1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457213103321

Titolo

Opportunities for academic research in a low-gravity environment [[electronic resource] /] / edited by George A. Hazelrigg, Joseph M. Reynolds

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, N.Y., : American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc., c1986

ISBN

1-60086-582-8

1-60086-363-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (333 p.)

Collana

Progress in astronautics and aeronautics ; ; v. 108

Altri autori (Persone)

HazelriggGeorge A

ReynoldsJoseph M

Disciplina

629.1 s

500.5

Soggetti

Science - Experiments

Engineering - Experiments

Space environment - Research

Research in reduced gravity environments

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Based on papers presented at a workshop held in Washington, D.C., July 10-11, 1985, sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Title""; ""Copyright""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Chapter 1 Facilities and Programs for Research""; ""Chapter 2A Very High Resolution Phase Transition Experiments at Low Temperatures in Low Gravity""; ""Chapter 2B Low-Gravity Experiments In Critical Phenomena""; ""Chapter 2C Comments on Critical Phenomena""; ""Chapter 3A Gravity, Microgravity, and the Approach to Picogravity""; ""Chapter 3B Comments on Gravitation""; ""Chapter 4A Opportunity for Academic Research in a Low-Gravity Environment: Crystal Growth""; ""Chapter 4B Comments on Crystal Growth""

""Chapter 5A Opportunities for Metals and Alloys Research in a Low-Gravity Environment""""Chapter 5B Comments on Metals and Alloys""; ""Chapter 6A Research on Containerless Melts in Space""; ""Chapter 6B Comments on Containerless Processing""; ""Chapter 7A Combustion



Studies In Low Gravity""; ""Chapter 7B Comments on Combustion""; ""Chapter 8A Fluid Mechanics and Fluid Physics in a Low-Gravity Environment""; ""Chapter 8B Electrodynamic Buoyancy Flows as Models of Planetary and Stellar Circulations. ""; ""Chapter 8C Comments on Fluid Dynamics""; ""Appendix A. Acronyms and Abbreviations""

""Appendix B. Microgravity Science and Applications: Experiment Apparatus""""Author Index""

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784417603321

Autore

Eisenlohr Patrick <1967->

Titolo

Little India [[electronic resource] ] : diaspora, time, and ethnolinguistic belonging in Hindu Mauritius / / Patrick Eisenlohr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University of California Press, : Berkeley, c2006

ISBN

0-520-93996-4

9786612358586

1-282-35858-8

1-4337-0000-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (346 p.)

Disciplina

306.44096982

Soggetti

Anthropological linguistics - Mauritius

Hindus - Mauritius - Ethnic identity

Hindu diaspora

Mauritius Ethnic relations

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

Creole island or little India? : the politics of language and diaspora -- An Indo-Mauritian world : "ancestral culture," Hindus, and their others -- Social semiotics of language : shifting registers, narrative, and performance -- Colonial education, ethnolinguistic identifications, and the origins of ancestral languages -- Performing purity : television and ethnolinguistic recognition -- Calibrations of displacement : diasporization, ancestral language, and temporality.

Sommario/riassunto

Little India is a rich historical and ethnographic examination of a fascinating example of linguistic plurality on the island of Mauritius,



where more than two-thirds of the population is of Indian ancestry. Patrick Eisenlohr's groundbreaking study focuses on the formation of diaspora as mediated through the cultural phenomenon of Indian ancestral languages-principally Hindi, which is used primarily in religious contexts. Eisenlohr emphasizes the variety of cultural practices that construct and transform boundaries in communities in diaspora and illustrates different modes of experiencing the temporal relationships between diaspora and homeland.