Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University

Strategic Prevention of Occupational and Toxicological Risks in Moroccan Traditional Tanneries: From Risk Assessment to Operational Health and Safety Planning

The artisanal sector is a part of Morocco's second-largest employment and represents a major socioeconomic activity. However, it remains a major source of occupational exposure and environmental contamination, where preventive systems and regulatory enforcement are often insuffic...

A Dual-Stage Metaheuristic-Adam Optimization Framework for Structural LSTM Pruning: Application to Solar Energy Forecasting

Long short-term memory (LSTM) networks, a specialized class of Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), excel at capturing temporal dependencies in time-series data but face significant performance trade-offs due to manual architectural design and parameter redundancy. This study introd...

Self-regenerating photocatalytic water treatment systems: integrating cognitive AI control, bio-inspired self-healing, and thermoelectric energy harvesting

Conventional photocatalytic water treatment systems face persistent limitations in terms of catalyst deactivation, energy consumption, and adaptability to variable influent quality. This review examines the integration of three emerging technological domains, machine learning dri...

A sequential hybrid framework for medical feature selection using population transfer

Abstract Feature selection is a crucial preprocessing step in medical machine learning, where datasets frequently contain redundant, irrelevant, or highly correlated features. Although metaheuristic algorithms have shown promising results for wrapper-based feature selection, thei...

Tax Avoidance and Corporate Governance: Mapping the Intellectual Structure, Emerging Trends, and Future Research Frontiers

In spite of a considerable amount of attention being paid to the interaction between tax avoidance and corporate governance across the globe, this study aims to provide a detailed bibliometric evaluation concerning the productivity, performance, and intellectual structure of scie...

Phenolic Profiling and OECD-Guided Acute and Subacute Oral Toxicity Assessment of Cannabis sativa L. Seed Hydroethanolic Extract

Cannabis sativa L. seeds have been traditionally used in Moroccan folk medicine and are increasingly recognized as a valuable source of nutrients and bioactive phytochemicals with promising therapeutic properties. Despite their widespread traditional and nutritional use, scientif...

Asymmetric transmission of oil shocks and geopolitical risk to inflation in an energy-importing economy: multi-threshold evidence from Morocco

This study examines the effects of oil price shocks and geopolitical risk on inflation in Morocco, an energy-importing economy operating under a managed-float exchange-rate regime. Using monthly data from June 2007 to December 2025, the analysis employs a multiple-threshold nonli...

Neuropsychiatry genetics in Africa

Across Africa, rising mental health needs coincide with rapid advances in genomics, digital health and continental policy reform. Yet research into the genetic, environmental and social determinants of neuropsychiatric illness remains sparse and underfunded. This review argues th...

Perceptions of AI-assisted learning and learner development among Moroccan secondary school students

The rapid proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in education has fundamentally altered traditional learning paradigms, presenting both unprecedented opportunities for personalized support and novel academic challenges. This study aims to examine secondary school stu...

Enhanced simulated sunlight photocatalytic degradation over SnS/MgWO4 heterostructure through improved interfacial charge transfer

The contamination of water by organic dyes constitutes a major environmental challenge due to their good reusability under the tested conditions and toxicity. However, conventional photocatalysts exhibit low activity under simulated sunlight irradiation as well as rapid recombina...

Quantitative analysis of P2O5 in solid raw phosphate matrices using laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) for online mining industry monitoring

Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) is increasingly considered for real-time compositional monitoring in the mining industry, offering minimal sample preparation, multi-element capability, and sub-second analysis times. The growing global demand for fertilizers, combined...

An integrated Weibull–multi-criteria framework for the techno-economic assessment of green hydrogen: application to alkaline and PEM electrolysers across operational and emerging sites

An international comparative assessment of green hydrogen production is conducted to examine the influence of energy mix and electrolyser technology. Probabilistic wind modelling, industrial techno-economic optimisation, and multicriteria decision-making are integrated to identif...

A Pilot Head-to-Head Comparison of Two Bisulfite Conversion Kits for NGS-Based DNA Methylation Analysis of Liquid Biopsy Samples from Colorectal Cancer

Given the important role of early detection in improving cancer outcomes, epigenetic alterations, particularly DNA methylation, have emerged as powerful biomarkers for cancer screening and diagnosis. However, methylation profiling of cfDNA (circulating free DNA) presents particul...

Certified Hermite transmutation of C-regularized cosine functions: optimal scaling, intrinsic conditioning, and reconstruction from noisy heat snapshots

The Hermite expansion of an exponentially bounded $C$-regularized cosinefunction (Ameziane Hassani et al., 2024) reconstructs the whole solutionfamily of $u''=Wu$ from a single snapshot of the associated heat semigroup:a transmutation from diffusion to waves. We develop its compl...

A trustworthy evidential transformer with linear fusion and Gram-matrix distillation for efficient optic disc and cup segmentation

Accurate glaucoma screening relies on the vertical cup-to-disc ratio (VCDR), but automation remains challenging. A critical trade-off between computational efficiency, segmentation accuracy, and model trustworthiness hinders clinical deployment. Vision Transformers offer global c...

Rif identity and the Hirak: a legacy of resistance

This article analyses the Hirak movement in Morocco’s Rif through a collective memory lens situated within social movement theory. Drawing on twenty-three in-depth interviews with activists conducted between July and September 2022, the study reveals that although the movement in...

An empirical PLS-SEM study of the contribution of circular logistics and Industry 5.0 technologies to supply chain sustainability in Moroccan industrial sectors

Designing a sustainable supply chain within the emerging Industry 5.0 framework requires the exploration of new strategies and enabling technologies. Among the key drivers of supply chain sustainability across the economic, social, and environmental dimensions, circular logistics...

Biological Activities and In Silico Molecular Docking of an Aqueous Extract of Nigella sativa L. Seeds: A Focus on Antioxidant, Cytotoxic, and Diuretic Effects

Background: Nigella sativa L. is a medicinal plant widely recognized for its diverse pharmacological properties. This study aimed to evaluate the antioxidant, diuretic, and cytotoxic effects of an aqueous seed extract and its effects on selected biochemical parameters in rats. Th...

Essential oils and plant extracts for sustainable crop protection

In recent years, environmental issues related to the extensive use of synthetic pesticides have attracted great attention to finding sustainable methods of plant protection. Plant-derived materials, particularly essential oils (EOs) and plant extracts, are considered to be potent...

Advanced wound dressings embedded with green copper oxide nanoparticles from Inula viscosa : Formulation and in vitro functional performance

OBJECTIVE: to address critical challenges in wound care, specifically infection risks and coagulation disorders. SIGNIFICANCE: By utilizing bioactive plant compounds as natural capping agents, this research provides an eco-friendly, multitargeted processing technology that transf...