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Overview of the CLEF-2018 CheckThat! Lab on Automatic Identification and Verification of Political Claims. Task 2: Factuality
( CEUR-WS , 2018 , Conference Paper)We present an overview of the CLEF-2018 CheckThat! Lab on Automatic Identification and Verification of Political Claims, with focus on Task 2: Factuality. The task asked to assess whether a given check-worthy claim made ... -
Overview of the CLEF-2019 CheckThat! Lab: Automatic Identification and Verification of Claims
( Springer Verlag , 2019 , Conference Paper)We present an overview of the second edition of the CheckThat! Lab at CLEF 2019. The lab featured two tasks in two different languages: English and Arabic. Task 1 (English) challenged the participating systems to predict ... -
Overview of the CLEF-2019 Checkthat! LAB: Automatic identification and verification of claims. Task 2: Evidence and factuality
( CEUR-WS , 2019 , Conference Paper)We present an overview of the second edition of the CheckThat! Lab at CLEF 2019. The lab featured two tasks in two different languages: English and Arabic. Task 1 (English) challenged the participating systems to predict ... -
Overview of the CLEF-2021 CheckThat! Lab Task 1 on check-worthiness estimation in tweets and political debates
( CEUR-WS , 2021 , Conference Paper)We present an overview of Task 1 of the fourth edition of the CheckThat! Lab, part of the 2021 Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF). The task asks to predict which posts in a Twitter stream are worth ... -
Overview of the CLEF–2021 CheckThat! Lab on Detecting Check-Worthy Claims, Previously Fact-Checked Claims, and Fake News
( Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2021 , Conference Paper)We describe the fourth edition of the CheckThat! Lab, part of the 2021 Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF). The lab evaluates technology supporting tasks related to factuality, and covers Arabic, Bulgarian, ... -
Overview of the CLEF–2023 CheckThat! Lab on Checkworthiness, Subjectivity, Political Bias, Factuality, and Authority of News Articles and Their Source
( Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2023 , Conference Paper)We describe the sixth edition of the CheckThat! lab, part of the 2023 Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF). The five previous editions of CheckThat! focused on the main tasks of the information verification ... -
An overview of the environmental pollution and health effects associated with waste landfilling and open dumping
( Springer , 2022 , Article Review)Landfilling is one of the most common waste management methods employed in all countries alike, irrespective of their developmental status. The most commonly used types of landfills are (a) municipal solid waste landfill, ... -
An Overview of the Fifth Generation (5G) Networking Technology
(2021 , Preprint)In this study we review the advantages and disadvantages of 5G networking technology, with a special focus on its impact on individuals and society. We also look at the safety implications of using 5G technology in a wide ... -
An overview of the occurrence, fate, and human risks of the bisphenol-A present in plastic materials, components, and products.
( John Wiley & Sons, Ltd , 2022 , Article Review)With over 95% of bisphenol-A (BPA) used in the production of polycarbonate (PC) and epoxy resins, termed here as BPA-based plastic materials, components, and products (MCPs), an investigation of human exposure to BPA over ... -
An overview of the plastic waste and recycling status in Qatar
(2019 , Conference Paper)It has been estimated that the average Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) generation rate per capita in the Gulf Co-operation countries (GCC) is approx. 1.5 kg/person/d, with Qatar reaching almost 1.4 kg/person/d, as it was ... -
Overview of Tissue Engineering and Drug Delivery Applications of Reactive Electrospinning and Crosslinking Techniques of Polymeric Nanofibers with Highlights on Their Biocompatibility Testing and Regulatory Aspects
(2024 , Article Review)Traditional electrospinning is a promising technique for fabricating nanofibers for tissue engineering and drug delivery applications. The method is highly efficient in producing nanofibers with morphology and porosity ... -
An overview of water desalination systems integrated with renewable energy sources
( Elsevier B.V. , 2022 , Article Review)Nowadays, the growing world population, climate change, pollution, rising consumer demand, and resource exploitation have contributed to a freshwater shortage. Hence, water desalination is heavily used for freshwater ... -
An overview of Zika virus genotypes and their infectivity
( Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical , 2022 , Article Review)Zika virus (ZIKV) is an enveloped, single-stranded RNA arbovirus belonging to the genus Flavivirus. It was first isolated from a sentinel monkey in Uganda in 1947. More recently, ZIKV has undergone rapid geographic expansion ... -
An overview on the progress in produced water desalination by membrane-based technology
( Elsevier Ltd , 2023 , Other)The scarcity of clean water sources has become a global concern in the present-day society. This has driven to the extraction of fresh water from produced water (PW), from the oil and gas fields, specifically in countries ... -
Overvoltage and raised fault current issues in active distribution networks
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)© 2018 IEEE. In this paper, two main challenges, namely over voltage and raised fault current levels, in active distribution networks, are addressed. Voltage profile and raised fault current in normal and fault conditions, ... -
Overweight/Obesity and Time Preference: Evidence from a Survey among Adults in the UK
( Karger Publishers , 2022 , Article)Introduction: Overweight and obesity is a global problem incurring substantial health and economic implications. This has also been highlighted by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic which has disproportionately affected overweight ... -
Ownership Structure and Firm Performance in the Middle East: A Meta-Analysis
( MDPI , 2021 , Article)This paper applies a meta-analysis method to investigate the moderating impact of political stability on the relationship between ownership identities and firm performance in the Middle Eastern countries (i.e., the Arab ... -
Ownership structure and intellectual capital: empirical evidence for Jordanian listed firms
( Inderscience Publishers , 2022 , Article)The main objective of the current study is to examine the impact of ownership structure on intellectual capital (IC) disclosures from a stakeholder theory perspective. The current study employs a disclosure index approach ... -
Ownership structure, corporate governance and bank performance: Evidence from gcc countries
( Virtus Interpress , 2011 , Article)The paper examines the effect of ownership structure and board characteristics on bank performance of GCC counties. Evidence indicates that the extent of the foreign ownership level has a significant positive association ... -
Ownership structure, corporate performance and failure: Evidence from panel data of emerging market the case of Jordan
( Virtus Interpress , 2009 , Article)This study investigates the impact of ownership structure (mix and concentrate) on a company's performance and failure in a panel estimation using 167 Jordanian companies during 1989-2006. The empirical evidence in this ...