1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456584703321

Autore

Orellana Marjorie Faulstich

Titolo

Translating childhoods [[electronic resource] ] : immigrant youth, language, and culture / / Marjorie Faulstich Orellana

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick, NJ, : Rutgers University Press, 2009

ISBN

0-8135-4863-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (200 p.)

Collana

The Rutgers series in childhood studies

Disciplina

306.874086/912

306.874086912

Soggetti

Children of immigrants - Language

Translating and interpreting

Immigrants - Language

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Translating Frames -- Chapter 2. Landscapes of Childhood -- Chapter 3. Home Work -- Chapter 4. Public Para-Phrasing -- Chapter 5. Transculturations -- Chapter 6. Transformations -- Chapter 7. Translating Childhoods -- Appendix A: Learning from Children -- Appendix B: Transcription Conventions -- Appendix C: Domains of Language Brokering -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Though the dynamics of immigrant family life has gained attention from scholars, little is known about the younger generation, often considered "invisible." Translating Childhoods, a unique contribution to the study of immigrant youth, brings children to the forefront by exploring the "work" they perform as language and culture brokers, and the impact of this largely unseen contribution. Skilled in two vernaculars, children shoulder basic and more complicated verbal exchanges for non-English speaking adults. Readers hear, through children's own words, what it means be "in the middle" or the "keys to communication" that adults otherwise would lack. Drawing from ethnographic data and research in three immigrant communities, Marjorie Faulstich Orellana's study expands the definition of child labor



by assessing children's roles as translators as part of a cost equation in an era of global restructuring and considers how sociocultural learning and development is shaped as a result of children's contributions as translators.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910159560203321

Autore

Takigawa Noboru

Titolo

Fundamentals of Nuclear Physics / / by Noboru Takigawa, Kouhei Washiyama

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tokyo : , : Springer Japan : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

4-431-55378-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XV, 269 p. 86 illus., 6 illus. in color.)

Disciplina

539.7

Soggetti

Nuclear physics

Field theory (Physics)

Quantum theory

Particle and Nuclear Physics

Classical and Continuum Physics

Quantum Physics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Bulk Properties of Nuclei -- The Nuclear Force and Two-Body Systems -- Interaction with Electromagnetic Field: Electromagnetic Moments -- Shell Structure -- Microscopic Mean-Field Theory (Hartree–Fock Theory) -- The Shapes of Nuclei -- Nuclear Decay and Radioactivity -- Synthesis of Elements. .

Sommario/riassunto

This book introduces the current understanding of the fundamentals of nuclear physics by referring to key experimental data and by providing a theoretical understanding of principal nuclear properties. It primarily covers the structure of nuclei at low excitation in detail. It also examines nuclear forces and decay properties. In addition to fundamentals, the book treats several new research areas such as non-relativistic as well as relativistic Hartree–Fock calculations, the synthesis



of super-heavy elements, the quantum chromodynamics phase diagram, and nucleosynthesis in stars, to convey to readers the flavor of current research frontiers in nuclear physics. The authors explain semi-classical arguments and derivation of its formulae. In these ways an intuitive understanding of complex nuclear phenomena is provided. The book is aimed at graduate school students as well as junior and senior undergraduate students and postdoctoral fellows. It is also useful for researchers to update their knowledge of diverse fields of nuclear structure. The book explains how basic physics such as quantum mechanics and statistical physics, as well as basic physical mathematics, is used to describe nuclear phenomena. A number of questions are given from place to place as supplements to the text.