This Y-chromosome study of Moroccan Jews, the largest conducted to date, analyzes the patrilineal origins of 288 men of genealogically verified Moroccan Jewish descent through the Avotaynu DNA Project, identifying 111 distinct founder lineages. The l...
Elaborating on the concept of heteroglossic stylization, this paper examines how a Moroccan comedian—Zakaria Ouarssam—stylizes Tamazight (Berber)-influenced Moroccan Arabic (MA) in order to evoke comedic personae associated with the count...
Lagoons are fragile marine ecosystems that are considerably affected by anthropogenic pollutants. We performed a spatiotemporal characterization of the microbiome of two Moroccan lagoons, Marchica and Oualidia, both classified as Ramsar sites, the fo...
The aim of this paper is to review the classification of the southern Moroccan dialects, advancing on the general description of these varieties. Recent descriptive studies provided us with new sources on the linguistic reality of southern Morocco, s...
The Moroccan coast is characterized by a diversity of climate, reflecting a great richness and diversity of fauna and flora. By this, marine microbiota plays a fundamental role in many biogeochemical processes, environmental modifications, and respon...
This study examines the main dimensions of collective intelligence within Moroccan associations, a sector in full expansion, which has more than 259,000 associations in 2022. The objective of the research is to identify, prioritize, and validate the...
The physicochemical traits and an array of organic and inorganic contaminants were monitored in monofloral honeys (i.e., jujube [Ziziphus lotus], sweet orange [Citrus sinensis], PGI Euphorbia [Euphorbia resinifera] and Globularia alyphum) from the Mo...
Background: Angiogenesis is a crucial process in the growth and proliferation of cancer, enabling tumor growth through the formation of new vasculature and the supply of nutrients and oxygen to growing malignant cells. This disease-promoting process...
23 May 2021
The recreational use of nitrous oxide (N2O; laughing gas) has largely expanded in recent years. Although incidental use of nitrous oxide hardly causes any health damage, problematic or heavy use of nitrous oxide can lead to serious adverse effects. A...
This article explores the formation and preservation of a distinctive “Moroccan Judaism” ethos, rooted in a connection to the homeland and an idealized Moroccan past. Through an examination of secularism, traditionalism, and modernity in...
This paper examines the role of Islamic sacred spaces in Spanish-Moroccan identity negotiations in contemporary Madrid, Spain. In doing so, I explore how these sacred sites produce diverse meanings and practices that resist the Spanish states hegemon...
This article examines the ethical and aesthetic stakes of cultural borrowing in fashion through the case of Yves Saint Laurent’s sustained engagement with Moroccan visual and material traditions. Drawing on postcolonial theory, fashion studies,...
With the rapid growth of LLM-based chatbots and their applications in fields such as health, education, and entertainment, there is a growing interest in developing systems capable of mimicking human behavior through conversation and natural language...
Gray mold, caused by Botrytis cinerea Pers. Fr. (teleomorph: Botryotinia fuckeliana), is a major disease affecting Moroccan vineyards. However, limited information is available on the natural populations of this pathogen. In this study, 82 single-spo...
Moroccan Law 55.19 aims to streamline administrative procedures, fostering trust between citizens and public administrations. To implement this law effectively and enhance public service quality, it is essential to use the Moroccan dialect to involve...
19 November 2021
The impact of COVID-19 on socio-economic fronts, public health related aspects and human interactions is undeniable. Amidst the social distancing protocols and the stay-at-home regulations imposed in several countries, citizens took to social media t...
8 June 2024
Background: The group climate within residential youth care institutions is considered a transactional process, both within a group of youth from various cultural backgrounds and between them and their group workers. The ongoing interaction between t...
Epidemiologic data support an association between diet and mutations in the Kirsten-ras (KRAS) gene involved in colorectal cancer (CRC) development. This study aimed to explore the associations between fat intake and KRAS mutations in codons 12 and 1...
Amidst significant reforms in Moroccan higher education designed to enhance educational quality and align with the evolving demands of the job market, this study examined the primary factors influencing students’ quality of life. Using a quanti...
This study empirically tests and compares the performances of three famous financial asset valuation models in the Moroccan stock exchange: CAPM, the Fama and French three-factor model, and the Fama and French five-factor model. Our sample considers...
Retrieval grounding is crucial for high-stakes administrative applications, since large language models remain prone to hallucinations when addressing legal questions. This problem is particularly relevant in Moroccan territorial governance, where of...
In this paper, we present a data-driven approach to forecasting stock prices in the Moroccan Stock Exchange. Our study tests three predictive models: ARIMA, LSTM, and transformers, applied to the historical stock price data of three prominent credit...
Offensive language detection is crucial for ensuring safe and inclusive digital environments. Identifying harmful content protects users and supports healthier online interactions. Despite advances in transformer-based models, particularly Large Lang...
This work provides an overview of the geological, geochemical, and metallogenic data available up to date on the Moroccan massive sulphide deposits, including some new results, and then discusses the evidences for the epigenetic and syngenetic hypoth...
Sentiment analysis is a crucial component of text mining and natural language processing (NLP), involving the evaluation and classification of text data based on its emotional tone, typically categorized as positive, negative, or neutral. While signi...
This essay argues that Holiday Powers’ s Moroccan Modernism (2025) offers a compelling case study for rethinking global modernist art from a decolonial perspective, highlighting Morocco’s unique creative, esthetic, and philosophical force...
This study examines the Land Surface Temperature (LST) trends in eight key Moroccan cities from 1990 to 2020, emphasizing the influential factors and disparities between coastal and inland areas. Geographically weighted regression (GWR), machine lear...
Teachers can be transgressive agents to foster the inclusion of the growing migrant population in European schools. However, they are often faced by many challenges working with the ethnic/religious diversity in their classrooms. Moreover, they somet...
Moroccan ICH is a rich domain that remains difficult to structure formally due to the heterogeneity of textual descriptions and the diversity of documented cultural practices. This article proposes a semi-automatic and adaptable methodological framew...
The maintenance of Moroccan barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) cultivation under rising saline conditions requires investigations to be performed. In the present work, we aimed to test the effect of salt stress on four Moroccan barley varieties (ADRAR, AMIR...
Moroccan oil shale ash (MOSA) represents an underutilized industrial by-product, particularly in the Rif region, where its high mineral content has often led to its neglect in value-added applications. This study highlights the successful conversion...
This study reported the volatile profile, the antimicrobial activity and the synergistic potential of essential oil (EO) from the Moroccan endemic Thymus atlanticus (Ball) Roussine, in combination with the antibiotics ciprofloxacin and fluconazole fo...
Semantic segmentation of architectural elements in cultural heritage sites lies at the intersection of computer vision and digital preservation. Moroccan historical monuments spanning mosques, madrasas, royal gates (babs), and mausoleums across Fez,...
Ganoderma lucidum is an extensively famous medicinal mushroom distributed worldwide. Despite being widely grown in Moroccan forests, there are no studies on its nutritional, nutraceutical and pharmaceutical values. Herein, the objective of this study...
Deep learning (DL)-oriented document processing is widely used in different fields for extraction, recognition, and classification processes from raw corpus of data. The article examines the application of deep learning approaches, based on different...
This study contributes to the body of knowledge on the Moroccan locust (Dociostaurus maroccanus) in Tajikistan, exploring its distribution, population dynamics, economic significance, and management. Our research covers the period from 2012 to 2023....
Background: this study aims to investigate the impact of supply chain risk management (SCRM) on supply chain resilience and robustness providing empirical evidence from an underexplored emerging economy. Methods: drawing on empirical data collected t...
Olive oil is an important component of Mediterranean diet widely, consumed thanks to its numerous health-healing properties. Its quality is dependent upon a set of factors (genotypic, environmental, agronomic practices, ripening, etc). These are well...
This paper addresses how gender and age, as macro-sociological factors, influence variation and change in the Northern Moroccan Arabic variety of Ouezzane, and how social meaning plays a role in this variation. To do so, it examines the high degree o...
In the context of an increasingly digitized global marketplace, this study seeks to shed light on its adoption in developing countries, focusing on Morocco. Applying logit, probit, and conditional mixed-process probit models to a sample of 807 Morocc...
Every day, countless individuals with hearing or speech disabilities struggle to communicate effectively, as their conditions limit conventional verbal interaction. For them, sign language becomes an essential and often sole tool for expressing thoug...
This study examined the impact of media multitasking on the reading habits and practices of 700 Moroccan English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers, utilizing a time-diary survey methodology. The findings reveal that a significant number of teacher...
Portfolio optimization is a pertinent topic of significant importance in the financial literature. During the portfolio construction, an investor confronts two important steps: portfolio selection and portfolio allocation. This article seeks to inves...
The aim of this work is to synthesize and characterize alginate–Moroccan clay bio-composite in order to improve our understanding of the adsorption of inorganic pollutants found in textile effluents. Characterization of the bio-composite used w...
The COVID-19 pandemic has reignited interest in traditional medicinal plants as potential therapeutic agents. This study examined the chemical composition, cytotoxicity, and antimicrobial activity of essential oils from six Moroccan medicinal plants,...
Pectinases are a group of enzymes widely applied in agri-food processes. This study aimed to isolate and characterize pectinase-producing yeasts and yeast-like fungi from soil and humus samples collected in a Moroccan argan forest, a region character...
This article explores the interplay between content, narrator, and lifeworld in narrative constructions concerning the meanings of pilgrimage to Mecca by studying the hajj stories of second-generation Moroccan-Dutch women. By adopting a ‘dialog...
Soil actinomycetes explorations appear to be an efficient alternative as biofertilizers to optimize the use of phosphorus (P) resources and enhance plant growth. This research aimed to explore the distribution of actinomycetes isolated from four diff...
The unprecedented influx of pelagic Sargassum represents both a serious ecological concern and a potential opportunity regarding biopolymer production. Assessing the quality, preservation status, and processing potential of these species is crucial t...
Introduction: Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic immune-mediated disease of the central nervous system (CNS) that leads to inflammation and demyelination, manifesting in either a relapsing–remitting or progressive form. As a multifactorial di...
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