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Showing 1 to 20 of 67 for “"Grayson"”.
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An economic study of land utilization: middle Grayson County, Virginia
The purpose of this study was two-fold: first, to determine the reliability of the reconnaissance method of land classification as indicated by various farm management, home economic, and other economic factors; second, to determine the economic conditions existing on each class of land, attempting …
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Toward Understanding Geodiversity Perception in Grayson County, Virginia through Geodiversity Mapping
… values through public participatory mapping in Grayson County, Virginia. Objectives of this research were to: 1) map and model geodiversity using lithology, topography, hydrology, and microclimatic data; 2) design and implement a survey on geodiversity values and the perception of geodiversity …
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The effect of turnaround migration on the rural landscape: a study of Grayson County, Virginia
… areas. The study area for this research will be Grayson County, Virginia.
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Mount Rogers Combined School: The Experiences and Perspectives of Students and Staff When a Community School Closed
… Mount Rogers Combined School was established in Grayson County, Virginia, by the concerted efforts of volunteers and community members who valued education and considered schooling a top priority for the area. The original four-room school was built of rocks and housed grades 1 through 11, taught …
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A study of the factors affecting the holding power of high schools in a certain mountainous rural area
… from a desire to view the factors involved in Grayson County's High Schools' ability to retain youth after their 16th birthday, the compulsory attendance age. Also from a desire to view these factors in terms of rank of importance. In the process of securing data from which inferences could be …
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A design for family living
… be designed for Doctor and Mrs. James McDonald Grayson, and to be located in Blacksburg, Virginia. THIRD, to present a detailed design of the residence which shall be designated, “A Design For Family Living”.
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THE IMPACT OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE IN HIGH RISK, RURAL VIRGINIA COUNTIES
… rural Virginia counties (Brunswick County and Grayson County) and efforts to reduce them with a particular focus on a cost-benefit analysis of expenditures. Four independent variables were assessed in relation to drug-related crime: expenditures associated with (1) drug abuse prevention and (2) …
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Physical Layer Design for a Spread Spectrum Wireless LAN
… direct sequence spread spectrum processing, a Grayson 900 MHz radio receiver and a transmitter module which was designed and built at Virginia Tech. The transmitted spectrum occupies a 4 MHz bandwidth in the 900 MHz ISM band and this system supports a data rate of up to 363 Kbits/sec. The …
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We don't want them in our schools: Black School Equality, Desegregation, and Massive Resistance in Southwest Virginia, 1920s-1960s
… Virginia localities such as Floyd, Galax, Grayson, and Pulaski worked together with NAACP attorney Reuben Lawson to file multiple lawsuits so Black students could attend White schools. Many of these lawsuits faced staunch resistance from White residents of these localities, even with the …
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Validation of clinical screens for suicidality and severe mental disorders for jail inmates.
… screens in a jail population. Inmates from the Grayson County Jail were administered three screens: the Referral Decision Scale (RDS), Personality Assessment Screener (PAS), and the Mental Disability/Suicide Intake Screen (MDSIS). Criterion measures were the Schedule for Affective Disorders and …
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A performance guide to Leonard Lehrman's A Light in the Darkness
… Dissertation directed by Professor Robert Grayson Pages in dissertation, 146. Words in abstract, 106. ABSTRACT Leonard Lehrman is primarily known as the leading expert on the works of Marc Blitzstein. He is a composer and conductor, and serves to provide a voice for Jewish poets and …
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Factors Influencing Biotite Weathering
… on the clay mineral fraction of soils in Grayson County, VA formed above biotite granite. Selected acid leachates did show a greater Al+3, Fe+2, and Si+4 release with organic acids (ascorbic, citric, and fulvic) than that with hydrochloric acid treatment at high leachate rates. Loss of K+ …
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Ore mineralogy and paragenesis of a portion of the Great Gossan Lead district, Virginia
… extending over 28 kilometers through Carroll and Grayson Counties in southwestern Virginia. The zone, which occurs in the metamorphic Late Precambrian Ashe formation, consists of a series of an echelon mineralized pods which pinch and swell irregularly along strike and are essentially concordant …
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The Appalachian Power Company Along the New River: The Defeat of the Blue Ridge Project in Historical Perspective
… to impound the waters of the upper New River in Grayson County, Virginia, with two reservoirs extending into the river's headwaters in the counties of Ashe and Alleghany in northwestern North Carolina. Though the initial project met no serious opposition, environmental lawyers and the State of …
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Challenges chemistry teachers face in implementing the new NSSCO chemistry curriculum in Otjozondjupa region during the COVID-19 national lockdown
… Theory of Curriculum Implementation of Rogan and Grayson, as a theoretical framework. The study adopted an explanatory sequential mixed methods approach, comprising of two phases. In the first phase, a questionnaire was used to gather quantitative data from all (32) Grade 10 and 11 Chemistry …
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Petrography and petrology of "unakites" located in the Mount Rogers area, southwestern Virginia
… 36 miles east of Bristol, Virginia, on the Smyth-Grayson county line, is in the Blue Ridge physiographic province. This area is underlain by the Mount Rogers volcanic series which consists of a complex series of tuffaceous sediments, arkoses, basalts, and rhyolites of late Precambrian age. An …
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Training needs assessment of workers providing services to battered women
… is Justified Scale (Saunders, Lynch, Grayson, & Linz, 1987) were included to measure workers' attitudes toward women and battering. A Pearson-product moment correlation found that levels of competence regarding knowledge and skills were positively correlated with the number of hours of …
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The convergence of psychopathy, self-rated vulnerability, and other-rated vulnerability
… tend to exhibit asynchronous movement (e.g. Grayson & Stein, 1981), and the fact that victims display different body language suggests that they may be sending inadvertent signals to their own vulnerability (e.g. Murzynski & Degelman, 1996). Body language has also be en linked with s e l f …
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