From Protecting the Environment to Fostering Innovation: Moroccan Universities in the Era of Territorial Competitiveness

It has been acknowledged that Moroccan universities have ample opportunity to enhance regional competitiveness through the Sustainable Development Goals. Yet, little is known about how professors and students perceive universities’ role in stimulating innovation, partnership, and sustainability within their backyards or communities. By exploring how much Moroccan universities are thought to be participating in territorial competitiveness via the realization of the SDGs, this study aims to bridge that gap. It is through this work that we aim to emphasize the perceptions of Abdelmalek Essaâdi University’s (AE University) students, graduates, and professors regarding the role of a Moroccan university in fostering territorial innovation through the lenses of relevant Sustainable Development Goals. Furthermore, we strive to highlight links between the aforementioned university and plans for territorial competitiveness. This will help pinpoint areas for improvement in university practices and achievements in relation to territorial development. The plan is to carry out an exploratory study via an online survey. The collection of data will be conducted on the perceptions of AE University students and professors about the role(s) of their university in fostering innovation and achieving SGDs. It is upon the survey data that we will strive to analyze connections existing between universities and territorial competitiveness via SDGs in order to further emphasize the likely role of universities in broadening territorial innovation practices in Morocco. It is through this analysis that we will discuss the findings and main results of the study in the hope of enriching the existing literature on the matter while helping to assist concerned stakeholders in territorial development areas, including universities and SDGs

Universities at the Heart of attractive territories: A Novum Trivium formula in the era of energy consumption optimization

Today, it has become fruitless, reducing the role of the university to its sole mission of education. Undoubtedly, a university is a source of knowledge that acts as an incubator for creativity and innovation; however, more light should be shed on how universities help create a vibrant economy by providing employment opportunities, promoting highquality research, and stimulating investment. In this work, we focus on displaying a new adaptable trinity formula that places the university, with all its missions, in the heart of an attractive territory. It is in this vein that we study the importance of well-choosing the remaining territorial components to be part of the trivium formula. The main aim of the current premise is to highlight the significance of adjusting territorial innovation models, such as business ecosystems of innovation and triple helix models of innovation, in accordance with the weight of keystone components of territory and how they participate in its attractiveness, all of which are orchestrated by universities. The importance of this topic lies in recognizing the potential of universities as accelerators for territorial advancement, including their role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, by acknowledging their many distinct contributions to fostering innovation and protecting the environment. Adopting the trivium formula means providing a blueprint that encourages fortifying links within a territory’s components, thus enhancing relations between universities and other pieces of the territorial development puzzle we built this work upon as a method to understand innovative territories, from green innovation to industrial intelligence

Diammonium tris­[hexa­aqua­magnesium(II)] tetra­kis­[hydrogenphosphate(III)], (NH4)2[Mg(H2O)6]3(HPO3)4

The framework of the title compound is made up of discrete Mg(H2O)6 octa¬hedra, and HPO3 and NH4 tetra¬hedra, which are organized in planes parallel to (010). Strong hydrogen bonding between the building units stabilizes the structure. The hydrogenphosphate(III) tetra¬hedra, the ammonium tetra¬hedron and one of the two Mg atoms lie on positions with m symmetry, whereas the second Mg atom is located on a position with 2/m symmetry

Universities at the Heart of attractive territories: A

Today, it has become fruitless, reducing the role of the university to its sole mission of education. Undoubtedly, a university is a source of knowledge that acts as an incubator for creativity and innovation; however, more light should be shed on how universities help create a vibrant economy by providing employment opportunities, promoting highquality research, and stimulating investment. In this work, we focus on displaying a new adaptable trinity formula that places the university, with all its missions, in the heart of an attractive territory. It is in this vein that we study the importance of well-choosing the remaining territorial components to be part of the trivium formula. The main aim of the current premise is to highlight the significance of adjusting territorial innovation models, such as business ecosystems of innovation and triple helix models of innovation, in accordance with the weight of keystone components of territory and how they participate in its attractiveness, all of which are orchestrated by universities. The importance of this topic lies in recognizing the potential of universities as accelerators for territorial advancement, including their role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, by acknowledging their many distinct contributions to fostering innovation and protecting the environment. Adopting the trivium formula means providing a blueprint that encourages fortifying links within a territory’s components, thus enhancing relations between universities and other pieces of the territorial development puzzle we built this work upon as a method to understand innovative territories, from green innovation to industrial intelligence

From Protecting the Environment to Fostering Innovation: Moroccan Universities in the Era of Territorial Competitiveness

It has been acknowledged that Moroccan universities have ample opportunity to enhance regional competitiveness through the Sustainable Development Goals. Yet, little is known about how professors and students perceive universities’ role in stimulating innovation, partnership, and sustainability within their backyards or communities. By exploring how much Moroccan universities are thought to be participating in territorial competitiveness via the realization of the SDGs, this study aims to bridge that gap. It is through this work that we aim to emphasize the perceptions of Abdelmalek Essaâdi University’s (AE University) students, graduates, and professors regarding the role of a Moroccan university in fostering territorial innovation through the lenses of relevant Sustainable Development Goals. Furthermore, we strive to highlight links between the aforementioned university and plans for territorial competitiveness. This will help pinpoint areas for improvement in university practices and achievements in relation to territorial development. The plan is to carry out an exploratory study via an online survey. The collection of data will be conducted on the perceptions of AE University students and professors about the role(s) of their university in fostering innovation and achieving SGDs. It is upon the survey data that we will strive to analyze connections existing between universities and territorial competitiveness via SDGs in order to further emphasize the likely role of universities in broadening territorial innovation practices in Morocco. It is through this analysis that we will discuss the findings and main results of the study in the hope of enriching the existing literature on the matter while helping to assist concerned stakeholders in territorial development areas, including universities and SDGs

Real-Time Vehicle Detection Using Cross-Correlation and 2D-DWT for Feature Extraction

Nowadays, real-time vehicle detection is one of the biggest challenges in driver-assistance systems due to the complex environment and the diverse types of vehicles. Vehicle detection can be exploited to accomplish several tasks such as computing the distances to other vehicles, which can help the driver by warning to slow down the vehicle to avoid collisions. In this paper, we propose an efficient real-time vehicle detection method following two steps: hypothesis generation and hypothesis verification. In the first step, potential vehicles locations are detected based on template matching technique using cross-correlation which is one of the fast algorithms. In the second step, two-dimensional discrete wavelet transform (2D-DWT) is used to extract features from the hypotheses generated in the first step and then to classify them as vehicles and nonvehicles. The choice of the classifier is very important due to the pivotal role that plays in the quality of the final results. Therefore, SVMs and AdaBoost are two classifiers chosen to be used in this paper and their results are compared thereafter. The results of the experiments are compared with some existing system, and it showed that our proposed system has good performance in terms of robustness and accuracy and that our system can meet the requirements in real time

Mixed finite element method of a seawater intrusion problem in confined aquifers

We consider a model mixing sharp and diffuse interface approach for the seawater intrusion phenomenon in confined aquifers. The aim of this work is to introduce and analyze a new mixed formulation, obtained by writing the problem into a matrix form, and introducing a new variable σ = R(u)∇u representing the flux tensor of the primal variable u = (h, Φf)T. Here, h represents the depth of the salt/freshwater interface, Φf, the hydraulic head of freshwater, and R(u) a symmetric and positive definite diffusion matrix. We show that the continuous problem is well-posed. For the time discretization of this new mixed formulation, we use a semi-implicit scheme, and we show that the problem is well posed

A Vehicular Queue Length Measurement System in Real-Time Based on SSD Network

Vehicular queue length measurement is an important parameter to detect the traffic congestion, which is resulted from several issues such as traffic lights, accidents, and poor roads infrastructures. In this paper, a system in real-time is proposed to detect and measure the vehicular queue length at intersections. The proposed system consists of two main steps: the first step is the detection of queue by using frames differencing method to detect the motion in the target areas. If there is no a motion, then the second step is implemented to detect the vehicles in these areas by using Single Shot Multibox Detector (SSD) algorithm. If there are vehicles, that means the queue exists and the measurement process begins. Some modifications are applied on SSD algorithm to fit with in our system and to improve the accuracy of the vehicle detection process. The system is applied on videos obtained by stationary cameras. The experiments demonstrate that this system is able to accurately detect and measure the vehicular queue length

Diammonium tris­[hexa­aqua­magnesium(II)] tetra­kis­[hydrogenphosphate(III)], (NH4)2[Mg(H2O)6]3(HPO3)4

The framework of the title compound is made up of discrete Mg(H2O)6 octa¬hedra, and HPO3 and NH4 tetra¬hedra, which are organized in planes parallel to (010). Strong hydrogen bonding between the building units stabilizes the structure. The hydrogenphosphate(III) tetra¬hedra, the ammonium tetra¬hedron and one of the two Mg atoms lie on positions with m symmetry, whereas the second Mg atom is located on a position with 2/m symmetry