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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Department of the Interior"”.
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Landscape in Peril: A Cultural Assessment of Thomas's Wharf and Woodlands Farm, Northampton County, Eastern Shore, Virginia
This thesis develops a philosophy for management, preservation, and interpretation of Woodlands Farm and Thomas's Wharf in Northampton County on Virginia's Eastern Shore. The U. S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service methodology for historic properties, including cultural landscapes, …
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An identification of the factors that influence graduate satisfaction with a management development training program
… effective leadership, and enhance productivity. The sudden emphasis on customer satisfaction is observable governmentwide as federal agencies respond to the President’s Executive Order to create a government that works better and costs less. Finding ways to improve customer satisfaction is now a …
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The Stockbridge-Munsee Tote at the National Museum of the American Indian
This thesis constructs the cultural biography of the National Museum of the American Indian’s Stockbridge-Munsee tote, a twentieth-century souvenir craft, in order to examine the tote’s cultural and cross-cultural associated meanings and how these associated meanings shift from one context to …
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Building a History: Evaluation of Central Washington University Campus Buildings to Determine Eligibility for Listing on the National Register of Historic Places
Using U.S. Department of the Interior standards, I completed an intensive inventory of 184 buildings on the Central Washington University (CWU) campus, from which I evaluated buildings to determine their eligibility for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). Historical …
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Archaeology Database Management: A Case Study in the Solution of Incompatibility Issues between Different Archaeological Databases
… to record data recovered from excavations. These databases contain large collections of information that can aid archaeologists in making educated decisions, interpretations, and test hypotheses from the recovered data. As time passed, databases became bigger and varied in the information …
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Effect of thermal stress on larvae of Patiria miniata (Brandt) including studies on induction of spawning, development and larval tagging
<p>It has been estimated by the Department of the Interior that by 1985 nearly one-quarter of all surface water in the United States will be used in removal of waste heat produced in electric generation. This will involve subjecting tremendous quantities of plankton to rapid fluctuations in …
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Archaeology Database Management: A Case Study in the Solution of Incompatibility Issues between Different Archaeological Databases
… to record data recovered from excavations. These databases contain large collections of information that can aid archaeologists in making educated decisions, interpretations, and test hypotheses from the recovered data. As time passed, databases became bigger and varied in the information …
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Their Culture Against Them: The Assimilation of Native American Children Through Progressive Education, 1930-1960s
<p>The failure of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) to successfully assimilate Native Americans, especially Native children through education tactics such as boarding schools, led to a shift in the mid-twentieth century for pro-Indian reform. From the 1930s through the 1950s, BIA education …
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The Americanization of the Virgin Islands, 1917-1946: Politics and Class Struggle During the First Thirty Years of American Rule
This study describes how the interaction between Virgin Islanders and their new American rulers shaped the political relationship between the Virgin Islands and the United States. Once control of the islands had passed from Denmark to the United states, Virgin Islanders forced American Officials to …
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A state of change : an historical archaeology of Doukhobor identity at Kirilovka village site (FcNs-1)
A migration of over seven thousand Russian immigrants belonging to the Christian sect known as the Doukhobors arrived in western Canada beginning in early 1899. Three colonies of at least 61 villages in total were established in the Districts of Saskatchewan and Assiniboia in the Northwest …
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Performance appraisal system development: the consideration of attitudes toward appraisal, job objectivity, and supervisory style
… personnel-related fields; yet, most personnel professionals are unwilling to abandon the practice of formally evaluating job performance. Given this reluctance to discard performance appraisal, many organizations are faced with the task of choosing appraisal systems compatible with their …
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Steps to the identification of the residue of the cultural heritage landscape of the University of Pretoria's Hatfield campus 1910-1960
As the Campus Landscape Architect for the University of Pretoria, it has been an on-going challenge to gain an understanding and reliable data on the history of the landscape of the University of Pretoria's Hatfield campus. With the pace of development taking place on the campus, in order to meet …
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I. Development of three-component alkene carboamination reactions II. Palladium-catalyzed anti-Markovnikov oxidative amination of alkenes III. Chloroform as a carbon monoxide precursor: in or ex situ generation of co for pd-catalyzed carbonylations IV. Hydroalkylation of alkenes via photoredox catalysis
The design of methods that streamline the synthesis of small organic molecules is a critical facet of organic chemistry, impacting core scientific fields with important societal implications. In the medical sciences, for instance, the treatment of diseases is a major public health concern that …
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Conservation priorities and collaboration in the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes Landscape Conservation Cooperative
Large-scale drivers of environmental change, such as invasive species, climate change, and human land use, are prompting conservation planning and action at a landscape or regional scale. Historically, natural resource agencies worked within individual jurisdictional boundaries – both geographical …
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Inter-governmental relations in the southern tablelands of New South Wales : a case-study in regionalism and decentralization
The aim of this thesis was to approach the study of inter-governmental relations in a way not previously tried by political scientists in Australia. It has generally been assumed that an outstanding feature of Australian government, as of social and economic affairs in the country, is its …
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Inter-governmental relations in the southern tablelands of New South Wales : a case-study in regionalism and decentralization
The aim of this thesis was to approach the study of inter-governmental relations in a way not previously tried by political scientists in Australia. It has generally been assumed that an outstanding feature of Australian government, as of social and economic affairs in the country, is its …
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Rethinking the industrial landscape : the future of the Ford Rouge complex
The growth and decline of manufacturing industries in the past century and the industrial landscape that this activity has produced has had profound physical, environmental, social and economic impact on the communities of which they are an integral part. Throughout the past century, industry has …