Phytochemical Composition, Antioxidant and Antifungal Activity of , a Medicinal Plant Collected from Northern Morocco.

is a Mediterranean endemic plant commonly known as "Zaïtra" in northern Morocco. As is widely used in traditional medicine and food, this present work aims to investigate the chemical compositions and biological activities of the leaves essential oil (TcLEO), acetonic (TcLAE), and methanolic extract (TcLME). The spectrophotometric determination demonstrated that is a natural source rich in phenolic contents (TPC) and flavonoid contents (TFC) and that TcLME revealed the highest TPC and TFC than TcLAE and TcLEO.

Real-Time Georeferencing of Fire Front Aerial Images Using Iterative Ray-Tracing and the Bearings-Range Extended Kalman Filter.

Although Aerial Vehicle images are a viable tool for observing large-scale patterns of fires and their impacts, its application is limited by the complex optical georeferencing procedure due to the lack of distinctive visual features in forest environments. For this reason, an exploratory study on rough and flat terrains was conducted to use and validate the Iterative Ray-Tracing method in combination with a Bearings-Range Extended Kalman Filter as a real-time forest fire georeferencing and filtering algorithm on images captured by an aerial vehicle. The Iterative Ray-Tracing method requires a vehicle equipped with a Global Positioning System (GPS), an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), a calibrated camera, and a Digital Elevation Map (DEM).

Disposal Behavior of Used Masks during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Moroccan Community: Potential Environmental Impact.

The spread of coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) levied on the Moroccan authorities to increase their mask production capacity, which reached up to 12 million facemask units produced per day. This increase in personal protective equipment (PPE) production and consumption is an efficient tool to address the spread of COVID-19. However, this results in more plastic and microplastic debris being added into the land and marine environments, which will harm the ecosystem, wildlife, and public health.