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Cronaca di etimologia sanscrita. Parte III
No full textAbstract
With this Report (here the n° 3) we present recent bibliographical information and,
occasionally, renewed discussion about a series of etymological problems of Sanskrit,
particularly Vedic, lexicon. Our principal aim is to supplement the Etymologisches
Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen by M. Mayrhofer (last Nachträge und Berichtigungen
1999-2000). So with our Report we would like to provide a tool similar, even though
more modest in its proposals, to the Chroniques d’etymologie grecque and latine
published in the “Revue de Philologie, de Littérature et d’Histoire Anciennes” – whose
points of reference were at the starting, in their turn, the etymological dictionaries
respectively by Chantraine and Ernout-Meillet. In close connexion with etymology we
will also consider problems related to the interpretation of Vedic texts and the reconstruction
of cultural realia. The present number includes lexems from ayā́s- to árma-,
along with a supplement to nn. 1 and 2.
R. Ronzitti is the author of the entries árṇa-, árbuda- (entirely); AR1, árāti-, arí-, arká-1,
ARC, árjuna-, ARDH, árma- (partially, with D. Maggi); aruṇá- (partially, with M.
Salvatori e D. Maggi); D. Maggi of the entries as mentioned before and of the remaining
ones. Specificamente, di D. Maggi sono le voci a1, a2, a3, agnyá-, aṅgá, aṅgana-, ácchā, AÑJ, AT, átas, áti, átya-, átha, AD, áditi-, adás, addhā́, adyá, ádha, adhás, ádhi, adhunā́, aná-, ánapta-, anarmán-, anarván-, ánīka-, ánu, anubala-, ano, ánta-, antárikṣa-, ánti, ándhas-1, ánna-, anyá-, áp-, ápa, ápi, apūpá-, aptyá-, ápsas-, abhí, amá-, amāvasu-, amú-, amŕ̥ta-, amnás, ay- (~ i-), áyas-; ayā́s-, áyomukha-, ará-, áraṇa-, aráṇi-, aratí-, áram, arari-, arari-(2), ararínda-, aráru-, áriṣṭa-, aru-, arundhatī́-, áruṣ-, aruṣá-, arká-2, argaḍa-, arghá-, árṇa-, ártha-, ARD, árbha- (interamente); AR1, árāti-, arí-, arká-1, ARC, árjuna- ARDH, árma- (parzialmente, con R. Ronzitti); aruṇá- (parzialmente, con R. Ronzitti e M. Salvatori)
Cronaca di etimologia sanscrita. Parte IV
No full textWith this Report (here the n° 4) we present recent bibliographical information and, occasionally, renewed discussion about a series of etymological problems of Sanskrit, particularly Vedic, lexicon. Our principal aim is to supplement the Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen by M. Mayrhofer (last Nachträge und Berichtigun- gen 1999-2000). So with our Report we would like to provide a tool similar, even though more modest in its proposals, to the Chroniques d’etymologie grecque and latine published in the «Revue de Philologie, de Littérature et d’Histoire Anciennes» – whose points of reference were at the starting, in their turn, the etymological diction- aries respectively by Chantraine and Ernout-Meillet. In close connexion with etymol- ogy we will also consider problems related to the interpretation of Vedic texts and the reconstruction of cultural realia. e present number includes lexemes from aryamán- to the end of the letter a, along with a supplement to nn. 1-3.
R. Ronzitti is the author of the entries alā ́bu-, alíklava-, ávara-, ásr̥ j- (entirely); ARṢ2, avaṭá-, AŚ(3), aśītí-, áśru-, aśvatará, aṣṭá-, ásita-, ásu-, ásura-, ásthi-, ahám (partially, with D. Maggi); D. Maggi of the entries as mentioned before and of the remaining ones
Cronaca di etimologia sanscrita. Parte II
No full textCon la presente Cronaca (qui la sua II parte) si intendono presentare informazioni bibliografiche recenti su una serie di problemi etimologici relativi al lessico sanscrito, particolarmente vedico, corredando, all'occasione, le informazioni di una riinnovata discussione dei problemi stessi. Lo scopo principale è quello di fornire un supplemento all'Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen di M. Mayrhofer (gli ultimi Nachträge und Verbesserungen sono del 1999-2000), e con ciò quindi uno strumento di lavoro simile, se pur più modesto nei suoi propositi, alle Chroniques d'étymologie grecque/latine pubblicate nella "Revue de Philologie, de Littérature et d'Histoire Anciennes", che sono state finora basate sui dizionari etimologici di Chantraine e, risp., Ernout-Meillet. In stretta connessione con l'etimologia sono presi in considerazione anche problemi connessi con l'interpretazione dei testi vedici e con la ricostruzione di realia culturali. Il presente numero include lemmi da ápa a áyas- e un supplemento al numero precedente. Vi hanno altresì collaborato R. Ronzitti, M. Salvatori. di D. Maggi sono la premessa dal tit. In memoria [di M. Mayrhofer] e le voci akūpārā-, átri-, ádhvan-, ánapta-, ánas-, anumāna-, anuvyākhyāna-, anūpá-, ápa, apacít-, apád-, apapitvá-, ápas-, apasalaví, apāná-, apāmārgá-, apālambá-, apālā́-, ápi, apikakṣá-, apīcyà-, apūrvá-, aptúr-, ápnavāna-, ápnas-, abīṣṭakā-, ábda-, abhakṣya-, ábhaya-, abhāva-, abhí, abhicārá-, abhidharma-, abhipitvá-, abhipramúr-, abhivlaṅgá-, abhíśasti-, abhiṣeká-, abhīlī-, abhrá-, ámati-, ámatra-, amantú-, AMI, amú-, amŕ̥ta-, amnás, ambaka-, ámbara-, amla-, AY1, ay- (~ i-), áya-, áyas-.
Abstract:
With this Report (here the n° 2) we present recent bibliographical information and, occasionally, renewed discussion about a series of etymological problems of Sanskrit, particularly
Vedic, lexicon. Our principal aim is to supplement the Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Altindoarischen by M. Mayrhofer (last Nachträge und Verbesserungen 1999-2000).
So with our Report we would like to provide a tool similar, even though more modest in its proposals, to the Chroniques d’étymologie grecque and latine published in the “Revue de Philologie, de Littérature et d’Histoire Anciennes” – whose points of reference were at the starting, in their turn, the etymological dictionaries respectively by Chantraine et Ernout-Meillet. In close connexion with etymology we will also consider problems related to the interpretation of Vedic texts and the reconstruction of
cultural realia. The present number includes lexems from ápa to áyas-, along with a supplement to n° 1.
R. Ronzitti is the author of the entries ácchā, ádri-, apadhā ́, apūpá-, áprāyu-, apsarás-, apsujít-, ábhva-, ámbhas-2, ambhr̥ṇá-2 (entirely); apasalaví, apālā ́-, apikakṣ á-, aptúr-,
ápnas-, abhipitvá-, abhrá-, ámatra-, amnás (partially, with D. Maggi); ambarī ́ṣ a-, AY2 (partially, with M. Salvatori); M. Salvatori of the entry ápatya- (entirely); ambarī ́ṣ a-, AY2 (partially, with R. Ronzitti); D. Maggi of the entries as mentioned before and of the remaining ones
Correction to: When terminology hinders research: the colloquialisms of transitions of control in automated driving (Cognition, Technology & Work, (2022), 10.1007/s10111-022-00705-3)
No full textIn the original article, author affiliation published with error. The correct affiliations are: Davide Maggi—Institute for Transport Studies, Leeds, UK. Richard Romano—Institute for Transport Studies, Leeds, UK. Oliver Carsten—Institute for Transport Studies, Leeds, UK. Joost C. F. De Winter—Faculty of Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands. The original article has been corrected.Human-Robot Interactio
Venice’s time warp: The visual metamorphosis of a floating city
No full textThe author shows how photographs can render the passage of time. The essay looks at the Visual Metamorphosis of Venice. The photobooks discussed provide insight into the poetry and lyricism of one of the most photographed cities in the world, while also capturing the enigmatically blurred landscapes and disorientating close-ups that identify the destruction
of its physical heritage. Taken as a whole, this essay focuses on the photobook as a form of urban narrative: a tool that has been variously deployed to read, analyse and interpret Venice
through curated sequences of images, often in conjunction with literary or critical
texts
Letters to the emperor : epistolarity and power relations from Cicero to Symmachus
No full textTraditionally Latin prose letters have been classified in one of two ways: often they are seen as historical documents to be mined for political, historical and social information; otherwise they are viewed as literature, to be read with a consideration of the role of rhetoric and persuasion. These letters are only rarely approached as letters, and classical scholars have only just begun to discover the benefits of applying epistolary theory to these texts. My thesis examines epistolary exchange within the context of Roman power relations, offering a new interpretation of the correspondences between the most powerful political figure in a given period and one from among the senatorial class. Cicero, Pliny the Younger, Fronto and Symmachus each conducted an epistolary exchange with a powerful figure with whom he hoped to gain influence, and despite the significant differences between them in terms of political and social circumstances, each uses his letters in similar ways to that end. I approach these texts, never before treated together in a comparative study, with a consideration of epistolarity, ‘the use of the letter’s formal properties to create meaning’, a concept developed by J. G. Altman (1982). These properties are identified and examined by means of detailed stylistic analysis of the Latin text. The act of writing a letter is an act of self-definition; the sender constructs a self defined necessarily in relation to a particular addressee. Thus the letter also affords a sender the opportunity to define the You, to whom he addresses himself. In the context of power relations in Roman politics, the letter then becomes a flexible tool of self-fashioning, by which a senator may attempt to influence the emperor
Un’etimologia lusitana: Cantibidone e forme apparentate
No full textThe author discusses the divine epithet Cantibidone in the Lusitanian inscription recently discovered near Arronches - Portalegre (Portogallo); it is connected with the other Lusitanian divine epithet Candeberonio and derived from a basis *km̥tom + *bhero- “that brings a hundred”, on the grounds of the comparison with Sanskrit (Vedic) sahásrabhara- “that brings a thousand”
Extraction of the 3-D capacity dimension from 2-D projections of fractal flocs
No full textThe optical measurements of flocs foreseen in the settling column are 2-D projections of 3-D fractal structures formed in a turbulent environment by means of aggregation and break-up processes. Based on numerical analysis, the resulting structures appear non-homogenous fractals with a full spectrum of fractal dimensionalities, MAGGI(2002). The dimensionality that possesses a high value in our investigation is the capacity dimension. It relates to the floc mass and, therefore, it is directly usable in modelling the settling velocity, WINTERWERP (1999), and many other geometrical properties. On the other hand, we have noticed that the spectrum of fractal dimensionalities can give indications on the rate of growth of the flocs and on the dynamics of the processes involved in flocculation, MAGGI (2002). Despite the easy computation of all dimensionalities within the space of projection, the evaluation of the 3-D capacity dimension of the flocs from 2-D projections is still an open question. Complications arise because there is not yet a full theory which covers the problem of n-dimensional projections of fractals embedded in an m-dimensional domain. Little knowledge exists about how a project ion of a fractal affects the capacity dimension and, moreover, the full spectrum of fractal dimensionalities. This investigation is focused on the numerical characterisation of the fractal structure of unknown objects from their projections. The main reason to approach this problem is the considerable consequence of a direct extraction of 3-D information from 2-D measurements in the modelling of cohesive aggregates. Even if the problem could be reducible to an empirical estimation of the relation (and correlation) between the dimensions of two sets (the 3-D original set and the 2-D projected set), we still must explore theoretical research in literature. In the light of this, we discuss and investigate the problem of projections and cross-sections of 3-D fractals into a 2-D Euclidian space. In particular, we show the uncertainty when computing analytically the capacity dimension of 3-D fractals from 2-D projections. Subsequently, we perform two series of numerical experiments in order to show that the theory can be rigorously applied to a specific class of fractals (homogeneously distributed within the domain) and that, for fractal aggregates such as mud flocs (non-homogeneously distributed) the theory yields distorted results with respect to the numerical ones. We then establish whether we can apply it to our measurements or that we have to follow a different strategy. Next, we consider an empirical relation between a 2-D fractal (perimeter-based) dimension of the projection and the 3-D capacity dimension of the aggregates, that are representative of mud flocs. We have learned that the theory is applicable to homogeneously distributed sets. For non-homogeneously distributed sets the numerical results diverge from the theory significantly. We have performed a numerical experiment to relate the 3-D capacity dimension and the perimeter-based dimension of 2-D projections of artificially generated fractal flocs. We have observed that a hyperbolic-like correlation is well representative of the transformation of 3-D information into 2-D information. We have considered that this way to achieve information is independent from the length scales considered because the perimeter-based dimension does not relate to any of the lengths, but rather to the resolution. The (theoretical and numerical) results herein discussed enable us to apply the knowledge here developed to the recordings of the flocs produced in the settling column.Hydraulic EngineeringCivil Engineering and Geoscience
Lens Drawn to Crowds of Human Beings: la folla nella fotografia
No full textIn this essay the author traces the crowd as a subject in the history of photography from its beginning to the present. From the pioneers of the camera obscura to the versatile professionals of our day towards the artistic imagination of a first reconnaissance of the photographed crowd techniques and languages. In seeking to understand the role of photographers that had their lens drawn to crows of human beings, this paper explores the strategies and effects of a number of this subgenre’s most notable exponents. Most recently images made during the collapse of the Soviet Union in the fall of 1991 or those that recorded the massive crowd of people which attended the widely celebrated Pink Floyd Concert at the Veniatian Feast of the Redeemer in 1989, are only few of the instances here discussed
Mobilità sostenibile. Muoversi nel XXI secolo
No full textGli ingorghi fanno salire adrenalina ed emissioni, facendo scendere produttività e qualità della vita. Quali sono le buone pratiche che possono aiutarci a risolvere un problema di tutti? Un maggior numero di treni; metropolitane e tram; piccoli autobus elettrici con passaggi frequenti e puntuali; sistemi efficienti di car e bike sharing; piste ciclabili capillari e ampie che collegano il tessuto urbano; città più verdi e sicure per i pedoni... le soluzioni a disposizione dei cittadini e degli amministratori per rendere sostenibile la mobilità all’interno dei centri urbani sono tante. L’autore ci spiega, con esempi anche internazionali, quali scelte dobbiamo compiere per non restare bloccati nello smog.Traffic jams cause adrenaline and emissions to rise, decreasing productivity and quality of life. What are the best practices that can help us solve everyone's problem? More trains; subways and trams; small electric buses with frequent and punctual passages; efficient car and bike sharing systems; extensive and wide cycle paths that connect the urban fabric; greener and safer cities for pedestrians ... there are many solutions available to citizens and administrators to make mobility within urban centers sustainable. The author explains to us, including international examples, what choices we must make in order not to get stuck in smog
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