147 research outputs found
Using Linked Data as a basis for a Learning Resource Recommendation System
No full textResource List Management Systems (RLMS) allow the electronic publication of course reading lists. Aside from electronic access, existing systems in this area provide little utility for teachers and learners above and beyond the traditional paper based reading lists. Our vision is that resource lists could in actual fact become Open Educational Resources that can be shared, re-mixed and re-used across institutions and borders. This paper introduces how we used linked data to architect a RLMS to meet this vision. However, in implementing this system, questions arose around the provenance, sustainability, licensing and reliability of today's linked data cloud. This paper documents the steps we took to address these criticisms in our implementation. The paper goes on to discuss how the ecosystem of learning data managed by this application opens the way for future work, which involves leveraging typed relationships between learning goals, educational resources and system actors to provide recommendation-like services for academics creating new content
Aspidorhinus Eichwald 1841
No full textSubgenus Aspidorhinus Eichwald, 1841 Type species: Eremias velox (Pallas, 1771)Published as part of Masroor, Rafaqat, Khan, Muazzam Ali, Nadeem, Muhammad Sajid, Amir, Shabir Ali, Khisroon, Muhammad & Jablonski, Daniel, 2022, Appearances often deceive in racerunners: integrative approach reveals two new species of Eremias (Squamata: Lacertidae) from Pakistan, pp. 55-87 in Zootaxa 5175 (1) on page 58, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5175.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/700322
FIGURE 8 in Appearances often deceive in racerunners: integrative approach reveals two new species of Eremias (Squamata: Lacertidae) from Pakistan
No full textFIGURE 8. Two rare species of the subgenus Aspidorhinus (Eremias) from desert and semi-desert areas of Central Asia (Afghanistan, Uzbekistan) for which genetic data are missing so far: the holotype of E. afghanistanica from Afghanistan (ZFMK-H 13320) and the holotype of E. regeli from Uzbekistan (ZISP 6115).Published as part of Masroor, Rafaqat, Khan, Muazzam Ali, Nadeem, Muhammad Sajid, Amir, Shabir Ali, Khisroon, Muhammad & Jablonski, Daniel, 2022, Appearances often deceive in racerunners: integrative approach reveals two new species of Eremias (Squamata: Lacertidae) from Pakistan, pp. 55-87 in Zootaxa 5175 (1) on page 77, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5175.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/700322
FIGURE 7 in Appearances often deceive in racerunners: integrative approach reveals two new species of Eremias (Squamata: Lacertidae) from Pakistan
No full textFIGURE 7. (A) The type locality of Eremias rafiqi sp. nov. near Tanishpa village, Torghar Mountains, Killa Saifullah district, Balochistan; (B) Eremias rafiqi sp. nov. from Kunder, Torghar Mountains, Killa Saifullah district, Balochistan; (C) The paratype of E. rafiqi sp. nov. (PMNH 4056) from under, Torghar Mountains, Killa Saifullah district, Balochistan; (D) The type locality of Eremias killasaifullahi sp. nov. near Kunder, Torghar Mountains, Killa Saifullah district, Balochistan; (E) The holotype of E. killasaifullahi sp. nov. (PMNH 3613) from Kunder, Torghar Mountains, Killa Saifullah district, Balochistan; (F) Eremias killasaifullahi sp. nov. from Tanishpa.Published as part of Masroor, Rafaqat, Khan, Muazzam Ali, Nadeem, Muhammad Sajid, Amir, Shabir Ali, Khisroon, Muhammad & Jablonski, Daniel, 2022, Appearances often deceive in racerunners: integrative approach reveals two new species of Eremias (Squamata: Lacertidae) from Pakistan, pp. 55-87 in Zootaxa 5175 (1) on page 76, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5175.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/700322
Understanding Ḥadīth, “Father of Prophet Muḥammad in Hell” In Shabir Ally's Perspective
No full textShabir Ally is a Canadian Islamic preacher and apologist. He was interviewed on a YouTube channel named ‘Let The Quran Speak’ about the prophet’s father in hell. However, his explanation is only a brief explanation. Meanwhile, understanding the Ḥadīth of the Prophet Muḥammad Ṣallallahu ‘Alayhi Wa Sallam. Must also use the methodology of Ḥadīth knowledge and the opinions of experts about the true meaning contained in the Ḥadīth. This article aims to provide a more complete explanation of what has been explained by Dr. Shabir Ally in his interview session. This research is a type of literature review research. The result of this article can be summarized as follows: Shabir Ally is in the middle position, neither saying the Prophet's father was in hell nor saying the Prophet's father was saved from the torment of hell. Moreover, the words of the prophet who said, 'My father is also in hell,' are just additions to the story by the people who told that event. However, the author(s) have not found the primary basis for Shabir Ally to say that so far
Understanding Ḥadīth, “Father of Prophet Muḥammad in Hell” In Shabir Ally's Perspective
No full textShabir Ally is a Canadian Islamic preacher and apologist. He was interviewed on a YouTube channel named ‘Let The Quran Speak’ about the prophet’s father in hell. However, his explanation is only a brief explanation. Meanwhile, understanding the Ḥadīth of the Prophet Muḥammad Ṣallallahu ‘Alayhi Wa Sallam. Must also use the methodology of Ḥadīth knowledge and the opinions of experts about the true meaning contained in the Ḥadīth. This article aims to provide a more complete explanation of what has been explained by Dr. Shabir Ally in his interview session. This research is a type of literature review research. The result of this article can be summarized as follows: Shabir Ally is in the middle position, neither saying the Prophet's father was in hell nor saying the Prophet's father was saved from the torment of hell. Moreover, the words of the prophet who said, 'My father is also in hell,' are just additions to the story by the people who told that event. However, the author(s) have not found the primary basis for Shabir Ally to say that so far
Public Feelings and Other Acts
No full textIn his debut, Ray Shabir shines a spotlight to the realm of his adolescence, before facing the inevitable truth of growing up. In Public Feelings & Other Acts, a collection of theatrical range of works, Ray raises his glass in his own tribute of youth. Public Feelings & Other Acts matures into a kaleidoscopic memoir. It opens up to the reader through a series of essays, poetries, proses, and other forms of writings. Completed with striking visuals that aids his storytelling, the author takes on his own personal accounts on growing up, from creativity to partying to loneliness to heartache. The book is a documentation of the author´s personal period of time, in order to reflect and acknowledge his own coming-of-age before moving forward. Written in a voice that is unapologetically personal yet critically distant at the same time, he makes his odyssey towards adulthood - unquestionably his own
Learning and communicating about the livelihoods of fishers and farmers
No full textCONTENTS: First one-stop aqua shop in Pakistan, by Syed Nadeem Sharib and Muhammad Junaid Wattoo. Dad Karim: a fisherman of Gwadar, by Abdul Rahim. Learning to fish in the deep sea of Sindh Province, by Muhammad Alam. Freshwater prawn fishery of Pakistan, by Muhammad Yaqoob. Cephalopod fishery: a local technique to catch cuttlefish in the coastal waters of Pakistan, by Shabir Ali Amir. Grouper culture in Pakistan, by S. Makhdoom Hussain and Zakia Khatoon.The STREAM Initiative was hosted at the Network of Aquaculture Centres in Asia-Pacific (NACA) in Bangkok (Thailand
Performance evaluation of ruthenium complexes and organic sensitizers in ZnO-based dye-sensitized solar cells
No full textRuthenium (Ru) dyes are a well-known player in the field of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) due to their high efficiency and excellent stability. Their properties and complexes have been studied for almost three decades. Although these sensitizers show better performances, their high cost makes these third-generation solar devices less economical. Organic dyes have recently been explored as an alternative to Ru-based dyes due to their easy and low-cost synthesis. A comparative performance evaluation of Ru complexes and dicyanoisophorone and rhodanine organic dyes in ZnO-based DSSCs is here reported. All the Ru complexes showed better performance in comparison to organic dyes except R-4. Among the Ru sensitizers, R-3 exhibited the highest efficiency of 1.21% followed by R-2, which is attributed to the presence of several anchoring groups such as carboxyl, nitro and amine. However, the presence of more nitrogen-based groups has drastically reduced the performance as observed for R-4, which is the least performing dye among the Ru-based ones. On the contrary, organic sensitizers S-06 and P-4 revealed to be less efficient with respect to R-3 owing to the presence of only one anchoring group and weak photoanode/dye interaction
Eremias Fitzinger 1834
No full textIdentification key to the Pakistani species of the genus Eremias (modified from Masroor et al. 2020a) 1. Subocular bordering mouth............................................................................. 2 - Subocular not bordering mouth................................................................ E. acutirostris 2. A complete row of lateral scales of the 4 th toe forming a distinct fringe or comb on its entire length..................... 3 - Lateral scales of 4 th toe not forming distinct fringe........................................................... 4 3. Row of femoral pores reaches well short of the knee; the median dark dorsal stripes interrupted and form reticulate pattern.............................................................................................. E. scripta - Row of femoral pores reaches to knee; dorsal stripes without any sign of vermiculation................... E. cholistanica 4. Back with 5–11 dark stripes, broader than interspaces, none of the stripes containing light ocelli or spots; stripes persistent in adults, but sometimes indistinct so that back appears almost uniform sandy; usually only single median collar scale distinctly larger than adjacent gulars.............................................................................. 5 - Dark stripes on the dorsum of juvenile breaking up in adults to form spots or broken lines; usually, several collar scales distinctly larger than adjacent gulars...................................................................... 6 5. 4 th toe with two complete rows of subdigital scales and a complete row of sharply pointed lateral scales, i.e., a total of 4 scales counted around penultimate phalanx.......................................................... Eremias fasciata - 4 th toe with one complete row of subdigital scales and a complete row of lateral scales, i.e., total of three scales counted around penultimate phalanx............................................................................. E. kakari 6. Adults with four more or less regular rows of disconnected dark spots on dorsum between dorsolateral broader dark stripes, the latter with white ocelli at the edges and within each stripe; infranasal in contact with the rostral........... E. rafiqi sp. nov. - Adults with seven light stripes on the neck, transforming into disconnected series of white ocelli edged with black; no dorsolateral dark stripes, an outer-most series of white and black ocelli starts behind the eyes on each side, onto tympanum and flanks above the forelimb and hindlimb insertion; infranasal not in contact with the rostral................... E. killasaifullahi sp. nov.Published as part of Masroor, Rafaqat, Khan, Muazzam Ali, Nadeem, Muhammad Sajid, Amir, Shabir Ali, Khisroon, Muhammad & Jablonski, Daniel, 2022, Appearances often deceive in racerunners: integrative approach reveals two new species of Eremias (Squamata: Lacertidae) from Pakistan, pp. 55-87 in Zootaxa 5175 (1) on page 78, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5175.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/700322
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