1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452680103321

Autore

Duff Patricia

Titolo

Learning Chinese [[electronic resource] ] : linguistic, sociocultural, and narrative perspectives / / Patricia Duff ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston, : De Gruyter Mouton, 2013

ISBN

1-934078-77-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (338 p.)

Collana

Trends in applied linguistics, , 1868-6362 ; ; v. 5

Altri autori (Persone)

DuffPatricia <1959->

Disciplina

495.1071

Soggetti

Chinese language - Study and teaching

Chinese language - Social aspects

Chinese language - Research

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 -- Preface -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- 1 'China Rising': Chinese and Chinese Language Learning as Global Phenomena -- 2 Developing Chinese Proficiency: Linguistic Perspectives -- 3 Developing Everyday Chinese Literacies: Sinographic Choices, Practices, and Identities -- 4 Sociocultural Approaches to Chinese Language Learning and Research: Negotiating Identities and Communities -- 5 Narrative and Metanarrative Perspectives on Learning, Researching, and Theorizing Chinese as an Additional Language -- 6 Conclusion: Reflections on Research in Chinese as an Additional Language -- Appendices

Sommario/riassunto

The acquisition of Mandarin Chinese, one of the most important and widely spoken languages in the world today, is the focus of this innovative study. It describes the rise of Chinese as a global language and the many challenges and opportunities associated with learning it. The collaborative, multiple-case study and cross-case analysis is presented from three distinct but complementary theoretical and analytic perspectives: linguistic, sociocultural, and narrative. The book reveals fascinating dimensions of Chinese language learning based on vivid first-person accounts (with autobiographical n



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816444003321

Autore

Bouillot Charlotte

Titolo

Spotify, music for everyone : quel avenir pour le géant de la musique en streaming? / / Charlotte Bouillot ; avec la collaboration d'Anne-Christine Cadiat

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Place of publication not identified] : , : 50Minutes, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

2-8062-6418-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (36 p.)

Collana

Business Stories ; ; 1

Disciplina

006.5

Soggetti

Digital jukebox software

Popular music - Social aspects

Rock music

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827083403321

Titolo

Atom interferometry : proceedings of the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi", course 188, Varenna on Lake Como, Villa Monastero, 15-20 July 2013 / / edited by G. M. Tino and M. A. Kasevich

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, Netherlands : , : IOS Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-61499-448-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (807 p.)

Collana

Italian Physical Society, , 1879-8195 ; ; Course 188

Disciplina

535.4

Soggetti

Interferometry

Interferometers

Atoms - Optical properties

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 at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

""Title Page""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Course group shot""; ""Interferometry with atoms""; ""Optics and interferometry with atoms: an introduction""; ""Basics of matter wave optics""; ""The wave equations""; ""Dispersion relations""; ""Phase and group velocity""; ""Path integral formulation""; ""JWKB approximation""; ""Eikonal approximation""; ""Coherence""; ""Spatial coherence""; ""Coherence in momentum space""; ""Higher-order coherence""; ""Index of refraction for matter waves""; ""Index of refraction caused by a classical potential""; ""Index of refraction from scattering""

""Optics and interferometry using gratings""""Diffraction""; ""Diffraction in space""; ""Diffraction from nano-fabricated structures""; ""Light gratings from standing waves""; ""Diffraction in time""; ""Interferometers""; ""Three-grating Mach-Zehnder interferometer""; ""Selected experiments with beam interferometers""; ""Einstein's recoiling slit: a single photon as a coherent beamsplitter""; ""Interferometry with Bose-Einstein condensates in double-well potentials""; ""A Bose-Einstein condensate in a double-well potential: a simple model""; ""Single-particle approach""

""Two-mode approximation""""Rabi dynamics""; ""Splitting""; ""Time-of-flight recombination""; ""In-trap recombination""; ""Phase shifts"";



""Effect of interactions: Josephson dynamics, squeezing, and dephasing""; ""Bose-Hubbard model with two sites""; ""Mean-field treatment""; ""Fluctuations and interferometry""; ""Squeezing during splitting""; ""Phase diffusion""; ""Effective single-particle Hamiltonian""; ""Probing many-body physics by interference""; ""Interference of 1D Bose gases""; ""The 1D Bose gas""; ""Multi-mode interference""; ""Pairs of 1D Bose gases in equilibrium""

""Theoretical description""""Measurement of the matter wave interference contrast""; ""Probing relaxation in non-equilibrium 1D Bose gases""; ""Coherent splitting of a 1D Bose gas""; ""Dynamics of the matter wave interference contrast""; ""Prethermalization""; ""Light-cone-like emergence of thermal correlations""; ""Matter wave interferometry with composite quantum objects""; ""Introduction and outline""; ""Concepts and tools of coherent nanoparticle manipulation""; ""Coherence preparation""; ""Far-field diffraction at a nanomechanical grating""; ""Optical gratings""

""Measurement-induced absorptive gratings""""Optical phase gratings""; ""Matter wave interferometry in the time domain""; ""From far-field to near-field diffraction and near-field interferometry""; ""A unified phase-space description of three-grating matter wave interferometry""; ""The Wigner function representation""; ""Grating diffraction in phase space""; ""Thin stationary gratings for fast particles""; ""Short ionizing grating pulses""; ""Classical pendant of the grating transformation""; ""The Talbot self-imaging effect""; ""Talbot-Lau interference in phase space""

""Coherent description""

Sommario/riassunto

Since atom interferometers were first realized about 20 years ago, atom interferometry has had many applications in basic and applied science, and has been used to measure gravity acceleration, rotations and fundamental physical quantities with unprecedented precision. Future applications range from tests of general relativity to the development of next-generation inertial navigation systems. This book presents the lectures and notes from the Enrico Fermi school ""Atom Interferometry"", held in Varenna, Italy, in July 2013. The aim of the school was to cover basic experimental and theoretical