cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Financing Education (SDG4): Role of Islamic Blended Finance
Creators: name: Al Otaibi, Yousef H.
Publisher: name: Manara - Qatar Research Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 50
subject: Philosophy and religious studies

description: Education is a very important factor in unlocking the human potential and in turn, the development of economies. The revelation of Islam starts with the word Iqra (read). Since the conclusion of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the introduction of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), researchers and policy-makers have identified gaps in financing education that requires additional resources to be attracted through different means. In order to implement SDG4, which is about education effectively, alternative financing mechanisms are required to be innovated in order to overcome the deficit in resources targeting education. The vast majority of Muslim countries are of developing and most are least developed and financing mechanisms are necessary to be in line with the local cultural values and religious proscriptions in Muslim societies. The research analyzes various studies to understand the historical context of education, the importance of education in Islam and the challenges to implement SDG4. The research also provides various data from reports to study the current state of financing education in the world. Finally, the research studies different suggested mechanisms and the projected role of Islamic finance in financing education. In addition, based on the mechanisms suggested, the research formulates a model to incorporate Islamic Blended Finance in financing education, which provides shifting the paradigm of financing education from public to a mixture between public and private investment.
Exploring Gender Justice through the Lens of Islamic Relief Pakistan
Creators: name: Zaman, Alina
Publisher: name: Manara - Qatar Research Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 50
subject: Philosophy and religious studies

description: Despite many advances in the modern world, 1 in 5 women are still victims of violence. This is why number 5 of the 17 United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is gender equality, which seeks to empower and enhance the well-being of all women and girls. This study aims to examine SDG 5 in the Pakistani context. Despite many studies focusing on the factors and causes relating to violence against women in Pakistan, what is missing is an analysis of the many non-governmental organizations which work towards alleviating these deep-seated issues including emotional violence against women. This thesis examines the particular case of Islamic Relief Pakistan (IRP) - one of the oldest and reputable non-governmental organizations operating in Islamabad, Pakistan. This thesis explores how gender justice for widows is achieved through the policy of Islamic Relief, particularly examining their Empowerment Widows in Need (EWIN) program. It has two aims: first, to analyze IRP’s EWIN project in the context of other IRP programs and how they operate; and second, to explore the challenges and struggles of the EWIN program in promoting gender justice. This is a qualitative study based on an extensive review of IRP and UN reports and in-depth, semi-structured interviews and focus groups with the staff and beneficiaries of IRP. This thesis argues that IRP through their EWIN program holistically empowers widows by assisting them to exercise their agency by carefully navigating the constraints of their patriarchal society.
Adelges (Dreyfusia) merkeri
Creators: name: Albrecht, Anders Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Adelgidae
Adelges
Adelges merkeri

description: Adelges (Dreyfusia) merkeri (Eichhorn, 1957)
Diagnosis
Similar to A. nordmannianae. Neosistens: wax pore plates on inner margins of meso- and metathoracic spinal sclerites divided into 3–4 rounded areas, each with 3–8 pits. Total number of pits on the 10 central areas 26–63 (usually more than 40) (Blackman & Eastop 1994, 2014). Holocyclic and dioecious, alternating between Picea orientalis (p. 9) and Abies alba. Scattered on trunk and older branches, on all parts of seedlings. Not ant-attended.
Recorded secondary hosts
Pinaceae: Abies alba. Holman (2009) also lists A. nordmanniana.
Distribution
S.
description: Published as part of Albrecht, Anders Christian, 2017, Illustrated identification guide to the Nordic aphids feeding on Conifers (Pinophyta) (Insecta, Hemiptera, Sternorhyncha, Aphidomorpha), pp. 1-160 in European Journal of Taxonomy 338 on page 21, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.338, http://zenodo.org/record/3834349
Adelges (Aphrastasia) pectinatae
Creators: name: Albrecht, Anders Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Adelgidae
Adelges
Adelges pectinatae

description: Adelges (Aphrastasia) pectinatae (Cholodkovsky, 1888)
Figs 41–44
Diagnosis
Neosistens 0.3–0.4 mm, shiny black with a double spinal crest and a marginal rim of more or less curly wax ribbons, and a posterior tuft of wax wool. Older sistentes and progredientes dark grey, embedded in a tuft of thick, stiff, ‘half-pipe’ shaped wax filaments. Spinal and pleural sclerites fused on all segments, and spinopleural sclerites also fused to marginal sclerites of abdominal tergites 6–8. Older sistentes and progredientes dark grey to purplish grey, richly exuding thick, curly wax filaments. Holocyclic and dioecious, alternating between spruce (Picea, p. 8) and fir (Abies). Predominantly in parks and plantations, scattered on needles, both upper- and undersides, often in great number. Not ant-attended. Apparently predominantly anholocyclic on Abies. Not ant-attended.
Recorded secondary hosts
Pinaceae: Abies alba *, amabilis *, balsamea *, concolor *, fraseri *, grandis *, koreana *, lasiocarpa *, nordmanniana, procera, sibirica *, veichtii, spp.
Distribution
F N S.
B6 (B5) On bark of stems, branches and twigs ............................ Adelges (Dreyfusia) Börner, 1908
description: Published as part of Albrecht, Anders Christian, 2017, Illustrated identification guide to the Nordic aphids feeding on Conifers (Pinophyta) (Insecta, Hemiptera, Sternorhyncha, Aphidomorpha), pp. 1-160 in European Journal of Taxonomy 338 on page 20, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.338, http://zenodo.org/record/3834349
Does SDG Performance Lead to Higher Financial Performance: Case of Dow Jones Islamic Market World Index Heavy Industry Sector Firms
Creators: name: Satapo, Yuhan
Publisher: name: Manara - Qatar Research Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 50
subject: Philosophy and religious studies

description: The global society has been facing many issues and challenges that require urgent attention. One innovative global solution is the introduction of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The private sector is a key stakeholder using resources from the society to satisfy corporate interests, and it is the sector’s responsibility to ensure and protect the well-being of the society in return, by taking an active role to accelerate the implementation and execution process of the SDGs to be achieved by 2030. Therefore, there is a high expectation from the private firms to contribute to the SDGs agenda. The aim of this study is to analyze the impact of the SDGs environmental scores on firms’ financial performance. A total of twenty-five industrial listed firms from the constituents of Dow Jones Islamic Market World Index has been analyzed in this study. As of the study’s findings, it shows that a higher score of SDGs environmental performance leads to a higher ROA and ROE in the sampled firms. The study recommends that firms could achieve higher financial performance by improving their resource use, increasing corporate innovation and reducing CO2 emissions. This study has policy implications for both companies and regulators.
Adelges (Dreyfusia) nordmannianae
Creators: name: Albrecht, Anders Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Adelgidae
Adelges
Adelges nordmannianae

description: Adelges (Dreyfusia) nordmannianae (Eckstein, 1890)
Figs 45–46
Diagnosis
Neosistens rather similar to those of A. pectinatae (see above), but wax ribbons thinner and more strongly curled, and spinal and pleural sclerites on mesothorax, metathorax and abdominal tergites 1–5 separate (although sometimes touching). Older sistentes and progredientes dark grey, embedded in fine, curly wax wool. Wax pore plates on inner margins of meso- and metathoracic spinal sclerites containing numerous small, mostly rounded, pits arranged in 2–4 areas of rather rounded shape, the most central area containing 7–12 pits. Found on bark, usually on young branches and twigs, single specimens occasionally on needles (my own record). Not ant-attended.
Recorded secondary hosts
Pinaceae: Abies alba *, balsamea, cephalonica, concolor, grandis, nordmanniana, procera, sibirica, veitchii, spp.
Distribution
D N S.
description: Published as part of Albrecht, Anders Christian, 2017, Illustrated identification guide to the Nordic aphids feeding on Conifers (Pinophyta) (Insecta, Hemiptera, Sternorhyncha, Aphidomorpha), pp. 1-160 in European Journal of Taxonomy 338 on pages 20-21, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.338, http://zenodo.org/record/3834349
Syrraphesina Raffray 1903
Creators: name: Yin, Zi-Wei
name: Hlaváč, Peter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Syrraphesina

description: Syrraphesina sp.
Material examined. 1 ex. labeled ‘Friedrich-Wilh.-hafen / N. Guinea, Biró 96’ (MHNG).
Comments. We have seen in the MHNG collection an additional specimen of Syrraphesina, that probably represents another new species of the genus from Papua New Guinea. The specimen is unavailable for study at this moment, but the distribution of this potential new species is mapped here (Fig. 4E).
description: Published as part of Yin, Zi-Wei & Hlaváč, Peter, 2020, A second species of Syrraphesina Raffray found adjacent to Wallace's Line (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Pselaphinae), pp. 203-210 in Zootaxa 4852 (2) on page 209, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4852.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/4409816
Contextualizing Religious Pluralism in Malaysia: Responses from Christians and Muslims
Creators: name: Bin Moideen, Mohamad Thaufiq
Publisher: name: Manara - Qatar Research Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 50
subject: Philosophy and religious studies

description: The term ‘religious pluralism’ has been emerged as a result of interconnection and intersection between various ideologies, cultures, and religious affiliations among humankind. It is a theological concept that celebrates plurality, diversity, and coexistence of religions in which responses towards the Ultimate Divine reality with various conflicting truth-claims made by the followers of religions. Muslims and Christians scholars’ and academicians’ has put extensive efforts in discussing this concept and relate them with the notion of religious plurality. However, some indicate the striking difference between both terms while others are maintaining the similarity between them. Taking Malaysia as a context, this kind of idea which is alien to its people has brought confusion between the adherents of different faiths. Therefore, this study is an attempt to focus on the different understanding of these two terms from Muslims and Christians scholars’ perspectives. Thus, it tackled the way scholars relate their understanding of religious pluralism and religious plurality with two significant provisions of Islam as the religion of the federation and freedom of religion and the controversial issue of the use of the word ‘Allah’ in the Malay Bible. The current study was conducted through a descriptive and qualitative method. The structured interviews and textual analysis approach have been used in analyzing the primary and secondary materials for the research. By considering these three significant issues discussed in this study, it leads to the proper understanding of the way one should handle when dealing with the issues related to the inter-religious and inter-cultural matters socially, politically, and historically.
Eutrombicula (Eutrombicula) webbi Brennan and Reed 1974
Creators: name: Nielsen, David H.
name: Robbins, Richard G.
name: Rueda, Leopoldo M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Actinedida
Trombiculidae
Eutrombicula
Eutrombicula webbi

description: Eutrombicula (Eutrombicula) webbi Brennan and Reed, 1974b:
NEO
description: Published as part of Nielsen, David H., Robbins, Richard G. & Rueda, Leopoldo M., 2021, Annotated world checklist of the Trombiculidae and Leeuwenhoekiidae (1758 - 2021) (Acari: Trombiculoidea), with notes on nomenclature, taxonomy, and distribution, pp. 1-243 in Zootaxa 4967 (1) on page 114, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4967.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4745510
Women’s Leadership in Oil and Gas Industry in Qatar
Creators: name: Abuhelaiqa, Abeer Hassan
Publisher: name: Manara - Qatar Research Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society

description: Qatar’s economy is highly dependent on the Oil and Gas (O&G) industry, and thus the sustainability of this industry is a concern for the development of the country. Facing the currently low flow of candidates, where the majority are males, the industry is doomed to face a shortage of talented labor in the upcoming years. In order to fight labor shortage, encouraging talented women, who are currently a minority, to join the industry is a must. This research examines the gender gap and the obstacles women face when working in this industry. It analyzes the reasons why women shift from working in the O&G industry after few years, and maps the measures that could be taken to overcome some of these obstacles. In order to do so, previous studies on the subject were gathered, a survey was conducted in which participants were chosen exclusively from Qatari O&G industry, in addition to the experience of the researcher who herself is a Qatari woman currently working in Qatari O&G industry. Findings revealed major obstacles related to women, and socio-cultural norms and organizational internal policies, which men and women perceived differently. Several measures were suggested to break these barriers.
Prociphilus (Prociphilus) fraxini
Creators: name: Albrecht, Anders Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Aphididae
Prociphilus
Prociphilus fraxini

description: Prociphilus (Prociphilus) fraxini (Fabricius, 1777)
Diagnosis
Apterae 1.8–2.7 mm, pale, wax-covered. Very similar to P. bumeliae, but with posterior wax gland plates on head weakly developed, sometimes absent. Diagnosis based on Heie (2004). Holocyclic and dioecious, alternating between Fraxinus excelsior (Oleaceae) and roots of Abies, where wax-covered colonies are formed. Not ant-attended.
Recorded secondary hosts
Pinaceae: Abies alba, balsamea, nordmanniana, sibirica, spp.
Distribution
D N S.
Remarks
Holman (2009) also lists Prociphilus (Stagona) xylostei from Abies roots. See under Picea (entry A17, p. 17).
B3 (B2) On aerial parts of the tree .................................................................................................B4 B4 (B7) Antennae at most 3-segmented. Scattered on bark or needles .........................................B5 B5 (B6) On needles .................................................................. Adelges (Aphrastasia) Börner, 1909
description: Published as part of Albrecht, Anders Christian, 2017, Illustrated identification guide to the Nordic aphids feeding on Conifers (Pinophyta) (Insecta, Hemiptera, Sternorhyncha, Aphidomorpha), pp. 1-160 in European Journal of Taxonomy 338 on pages 19-20, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.338, http://zenodo.org/record/3834349
title: The unreality of photographic representation
Creators: name: Drew, Marian
Publisher: name: The Australian National University
Year: 2024

description: Photographic representations saturate contemporary life, on screens and streets, choreographing a conception of the world as measured, ordered and divisible. This sits in contrast to the physical world, as relational and uncertain, flows of geobiological matter and energy. This doctoral thesis arises from the hypothesis that the urgency of the environmental crisis and rapid technological change, necessitates new ways of imagining ourselves, as contingent with active geobiological forces. The research interrogates how photographic art practice disrupts the pictorial space of photographic representation, developing artwork that proposes an alternative paradigm of indivisibility, uncertainty, ambiguity, and flow. The research methodology positions geologic movement and temporality in contrast to the order, separation, and control implicit in photographic representational space. The resulting body of practice-based research replaces the single-perspective camera view with multiple views, layered into fabricated and folded material. These works depart from the rationalist paradigm of Cartesian space, through material propositions that situate the lithic, as energetic contingent matter. The research demonstrates the capacity for contemporary photographic practice to disrupt through material propositions that animate three-dimensional space, through an alternate, illusory, photographic model.
Stylopoma Levinsen 1909
Creators: name: Rodrigues, Maria J. S.
name: Larré, Igor R. N. M.
name: Vieira, Leandro M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Bryozoa
Gymnolaemata
Cheilostomatida
Schizoporellidae
Stylopoma

description: Genus Stylopoma Levinsen, 1909
Type species. Eschara spongites Pallas, 1766.
description: Published as part of Rodrigues, Maria J. S., Larré, Igor R. N. M. & Vieira, Leandro M., 2024, Two new species of Stylopoma (Bryozoa, Cheilostomatida) from the Southwestern Atlantic, pp. 420-434 in Zootaxa 5512 (3) on pages 421-422, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5512.3.6, http://zenodo.org/record/13849001
Adelges (Dreyfusia) piceae
Creators: name: Albrecht, Anders Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Adelgidae
Adelges
Adelges piceae

description: Adelges (Dreyfusia) piceae (Ratzeburg, 1843)
Fig. 47
Diagnosis
Similar to A. merkeri but neosistens with central areas of wax pore plates on meso- and metathoracic spinal sclerites often more-or-less triangular, each with 3–6 pits. Total number of pits on 10 central areas 18–59, usually less than 40. The characters distinguishing A. piceae and A. merkeri are variable, and the identification requires several specimens (Blackman & Eastop 2006; Heie 2004). Monoecious, anholocyclic on Abies. Found on trunk and branches. Not ant-attended.
Recorded hosts
Pinaceae: Abies alba, amabilis, balsamea, concolor, lasiocarpa, nordmanniana, sibirica, spp.
Distribution
D.
B7 (B4) Antennae 6-segmented. In colonies between needles of young shoots................................. ............................................................................................................ Mindarus Koch, 1857
description: Published as part of Albrecht, Anders Christian, 2017, Illustrated identification guide to the Nordic aphids feeding on Conifers (Pinophyta) (Insecta, Hemiptera, Sternorhyncha, Aphidomorpha), pp. 1-160 in European Journal of Taxonomy 338 on page 21, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.338, http://zenodo.org/record/3834349
Data Management, Workflow, and Visualization Solutions at ORNL
Creators: name: Kenneth, Moreland
name: Klasky, Scott
name: Podhorszki, Norbert
name: Qian, Gong
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has a long history of delivering quality data management, workflow, and visualization solutions for High Performance Computing (HPC). Bolstered by the Exascale Computing Project (ECP), these tools manage the data for some of the largest and fastest simulations to date. This talk gives a brief overview of these HPC tools. First, ADIOS is a flexible I/O layer that is shown to enable parallel disk performance close to theoretical limits as well as producer/consumer communication. Second, VTK-m is a next generation visualization library designed for high-speed post-processing on many-core accelerator processors common on Exascale computers. Third, EFFIS is a precise in situ workflow management solution supporting simulation integration for multi-physics support. Fourth, MGARD is an error-controlled lossy compression software capable of reducing floating-point scientific data by hundreds of times and providing hierarchical levels of refinement per user-prescribed error bounds. These technologies are tightly integrated and together they make it possible to capture and analyze data from large scale simulation.
Gendered Meanings in Arabic into English Subtitles: A Case Study of ‘Speed Sisters'
Creators: name: Ahmed, Ghada
Publisher: name: Manara - Qatar Research Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society

description: Over the past decades, there has been a growing interest in studying the field of Audiovisual Translation (AVT) and the relationships it has established with other disciplines and fields of knowledge. Feminist translation is one of the strategies adopted in the field of Translation Studies (TS) when a feminist discourse is being rendered from one language to another, and this strategy has been examined in previous studies on written texts. This research, however, addresses the practice of feminist translation in audiovisual texts that are concerned with visual and acoustic components (e.g. dialogue, image, music, etc.).This study aims to explore strategies that can be employed to transfer gender constructs and stereotypes to fulfil the mission of a feminist practice of translation. It also analyses how these strategies challenge gender stereotypes. This is achieved through analyzing the linguistic representation in the Arabic-English subtitles of the film Speed Sisters (2015) as well as the visual representation. The film provides fertile ground for the research’s topic: translation strategies used to transmit gender stereotypes and constructs in Arabic-English subtitles. Gottlieb’s framework subtitling strategies (1992) is considered to analyse the data collected at the level of linguistic representation and determine the strategies used. Besides, the analysis provides a discussion of the visual representation in the film. The examples and scenes discussed in the analysis illustrate that gender stereotypes can be reinforced or challenged in subtitling using the strategies of transfer, decimation, expansion and explicitation. The research also proves the crucial role the image, as a visual component, plays to strengthen the source language (SL) message and helps the viewers construct a new context of gender roles and representation.
Mindarus abietinus
Creators: name: Albrecht, Anders Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Aphididae
Mindarus
Mindarus abietinus

description: Mindarus abietinus (Koch, 1857)
Figs 48–49.
Diagnosis
Aptera 1.7–2.0 mm, pale green, with wax dusting, fine wax wool and thick, irregularly bent wax filaments. Alata pale green with transverse sclerites on abd. dorsum, body and appendages with short,
fine wax wool. Holocyclic, monoecious on Abies. In colonies between needles on young shoots. Only 3 generations per year. Sexuales dwarfish, in June–July. Not ant-attended.
Recorded hosts
Pinaceae: Abies alba, balsamea, cephalonica, concolor, grandis, homolepis, lasiocarpa, nordmanniana, pindrow, procera, sibirica *; Pseudotsuga menziesii.
Distribution
D F N S.
B8 (B1) Wax, if present, in the form of dusting, siphunculi present ..............................................B9 B9 (B10) Siphunculi present as pores raised on cones ........................................ Cinara Curtis, 1835
description: Published as part of Albrecht, Anders Christian, 2017, Illustrated identification guide to the Nordic aphids feeding on Conifers (Pinophyta) (Insecta, Hemiptera, Sternorhyncha, Aphidomorpha), pp. 1-160 in European Journal of Taxonomy 338 on pages 21-22, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.338, http://zenodo.org/record/3834349
Chudania
Creators: name: Meshram, Naresh M.
name: Ramamurthy, V. V.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Cicadellidae
Chudania

description: Key to species of Chudania from India
1. Pygofer ventral process broad, with finely serrated dorsal margin (Fig. 33); subgenital plate more than four times longer than maximum width, with numerous elongate, fine dorsal setae (Fig. 32); aedeagus dorsal processes unbranched process,,ventral pair short and 3–6 branched (Figs. 29–31).............................................. Chudania delecta Distant
- Pygofer ventral process narrow, tapering at apex, with 4 microsetae (Figs. 21& 22); approximately three times longer than maximum width, without long, fine dorsal setae (Fig. 23); aedeagus with dorsal and basal paired processes bifircate, distal pair divergent at nearly 180 degrees in posterior view (Figs. 19&20)........................ Chudania axona Zhang & Yang
description: Published as part of Meshram, Naresh M. & Ramamurthy, V. V., 2013, Description of a new evacanthine leafhopper species Sophonia chandrai sp. nov., with new record of Chudania axona (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae) from India, pp. 224-230 in Zootaxa 3717 (2) on page 227, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3717.2.6, http://zenodo.org/record/223079
Hilye-i Şerif Tradition in Ottoman Calligraphy
Creators: name: Kurt, Figen
Publisher: name: Manara - Qatar Research Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 50
subject: Philosophy and religious studies

description: The purpose of this study is to scrutinize the development of Hilye-i Şerif calligraphic plate which is an innovative and unique genre that was first designed towards the end of 16th Century by the famous Ottoman calligrapher Hafiz Osman Efendi. In literature and hadith fields, hilye texts that give information about the physical features and moral characteristics of the Prophet Muhammad were known by the Arabic speaking peoples and other Muslim communities thanks to the translations of such texts written by Tirmidhi and other authors. In the Ottoman literature, the most famous hilye writer was Hakani Mehmed Bey with Hilye-i Hakani. However, it was only in the Ottoman calligraphy that this literary form was converted into a calligraphic plate with a distinct design. Hafiz Osman Efendi, composed a layout to display the description of the Prophet that would be followed and repeated in the upcoming centuries. This design became one of the most common representations of the Prophet in the Ottoman society and a substitute for the icon. Hence, the study investigates the term and genre of hilye in literature and calligraphy, how calligraphic hilyes developed; analyses the content and form of hilye plates in context of Islamic art, and discusses the hilye plates in context of iconography as a non-figural representation of the Prophet Muhammed based on their symbolism in the composition and function in society.
The Diet-Gut Microbiome Interaction in Type 1 Diabetic and Type-1 Diabetic-Obese Pediatric Patients in Qatar’s Population
Creators: name: Assadi, Farah Kamal El
Publisher: name: Manara - Qatar Research Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCD) such as diabetes and obesity in Qatar is one of the highest rates among few countries in the world. Many studies have demonstrated microbiome as a potential factor contributing to the pathogenesis of NCD. To our knowledge, none of the previous studies has examined the gut microbiome pattern in metabolically compromised children in Qatar’s population. Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) is a common NCD among children in Qatar population, and interestingly a group of these children are obese. Hence, the objective of this study is to identify peculiar gut microbiome profiles in T1DM and T1DM-obese children in Qatar’s population. This study involves 70 pediatric subjects aged 6 to 12 years old divided into 4 categories: healthy control (HC), T1DM, T1DM-Obese and Obese. Anthropometric parameters, clinical biomarkers, treatments, and 24-hrs dietary recalls were collected. The microbiome characterization is based on 16S rDNA V3-V4 region using Illumina Miseq platform. QIIME 1.9.0 pipeline, R package, LEfSe and PICRUSt were all used for microbial analysis. Statistical analysis is considered significant when P <0.05. Dietary analysis was also performed and correlated with the observed microbiome patterns.We present here preliminary results of microbial profiles of the four groups. The main microbial differences among the groups were in Rikenellaceae, Prevotella, Bifidobacterium, Phascolarctobacterium, Sutterella and Blautia. The T1DM-OB group showed a unique microbial profile compared to the other groups, mainly characterized by a higher Firmicutes/Bacteroidetes ratio and a higher abundance of Sutterella and Blautia compared to the T1DM and obese groups respectively. We propose that dietary patterns are the potential factor behind the differences observed in the gut microbiome of the different groups.
Cinara (Cinara) pectinatae Nordlinger 1880
Creators: name: Albrecht, Anders Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Aphididae
Cinara
Cinara pectinatae

description: Cinara (Cinara) pectinatae Nördlinger, 1880
Figs 54–55
Diagnosis
Aptera 2.8–5 mm, bright green. Abdomen dorsally with diffuse whitish longitudinal bands, juveniles often with an additional whitish spinal streak; legs infuscate; eyes red. Underside and segment borders on thorax thinly wax-dusted. Holocyclic, monoecious on Abies. In small groups or colonies on young trunks and underside of lignified branches, sometimes ant-attended.
Recorded attendant ants
Formicinae: Formica polyctena *.
Recorded hosts
Pinaceae: Abies alba * (usually), balsamea, grandis, nordmanniana, sibirica spp.
Distribution
D N S.
B10 (B9) Siphunculi tubular ................................................................... Elatobium Mordvilko, 1914
description: Published as part of Albrecht, Anders Christian, 2017, Illustrated identification guide to the Nordic aphids feeding on Conifers (Pinophyta) (Insecta, Hemiptera, Sternorhyncha, Aphidomorpha), pp. 1-160 in European Journal of Taxonomy 338 on page 23, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.338, http://zenodo.org/record/3834349
Cinara (Cinara) curvipes
Creators: name: Albrecht, Anders Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Aphididae
Cinara
Cinara curvipes

description: Cinara (Cinara) curvipes (Patch, 1912)
Fig. 53
Diagnosis
Aptera 3.4–5.5 mm subshining black, legs orange to red-brown, tarsi and hind tibiae partly black. Juveniles and adults in summer with a thin but rather dense greyish wax cover. Siphunculi short, raised on cones. In appearance similar to C. piceae (see under Picea, entry A14, p. 14). Holocyclic and monoecious on Abies (and Cedrus). On trunk and branches. Sometimes attended by ants.
Recorded hosts
Pinaceae: Abies balsamea, concolor, koreana, lasiocarpa, spp.; Cedrus deodara.
Recorded attendant ants
Formica rufa (group?).
Distribution
Introduced from North America. Not yet in the Nordic countries, but widespread in Central and Western Europe.
description: Published as part of Albrecht, Anders Christian, 2017, Illustrated identification guide to the Nordic aphids feeding on Conifers (Pinophyta) (Insecta, Hemiptera, Sternorhyncha, Aphidomorpha), pp. 1-160 in European Journal of Taxonomy 338 on pages 22-23, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.338, http://zenodo.org/record/3834349
Dicyphus Fieber 1858
Creators: name: Jung, Sunghoon
name: Duwal, Ram Keshari
name: Lee, Seunghwan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Dicyphus

description: Genus Dicyphus Fieber 1858
Dicyphus Fieber, 1858. Type species: Capsus collaris Fallen 1807 (= Gerris errans Wolff 1804), by subsequent designation (Reuter, 1888). Extralimital subgenus: Uhlerella Cassis 1986, N. America (see Schuh 2002–2011).
Diagnosis. Recognized by the usually greenish yellow or yellowish gray coloration, elongate, slender body with uniformly distributed simple black setae on dorsum. Detailed diagnostic characters of the genus were provided by Lee & Kerzhner (1995) and Yasunaga (2000).
description: Published as part of Jung, Sunghoon, Duwal, Ram Keshari & Lee, Seunghwan, 2012, Aphid – feeding plant bug: A new record of Dicyphus miyamotoi Yasunaga (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Bryocorinae) from the Korean Peninsula, pp. 61-64 in Zootaxa 3247 on page 61, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.280544
Shariah Appraisal of Short Selling and Margin Trading
Creators: name: Musa, Mubarak Mohammed Kabir
Publisher: name: Manara - Qatar Research Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 50
subject: Philosophy and religious studies

description: Islamic finance industry has witnessed a remarkable growth in the last thirty years. This growth has been restricted to the banking sector while Islamic capital market is still at its nascent stage. Several countries have attempted to bridge this gap by introducing several Islamic alternative products to their respective capital markets. However, investors have not been receptive to these alternatives due to the lingering controversies surrounding their permissibility.This study attempts to study margin trading and short selling from a shariah perspective. Both contracts were characterized from shariah perspective as qard. A step by step assessment of both margin trading and short selling was conducted to ascertain their compliance with shariah. The study concluded that the conventional margin trading and short selling facilities are not shariah compliant.Several financial institutions at different stages have tried to offer an Islamic compliant margin trading and short selling. Malaysia has been at the forefront of this drive. Other countries such as Qatar, U.S.A Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirate have also seen the introduction and incorporation of either Islamic margin trading or short selling.Margin trading offered by three financial institutions was assessed in this study. The study showed that all three products had an underlying shariah concerns. The study also scrutinized the short selling offered by two institutions which employed the Islamic concepts of wa’d and salam. The study showed that both two structures were not fully shariah compliant.
Religious Coexistence in Islam: A Case Study of the Baha'i Community in Kuwait
Creators: name: Alazemi, Mohammad
Publisher: name: Manara - Qatar Research Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 50
subject: Philosophy and religious studies

description: Religion has long been at the center of our existence and has proven to be an ardent force for as long as humans have lived and were able to record history. Given today's highly globalized and integrated world, religious coexistence is thus a cornerstone for the advancement of any given society. This study explores the contributions of the approaches prescribed in Islam to religious coexistence while also drawing upon the Baha’i Faith which is similar in its teachings to Islam. One of the main principles of The Baha'i Faith is the concept of religious coexistence. This study focuses on the understanding of religious coexistence in Kuwait, which is a hub for diverse religious backgrounds and ethnicities. With Islam being Kuwait's state religion and with the Baha'is of Kuwait having experienced significant cultural, social and legal progress in favor of their religious community in the few of years, this dynamic implores their study through the lens of religious coexistence. Yet, Kuwait still has the potential to further build upon achieving a religiously harmonious society.
Cinara (Cinara) confinis Koch 1856
Creators: name: Albrecht, Anders Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Aphididae
Cinara
Cinara confinis

description: Cinara (Cinara) confinis Koch, 1856
Figs 50–52
Diagnosis
Siphunculi short and raised on cones. Aptera 3.8 – 7.5 mm, dark brown to brownish black with a bronzy sheen, legs predominantly black. Venter and segment borders thinly wax-dusted. Siphunculi short, raised on cones. Holocyclic and monoecious on Abies. Forming colonies, often dense, on young parts of trunks and underside of branches. Sometimes ant-attended.
Recorded hosts
Pinaceae: Abies alba, balsamea, cephalonica, concolor, grandis, holophylla *, lasiocarpa, nordmanniana, pindrow, procera, sibirica *, spp.
Recorded attendant ants
Formicinae: Formica rufa *.
Distribution
D F N S.
description: Published as part of Albrecht, Anders Christian, 2017, Illustrated identification guide to the Nordic aphids feeding on Conifers (Pinophyta) (Insecta, Hemiptera, Sternorhyncha, Aphidomorpha), pp. 1-160 in European Journal of Taxonomy 338 on page 22, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.338, http://zenodo.org/record/3834349
Corpus-Based Quality Evaluation of Ar-En Neural Machine Translation: Google Translate as a Case Study
Creators: name: Elkaffash, Sohaila M.
Publisher: name: Manara - Qatar Research Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society

description: This thesis investigates the quality of neural network-based machine translation (NMT) in the language pair: Arabic and English, taking Google Translate as a case study. A corpus-based approach is applied in the data collection and analysis processes. The texts examined in the case study fall under the academic genre. The latest TAUS’ Dynamic Quality Framework (DQF) is preliminarily employed for the implementation of the investigation of the translated output of these texts. It is also essential to point out that this model is an integrated version with Multidimensional Quality Metrics. Further, this model is modified and customized to suit the quality variables and criteria of each language on one hand, and of the translation process of this language pair on the other. Some sub-error types were added and some others were omitted. Moreover, the model’s severity scale was replaced by a translation-based one (includes respectively in a descending manner: ‘Mistranslation’, ‘Untranslated Texts’, ‘Under-translation’, ‘Over-translation’, ‘Neutral’). ‘Neutral’ errors are considered ‘textual’ errors that affect the functionality of the text in the target language (TL) but do not necessarily affect the translational aspect of the target text (TT). This scale readily locates the errors within the engine’s translation process and indicate whether the deficiency is in the machine capabilities in language analysis and generation or in the translation process itself. The results identified show that the modified evaluation model is robust and effectively works with this language pairs. In addition, the error analysis devotes a close view on the grammatical errors. The study concludes with a number of recommendations for future research as well as for applications for MT development.
A Study of Herat Metalwork at Museum of Islamic Art in Qatar
Creators: name: Dari, Mahmood Mohammud Ali
Publisher: name: Manara - Qatar Research Repository
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 50
subject: Philosophy and religious studies

description: This study aims to investigate and appraise works produced in Afghanistan, specifically considering Herati Metalwork in Afghanistan during the different dynasties who ruled in Herat, such as the Ghaznavids (975-1187), Seljuk (1037-1194), Ghurids (1170-1215), Ilkhanids (1256-1335) and the Timurid (1370-1507). Herat was a very important place for producing metalwork’s inlaid with either gold or silver, in which the inlay was usually presented calligraphy or naturalistic motifs. The thesis aims to shed light on the metalwork objects which were produced in the city of Herat; the case study considered in this research will be the metalwork of Herat located at the Museum of Islamic art (MIA) in Doha, Qatar. The method used in this thesis is focused on analyzing the different motifs, techniques used in producing the metalwork objects in Herat. The thesis will also engage a comparison between some of the metalwork objects from the Museum of Islamic art in Doha, with some other Herati metalwork objects located in different museums. This study reveals that the metalwork of Herat are considered the best metalwork produced in the world due to the location of the city of Herat, since its located on the trade routes from the Levant to India and China, further commanding a rich hinterland.
Dicyphus
Creators: name: Jung, Sunghoon
name: Duwal, Ram Keshari
name: Lee, Seunghwan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Miridae
Dicyphus

description: Key to Korean Species of Dicyphus
1. Body grayish yellow, head with orange colored longitudinal stripe; apical part of antennal segment II dark brown; pronotum yellow with longitudinal brownish stripe on calli and fore half of hind lobe .................................... D. parkheoni on Solanum lyratum
– Body yellowish green, head entirely green or yellowish green; basal and apical parts of antennal segment II dark brown; pronotum entirely green or yellowish green ..................................................................................................... D. miyamotoi on Rosa spp.
description: Published as part of Jung, Sunghoon, Duwal, Ram Keshari & Lee, Seunghwan, 2012, Aphid – feeding plant bug: A new record of Dicyphus miyamotoi Yasunaga (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Miridae: Bryocorinae) from the Korean Peninsula, pp. 61-64 in Zootaxa 3247 on page 61, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.280544
Elatobium abietinum Walker 1849
Creators: name: Albrecht, Anders Christian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Aphididae
Elatobium
Elatobium abietinum

description: Elatobium abietinum Walker, 1849
Diagnosis
Aptera 1–2 mm, green to yellowish, without wax wool. On needles, rarely on Abies. See under Picea (entry A12, p. 12).
description: Published as part of Albrecht, Anders Christian, 2017, Illustrated identification guide to the Nordic aphids feeding on Conifers (Pinophyta) (Insecta, Hemiptera, Sternorhyncha, Aphidomorpha), pp. 1-160 in European Journal of Taxonomy 338 on page 23, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.338, http://zenodo.org/record/3834349
Eutrombicula (Eutrombicula) wolfenbargeri Brennan and Reed 1974
Creators: name: Nielsen, David H.
name: Robbins, Richard G.
name: Rueda, Leopoldo M.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Actinedida
Trombiculidae
Eutrombicula
Eutrombicula wolfenbargeri

description: Eutrombicula (Eutrombicula) wolfenbargeri Brennan and Reed, 1974b:
NEO
description: Published as part of Nielsen, David H., Robbins, Richard G. & Rueda, Leopoldo M., 2021, Annotated world checklist of the Trombiculidae and Leeuwenhoekiidae (1758 - 2021) (Acari: Trombiculoidea), with notes on nomenclature, taxonomy, and distribution, pp. 1-243 in Zootaxa 4967 (1) on page 114, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4967.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4745510
The Luminescent Arabidopsis; new means of studying gene expression by self-sustained, substrate-independent bioluminescence
Creators: name: Karampelias, Mike
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Arabidopsis thaliana
Autonomous Bioluminescence
Auxin
Cytokinin
Hormone-regulated ABL
Tobacco BY2 cells
Rhizotron

description: We presented that fungal autonomous bioluminescence is possible in Arabidopsis thaliana plants and Tobacco BY2 cells. We expose results in the whole plant of Arabidopsis, including roots growing in soil in rhizotron devices. We also show that it is possible to engineer the fungal autonomous bioluminescence in order to have hormone-regulated bioluminescence. As a case study, we show auxin-mediated inducibility.
Language-Based Techniques for Policy-Agnostic Oblivious Computation
Creators: name: Ye, Qianchuan
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 461204
subject: Programming languages
classificationCode: 460402
subject: Data and information privacy
classificationCode: 460403
subject: Data security and protection

description: Protecting personal information is growing increasingly important to the general public, to the point that major tech companies now advertise the privacy features of their products. Despite this, it remains challenging to implement applications that do not leak private information either directly or indirectly, through timing behavior, memory access patterns, or control flow side channels. Existing security and cryptographic techniques such as secure multiparty computation (MPC) provide solutions to privacy-preserving computation, but they can be difficult to use for non-experts and even experts.This dissertation develops the design, theory and implementation of various language-based techniques that help programmers write privacy-critical applications under a strong threat model. The proposed languages support private structured data, such as trees, that may hide their structural information and complex policies that go beyond whether a particular field of a record is private. More crucially, the approaches described in this dissertation decouple privacy and programmatic concerns, allowing programmers to implement privacy-preserving applications modularly, i.e., to independently develop application logic and independently update and audit privacy policies. Secure-by-construction applications are derived automatically by combining a standard program with a separately specified security policy.