Towards a cloud oriented technological reference model of Bahrain

Authors: Adwan E.J.
The Bahraini smart city should have a reference model that precisely aligns the cloud oriented capabilities of the operating applications and technological infrastructure, along with the relevant business actors and strategy in order to meet smart city requirements. Unfortunately, findings revealed limited rigorous reference architectural models to service smart city [...]

The impact of multilevel contextual factors on is adoption at the inter-organizational level

Authors: Kurnia S., Parker C., Ali M., Karnali R.
Inter-organizational information systems (IOIS) offer many potential benefits to organizations, and IOIS adoption has increased in the last few decades. However, IOIS adoption varies significantly across different contexts, and little research has investigated how contextual factors affect IOIS-adoption variances at the inter-organizational (IO) level in depth—particularly from a multilevel perspective. [...]

Recent Advances in Iron Oxide Nanoparticles (IONPs): Synthesis and Surface Modification for Biomedical Applications

Authors: Noqta O.A., Aziz A.A., Usman I.A., Bououdina M.
In recent years, extensive researches were devoted to iron oxide nanoparticles (IONPs), including magnetite (Fe3O4) and maghemite (γ-Fe2O3), due to their low toxicity and cost, in addition to their unique physicochemical and magnetic properties. In this review, we present a brief introduction on IONPs in terms of classification and properties. [...]

Innovative work behavior: A review of literature

Authors: Al-Omari M.A., Choo L.S., Ali M.A.M.
Innovation has been recognized as one of the main strategies for organizations to remain competitive in today’s competitive economy. Employees’ innovative work behavior is the primary driver for organizational-wide innovation. Innovative work behavior is the production of usable products, processes, or services originating from identifying problems to generating ideas. From [...]

A process approach to examining mobile commerce adoption progression

Authors: Ali M., Wali E., Al-Hinai Y., Kurnia S.
Purpose: Most studies of mobile commerce (MC) adoption by individuals have focused on the influence of a set of factors at a single point in time, and thus, cannot capture the process by which the individuals progress from simple to sophisticated MC adoption. This paper aims to enhance the current [...]

Impact of corporate restructuring on the financial performance of gulf cooperation council firms [Wpływ restrukturyzacji korporacyjnej na wyniki finansowe firm rady współpracy zatoki perskiej]

Authors: Kumaraswamy S., Ebrahim R., Nasser H.
Corporate restructuring has become one of the significant solution for firms to improve their financial performance, gain competitive advantage and industry dominance. This paper aims to examine the the impact of corporate restructuring on firm performance of the GCC firms using profitability, liquidity and leverage measures. The largest mergers and [...]

EGovemment service quality measurement scales: A literature review

Authors: Desmal A.J., Othman M.K., Hamid S., Zolait A.H.
This paper aims to investigate the service quality dimensions that were discussed by previous literature at Government To Citizens – G2C. Service quality is essential nowadays, which enable organizations to understand users’ expectations of services. Using the literature review methodology, the researchers were able to identify the fundamental dimensions that [...]

Predictive analytics to improve outcome-based funding for the public universities in south africa through big data

Authors: Segooa M.A., Kalema B.M., Zolait A.H.
The development of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) brought many opportunities for organisations to improve their competitive advantage. Their way of running operational activities has changed, processes have moved towards digitization. The innovative stand makes organizations to generate voluminous data silently which add more potential to improve business value and [...]

Quick optimal lane assignment using artificial neural networks

Authors: Assi K.J., Ratrout N.T., Gazder U.
Signalized intersections are major components for any transportation network as the traffic operation at these intersections will significantly affect the operation for the whole network. Dynamic lane assignment (DLA) represents an Intelligent Transport System (ITS) technique that can be used to enhance the traffic operations at signalized intersection by utilizing [...]

Interoperable framework to enhance citizen services in the Kingdom of Bahrain

Authors: Ghanem M.E., Alsoufi A.
Citizen records are scattered between different state organizations. It wastes time, effort, and resources for both citizen and organization to collect, maintain, and update records to fulfill citizen services. Interoperability is a key element that enables seamless collaboration between different entities. It requires non-conventional methods to overcome interoperability challenges such [...]
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