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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463157203321

Autore

Maddaloni Pasquale

Titolo

Laser-based measurements for time and frequency domain applications : a handbook / / Pasquale Maddaloni, Marco Bellini, Paolo De Natale

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, Fla : , : Taylor & Francis, , 2012

ISBN

0-429-15118-7

1-4398-4153-5

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (730 p.)

Collana

Series in optics and optoelectronics

Altri autori (Persone)

BelliniMarco <1967->

De NatalePaolo

Disciplina

529/.7

Soggetti

Time measurements

Frequencies of oscillating systems - Measurement

Lasers - Scientific applications

Optical measurements

Spectrum analysis

Atmosphere - Laser observations

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.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Authors; Chapter 1 Shedding light on the art of timekeeping; Chapter 2 Characterization and control of harmonic oscillators; Chapter 3 Passive resonators; Chapter 4 Continuous-wave coherent radiation sources; Chapter 5 High-resolution spectroscopic frequency measurements; Chapter 6 Time and frequency measurements with pulsed lasersystems; Chapter 7 Frequency standards; Chapter 8 Future trends in fundamental physics and applications; Bibliography; Color Insert; Back Cover

Sommario/riassunto

Providing a self-contained introductory review of modern laser-based time and frequency measurement techniques, this text represents an interdisciplinary look at the recent developments and future directions of optical frequency meteorology, as well as a range of meteorological disciplines. Suitable for graduate students and practicing physicists and engineers, it discusses the most advanced laser-based spectroscopic



measurement techniques, including UV, j1W, visible frequency, and IR laser. The authors, leading optical meteorologists, also cover advanced spectroscopic techniques, experimental quantum optics, and quantum information--

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457906203321

Titolo

Focus on Ireland [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Jeffrey Kallen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c1997

ISBN

1-283-35836-0

9786613358363

90-272-7574-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 p.)

Collana

Varieties of English around the world. General series, , 0172-7362 ; ; v. 21

Altri autori (Persone)

KallenJeffrey L

Disciplina

427/.9417

Soggetti

English language - Ireland - History

English language - Variation - Ireland

English language - Dialects - Ireland

Electronic books.

Ireland Languages

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

FOCUS ON IRELAND; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; REFERENCES; Abbreviations; Maps; REFERENCES; Irish English Context and Contacts; 1. The study of Irish English; 1.1. Irish English and language contact; 1.2. Further development in the study of Irish English; 2. The spread of Irish English; 2.1. The introduction of English in Ireland; 2.2. Bilingualism, diglossia, and the spread of English; 2.3. The status of Irish English; 3. Irish English and linguistic variation; REFERENCES; Bilingualism and Substrate InfluenceA Look at Clefts and Reflexives

1. Introduction2. Cleft sentences; 3. Reflexives; 4. Summary; 5. Discussion; Acknowledgements; NOTES; REFERENCES; The Influence of



Irish on Perfect Marking in Hiberno-English The Case of the ""Extended-now"" Perfect; 1. Introduction1; 2. Hiberno-English perfects; 3.Meanings and uses of the extended-now perfect in HE dialects; 4. The origins of the EP; 4.1. Superstratum vs. substratum accounts; 4.2. The case for the Irish substratum reconsidered; 5. Conclusion; NOTES; REFERENCES; The Emerging Irish Phonological Substratum in Irish English; 1. Language contact

2. The distribution of the Irish dialects3. Emerging cross-linguistic links; 4. The palatalization/velarization contrast; 4.1. The labial consonants; 4.2. The velar consonants; 4.2.1 Velar stops preceding the diphthong /ai/; 5. The alveolar/dental consonants; 6. The sonorants; 6.1. R-types; 7. Length and the vocalic system; 7.1. Length distinctions; 7.2. The raising of mid vowels; 8. Conclusion; REFERENCES; The Syntax Of Belfast English; 1. Introduction; 2. Standard Belfast English; 2.1. Inversion in embedded questions; 2.2. Inverted imperatives; 2.3. Subject contact relatives

3. Local forms which are not strongly stigmatized3.1. Singular concord; 3.2. The historic present; 3.3. For-to infinitives; 3.4. Topic structures; 4. Stigmatized structures; 4.1. Non-standard past tenses and past participles; 4.2. Demonstratives; 4.3. Negative concord; 5. Stability and change; NOTES; REFERENCES; Aspects of Prosody in Hiberno-EnglishThe Case of Belfast; 1. Defining prosody and overcoming notions of standardness; 2. The neglect of prosody and the need for an analytic framework; 3. Intonation and the Anglo-Irish bias: The consequences

4. Background to Belfast and northern Hiberno-English intonation4.1. Rises as a relic of Irish English?; 5. Intonation in British English and Hiberno-English: Establishing units; 6. A model for analysing Belfast English intonation; 6.1. Intonational divisions in Belfast English; 6.2. Acoustic correlates of prominence in Belfast intonation: primacy of obtrusion; 6.3. Pitch movement; 6.4. The phonetic basis for identifying more than one prominence per tone sequence; 7. Tonal characteristics of prominences in Belfast intonation; 8. Non-prominent components of the tone sequence

8.1. Leading segment types

Sommario/riassunto

Irish English is both the oldest overseas variety of English and, thanks to its co-existence with Irish Gaelic, one of the longest-documented examples of a contact-influenced language variety. The dual aspects of substratal influence and dialectal conservatism, together with the spread of this variety in the Irish diaspora and its use in literature, provide the main impetus for research into Irish English. This volume brings together 12 original papers which use a variety of methods to examine these aspects of English in Ireland. Following a historical introduction which looks critically at re