Conveners
Session 13 : Online oral presentations
- Ulrich Hellriegel (Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences)
Given the high prevalence of lung cancer, the desire of doctors to use artificial intelligence technologies in the medical field to save time and effort, and the impact of these technologies on people's lives, the need has emerged for highly accurate and reliable automated diagnostic models for segmenting chest CT scans. In this research, a novel auxiliary U-Net with a squeeze and excitation...
Our study aims to optimize slow-release formulations for agricultural use by employing biodegradable materials. The tablet contains salicylic acid (100 mg) as the active ingredient, three excipients: phosphorylated starch (PS), polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), and polyvinyl acetate as a membrane to regulate the release. The findings demonstrate that phosphorylated starch significantly enhances water...
In a context of global change, this study examines the combined influence of hydroclimatic (precipitation, temperature) and topographic (altitude, slope, exposure) variables on vegetation cover dynamics in the Akka Wabzaza SIBE (Central High Atlas, Morocco). The analysis is based on a 37-year time series (1985–2022) of the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI). The relationships...
Land Use Land Cover (LULC) classification in semi-arid forested regions, such as the argan-dominated landscapes of the Essaouira region (Morocco), presents a significant challenge due to the high heterogeneity and spectral similarity among vegetation types. To address this, our study integrates spectral indices (MSAVI, BSI, Albedo) with textural features derived from Sentinel-2 imagery to...
Morocco’s agriculture plays a critical role in its national economy, contributing significantly to GDP and providing livelihoods for rural populations. However, the sector faces growing environmental pressures, including water scarcity, desertification, and more frequent extreme weather events, largely intensified by the semi-arid climate. These challenges threaten food security, agricultural...
Optimising the energy performance of systems such as electronic components, solar collectors, and heat exchangers is very important. The use of nanofluids, which consist of solid nanoparticles dispersed in a base liquid, often water, allow the improvement of heat transfer compared to the use of water alone. This work presents a numerical study of the mixed convection of Cu-water, TiO2-water,...
Advanced liver disease is a life-threatening condition that can result in multiple severe complications, including hepatic encephalopathy (HE). HE is a brain dysfunction caused by impaired liver function due to various underlying etiologies. Under cirrhosis, up to 80% of patients can develop HE and exhibit memory deterioration. The pathophysiological mechanism underlying memory dysfunction in...
Meat is an important source of nutrients for human well-being and health; however, recently a decline in preference for meat as a source of nutrients has been suggested due to some associated health problems. Snail meat could be one of the alternatives due to its high protein, mineral, and vitamin content. The aim of this work was to study the drying kinetics of snail meat and the influence of...
This study investigates the seasonal dynamics between physico-chemical parameters and phytoplankton diversity, community structure, and abundance in Imessouane Bay, located on the Atlantic Coast of Southern Morocco. Monthly samples were collected from February 2019 to January 2020 at three representative stations, and detailed analyses were performed on parameters such as temperature, pH,...
1. Research Problem
Climate change is a major systemic risk, disrupting global economic balances (Nordhaus, 2006; Dell et al., 2014) and influencing investment decisions at the microeconomic level (Arian and Naeem, 2025). Moroccan companies, operating in a context of increasing climate vulnerability, are exposed to both physical hazards (droughts, heat waves, water stress) and to the...
The Skoura oasis, located in the Ouarzazate region of southern Morocco, represents a fragile agro-ecosystem increasingly affected by land degradation processes. It is currently facing growing water stress due to climate change (frequent droughts, rising temperatures, declining groundwater levels) and the gradual abandonment of the traditional irrigation system (khettara).
This study aims to...
The Merja Zerga lagoon, a key coastal ecosystem on the Atlantic coast of Morocco. This study is based on a comparative analysis between the findings of Benbakhta (1994) and those from a seasonal sampling campaign conducted in (2022-2023), with particular focus on copepods, the dominant group within the zooplankton community and a sensitive indicator of environmental change.
The main objective...
Research on the entrepreneurial ecosystem has significantly expanded in recent years (Isenberg, 2010; Stam, 2015), highlighting the importance of interactions among actors, institutions, and resources in supporting entrepreneurial activity. At the same time, the notion of resilience has become central in the analysis of organizations and systems (Lengnick-Hall & Beck, 2005; Duchek, 2020),...
Mediterranean agricultural systems are progressively facing escalating challenges due to the multifaceted impacts of climate change, which threaten the sustainability and productivity of key crops, notably olive cultivation, within arid and semi-arid zones. The Marrakesh region classified climatically as semi-arid according to the Köppen–Geiger classification system, exemplifies an area of...
