Iman Akour

University of Sharjah | US · College of Computing and Informatics

Technological advancements have revolutionized educational methodologies, introducing a variety of tools from interactive digital platforms to VR simulations, thereby reshaping traditional learning environments into more dynamic and inclusive spaces. Among these innovations, ChatGPT emerges as a notable AI technology, offering tailored learning exp...

The surge in technological innovation, particularly within the realm of social media, has prompted marketers to consider the profound impact of this medium on marketing strategies. The widespread adoption of social media platforms has empowered customers, fostering increased engagement in their interactions with brands and equipping them with addit...

Recent technological advancements are endless and have had a profound influence on everyone in every part of life throughout the preceding decades. Artificial intelligence is one such invention that has the potential to change the world. Now, artificial intelligence is being used in almost all commercial operations. Hence, this research attempted t...

In this digital age, fraudulent practices are among the most challenging that organizations must be aware of due to the increasing use of online transactions. This also applies to the banking sector whose business has become more complex with the recent developments in information and communication technology, which has changed the nature of bank f...

People are vigilant about buying a new house or plot where they are enthusiastic to live. They are likewise capricious in the land because of the inclusion of a non-regularized real estate market in urban areas. Hence, the expected price should be assessed in the existing city context. This study discusses Extreme Gradient Boosting, Gradient Boosti...

Congestion in the domain of transportation typically refers to an overload of vehicles on a certain stretch of road at a specific moment, resulting in speeds that are slower, sometimes significantly slower, than normal or “free flow” norms. Congestion-free traffic has been the main goal for a decade, and many methodologies have been embraced to mak...

A stock market is a place where investors may buy and sell shares of a firm. The stock price and the regulatory body have a well-organized system in place, and participants who trade shares are registered there as well. Predicting the future price of a share is extremely concerned about the fact that stock market data is highly time-variant and fre...

Big Data (BD) is one of the latest commercial and technological concerns in the age of technology. The financial sector faces hundreds of millions of financial transactions daily. It plays a significant role in analyzing big data developments. Tremendous data greatly impacts financial goods services and finding the financial concerns where big data...

Early disease prediction is a critical area of focus in healthcare. Identifying diseases at an early stage can increase the chances of successful treatment and reduce healthcare costs. Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques like NLP, speech recognition, and machine vision can be used to predict and diagnose diseases. However, traditional AI method...

Precipitation in any structure like a rainstorm, snow, and hail, can influence everyday open-air exercises. Precipitation expectation is one of the difficult errands in the weather condition evaluating process. Because of outrageous environment varieties, an exact precipitation expectation is presently more troublesome than previously. AI strategie...

Big data involves a significant amount of data that may have a remarkable impact on healthcare data records. It has fascinated the imagination of many people over the last two decades due to the enormous potential it holds. Numerous public and private sectors provide the facilitation while maintaining, and analyzing all the data in order to enhance...

The construction industry plays a critical role in delivering infrastructure and building projects that shape the modern world. With the increasing importance of effective service delivery in this sector, the role of information technology (IT) competencies and fleet management practices has become a crucial focus for improvement. This study invest...

This study investigates the relationship between team creativity and continuous improvement practices on the time-to-market performance within the dynamic context of the retail industry. Through a comprehensive analysis of data collected from retail organizations, this research reveals the significant positive impact of fostering team creativity an...

The bullwhip effect, a phenomenon characterized by amplified fluctuations in demand as they propagate through supply chains, poses significant challenges to the efficiency and responsiveness of food manufacturing industries. This qualitative research study aims to investigate the relationship between information sharing strategies and environmental...

The use of social media as a source of information for travellers is becoming increasingly important. The purpose of this study is to investigate how frequently social media websites appear in search engine results when searches are related to travel. In order to imitate how a traveller may use a search engine to plan their trip, the study used a c...

The purpose of this study is to examine the knowledge management and creative organizational climate to assess their impact on smart organization in manufacturing industry. However, a descriptive study was conducted using a mixed method research. Primary purpose data were gathered from 50 food and beverages manufacturing companies based in UAE. The...

In today's competitive business landscape, organizations recognize the importance of service quality, value maximization, and customer retention. Strategic operations play a vital role in achieving these goals. By aligning operational strategies with customer-centric objectives, organizations can enhance service quality and maximize customer value,...

Maintaining durable and long-lasting relationships with customers is a key factor that is widely considered by marketing practitioners and company management. Therefore, this study aims to explore and examine the factors (personal interest, trust, safety perceptions, E-transaction acceptance, and privacy concerns) influencing electronic relationshi...

The exponential growth of Internet and network usage has necessitated heightened security measures to protect against data and network breaches. Intrusions, executed through network packets, pose a significant challenge for firewalls to detect and prevent due to the similarity between legitimate and intrusion traffic. The vast network traffic volum...

The Underlying study is highly significant for the management of organisations and government to understand the importance of green auditing in controlling the carbon footprint in their country. The primary data collection method has been employed in the underlying research because the information has been accumulated directly from the relevant par...

Recently, there have been a growing number of articles focusing on the benefits of adopting e-SCM systems and the value of such systems in supply chain performance. However, less academic research was devoted to understanding factors affecting the adoption intention of such systems. This study uses the technology, organization, and environment (TOE...

The study aims to identify the existing correlations between the two sets of variables by finding the linear combinations of the two sets of variables with the highest correlation and test the strength of the relationship between the levels of students' face-to-face education and online business students at Al-Balqa Applied University by using the...

Web 2.0 has changed the way consumers access information. This study aims to investigate the relationship between social media (Watsons’ Facebook page) content and consumers repurchase intention. In addition, it determined whether E-WOM and interactivity can act as the mediating variables between the social media content and repurchase decision. Th...

The impending exhaustion of internet protocol (IP) version four (IPv4) addresses necessitates a transition to the more expansive IP version six (IPv6) protocol. However, this shift faces challenges due to the widespread legacy of IPv4 infrastructure and resistance among organizations to overhaul networks. Host-based translators offer a critical bri...

A nation's economy often reposes on the expansion of its manufacturing, agricultural, and service industries. Quality of service is crucial to maintaining a country's economic prosperity because the service industry is growing rapidly. The loss resulting from low sales is extremely simple to compute, but the loss resulting from poor service quality...

The COVID-19 epidemic has wrecked devastation across the globe. It has wreaked havoc on the educational system, with governments all around the world temporarily shutting down educational institutions to halt the spread of the coronavirus. Face-to-face lessons have been phased out and replaced with online classes, resulting in the rise of online le...

This research is aimed to explore an environmentally beneficial investment in sustainable transportation should be made in a way that ensures steady economic growth. The time saved by the transportation system was reinvested into society's economic input-output relationships, with the result that the income level increased. This research provides t...

Organisations in hospitality sector to become agile are required to invest more in IT capabilities in order to obtain significant organisational capabilities and strategic processes. Through utilization of IT capabilities strategically and synergistically organisation in hospitality sector achieves alignment, adaptability and agility in long run. T...

Finding the best lean and agile practices to enhance the effectiveness of the filling process in the manufacturing companies is the aim of this research. Lean agile seeks to minimize inefficient processes and tasks for increased effectiveness and lower costs never compromising on quality. In reality, lean agile places a high priority on giving the...

One of the top concerns of managers in the current business environment is to be responsible for the best organizational performance. In order to take the required actions to attain the level of performance that would maintain in the market and help to achieve their goals, they continuously examine the performance and compare it to the competitors....

To make supply chains more flexible and effective, firms have recently been obliged to integrate closely with their supply chain partners. This has enabled effective information sharing between supply chain members and improved supply chain efficiency. As a result, business process management is crucial to supply chains capabilities that has an ult...

The teams that are employed by the firm impacted by the implemented change, whether it is a change in technology, leadership, or processes. Through education and acceptance of the need for change, change management strives to move these teams from the present condition to the future state. Business process management is the association of managemen...

Putting into practice of green supply chain and E-supply chain intended to increase an organizational performance that ultimately effects competitive advantage. Businesses and academics are becoming more interested in the relationship between green supply chain practices and competitive advantages whereas, E-supply chain emerged as trending strateg...

Online transactions have been reported to be hindered by privacy concerns. Although information privacy presents a threat to e-commerce adoption, cultural differences between nations can additionally impede this trend while raising people’s concerns about the privacy of their personal information. By removing geographic and time restrictions, the r...

The aim of this study is to identify the effect of supply chain resilience as measured by supply chain flexibility, supply chain collaboration, and supply chain agility on supply chain performance. A sample consisting of employees from chemical industrial companies in Jordan was selected to collect data using an electronic questionnaire. Analyzing...

This paper examines the health operations flexibility dimensions in the United Arab Emirate in the healthcare sector by employing Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) approaches. The study also attempts to determine the numbers for the operational flexibility dimensions which will help the researchers in future find healthcare operational flexibility...

This research aims to fill the research gap with empirical evidence that exists about the impact of blockchain and smart inventory systems on supply chain performance in the retail industry in the UAE. The proposed model is uniquely researched as no prior research explores the link between supply chain performances, blockchain, and smart inventory...

The aim of this study is to identify the effect of supply chain resilience as measured by supply chain flexibility, supply chain collaboration, and supply chain agility on supply chain performance. A sample consisting of employees from chemical industrial companies in Jordan was selected to collect data using an electronic questionnaire. Analyzing...

As a result of the advanced technological development, the businesses operations have been involved within modern marketing activities to promote their products and services. This study highlights the role of key various digital marketing channels. The study addressed the role of digital marketing channels by using some applications (such as online...

Social media influencers have become a more effective modern marketing approach used by businesses to influence consumers' intention and attitude. This study explores this influence by involving several factors of influencer’s characteristics on both consumers’ attitude and intention. Also, a moderation role of vloggers as a new emerging marketing...

This study came with the aim of identifying the impact of the green supply chain on sustainability. This research targeted managers at the senior and middle levels of the Pharmaceutical Industry in Jordan, as they were formulating the company's strategies and determining its policies. A purposive sample consisting of 258 managers was selected. To g...

This analysis integrates the "technology acceptance model (TAM)" with the "use of gratifications theory (U&G)" to develop an embedded model that predicts the use and satisfaction of emotional icons called stickers through WhatsApp. The explanation for combining these two theories is that U&G offers accurate information and a thorough knowledge of u...

Recent studies on e-feedback have answered many questions concerning the effectiveness of e-feedback in educational and non-educational sectors. They stated clearly that e-feedback is efficient and practical. From both teachers' and students' perspectives, e-feedback has influenced their learning and teaching environment effectively. It is a good t...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policy, digital marketing and green marketing are considered as some of the most emerging topics. However, the major problem is associated with the lack of CSR policies, development and adaptation of green marketing in the companies operating in manufacturing companies in the UK. In this manner, this study aime...

The purpose of this study is to explore the marketing strategies for the introduction of Beacons technology applications (BLE) technology in businesses and how it can convert potential clients into satisfactory and loyal customers. Open innovation is the pathway to taking businesses to the next level with the help of and introduction to BLE technol...

The metaverse is a kind of imagined world with immersive digital spaces that increase, allowing a more interactive environment in educational settings. The metaverse is an expansion of the synchronous communication that embraces an effective number of users to share different experiences. The study aims to investigate the students' perceptions towa...

The aim of the study was to examine the impact of digital marketing capabilities on organizational ambidexterity by focusing on the Information Technology Sector in UAE. Data were primarily gathered through self-reported questionnaires created by Google Forms which were distributed to a pur-posive sample of managers at different levels via email. T...

Phishing is one of the various types of internet frauds that many people fall victim to. Scammers use phishing attacks to gain access to a user's sensitive information. This is done by creating fake websites that appear to be legitimate websites belonging to prestigious organizations. As a result, there is an urgent need to conduct research on the...

The paper aims to investigate the relationship among information systems capabilities, total quality management and the cost of quality. The 220 valid surveys received from the bank employees in United Arab Emirates is analyzed through the SPSS by using ANOVA, Regression, and correlation tests to examine the study model. The findings support the ex...

Organizations are keen to adopt new strategies for their success and one of the most significant determinant is the adoption of emotional intelligence in businesses where employees' analytical thinking is taken as a new skill set. This study presented a new perspective towards the Dubai's real estate market where companies and realtors are adopting...

The purpose of this study is to investigate students' intention to continue using online learning platforms during face-to-face traditional classes in a way that is parallel to their usage during online virtual classes (during the pandemic). This investigation of students' intention is based on a conceptual model that uses newly used external facto...

Recently audio and video material has been used significantly in various online platforms. The audio- video materials enhance the teaching and learning process by facilitating the transformation of the data and providing a richer interactive environment, hence gaining wide intention within the educational realm. However, empirical studies have not...

5G is a revolutionary development in network technologies which is gradually becoming very common among people contributing significantly in different fields such as education, industry, agriculture , health, tourism and military. Currently, 5G is an outbreak change as opposed to the traditional service of the Internet since it offers better qualit...

Smart city is a collective term for technologies and concepts that are directed toward making cities efficient, technologically more advanced, greener and more socially inclusive. These concepts include technical, economic and social innovations. This term has been tossed around by various actors in politics, business, administration and urban plan...

Technology-based education is the modern-day medium that is widely being used by teachers and their students to exchange information over applications based on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) such as Google Glass. There is still resistance shown by a few universities around the globe when it comes to shifting to the online mode of ed...

The fear of vaccines has led to population rejection due to various reasons. Students have had their own inquiries towards the effectiveness of the vaccination, which leads to vaccination hesitancy. Vaccination hesitancy can affect students’ perception, hence, acceptance of e-learning platforms. Therefore, this research attempts to explore the post...

This paper examines the role of financial and epidemic crises on tourism loyalty. Using monthly data from January 1978 to February 2016, our analysis shows that tourists arriving to Singapore from 11 countries (Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Taiwan, the UK, and the US) exhibit evidence of tourism loyalty, sugges...

The study conducted aims to form a conceptual model to calculate the pupils' acceptance of social media in education and its factors. Although the amount of research done on the acceptance of social media applications has amplified, the factors affecting its acceptance for learning are not recognized. The study is carried out by extending the Techn...

Background: Mobile learning has become an essential instruction platform in many schools, colleges, universities, and various other educational institutions across the globe, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. The resulting severe, pandemic-related circumstances have disrupted physical and face-to-face contact teaching practices, thereby...

Systems that support knowledge management systems (KMS) practices can add significant value. However, merely having a KMS may not necessarily guarantee success for KMS projects. Capturing valuable organizational knowledge in KMS remains an issue. Thus, new solutions that can increase meaningful use of KMS must be investigated. This study aims at ex...

5G is a revolutionary development in network technologies which is gradually becoming very common among people contributing significantly in different fields such as education, industry, agriculture , health, tourism and military. Currently, 5G is an outbreak change as opposed to the traditional service of the Internet since it offers better qualit...

Detection, and recommendation systems are widely used in many companies and organizations in favor of giving their employees or even customers a better service. The importance of the systems motivated the investigation of the existing approaches to test its efficiency and possible usage. In this article, the aim is to integrate both systems to crea...

BACKGROUND This paper investigates the use of mobile learning platforms for learning purposes among university students in UAE. An extended Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and theory of planned behavior (TPB) are proposed to analyze the adoption of mobile learning platforms by university students for accessing course materials, searching the web...

Background: Mobile learning has become an essential instruction platform in many schools, colleges, universities and various educational institutions across the globe as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic crises. The resulting severe pandemic circumstances disrupted physical and face-to-face or contact teaching practices requiring many students to...

Test suite reduction is a critical activity which takes a place before or after test cases generation process. As software keeps growing large amounts of new test cases will be generated and added to the test pool and others will be updated, accordingly test suite size will keep increasing. Test suite reduction techniques have been proposed to elim...

This study examined the impacts of cultural dimensions, perceived ease of use (PEOU), and perceived usefulness (PU) of managers' intentions to use the Internet. Based on data collected from 507 Jordanian managers, findings suggested that while two cultural dimensions, power distance (PD) and collectivism (CO) had significant positive impacts on man...

The purpose of this study was to analyze students' and instructors' perceptions about computer technologies in developing countries. Using Jordan as a case study, this paper examined computer usage, computer literacy, attitude toward computer technologies, and perceptions about computers and productivity. A questionnaire was distributed to a random...

Thesis (Doctor of Business Administration)--Louisiana Tech University, February 2006. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 256-281)