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Released eight times per year, the newsletter aims to highlight recent research outputs, events, partnerships, and opportunities across SUAD.

Recent Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLES

• Barman, M., Panja, M., Chakraborty, T., et al - Epidemic-guided deep learning for spatiotemporal forecasting of tuberculosis outbreak. Machine Learning, 2025, 114 (10), pp.213. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10994-025-06848-4

• Beveridge, I., et al- The influence of personal and pro-social concerns on consumers’ evaluation of meat substitutes. British Food Journal, 2025, pp.1-27. https://doi.org/10.1108/BFJ-09-2024-0923 

• Bouthiba, F. - L’interculturalité dans la méthode FLE L’Atelier A1 : Focus sur quelques dimensions culturelles. Studii de gramatică contrastivă. Studii de gramatică contrastivă, 2025, pp.45-57. Https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=1355114 

• Chakraborty, T., et al - Recent changes in spatiotemporal patterns of heat extremes in South Asia. npj climate and atmospheric science, 2025, 8 (1), pp.293. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-025-01146-1

• Chaterera-Zambuko, F. - Environmental Sustainability in the United Arab Emirates’ Digital Records Management Landscape: An Analysis of Strategies and Policies. Sustainability, 2025, 17 (14), pp.6266. https://doi.org/10.3390/su17146266

• Critelli, M., et al- Il “Moving Panorama” in IIIF. Usi di standard e di tecniche VR360 per un approccio alla museografia digitale; The ‘Moving Panorama’ in IIIF. Applications of standards and VR360 techniques in approaching Digital Museography. Umanistica digitale, 2025, 9 (20), pp.261-287. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2532-8816/21253

• El-Dakkak, O., et al - Power-law correction in the probability density function of the critical Ising magnetization. Mathematical Physics, Analysis and Geometry, 2025, 28 (3), pp.22. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11040-025-09517-z

• Epstein, A. - EU Environmental Law in the Digital Age: A Critical Outlook on the Twin Transition’s Legal Structure. European Journal of Risk Regulation, 2025, pp.1-17. https://doi.org/10.1017/err.2025.10029

• Feng, S., et al - Learning with Mandelbrot and Julia: Classification of fractal sets using machine learning. Nonlinear Dynamics, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11071-025-11697-w

• Hadid, A. et al - Integrating perceptual quality analysis and caption-based features for robust deepfake video detection. Computers and Electrical Engineering, 2025, 128 (Part A), pp.110699. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compeleceng.2025.110699 

• Kabata, V. - Towards enhanced Museum Services: The application of Artificial Intelligence at the Louvre museum, Abu Dhabi. Revue Électronique Suisse de Science de l'Information, 2025. https://doi.org/10.55790/journals/ressi.2025.e1824

• Li, L., et al - Sulfur confinement via C–S bonding for stable sulfur conversion in aqueous Zn–S batteries. Chemical Communications, 2025, 61, pp.11203-11206. https://doi.org/10.1039/d5cc01471a

• Li, L., et al - A solid-solution approach for controllable photomechanical crystalline materials. Nature Communications, 2025, 16 (1), pp.6647. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-61723-z

• Li, L., et al- Colossal Thermal Expansion and Continuous Rolling Locomotion of a Robust Flexible Molecular Single Crystal. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2025, 147 (26), pp.22488-22497. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c02006 

• Li, L., et al - Cryogenically Flexible Phosphorescent Organic Crystals that Transmit Self-Sustained Persistent Luminescence with Spatiotemporal Control. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2025, 147 (26), pp.22961-22971. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c05733

• Masi, G., et al - Leveraging model explainability and fine-grained cutmix augmentation for robust detection of apricot diseases in UAV images. Expert Systems with Applications, 2026, 296, pp.128946. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2025.128946 

• Masi, G., et al - Women in Robotics: Insights Into the First International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems in the Middle East [Women in Engineering]. IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, 2025, 32 (3), pp.205-209. https://doi.org/10.1109/MRA.2025.3587857 

• Motte-Baumvol, J., et al - Human Mobility and Socio-environmental Vulnerability: The Protection of Environmental Displacees in Rio Grande do Sul in Light of International Instruments on Loss and Damage. Brazilian Journal of Law and Public Policy, 2025, 22 (1). https://doi.org/10.5102/rdi.v22i1.9878

• Motte-Baumvol, B., et al - Geodiversity and Geoparks: french Inspirations for the Quadrilátero Ferrífero, Brazil; Geodiversidade e geoparques: inspirações francesas para o Quadrilátero Ferrífero, Brasil. Confins, 2025, 67. https://doi.org/10.4000/149h5

• Pavlopoulos, K. et al- Paleosols as indicators for late Pleistocene landscape dynamics in Crete (Greece). Geoderma, 2025, 461, pp.117450. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2025.117450

• Pavlopoulos, K., et al. - Quaternary Glaciation in the Mountains of Crete, Greece. Quaternary Science Reviews, 2025, 369 (109598). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2025.109598

• Slimani, A., et al - Enhancing nanostructure and energy harvesting efficiency in sustainable BCZT piezoelectric materials through calcination temperature optimization. Ceramics International, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ceramint.2025.08.381

• Svard, P., et al - Implementing digital inclusion for Students with Disabilities at the University of Nairobi Library: a practical case study. Library Hi Tech News, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1108/LHTN-07-2025-0121 

BOOK

Syvilay, D., et al - Notre-Dame de Paris : Une lecture inédite par les signes lapidaires. SAFRAN, Précisions, pp.172, 2025. 978-2-87457-152-7.

BOOK CHAPTER

• Catelan, N. - "Le droit de la cybersécurité". dans Mélanie Clement-Fontaine et Nathalie Martial-Braz (éd.), Droit européen du numérique - Approche jurisprudentielle (pp. 619-639). Bruylant, 978-2802773054, 2025.

• Mutsagondo, S. - "Towards Green Information Management: Saving Paper by Implementing Enterprise Content Management Solutions in Archival Institutions". In Strengthening information and knowledge management paradigms in the era of advanced technologies (pp. 204-230), 978-99968-73-76-8, 2025.

• Haan, B. - « Un chaos maîtrisé ? La cour de France, arène du jeu politique et confessionnel au début des guerres de Religion », dans Mathieu da Vinha, Maciej Forycki et Marc Zuili (éd.), Polyhistor Europaeus. Mélanges offerts à Chantal Grell, Brepols, Turnhout, 2025 (De Diversis Artibus, 112), t. 2, p. 13-30. https://doi.org/10.1484/M.DDA-EB.5.137843

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

• Svard, P. - An Information Management Landscape With Opportunities and Challenges: Are Information Professionals Equipped?. 2025.

• Alhadhrami, E., et al - Explainable AI-Driven Radar Tracking: Clutter Filtering and Feature Analysis with LSTMS. 2025. https://doi.org/10.23919/IRS64527.2025.11046075

• Masi, G., et al - LSTM-Enhanced Predictive Display for Wireless Underwater Teleoperation Under Time Delays. 2025. https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANS58557.2025.11104636

• Masi, G., et al - SwarmSwIM: A Simulator for Underwater Swarms of Robots. 2025. https://doi.org/10.1109/OCEANS58557.2025.11104732 

CONFERENCE PAPERS

• Germoni, K. - Aiguiser la conscience méta/épilinguistique des apprenants de FLE au miroir de l'écriture translingue de soi. XVIe Congrès mondial de la FIPF. Jul 2025, Besançon, France

• Sauvignon, D. - Comment utiliser les fresques pédagogiques environnementales dans l'apprentissage du français. XVIe Congrès mondial de la FIPF. Jul 2025, Besançon, France

• Ferhani, B., et al - Dark Digital Leadership: How technology facilitates destructive leadership behaviors? 6th RIPCO Research Day on Organizational Behavior Leadership: Between Promises and Disillusionment, RIPCO, May 2025, Paris, France.

• Vergnes, J., Adadain, S. - Du corps au langage : la pratique théâtrale au service du dialogue interculturel. XVIe Congrès mondial de la FIPF. Jul 2025, Besançon, France

• Vergnes, J. - Du Français Langue Etrangère au Français Langue d'Enseignement : replacer l'apprentissage de la langue au coeur du processus métacognitif, Communication orale. XVIe Congrès mondial de la FIPF. Jul 2025, Besançon, France

• Bourdeau, T. - Enseigner la variation en milieu hétéroglotte : enjeux et défis de l’implémentation d’un dispositif. XVIe Congrès mondial de la FIPF. Jul 2025, Besançon, France

• Bourdeau, T. - Entre attentes et réalité : impact de l’expérience vécue sur les émotions des apprenants. Colloque international ALADUN 2025 - Débuter une langue à l'université : diversité des expériences vécues.

• Béord, T. - Le métavers, nouvelle utopie de l'enseignement des langues ? Le cas des jeux en réalité virtuelle pour l'apprentissage du FLE à Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi. XVIe Congrès mondial de la FIPF. Jul 2025, Besançon, France

• Sauvignon, D. - Mener des ateliers de conversation avec des briques Lego en français langue étrangère. XVIe Congrès mondial de la FIPF. Jul 2025, Besançon, France

• Boufroukh, H. - Petits extraits, grandes idées : l'approche méthodologique TV5MONDE pour exploiter une ressource audiovisuelle authentique. XVIe Congrès mondial de la FIPF. Jul 2025, Besançon, France

• Chaveneau, C. - Representations of Emirati Mixedness on Social Media: Displaying Hybridness, Individuality or Blending in?. 6th Congress of the GIS Moyen Orient et Mondes Musulmans. Jun 2025, Strasbourg, France

• Boufroukh, H. - Utopies francophones et pratiques pédagogiques : approche exploratoire de l'enseignement de la production orale en contexte universitaire aux Émirats arabes unis. XVIe Congrès mondial de la FIPF. Jul 2025, Besançon, France

PRACTIONNER-ORIENTED ARTICLES

• Catelan, N. - Adolescences ?. Lexbase Pénal, 2025, 82
• Martial-Braz, N. - DMA - Silence on régule… et sanctionne !, Communication - Commerce électronique, n° 6, 2025

• Catelan, N., et al - Fusion-absorption : transmission des voies de recours à la société absorbante après fusion. Lexbase Pénal, 2025, 82

• Martial-Braz, N. - Intelligence artificielle - La vérité… toute la vérité numérique ?, Communication - Commerce électronique, n° 5, 2025

• Martial-Braz, N. - Notion de données personnelles - Principes fondamentaux du traitement - Donnée personnelle et transparence du traitement : ce que la loi permet, la transparence encadre, Communication - Commerce électronique, n°5, 2025

• Martial-Braz, N. - Publicité programmatique : le consentement en héritage ?. Communication - Commerce électronique, n° 7-8, 2025

• Martial-Braz, N. - Régulation numérique - Tous surveillés, même en tongs !, Communication - Commerce électronique, n° 9, 2025

PREPRINT ARTICLES

• Besher, D., Sengupta, A., Chakraborty, T. - Forecasting Climate Policy Uncertainty: Evidence from the United States. 2025. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.12276 

• Chakraborty, T., Besher, D., Panja, M., Sengupta, S. - Neural ARFIMA model for forecasting BRIC exchange rates with long memory under oil shocks and policy uncertainties. 2025. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2509.06697 

• Chakraborty, T., et al - Assessing Engineering Student Perceptions of Introductory CS Courses in an Indian Context. 2025. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2508.06563 

• Chakraborty, T., et al - Universal Patterns in the Blockchain: Analysis of EOAs and Smart Contracts in ERC20 Token Networks. 2025. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2508.04671 

• Chakraborty, T., et al - Salt-Rock Creep Deformation Forecasting Using Deep Neural Networks and Analytical Models for Subsurface Energy Storage Applications. 2025. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2508.05248 

• Hadid, A., et al- C-DiffDet+: Fusing Global Scene Context with Generative Denoising for High-Fidelity Object Detection. 2025. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2509.00578 

• Hadid, A., et al - CVPD at QIAS 2025 Shared Task: An Efficient Encoder-Based Approach for Islamic Inheritance Reasoning. 2025. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2509.00457 

• Hadid, A., et al - Enhanced Arabic Text Retrieval with Attentive Relevance Scoring. 2025. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.23404

• Hadid, A. et al - RAVID: Retrieval-Augmented Visual Detection: A Knowledge-Driven Approach for AI-Generated Image Identification. 2025. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2508.03967 

• Hadid, A. et al - Recent Advances in Medical Imaging Segmentation: A Survey. 2025. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2505.09274 

• Hadid, A., et al - SAViL-Det: Semantic-Aware Vision-Language Model for Multi-Script Text Detection. 2025. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.20188 

• Hadid, A., et al - SegDT: A Diffusion Transformer-Based Segmentation Model for Medical Imaging. 2025. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.15595 

• Mola, G., et al - Identification problems for anisotropic time-fractional subdiffusion equations. 2025. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.10315 

• Younes, G., et al - Symbolic and Numerical Tools for $L_{\infty}$-Norm Calculation. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2505.13980 

Spotlight on Research Excellence: Dr. Ivana Beveridge

Beveridge, Ivana, Prabhu, Jaideep, Blackburn, Katherine, and Berry, Christopher. (2025) “The influence of personal and pro-social concerns on consumers’ evaluation of meat substitutes” British Food Journal, https://doi.org/10.1108/BFJ-09-2024-0923 

Abstract 

Consumers’ reactions to meat substitutes are strikingly complex, according to recent research that analyzed over 33,000 Reddit conversations using textual analysis. Far from binary “pro” or “against” attitudes toward meat substitutes (or meat), individuals balance nuanced personal concerns such as taste, health, and price with pro-social motivators like culture, environmental impact, and animal welfare. These multiple concerns interactively influence evaluations, counterbalancing one another depending on context. For example, there is diversity within animal welfare interpretations: while committed vegans see it as avoiding meat completely, many meat eaters who care about animals define animal welfare as supporting small, family farms; they are ethically motivated by local or pasture-raised meat, distinguishing their choices from large-scale factory farming. Also, meat holds a strong symbolic meaning, often associated cultural identity, while choosing to reduce or forego meat is a counter-normative act that challenges established social norms. The study illustrates these notions with terms such as ‘franken meat’ or ‘zombie apocalypse’ affiliated with meat substitutes that challenge traditional food norms. Thus, no single message focused on health, animal welfare, culture, or environmental concerns alone can sway all consumers. Instead, effective marketing and policy interventions must address these intertwined concerns, using nuanced labeling and culturally sensitive branding. Understanding this complexity is key to advancing sustainable food choices.

About the author

Dr. Ivana Beveridge is Head of Marketing, Communications and Media Programme at SUAD. Her research interests include sustainable food, intercultural consumer behavior, and energy transition. Her food-related research focuses on the sustainability and efficiency of food systems, exploring how advanced technologies such as blockchain can enhance system efficiency, especially upstream with benefits for the farmers. She also studies the influence of societal and personal factors on the adoption of novel food categories and examines how adopting sustainable food diets can influence broader sustainable lifestyles and anti-consumption. Ivana also has industry experience with global marketing agencies, working with a diverse client portfolio that includes Fortune 100 companies, governments, and startups. She has a PhD from Sorbonne University, France.

International Conference Participation

Past Conferences (July–September 2025)

XVIe Congrès mondial de la FIPF (10–17 July 2025, Besançon, France)

• Karine Germoni
• Julia Peres Vergnes
• Tifany Bourdeau
• Hajiba Ankach Boufroukh
• David Sauvignon
• Théry Béord
• Salah-Eddine Adadain

Giulia De Masi, International Conference of Complex Systems, 1 Sep 2025, Nantes, France 

Beatriz Garcia, Global Climate Action in the Trump 2.0 Era, 3 Sep 2025, Singapore, Singapore

Aude-Solveig Epstein, TEDE project (Transition Écologique du Droit Économique), 16 Sep 2025, Paris, France

Ahmed Slimani, International Workshop on Multiscale, Multiphysics, and Multidisciplinary Research on Materials and Structures (m3MS), 24 Sep 2025, Singapore, Singapore

Eliane Bsaibess, m3MS Workshop, 24 Sep 2025, Singapore, Singapore

Joumana ElRifai, m3MS Workshop, 24 Sep 2025, Singapore, Singapore

Yann Rodier, La Méditerranée intranquille (XVI–XXIe siècles), 25 Sep 2025, Paris, France 

Upcoming Conferences (October–November 2025)

John Rogove, La constitution des entités collectives: la constitution des nations, 5–8 Oct 2025, Paris, France

Billel Ferhani, Le Réseau International de recherche sur les Organisations et le Développement Durable (RIODD), 8 Oct 2025, Montpellier, France

Melanie Clément-Fontaine, Les communs fonciers enfin accueillis par la puissance publique ?, 17 Oct 2025, Paris, France

Nicolas Catelan, Congrès de l'Association française de droit pénal, 16 Oct 2025, Toulouse, France

Victor Kabata, Data for Policy 2025, Asia-Pacific Conference, 23 Oct 2025, Shanghai, China

Ahmed Slimani, ICMM2025 Satellite Meeting on Spin Crossover Materials, 23–24 Oct 2025, Paris, France

Proscovia Svard, Study Visit and Workshop, 21–23 Oct 2025, Warsaw, Poland 

Forget Chaterera-Zambuko, International Council on Archives Congress, 27 Oct 2025, Barcelona, Spain

Liah Shonhe, International Archives Congress – ICA Barcelona 2025, 27 Oct 2025, Barcelona, Spain

Mehluli Masuku, Tenth International Conference on Informatics and Assistive Technologies for Health-Care, Medical Support and Wellbeing, 26 Oct 2025, Barcelona, Spain

Georgia Constantinou, XIIIe colloque international du CODFREURCOR Français et histoire, 6 Nov 2025, Sofia, Bulgaria

Karine Germoni, PAMLA 2025 – “Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion”, 20 Nov 2025, San Francisco, United States 

Upcoming events

SAFIR Events

• 14 October 2025: Advancing Decarbonization and Innovation in Shipping and Marine Biodiversity through Law, Policy, and AI – Dr. Beatriz Garcia

• 14 October 2025: Public Sector Records Management Symposium – Dr. Forget Chaterera-Zambuko

• 6–7 November 2025: Crossing Borders in the Arabian Peninsula – Dr. Clio Chaveneau

• 19 November 2025: Bridging Cities: Connectivity & Sustainability in the Dubai–Abu Dhabi Metro-Region – Dr. Benjamin Motte-Baumvol

• 20 November 2025: Paroles en action: Enjeux didactiques et interactionnels en classe de FLE – Dr. Tifany Bourdeau

• 26 November 2025: Second Annual Negotiation in the Middle East Conference: Negotiating to Bridge Cultures and Perspectives – Dr. Anja Merz

UAE Events

2nd Applied Research in Humanities & Social Sciences (ARHSS) Conference, titled “Future Society in the Age of AI”, organized by the University of Sharjah, will take place 10–12 February 2026. Abstract Submission Deadline: 20 December 2025, Conference website: https://conferences.sharjah.ac.ae/ords/f?p=152:5:14804632942272::NO:RP:P5_CONF_ID,P0_CONF_CODE,P0_CALLING_PAGE:363,ARHSS_25,4 

Research Funding Deadlines

Please note the following key dates: From 27 September 2025: Applications will be considered for the 2026 research budget only (for activities taking place after 1 January 2026).