERS ACCESSING MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES, Mariapaola Barbato, Shaikha AlHumairi, Shorouk Nafie, Baraa A Dhuhair, and Nadia T Dabbagh
Exploring strategic CSR communication on UAE banks' corporate websites, Effrosyni Georgiadou and Catherine Nickerson
Threats and Alliances in the Middle East: Saudi and Syrian Policies in a Turbulent Region, Mona Farag
Intelligent Control and Security of Fog Resources in Healthcare Systems via a Cognitive Fog Model, Mohammed Al-Khafajiy, Safa Otoum, Thar Baker, Muhammad Asim, Zakaria Maamar, Moayad Aloqaily, Mark Taylor, and Martin Randles
Regions in the Belt and Road Initiative, Jonathan Fulton
The inflation hedging capacity of Islamic and conventional equities, Zaghum Umar, Dimitrios Kenourgios, Muhammad Naeem, Khadija Abdulrahman, and Salma Al Hazaa
A review on myricetin as a potential therapeutic candidate for cancer prevention, Nazia Afroze, Sreepoorna Pramodh, Arif Hussain, Madiha Waleed, and Kajal Vakharia
A secure fog-based platform for SCADA-based IoT critical infrastructure, Thar Baker, Muhammad Asim, Áine MacDermott, Farkhund Iqbal, Faouzi Kamoun, Babar Shah, Omar Alfandi, and Mohammad Hammoudeh
Building a security framework for smart cities: A case study from UAE, Abdallah Tubaishat and Mariam Al Jouhi
Corporate voluntary greenhouse gas reporting: Stakeholder pressure and the mediating role of the chief executive officer, Lyton Chithambo, Ishmael Tingbani, Godfred Afrifa Agyapong, Ernest Gyapong, and Isaac Sakyi Damoah
Countering Malicious URLs in Internet of Things Using a Knowledge-Based Approach and a Simulated Expert, Sajid Anwar, Feras Al-Obeidat, Abdallah Tubaishat, Sadia Din, Awais Ahmad, Fakhri Alam Khan, Gwanggil Jeon, and Jonathan Loo
Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus endemicity in United Arab Emirates, 2019, Jeremy V. Camp, Dafalla O. Kannan, Babiker Mohammed Osman, Moayyed Sher Shah, Brigitte Howarth, Tamer Khafaga, Pia Weidinger, Noushad Karuvantevida, Jolanta Kolodziejek, Hessa Mazrooei, Nadine Wolf, Tom Loney, and Norbert Nowotny
Efficient scheduling of video camera sensor networks for IoT systems in smart cities, Muhammad Naeem, Waleed Ejaz, Muhammad Iqbal, Farkhund Iqbal, Alagan Anpalagan, and Joel J.P.C. Rodrigues
Inside-Out Interviews: Cross-Cultural Research in China, Martin Sposato and Heather L. Jeffrey
Naked-eye lead(II) capturing from contaminated water using innovative large-pore facial composite materials, Md Rabiul Awual, Md Munjur Hasan, Jibran Iqbal, Aminul Islam, Md Aminul Islam, Abdullah M. Asiri, and Mohammed M. Rahman
On privacy-aware eScience workflows, Khalid Belhajjame, Noura Faci, Zakaria Maamar, Vanilson Burégio, Edvan Soares, and Mahmoud Barhamgi
Phylogenomics of the genus Tursiops and closely related Delphininae reveals extensive reticulation among lineages and provides inference about eco-evolutionary drivers, Andre E. Moura, Kypher Shreves, Małgorzata Pilot, Kimberly R. Andrews, Daniel M. Moore, Takushi Kishida, Luciana Möller, Ada Natoli, Stefania Gaspari, Michael McGowen, Ing Chen, Howard Gray, Mauvis Gore, Ross M. Culloch, Muhammad S. Kiani, Maia Sarrouf Willson, Asma Bulushi, Tim Collins, Robert Baldwin, Andrew Willson, Gianna Minton, Louisa Ponnampalam, and A. Rus Hoelzel
Providing secure and reliable communication for next generation networks in smart cities, Ismaeel Al Ridhawi, Safa Otoum, Moayad Aloqaily, Yaser Jararweh, and Thar Baker
Quaternionic Channel-based Modulation For Dual-polarized Antennas, Sara Shakil Qureshi, Syed Ali Hassan, and Sajid Ali
Supporting Organisational Justice through a Legal Framework for Performance Appraisal in the United Arab Emirates: Management Case and Comparison with the French System, Fadi Sakka, Mohammed El Hadi El Maknouzi, and Iyad Mohammad Jadalhaq
Vitamin D receptor Fokl polymorphism is a determinant of both maternal and neonatal vitamin D concentrations at birth, Spyridon N. Karras, Theocharis Koufakis, Vasiliki Antonopoulou, Dimitrios G. Goulis, Merve Alaylıoğlu, Erdinc Dursun, Duygu Gezen-Ak, Cedric Annweiler, Stefan Pilz, Hana Fakhoury, Fatme Al Anouti, Vikentia Harizopoulou, Declan P. Naughton, Pantelis Zebekakis, and Kalliopi Kotsa
‘We need to share our stories’: the lives of Pakistanis with intellectual disability and their guardians, M. Patka, J. Wallin-Ruschman, B. A. Al Rahma, A. Zar, H. bin Nauman, J. M. Sharif, S. Ikram, T. Ul Hasan, A. Naeem, G. M. Sharif, N. Mehboob, T. Azim, and Z. Khanam
Posttraumatic stress disorder and psychiatric co-morbidity among Syrian refugees: the role of trauma exposure, trauma centrality, self-efficacy and emotional suppression, Man Cheung Chung, Nowf AlQarni, Mariam AlMazrouei, Shamsa Al Muhairi, Mudar Shakra, Britt Mitchell, Sara Al Mazrouei, and Shurooq Al Hashimi
An investigation into the linguistic landscape of translingual storybooks for Arabic-English bilingual children, Kay Gallagher and Afaf Bataineh
Audit quality, political connections and information asymmetry: evidence from banks in gulf co-operation council countries, Abiot Tessema
The Bolivia Reader: History, Culture, Politics, Ximena Cordova Oviedo
System Dynamics Modeling of Logistics Hub Capacity: The Dubai Logistics Corridor Case Study, Alberto De Marco, Hussein Fakhry, Marco Postorino, Zakaria Maamar, and Hakim Hacid
Development of new organic-inorganic, hybrid bionanocomposite from cellulose and clay for enhanced removal of Drimarine Yellow HF-3GL dye, Abida Kausar, Ramsha Shahzad, Jibran Iqbal, Nawshad Muhammad, Sobhy M. Ibrahim, and Munawar Iqbal
A survey of empirical findings on unconventional central bank policies, Stephanos Papadamou, Costas Siriopoulos, and Nikolaos A. Kyriazis
Terfezia boudieri: A Desert Truffle With Anticancer and Immunomodulatory Activities, Maha Farid Al Obaydi, Wafaa M. Hamed, Lina T. Al Kury, and Wamidh H. Talib
Bi-orthogonal wavelets for investigating Gibbs effects via oblique extension principle, Mutaz Mohammad
No effect of probiotics on leptin levels. An updated mini review, Dimitrios Papandreou
Beyond the third moment? Mapping the state of qualitative tourism research, Erica Wilson, Paolo Mura, Saeed Pahlevan Sharif, and Sarah N.R. Wijesinghe
A deep learning-based approach for automatic segmentation and quantification of the left ventricle from cardiac cine MR images, Hisham Abdeltawab, Fahmi Khalifa, Fatma Taher, Norah Saleh Alghamdi, Mohammed Ghazal, Garth Beache, Tamer Mohamed, Robert Keynton, and Ayman El-Baz
Advancing social media derived information messaging and management: A multi-mode development perspective, Nigel Martin, John Rice, and Damien Arthur
A new intra-cluster scheduling scheme for real-time flows in wireless sensor networks, Gohar Ali, Fernando Moreira, Omar Alfandi, Babar Shah, and Mohammed Ilyas
A WUSN-based Smart System for Water Flow Control, Nahom Aron, Bereket Yemane, Temesgen Mikael, Reem Salem, and Fatna Belqasmi
Blockchain Solution for IoT-based Critical Infrastructures: Byzantine Fault Tolerance, Omar Alfandi, Safa Otoum, and Yaser Jararweh
Can mindsets influence college students’ motivation to learn? Findings from the United States and the United Arab Emirates, Antje von Suchodoletz, Johanna Rahn, Iryna Nadyukova, Lydia Barza, and Anja Achtziger
Connecting literacy to curriculum ideologies, Majed Harb and Hanada Taha Thomure
Contextualizing privacy on health-related use of information technology, Yong Jin Park and Donghee Shin
Controllable phytosynthesis of gold nanoparticles and investigation of their size and morphology-dependent photocatalytic activity under visible light, Tausif Ahmad, Mohamad Azmi Bustam, Muhammad Zulfiqar, Muhammad Moniruzzaman, Alamin Idris, Jibran Iqbal, Hafiz Muhammad Anwaar Asghar, and Sami Ullah
Drone Forensics: A Detailed Analysis of Emerging DJI Models, Maryam Yousef, Farkhund Iqbal, and Mohammed Hussain
Effects of prolactin on ventricular myocyte shortening and calcium transport in the streptozotocin-induced diabetic rat, Frank C. Howarth, Gunnar Norstedt, Oleksiy I. Boldyriev, Muhammad A. Qureshi, Ozaz Mohamed, Khatija Parekh, Balaji Venkataraman, Sandeep Subramanya, Anatoliy Shmygol, and Lina T. Al Kury
Financial Integration in the GCC Region: Market Size Versus National Effects, Kerim Peren Arin, Guglielmo Maria Caporale, Kyriacos Kyriacou, and Nicola Spagnolo
Legal smart contracts in ethereum block chain: Linking the dots, Eleanna Kafeza, Syed Juned Ali, Irene Kafeza, and Haseena Alkatheeri
Leveraging cloud computing for the semantic web: review and trends, Oluwasegun Adedugbe, Elhadj Benkhelifa, Russell Campion, Feras Al-Obeidat, Anoud Bani Hani, and Uchitha Jayawickrama
Lignin/alginate/hydroxyapatite composite beads for the efficient removal of copper and nickel ions from aqueous solutions, Ayesha Naseer, Almas Hamid, Moinuddin Ghauri, Asma Nasrullah, Jibran Iqbal, Noor Samad Shah, Sikander Rafiq, Masooma Irfan, and Nawshad Muhammad
Message from the Conference Chairs, Hany El Kady, Qusay H. Mahmoud, Huwida Said, and Omar AlFandi
On data-driven curation, learning, and analysis for inferring evolving internet-of-Things (IoT) botnets in the wild, Morteza Safaei Pour, Antonio Mangino, Kurt Friday, Matthias Rathbun, Elias Bou-Harb, Farkhund Iqbal, Sagar Samtani, Jorge Crichigno, and Nasir Ghani
On the Pilot Contamination Attack in Multi-Cell Multiuser Massive MIMO Networks, Noman Akbar, Shihao Yan, Asad Masood Khattak, and Nan Yang
Potential of siltstone and its composites with biochar and magnetite nanoparticles for the removal of cadmium from contaminated aqueous solutions: Batch and column scale studies, Muhammad Imran, Zia Ul Haq Khan, Jibran Iqbal, Noor Samad Shah, Saima Muzammil, Shafaqat Ali, Nawshad Muhammad, Arwa Aziz, Behzad Murtaza, Muhammad Asif Naeem, Muhammad Amjad, Muhammad Shahid, Ali Zakir, and Muhammad Rizwan
Preface, Hany El Kady, Qusay H. Mahmoud, Huwida Said, and Omar AlFandi
Prevalence and factors associated with overweight and central obesity among adults in the Eastern Sudan, Saeed M. Omar, Zainab Taha, Ahmed Ali Hassan, Osama Al-Wutayd, and Ishag Adam
Putting Research into Practice: Beyond Textbook Email Task Design for Pre-experience Business English Learners, Robyn Albers, Paola Trejo Vences, and Catherine Nickerson
Should We Rush to Implement Password-less Single Factor FIDO2 based Authentication?, Fatima Alqubaisi, Ahmad Samer Wazan, Liza Ahmad, and David W. Chadwick
Smart infrastructure technologies: Crowdsourcing future development and benefits for Australian communities, John Rice and Nigel Martin
Staff Training in Intellectual and Developmental Disability Settings: a Scoping Review, Laura Gormley, Olive Healy, Amanda Doherty, Darragh O’Regan, and Ian Grey
State of the Art in Digital Forensics for Small Scale Digital Devices, Haifa Al Hosani, Maryam Yousef, Shaima Al Shouq, and Farkhund Iqbal
Suitability of Blockchain for Collaborative Intrusion Detection Systems, Nahom Aron Dawit, Sujith Samuel Mathew, and Kadhim Hayawi
Synthetic Rewiring of Plant CO2 Sequestration Galvanizes Plant Biomass Production, Muhammad Naseem, Özge Osmanoglu, and Thomas Dandekar
The current burden of carbapenemases: Review of significant properties and dissemination among gram-negative bacteria, Dalal Hammoudi Halat and Carole Ayoub Moubareck
UAV-Assisted Vehicular Communication for Densely Crowded Environments, Ouns Bouachir, Moayad Aloqaily, Ismaeel Al Ridhawi, Omar Alfandi, and Haythem Bany Salameh
UniBud: A Virtual Academic Adviser, Abdulrahman Alkhoori, Mohammad Amin Kuhail, and Abdulla Alkhoori
Vitamin d supplementation and blood pressure in children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis, Myriam Abboud
Water quality assessment of lower Jhelum canal in Pakistan by using geographic information system (GIS), Nusrat Bashir, Rashid Saeed, Muhammad Afzaal, Ashfaq Ahmad, Nawshad Muhammad, Jibran Iqbal, Abdullah Khan, Yusra Maqbool, and Saman Hameed
What do the value-at-risk measure and the respective legislative framework really offer to financial stability? Critical views and pro-cyclicality, Evangelos Vasileiou and Themistoclis Pantos
Paternalistic leadership style, employee voice and creativity among entrepreneurs: empirical evidence from SMEs of a developing country, Bahadur Ali Soomro, Maqsood Memon, and Naimatullah Shah
NF-κB Inhibitors Attenuate MCAO Induced Neurodegeneration and Oxidative Stress—A Reprofiling Approach, Awais Ali, Fawad Ali Shah, Alam Zeb, Imran Malik, Arooj Mohsin Alvi, Lina Tariq Alkury, Sajid Rashid, Ishtiaq Hussain, Najeeb Ullah, Arif Ullah Khan, Phil Ok Koh, and Shupeng Li
Evaluating IT Governance Structure Implementation in the Gulf Cooperation Council Region, Mathew Nicho and Suadad Muamaar
A Hybrid Approach for Counting Templates in Images, Maher Ala'raj and Munir Majdalawieh
Carbon on the Northwest European Shelf: Contemporary Budget and Future Influences, Oliver Legge, Martin Johnson, Natalie Hicks, Tim Jickells, Markus Diesing, John Aldridge, Julian Andrews, Yuri Artioli, Dorothee C.E. Bakker, Michael T. Burrows, Nealy Carr, Gemma Cripps, Stacey L. Felgate, Liam Fernand, Naomi Greenwood, Susan Hartman, Silke Kröger, Gennadi Lessin, Claire Mahaffey, Daniel J. Mayor, Ruth Parker, Ana M. Queirós, Jamie D. Shutler, Tiago Silva, Henrik Stahl, Jonathan Tinker, Graham J.C. Underwood, Johan Van Der Molen, Sarah Wakelin, and Keith Weston
ECCV (22) - Latent Embedding Feedback and Discriminative Features for Zero-Shot Classification, Sanath Narayan, Akshita Gupta, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Cees G. M. Snoek, and Ling Shao
Learning Enriched Features for Real Image Restoration and Enhancement., Syed Waqas Zamir, Aditya Arora, Salman Khan, Munawar Hayat, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Ming-Hsuan Yang, and Ling Shao
Solar light responsive bismuth doped titania with Ti3+ for efficient photocatalytic degradation of flumequine: Synergistic role of peroxymonosulfate, Ikhtiar Gul, Murtaza Sayed, Noor S. Shah, Javed Ali Khan, Kyriaki Polychronopoulou, Jibran Iqbal, and Faiza Rehman
Clubbing in Dubai: The Making of a “Party Capital”, Magdalena Karolak
Linguistic Hybridity and Cultural Multiplicity in Emirati Identity Construction, Sarah Hopkyns
Music for Thought: Examining Saudi Identities Expressed Through Music on Social Media, Magdalena Karolak
Exploring autobiographical memory specificity and narrative emotional processing in alexithymia, Christin Camia, Olivier Desmedt, and Olivier Luminet
Expat or citizen? Raising the question of a potential impact of status on leader behavior, Valerie Priscilla Goby and Abdelrahman Alhadhrami
Domestic Politics as Fuel for China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative: The Case of the Gulf Monarchies, Jonathan Fulton
Word-of-art: contribution of artists-in-residence to a creative tourism destination, Nataša Slak Valek
Adaptive real-time routing protocol for (M,k)-firm in industrial wireless multimedia sensor networks, Beom Su Kim, Sangdae Kim, Kyong Hoon Kim, Tae Eung Sung, Babar Shah, and Ki Il Kim
Age and knowledge of morphosyntax in english as an additional language: Grammatical judgment and error correction, Muhammad Asif Qureshi
A multi-branch separable convolution neural network for pedestrian attribute recognition, Imran N. Junejo and Naveed Ahmed
Assessment of the performance of CHROMagar KPC and Xpert Carba-R assay for the detection of carbapenem-resistant bacteria in rectal swabs: First comparative study from Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Carole Ayoub Moubareck, Dalal Hammoudi Halat, Mohammad Sartawi, Karen Lawlor, Dolla Karam Sarkis, and Adnan Alatoom
Board gender diversity and environmental, social, and economic value creation: Does family ownership matter?, Muhammad Nadeem, Ernest Gyapong, and Ammad Ahmed
Can bioelectrical impedance analysis and BMI be a prognostic tool in head and neck cancer patients? A review of the evidence, Maria Mantzorou, Maria Tolia, Antigoni Poultsidi, Eleni Pavlidou, Sousana K. Papadopoulou, Dimitrios Papandreou, and Constantinos Giaginis