Publications
August-September 2024: A selection of recent publications from the Division of Science.
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Biology
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From Phoenix to Sisyphus: Climate change impacts and intervention strategies for Arabian Gulf coral reefs
John A. Burt
Journal of Coastal Research (2024)Adaptive Evolution Signatures in Prochlorococcus: Open Reading Frame (ORF)eome Resources and Insights from Comparative Genomics
Sarah Daakour, David R. Nelson, Weiqi Fu, Ashish Jaiswal, Bushra Dohai, Amnah Salem Alzahmi, Joseph Koussa, Xiaoluo Huang, Yue Shen, Jean-Claude Twizere and Kourosh Salehi-Ashtiani
Microorganisms (2024)First Record of Bramble Sharks, Echinorhinus brucus (Echinorhiniformes, Echinorhinidae), in the United Arab Emirates
John A. Burt, Juan Pablo Torres-Florez, Mattie Rodrigue, Cassidy Nelson, Mika Chance
Diversity (2024)Oceanographic variability in Sir Bu Nair Island (Arabian/Persian Gulf) based on in situ observations
Cavalcante GH, Vieira F, Bento R, Bartholomew A, Burt JA
Journal of Coastal Research (2024)New Potential Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulators in Traditional Chinese Medicine for Treating Menopausal Syndrome
Xintong Song, Lan Shen, Janine Micahella Contreras, Zhiyuan Liu, Kai Ma, Biao Ma, Xiaoling Liu, Dan Ohtan Wang
Phytotherapy Research (2024)Nighttime-specific Differential Gene Expression in Suprachiasmatic Nucleus and Habenula is Associated with Resilience to Chronic Social Stress
Priyam Narain, Aleksa Petkovic, Marko Susic, Salma Haniffa, Nizar Drou, Marc Arnoux, Mariam Anwar & Dipesh Chaudhury
Translational Psychiatry (2024)Mangrove Ecotourism along the Coasts of the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries: A Systematic Review
Moussa LG, Mohan M, Burmeister N, King SAL, Burt JA, Rog SM, Watt MS, Udagedara S, Sujud L, Montenegro JF, et al.
Land (2024)Adaptive Evolution Signatures in Prochlorococcus: Open Reading Frame (ORF)eome Resources and Insights from Comparative Genomics
Daakour S, Nelson DR, Fu W, Jaiswal A, Dohai B, Alzahmi AS, Koussa J, Huang X, Shen Y, Twizere J-C, et al.
Microorganisms (2024)A decade of benthic changes on coral reefs in the southern Persian/Arabian Gulf (2010–2020)
Riegl, B., Bauman, A., Hadj-Hamou, J., Burt, J.A.
Coral Reefs (2024)Mangrove forest regeneration age map and drivers of restoration success in Gulf Cooperation Council countries from satellite imagery
Mohan M, Dutta Roy A, Montenegro JF, Watt MS, Burt JA, et al.
Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment (2024)Remote sensing of 50 years of coastal urbanization and environmental change in the Arabian Gulf: A systematic review
Dahy B, Al-Memari M, Al-Gergawi A and Burt JA
Frontiers in Remote Sensing (2024)
Chemistry
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Distinct Mechanical Properties and Photomechanical Response from Isostructural, yet Chemically Different Molecular Crystal Actuators
Lin, Jiawei; Zhou, Jianmin; Li, Liang; Tahir, Ibrahim; Wu, Songgu; Naumov, Pance; Gong, Junbo
Chem. Mater (2024)An Enantioselective Decarboxylative Glycolate Aldol Reaction
Md. Ataur Rahman, Mohammad Rehan, Torsten Cellnik, Brij Bhushan Ahuja, Alan Healy
Organic (2024)A Self-Healing Crystal That Repairs Multiple Cracks
Pathan, Javed R.; Balan, Haripriya; Commins, Patrick; Ravi, Arthi; Al-Handawi, Marieh B.; Hou, Ian Cheng-Yi; Naumov, Panče; Sureshan, Kana M.
J. Am. Chem. Soc. (2024)Identification of Novel Allosteric Sites of SARS-CoV-2 Papain-Like Protease (PLpro) for the Development of COVID-19 Antivirals
Juliana C. Ferreira, Adrian J. Villanueva, Kenana Al Adem, Samar Fadl, Lara Alzyoud, Mohammad A. Ghattas, Wael M. Rabeh
Journal of Biological Chemistry (2024)Flexible Molecular Crystals for Optoelectronic Applications
Wei, Chuanxin; Li, Liang; Zheng, Yingying; Wang, Lizhi; Ma, Jingyao; Xu, Man; Lin, Jinyi;* Xie, Linghai;* Naumov, Panče;* Ding, Xuehua; Feng, Quanyou; Huang, Wei*
Chemical Society Reviews (2024) 53, 3687-3713.Natural Product Isolation of the Extract of Cleome rupicola Fruits Exhibiting Antioxidant Activity
Gambrill, Yumi; Commins, Patrick;* Schramm, Stefan; Lui, Nathan M.; AlNeyadi, Shaikha S.; Naumov, Panče*
Chemistry and Biodiversity (2024) e202301382.Flexible Organic Chiral Crystals with Thermal and Excitation Modulation of the Emission for Information Transmission, Writing, and Storage
Pan, Xiuhong; Lan, Linfeng Lan; Li, Liang; Naumov, Panče; Zhang, Hongyu*
Angewandte Chemie, International Edition (2024) e202320173.Smart Molecular Crystal Switches
Hou, Ian Cheng-Yi; Li, Liang Li,* Zhang, Hongyu,* Naumov, Panče*
Smart Molecules (2024) e20230031.A Comment on the Comments
Naumov, Panče*
Macedonian Journal of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (2024) 43, 165–167.Hybrid and Composite Materials of Organic Crystals
Yang, Xuesong; Al-Handawi, Marieh; Li, Liang; Naumov, Panče;* Zhang, Hongyu*
Chemical Science (2024) 15, 2684–2696.Bending, Twisting, and Propulsion of Photoreactive Crystals by Controlled Gas Release
Yu, Chunjiao; Jiang, Xiaofan; Al-Handawi, Marieh B.; Naumov, Panče;* Li, Liang; Zhang, Zhenjie;* Yu, Qi;* Wang, Guoming*
Angewandte Chemie, International Edition (2024), e202403397.Chemical Strategies to Diversification of the Mechanical Properties of Organic Crystals
Dai, Shuting; Zhong, Jiangbin; Yang, Xiqiao; Chen, Chao; Zhou, Liping; Liu, Xinyu; Sun, Jingbo; Ye, Kaiqi; Li, Liang; Naumov, Panče;* Lu, Ran*
Angewandte Chemie, International Edition (2024), e202320223.Highly Efficient in crystallo Energy Transduction of Light to Work
Lin, Jiawei; Zhou, Jianmin; Li, Liang; Tahir, Ibrahim; Wu, Songgu;* Naumov, Panče;* Gong, Junbo*
Nature Communications (2024), 15, 3633.Thermosalient and Mechanically Compliant Organic Crystalline Optical Waveguide Switcher
Di, Qi; Al-Handawi, Marieh B.; Li, Liang; Naumov, Panče;* Zhang, Hongyu* Angewandte Chemie, International Edition (2024), e202403914.Conversion of Flat to Cylindrical Hydrogel Structures by Asymmetric Crosslinking and Ionic Exchange
Liang, Shumin; Chen, Qing; Huang, Xiaowen; Yang, Bingbing; Guo, Yicheng; Naumov, Panče;* Zhang, Lidong*
Chemical Engineering Journal (2024) 490, 151906.Trimodal Operation of a Robust Smart Organic Crystal
Wu, Wenbo; Chen, Kui; Yu, Hui Yu; Zhu, Jiaxuan; Feng, Yaoguang; Wang, Jingkang; Huang, Xin; Li, Liang; Hao, Hongxun; Wang, Ting;* Wang, Na;* Naumov, Na Wang,* Naumov, Panče*
Chemical Science (2024) 15, 9287–9297.Ferroelastic Control of the Multicolor Emission from a Triply Doped Organic Crystal
Commins, Patrick; Al-Handawi, Marieh B.; Deger, Caner; Polavaram, Srujana; Yavuz, Ilhan; Rezgui, Rachid; Li, Liang; Houk, K. N.*; Naumov, Panče
Journal of the American Chemical Society (2024), 146, 16540–16548.Current Trends and Advancements in Crystallization and Single-Crystal Structural Analysis of Small Molecules
Xiao, Yuntian; Wua, Chuanhua; Zhou, Ling; Commins, Patrick; Li, Liang;* Naumov, Panče;* Yin, Qiuxiang*
Coordination Chemistry Reviews (2024), 517, 216035.cRGD-Peptide Modified Covalent Organic Frameworks for Precision Chemotherapy in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
*Farah Benyettou, Mostafa Khair, Thirumurugan Prakasam, Sabu Varghese, Zineb Matouk, Maryam Alkaabi, Pilar Pena-Sánchez, Maylis Boitet, Rasha AbdulHalim, Sudhir Kumar Sharma, Rose Ghemrawi, Sneha Thomas, Jamie Whelan, Renu Pasricha, Ramesh Jagannathan, Felipe Gándara, and *Ali Trabolsi
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (2024)
Computer Science
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Machine Learning and Gut Microbiome for Breast Cancer Screening
Priyamvada Daga, Mai Oudah
21st IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB) on IEEE Xplore, 2024.Coupled-Space Attacks against Random-Walk-based Anomaly Detection
Yuni Lai, Marcin Waniek, Liying Li, Jingwen Wu, Yulin Zhu, Tomasz P. Michalak, Talal Rahwan, Kai Zhou
Artificial Intelligence, 2024Investigating Gender Bias in STEM Job Advertisements
Dikshit Malika, Houda Bouamor, and Nizar Habash
In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing (GeBNLP), Bangkok, Thailand, 2024Google Scholar is Manipulatable
Hazem Ibrahim, Fengyuan Liu, Yasir Zaki, Talal Rahwan
Arxiv (2024)Arabic Diacritics in the Wild: Exploiting Opportunities for Improved Diacritization
Elgamal, Salman, Ossama Obeid, Tameem Kabbani, Go Inoue, Nizar Habash
In Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024), Bangkok, Thailand, 2024.M4GT-Bench: Evaluation Benchmark for Black-Box Machine-Generated Text Detection
Wang, Yuxia, Jonibek Mansurov, Petar Ivanov, Jinyan Su, Artem Shelmanov, Akim Tsvigun, Osama Mohammed Afzal, Tarek Mahmoud, Giovanni Puccetti, Thomas Arnold, Alham Fikri Aji, Nizar Habash, Iryna Gurevych, Preslav Nakov.
In Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024), Bangkok, Thailand, 2024.ArabicMMLU: Assessing Massive Multitask Language Understanding in Arabic
Koto, Fajri, Haonan Li, Sara Shatnawi, Jad Doughman, Abdelrahman Boda Sadallah, Aisha Alraeesi, Khalid Almubarak, Zaid Alyafeai, Neha Sengupta, Shady Shehata, Nizar Habash, Preslav Nakov, Timothy Baldwin.
In Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024), Bangkok, Thailand, 2024.Exploiting Dialect Identification in Automatic Dialectal Text Normalization
Alhafni, Bashar, Sarah Al-Towaity, Ziyad Fawzy, Fatema Nassar, Fadhl Eryani, Houda Bouamor, and Nizar Habash
In Proceedings of The Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, 2024Strategies for Arabic Readability Modeling
Liberato Juan, Bashar Alhafni, Muhamed Khalil, and Nizar Habash
In Proceedings of The Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, 2024The FIGNEWS Shared Task on News Media Narratives
Zaghouani, Wajdi, Mustafa Jarrar, Nizar Habash, Houda Bouamor, Imed Zitouni, Mona Diab, Samhaa El-Beltagy, and Muhammed AbuOdeh
In Proceedings of The Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, 2024NADI 2024: The Fifth Nuanced Arabic Dialect Identification Shared Task
Abdul-Mageed, Muhammad, Amr Keleg, AbdelRahim Elmadany, Chiyu Zhang, Injy Hamed, Walid Magdy, Houda Bouamor, and Nizar Habash.
In Proceedings of The Second Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, 2024
Mathematics
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Logarithmic correlation functions in 2D critical percolation
Federico Camia, Yu Feng
Journal of High Energy Physics (2024)
Physics
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Discovering heavy neutral leptons with the Higgs boson
N. Bernal, K. Deka and M. Losada
Phys.Rev.D (2024)Thermal dark matter with low-temperature reheating
N. Bernal, K. Deka and M. Losada
JCAP (2024)Fast X-ray/IR observations of the black hole transient Swift J1753.5-0127: From an IR lead to a very long jet lag
A. Ulgiati, F. M. Vincentelli, P. Casella, A. Veledina, T. J. Maccarone, D. M. Russell, P. Uttley, F. Ambrosino, M. C. Baglio, M. Imbrogno, A. Melandri, S. E. Motta, K. O’Brien, A. Sanna, T. Shahbaz, D. Altamirano, R. P. Fender, D. Maitra and J. Malzac
Astronomy & Astrophysics (2024)Gradual optical brightening in GRO J0422+32 during quiescence: precursor to an outburst?
Fialova, K.; Russell, D. M.; Alabarta, K.; Bramich, D. M.; Rout, S.; Saikia, P.; Baglio, M. C.; Lewis, F. The Astronomer's Telegraph (2024).Dark counts in optical superconducting transition-edge sensors for rare-event searches
Laura Manenti, Carlo Pepe, Isaac Sarnoff, Tengiz Ibrayev, Panagiotis Oikonomou, Artem Knyazev, Eugenio Monticone, Hobey Garrone, Fiona Alder, Osama Fawwaz, Alexander J. Millar, Knut Dundas Morå, Hamad Shams, Francesco Arneodo, Mauro Rajteri
Physical Review Applied (2024)
Psychology
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Evidence of a developmental shift in the nature of attachment representations: a longitudinal taxometric investigation of secure base script knowledge from middle childhood into adolescence
Houbrechts, M., Waters, T. E. A., Facompré, C. R., Bijttebier, P., Goossens, L., Van Leeuwen, K., et al.
Attachment & Human Development (2024)Associations Between Scripted Attachment Representations in Late Adolescence and Depression in Adulthood in a Normative and a Higher-Risk Cohort
Dagan, O., Nivison, M. D., Booth-LaForce, C., Bleil, M. E., Roisman, G. I., & Waters, T. E. A.
Emerging Adulthood (2024)Neural Signatures of Motor Imagery for a Supernumerary Thumb in VR: An EEG Analysis
Alsuradi, H., Hong, J., Sarmadi, A., Volcic, R., Salam, H., Atashzar, S.F., Khorrami, F., and Eid, M.
Scientific Reports (2024)Unequal by Malice, Protesters by Outrage: Agent Perceptions Drive Moralization of, and Collective Action Against, Inequality
Cervone, C., Suitner, C., Carraro, L., Menini, A., & Maass, A.
British Journal of Social Psychology (2024)Can Perpetrators Discern Survivors from the Sound of Their Voices?
Monti, E., D'Andrea, W., Carroll, L., Miron, N., Norton, K., Resto, O., Toscano, K., Williams, J., & Maass, A.
European Journal of Psychotraumatology (2024)Why are some countries rich and others poor? Development and validation of the Attributions for Cross-Country Inequality Scale (ACIS).
Vezzoli, M., Valtorta, R. R., Gáspár, A., Cervone, C., Durante, F., Maass, A., Suitner, C.
PLoS One (2024)Dishonesty When the Game is Unfair: Experimental Evidence for the Effect of Economic Inequality on Tax Evasion and Cheating
Galdi, S., Durante, F., & Maass, A.
Social Psychology (2024)The Extrafoveal Preview Effect is More Pronounced Where Perception is Poor
Liu X, Melcher D, Carrasco M, Hanning N.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024)Aperiodic EEG Predicts Variability of Visual Temporal Processing
Deodato M, Melcher D.
Journal of Neuroscience (2024)Schizotypal Traits and Anomalous Perceptual Experiences are Associated with Greater Visual Temporal Acuity
Deodato M, Ronconi L, Melcher D.
Schizophrenia Research (2024)Correlations Between Visual Temporal Resolution and Individual Alpha Peak Frequency: Evidence that Internal and Measurement Noise Drives Null Findings
Deodato M, Melcher D.
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (2024)Distinct Cortical Networks Subserve Spatio-temporal Sampling in Vision Through Different Oscillatory Rhythms
Ronconi L, Balestrieri E, Baldauf D, Melcher D.
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (2024)Tool-sensed Object Information Effectively Supports Vision for Multisensory Grasping
Camponogara, I., Farnè, A., & Volcic, R.
Journal of Experimental Psychology (2024)