• Capital structure and profitability in a tax-free country: evidence from the UAE 

  Imen, Tebourbi; Irene, Wei Kiong Ting; Qian, Long Kweh; Harith, Ali Hamood Al Huseini (Inderscience Publishers, 2020)

  The balance between debt and equity is a key factor explaining profitability. This study examines how capital structure affects the profitability of firms listed on stock exchanges in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), a ...
• Here’s What to Know About Clickbait: Effects of Image, Headline and Editing on Audience Attitudes 

  Vultee, Fred; Burgess, G. Scott; Frazier, Darryl; Mesmer, Kelsey (Routledge, 2020-07-16)

  This experimental study examines responses to three features of news practice: headline style, selection of illustrations, and level of processing applied to the text. The strongest influence on perceptions of quality or ...
• Effect of Qatar diplomatic and economic isolation on Qatar stock market volatility: an event study approach 

  Kapar, Burcu; Buigut, Steven (Routledge, 2020)

  In this study we assess the impact of the political and economic blockade of Qatar, as well as four other events related to the blockade on Qatar’s stock market volatility. One of these events occurred before the June 5 ...
• Determinants Linked to Executive Succession Planning in Public Sector Organizations 

  Al Suwaidi, Muna; Jabeen, Fauzia; Stachowicz-Stanusch, Agata; Webb, Matthew (Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd, 2020)

  Succession planning is important for organizational growth and business sustainability in the public sector. However, few organizations have attempted to introduce the concept and practice. This article aimed to identify ...
• Beyond Borders: The Euro Crisis and Public Support for Monetary Integration in East Africa 

  Bizuneh, Menna; Buigut, Steven; Valev, Neven (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2020)

  We show that economic experiences in one part of the world affect proposed policies elsewhere. Specifically, we find that the recent crisis in the European Monetary Union (EMU) has impacted negatively the public support ...
• Study on The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Government E-service in Dubai 

  Al Marri, Amna; Albloosh, Fatma; Moussa, Sherif; Elmessiry, Haythem (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019-11)

  AI has become a phenomenon of interest in the current world of technological advancement. There are many applications of this technology, including its usage to facilitate government activities. Dubai has taken note of ...
• A scalable semantic framework for IoT healthcare applications 

  Zgheib, Rita; Kristiansen, Stein; Conchon, Emmanuel; Plageman, Thomas; Goebel, Vera; Bastide, Rémi (Springer, 2020)

  IoT-based systems for early epidemic detection have not been investigated yet in the research. The state-of-the art in sensor technology and activity recognition makes it possible to automatically detect activities of daily ...
• Women entrepreneurship in sub-Saharan Africa: a case-based approach 

  Madichie, Nnamdi O.; Hinson, Robert E. (Taylor and Francis, 2014-01-01)

  This chapter highlights the challenges of women business owners in sub-Saharan African (SSA) using in-depth interviews from four different countries. The primary aim of the chapter is to pinpoint shared challenges of women ...
• Mutual fund performance: The decision quality and capital magnet efficiencies 

  Hsieh, H. Pierre; Tebourbi, Imen; Lu, Wen‐Min; Liu, Nai‐Yu (John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2020-07-01)

  This study employs a two-stage network data envelopment analysis model to analyze the decision quality and capital magnet efficiencies of 155 mutual funds in Taiwan during the period 2007–2016. The empirical results show ...
• Exploring Youths’ Perceptions Of (In)Tolerance In The United Arab Emirates 

  Abaido, Ghada M. (Gyandhara International Academic Publications, 2020-05)

  Purpose of the study: This paper aims to explore how youth perceive the meaning of social, cultural, and religious tolerance in the United Arab Emirates as a multicultural, multi-ethnic society. Methodology: Data were ...
• The phylogenetic range of bacterial and viral pathogens of vertebrates 

  Shaw, Liam P.; Wang, Alethea D.; Dylus, David; Meier, Magda; Pogacnik, Grega; Dessimoz, Christophe; Balloux, François (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2020)

  Many major human pathogens are multihost pathogens, able to infect other vertebrate species. Describing the general patterns of host–pathogen associations across pathogen taxa is therefore important to understand risk ...
• Generalized feature similarity measure 

  Kamalov, Firuz (Springer, 2020)

  Quantifying the degree of relation between a feature and target class is one of the key aspects of machine learning. In this regard, information gain (IG) and χ2 are two of the most widely used measures in feature evaluation. ...
• Design and Implementation of Multi-Protocol Data Networks Interface Detector in Heterogeneous IoTs 

  Tariq, Hasan; Abdaoui, Abderrazak; Touati, Farid; Al-Hitmi, Mohammed Abdulla E; Crescini, Damiano; Manouer, Adel Ben (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2020-02)

  In Internet of Everything (IoE) or heterogeneous IoTs, there exist a plethora of protocols and inter-connected Internet of Things. For every network protocol, the complexity of communication and wiring at the physical ...
• Forecasting significant stock price changes using neural networks 

  Kamalov, Firuz (Springer, 2020)

  Stock price prediction is a rich research topic that has attracted interest from various areas of science. The recent success of machine learning in speech and image recognition has prompted researchers to apply these ...
• Impacts of Big-Data Technologies in Enhancing CRM Performance 

  Taleb, Nasser; Salahat, Mohammad; Ali, Liaqat (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2020)

  big data is a hot business topic today. In business organizations, customer-relationship management (CRM) is an important pillar to achieve competitive advantages. Big data refers to practices of integrating big data into ...
• Market driven by sustainable construction and demolition waste in UAE [Mercado impulsado por la construcción sostenible y los desechos de demolición en los EAU] 

  Gernal, M.L.; Sergio, R.P.; Musleh, A.J. (Universidad del Zulia, 2020)

  This paper aims to evaluate the regulations in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) treatment plant, and its market-driven acceptability of using construction and demolition waste (CDW). This research paper highlights the ...
• SOFCluster: Safety-oriented, fuzzy logic-based clustering scheme for vehicular ad hoc networks 

  Aissa, Mohamed; Bouhdid, Badia; Ben Mnaouer, Adel; Belghith, AissaAbdelfettah; AlAhmadi, Saad (Wiley Blackwell, 2020)

  Vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) nodes are characterized by their high mobility and by exhibiting different mobility patterns. Therefore, VANET clustering schemes are required to account for the mobility parameters among ...
• Major weapons procurement: An efficiency‐based approach for the selection of fighter jets 

  Lu, Wen‐Min; Kweh, Qian Long; Nourani, Mohammad; Shih, Jui‐Min (John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2020-06-01)

  This study applies the epsilon-based measure method in data envelopment analysis (DEA) to evaluate processes in procuring fighter jets (FJs), which are indicative of the technology and capability of major weapons. Moreover, ...
• A model-checking approach for the verification of CARE usability properties for multimodal user interfaces 

  Kamel, Nadjet; Selouani, Sid-Ahmed; Hamam, Habib (Praise Worthy Prize S.r.l., 2009-01)

  A model-checking-based approach is proposed to verify the CARE (Complementarity, Assignement, Redundancy and Equivalence) usability properties for Multimodal User Interfaces (MUIs). This approach reduces the states explosion ...
• Diversifying The Teaching Methods : Student’s Perceptions of Smart Learning 

  Abulibdeh, Enas; Abu Libdeh, Abdalla; Trayek, Fuad A.; Murshidi, Ghadah (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019-12)

  There is an increasing need for improving the e-learning systems and so integrating smart Applications into education is a useful communication tool in interactive educational environment for both learners and teachers. ...

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