The first issue of the Research Journal of Maaref University of Applied Sciences (RJMU) represents both a beginning and a declaration of purpose. Published in August 2025, this volume brings together diverse research that reflects the journal’s interdisciplinary spirit and commitment to open access scholarship. The issue features innovative scientific contributions, such as the design of a thermoelectric system for solar energy conversion and the synthesis of novel thiazolidine derivatives with promising biological activity. It also includes thought-provoking studies on structural capital and organizational memory, critical comparative analysis in literature, marketing challenges in Northwest Syria, and predictive models for financial distress. Other contributions explore advanced technologies, including UAV formation control, the transformative role of generative AI in human resource management, the impact of IoT on urban infrastructure, and artificial intelligence applications for sustainability. By combining engineering, natural sciences, social sciences, and the humanities, this inaugural issue embodies RJMU’s mission to foster resilience, innovation, and meaningful global academic dialogue

Volume 2, Issue 2 (2026) of the Research Journal of Maaref University of Applied Sciences (RJMU) reflects the journal’s growing interdisciplinary identity and commitment to rigorous, open-access scholarship. The issue brings together research spanning artificial intelligence, language learning, cognitive psychology, industrial applications, entrepreneurship, accounting transformation, higher-education resilience, nonprofit communication, and pharmaceutical analysis. Across these diverse fields, a shared concern emerges: how institutions, technologies, and communities can adapt to rapid change without sacrificing trust, academic integrity, human judgment, or social responsibility. The issue also highlights the importance of applied research rooted in local realities while contributing to wider international debates. Through studies addressing technological transformation, educational inequality, sustainability, communication, and economic change, Issue 2 demonstrates RJMU’s aim to connect disciplinary depth with practical relevance. It represents another step in building a distinctive research culture grounded in evidence, openness, critical inquiry, and meaningful societal impact for researchers, practitioners, institutions, and wider communities.

The Research Journal of Maaref University of Applied Sciences (RJMU) presents its Second Edition (Vol. 2, Issue 1, February 2026) as a clear move from “launch” to continuity—a journal that intends to remain, publish regularly, and earn trust through consistent standards. As a peer-reviewed, biannual, open-access journal, RJMU emphasizes double-blind review, strong publication ethics, and research that is transparent, citable, and useful beyond the moment of publication. 
This edition includes 28 peer-reviewed contributions across engineering, computing and cybersecurity, education and language studies, management, and applied health/lab research. Readers will find studies on human–robot communication, autonomous robotics and control (including PSO-PID approaches), Android malware detection using machine learning, and AI-supported decision policies using big-data analytics. It also features work on digital accounting transformation, responsible procurement in e-commerce, legal education in an AI-driven future, and several papers on educational linguistics, online language teaching, and World Englishes—showing the journal’s interdisciplinary range.
The issue is distributed under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC 4.0), inviting readers in Syria and worldwide to engage critically and turn research into practical impact.