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أذرع قطر الإعلامية في مقابل أذرع الدول المقاطعة : من يقود الرأي العام على الشبكة العنكبوتية؟
No full textدراسة تبحث في توجهات الرأي العام العربي و من يصنع الرأي العام على المواقع الالكترونية و السوشال ميدياتهتم هذه الورقة بتتبع أكثر المواقع الإلكترونية تصفحاً في المنطقة العربية، بالتركيز على توجهاتها و سياستها التحريرية، و مدى نفوذ قطر أو الدول المقاطعة لها في منطقة الخليج، في محاولة لفهم تشكلات الرأي العام في المنطقة العربية على الشبكة العنكبوتية. كما تبحث في أماكن نفوذ المنصات الإلكترونية التابعة لقطر، أو تلك التابعة للدول المقاطعة لها، خصوصاً بعد الأزمة، وتسلط الضوء على التنافس الحالي في استقطاب الرأي العام في مناطق شمال أفريقيا
Household Hazardous Waste Quantification, Characterization, and Management in Developing Countries’ Cities: A Case Study.
No full textThe aim of this research is to assess household hazardous waste (HHW)
management in Hebron city, Palestine, investigating the HHW types and proportions.
In parallel the level of awareness of household heads in regard to
knowledge of risks and hazards associated with HHW items is investigated
through a comprehensive survey. Also, analysis of the total generated solid
waste was carried out during a 14-working-day period to detect different HHW
components and their proportions.
Home products constitute the largest percentage of HHW (42.3%), followed
by automotive products (17.2%) and personal care products (15.4%) and
healthcare products (12.3%). Personal care products are the most category of
HHW that is thrown randomly (78.7%).
Socioeconomic factors were related to attitudes and practices of citizens in
regard to HHW. Overall results show the great risk associated with HHW given
that under aged are transferring SW from home to container (40.2%) with high
involved risk of accident; containers in some cases are more than 150 m away
from home (19%) increasing the aforementioned potential risk. In 18.5% of
houses, there was an accident related to HHW risks which are, namely, injuries
(42%), poisoning (36%), burns (22%), etc
University cooperation with the local Palestinian industry : example of Faculty of Engineering at Birzeit University
Full text linkStatistical data shows that the Palestinian industrial sectors work at less than 50% of their real capacity, which makes it difficult to create a successful industry without cooperating with academic institutions in Palestine. University-Industry cooperation is thus a top priority in the
university sector and has a specific strategic importance at Birzeit University (BZU).
Birzeit University’s main tools of cooperation with local industry include the following;
• Scientific visits and student training: Four-year students have to undergo six weeks of practical training in local firms or industry, working in the engineering
field.
• Graduation projects: Final year students have to complete a one-year project (five credit hours). The local industry and engineering community can be engaged in selecting or suggesting topics or projects. They can also be part of joint supervision and the final evaluation of student projects.
• Consultancy: Faculty members can offer consultancy to various companies in their field of expertise.
• Joint projects: Industry and faculty can formulate and seek funding for joint projects of mutual interest. Which might include development of products, production, training of engineers and technology transfer
Intelligent social networks model based on semantic tag ranking
No full textSocial Networks has become one of the most popular platforms to allow users to communicate, and share their interests without being at the same geographical location. With the great and rapid growth of Social Media sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter…etc. causes huge amount of user-generated content. Thus, the improvement in the information quality and integrity becomes a great challenge to all social media sites, which allows users to get the desired content or be linked to the best link relation using improved search / link technique. So introducing semantics to social networks will widen up the representation of the social networks.
In this paper, a new model of social networks based on semantic tag ranking is introduced. This model is based on the concept of multi-agent systems. In this proposed model the representation of social links will be extended by the semantic relationships found in the vocabularies which are known as (tags) in most of social networks.The proposed model for the social media engine is based on enhanced Latent Dirichlet Allocation(E-LDA) as a semantic indexing algorithm, combined with Tag Rank as social network ranking algorithm. The improvements on (E-LDA) phase is done by optimizing (LDA) algorithm using the optimal parameters. Then a filter is introduced to enhance the final indexing output. In ranking phase, using Tag Rank based on the indexing phase has improved the output of the ranking. Simulation results of the proposed model have shown improvements in indexing and ranking output
Violence and Non-Violence across Time, History, Religion and Culture
No full textThis paper aims at investigating the presence of the dichotomy of violence and non-violence in contemporary Palestinian political rhetoric and practice. To do so, I will explore the varied Palestinian discourses tracing from the contemporary back to the early twentieth century, where I will interrogate anti-colonials practice both in violent and non-violent modes. Throughout, I will map-out the different agencies and the fields of argumentation of each political entity, and its justifications as a group living under colonial conditions. This article consists of three parts: part I tackles the conceptual framework of the dichotomy of violence and non-violence; part II explores the historiography of the modes of violence and non-violence; and part III traces the controversy within Palestinian society over the topic at stake from the early 1900s until the present
Big data semantics
No full textArticle published in : Journal on Data Semantics ; June 2018, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 65–85Big Data technology has discarded traditional data modeling approaches as no longer applicable to distributed data processing. It is, however, largely recognized that Big Data impose novel challenges in data and infrastructure management. Indeed, multiple components and procedures must be coordinated to ensure a high level of data quality and accessibility for the application layers, e.g., data analytics and reporting. In this paper, the third of its kind co-authored by members of IFIP WG 2.6 on Data Semantics, we propose a review of the literature addressing these topics and discuss relevant challenges for future research. Based on our literature review, we argue that methods, principles, and perspectives developed by the Data Semantics community can significantly contribute to address Big Data challenge
Current trends in solid waste management in higher education institutions : the case of West Bank region, Palestine
No full textArticle in : Environmental Engineering and Management Journal, August 2018, vol.17, no. 8, pp. 1887-1896Higher Education Institutions in Palestine are considered to have one of the main contributors to solid waste generation according to local authorities’ annual reporting. Besides being major players in the education field, they are presented with the opportunity of being also key players in the promotion of waste minimization and awareness raising towards solid waste management strategies. In the present paper the results of an extended field research in the Palestinian Higher Education Institutions of West Bank are presented; raw data collected from two separate field researches were mathematically processed, offering interesting outputs which are appropriate for the organization of a solid waste management system in Higher Education Institutions. Currently, the Palestinian Higher Education Institutions were found as generating approximately 34 tons of solid waste per day - an average per capita generation of 0.51kg. Overall out of the ten Higher Education Institutions involved in the research only 25% are practicing waste separation at the source, 25% are implementing awareness raising programs on solid waste management and in 50% of them source separation of hazardous waste generated from laboratories etc. is performed, proving that measures need to be undertaken to improve Palestinian Higher Education Institutions environmental profile and impact
Capacity building in water and sanitation in Palestine
No full textpowerpoint presentationJordanian Engineering Association, branch Palestin
The impact of urban transformation on the Landscape in Kufur’ Aqab - Palestine
No full textمقال نشر في مجلة : International Journal of Planning, Urban and Sustainable Development, vol. 5, no. 1, 2018 , p. 68-77هدفت الدراسة إلى فحص تغيرات المشهد في كفر عقب، من خلال وجهه نظر السكان من ناحية الوعي ،2010 ،2008 ،1991( السنوات خلال ً ومكانيا والإدراك بالمشهد الحالي والتغير الحاصل عليه زمانيا 2012 ،)حيث تم استخدام التغيرات في المساحات الأرضية كدليل ملموس قابل للقياس لهذه التغيرات من خلال المنهج التحليلي الحيزي والكمي والمنهج المقارن ،وباستخدام برنامج نظم المعلومات الجغرافية )GIS ،)وتحليل الصور الجوية، اضافة الى استخدام الاستبيانات والمقابلات، لتوضيح أثر التحول الحضري من بيئة عمرانية وزيادة سكانية على هذه التغيرات الحاصلة في المشهد. توصلت الدراسة إلى أن هناك زيادة في مناطق البناء الفلسطيني منذ عام 1991 من 9.0.2 دونم الى 1060 دونم عام 2012( تغيرت من 6.9 %الى 1.19%من مساحة الأرض الكلية على التوالي(. كما زادت مناطق الاستيطان الإسرائيلي من عام 1991 وحتى 2012 من مساحة قدرها 2.202 دونم إلى 619 دونم من مساحة ً الأرض الكلية حيث تشكل نسبة الزيادة بحوالي 12 %من مساحة الأرض الكلية. وأظهرت أن النتائج أيضا تناقص المناطق الزراعية ذات المشهد الجمالي كان الأكبر من ضمن الاستخدامات الأخرى حيث تناقص هذا العنصر المشهدي من 8.1208 إلى 6.286 دونم من 1991 الى 2012 وبنسبة مقدارها 1.11 .%وكذلك الأمر بالنسبة لمناطق الأعشاب الطبيعية حيث تناقصت من 0200 دونم إلى 2921 دونم ، مما يشير الى التغير السلبي في المشاهد الطبيعية الجميلة في منطقة الدراسة. كما وجدت الدراسة درجة مرتفعة من الوعي السكاني حول التغير الحاصل في المشهد من خلال الأنشطة البشرية المختلفة التي أثرت على المشهد بشكل سلبي. الكلمات المفتاحية: التحول الحضري، ، المشهد الطبيعي، المشهد الثقافي، التغير في استخدامات الأراضي، الوعي السكاني، تغير المشهد
State of necessity from the perspective of comparative constitutional law
Full text linkغالباً ما يتم إثارة قضية حالة الضرورة أو الضرورة العامة في القانون الدستوري ضمن حالتين : من أجل الدفاع عن الموظفين الحكوميين و الذين - أثناء ممارسة مهامهم - ينتهكون حقا أساسيا مكفولا دستوريا ؛ كالحق في عدم التعرض للتعذيب، بغرض حماية مصلحة عليا أو عندما يكون "الانتهاك"، أو التقييد للحقوق الأساسية والحريات "تاليا" لإجراءٍ تنفيذي استثنائي، يمكن اعتباره إجراء غير دستوري في الأحوال العادية ؛ لأن ذلك يناقض مبدأ الفصل بين السلطات. يأتي هذا البحث ليتحقق مِمَ إذا كانت حالة "الضرورة" تخدم في القانون الدستوري كمفهوم مستقل، من شأنه أن يسمح للمسؤولين في الدولة و السلطة التنفيذية الفرار من العواقب "الضارة" المترتبة على الالتزام "الجامد" بسيادة القانون في الظروف كافة و ممَ إذا كان بالإمكان الاحتجاج "بحالة الضرورة" لمنع لا مشروعية أفعالهم؛ ليتجنب المسؤولون الملاحقة الجنائية، و لتتجنب السلطة التنفيذية "عيب" عدم الدستورية