Submissions from 2023
Robustness and Resilience of LoRaWAN Facing Greedy Behaviors on the MAC Layer, Mi Chen, Lynda Mokdad, and Jalel Ben Othman
Search for low-mass dark matter via bremsstrahlung radiation and the Migdal effect in SuperCDMS, M. F. Albakry, I. Alkhatib, D. Alonso-González, D. W.P. Amaral, T. Aralis, T. Aramaki, I. J. Arnquist, I. Ataee Langroudy, E. Azadbakht, S. Banik, C. Bathurst, R. Bhattacharyya, P. L. Brink, R. Bunker, B. Cabrera, R. Calkins, R. A. Cameron, C. Cartaro, D. G. Cerdeño, Y. Y. Chang, M. Chaudhuri, R. Chen, N. Chott, J. Cooley, H. Coombes, J. Corbett, P. Cushman, and S. Das
Task-Oriented Surveillance Framework for Virtual Emotion Informatics in Polygon Spaces, Sooeon Lee, Seungheyon Lee, Yumin Choi, Jalel Ben-Othman, Lynda Mokdad, Kwang Il Hwang, and Hyunbum Kim
Taxes And Firm Investment?, K. Peren Arin, Kevin Devereux, and Mieszko Mazur
Towards Boosting Federated Learning Convergence: A Computation Offloading & Clustering Approach, Sawsan AbdulRahman, Ouns Bouachir, Safa Otoum, and Azzam Mourad
Editorial, Dimitrios Papandreou
Use of Herbal Medicine Among the Public in Abu Dhabi, Lina Al Kury, Haleema Al Shehhi, and Rafiq Hijazi
The perfect bail‐in: Financing without banks using peer‐to‐peer lending, Efstathios Polyzos, Aristeidis Samitas, and Ghulame Rubbaniy
The Post Readymade Photographed Object, Ioannis Galanopoulos-Papavasileiou
Association between pediatric asthma and adult polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS): a cross-sectional analysis of the UAE healthy future Study (UAEHFS), Nirmin F. Juber, Abdishakur Abdulle, Abdulla AlJunaibi, Abdulla AlNaeemi, Amar Ahmad, Andrea Leinberger-Jabari, Ayesha S. Al Dhaheri, Eiman AlZaabi, Fatima Mezhal, Fatma Al-Maskari, Fatme Alanouti, Habiba Alsafar, Juma Alkaabi, Laila Abdel Wareth, Mai Aljaber, Marina Kazim, Michael Weitzman, Mohammed Al-Houqani, Mohammed Hag-Ali, Naima Oumeziane, Omar El-Shahawy, Scott Sherman, Syed M. Shah, Tom Loney, Wael Almahmeed, Youssef Idaghdour, and Raghib Ali
An Optimized Bagging Ensemble Learning Approach Using BESTrees for Predicting Students’ Performance, Edmund Evangelista
Secure Biomedical Document Protection Framework to Ensure Privacy Through Blockchain, Ramkumar Jayaraman, Mohammed Alshehri, Manoj Kumar, Ahed Abugabah, Surender Singh Samant, and Ahmed A. Mohamed
An Innovative Automatic Indexing Method For Arabic Text, Ramzi A. Haraty, Sanaa Kaddoura, Sultan Al Jahdali, and Nour K. Masri
Boosting Adversarial Training Using Robust Selective Data Augmentation, Bader Rasheed, Asad Masood Khattak, Adil Khan, Stanislav Protasov, and Muhammad Ahmad
Blockchain Based Secure Interoperable Framework for the Internet of Medical Things, Wajid Rafique, Babar Shah, Saqib Hakak, and Maqbool (Software Competence Center Hagenberg Khan
Comparative Analysis of Machine Learning Algorithms for Author Age and Gender Identification, Zarah Zainab, Feras Al-Obeidat, Fernando Moreira, Haji Gul, and Adnan Amin
Suicide literacy mediates the path from religiosity to suicide stigma among Muslim community adults: Cross-sectional data from four Arab countries., Feten Fekih-Romdhane, Suhad Daher-Nashif, Manel Stambouli, Amthal Alhuwailah, Mai Helmy, Hanaa Ahmed Mohamed Shuwiekh, Cheikh Mohamed Fadel Mohamed Lemine, Eqbal Radwan, Juliann Saquib, Nazmus Saquib, Mirna Fawaz, Btissame Zarrouq, Abdallah Y Naser, Sahar Obeid, Maan Saleh, Sanad Haider, Lahmer Miloud, Manal Badrasawi, Ayman Hamdan-Mansour, Mariapaola Barbato, Aisha Bakhiet, Najat Sayem, Samir Adawi, Fatheya Grein, Alexandre Andrade Loch, Majda Cheour, and Souheil Hallit
Economic Development and Environmental Sustainability in the GCC Countries: New Insights Based on the Economic Complexity, Suzanna ElMassah and Eslam A. Hassanein
Personalized Health Care in a Data-Driven Era: A Post–COVID-19 Retrospective, Arnob Zahid and Ravishankar Sharma
Looking Back…There Is a Direction Home, Ioannis Galanopoulos-Papavasileiou
Losing and Finding Braj: Commodification and Entrepreneurship in the Sacred Land of Krishna, Leena Taneja
Using Deep Learning Model to Identify Iron Chlorosis in Plants, Munir Majdalawieh, Shafaq Khan, and Md. T. Islam
Enabling Grant-Free URLLC for AoI Minimization in RAN-Coordinated 5G Health Monitoring System, Beom-Su Kim, Byung Hyun Lim, Beomkyu Suh, Sangtae Ha, Ting He, Babar Shah, and Ki-Il Kim
Fabrication of a colorimetric sensor using acetic acid-capped drug-mediated copper oxide nanoparticles for nitrite biosensing in processed food, Umar Nishan, Sajida Rehman, Riaz Ullah, Ahmed Bari, Saifullah Afridi, Mohibullah Shah, Jibran Iqbal, Muhammad Asad, Amir Badshah, Naeem Khan, In Min Hwang, Hameed Ullah Khan, and Nawshad Muhammad
AI in Education: Improving Quality for Both Centralized and Decentralized Frameworks, Nisha Thorakkattu Madathil, Saed Alrabaee, Mousa Al-kfairy, Rafat Damseh, and Abdelkader N Belkacem
A Late Multi-modal Fusion Model for Detecting Hybrid Spam E-mail, Zhibo Zhang, Ernesto Damiani, Hussam Hamadi, Chan Yeun, and Fatma Taher
Analysis of the Chemical Reaction Optimization Algorithm, Sinan Salman
Arabic language curricula in the Arab World: Present practices and future prospects, Hanada Taha Thomure and Mahmoud AlBatal
A Supervised Machine Learning Approach to Classify Brain Morphology of Professional Visual Artists versus Non-Artists, Alessandro Grecucci, Clara Rastelli, Francesca Bacci, David Melcher, and Nicola De Pisapia
Cyber security and beyond: Detecting malware and concept drift in AI-based sensor data streams using statistical techniques, Muhammad Amin, Feras Al-Obeidat, Abdallah Tubaishat, Babar Shah, Sajid Anwar, and Tamleek Ali Tanveer
For whom does it pay to be a moral capitalist? Sustainability of corporate financial performance of ESG investment, Mariya Gubareva, Zaghum Umar, Tatiana Sokolova, and Valentina Antonyuk
GeoSS: Geographic Segmentation Security Barriers for Virtual Emotion Detection With Discriminative Priorities in Intelligent Cooperative Vehicular System, Seungheyon Lee, Sooeon Lee, Yumin Choi, Jalel Ben-Othman, and Hyunbum Kim
More than meets the eye: In-store retail experiences with augmented reality smart glasses, Pauline Pfeifer, Tim Hilken, Jonas Heller, Saifeddin Alimamy, and Roberta Di Palma
Nanopesticides in comparison with agrochemicals: Outlook and future prospects for sustainable agriculture, Iqra Mubeen, Manar Fawzi Bani Mfarrej, Zarafshan Razaq, Shehzad Iqbal, Syed Atif Hasan Naqvi, Fahad Hakim, Walid F.A. Mosa, Mahmoud Moustafa, Yuan Fang, and Bin Li
Network connectedness of the term structure of yield curve and global Sukuks, Zaghum Umar, Yasir Riaz, Yasir Shahab, and Tamara Teplova
Stopovers as valued-based experience: A conceptual model, Filareti Kotsi, Kim Johnston, and Steven Pike
Students’ Online Engagement and Usage of Discussion Boards on Blackboard: a Study From the UAE, Laila Mohebi
Synthesis and application of metal nanoparticles-loaded mesoporous silica toward the reduction of organic pollutants in a simple and binary system, Fatima Habeche, Bouhadjar Boukoussa, Ismail Issam, Adel Mokhtar, Xinnan Lu, Jibran Iqbal, Fadila Benali, Salih Hacini, Mohammed Hachemaoui, and Mohamed Abboud
The Development of Preservice Teachers’ Metacognitive Knowledge and Self-regulation in Online Learning, Areej Elsayary and Laila Mohebi
Time Varied Self-Reliance Aerial Ground Traffic Monitoring System With Pre-Recognition Collision Avoidance, Seungheyon Lee, Sooeon Lee, Yumin Choi, Jalel Ben-Othman, Lynda Mokdad, and Hyunbum Kim
Laughable Resistance? The Role of Humour in Middle Eastern Women’s Social Media Empowerment, Zoe Hurley
Saudi Women in the Mohammed bin Salman Era: Examining the Paradigm Shift, Magdalena Karolak
Do Automated Market Makers in DeFi Ecosystem Exhibit Time-Varying Connectedness during Stressed Events?, Bikramaditya Ghosh, Hayfa Kazouz, and Zaghum Umar
Disaster and Tourism, Anestis K. Fotiadis and Tzung-Cheng Huan
An AI-Based CAP Framework for Wilms’ Tumor Preoperative Chemotherapy Susceptibility, I. Sharaby, A. Alksas, A. Nashat, H. M. Balaha, M. Shehata, M. Gayhart, A. Mahmoud, M. Ghazal, A. Khalil, R. T. Abouelkheir, A. Elmahdy, A. Abdelhalim, A. Mosbah, and A. El-Baz
Security Risk Assessment of Blockchain-Based Patient Health Record Systems, Nedaa B. Al Barghuthi, Huwida E. Said, Sulafa M. Badi, and Shini Girija
The impact of differentiated empowering leadership on employees’ depression: moderation of employees’ envy and gender, Neelam Qasim, Muhammad Arshad, Omer Farooq, and Rabeeya Raoof
Towards Enhanced Identification of Emotion from Resource-Constrained Language through a novel Multilingual BERT Approach, Nadia Ali, Abdallah Tubaishat, Feras Al-Obeidat, Mohammad Shabaz, Muhammad Waqas, Zahid Halim, Imad Rida, and Sajid Anwar
Correcting E-Cigarette Misinformation on Social Media: Responses from UAE Nationals Who Smoke, Kang Li and Donghee Shin
Metal composition and contamination assessment of urban roadway dusts on the Abu Dhabi-Liwa Highway, UAE, Ahmed A. Al-Taani, Yousef Nazzal, Fares M. Howari, Jibran Iqbal, Muhammad Naseem, Manish Sharma, Cijo Xavier, Dimitrios Papandreou, Lina Maloukh, Lakshmi Ambika, Imen Ben Salem, Abeer Al Bsoul, and Haitham M. Farok
The ChatGPT Artificial Intelligence Chatbot: How Well Does It Answer Accounting Assessment Questions?, David A. Wood, Muskan P. Achhpilia, Mollie T. Adams, Sanaz Aghazadeh, Kazeem Akinyele, Mfon Akpan, Kristian D. Allee, Abigail M. Allen, Elizabeth D. Almer, Daniel Ames, Viktor Arity, Dereck Barr-Pulliam, K. Asli Basoglu, Andrew Belnap, Jeremiah W. Bentley, Terje Berg, Nathan R. Berglund, Erica Berry, Avishek Bhandari, Md Nazmul Hasan Bhuyan, Paul W. Black, Eva Blondeel, David Bond, Annika Bonrath, A. Faye Borthick, Erik S. Boyle, Marianne Bradford, Duane M. Brandon, Joseph F. Brazel, and Bryan G. Brockbank
Development of the Emirati Child Adaptation Scale (ECAS) for Assessing the Behavioral Adaptation Skills of Children with and without Disabilities in the UAE., Ousha Almuhairy, Efthymia Efthymiou, Hala Elhoweris, Mahmoud Alshathly, and Abdelaziz Sartawi
Haptic Systems: Trends and Lessons Learned for Haptics in Spacesuits, Mohammad Amin Kuhail, Jose Berengueres, Fatma Taher, Mariam Alkuwaiti, and Sana Z. Khan
How State-of-the-Art Makerspace Stations Contribute to Differences in Students’ Learning: A Mixed Methods Case Study of a Bilingual High School in Kuwait, Sayed Mahmoud Eldebeky
Perceived changes in the mental well‐being among Nigerians due to Ramadan Intermittent Fasting during the COVID‐19 pandemic, Sahabi Kabir Sulaiman, Fatimah Isma'il Tsiga-Ahmed, Teresa Arora, MoezAlIslam E Faris, Muhammad Sale Musa, Yesir Adeyemi Kareem, Farouq Muhammad Dayyab, Aminu Hussein, Shehu Sale, Syed Fahad Javaid, and Moien Ab Khan
Data Augmentation-based Novel Deep Learning Method for Deepfaked Images Detection, Farkhund Iqbal, Ahmed Abbasi, Abdul Rehman Javed, Ahmad Almadhor, Zunera Jalil, Sajid Anwar, and Imad Rida
Book Review: Castoffs of Capital: Work and Love among Garment Workers in Bangladesh, Habibul Haque Khondker
E2DNE: Energy Efficient Dynamic Network Embedding in Virtualized Wireless Sensor Networks, Vahid Maleki Raee, Amin Ebrahimzadeh, Roch H. Glitho, May El Barachi, and Fatna Belqasmi
Evaluating the Feasibility of Pro-Neurotensin and 25-Hydroxyvitamin D3 as Possible Indicators for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Its Complications, Amal A. Mohammed, Dina M. Abo El-Matty, Esraa A. Abd ElSalam, Mona A. Hussein, Wael Hafez, Sharehan A. Ibrahim, Eman A. H. Shaheen, Eman A. Awad, Marwa A. Osman, Marwa S. Abd El-Raouf, Salma M. Saed, Reham Y. El-Amir, Doaa Ghaith, Fatme Al Anouti, and Alaa S. Wahba
Modern Law, Traditional “Shalish” and Civil Society Activism in Bangladesh, Habibul Haque Khondker
Transition to Distance Learning: Student Experience and Communication during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United Arab Emirates, Soumaya Abdellatif, Aizhan Shomotova, Safouane Trabelsi, Salwa Husain, Najeh Alsalhi, and Mohamed Eltahir
ON-DEMAND-FL: A Dynamic and Efficient Multi-Criteria Federated Learning Client Deployment Scheme, Mario Chahoud, Hani Sami, Azzam Mourad, Safa Otoum, Hadi Otrok, Jamal Bentahar, and Mohsen Guizani
Epistemology, Habibul Haque Khondker
Governance of State-Owned Enterprises, Joshua Jebuntie Zaato
Neuroinflammation, Oxidative Stress, Apoptosis, Microgliosis and Astrogliosis in the Cerebellum of Mice Chronically Exposed to Waterpipe Smoke, Naserddine Hamadi, Sumaya Beegam, Nur Elena Zaaba, Ozaz Elzaki, Mariam Abdulla Altamimi, and Abderrahim Nemmar
Antecedents of Organizational Resilience after COVID-19: The Case of UAE, Khadija Ali Mohammed Abdulrahman Al Ameri
Book Review: In Search Of Justice In Thailand's Deep South: Malay Muslim And Thai Buddhist Women's Narratives, Ornanong Husna Benbourenane
Developing Young Science and Technology Parks: Recent Findings from Industrial Nations Using the Data-Driven Approach, Charles Mondal, Mousa Al-Kfairy, and Robert B. Mellor
Diversification benefits of NFTs for conventional asset investors: Evidence from CoVaR with higher moments and optimal hedge ratios, Zaghum Umar, Muhammad Usman, Sun Yong Choi, and John Rice
Information flow dynamics between geopolitical risk and major asset returns, Zaghum Umar, Ahmed Bossman, Sun Yong Choi, and Xuan Vinh Vo
Is the Arab audience willing to pay for online news? Predictors of their paying intent, Elsayed Bekhit Darwish
New insights in to the ameliorative effects of zinc and iron oxide nanoparticles to arsenic stressed spinach (Spinacia oleracea L.), Yan Sun, Manar Fawzi Bani Mfarrej, Xiaojun Song, Jing Ma, Bolin Min, and Fu Chen
Performance analysis to evaluate overtaking behavior on highways, Jalel Ben Othman and Lynda Mokdad
Performance evaluation of phosphonium based deep eutectic solvents coated cerium oxide nanoparticles for CO2 capture, Tausif Ahmad, Jibran Iqbal, Mohamad Azmi Bustam, Muhammad Babar, Muhammad Bilal Tahir, Muhammad Sagir, Muhammad Irfan, Hafiz Muhammad Anwaar Asghar, Afaq Hassan, Asim Riaz, Lai Fatt Chuah, Awais Bokhari, Muhammad Mubashir, and Pau Loke Show
Results from the United Arab Emirates 2022 report card on physical activity for children and adolescents, Ali Muneer Alrahma, Hanan Al Suwaidi, Reem AlGurg, Zeina Farah, Hamda Khansaheb, Rahma Ajja, Mouza Alzaabi, Aisha Al Hamiz, Abdulla Aljunaibi, Abdishakur Abdulle, Aysha Al Dhaheri, Syed Mahboob Shah, Javaid Nauman, and Tom Loney
Review essay: A few good men: Economists in public service in South Asia, Habibul Khondker
SEBD: A Stream Evolving Bot Detection Framework with Application of PAC Learning Approach to Maintain Accuracy and Confidence Levels, Eiman Alothali, Kadhim Hayawi, and Hany Alashwal
The Impact of Funding on Market Valuation in Technology Start-Up Firms: implication for open innovation, Amril Nazir and Dina Tbaishat
Wideband, High-Gain, and Compact Four-Port MIMO Antenna for Future 5G Devices Operating over Ka-Band Spectrum, Sayed Aqib Hussain, Fatma Taher, Mohammed S. Alzaidi, Irshad Hussain, Rania M. Ghoniem, Mohamed Fathy Abo Sree, and Ali Lalbakhsh
Maintaining the integrity of assessment by mitigating against students’ cheating, Peter Davidson and Christine Coombe
Modulatory Effect of Medicinal Plants and Their Active Constituents on ATP-Sensitive Potassium Channels (KATP) in Diabetes, Lina T. Al Kury
Diminishing benefits of urban living for children and adolescents’ growth and development, Anu Mishra, Bin Zhou, Andrea Rodriguez-Martinez, Honor Bixby, Rosie K. Singleton, Rodrigo M. Carrillo-Larco, Kate E. Sheffer, Christopher J. Paciorek, James E. Bennett, Victor Lhoste, Maria L.C. Iurilli, Mariachiara Di Cesare, James Bentham, Nowell H. Phelps, Marisa K. Sophiea, Gretchen A. Stevens, Goodarz Danaei, Melanie J. Cowan, Stefan Savin, Leanne M. Riley, Edward W. Gregg, Wichai Aekplakorn, Noor Ani Ahmad, Jennifer L. Baker, Adela Chirita-Emandi, Farshad Farzadfar, Günther Fink, and Mirjam Heinen
Dynamics of a Fractional-Order Delayed Model of COVID-19 with Vaccination Efficacy, Fathalla A. Rihan, Udhayakumar Kandasamy, Hebatallah J. Alsakaji, and Nicola Sottocornola
Cardiac Arrhythmia Disease Classifier Model Based on a Fuzzy Fusion Approach, Fatma Taher, Hamoud Alshammari, Lobna Osman, Mohamed Elhoseny, Abdulaziz Shehab, and Eman Elayat
An Empirical Study on the Information Formality Motivation, Social Influence, and Goal Commitment of Knowledge Workers, Yujong Hwang, Hui Lin, and Donghee Shin
Evidence That Increasing Serum 25(OH)D Concentrations to 30 ng/mL in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates Could Greatly Improve Health Outcomes, William B. Grant, Fatme Al Anouti, Barbara J. Boucher, Hana M. A. Fakhoury, Meis Moukayed, Stefan Pilz, and Nasser M. Al-Daghri
Keeping them honest: Assessing learning in online and digital contexts, Peter Davidson and Christine Coombe
Secondary, security threat, and sage: Eulogy effect and the framing of female politicians as political martyrs in the Elite press of South Asia, Azmat Rasul, Mcdowell D Stephen, and Muhammad E Rasul
An advanced deep learning models-based plant disease detection: A review of recent research, Muhammad Shoaib, Babar Shah, Shaker EI-Sappagh, Akhtar Ali, Asad Ullah, Fayadh Alenezi, Tsanko Gechev, Tariq Hussain, and Farman Ali
A Fog Computing Framework for Intrusion Detection of Energy-Based Attacks on UAV-Assisted Smart Farming, Junaid Sajid, Kadhim Hayawi, Asad Waqar Malik, Zahid Anwar, and Zouheir Trabelsi
Brief review: Applications of nanocomposite in electrochemical sensor and drugs delivery, Zia Ul Haq Khan, Taj Malook Khan, Amjad Khan, Noor Samad Shah, Nawshad Muhammad, Kamran Tahir, Jibran Iqbal, Abdur Rahim, Syed Khasim, Iftikhar Ahmad, Khadija Shabbir, Noor Shad Gul, and Jianbo Wu
High prevalence of cardiometabolic risk factors amongst young adults in the United Arab Emirates: the UAE Healthy Future Study, Fatima Mezhal, Abderrahim Oulhaj, Abdishakur Abdulle, Abdulla AlJunaibi, Abdulla Alnaeemi, Amar Ahmad, Andrea Leinberger-Jabari, Ayesha S. Al Dhaheri, Eiman AlZaabi, Fatma Al-Maskari, Fatme Alanouti, Fayza Alameri, Habiba Alsafar, Hamad Alblooshi, Juma Alkaabi, Laila Abdel Wareth, Mai Aljaber, Marina Kazim, Michael Weitzman, Mohammad Al-Houqani, Mohammad Hag Ali, E. Murat Tuzcu, Naima Oumeziane, Omar El-Shahawy, Rami H. Al-Rifai, Scott Sherman, Syed M. Shah, Thekra Alzaabi, Tom Loney, and Wael Almahmeed
User-Centered Software Design: User Interface Redesign for Blockly–Electron, Artificial Intelligence Educational Software for Primary and Secondary Schools, Chenghong Cen, Guang Luo, Lujia Li, Yilin Liang, Kang Li, Tan Jiang, and Qiang Xiong
بلاغة الأمل في قصيدة ”إرادة الحياة“ لأبي القاسم الشابّي (1909–1934), Shokri Al Mabkhout
Blockchain-enabled Platform for a Meta Customer Loyalty Program, Aijaz A. Shaikh, Nadia Dahmani, Sana Khan, and Ravishankar Sharma
Towards an approach for weaving Open Digital Rights Language into Role-Based Access Control, Aisha Saif Alshamsi, Zakaria Maamar, and Mohammad-Amin Kuhail
Using feedforward to improve pre-service teachers’ academic writing and critical thinking skills, Sandra Baroudi, Serena Aoun, and Doaa Hamam
Weaponising the Alliance for the Unity of Romanians (AUR): Novelties and Continuums in Romania's Far-Right Political Extremism, Alexandra Cotofană
Examination of sleep in relation to dietary and lifestyle behaviors during Ramadan: A multi-national study using structural equation modeling among 24,500 adults amid COVID-19, Moien A. B. Khan, Ahmed S. BaHammam, Asma Amanatullah, Khaled Obaideen, Teresa Arora, Habiba Ali, Leila Cheikh Ismail, Dana N. Abdelrahim, Mohammed Al-Houqani, Kholoud Allaham, Rand Abdalrazeq, Wahid Sharif Aloweiwi, Somayea Sultana Mim, Ammar Mektebi, Sohrab Amiri, Sahabi Kabir Sulaiman, Syed Fahad Javaid, Mohammad Delwer Hossain Hawlader, Fatimah Isma’il Tsiga-Ahmed, Iffat Elbarazi, Saskiyanto Manggabarani, Gamechu Atomsa Hunde, Sabrina Chelli, Mitra Sotoudeh, MoezAlIslam Ezzat Faris, Ramadan Intermittent Fasting Collaborators, Abasi-Okot Akpan Udoyen, Abdelrhman Muwafaq Janem, Abdullah Taha Zayed, and Adriana Johny Skafi