Submissions from 2025
Preharvest methyl jasmonate application delays cell wall degradation and upregulates phenolic metabolism and antioxidant activities in cold stored raspberries, Hafiz Muhammad Shoaib Shah, Zora Singh, Mahmood Ul Hasan, Andrew Woodward, and Eben Afrifa-Yamoah
miRNAome-metabolome wide association study reveals effects of miRNA regulation in eosinophilia and airflow obstruction in childhood asthma, Rinku Sharma, Kevin Mendez, Sofina Begum, Su Chu, Nicole Prince, Julian Hecker, Rachel S. Kelly, Qingwen Chen, Craig E. Wheelock, Juan C. Celedón, Clary Clish, Robert Gertszen, Kelan G. Tantisira, Scott T. Weiss, Jessica Lasky-Su, and Michael McGeachie
Advancements in solid-state metal pH sensors: A comprehensive review of metal oxides and nitrides for enhanced chemical sensing: A review, Shim Shylendra, Magdalena Wajrak, and James Jin Kang
Automated abdominal aortic calcification scoring from vertebral fracture assessment images and fall-associated hospitalisations: The Manitoba Bone Mineral Density Registry, Marc Sim, Abadi K. Gebre, Jack Dalla Via, Siobhan Reid, Mohammad Jafari Jozani, Douglas Kimelman, Barret A. Monchka, Syed Zulqarnain Gilani, Zaid Ilyas, Cassandra Smith, David Suter, John T. Schousboe, Joshua R. Lewis, and William D. Leslie
Automated abdominal aortic calcification and major adverse cardiovascular events in people undergoing osteoporosis screening: The Manitoba Bone Mineral Density Registry, Cassandra Smith, Marc Sim, Zaid Ilyas, Syed Zulqarnain Gilani, David Suter, Siobhan Reid, Barret A. Monchka, Mohammed Jafari Jozani, Gemma Figtree, John T. Schousboe, Joshua R. Lewis, and William D. Leslie
Therapying outside the box: Innovating the implementation and evaulation of CBT in therapeutic artificial agents, Sharjeel Tahir, Jumana Abu-Khalaf, Syed Afaq Ali Shah, and Judith Johnson
Epilithic algal composition and the functioning of Anthropocene coral reefs, Sterling B. Tebbett, Michael J. Emslie, Michelle J. Jonker, Scott D. Ling, Morgan S. Pratchett, Alexandre C. Siqueira, Angus A. Thompson, Helen F. Yan, and David R. Bellwood
Diverged populations admixture bolsters genetic diversity of a New Island dibbler (Parantechinus apicalis) population, but does not prevent subsequent loss of genetic variation, Rujiporn Thavornkanlapachai, Harriet R. Mills, Kym Ottewell, Cathy Lambert, J. Anthony Friend, Daniel J. White, Zahra Aisya, and W. Jason Kennington
Advances in natural fiber polymer and PLA composites through artificial intelligence and machine learning integration, Md Helal Uddin, Mohammed Huzaifa Mulla, Tarek Abedin, Abreeza Manap, Boon Kar Yap, Reji Kumar Rajamony, Kiran Shahapurkar, T. M.Yunus Khan, Manzoore Elahi M. Soudagar, and Mohammad Nur-E-Alam
Towards robust multimodal land use classification: A convolutional embedded transformer, Muhammad Zia Ur Rehman, Syed Mohammed Shamsul Islam, Anwaar Ulhaq, David Blake, and Naeem Janjua
Comprehensive assessment instruments for place-based sustainable agriculture: A scoping review, Rebecca Voisin, Stephanie Godrich, David Blake, Ros Sambell, Saranne Herrington, Janine Joyce, Pierre Horwitz, and Amanda Devine
Enhancing nutrition information utilisation, confidence, and role legitimacy and adequacy among early childhood education professionals through evidence-based online training, Ruth Wallace, Ros Sambell, Shih Ching Fu, Johnny Lo, Elizabeth J. Cook, and Amanda Devine
DailyDVS-200: A comprehensive benchmark dataset for event-based action recognition, Qi Wang, Zhou Xu, Yuming Lin, Jingtao Ye, Hongsheng Li, Guangming Zhu, Syed Afaq Ali Shah, Mohammed Bennamoun, and Liang Zhang
Half of the habitat of Australia's highly imperilled narrow-range species is outside protected areas, Michelle Ward, Martine Maron, Jeremy S. Simmonds, Mark Lintermans, Nick S. Whiterod, David G. Chapple, Hugh P. Possingham, Sarah M. Legge, Rachael V. Gallagher, Brendan A. Wintle, Samantha Vine, Kita Ashman, Conrad J. Hoskin, Stephen T. Garnett, John C.Z. Woinarski, Ben C. Scheele, Cerin Loane, James A. Fitzsimons, Romola R. Stewart, Ayesha I.T. Tulloch, Isabel T. Hyman, Kate Pearce, Allan H. Burbidge, Tarmo A. Raadik, Gerald Kuchling, and Arthur Georges
Exploring the factors driving the success of urban-exploiting spiders, Nikolas J.C. Willmott, Bob B.M. Wong, Kathryn B. McNamara, Therésa M. Jones, and Elizabeth C. Lowe
Review of applications of deep learning in veterinary diagnostics and animal health, Sam Xiao, Navneet K. Dhand, Zhiyong Wang, Kun Hu, Peter C. Thomson, John K. House, and Mehar S. Khatkar
Enhancing object recognition: The role of object knowledge decomposition and component-labeled datasets, Nuoye Xiong, Ning Wang, Hongsheng Li, Guangming Zhu, Liang Zhang, Syed Afaq Ali Shah, and Mohammed Bennamoun
Performance analysis of STAR-RIS aided RSMA system with hardware impairment, Xiangbin Yu, Fanyu Kong, and Shihao Yan
Covert performance of NOMA system with hardware impairments in Nakagami fading channel, Xiangbin Yu, Keyu Shen, Yun Rui, Shihao Yan, Guoqing Jia, and Mohsen Guizani
Seagrass carbon stocks and fluxes in the marine and coastal protected area of Kerkennah Archipelago, East Tunisia, R. Zakhama-Sraieb, I. Zribi, N. Abdelkader, F. Charfi-Cheikhrouha, A. Ben Hmida, Y. R. Sghaier, M. Soler, N. Piñeiro-Juncal, Miguel-Angel Mateo, and Oscar Serrano
Two-phase covert communication with a wireless-powered jammer by RIS, Dengfeng Zhang, Jia Zhang, Qi Yuan, Jiande Sun, and Shihao Yan
Cultural influences, experiences and interventions targeting self-management behaviours for prediabetes or type 2 diabetes in first-generation immigrants: A scoping review, Min Zhang, Kirsten Coppell, Johnny Lo, and Lisa Whitehead
Deep learning of the particulate and mineral-associated organic carbon fractions using a compositional transform and mid-infrared spectroscopy, Mingxi Zhang, Zefang Shen, Lewis Walden, Farid Sepanta, Zhongkui Luo, Lei Gao, Oscar Serrano, and Raphael A. Viscarra Rossel
Predicting falls through muscle weakness from a single whole body image: A multimodal contrastive learning framework, Xia Zhang, Afsah Saleem, Zaid Ilyas, David Suter, Uzair Nadeem, Richard L. Prince, Kun Zhu, Joshua R. Lewis, Marc Sim, and Syed Zulqarnain Gilani
Exploring and validating associations between six systemic inflammatory indices and ischemic stroke in a middle-aged and old Chinese population, Yulu Zheng, Zheng Guo, Jingzheng Wang, Zhiyuan Wu, Xiaolin Chen, Yahong Zhu, Guangle Shan, Haifeng Hou, and Xingang Li
Distinguishing impacts of climate change and human activities on phytoplankton communities in remote coastal waters: A paleoecological perspective, Chongran Zhou, Dongyan Liu, John Keesing, Pere Masqué, and Zineng Yuan
Theses from 2024
Detecting diabetic foot osteomyelitis in plain radiographic images using Deep Learning, Brandon Abela
An exploration of diabetic foot osteomyelitis x-ray data for deep learning applications, Brandon Abela, Martin Masek, Jumana Abu-Khalaf, David Suter, and Ashu Gupta
Seagrass classification using unsupervised curriculum learning (UCL), Nosheen Abid, Md Kislu Noman, György Kovács, Syed Mohammed Shamsul Islam, Tosin Adewumi, Paul Lavery, Faisal Shafait, and Marcus Liwicki
Predictive modelling of metabolic syndrome in Ghanaian diabetic patients: An ensemble machine learning approach, Emmanuel Acheampong, Eric Adua, Christian Obirikorang, Enoch Odame Anto, Emmanuel Peprah-Yamoah, Yaa Obirikorang, Evans Adu Asamoah, Victor Opoku-Yamoah, Michael Nyantakyi, John Taylor, Tonnies Abeku Buckman, Maryam Yakubu, and Ebenezer Afrifa-Yamoah
Leveraging supervised machine learning for determining the link between suboptimal health status and the prognosis of chronic diseases, Eric Adua, Ebenezer Afrifa-Yamoah, and Emmanuel A. Kolog
Towards sustainable resource management: Graph modelling insights from Ghana's oil and gas local content ecosystem, Ebenezer Afrifa-Yamoah
Ecology of emergency care in lower-tier healthcare providers in Ghana: An empirical data-driven Bayesian network analytical approach, Ebenezer Afrifa-Yamoah, Victor F. Nunfam, Bernard A. Kwanin, and Kwasi Frimpong
Fostering trust through user interface design in multi-drone search and rescue, Johanna Ahlskog, Maria Theresa Bahodi, Artur Lugmayr, and Timothy Merritt
Ransomware evolution, Mohiuddin Ahmed
An investigation on cyber espionage ecosystem, Mohiuddin Ahmed and Matthew Gaber
EDSUCh: A robust ensemble data summarization method for effective medical diagnosis, Mohiuddin Ahmed and A. N. M. B. Rashid
Research trends in production, separation, and identification of bioactive peptides from fungi: A critical review, Tanvir Ahmed, Angéla Juhász, Utpal Bose, Netsanet Shiferaw Terefe, and Michelle L. Colgrave
An efficient hybrid extreme learning machine and evolutionary framework with applications for medical diagnosis, Ali Al Bataineh, Seyed M. J. Jalali, Seyed J. Mousavirad, Amirmehdi Yazdani, Syed M. S. Islam, and Abbas Khosravi
Screen-printed wearable sensors for continuous respiratory rate monitoring: Fabrication, clinical evaluation, and point-of-care potential, Ala’aldeen Al-Halhouli, Ahmed Albagdady, Alexander Rabadi, Musab Hamdan, Jumana Abu-Khalaf, and Mahmoud Abu-Abeeleh
Enhancing soil texture and bulk density mapping using soil grids and machine learning: A comparative analysis with observed data, Aram Ali, Ismael O. Ismael, Hewa T. Mustafa, Diman Krwanji, and Akram O. Esmail
Non-invasive health systems based on advanced biomedical signal and image processing, Adel Al-Jumaily, Paolo Crippa, Ali Mansour, and Claudio Turchetti
Angiogenic growth factors, oxidative stress and haematobiochemical measures as predictors of preeclampsia with and without foetal growth restriction: A case-control study in a Ghanaian population, Enoch O. Anto, Wina I. O. Boadu, Charity Hughes, Emmanuel E. Korsah, Joseph Frimpong, Ezekiel Ansah, Augustine Tawiah, Valentine C. K. T. Tamakloe, Emmanuel Acheampong, Evans A. Asamoah, Stephen Opoku, Elizabeth Aboagye, Etwi M. Albright, Eric Adua, Ebenezer Afrifa-Yamoah, Agartha O. Anto, Max E. Annani-Akollor, Yaw A. Wiafe, and Christian Obirikorang
Unmanaged grasslands are a reservoir of Alternaria and other important fungal species with differing emission patterns, Godfrey Philliam Apangu, Carl Alexander Frisk, Geoffrey M.Y. Petch, Mary Hanson, and Carsten Ambelas Skjøth
Patterns of carbon and nitrogen accumulation in seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) meadows of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, Eugenia T. Apostolaki, Paul S. Lavery, Victoria Litsi-Mizan, Eduard Serrano, Karina Inostroza, Vasilis Gerakaris, Thanos Dailianis, Julius Glampedakis, Tara Holitzki, Erik Johnson, Miguel A. Mateo, and Oscar Serrano
Assessment design and practices toward holistic learning of higher education students: Empirical evidence via path analysis modelling approach, Ebenezer Arifa-Yamoah, Esther Adama, Amanda Graf, and Kwadwo Adusei-Asante
Security through influence over mandate, Josh Armitage and Oliver Guidetti
Predation rates on flatback turtle Natator depressus eggs and hatchlings at an island rookery, Casper Avenant, Sabrina Fossette, Scott Whiting, and Glenn A. Hyndes
Epidemiological model of the regional distribution and analysis of hepatitis B in Ghana: A sub-saharan African country, Kwaafo Akoto Awuah-Mensah, Ute Mueller, and Steven Richardson
Collectively advancing deep learning for animal detection in drone imagery: Successes, challenges, and research gaps, Daniel Axford, Ferdous Sohel, Mathew A. Vanderklift, and Amanda J. Hodgson
Aloe vera gel coating extends marketability and maintains quality by reducing rachis browning and preserving bioactive compounds of commercial table grape cultivars, Saqib Ayyub, Ahmad Sattar Khan, Raheel Anwar, Sajid Ali, and Mahmood Ul Hasan
From grain to malt: Tracking changes of ultra-low-gluten barley storage proteins after malting, Mahya Bahmani, Angéla Juhász, Utpal Bos, Mitchell G. Nye-Wood, Malcolm Blundell, Crispin A. Howitt, and Michelle L. Colgrave
Love bites? Pre-copulatory behaviours of whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) at Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia, Christine Barry, Emily Lester, Micheal P. Doane, Luciana C. Ferreira, Michele Thums, Adrian C. Gleiss, and Mark G. Meekan
Beyond aesthetics to elevate sustainable architectures: Selective micropatterning enhanced efficiency in colored photovoltaic modules, Mohammad Khairul Basher, Mohammad Nur-E-Alam, Kamal Alameh, and Steven Hinckley
The food and habitat effects of detrital kelp as a trophic subsidy to seagrass-inhabiting mesograzers, Jessica Billinghurst
Seagrass resilience: Exploring recovery trajectories, succession and facilitation, Samuel P. Billinghurst
Integrating soil microbial communities into fundamental ecology, conservation, and restoration: examples from Australia, Christina Birnbaum, John Dearnaley, Eleonora Egidi, Adam Frew, Anna Hopkins, Jeff Powell, Carlos Aguilar-Trigueros, Craig Liddicoat, Felipe Albornoz, Meike K. Heuck, Frederick A. Dadzie, Luke Florence, Pankaj Singh, Tomas Mansfield, Kumari Rajapaksha, Jana Stewart, Paola Rallo, Shawn D. Peddle, and Giancarlo Chiarenza
Domain adaptation for classifying spontaneous smile videos, Amrijit Biswas, Md Zakir Hossain, Yan Yang, Syed Mohammed Shamsul Islam, Tom Gedeon, and Shafin Rahman
Microbes of biotechnological importance in acidic saline lakes in the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia, Katelyn Boase, Talitha Santini, and Elizabeth Watkin
Chickpea proteome analysis reveals genotype-dependent variations associated with seed traits, Utpal Bose, Sally Buck, Xavier Sirault, Mahya Bahmani, Keren Byrne, Sally Stockwell, Sean McWilliam, Michelle Colgrave, Angéla Juhász, and Jean Philippe Ral
Short-term soil fungal community dynamics following fire in mediterranean climate-type banksia woodlands, Aaron J. Brace, Katinka X. Ruthrof, Ben P. Miller, Joseph B. Fontaine, and Anna J.M. Hopkins
Shifting soil fungal communities in response to fire and weed management in urban Banksia woodlands, Aaron Justin Brace
Long-term climatic stability drives accumulation and maintenance of divergent freshwater fish lineages in a temperate biodiversity hotspot, Sean James Buckley, Chris J. Brauer, Peter J. Unmack, Michael P. Hammer, Mark Adams, Stephen J. Beatty, David L. Morgan, and Luciano B. Beheregaray
IoMT security: A semantic framework for vulnerability detection in remote patient monitoring, Kulsoom Saima Bughio
Novel knowledge graph-based modeling for vulnerability detection in the Internet of Medical Things, Kulsoom Saima Bughio, David Michael Cook, and Syed Afaq Ali Shah
Developing a novel ontology for cybersecurity in internet of medical things-enabled remote patient monitoring, Kulsoom S. Bughio, David M. Cook, and Syed A. A. Shah
Investigating the intersections of vulnerability detection and IoMTs in healthcare, a scoping review protocol for remote patient monitoring, Kulsoom S. Bughio, David M. Cook, and Syed Afaq Shah
GenAI in rule-based systems for IoMT security: Testing and evaluation, Kulsoom S. Bughio, David M. Cook, and Syed Afaq A. Shah
Agriculture 4.0 and beyond: Evaluating cyber threat intelligence sources and techniques in smart farming ecosystems, Hang T. Bui, Hamed Aboutorab, Arash Mahboubi, Yansong Gao, Nazatul H. Sultan, Aufeef Chauhan, Mohammad Z. Parvez, Michael Bewong, Rafiqul Islam, Zahid Islam, Seyit A. Camtepe, Praveen Gauravaram, Dineshkumar Singh, M. A. Babar, and Shihao Yan
Spatial characterisation and drivers of catch and effort in highly specialised recreational pelagic fisheries, Shannon J. Burchert, Ebenezer Afrifa-Yamoah, Karina L. Ryan, Ute Mueller, and Glenn A. Hyndes
Views on biosecurity and food security as we work toward reconciling an approach that addresses two global problems for a sustainable outcome, Marnie L. Campbell, Chad L. Hewitt, and Chi T.U. Le
Critical coastal values impacted by marine bioinvasions: What the public value about marine and coastal areas and what is at stake?, Marnie L. Campbell, Chi T.U. Le, and Chad L. Hewitt
Identifying and filling critical knowledge gaps can optimize financial viability of blue carbon projects in tidal wetlands, Tim J.B. Carruthers, S. Beaux Jones, Megan K. Terrell, Jonathan F. Scheibly, Brendan J. Player, Valerie A. Black, Justin R. Ehrenwerth, Patrick D. Biber, Rod M. Connolly, Steve Crooks, Jason P. Curole, Kelly M. Darnell, Alyssa M. Dausman, Allison L. DeJong, Shawn M. Doyle, Christopher R. Esposito, Daniel A. Friess, James W. Fourqurean, Ioannis Y. Georgiou, Gabriel D. Grimsditch, Songjie He, Eva R. Hillmann, Guerry O. Holm, Jennifer Howard, Hoonshin Jung, Stacy D. Jupiter, and Paul S. Lavery
Achieving covert communication with a probabilistic jamming strategy, Xun Chen, Fujun Gao, Min Qiu, Jia Zhang, Feng Shu, and Shihao Yan
Intelligent reflecting surface-assisted passive covert wireless detection, Zhilin Chen, Shihao Yan, Xiaobo Zhou, Feng Shu, and Derrick W. K. Ng
IRS-Assisted covert communication with a BPP distributed warden outside a safety zone, Zhilin Chen, Shihao Yan, Xiaobo Zhou, Feng Shu, Jiande Sun, and Derrick Wing Kwan Ng
Automatic detection of peripheral facial landmarks using 3D facial data, Mehraan Chowdhury, Mohammed Bennamoun, Farid Boussaid, and Syed Mohammed Shamsul Islam
Single domain generalization via normalised cross-correlation based convolutions, Weiqin Chuah, Ruwan Tennakoon, Reza Hoseinnezhad, David Suter, and Alireza Bab-Hadiashar
Spatial and environmental drivers of temperate estuarine archaeal communities, Emily Cocksedge, Michael Stat, Alessandra L. Suzzi, Troy F. Gaston, and Megan J. Huggett
Diel movement patterns in nominally nocturnal coral reef fishes (Haemulidae and Lutjanidae): Intra vs. Interspecific variation, William P. Collins, David R. Bellwood, Renato A. Morais, Nathan J. Waltham, and Alexandre C. Siqueira
Cruciferous vegetables lower blood pressure in adults with mildly elevated blood pressure in a randomized, controlled, crossover trial: The VEgetableS for vaScular hEaLth (VESSEL) study, Emma L. Connolly, Alex H. Liu, Simone Radavelli-Bagatini, Armaghan Shafaei, Mary C. Boyce, Lisa G. Wood, Lyn McCahon, Henrietta Koch, Marc Sim, Caroline R. Hill, Benjamin H. Parmenter, Nicola P. Bondonno, Amanda Devine, Kevin D. Croft, Richard Mithen, Seng Khee Gan, Carl J. Schultz, Richard J. Woodman, Catherine P. Bondonno, Joshua R. Lewis, Jonathan M. Hodgson, and Lauren C. Blekkenhorst
Analysis of element yield, bacterial community structure and the impact of carbon sources for bioleaching rare earth elements from high grade monazite, Melissa K. Corbett, April Gifford, Nick Fimognari, and Elizabeth L. J. Watkin
Human-Empathy Accessibility Learning (HEAL) intervention model towards critical soft skills development for career readiness among computing undergraduate students, Jami Cotler, Eszter Kiss, Dmitry Burshteyn, and Eben Afrifa-Yamoah
Analysing cyber-physical attacks: The human operator challenge in mining, Osmar Couto and Ahmed Ibrahim
A 2,000-year record of eelgrass (zostera marina L.) colonization shows substantial gains in blue carbon storage and nutrient retention, Martin Dahl, Martin Gullström, Irene Bernabeu, Oscar Serrano, Carmen Leiva-Dueñas, Hans W. Linderholm, Maria E. Asplund, Mats Björk, Tinghai Ou, J. Robin Svensson, Elinor Andrén, Thomas Andrén, Sanne Bergman, Sara Braun, Anneli Eklöf, Zilvinas Ežerinskis, Andrius Garbaras, Petter Hällberg, Elin Löfgren, Malin E. Kylander, Pere Masqué, Justina Šapolaitė, Rienk Smittenberg, and Miguel A. Mateo
Ransomware: Impacts in healthcare critical infrastructure, Martin Dart
Cyber security risk management in large Australian healthcare systems - a mixed methods study, Martin J. Dart
Enhancing resilience in the Australian security vetting process: Application of the Psycho-Social Resources for Resilience Scale – Vetting (PRRS-V), Alan James Jnr Davies
Long-term post-fire succession of reptiles in an urban remnant in south-western Australia, Robert A. Davis and Michael D. Craig
Liked to death: The impacts of social media and photography on biodiversity, Robert A. Davis, Claire Greenwell, Belinda J. Davis, and Philip W. Bateman
Testing multiple environmental DNA substrates for detection of the cryptic and critically endangered burrowing freshwater crayfish engaewa pseudoreducta, Kathryn L. Dawkins, Paul Nevill, Brian Chambers, Shane Herbert, and Quinton F. Burnham
Understanding how Indigenous knowledge contributes to climate change adaptation and resilience: A systematic literature review, Tashi Dorji, Kinley Rinchen, Angus Morrison-Saunders, David Blake, Vicki Banham, and Sonam Pelden
AI-analyst: An AI-assisted SDLC analysis framework for business cost optimization, Nuruzzaman Faruqui, Priyabrata Thatoi, Rohit Choudhary, Ivana Roncevic, Hamed Alqahtani, Iqbal H. Sarker, and Shapla Khanam
Environmental DNA identifies coastal plant community shift 1,000 years ago in Torrens Island, South Australia, Nicole R. Foster, Alice R. Jones, Oscar Serrano, Anna Lafratta, Paul S. Lavery, Kor-Jent van Dijk, Ed Biffin, Bronwyn M. Gillanders, Jennifer Young, Pere Masque, Patricia S. Gadd, Geraldine E. Jacobsen, Atun Zawadzki, Andria Greene, and Michelle Waycott
Locally varying geostatistical machine learning for spatial prediction, Francky Fouedjio and Emet Arya
Do realistic avatars make virtual reality better? Examining human-like avatars for VR social interactions, Alan D. Fraser, Isabella Branson, Ross C. Hollett, Craig P. Speelman, and Shane L. Rogers
Spatial and temporal variation in population genetic diversity in seagrasses and the implications for resilience, Anna Maria Frouws
Significant carbonate burial in The Bahamas seagrass ecosystem, Chuancheng Fu, Sofia Frappi, Michelle Nicole Havlik, Wells Howe, S. David Harris, Elisa Laiolo, Austin J. Gallagher, Pere Masque, and Carlos M. Duarte
Malware detection with artificial intelligence: A systematic literature review, Matthew G. Gaber, Mohiuddin Ahmed, and Helge Janicke