Fighting the COVID-19 Infodemic: Modeling the Perspective of Journalists, Fact-Checkers, Social Media Platforms, Policy Makers, and the Society

With the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the political and the medical aspects of disinformation merged as the problem got elevated to a whole new level to become the first global infodemic. Fighting this infodemic has been declared one of the most important focus areas of the World Health Organization, with dangers ranging from promoting fake cures, rumors, and conspiracy theories to spreading xenophobia and panic. Addressing the issue requires solving a number of challenging problems such as identifying messages containing claims, determining their check-worthiness and factuality, and their potential to do harm as well as the nature of that harm, to mention just a few. To address this gap, we release a large dataset of 16K manually annotated tweets for fine-grained disinformation analysis that (i) focuses on COVID-19, (ii) combines the perspectives and the interests of journalists, fact-checkers, social media platforms, policy makers, and society, and (iii) covers Arabic, Bulgarian, Dutch, and English. Finally, we show strong evaluation results using pretrained Transformers, thus confirming the practical utility of the dataset in monolingual vs. multilingual, and single task vs. multitask settings.

Academic self-organization and its relation of Damascus University students

The aim of the current research is to explore the relationship between academic selfregulation and in a sample of students of the Faculty of Civil Engineering and the Faculty of Education at Damascus University, in addition to knowledge of the differences in both academic self-regulation and due to specialization and sex (males and females). The sample consisted of (115) male and female students with 62 students from the Faculty of Education and (53) males from the Faculty of Civil Engineering. The number of male and female students was( 59 females and 56 students. . For this purpose, the measure of academic self-regulation was used, after verifying their sincerity and persistence with the sample members of the current study. The results showed that the effect of both specialization and gender had a significant impact on academic selfregulation

The role of success factors in the reengineering of administrative processes (venerable) in improving the banking service Case Study of Commercial Bank Branch in Tartous

The study examines the reality of the re-engineering of the administrative processes in the commercial bank Tartous branch through identifying the factors of its success, namely information technology, human resource qualification, organizational factor, and their role in improving the banking service and thus achieving customer satisfaction. The study concluded that: The success factors of the re-engineering of the administrative processes (the organizational factor, the development and training of employees skills, information technology) contribute greatly to improving the banking service in the branch of the bank The Syrian Commercial Bank in Tartous.

The impact of social networking sites on improving the mental image of the organization A field study on two Syrian Telecommunications Companies in Damascus

Growing importance of social networking sites in the science of services steadily as a concept that includes a number of important implications dimensions in the process of client assessment of the product and the organization together, especially in light of the great similarity of the services provided, so that they increase the organization profits and support their competitiveness and reduce the need for promotion condenser and a barrier to other organizations, preventing them from entering the market, and can open up new markets when the organization growth depends on penetrating new markets, and ensure the organization and its continuity and improved survival at the end of the mental image. The research aims to shed light on the social networking sites, and drew attention to the communications organizations need to focus on their role in influencing the mental image. The search results indicate that social networking sites have a positive impact on .improving the mental image of the organizations communications.

The Monument "Aspect – Importance – Function and Position as a Symbol and Human Architectural Art"

The research clarifies the aspect of the monument, its position, types and different forms since ancient times till now. It also shows the development of its raw materials, ratio and fitness with the space as well as the variations in its classification standards throughout history. This research also handles the effective role of a monumental work in fixing high values in human memory and developing the architectural social reality and organizing the site and place that it occupies not only making it beautiful. The monument is a long term symbol embodied in the meanings reflected by its artistic forms which are full of human and mental senses. This research approaches the issue of majority ignorance of the importance and value of a monument in our countries. Arabic people have a minor or even no knowledge at all of the statue. Efforts should be made to strengthen the relationship between individuals and monumental works as well as architecture in a way that will bring positive results for both and for our homelands.

United Nations Organization between the need for reform, challenges and constraints in the current transformations

The call for the amendment and reform of the international system which established the United Nations has become an urgent demand of the Member States through a new set of international legal norms to overcome the stalemate and paralysis in the United Nations bodies and through activating the founding charter of the organization, which has been defunct for more than half a century, the thing that negatively affected the role of these bodies and lead to its failure in keeping international peace and security due to the control exercised by the superpowers on the international system and the decisions taken by the organization, especially in the Security Council. Based on the above, we will study the reality and the future of the United Nations in the light of the changes offered by the international system and how the organization can respond and adapt to these changes and keep up to the challenges ahead of it and be in the level of expectations of the international community, according to the statements in its Constitution.

The Reality of The Application of The Dimensions of The Learning Organization In Tishreen University A survey on the Faculty of the second economy

Organizations face many challenges that require them to follow a modern and flexible management methods, to be able to adjust and adapt to their environment learning organization concept is based on modern administrative interaction, flexibility and freedom to think, to create models and new ways that will adapt to the surrounding changes. The objective of this research is to identify the concept of the learning organization, which is a recent concept, and recognize the reality of the application of the learning organization dimensions at the faculty of the second economy, Tishreen University. where the researcher adoption Marsick & Watkins questionnaire to the dimensions of the learning organization was the questionnaire distributed to the representative sample the staff of the Faculty of the second economy on different administrative levels , The study concluded that the Faculty of the second economics is learning organization at average rate according to the average Likert scale Quintet.

USA Policy on Middle East Defense Development and Impact on the Establishment of Baghdad’s Pact, and Enhancement of the Turkish role in the Middle East (1950-1953) From the Documents of USA Department of State

After the dismemberment of the “Arab Homeland” by “Sykes – Picot Agreement” (1916), “Belford Declaration” (1917), the Independence of the “Orient States” (1946), and the establishment of the so-called “State of Israel” (1948), the concern of the USA was concentrated on rallying the States of the Middle East in a “Defense Organization” to resist the Arab National Orientation, and the „Communist Threats”, and to protect the western investments, through indigenous military forces and local self-finance. The USA and Western commitment towards this defense system is restricted to some military and technical assistance and full control of the military, economic, political, social and cultural activities in a way that protects and guarantees the western interests, investments and plans.

Proposed Model for Relationship between Banking Organization Characteristics and Voluntary Disclosure of Social Responsibility An Empirical Study on Private Banks Listed in Syrian Commission on Financial Markets and Securities

This research work aimed at whether or not a model express on the relationship between banking organization characteristics and voluntary disclosure of social responsibility in the annual report. To achieve this aim, the researchers developed an index against which voluntary disclosure of social responsibility may be measured, in the field of study represented by eleven private Syrian banks.

THE ARABIAN – AFRICAN RELATIONS Defiance and Prediction A Study of the State Dilemma and the International Organization Contradictions

The existence of the Arabs in Africa extends deeply in history. In fact, there are many theorems to trace when Arabs arrived at Africa. These theorems vary depending on the way we want to define who Arabs are. In addition, the humanitarians' dimensions in international relations are in themselves rather vague because such interpretation is not agreed upon in both western and international law especially in relation to Arab and African situations. There is no doubt that international relations, especially neighbourhood relations, are not as they are supposed to be. In fact, these relations are completely oriented by maintaining interest, ignoring morals, which results in replacing intimacy with resentment. It is true that Westerns succeeded in contaminating Arab-African relations to extent of hostility. The can be attributed to the cooperation between Arabs and Africans is completely controlled by the political moods rather than on true mutual interest. This fluctuating mood has led to the absence of common vision to face challenges. Therefore the necessity demands taking practical action not merely wishes and words to create a new regional cooperation for the human good. This cooperation should result in developing bordering cities economically, culturally, and at humanitarian level. There is also a need to boost up financial aids to be as or exceed the western financial aids, which make people less dependent on Western and rebuild historical relations and revive ties of kinship between regional countries. All this in the context of a humanitarian status-strong neighbor and good neighborliness. ...