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Introducing virtual microscopy at the University of Ghana during the COVID‐19 pandemic—Identifying and overcoming obstacles in a low‐resource learning environment

Anatomical Sciences Education, Volume 19, Issue 9, Page 1438-1451, September 2026.
Abstract The introduction of new educational technologies into resource‐challenged learning environments is often hindered by several factors, with the lack of infrastructure and computer hardware being only one critical aspect. The COVID‐19 pandemic required a sudden switch to online learning and accelerated the implementation of e‐learning approaches
Nii Koney‐Kwaku Koney, Smart Nana Omenako, David Nana Adjei, Benjamin Arko‐Boham, Michael Hortsch   +4 more
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A synthetic eco‐evolutionary proposal for the conservation of wild relatives of the olive tree

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 5, Page 1904-1924, September 2026.
Societal Impact Statement Crop wild relatives (CWR) are valuable sources of genetic diversity for plant breeding. However, the identification of wild untapped genetic resources (i.e., unexploited in crops) is not always straightforward. We propose a methodology to guide the identification and conservation of these resources that integrates both genetic
Andrés Barea‐Márquez, Guillaume Besnard, Miguel González Ximénez‐Embún, Carlos García‐Verdugo, Concepción M. Diez, José Carlos Pérez‐Girón, Rafael Rubio de Casas   +6 more
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Functional Diversity of Iberian Waterbird Communities From Natural Lakes and Man‐Made Reservoirs Shows Divergent Temporal Dynamics

Diversity and Distributions, Volume 32, Issue 9, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Aims Artificial waterbodies are widely recognized as vital habitats for waterfowl conservation, particularly in the Mediterranean region, where natural lentic ecosystems have suffered extensive loss and degradation. Man‐made reservoirs represent the widespread and relatively deep artificial bodies of water and are often assumed to harbour poor
Vicente García‐Navas, Andy J. Green
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Foreign Aid as Statecraft: Muslim Donors in the Horn of Africa

Middle East Policy, Volume 33, Issue 3, Autumn (Fall) 2026.
Abstract Muslim states are often assumed to disburse foreign aid based on religious identity, but this does not explain the policies of Türkiye, the UAE, and Qatar toward the Horn of Africa. This article contends that aid decisions among these donors are driven primarily by geopolitical interests rather than religious solidarity or regime type ...
Yunus Turhan
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The Relationship Between the Financial Innovation and the Money Supply: Empirical Study on the Maghreb Countries

Economics and Business, 2020
This article examines the relationship between money supply and financial innovation in the Maghreb countries over the period of 1980–2018 for a large annual data set on five Maghreb countries using the panel autoregressive distributed lag model (PANEL ...
Djaballah Mustapha
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Rethinking Political Islam in Iran: Contestation, Authority, and Reform

Middle East Policy, Volume 33, Issue 3, Autumn (Fall) 2026.
Abstract Political Islam in Iran is frequently portrayed in Western scholarship and policy discourse as a unified and rigid ideological system rooted in the 1979 Islamic Revolution. However, this article contends that it operates as a plural and internally contested field in which state‐directed, reformist‐clerical, and civic interpretations compete ...
Nagapushpa Devendra
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The Evolution of UAE's Africa Foreign Policy: Motivations, Strategies and Challenges

Politics &Policy, Volume 54, Issue 4, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Recent studies on the foreign policies of Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries attribute their increasing involvement in Africa to security and economic considerations. However, only a few studies have investigated the foreign policies of the individual GCC countries in more detail for confirmation. Hence, using a neorealist perspective on
Osman Antwi‐Boateng, Taha Yahya Abdulrahman   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Maghreb : des élites entre deux mondes

Revue Internationale d’Éducation de Sèvres, 2005
Training the elite is an issue of major impact in the Maghreb countries, or the “Northern Africa” that was once colonised by the French. “Official recognition of the elite” through higher education is a recent and yet unfinished trend there, coming at ...
Pierre Vermeren
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Moving beyond environmental filtering hypotheses: Deciphering the drivers of congeneric plant introductions in an oceanic archipelago

Ecography, Volume 2026, Issue 7, July 2026.
Understanding why only some species succeed in naturalizing and invading ecosystems has intrigued scientists since Darwin's time. The pre‐adaptation hypothesis posits that introduced species closely related to natives, therefore ecologically similar, are more likely to establish than others.
Louis S. Jay‐García, Yurena Arjona, Flavien Collart, Alain Vanderpoorten, Olivier Broennimann, Antoine Guisan, José María Fernández‐Palacios, Jairo Patiño   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Arab Maghreb Union Marks 20th Anniversary

Vestnik RUDN. International Relations, 2010
The Arab Maghreb Union was formed in 1989 in order to coordinate regional policies on military, economic, cultural and international issues. The reasons of lack of understanding among countries - participants of the Arab Maghreb Union and factors of ...
R V Salamova
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