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Correlation of the Eggleston formation and related beds in southwestern Virginia
… Mathews (1934, p.48) proposed the name, Eggleston, and defined it to include the relatively unfossiliferous transitional beds and intercalated bentonites younger than the upper maroon Moccasin formation and older than the Trenton beds of the lower Martinsburg formation in Giles County, …
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A Thermal Bath for Eggleston, Virginia: The Making of Water, Stone, and Light
Through the study of architecture, and the thermal bath, one must ask, — How can the experience of springwater, heavy, stone walls, and light contribute to the ritual of bathing? — The making of stone walls is the nature of the bath. The wall is the primordial state of architecture, and is given …
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William Eggleston's Guide To The Suburban South
… 1976, Memphis, Tennessee, photographer, William Eggleston, had his first solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. This exhibition was the first dedicated to a single photographer working in color. While Eggleston’s use of color was groundbreaking, his depictions of …
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Displacement transfer mechanisms in a portion of the Narrows/Copper Creek thrust sheet, Southwestern Virginia
… folding. Rocks of the Martinsburg and Eggleston Formations responded by localized second-order folding synchronous with cleavage development in thin shaly horizons. Regional structures formed contemporaneously with displacement of strata along the Narrows and Copper Creek thrusts. This …
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Exegesis.
… Eugene Atget, Walker Evans, William Eggleston, and Mike Smith as well as the artist Joseph Cornell, the painter Robert Motherwell, and the poet Charles Wright. Other topics include a discussion of place, particularly one's home, as a resource and an envelope for a body of …
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Four Pools | Four Qualities
… the Palisades that run along the New River, near Eggleston, VA. Natural springs were formed within the cliffs, that run off into the New River below. The bath house becomes place for patrons to bathe in the mineral baths in a meditative setting. This thesis investigates qualities of light and …
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An eye for vulgarity : how MoMA saw color through Wild Bill's lens
… Art exhibition of color photographs by William Eggleston-the second one-man show of color photography in the museum's history- with particular attention to the exhibition monograph, William Eggleston's Guide. From hundreds of slides, MoMA Director of Photography John Szarkowski dominated the …
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The Bays formation (Middle Ordovician) and related rocks of the southern Appalachians
… that includes the Bowen, Witten, Moccasin, and Eggleston formations of middle belts in the Appalachian Valley. The Bays at its type locality in the Bays Mountain synclinorium in northeastern Tennessee is underlain by the Sevier Formation and overlain by the Martinsburg Formation Several …
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Cross-Cultural Exchange and The Infinite Place
All places in the world have multiple levels of existence. Of these, we can establish a fairly clear distinction between the specific and the universal. Within the uniqueness of a place's specific, local qualities can be found the common universals that they represent. Here lies the shared …
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An investigation into frictional surface interactions and their effect on brake judder.
The chemical nature of the Transfer Film (T.F.) or Third-Body Layer (T.B.L.) formed at the friction interface of an automotive friction brake during off-brake motoring has been studied using Energy Dispersive X-ray (E.D.X.) analysis and Scanning Electron Microscopy (S.E.M.). Although these …
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Examining the Mediational Role of Writing Motivation in the Writing Development of Elementary-Aged Students
<p>Motivational variables, such as writing self-efficacy and writing attitudes, are not emphasized in writing frameworks for developing writers. The purpose of this research study was to extend the research literature on elementary-aged students’ writing development by examining the potential …
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Capacity Multipliers: Rapidly Scaling Production through Line Balancing and Critical Path Reduction
Sustained and rapid growth in manufacturing companies frequently generates challenges in scaling production to meet demand. As demand approaches and exceeds production capacity, the backlog of orders will increase and drive up lead times. Long lead times are unattractive to customers and threaten …
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Erosional history of the New River, southern Appalachians, Virginia
… of 1:24,000. The area is located within the Eggleston and Newport 7 ½-minute topographic quadrangles in Giles County, southwest Virginia. The data derived from mapping the surficial geology (particularly alluvial deposits), in conjunction with other field observations and with heavy-mineral …
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Searches for Vector Like Quarks Decaying to Ht, Zt, or Wt in the Single Lepton Channel with the ATLAS Detector
<p>A search for single production of Vector-Like quarks decaying to the Higgs boson and a top quark, or a massive vector boson and a top quark is presented. Events with exactly one high momentum lepton, at least three hadronic jets, of which at least one originates from a b-quark, and large missing …
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"See and Read All These Words": the Concept of the Written in the Book of Jeremiah
<p>Unusually for the Hebrew Bible, the book of Jeremiah contains a high number of references to writers, writing, and the written word. Written during the exilic period, the book demonstrates a key moment in the ongoing integration of writing and the written word into ancient Israelite society. Yet …
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Outcomes and Assessments of Illinois Community College Transfers at a Research I Institution
This study explored academic achievement (measured by university GPA) and academic persistence toward the bachelor degree among students that successfully transfer to a highly selective institution. A cohort of Illinois public community college transfers from fall, 1998, spring 1999, fall 1999 and …
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Language Growth of Day Care Children: Long Term Enrollment Effects on Vocabulary, Language Comprehension and Language Production
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-10T18:48:09Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7511652.pdf: 5294899 bytes, checksum: e6aafcebd39774d5bb20aefe0aed7eae (MD5) Previous issue date: 1974
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Plasticene
Plasticene is an alternative term for Anthropocene, the proposed epoch that follows the Holocene and designates the beginning of significant human impact on Earth. While this moniker carries numerous implications across a range of disciplines, the scholarship of this thesis project is motivated by …
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Participation and Non-Participation in Formal Adult Education: A Study of Deterrents for an Organizational Leadership Development Program
Organizations are increasingly supporting employee's educational pursuits, especially when continuing education is used as a strategy to achieve organizational goals or groom future executives. Fulmer and Wagner (1999) found that best-practice organizations developed their own leaders and that …
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