Eastern Mediterranean University

Rethinking the creative city in post-conflict historic cities: a scoping review and critical planning framework

Purpose The global Creative City paradigm, which is based on stable governance and market-driven growth, fails in the fragmented, traumatic conditions of post-conflict historic cities. This scoping review demonstrates the necessity of critically reinventing this paradigm for cont...

Thirsty clean energy: localized water stress and hydro-ecological tradeoffs in green hydrogen expansion

Green hydrogen is central to global decarbonization, yet its rapid expansion exposes a severe spatial contradiction: the regions possessing optimal renewable energy potential are overwhelmingly the planet’s most water-stressed and ecologically fragile landscapes. This review crit...

Chromatic Weak Lensing of a Generic Spherical Spacetime Through Millicharged Dark Matter Media

We study photon scattering in a transparent dispersive medium around a spherical geometry whose lapse contains independent inverse-radius terms through the fifth order. Free millicharged particles and neutral dark atoms provide microscopic response models through cold-plasma disp...

Association of Gastric Microbiota with Gastric Cancer in Patients Infected with Helicobacter pylori

Background: The association between Helicobacter pylori and the resident gastric microbiota plays a critical role in gastric carcinogenesis; however, the specific microbial alterations accompanying the transition from chronic inflammation to malignancy remain to be fully elucidat...

Intratumor microbiota in thyroid cancer: emerging insights into tumorigenesis and therapeutic potential

Thyroid cancer incidence has risen sharply in recent decades, yet the mechanisms underlying tumor development and progression remain incompletely understood. Recent evidence reveals that tumors, including thyroid malignancies, harbor distinct microbial communities, termed intratu...

Unpacking the pathways from green intellectual capital to green recovery performance: The power of employee voice and intrinsic motivation

Our paper proposes and tests a moderated mediation model that examines how green intellectual capital relates to green recovery performance, highlighting green promotive and prohibitive voice behaviors as mediators and intrinsic motivation to share knowledge as a moderator. Resul...

Flexural performance of plain concrete beams strengthened with vibrated conventional concrete and non‐vibrated SCC / FR ‐ SCC overlays

Abstract This study investigates the flexural strengthening of plain concrete beams using tensile‐face overlays of vibrated conventional concrete (CC), non‐vibrated self‐compacting concrete (SCC), and non‐vibrated fiber‐reinforced self‐compacting concrete (FR‐SCC). Locally develo...

Leadership Deflection and Systemic Inertia: Implications for Equity in Ethnically and Linguistically Diverse Schools

This article explores how school leaders working in ethnically and linguistically diverse schools operating within a centralized system position themselves in the face of tensions created at the meso- and micro-levels by the structural gaps at the macro level. Using data from a q...

Geometric and wave optics analysis of BTZ-like charged wormholes with disclinations

We study the geometric and wave-optical properties of a charged BTZ wormhole (BTZCWH) spacetime carrying disclinations. The metric function \(f(r)=1-b_0/r-\mathcal {Q}^2 r^2/4\) has two positive zeros, an inner throat \(r_0\) and an outer zero \(r_*\) ; the static Lorentzian desc...