• An approach for implementing key performance indicators of a discrete manufacturing simulator based on the ISO 22400 standard 

  Muhammad, Usman; Ferrer, Borja Ramis; Mohammed, Wael M; ETAL.. (IEEE Xplore, 2018-05)

  Performance measurement tools and techniques have become very significant in today's industries for increasing the efficiency of their processes in order to face the competitive market. The first step towards performance ...

• The Impact of Quality E-payment System on Customer Satisfaction 

  Alhammadi, Ameena Abdulrahman; Tariq, Muhammad Usman (JC review, 2020)

  The electronic payment system (e-payment system) is one of the modern methods to facilitate the completion of transactions. The success of the e-payment system depends on customer satisfaction with its use. This study was ...

• Distributed model for customer churn prediction using convolutional neural network 

  Tariq, Muhammad Usman; Babar, Muhammad; Poulin, Marc; Khattak, Akmal Saeed (emerald insight, 2021-06)

  The purpose of the proposed model is to assist the e-business to predict the churned users using machine learning. This paper aims to monitor the customer behavior and to perform decision-making accordingly. The proposed ...

• Capital regulation, competition and risk-taking: Policy implications for banking sector stability in the MENA region 

  Mateev, Miroslav; Ul-Huq, Syed Moudud-; Sahyouni, Ahmad; Tariq, Muhammad Usman (ELSEVIER, 2022)

  This paper investigates how capital requirements and bank competition affect banks' financial soundness in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. We test the hypothesis that regulatory capital positively impacts ...

• Autism spectrum disorder diagnosis using optimal machine learning methods 

  Alteneiji, Maitha Rashid; Alqaydi, Layla Mohammed; Tariq, Muhammad Usman (Science and Information (SAI) Organization Limited, 2020)

  Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is the disorder of communication and behavior that affects children and adults. It can be diagnosed at any stage of life. Most importantly, the first two years of life, regardless of ethnicity, ...

• Energy aware smart city management system using data analytics and Internet of Things 

  Babar, M.; Khattak, A.S.; Jan, M.A.; Tariq, M.U (ELSEVIER, 2021-04)

  The rise of Internet of Things (IoT) concept founded the realization of a smart city. Energy management has lately turn out to be a vital concern for the services of a smart city as IoT devices consume massive energy ...

• Phenomenological theory of First-order prefreezing 

  Dolynchuk, Oleksandr; Tariq, Muhammad; Thurn-Albrecht, Thomas (ACS Publications, 2019-04)

  Prefreezing is the prewetting of the crystalline phase at the interface of a melt to a solid substrate via a first-order phase transition. We present a phenomenological theory of prefreezing and analyze thermodynamic ...

• Hypothetico-deductive method: A comparative analysis 

  Tariq, Muhammad Usman (ResearchGate, 2015-04)

  This paper presents the analysis of hypothetico-deductive method and its applications in different domains. Design/Methodology/Approach: The author explains hypothetico-deductive method various phases ...

• Handwriting Recognition using Artificial Intelligence Neural Network and Image Processing 

  Aqab, Sara; Tariq, Muhammad Usman (ProQuest, 2020-08)

  Due to increased usage of digital technologies in all sectors and in almost all day to day activities to store and pass information, Handwriting character recognition has become a popular subject of research. Handwriting ...

• Improving Service Quality Of Smart Banking Using Quality Management Methods In UAE 

  Alhosani, Fatima Abdulaziz; Tariq, Muhammad Usman (r, 2020-06)

  The banking service has evolved with advancements in the field of technology. Many Banks work very hard to provide all services that customers need through different applications. All these services are always under ...

• The context of global software development: challenges, best practices and benefits 

  Haq, Sami ul; Tariq, Muhammad (OJS, 2011-10)

  Global Software Development (GSD) environment is based on a contractual relationship between client and vendor organizations in which a client outsources all or some part of its software development activities to a vendor. ...

• A compact planar dual band-notched monopole antenna for UWB application 

  Kazim, J.; Bibi, A.; Rauf, M.; Tariq, M; ETAL.. (Wiley Online Library, 2014)

  A compact UWB monopole band-notched antenna with simple structure and small size is proposed and studied in this article. The size of the antenna is 33 × 29.6 × 1.6 mm. The proposed antenna has an impedance bandwidth ...

• Milk marketing and value chain constraints 

  Tariq, M; Mustafa, MI; Iqbal, A; ETAL.. (AGRIS, 2008)

  Milk provides several essential dietary components for humans of all ages. In Pakistan, milk production during 2007-08 has been reported to be 34 million tonnes (about 58% from buffaloes, 35% from cattle) and the rest from ...

• Competition, capital growth and risk-taking in emerging markets: Policy implications for banking sector stability during COVID-19 pandemic 

  Mateev, Miroslav; Tariq, Muhammad Usman; Sahyouni, Ahmad (PLOS ONE, 2021-06)

  This paper investigates how banking competition and capital level impact on the risk-taking behavior of banking institutions in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. The topic is perceived to be of significant ...

• Implementing and visualizing ISO 22400 key performance indicators for monitoring discrete manufacturing systems 

  Ferrer, Borja Ramis; Muhammad, Usman; Mohammed, Wael M; ETAL.. (MDPI, 2018-09)

  The employment of tools and techniques for monitoring and supervising the performance of industrial systems has become essential for enterprises that seek to be more competitive in today’s market. The main reason is the ...

• A Six Sigma based risk management framework for handling undesired effects associated with delays in project completion 

  Tariq, Muhammad Usman (emerald insight, 2013-08)

  The purpose of this paper is to develop a risk management framework, combined with Six Sigma tool and techniques, to help handle the undesired effects that can occur during the project execution. There exist various risk ...

• SafeCity: Toward Safe and Secured Data Management Design for IoT-enabled Smart City Planning 

  Zhang, Hui; Babar, Muhammad; Tariq, Muhammad Usman; ETAL.. (IEEE Xplore, 2020-08)

  The interaction among different Internet of Things (IoT) sensors and devices become massive and insecure over the Internet as we probe to smart cities. These heterogeneous devices produce an enormous amount of data that ...

• Secure and Resilient Demand Side Management Engine using Machine Learning for IoT-enabled Smart Grid 

  Babar, Muhammad; Tariq, Muhammad Usman; Jan, Mian (ELSEVIER, 2020-03)

  The national security, economy, and healthcare heavily rely on the reliable distribution of electricity. The incorporation of communication technologies and sensors in the power structures, recognized as the smart grid ...

• Access strategy for hybrid underlay-overlay cognitive radios with energy harvesting 

  Usman, Muhammad; Koo, Insoo (IEEE Xplore, 2014-05)

  In this paper, we consider a hybrid underlay-overlay cognitive radio with energy harvesting. In the considered system, secondary user can harvest energy from the primary user's signal as well as from the other ambient ...

• Epileptic seizures prediction using machine learning methods 

  Usman, Syed Muhammad; Usman, Muhammad; Fong, Simon (Hindawi, 2017-12)

  Epileptic seizures occur due to disorder in brain functionality which can affect patient’s health. Prediction of epileptic seizures before the beginning of the onset is quite useful for preventing the seizure by medication. ...

• SIT: a lightweight encryption algorithm for secure internet of things 

  Usman, Muhammad; Ahmed, Irfan; Aslam, M Imran; ETAL.. (Arxiv, 2017-04)

  The Internet of Things (IoT) being a promising technology of the future is expected to connect billions of devices. The increased number of communication is expected to generate mountains of data and the security of data ...

• Identification of Anomalies in Mammograms through Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) Diagnosis System 

  Khan, Amjad Rehman; Saba, Tanzila; Sadad, Tariq; ETAL. (Hindawi Limited, 2022-09)

  Breast cancer is the primary health issue that women may face at some point in their lifetime. This may lead to death in severe cases. A mammography procedure is used for finding suspicious masses in the breast. Teleradiology ...

• A secure trust-aware cross-layer routing protocol for Vehicular Ad hoc Networks 

  Baccari, Sihem; Hadded, Mohamed; Touati, Haifa; ETAL.. (HAL open science, 2020)

  VANETs currently represent one of the most prominent solutions that aim to reduce the number of road accident victims and congestion problems while improving the quality of driving. VANETs form a very dynamic open network ...

• Performance Impact Analysis of Security Attacks on Cross-Layer Routing Protocols in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks 

  Baccari, Sihem; Touati, Haifa; Hadded, Mohamed; ETAL.. (IEEE Xplore, 2020-09)

  Recently, several cross-layer protocols have been designed for vehicular networks to optimize data dissemination by ensuring internal communications between routing and MAC layers. In this context, a cross-layer protocol, ...

• Using visible light links in combination with radio communication in a vehicular network 

  Boukhalfa, Fouzi; Hadded, Mohamed; Muhlethaler, Paul; ETAL.. (IEEE Xplore, 2020-12)

  In VANET networks using TDMA access it is possible to approach the full capacity of the channel when the density of vehicles increases. When this occurs, some vehicles will be unable to communicate with the rest of the ...

• A Secure Data Storage in Multi-cloud Architecture Using Blowfish Encryption Algorithm 

  Ghanmi, Houaida; Hajlaoui, Nasreddine; Touati, Haifa; Hadded, Mohamed; ETAL.. (Springer Link, 2022-03)

  In recent years, cloud computing has played an important role in accessing services around the world. Thanks to its rapid development in the IT industry it has gained huge appeal. It offers users the ability to store, ...

• A detection mechanism for cache pollution attack in named data network architecture 

  Hidouri, Abdelhak; Touati, Haifa; Hadded, Mohamed; ETAL.. (Springer Link, 2022-03)

  Basic Named Data Networks (NDN) security mechanisms, rely on two main key features. The first one is the caching mechanism where it manages to minimize both the bandwidth usage and the data retrieval delay all along with ...

• Towards sustainable development in the hospitality sector: Does green human resource management stimulate green creativity? A moderated mediation model 

  Abualigah, Ahmad; Koburtay, Tamer; Bourini, Islam; ETAL. (2022-10)

• Bubbles all the way down? Detecting and date-stamping bubble behaviours in NFT and DeFi markets 

  Wang, Yizhi; Horky, Florian; Baals, Lennart J.; ETAL. (2022-10)

• Can money supply endogeneity influence bank stock returns? A case study of South Asian economies 

  Liu, Lingcai; Bashir, Taqadus; Abdalla, Alaa Amin; ETAL. (2022-12)

• Exogenous melatonin decreases circadian misalignment and body weight among early types 

  Marqueze, Elaine C.; Nogueira, Luciana F. R.; Vetter, Céline; Skene, Debra J.; Cipolla-Neto, José; Moreno, Claudia R. C. (Wiley Online Library, 2021-06)

  Shift workers experience chronic circadian misalignment, which can manifest itself in reduced melatonin production, and has been associated with metabolic disorders. In addition, chronotype modulates the effect of night ...

• Continuous-Variable Quantum Teleportation Using a Microwave-Enabled Plasmonic Graphene Waveguide 

  Asjad, Muhammad; Qasymeh, Montasir; Eleuch, Hichem (APS, 2021-09)

  We present a scheme to generate continuous-variable bipartite entanglement between two optical modes in a hybrid optical-microwave-plasmonic graphene waveguide system. In this scheme, we exploit the interaction of two light ...

• Iterative Nonlocal Residual Elasticity 

  Shaat, Mohamed (SpringerLink, 2021-04)

  Motivated by the existing complications of finding solutions of Eringen’s nonlocal model, an alternative model is developed here. The new formulation of the nonlocal elasticity is centered upon expressing the dynamic ...

• Host country nationals characteristics and willingness to help self-initiated expatriates in the UAE 

  Singh, Sanjay Kumar; Pereira, Vijay Edward; Mellahi, Kamel; Collings, David G (Taylor & Francis, 2019-02)

  This study investigates the role of host country nationals’ (HCNs) motivation to offer role information and social support in adjustment experience of self-initiated expatriates (SIEs). We draw on social identity theory ...

• What drives willingness to purchase and stated buying behavior toward organic food? A Stimulus–Organism–Behavior–Consequence (SOBC) perspective 

  Talwar, Shalini; Jabeen, Fauzia; Tandon, Anushree; Sakashita, Mototaka; Dhir, Amandeep (Elsevier, 2021-04)

  The consumption of organic food is gaining ground globally due to consumers’ concerns for personal health and food safety. Several countries, such as Japan, are turning their focus to promoting organic food consumption, ...

• Post Covid-19 water and waste water management to protect public health and geoenvironment 

  Paleologos, Evan K; O’Kelly, Brendan C; Tang, Chao-Sheng; ETAL.. (ICE Virtual Library, 2021-05)

  The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has posed severe threats to humans and the geoenvironment. The findings of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (Sars-CoV-2) traces in waste water and the practice of ...

• Environmental geotechnics: challenges and opportunities in the post-Covid-19 world 

  Tang, Chao-Sheng; Paleologos, Evan K; Vitone, Claudia; Du, Yan-Jun; Li, Jiang-Shan; ETAL.. (ICE Virtual Library, 2021-05)

  The outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic not only has created a health crisis across the world but is also expected to impact negatively the global economy and societies at a scale that is maybe ...

• Hinged-3D metamaterials with giant and strain-independent Poisson’s ratios 

  Shaat, Mohamed; Wagih, Ahmed (2020-02)

  Current designs of artificial metamaterials with giant Poisson’s ratios proposed microlattices that secrete the transverse displacement nonlinearly varies with the longitudinal displacement, and the Poisson’s ratio depends ...

• A Micromorphic Beam Theory for Beams with Elongated Microstructures 

  Shaat, M.; Ghavanloo, E.; Emam, S. (2020-05)

  A novel micromorphic beam theory that considers the exact shape and size of the beam’s microstructure is developed. The new theory complements the beam theories that are based on the classical mechanics by modeling the ...

• Correlation dynamics of nitrogen vacancy centers located in crystal cavities 

  Abdel-Aty, Abdel-Haleem; Kadry, Heba; Mohamed, A. -B. A.; Eleuch, Hichem (2020-10)

  In this contribution, we investigate the bipartite non-classical correlations (NCCs) of a system formed by two nitrogen-vacancy (N-V) centers placed in two spatially separated single-mode nanocavities inside a planar ...

• Hybrid two-mode squeezing of microwave and optical fields using optically pumped graphene layers 

  Qasymeh, Montasir; Eleuch, Hichem (2020-10)

  A measurable quadrature of a squeezed quantum state manifests a small uncertainty below the Heisenberg limit. This phenomenon has the potential to enable several extraordinary applications in quantum information, metrology ...

• Wettability and confinement size effects on stability of water conveying nanotubes 

  Shaat, M.; Javed, U.; Faroughi, S. (2020-10)

  This study investigates the wettability and confnement size efects on vibration and stability of water conveying nanotubes. We present an accurate assessment of nanotube stability by considering the exact mechanics of ...

• Nonreciprocal elasticity and the realization of static and dynamic nonreciprocity 

  Shaat, Mohamed (2021-06)

  The realization of the mechanical nonreciprocity requires breaking either the time-reversal symmetry or the material deformation symmetry. The time-reversal asymmetry was the commonly adopted approach to realize dynamic ...

• Municipal solid waste management under Covid-19: challenges and recommendations 

  Vaverková, Magdalena Daria; Paleologos, Evan K; Dominijanni, Andrea; Koda, Eugeniusz; Tang, Chao-Sheng; Małgorzata, Wdowska; Li, Qi; Guarena, Nicolò; Mohamed, Abdel-Mohsen O; Vieira, Castorina S; Manassero, Mario; Win Bo, Brendan C O’Kelly Qifeng Xie Myint; Adamcová, Dana; M Anand, Anna Podlasek Uday; Mohammad, Arif; Goli, Venkata Siva Naga Sai; Kuntikana, Ganaraj; Pathak, Ennio M Palmeira Shalu; Singh, Devendra Narain (ICE Virtual Library, 2021-05)

  Covid-19 is proving to be an unprecedented disaster for human health, social contacts and the economy worldwide. It is evident that SARS-CoV-2 may spread through municipal solid waste (MSW), if collected, bagged, handled, ...

• Electrochemical Investigation of PANI:PPy/AC and PANI:PEDOT/AC Composites as Electrode Materials in Supercapacitors 

  Khan 1, Shahbaz; Alkhedher, Mohammad; Raza, Rizwan; Ashfaq Ahmad, Muhammad; Majid, Abdul; M. Tag El Din, ElSayed (2022-05)

  The electrochemical deposition of the composites polyaniline (PANI):polypyrrole (PPy)/ activated carbon (AC) and polyaniline (PANI): 3, 4-polyethylenedioxythiophene (PEDOT)/AC films is carried out in this work. The ...

• Microplastics in soils: an environmental geotechnics perspective 

  C O’Kelly, Brendan; El-Zein, Abbas; Liu, Xiaoli; Patel, Anjan; Fei, Xunchang; Sharma, Susmita; Mohammad, Arif; Goli, Venkata Siva Naga Sai; Wang, Jing Jing; Li, Dunzhu; Shi, Yunhong; Xiao, Liwen; Kuntikana, Ganaraj; Shashank, Bettadapura Subramanyam; Sarris, Theo S; Rao, Bendadi Hanumantha; Mohamed, Abdel Mohsen O; Paleologos, Evan K; Nezhad, Mohaddeseh Mousavi; Singh, Devendra N (ICE Virtual Library, 2021-05)

  Microplastics (MPs) are emerging persistent contaminants in the terrestrial subsurface, and evidence has emerged for significant effects of MPs on the biological and ecosystem functions of soils. Main MP sources include ...

• Entanglement and Fisher Information for Atoms–Field System in the Presence of Negative Binomial States 

  Berrada, Kamal; Abdel-Khalek, Sayed; Algarni, Mariam; Eleuch, Hichem (2022-12)

  We developed a quantum scheme of two atoms (TAs) and field initially in a negative binomial state (NBS). We displayed and discussed the physical implications of the obtained results in terms of the physical parameters of ...

• Top Management Team Shared Leadership, Market-Oriented Culture, Innovation Capability, and Firm Performance 

  Kumar Singh, Sanjay; Del Giudice, Manlio; Y. Tarba, Shlomo; De Bernardi, Paola (2019-10)

  One of the most challenging problems for the realization of a scalable quantum computer is to design a physical device that keeps the error rate for each quantum processing operation low. These errors can originate from ...

• Carbon dioxide utilization: A critical review from multiscale perspective 

  Yousaf, Muhammad; Zaman, Muhammad; Mahmood, Asif; Imran, Muhammad; Elkamel, Ali; Rizwan, Muhammad; Wilberforce, Tabbi; Riaz, Fahid (2022-09)

  Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions contribute considerably towards increasing greenhouse effect. Carbon capture and storage can reduce CO2 emissions to a great extent but lacks economic feasibility. The economic feasibility ...

• Digital transformation of healthcare sector. What is impeding adoption and continued usage of technology-driven innovations by end-users? 

  Iyanna, Shilpa; Kaur, Puneet; Ractham, Peter; Talwar, Shalini; . Najmul Islam, A.K.M (2022-12)

  The digital transformation of businesses is no longer debatable, and the effects are visible in all sectors. What is arguable, however, is why the transformation has not been seamless—particularly given the multiple benefits ...

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