Cartooning and sexism in the time of Covid-19: Metaphors and metonymies in the Arab mind.

Using a large-scale corpus of 706 coronavirus cartoons by male and female Arab artists, this study takes a fresh and more cognitive look at sexism in multimodal discourse. Specifically, it examines the role of salience and grammar (and hence of metaphor and metonymy) in gender bias and/or in discrimination against women. It argues that both men and women are vulnerable to the influence of stereotypical and outdated beliefs that create unconscious bias.

Study of the effect of different techniques on diversity of freshwater hyphomycetes in the River Nile (Upper Egypt).

Four different techniques were applied, lead mapping of Eucalptus rostrata; randomly leaf sampling; Millipore filtration; spores in foam, for the study of aquatic hyphomycets communities in the River Nile. Triscelophorus monlosporus, Anguilospora longissima, Flagellospora curvula and Tetracladium marchalianum were the dominant species in all the techniques used. Aquatic hyphomycetes diversity was high by using leaf mapping (23 species) and randomly leaf sampling (30 species) but it was low by using Millipore filtration (11 species) and spores in foam (8 species) techniques.

Distribution of zoosporic fungi in the mud of major Egyptian lakes.

Twenty-six identified and three unidentified species belonging to eight genera of zoosporic fungi were recovered from seventy-six mud samples of Egyptian lakes using sesame seeds as baits. Nineteen samples were collected along the borders of four major lakes. Pythium, Phytophthora and Allomyces, yielded the highest spectra of zoosporic species, while Aqualinderella, Blastocladia and Dictyuchus, had one species.

Myxomycetes from upper Egypt.

The results of the first inventory of Myxomycetes from the subtropical region Upper Egypt are reported. The substrates were wood, bark of living and dead tree and leaf litter. 20 species belonging to 17 genera of Myxomycetes were identified.