About the Authors

Nadeem A. Malik

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

nadeem_malik@cantab.net

Current address: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, United States

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, P.O. Box 5046, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia

Competing Interests

This work was funded by Saudi Arabian Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) through project number SB101011. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.