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Results from the test bench of the Geometry Monitoring System of the ALICE Muon Spectrometer
We present the results obtained with the test bench of the Geometry Monitoring System (GMS) for the ALICE Muon Spectrometer. It consists in a mock up, reproducing at full scale, three half planes of the chambers 6, 7 and 8 of the spectrometer. We show that the GMS is able to measure transverse displacements with an accuracy of 1.5 microm. We show also that the resolution deteriorates by a factor 3 to 4 when thermal gradients are generated
Civilizing tastes: From caste to class in South Indian foodways
Anthropological explorations of food in South Asia are often framed by theories of
caste and ritual purity or pollution, with the highest castes characterised as protecting
their purity by accepting food from no-one of lower caste status, and those at the bottom
accepting food from anyone. The problem with this focus on caste is not that it is
misguided per se; many Hindus do indeed regulate their consumption in relation to such
concerns, and a quotidian understanding of caste remains vital in understanding how
people in India relate to one another. Rather, the problem is that our focus on caste as
the defining social institution of India has obscured social relationships defined by other
cross-cutting hierarchies that also, and increasingly, reflect and shape Indian foodways.
Drawing on prolonged ethnographic fieldwork in Andhra Pradesh, South India, this
chapter is concerned with how class in particular – both in terms of economic status and as a marker of distinction – also has profound implications for what people in South
India eat, with whom, and why; particularly in the wake of the economic liberalisation
that began in the 1990s and the emergence of new foods and tastes ripe for symbolic
appropriation
“Item, she hath more hair than wit”: reflections on the post–dumontian study of culture in India
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