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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Ohio Valley"”.
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A Study of Field Training Programs in the Ohio Valley Region
… enforcement’s Field Training Programs, in the Ohio Valley, has been limited to date. Field Training Officers (FTOs) of six police departments, of different sizes, were interviewed to determine the nature of their field training programs and their roles in training new officers. Within each …
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Dark Days in the Ohio Valley: Three Western Kentucky Lynchings, 1884-1911
This thesis investigates three lynchings of African Americans in Progressive-Era western Kentucky. The first occurred in Owensboro. In July 1884, a masked mob at-tacked the Daviess County jail. Richard May, an African-American field hand, had been incarcerated for the alleged sexual assault of a …
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"So Calamitous a Situation": The Causes and Course of Dunmore's War, 1744-1774
… region of Virginia, which included the valleys of the Ohio River and its lower tributary system. This thesis traces the origins of the war, and suggests that, among other things, the provisions in the Royal Proclamation of 1763 for the westward extension of the Indian boundary line and …
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Middle Woodland hilltop enclosures: The built environment, construction and function
… (200 B.C.-A.D. 400) hilltop enclosures in the Ohio Valley. It describes the physical structure and temporal development of hilltop enclosure architecture and analyzes the associated activity areas. The concept of the built environment, which incorporates dimensions of space, time, and …
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Afterimages of Kincaid Mounds
… and political trajectory in the broader Ohio Valley and Mississippian culture.
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Jefferson's Abomination in the Valley: A Study of the Economic Effects of the Embargo of 1807 on Louisville's Frontier Economy
… because it is not only representative of the Ohio Valley and the interior but also because it marked the end of civilization and the beginning of the frontier. Distinctions between class, economic status, and occupation between the inhabitants of Jefferson County are also observed. This …
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Imperial Intentions and Independent Interests: The Ohio Company of Virginia and its Agents, Thomas Cresap and Christopher Gist, 1748--1752
… common men from Maryland, began working for the Ohio Company of Virginia in 1748, in an attempt to expand the British Empire's claim in the Ohio River Valley by enlarging the colony of Virginia. This thesis analyses these two agents of empire and their trade and diplomacy with the Indians of the …
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From the Mouths of Babes: Using Incremental Enamel Microstructures to Evaluate the Applicability of the Moorrees Method of Dental Formation to the Estimation of Age of Prehistoric Native American Children
… to prehistoric Native Americans from the Ohio Valley and 2) the utility of incremental microstructures of dental enamel. Enamel microstructures such as perikymata and cross striations have the potential to provide accurate, narrow, and population-specific age-at-death estimations based …
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Three-Dimensional Volume Averaged Soil-Moisture Transport Model: A Scalable Scheme for Representing Subgrid Topographic Control in Land-Atmosphere Interactions
… the off-line mode for a study domain around the Ohio Valley region. The simulation results show that the lateral and subgrid fluxes play a significant role in total soil-moisture dynamics, and the interaction between surface and subsurface flows and the flow routing scheme improve the runoff …
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Seeing With Two Eyes: Colonial Policy, the Huron Tract Treaty and Changes in the Land in Lambton County, 1780-1867
… in their histories stemming from the loss of the Ohio Valley, non-native settlement, and intense pressure to surrender the land and settle permanently on reserves. With few exceptions, literature on the subject of Upper Canadian history and Indian policy largely accepts the decline of Anishinabe …
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Application of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model to Simulate a Squall Line: Implications of Choosing Parameterization Scheme Combinations and Model Initialization Data Sets
… a squall line of thunderstorms moved through the Ohio Valley resulting in four deaths and one injury. Such events highlight the importance of accurate forecasting for public safety. Mesoscale Modeling plays an important role in any forecast of a potential squall line. The focus of this study was …
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Effects of Professional Development on Using Differentiated Instruction with Gifted and Talented Students in the Library Media Center
… in Project CATALYST grant through the Ohio Valley Educational Cooperative (OVEC). This will meet two specific needs: providing the LMSs opportunities to collaborate with classroom teachers while becoming another resource for gifted and talented students that can enhance their learning …
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Saints, Sinners, and Socialists on the Southside: Polish Catholic Immigrant Workers, Politics, and Culture in Wheeling, West Virginia, 1890-1930
… transition to steel manufacturing in the Upper Ohio Valley, by the 1890's, Wheeling attracted many immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe. These immigrants took their places at the bottom of the industrial hierarchy and were relegated to the most menial unskilled jobs in the steel mills, …
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Analysis of Extreme Reversals in Seasonal and Annual Precipitation Anomalies Across the United States, 1895-2014
… the Northern Rockies and Plains, and the Ohio Valley. Relationships between the winter-to-winter PR time series and an index representing the El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon were examined. The winter-to-winter PR time series of the Northern Rockies and Plains region and the …