King Abdulaziz University

Pre-registered protocol and predictions of campaign B4: "When the Monitor Fails Too"

Pre-registered protocol and predictions of campaign B4 of the paper "When the Monitor Fails Too". The registered file PROTOCOL_B4.md (SHA-256 04d3acfa5f2f3c2e6c81988b231c98950e09b3813dcd4c95f9205b51ac7b9fca, MD5 1ff770bd18ca8fc9e842cb53c7d99fd1, 19,426 bytes) fixes, before the ma...

Transforming entrepreneurial intentions to action: a serial mediation model of entrepreneurial alertness and entrepreneurial self-efficacy

Purpose The specific mechanisms that transform entrepreneurs’ intentions into realized entrepreneurial behaviors remain a novel subject of ongoing investigation. Therefore, achieving insights into this process will be critical for expanding theory and informing practices. Further...

From resource structuring to continuance intention in food sharing apps: the moderating role of digital resources in hospitality

Purpose Food sharing apps are increasingly adopted by hospitality businesses to facilitate surplus food redistribution, improve operational coordination, and support sustainability initiatives. However, existing research has primarily focused on consumer adoption and initial plat...

An Uncertainty-Robust Decision Framework Based on Fractional Einstein Aggregation for Prioritizing Renewable Power Generation Technologies with Unknown Weights

Renewable power generation plays a central role in the transition toward sustainable, low-carbon energy systems. However, selecting an appropriate technology remains challenging because technical, economic, environmental, and operational criteria may conflict, while expert judgme...

Associations between executive function and core symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in adults with autism spectrum disorder: Controlling for theory of mind, and age

This study aims to use the Executive Function Indicators (EFI) with ecological dimensions to reflect the actual daily executive function of adults with ASD, while controlling for cognitive influencing factors (ToM, and age), to further explore the association between EFI and ADHD...

A Simulation Framework for Pre-Flight Coverage and Quality Assessment of UAV Bridge Inspection Routes Under Wind Disturbance

A numerical method is proposed to assess the visual coverage and imaging quality of a pre-designed unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) inspection route prior to field deployment. The modeled inspection domain includes 336 m2 of deck-underside, exterior-girder, and pier surfaces, 5424 a...

Convergent Modifiers of Exposure Variability in Approved Cannabinoid Medicines: Pharmacogenomics, Drug–Drug Interactions, and Parent–Metabolite Divergence

Background/Objectives: Systemic exposure to the approved cannabinoid medicines cannabidiol, nabiximols, dronabinol, and nabilone varies markedly among patients. Genotype and comedication may act at shared clearance steps and alter parent-drug and active-metabolite exposures diffe...

Green Recycling of Waste Tire Rubber Crumb: Characterization and Water Treatment Applications

Discarded tires are adding to the waste problem that exists worldwide and requires proper recycling methods. Rather than employing chemicals or energy-intensive thermal treatments, which leads to an increase in environmental pollution, in this work, the discarded tires are subjec...

Financial Structure and Profitability of Green Bond Issuers: Evidence Across Financial and Non-Financial Firms

Green bonds represent a significant financing instrument for climate mitigation and environmentally sustainable investments. Despite their growing importance, empirical evidence remains limited regarding the joint influence of firm-specific financial characteristics and macroecon...

A multi-model LLM framework for AI-assisted psychological scale development: initial psychometric evaluation of the Emotion Regulation Scale (ERS)

Emotion regulation is a key construct in mental health, yet existing measures differ in conceptual coverage, with some focusing on specific strategies or regulatory difficulties rather than broader cognitive, behavioral, and contextual regulation processes. This study aimed to de...

ECO-EDGE: joint DAG offloading and fabric routing in Multi-AP MEC via conic optimization

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) enables low-latency services by migrating computational resources closer to end-users. However, as mobile workloads increasingly adopt complex Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) topologies, system performance is strongly affected by interdependent data shuff...

Distribution and Source of Metals in the Horizontal and Vertical Profiles, and Their Ecological Risk in the Red Sea Coast, Western Saudi Arabia

Metal pollution is a critical environmental challenge that endangers marine life and ecosystems worldwide. This study evaluated the metal distribution in horizontal and vertical profiles, as well as their sources in the Red Sea coast, Western Saudi Arabia, using the contamination...

Prevalence and clinical characteristics of cracked posterior teeth among adult patients referred to selected endodontic centres in Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional study

Cracked posterior teeth represent a persistent diagnostic and therapeutic challenge in dental practice. When undetected, crack propagation may result in pulpal and periapical complications. Epidemiological data on cracked teeth in Saudi and Middle Eastern populations remain limit...

Nutritional intake on dialysis and non-dialysis days and the effect of intradialytic food provision among hemodialysis patients, a single-center study

Abstract Background/Objectives Patients receiving hemodialysis (HD) are at risk of malnutrition due to the considerable time required to attend dialysis, which may reduce food intake on dialysis days (DDs). We assessed dietary intake on one DD and two non-dialysis days (NDDs) and...

Arabic Multimodal Dataset for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis

Multimodal sentiment analysis (MSA) has attracted growing interest among researchers in recent years, as multimodal user-generated content (e.g., text and images) has become increasingly common on the Internet. In Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA), multimodal data can provid...

Night Shifts and Occupational Fatigue Among Nurses Who Work 12-Hour-Shifts in Jeddah

Background/Objectives: Night-shift work is essential for continuous nursing care but may disrupt circadian rhythms, impair well-being, and contribute to occupational fatigue. This study assessed the impact of night-shift work and occupational fatigue among nurses working 12 h shi...

On the Convergence of ILC for Hilfer Fractional-Order Systems with Initial State Errors

This paper addresses tracking control for nonlinear Hilfer fractional-order systems (HFOS) with initial state errors. To enhance tracking performance over repeated operations, a closed-loop Dα,β-type and first-order PDα,β-type iterative learning control strategy is proposed. By e...

RF-DETR with multi-scale feature fusion and explainable attention for accurate brain tumor detection in MRI

Abstract Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is very crucial in the diagnosis and examination of brain tumors because it can give good images of the soft tissues and anatomy. Nonetheless, the detection and localization of the tumor areas are still difficult due to differences in tum...

Finite-element-assisted interpretable graph attention learning for high-fidelity prediction of mass transport in fibrin biomaterials

Abstract Accurate prediction of spatial concentration fields within biomaterials is important for mass-transfer analysis and computational modeling of transport processes. This study develops an interpretable data-driven framework for spatially resolved mass-transport prediction...

Defect-engineered lithium-coated BaTiO3 to enable high oxide-ion conduction in LT-SOFC

Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) are emerging as transformative electrochemical energy conversion technologies owing to their superior efficiency, fuel versatility, and minimal environmental impact. Enhancing SOFCs for efficient performance at low temperatures (LT, 420–520 °C) requ...