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Solenopsis saudiensis Sharaf & Aldawood 2011
No full textSolenopsis saudiensis Sharaf & Aldawood, 2011 ( Fig.6 a, b ) Solenopsis saudiensis Sharaf & Aldawood, 2011: 476. This species was recently described from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Sharaf and Aldawood, 2011) and was the first record of the genus from the country. Recently, the Solenopsis of the Arabian Peninsula were revised by Sharaf and Aldwood (2012). At Rawdhat Khorim this species is rare, with only a single specimen collected by a pitfall trap in February.Published as part of Sharaf, Mostafa R., Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S., Al Dhafer, Hathal M. & Aldawood, Abdulrahman S., 2013, The ants (Hymenoptera: formicidae) of Rawdhat Khorim Nature Preserve, Saudi Arabia, with description of a new species of the genus Tetramorium Mayr, pp. 565-580 in Zootaxa 3709 (6) on page 574, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3709.6.6, http://zenodo.org/record/630001
Lepisiota elbazi Sharaf & Hita Garcia 2020
No full text<i>Lepisiota elbazi</i> Sharaf & Hita Garcia, 2020 <p>Fig. 18</p> <p> <i>Lepisiota elbazi</i> Sharaf & Hita Garcia, 2020 in Sharaf <i>et al.</i> 2020: 134 (w) Afrotropic.</p> Diagnosis <p>Bicolored species, head, mesosoma, petiole yellow or red-yellow, distal end of scapes, first funicular segment, and mandibular teeth darker; gaster dark brown to black with first tergite of lighter brown. In profile, posterior margin of head anteroposteriorly compressed; limited number of hair pairs on body: two pairs on posterior margin of head, two to three pairs on promesonotum, and one to two pairs on first gastral tergite.</p> Material examined <p> OMAN – <b>Dhofar</b> • w, holotype; Ayn Razat; 17.124° N, 54.238° E; alt. 98 m; 20 Nov. 2017; SF; M.R. Sharaf leg.; KSMA • 1 w, paratype; same collection data as for holotype; CASENT0922860; KSMA.</p> Ecological and biological notes <p> The two workers of the species were collected at Ayn Razat (Fig. 18) and were collected foraging in leaf litter under a tree of <i>Vachellia</i> where the soil was dry (Sharaf <i>et al.</i> 2020a).</p> Geographic range <p>Oman.</p>Published as part of <i>Sharaf, Mostafa R., Wetterer, James K., Mohamed, Amr A. & Aldawood, Abdulrahman S., 2022, Faunal composition, diversity, and distribution of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Dhofar Governorate, Oman, with updated list of the Omani species and remarks on zoogeography, pp. 1-106 in European Journal of Taxonomy 838 (1)</i> on page 31, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.838.1925, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/7094306">http://zenodo.org/record/7094306</a>
Trichomyrmex mayri Sharaf et al. 2016
No full text<i>Trichomyrmex mayri</i> (Forel, 1902) (Fig. 25 A–C) <p> <i>Monomorium</i> (<i>Parholcomyrmex</i>) <i>gracillimum</i> var. <i>mayri</i> Forel, 1902: 209 (w.) India. Indomalaya.</p> <p> <b> <i>Diagnosis</i>. Worker.</b> <i>Trichomyrmex mayri</i> is closest to <i>T. destructor</i>, from which it can be separated by its uniform dark brown or black-brown color, whereas <i>T. destructor</i> has a yellow to brown-yellow head, mesosoma, petiole, and postpetiole, while its gaster is dark brown.</p> <p> <b> <i>Material examined</i>.</b> Doha, Fereej Ben Mahmoud, 14.iii.2005, 25°17’N, 51°30’E, (M.S. Abdel-Dayem leg.), 1w; Doha, 25°17.124’N, 51°31.86’E, 17.iii. 2005, (M.S. Abdel-Dayem leg.), 1w, (KSMA).</p> <p> <i> <i>Geographic distribution.</i> Trichomyrmex mayri</i> was described from India and is widely distributed in the sub-Saharan Africa (Bolton 1987); Levant (Sharaf 2006, Vonshak and Ionescu 2009); the Arabian Peninsula (Collingwood 1985, Collingwood and Agosti 1996, Sharaf <i>et al</i>. 2013, 2016 b), the Socotra Archipelago (Sharaf <i>et al</i>. 2017), and it was recorded from Qatar by Sharaf <i>et al</i>. (2016 b).</p> <p> <b> <i>Ecological and biological notes</i>.</b> In the Arabian Peninsula, <i>T. mayri</i> invades a wide range of habitats and constitutes the most common species of the genus (Sharaf <i>et al</i>. 2013, 2016). Nests are built in moist soil under stones next to date palm <i>Phoenix dactylifera</i> L. (Arecaceae) plantations, or close to <i>Acacia</i> trees in sites impacted by trash and human waste, whereas some exist next to the milkweed tree, <i>Calotropis procera</i> (Aiton) W.T. Aiton (Asclepiadaceae).</p>Published as part of <i>Sharaf, Mostafa R., Abdel-Dayem, Mahmoud S., Mohamed, Amr A., Fisher, Brian L. & Aldawood, Abdulrahman S., 2020, A Preliminary Synopsis of the Ant Fauna (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Qatar with Remarks on the Zoogeography, pp. 533-560 in Annales Zoologici 70 (4)</i> on pages 552-553, DOI: 10.3161/00034541anz2020.70.4.005, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/4433537">http://zenodo.org/record/4433537</a>
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Solenopsis kochi Sharaf, Taylor & Klingenberg, 2009, Stat.n.
No full textSolenopsis kochi Finzi Stat.n. (Plate 2, 3) Solenopsis orbula ssp. kochi Finzi, 1936: 178, fig. 8. Syntype worker, EGYPT: Soloum (Salloum), 23.iii.1933, 31.31° N; 25.09° E (C. Koch); Syntype males, Helouan (Helwan, Cairo), 27.iii.1933, 29.51° N; 31.20° E (W. Wittmer); Syntype gynes, Marsa Matrouh, 21.iii.1933 (unknown collector); Ikingi Mariout, 18.iii.1935, 31.01° N; 29.48° E; Cairo, 12.ii.1933 (MCZC) [examined]. Syntype worker (Plate 2, Fig. d, e). TL 2.0, HL 0.48, HW 0.41, SL 0.30, EL 0.02, AL 0.54, SI 73, CI 85. Head not much longer than broad with slightly convex sides. Occipital margin straight with rounded corners. Head dorsum smooth and shining. Mandibles unsculptured, smooth and shining with long yellow hairs and brown teeth. Anterior clypeal margin with the median portion narrowly concave and with a lateral pair of short, broad basal teeth. Eyes minute, with a single facet set laterally well below midline of head and about 0.04 times the head width. Mesosoma with a distinct metanotal groove. Basal face of propodeum not forming an angle with the declivity. All parts of the head and body with abundant, scattered, long yellow hairs. Colour uniformly yellow. The badly mounted type specimen does not show clearly the characters of the petiole and the postpetiole. Gyne (Plate 2, Fig. f, g). TL 5.7, HL 0.76, HW 0.70, SL 0.54, EL 0.25, AL 1.47, SI 77, CI 92. Head slightly longer than broad with its dorsum smooth and shining with abundant scattered yellow hair pits. Anterior clypeal margin weakly concave. First funicular segment longer than the three following funicular segments together. Eyes large and oval with 17 facets in the longest row. Ocelli oval, the anterior one distinctly larger than the posterior ones. Occipital margin straight with rounded corners. Metanotal groove distinct. Head, mandibular teeth, mesosoma, petiole and postpetiole dark brown; gaster and mandibles light brown; antennae and legs yellow. Whole body smooth and shining with scattered yellow hairs. Male (Plate 3, Fig. a, b, c). TL 4.36, HL 0.63, HW 0.68, SL 0.26, EL 0.26, AL 1.54, SI 38, CI 108. Head broader than long with strongly curved sides; above the eyes smooth and shiny; areas in front of eyes, between frontal lobes and between posterior ocelli distinctly rugulose. Mandibles narrow, armed with three teeth. Antennae 13-segmented, scapes long, about 3.7 times longer than broad; first funiculus segment relatively long, 1.6 times longer than broad and thick at its distal end; the following segments are clearly longer than broad, increasing in length toward the end of the funiculus. Dorsum with scattered, long yellow hairs. Mesosoma smooth and shining with scattered long yellow hairs. Petiolar node in profile rounded. Gastral tergites with a few scattered yellow hairs that are abundant at the posterior margins. Solenopsis kochi was described from workers, gynes and males collected by C. Koch, W. Wittmer and an unknown person from different localities including Salloum, Heluan, Ikingi Mariut, Marsa Matrouh and Cairo (Finzi, 1936) This species seems not to have been collected since the original description, as there are no specimens in the Egyptian Entomological collections. As stated in the original description, the head is not much longer than broad with slightly convex sides (Finzi, 1936). This is the most distinctive character for separating this species from S. orbula. After examining the type, MRS has been able to confirm Finzi's description. The lateral margin of the head in S. kochi clearly is convex while it is straight in S. orbula. Consequently, the head is broader in S. kochi (HW 0.41 versus HW 0.32 in S. orbula). In addition, it was found that S. kochi is consistently larger than S. orbula (TL 2.0 versus TL 1.4). Moreover, the scape length in S. kochi is somewhat longer than in S. orbula (SL 0.3 versus SL 0.2). For completeness the measurements of the holotype worker of S. orbula are TL 1.4, HL 0.40, HW 0.32. SL 0.20, EL 0.02, AL 0.40, SI 50, CI 80. It is hoped that the results given here will dispel at least a little of the taxonomic fog surrounding the Egyptian Solenopsis and perhaps clear the way for more detailed systematic work on this genus. Our expectation is that careful exploration would yield many additional and interesting members of the genus Solenopsis. Many parts of Egypt remain poorly collected and likely ant habitats are distributed over the huge deserts and mountainous areas of the country.Published as part of Sharaf, M. R., Taylor, B. & Klingenberg, C., 2009, Ants of the genus Solenopsis Westwood, 1840 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Egypt with a description of the worker castes of S. cooperi Donisthorpe, 1947., pp. 49-58 in Zootaxa 2004 on pages 55-5
PENGEMBANGAN MEDIA PEMBELAJARAN SHARAF BAHASA ARAB BERBASIS ANDROID
No full textPenelitian pengembangan ini bertujuan untuk mengembangkan media pembelajaran sharaf bahasa Arab untuk para santri di Ponpes Al-Munawwir Krapyak khususnya, dan untuk masyarakat luas pada umumnya dengan memanfaatkan program atau software”android”, dan untuk mengetahui kelayakan apabila media pembelajaran dalam bentuk aplikasi tersebut menjadi bahan pelengkap dalam mempelajari sharaf bahasa Arab khusus materi tashrif istilahy.
Penelitian pengembangan ini menggunakan langkah-langkah atau model prosedural, yaitu: perencanaan, pelaksanaan, dan penilaian. Produk yang telah dikembangkan, selanjutnya ditinjau oleh ahli media dan ahli materi. Kemudian penilaian produk dilakukan oleh 20 orang responden yakni para santriwati Ponpes Al-Munawwir Krapyak Yogyakarta. Instrumen yang digunakan berupa angket check list untuk melihat kualitas produk, dan angket respon santri untuk melihat tanggapan santri terhadap produk yang dikembangkan. Hasil penilaian dan respon berupa data kuantitatif kemudian dianalisis dengan kriteria penilaian ideal dan persentase keidealan untuk menentukan kualitas produk.
Hasil penelitian pengembangan berupa aplikasi media pembelajaran sharaf bahasa Arab berbasis android. Berdasarkan hasil penilaian menurut ahli materi, materi dalam aplikasi ini berkategori Sangat Baik (SB), dan Baik (B) oleh ahli media. Sedangkan respon yang dihasilkan menurut 20 santri yaitu 87,94 % dengan kategori Sangat Baik. Dari hasil penelitian tersebut dapat disimpulkan bahwa media pembelajaran sharaf bahasa Arab menggunakan program “android” yang berupa aplikasi ini layak dan dapat dijadikan sebagai bahan pelengkap dalam mempelajari sharaf khusus tashrif istilahy
Fig. 33. Meranoplus mosalahi Sharaf, 2019 in Faunal composition, diversity, and distribution of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Dhofar Governorate, Oman, with updated list of the Omani species and remarks on zoogeography
No full textFig. 33. Meranoplus mosalahi Sharaf, 2019, paratype, worker (CASENT0922861,AntWeb.org (Michele Esposito)). A. Body in profile. B. Head in full-face view. C. Distribution map.Published as part of Sharaf, Mostafa R., Wetterer, James K., Mohamed, Amr A. & Aldawood, Abdulrahman S., 2022, Faunal composition, diversity, and distribution of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Dhofar Governorate, Oman, with updated list of the Omani species and remarks on zoogeography, pp. 1-106 in European Journal of Taxonomy 838 (1) on page 54, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.838.1925, http://zenodo.org/record/709430
Medicine [791]
No full textMedicine.
This manuscript is now IO Islamic 1217 in the India Office collections.
[metadata: Otto Loth, A Catalogue of the Arabic Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office, (volume 1), no. 791 here with further notations and hyperlinks].
791.
1217. Size 8 in. by 43/4 in.; foll. 140. Seven lines in a page.
A Compendium of Medicine, called قانونچه , by Sharaf al-dîn Maḥmûd b. ‘Omar 1 JAGHMÎNÎ. See Ḥ. Kh. iv. 495, and Cat. Mus. Brit. 226, where the name of the author and the title are not given. Cf. Catal. Lugd. iii. 241. Printed at Calcutta, 1827.2
Begins: الحمد لله رب العالمين ... و بعد فهذا مختصر مشتمل على زبدة ما يجب استحضاره من صناعة الطب انتخبته من كتب الاقدمين و رتبته على عشر مقالات.
Boldly written, with copious notes, many of which are derived from the author (منه) . Of the tenth century.
The beginning and the end have been supplied by a more modern hand. A defect after fol. 3.
[Gaikwar.]
1 Alias b. Muḥammad.
2 Bibl. Sprenger. 1892
FIGURE 2 in Further records of pseudoscorpions (Arachnida, Pseudoscorpiones) from Saudi Arabia
No full textFIGURE 2. Type locality of Pseudochthonius arabicus Mahnert n. sp. a, Map of Saudi Arabia, showing location of site; b, Al Bahah, Al Mukwah Dhi Ayn Archeological Village (type locality), (photograph by M. Abdel-Dayem); c, Habitat (photograph by M. Sharaf).Published as part of Mahnert, Volker, Sharaf, Mostafa & Aldawood, Abdulrahman S., 2014, Further records of pseudoscorpions (Arachnida, Pseudoscorpiones) from Saudi Arabia, pp. 387-393 in Zootaxa 3764 (3) on page 390, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3764.3.8, http://zenodo.org/record/22754
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