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UNINA9910706919603321 |
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Ade Brian |
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Impact of operating parameters on extended BWR burnup credit / / Brian J. Ade [and four others] |
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Washington, D.C. : , : United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, , January 2018 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations |
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Boiling water reactors |
Spent reactor fuels - Storage |
Fuel burnup (Nuclear engineering) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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"NUREG/CR-7240; ORNL/TM-2017/46." |
"Manuscript completed: June 2017; date published: January 2018." |
"Oak Ridge National Laboratory." |
"Mourad Aissa, NRC project manager." |
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UNINA9910966533403321 |
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Autore |
Perea Flavia C |
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Language, gender, and academic performance : a study of the children of Dominican immigrants / / Flavia C. Perea |
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El Paso [Tex.], : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2011 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (167 p.) |
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The new Americans : recent immigration and American society |
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Children of immigrants - Education - United States |
Children of immigrants - United States - Language |
Native language and education - United States |
Education, Bilingual - United States |
Sex differences in education - United States |
Dominicans (Dominican Republic) - United States - Social conditions |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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CONTENTS; List of Tables; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Foreword by Cynthia García Coll; CHAPTER 1: Introduction; CHAPTER 2: Dominican Immigrants in the US and Providence,Rhode Island; CHAPTER 3: What do we know about Children of ImmigrantFamilies?; CHAPTER 4: Guiding Theories; CHAPTER 5: The Nuts and Bolts of this Study; CHAPTER 6: Modeling Language, Gender, and AcademicPerformance; CHAPTER 7: So what does all this Mean?; CHAPTER 8: Closing Thoughts; Notes; Appendix A; References; Index |
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Research has found immigrant youth perform better in school compared to their native-born peers. However, academic performance deteriorates with acculturation to US culture, whereas bilingualism has been associated with better performance in school. Peréa examined whether language acculturation could explain the variation in academic grades among Dominican children of immigrants, and tested whether children who preferred Spanish and English equally had better grades than those who preferred English only. Results indicate benefits associated with bilingualism, however they also indicate a gende |
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