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A Grammar of Gaddi
No full textThis is the first long-form descriptive grammar of the Pahari Indo-Aryan language, Gaddi (also called Bharmauri), spoken by the Gaddi people, a traditionally pastoral community now undergoing rapid occupational and lifestyle change. In 2010, the language was considered ‘definitely endangered’ by the UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger.
A Grammar of Gaddi begins with an account of the historical and sociolinguistic profile of the community, including a discussion on the vitality of the language. Following this is a detailed documentation of the linguistic properties of the language, with chapters dedicated to the language’s phonetics and phonology, its word classes, its morphosyntax and its syntax. The appendices in the book contain the phonemic inventory of the language, a basic word list, and the cardinal, ordinal, fractional and distributive numerals of Gaddi.
The careful linguistic analysis in the book allows for Gaddi language data to be presented in the International Phonetic Alphabet, with minute morphological glosses for maximum transparency. The book thus serves as a vital resource for public and private bodies, and will be of use to the language community as a basis for primers, textbooks and learning tools
IN & Out: cultural and productive substrate of the project
No full textIn&Out is a project that comes from the idea of underlining the strong relationship between lining and tailoring, and through this, the one between industrial production and manufacturing. In the field of fashion, the design of a detail can lead to a consistent and recognisable visual identity system that characterises the project.
Through the collaboration between the Fashion Advanced Design Studio of Politecnico di Milano and the lining leading players, seven capsule collections with different graphic patterns of tailored men’s jackets are born, experimenting a new vision of the traditional lining
Un’aggiunta al catalogo di Agnolo Gaddi
No full textThis contribution proposes a new attribution in favour of Agnolo Gaddi, an important Florentine master that was active in the last quarter of the XIV century. Here we discuss a panel portraying the ‘Saint Julian and Saint Benedict’, donated by the De Piro family to the Cathedral Museum of Mdina, Malta, in 1995. The painting, wrongly exhibited as the work of an anonymous Florentine author dated around 1420, shows all the typical features of Gaddi’s style. A comparison is established with the cycle of frescoes of the Castellani chapel in Santa Croce, painted by Gaddi in the first half of the ninth decade of the XIV century, in order to give a specific chronological ambience to the Maltese painting. Furthermore, we propose that the panel could originally be a part of the polytptych of the ‘Madonna’ Contini, held at the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence.
Lytorhynchus gaddi Nikolsky 1907
No full textLytorhynchus gaddi NIKOLSKY (“1905” 1907: 294) Syntypes: ZISP 10288.1-2, 2 specimens, “Dizful in Arabistano” [Dezful, Khuzestan Province, Iran, 32.36 N 48.41 E]. Leg. N. A. Zarudny, 14-16.III.1904. Present name: Lytorhynchus diadema gaddi Nikolsky, “1905” 1907 fide Safaei-Mahroo et al. (2015).Published as part of Ananjeva, Natalia B., Milto, Konstantin D., Barabanov, Andrei V. & Golynsky, Evgeny A., 2020, An annotated type catalogue of amphibians and reptiles collected by Nikolay A Zarudny in Iran and Middle Asia, pp. 101-128 in Zootaxa 4722 (2) on page 122, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4722.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/360581
Hexacola lemnaphilae Gaddi & Diaz, sp. nov.
No full textHexacola lemnaphilae Gaddi & Díaz sp. nov. (Figs. 1−9) Description. Female (Figs. 1−6). Total length 1.17 mm. Body scarcely setose; shinny yellowish brown; club flagellomeres, borders of mesosomal areas and posterolateral part of metasoma darker; mandibles, antennal flagellomeres 1−4, veins and legs yellowish. Head (Figs. 1−3) in anterior view higher than wide. Antennae with 13 articles, flagellomere 1 straight, longer than 2 (2.5: 1.5); club consisting of seven flagellomeres, with rhinaria. Relative length and width of antennal articles 2.0(1.2): 1.2 (1.2): 2.5 (0.8): 1.5 (0.8): 1.5 (0.8): 1.5 (0.8): 2.0(1.0): 2.0(1.0): 2.0(1.0): 2.0(1.2): 2.3 (1.5): 2.3 (1.5): 3.0(1.5). Toruli elevated anteriorly at their external side. Vertex and central area of face smooth, with few short setae. Malar sulcus present. Compoud eyes small, convex, with few short setae. Genae flat. Occiput striate. Mesosoma (Figs. 3−5) in lateral view scarcely longer than high. Pronotal plate smooth, anterior part faintly transversely striate, median bridge broad, lateral cavities open, posterior margin almost straight. Sides of pronotum smooth, highly setose behind genae, with a row of long setae on upper half of anterior margin. Mesoscutum smooth, convex in profile, in dorsal view as long as wide; anterior parallel lines faint; notauli absent, replaced by a row of long setae which turns anteriorly and continues laterally; suprategular furrows tenuous. Lateral bars reaching in length half of scutellum, broad at their base, dorsally smooth, external sides longitudinally striate. Scutellum and scutellar plate convex in lateral view. Proximal and mid surface of scutellum disk longitudinally striate, distal surface reticulate rugose, posterior margin rounded. Scutellar foveae as long as wide, smooth. Scutellar plate long and narrow, scarcely elevated above the disk, dorsal surface smooth with two setiferous punctures anterior of glandular release pit. Anterodorsal part of mesopleuron depressed; ventral part under mesopleural carina with faint striae; subalar pit absent. Metapleuron subrectangular, poorly sculptured; anteroventral cavity conspicuous and setose; hind margin distinct. Propodeum setose except on the carinae and area between them; propodeal carinae subparallel. Forewings apically rounded, completely hyaline, densely setose; marginal cilliation long; marginal cell open. Mid coxae with a small dorsolateral setose patch; hind coxae with a larger patch of setae posterodorsally. Metasoma (Fig. 6) sessile. Setiferous ring on base of large tergite dense, broadly interrupted dorsally, with a weak row of long setae on each side posteriorly. Distally smooth. Male (Figs. 7−9). Total length 1.26 mm. Similar to female except: antennae with 15 articles (Fig. 7), filiform, flagellomere 1 strongly curved, laterally flattened, distally swollen, longer than the following flagellomeres; flagellomere 2 straight and cylindrical, similar to the following flagellomeres. Flagellomeres 1−12 with rhinaria. Etymology. In allusion to host species Lemnaphila neotropica. Distribution. Argentina. Type locality. Buenos Aires: Berisso. Material examined. HOLOTYPE. 1 Ψ, MLP 5282 / 1, ARGENTINA: Buenos Aires, Berisso, 4 -vii- 1970, obtained from puparium of Lemnaphila neotropica Lizarralde det. 1977, collected from a carpet of Lemna minuta (= L. minima) and Azolla filiculoides; Schnack col.; Hexacola Díaz det. (MLP). PARATYPES, 3 ΨΨ, MLP 5282 / 3−5, and 1 ɗ, MLP 5282 / 6, same data as Holotype. Biological comments. Hexacola lemnaphilae Gaddi & Díaz sp. nov. was reared from pupae of L. neotropica (Fig. 9). Little it is known about the biology of this fly, the adults hold a close relationship with the pleustonic carpet, and the larvae are leaf miners and pupate inside least duckweed L. minuta (Lizarralde de Grosso 1977, 1978).Published as part of Gaddi, Ana L., Díaz, Norma B. & Gallardo, Fabiana E., 2010, A new species of Hexacola Foerster (Hymenoptera: Figitidae), parasitoid of Lemnaphila neotropica Lizarralde de Grosso (Diptera: Ephydridae), pp. 42-48 in Zootaxa 2622 on page 44, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19811
Experimental Validation of Mixed Electromechanical and Electromagnetic Modeling of RF-MEMS Devices Within a Standard IC Simulation Environment
No full textThe validity and applicability of a high-level simulation approach of radio-frequency microelectromechanicalsystem (RF-MEMS) devices, based on a library of analytical compact models of elementary MEMS components, are investigated through an extensive comparison between simulation results and measurements of some representative devices (variable capacitors and series ohmic switches). The in-house developed simulation tool is implemented in a standard IC simulation environment supporting behavioral description capabilities. The devices are built in a silicon substrate technology with suspended
gold membranes. We analyze the mechanical, electrical, and RF response of the devices. The RF behavior is modeled by extracting a lumped element network from measured S-parameters (scattering-parameters) to account for parasitic effects and by wrapping this network around the intrinsic MEMS device simulated with the compact models.We show that an accuracy within 5% is obtained in all considered physical domains and conditions, provided that some effective parameters (including the residual air gap in the actuated state and the RF parasitic elements) are properly extracted from measurements and accounted for in the simulations. The main factors limiting the model’s predictive capability are due to process nonidealities, such as plate bending due to residual stress gradient, oxide charging, surface roughness, and suspended membrane thickness variations, rather than for instance in-plane geometric process variations
Giuseppe Gaddi. Storia di un rivoluzionario disciplinato
No full textIl libro prende in esame la vita di Giuseppe Gaddi (Trieste 1909 - Vienna 1982). Il percorso politico di Gaddi è simile a quello di altri militanti della sua generazione: si iscrisse giovanissimo al Partito Comunista d’Italia, fu arrestato e condannato dal Tribunale speciale; quando uscì dal carcere espatriò in Unione sovietica e frequentò la Scuola leninista; fu lui a “salvare” le Lezioni sul fascismo di Togliatti. Trascorse la seconda metà degli anni Trenta in Francia, lavorando come giornalista, propagandista e organizzatore di partito. Dopo l’8 settembre 1943 fu mandato ad organizzare la lotta partigiana nelle montagne bellunesi e, dopo la Liberazione, a costruire il Partito comunista in Veneto. Negli anni Sessanta diresse l’Associazione Italia-Urss e poi, fino alla morte, la Federazione internazionale della Resistenza.
Fin dal suo precoce ingresso nel Partito comunista, Gaddi è inserito in una rete di relazioni che fa di lui un punto di vista significativo su quella generazione di militanti comunisti. L’epistolario e i suoi molti altri scritti restituiscono una trama di rapporti che comincia a tessersi a metà degli anni Venti, all’interno della Federazione giovanile comunista, e permarrà fino agli Ottanta, vigilia dello scioglimento del partito comunista italiano.
La biografia di Gaddi si intreccia con la riflessione sulle parole e sugli schemi narrativi con cui raccontarla, e con cui Gaddi stesso lo fece nel corso della sua vita (lo fece in più occasioni, ogni volta rielaborando in modo diverso il racconto autobiografico). Uno dei temi principali che percorrono il testo è infatti l’insieme di pratiche, riti e modelli discorsivi che si sono costruiti attorno al racconto della militanza comunista della generazione dei rivoluzionari professionali. Per loro il comunismo fu una sorta di “religione politica”, cioè un sistema di credenze, di miti, di riti, di simboli capaci non solo di spiegare il mondo, ma anche di definire il significato e il fine ultimo dell’esistenza individuale
Non-Linear Electromechanical RF Model of a MEMS Varactor Based on VerilogA and Lumped Element Parasitic Network
No full textIn this paper we discuss an approach for the implementation of non-linear electromechanical and RF models of complete RF-MEMS devices within a standard circuit simulator, such as Cadence Spectre© or Agilent ADSTM. The intrinsic electromechanical core is based on a structural hierarchical model library implemented in VerilogA© language. Moreover, a surrounding lumped element network accounting for the electromagnetic RF behaviour of the MEMS device is extracted from S-parameters measured data. The whole nonlinear model network, composed of the intrinsic VerilogA© core plus lumped-element parasitics, can be analysed within a radiofrequency circuit simulator schematic. The model is fully validated against electromechanical and RF static and dynamic measurements, showing good agreement between simulations and experimental results. The presented modeling approach can be the basis for the development of complete RF-MEMS design technology libraries, aiming at optimum hierarchical designs of MEMS-enabled RF circuit blocks
Comparative Gross and Biometrical Studies on the Heart of Gaddi Sheep and Gaddi Goats
No full textThis study presents a comparative gross and biometrical analysis of the heart in Gaddi sheep and Gaddi goats of Himachal Pradesh. Sixteen heart samples (eight from each species) were collected from healthy adult animals at a local abattoir. Gross anatomical observations revealed that the heart of both species was located ventrally within the mediastinum extending from the third to the sixth intercostal space. The heart of the goat appeared more conical as compared to the relatively less tapered heart of the sheep. In both species the heart exhibited a triangular shape with a blunt apex entirely formed by the left ventricle. A considerable amount of epicardial fat was observed on the surface of heart in both the species. Biometric analysis demonstrated that the mean heart weight was 107.5 ± 2.54g in Gaddi sheep and 113.8 ± 2.85 g in Gaddi goats. The mean length of the anterior border (base to apex) measured 68.0 ± 4.4 mm in sheep and 72.7 ± 2.2 mm in goats. The mean heart diameter was recorded as 174.0 ± 17.6 mm in sheep and 176.0 ± 3.0 mm in goats. Additional parameters including circumference at the coronary groove, thicknesses of the ventricular walls and moderator band and external diameters of the aorta and vena cava were also assessed. The comparative data indicated that most biometrical parameters were greater in Gaddi goats than in Gaddi sheep highlighting species-specific anatomical differences that may have physiological and clinical relevance
Die Gaddi im Wandel
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Zielsetzung dieser Arbeit ist es, den kulturellen Wandel der Gaddi von Naddi und Dharamkot unter dem Aspekt Tourismus als Einflussfaktor zu untersuchen.
Kulturen wandeln sich seit Menschen existieren, denn eine Kultur im weitesten Sinne wird von einer Gesellschaft getragen, die nicht isoliert ist, sondern in Interaktion mit anderen Gesellschaften lebt.
Kulturwandel in Zusammenhang mit Tourismus ist ein eher junges Phänomen in der Wissenschaft und wurde zu Beginn in der Ethnologie meist skeptisch bzw. negativ betrachtet und mit Kulturverlust bzw. „Homogenisierung“ (Breidenbach/Zukrigl 1998:14) der Kulturen in Verbindung gebracht (vgl. Burns 1999:99). Das negative Bild wird heute durch neue Ansätze in der Forschung wie „Transnationalisierung“ (Mau 2007:37; Hannerz 1996:17), „Kreolisierung“ (Hannerz 1999:66; Breidenbach/Zukrigl 1998:85) und“ „Akkulturation“ (Harrison 2001:18) zum Teil widerlegt. Nicht von der Hand zu weisen ist jedoch die Tatsache, dass durch die Ausbreitung des Tourismus die Möglichkeit einer kulturellen Veränderung, eines Austausches weit häufiger gegeben ist.
Tourismus als Einflussfaktor im kulturellen Wandel wird in dieser Arbeit am Beispiel der Gaddi in den Dörfern Naddi und Dharamkot, welche in der Umgebung von Dharamsala in Nordindien liegen, untersucht. Die Gaddi gehören zu den Stämmen des westlichen Himalayas und sind vor allem für ihre Lebensweise als transhumantische Semi-Nomaden bekannt. Im Zuge zweier Forschungsaufenthalten wurden jene Bereiche der Gaddikultur und ihre Veränderungen erforscht und untersucht zu denen ich Zugang erhalten habe. Dabei stand der geschichtliche Aspekt in Hinblick auf die Herkunft der Gaddi, sowie die wirtschaftlichen Bereiche Nomadentum und Ackerbau, die Dorf- und Alltagsstrukturen der Gaddi, sowie die religiösen Strukturen im Mittelpunkt.
Das Ergebnis der empirischen Forschung in Hinblick Tourismus als Einflussfaktor hat gezeigt, dass es durch die touristische Entwicklung in der Region in erster Linie zu einem Wandel im ökonomischen Bereich der Gaddi gekommen ist. Heute gibt es kaum noch Familien, die als Semi-Nomaden ihren Lebensunterhalt verdienen. Neue Beschäftigungsmöglichkeiten in der Region mit höherem Einkommen haben dazu geführt, dass viele der Gaddi vom Semi-Nomadentum in den tertiären Sektor gewechselt sind. Dieser Schritt kann in weiterer Folge als wesentlicher Faktor im Hinblick auf den soziokulturellen Wandel bezeichnet werden, da das Nomadentum über Generationen hinweg die Lebensweise und Traditionen der Gaddi geprägt und den Jahresrhythmus und das Alltagsleben bestimmt hat.Abstract
The aim of this study is to investigate the cultural changes of the Gaddi tribe taking into consideration tourism as a main factor for change. Cultures are carried out and lived by the people. People or societies have been in contact with each other from the very beginning – which also makes cultural change an ongoing phenomenon.
Connecting cultural change to tourism is a rather recent topic in the social sciences. Anthropology was quite sceptical about this subject – fearing a major cultural loss and „homogenization" (Breidenbach/Zukrigl 1998:14). New studies emphasize concepts of „transnationalization" (Mau 2007:37; Hannerz 1996:17), „creolization" (Hannerz 1999:66; Breidenbach/Zukrigl 1998:85) and „acculturation" (Harrison 2001:18). And we cannot deny the fact that the possibility for exchange and cultural changes increases through tourism.
A practical example to this study are the Gaddi people living in the villages of Naddi and Dharamkot in the near of Dharamsala in Northern India.
The Gaddis belong to the tribes of the Western Himalaya and they lead a semi-nomadic life. Two visits to the Gaddi tribes allowed me to conduct various researches about those aspects of their daily life that I was able to take part.
I intended to focus on the historical circumstances, the economic areas of nomadism and agriculture, village matters and every day life and religious aspects.
The results of empirical research considering tourism as an important factor of cultural change shared transformations especially in the economic situation of the Gaddi. There has been a huge decrease in the number of families making their living through a semi-nomadic lifestyle.
New employment opportunities made many Gaddis shift to tertiary sector in tourism. This step can be seen as a main factor in terms of a socio-cultural change – since nomadism has influenced and has structured the lifestyle and traditions of the Gaddi for many past generations
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