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Language, Immigration and Acculturation in the Short Stories of Ha Jin
The Problems of Acculturation: Flushing, Queens, in the Short Stories of Ha Jin
Abstract:
Noted author Ha Jin is often thought of as a Chinese author despite the fact that all of his writing has been written in English. Two of his later works, A Free Life (2007) and A Good Fall (2009) are set among the Chinese community in Flushing, Queens. This essay examines three short stories An English Professor, A Pension Plan, and Temporary Love from A Good Fall. In these works, Jin discusses the problems of acculturation these immigrants face, including learning English, finding employment, and dealing with forced separation. The stories depict the treacherous territory the immigrants, as well as the author himself at times, traverse as they dwell between two languages, two cultures, two literatures, two countries
The h-index in Australian Astronomy
The Hirsch (2005) h-index is now widely used as a metric to compare
individual researchers. To evaluate it in the context of Australian Astronomy,
the h-index for every member of the Astronomical Society of Australia (ASA) is
found using NASA's Astrophysics Data System Bibliographic Services (ADS).
Percentiles of the h-index distribution are detailed for a variety of
categories of ASA members, including students. This enables a list of the top
ten Australian researchers by h-index to be produced. These top researchers
have h-index values in the range 53<h<77, which is less than that recently
reported for the American Astronomical Society Membership. We suggest that
membership of extremely large consortia such as SDSS may partially explain the
difference. We further suggest that many student ASA members with large h-index
values have probably already received their Ph.D.'s and need to upgrade their
ASA membership status. To attempt to specify the h-index distribution relative
to opportunity, we also detail the percentiles of its distribution by years
since Ph.D. award date. This shows a steady increase in h-index with seniority,
as can be expected.Comment: Accepted for publication in the Publications of the Astronomical
Society of Australi
A note on the connection between nonextensive entropy and -derivative
In order to study as a whole the major part of entropy measures, we introduce
a two-parameter non-extensive entropic form with respect to the
\textit{h}-derivative which generalizes the conventional Newton-Leibniz
calculus. This new entropy, , is proved to describe the non-extensive
systems and recover several types of the well-known non-extensive entropic
expressions, such as the Tsallis entropy, the Abe entropy, the Shafee entropy,
the Kaniadakis entropy and even the classical Boltzmann\,--\,Gibbs one. As a
generalized entropy, its corresponding properties are also analyzed.Comment: 6 pages, 1 figur
Comment on "Remark on the external-field method in QCD sum rules"
It is proved, that suggested by Jin modified formalism in the external-field
method in QCD sum rules exactly coincides with the formalism used before.
Therefore, unlike the claims of ref.1, this formalism cannot improve the
predictability and reliability of external-field sum rule calculations in
comparison with those, done by the standard approach.
PACS number(s): 12.38.Lg, 11.55.HxComment: 5 pages, RevTe
Triggered massive and clustered stars formation by together H II regions G38.91-0.44 and G39.30-1.04
We present the radio continuum, infrared, and CO molecular observations of
infrared dark cloud (IRDC) G38.95-0.47 and its adjacent H II regions
G38.91-0.44 (N74), G38.93-0.39 (N75), and G39.30-1.04. The Purple Mountain
Observation (PMO) 13.7 m radio telescope was used to detect12CO J=1-0,13CO
J=1-0 and C18O J=1-0 lines. The carbon monoxide (CO) molecular observations can
ensure the real association between the ionized gas and the neutral material
observed nearby. To select young stellar objects (YSOs) associated this region,
we used the GLIMPSE I catalog. The13CO J=1-0 emission presents two large cloud
clumps. The clump consistent with IRDC G38.95-0.47 shows a triangle- like
shape, and has a steep integrated-intensity gradient toward H II regions
G38.91-0.44 and G39.30-1.04, suggesting that the two H II regions have expanded
into the IRDC. Four submillmeter continuum sources have been detected in the
IRDC G38.95-0.47. Only the G038.95-00.47-M1 source with a mass of 117 Msun has
outflow and infall motions, indicating a newly forming massive star. We
detected a new collimated outflow in the clump compressed by G38.93-0.39. The
derived ages of the three H II regions are 6.1*10^5yr, 2.5*10^5yr, and
9.0*10^5yr, respectively. In the IRDC G38.95-0.47, the significant enhancement
of several Class I YSOs indicates the presence of some recently formed stars.
Comparing the ages of these H II regions with YSOs (Class I sources and massive
G038.95-00.47-M1 source), we suggest that YSOs may be triggered by G38.91-0.44
and G39.30-1.04 together, which supports the radiatively driven implosion
model. It may be the first time that the triggered star formation has occurred
in the IRDC compressed by two H II regions. The new detected outflow may be
driven by a star cluster.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures, Accepted for publication in A&
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