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Implicit and explicit predictors of smoking cessation behavior
No full textThe current study drew on the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to model self-change behavior in a sample of self-defined smokers over a 6 month follow-up period. The study tested the validity of the TPB model and the validity of the Expanded Model which proposed the addition of Impulsivity and Implicit Smoking Self-Identity as predictors of smoking outcome. The sample was recruited via an online advertisement and consisted of current smokers over18 years of age reporting no terminal illness. The baseline sample consisted of 81female and 49 male participants and the follow-up sample consisted of 28 female and 14 male participants. The study was administered online. Data consisted of demographic variables, dependence severity, and perceived stress. The TPB model variables were Smoking Attitude, as measured by Semantic Differential scales, Social Norm and Intent to Quit, measured using item ratings, and Self-Efficacy. Smoking outcome was measured as time to first quit attempt, number of quit attempts in the last 6 months, and longest period of abstinence in the last 6 months (dichotomized into high and low abstinence groups because of severe skew). A linear regression was run to test the first step of the TPB, predicting Intent to Quit from Personal Attitude, Social Norm, and Self-Efficacy. The current study found support for the first step of the TPB model- Personal Attitude and Social Norm predicted Intent to Quit. A series of regressions were performed to test the second step of the model, predicting Smoking Outcome from Intent to Quit, Self-Efficacy, Impulsivity, and Smoking Self-Concept. Partial support was found for the second step of the model, with Intent to Quit and Impulsivity predicting smoking outcome. Smoking Self-Concept was found to be predictive at a trend. Self-efficacy was not found to be predictive of either Intent to Quit or smoking outcome. An attrition analysis was performed to investigate predictors of study participation at follow-up. Support for the construct validity of the Smoking Self-Identity IAT was found; it was uncorrelated with Explicit Attitude and Social Desirability Bias and negatively correlated with smoking outcome. Limitations of the sample and implications for future research are discussed.Ph.D.Includes abstractVitaIncludes bibliographical referencesby Zayed Al-Otaib
Collection assessment for a Middle Eastern, English curriculum university library
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Purpose
Library collections at Middle Eastern universities have usually prioritized teaching over research resources. Zayed University is transitioning toward research, but research-centric collection assessments are rarely applied in the region. The purpose of this paper is to present on the successes and limitations of using citation analysis to assess the relevance of the Zayed University Library collection to its shifted focus.
Design/methodology/approach
Recent Scopus-listed publications were sorted by the colleges of the Zayed University affiliated author, and citations listed in the publications were ranked as present or absent in the library collection.
Findings
The resultant table provides an unambiguous evaluation of the extent to which the library collection has met the needs of recently successful published academics across disciplines. Pitfalls include the limitations of the Scopus database in representing all disciplines.
Originality/value
Outcomes of the assessment enable the Library to develop collection strategies for continuous improvement and effectively support the campus researchers.
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PENGARUH DAYA TARIK DAN HASIL REVIEW MELALUI MEDIA SOSIAL TERHADAP KEPUTUSAN MASYARAKAT BERKUNJUNG KE MASJID RAYA SYEIKH ZAYED SURAKARTA
No full textAbstrak: Perkembangan tren pariwisata halal dari tahun ke tahun menjadikan daya tarik tersendiri bagi umat muslim. Indonesia dengan peringkat ke-1 pada tahun 2023 dalam pariwisata halal semakin dapat melebarkan sayapnya untuk meningkatkan potensi dari pariwisata halal yang salah satunya ialah masjid. Tujuan penelitian ini guna mengetahui adakah pengaruh daya tarik dan hasil review melalui media sosial terhadap keputusan masyarakat untuk berkunjung di Masjid Raya Syeikh Zayed Banjarsari Surakarta. Metode yang digunakan oleh penulis yaitu kuantitatif dengan analisis regresi linear berganda berupa alat SPSS versi 25 dan teknik sampling berupa purposive sampling. Penelitian ini menggunakan data primer yang diperoleh dari hasil penyebaran kuesioner dan sekunder yang merujuk pada literatur-literatur yang relevan. Hasil dari penelitian menunjukkan bahwa secara simultan daya tarik dan hasil review berpengaruh secara signifikan terhadap keputusan masyarakat berkunjung ke Masjid Raya Syeikh Zayed. Sedangkan secara parsial, variabel daya tarik memiliki pengaruh yang signifikan terhadap keputusan masyarakat untuk berkunjung ke Masjid Raya Syeikh Zayed. Berbeda dengan hasil review tidak berpengaruh secara signifikan terhadap keputusan masyarakat berkunjung ke Masjid Raya Syeikh Zayed.
Kata kunci: Review Melalui Social Media; Daya Tarik; Hasil Review; Keputusan Berkunjung; Pariwisata Halal
Abstract: The development of halal tourism trends from year to year makes it a special attraction for Muslims. Indonesia, which ranks 1st in 2023 in halal tourism, can increasingly spread its wings to increase the potential for halal tourism, one of which is mosques. The aim of this research is to find out whether there is an influence of attractiveness and the results of reviews via social media on people's decisions to visit the Grand Mosque of Sheikh Zayed Banjarsari Surakarta. The method used by the author is quantitative with multiple linear regression analysis in the form of SPSS version 25 tools and a sampling technique in the form of purposive sampling. This research uses primary data obtained from the results of distributing questionnaires and secondary data which refers to relevant literature. The results of the research show that simultaneously the attraction and the results of the review have a significant influence on people's decisions to visit the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque. Meanwhile, partially the attractiveness variable has a significant influence on people's decisions to visit the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque. In contrast to the results of the review, it does not significantly influence people's decisions to visit the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque.
Keywords: Review Via Social Media; Attractiveness; Review Results; Decision to Visit; Halal Touris
Multilingual dataset of COVID tweets for relation-level metaphor analysis TCMeta 1.0
No full textTCMeta is a dataset of noun phrase constructions from COVID-related tweets, annotated for relation-level metaphor.
It contains 2,138 Slovene and 2,221 English instances in tab-separated tabular format .tsv, where each line presents a unique phrase under consideration, extracted from a COVID-related tweet. The primary annotations include the COVID metaphor label (whether the phrase expresses a metaphor relating to COVID), but also additional ones for idioms, metaphors not relating to COVID, or metaphors not evident on the relation-level.
The complete user tweet could not be published due to the ToS of the then Twitter platform. We recommend retrieving the text of the tweets via their IDs using the Hydrator tool [https://github.com/docnow/hydrator] or similar.
The dataset is further described in:
Brglez, M., Zayed, O. & Buitelaar, P. TCMeta: a multilingual dataset of COVID tweets for relation-level metaphor analysis. Lang Resources & Evaluation 59, 437–475 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-024-09725-z.
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title={{TCMeta}: a multilingual dataset of {COVID} tweets for relation-level metaphor analysis},
author={Brglez, Mojca and Zayed, Omnia and Buitelaar, Paul},
journal={Language Resources and Evaluation},
pages={437--475},
volume={59},
year={2025},
publisher={Springer},
doi = {10.1007/s10579-024-09725-z}
Measuring the Accessibility of Arab Markets
No full textMarket access matters. This paper uses a method suggested by Hugo et al. (2006) to determine and rank a sample of Arab countries in terms of their market access. The paper suggests that market access is comprised of three components: public institutions, regulatory environment, and network industries. The paper finds that most Arab countries perform better than the world median in terms of market access, except for Morocco and Algeria. The paper demonstrates how these two countries and other Arab countries can improve their market access, either by improving their network industries, their public institutions, or their regulatory environment. Corresponding Author, Zayed University, Economic & Policy Research Unit, P.O. Box 19282, Dubai, UAE, Phone: +971 4 402 1465, Fax: +971 4 402 1002, E-mail: [email protected] Zayed University, Economic & Policy Research Unit, P.O. Box 19282, Dubai, UAE, Phone: +971 4 402 1470, Fax: +971 4 402 1002, E-mail: [email protected]
Are library electronic resources providing adequate support for research? A case study of a federal university in the United Arab Emirates
No full text© 2019, Emerald Publishing Limited. Purpose: Middle Eastern universities have recently been included in international rankings, driving a shift in priorities from teaching to research. However, research-centric collection assessments are rarely applied in the region. The Library and Learning Commons of Zayed University has recently completed the first phase of collection assessment for this transition. This study aims to provide an overview of how electronic resources adequacy was measured, and correlations between utilization of resources and research output were determined. A systematic approach is presented to assess electronic resources impact and to investigate and demonstrate the Library’s support of research output in local research and the scholarly environment. Design/methodology/approach: Journal article publications from 2009 to 2016 with at least one Zayed University affiliated author were collected from Scopus, the abstract and citation database operated by Elsevier BV. Sources used within these articles were analyzed. COUNTER usage statistics of three indicators (searches, sessions and full-text downloads) were collected from the most used electronic resources in the Library to define the correlation between usage and research activities in the university during the assessment period. Findings: The change in university direction toward research is apparent in the data since Fall 2014. Since then, faculty publication output grew rapidly and was positively correlated with library resources use. Sessions and searches displayed a strong positive relationship with research output while the correlation with full-text downloads was moderate. This was true for individual colleges as well as for the university as a whole, supporting the assumption that library utilization is highly correlated with the growth of research productivity. Practical implications: Results of this assessment were used to justify the budget allocation of Zayed University Library for supporting research and improve the focus of collection development to better meet researchers’ needs. The most important outcomes were to provide evidence-based information to Library management for strategic planning and evaluation of their changing role in the digital age. Originality/value: The systematic approach described has enabled Zayed University library to assess the relevance of its resources to its changed focus toward research, both for the university as a whole and among the more research-productive colleges. This initial approach may be useful for other libraries going through a similar transition, particularly within the region
Cooperation without consensus: national discussions and local implementation in general education reform, 1930–1960
No full textThis study explores the general education movement of 1930-1960—a movement devoted to revising the content, and methods, of reforming the first two years of postsecondary study for undergraduates. It begins by noting that much of the extant literature focuses on the curricular statements produced by Harvard, Columbia, and the University of Chicago as well as their assumed influence upon other institutions of higher learning—including historically black colleges and universities, women’s colleges, religiously affiliated colleges, land grants, and community colleges—during this time period. This study complicates this reading of the movement by arguing that the curricular statements of Harvard, Columbia, and the University of Chicago were unable to achieve curricular reform on their respective campuses and were deemed to be unacceptable by institutions across the nation. The study asks, then, if the curricular theories of these prestigious universities were unable to create and/or sustain a fixed body of curricular content on their own campuses, is it likely that they influenced the curriculums of other institutions across the country? And more important, if the curricular structures in place at these institutions were constantly evolving—driven by faculty and student concerns, local context, the politics of curricular compromise, and not representing a linear, top-down method of reform—what method of reform did these universities and other institutions of higher learning look to, for achieving tangible and sustainable mechanisms of reform?
This study then offers a new way of seeing curricular reform in the general education movement by relying on the lenses provided by an exploration of three cooperative studies of general education—or studies funded by philanthropic groups in which a number of institutions and their representatives cooperate with each other and educational researchers to spur reform of their own curricular measures. The three cooperative studies of general education focused on are the Eight-Year Study (1930-1942); the Cooperative Study in General Education (1938-1947), and the California Study of General Education in the Junior College (1948-1952).
Using insights from an extensive exploration of the cooperative studies, this study argues that reform in the general education movement operated in a “matrix of influence” that involved educational research, philanthropy, and (both inter- and intra-) institutional “cooperation without consensus,” rather than a top-down channeling of reform from prestigious institutions. Further, this led to a cyclical and iterative interplay between national discussions and local implementation that changed both the content of general education and the methods of its constant reform. These processes shaped the way people talked about, implemented, and executed general education measures on their campuses. Through these processes, words became ideas, and ideas eventually became curricular structures implemented at the most basic levels. These reforms were almost always sensitive to local context and were often advertised to the public as being politically, economically, socially, and culturally expedient and relevant.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2018-12-01The student, Kevin Zayed, accepted the attached license on 2016-11-29 at 11:18.The student, Kevin Zayed, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2016-11-29 at 11:24.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2016-11-30 at 13:30.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #10348 on 2017-02-28 at 14:42:27Made available in DSpace on 2017-03-01T17:01:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3
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Journalism and environmental issues in the Middle East
No full textThe author of this chapter is an experienced broadcast journalist now teaching at Zayed University in Dubai. She reports that, in the Middle East, “environmental issues tend to take a back seat to ‘hard news stories.\u27. .. Most people in the Arab world are preoccupied with earning a living, safety, education, freedom, social justice, and development. The environment is often an after-thought, a luxury topic and a low priority in media and research.” The overarching environmental issues throughout the Middle East include “water scarcity, polluted rivers, chemicals released and/or leaked, waste and sewage management, and overdevelopment.” And all these issues are in one way or another interconnected with the internal political structures of the nations in the region. The local media are sometimes constrained from free and open news coverage. However, “the local press is empowered when such stories appear on international news agencies, who often have more license to touch upon more sensitive topics.”
Towards a time-based approach for author co-citation analysis
No full textThe Author co-Citation Analysis(ACA) is a widely used statistical technique for mining information about those authors who publish in related research domains. The existing ACA technique generates author clusters by initially defining the co-citation count. Co-citation count between authors of two different research papers is defined as the number of times these authors are cited together by a set of source papers. The technique used to determine the co-citation count needs to be effective as it greatly influences the obtained author clusters. This paper presents an enhanced ACA that utilizes a novel co-citation counting technique. The enhanced ACA technique takes into consideration the research papers referred to in the source paper, the papers that have cited the source paper, and their publication year. Experimental results obtained indicate that the author clusters produced, comprise primarily of active researchers having published in the recent time period, specified in years. In this study, we have assumed that active researchers are those who have published in or after the year 2000. The proposed Time based ACA(TACA) technique uses a real time data set consisting of papers collected from ACM\u27s Transaction on Database Systems(TODS) journal from the year 2006-2009. The average precision of the proposed technique is found to be around 93%, when evaluated against the benchmark ACM Computing Classification System(CCS). Copyright © 2011 Binary Information Press
Breathable Cities: Dynamic Machine Learning Modelling Approaches for Advanced Air Pollution Control
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Breathable Cities: Dynamic Machine Learning Modelling Approaches for Advanced Air Pollution Control
by Roba Zayed andMaysam Abbod *ORCID
Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Brunel University London, London UB8 3PH, UK
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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Appl. Sci. 2024, 14(13), 5581; https://doi.org/10.3390/app14135581
Submission received: 20 May 2024 / Revised: 19 June 2024 / Accepted: 24 June 2024 / Published: 27 June 2024
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Air Quality Prediction Based on Machine Learning Algorithms II)
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This paper discusses air quality index (AQI) representation using a fuzzy logic framework to cover the blurry areas of AQI where indices are in between ranges of values. After studying several standards for air quality prediction (AQP), this research suggested the use of fuzzy logic as an extended method to cover some limitations found in several standards, in which the fuzzy logic represents a more dynamic way to support cross-country comparisons as well. This research expanded upon the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) standards to address their acknowledged limitations by constructing a fuzzy air quality levels prediction (FAQLP) model, which categorizes air quality into corresponding ranges (actual levels) and classifies new fuzzy levels (predicted levels), using a fuzzy logic model (to enforce more realistic predictions). This model can solve the issue of values at or near boundaries when there is uncertainty about air quality levels. The study aims to incorporate a comparative study of two urban settings providing dynamic machine-learning modeling approaches for advanced air pollution control. The DNN–Markov model is presented in this paper as the selected hybrid model for AQI prediction, and the adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) was used to represent AQI. This work presents a novel air quality index framework that consists of a DNN–Markov model for accurate hourly predictions and air quality level representations using ANFIS.This research received no external funding. The APC was funded by Brunel University London
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