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Characteristics and practices of financially-stressed homeowners in Prince William County, Virginia
… Data were obtained from a convenience sample of Prince William County, Virginia residents who were clients of a Cooperative Extension financial counseling program. Two sources of data were used: a 169-item survey instrument and a financial profile. Of the 519 cases where both a financial profile …
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The fiscal impacts of use-value taxation in Prince William County, Virginia
Concern that high property taxation of agricultural land encourages its conversion to nonagricultural uses has led to the adoption of use-value taxation practices. Use-value taxation has had mixed results as a deterrent to the conversion of agricultural and open space land. It has been argued that …
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Analysis of an Urban Stormwater Bioretention Management Practice in Prince William County, Virginia
… practice in the Kingsbrooke Subdivision of Prince William County, Virginia was examined over a one-year period. Bioretention is a relatively new urban stormwater best management practice (BMP) intended to mimic the pollutant-removal characteristics of an upland forest habitat. Typical …
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A study of parental concerns regarding the care of school age children in Prince William County, Virginia
This study investigated the concerns and opinions of parents regarding supplemental care for children in the kindergarten through fifth grade age group; recommendations of parents for the improvement of present and future child care in the communities; and the differences between the responses of …
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Stress and the teacher: a comparative study of elementary and secondary teachers in the Prince William County, Virginia public school system
… elementary and secondary school teachers in the Prince William County School System. The sample for this survey was composed of members in the Prince William Education Association for the 1983-84 school year. Of the Association's 1,530 members, 511 teachers were randomly sampled systematically …
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The Relationships Between The Colwell Music Achievement Tests I and Ii, The Sra Achievement Series, Intelligence Quotient, and Success in Instrumental Music in The Sixth-Grade of The Public Schools of Prince William County, Virginia
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A history of Luther P. Jackson high school: a report of a case study on the development of a black high school
Prior to 1954, blacks in Fairfax County who wanted to receive an education beyond the seventh grade were bussed by the county to Manassas Regional High School in Prince William County or independently attended Dunbar High School, Phelps Vocational Center, Cardoza High School or Armstrong High …
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Determinants of physician participation in the medicare assignment program
… Physicians of the Medical Society of Prince William County, Virginia, were surveyed for information relevant to making the participation decision and the responses tabulated and used as input to a regression equation estimated using the logit technique. Physicians are more likely to …
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A Limnological Analysis of Lake Manassas, with an Updated Baseline Through 2010
… 706 acre man-made lake located in greater Prince William County near the town of Gainesville, Virginia. The lake was created in 1968 on Broad Run to serve as the primary water supply for the City of Manassas and its residents. The Lake Manassas watershed lies within the greater Occoquan …
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Use of Escherichia coli for Microbial Source Tracking in a Mixed Use Watershed in Northern Virginia
Prince William County, located in the rapidly developing Northern Virginia region, contains watersheds of mixed rural and urban/suburban uses. The project goal was to monitor and evaluate 21 stream locations, over 13 months, in the Occoquan Basin identified as impaired due to high E. coli …
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The extent and nature of affective and cognitive changes in teachers and students as the result of participation in an environmental education program
… eighth grade teachers from selected schools in Prince William County Virginia, were enrolled in an environmental education project funded by the National Science Foundation. These teachers, teachers who taught in the same school but not enrolled in the project, and teachers from schools …
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A study of the relationship between teachers' attitudes toward collective action and selected demographic variables
… attitudes held by public school teachers in Prince William County, Virginia to various forms of collective action. The secondary purpose of this descriptive research was to analyze the relationship between these teachers' attitudes toward collective action and selected demographic variables. …
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Estimating the Components of a Wetland Water Budget
… field measurements for a wetland in Manassas, Prince William County, VA. The monthly precipitation estimated from a weather station 32.18 km from the site differed from the on-site values by as much as 2.9 times. Runoff estimates calculated by the Soil Conservation Service (SCS) method using …
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Monitoring Hydrology in Created Wetland Systems with Clayey Soils
… at the Cedar Run 3 mitigation bank site in Prince William County, Virginia. Three complete replications of an electronic central array and an associated surrounding array of manually monitored wells and piezometers were installed. The electronic arrays contained a U.S. Army Corps of …
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The Implementation of Refugee Health Policies and Services in Virginia's Local Health Districts
… cities of Alexandria and Virginia Beach, and Prince William County) offer only the required minimum to refugees. The variations I discovered in the services that health districts provide suggest, conceptually, the workings of both "structure" and "agency." Each health department is formally …
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Evaluating ITS Investments in Public Transportation: A Proposed Framework and Plan for the OmniLink Route Deviation Service
… OmniLink local route deviation bus service in Prince William County, Virginia, but could be used as a basis for the evaluation of similar ITS investments. The OmniLink ITS investment includes an automatic vehicle location (AVL) system, mobile data terminals (MDTs), and computer-aided dispatch …
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An Investigation of the Limnological Dynamics of Lake Manassas
… the City of Manassas and some areas of Western Prince William County, but if necessary, can help supply drinking water to 750,000 people in the Northern Virginia area. Since 1984, the Occoquan Watershed Monitoring Laboratory has been sampling seven streams and eight lake stations as part of a …
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Renegotiating the Edge: Creating an Inspired Reality in the Potomac River Watershed
… of Dumfries, Virginia, a historic seaport in Prince William County, as a case study for design intervention, and analyzes the historic and ecological conditions that led to the marginalization of the community in the wake of siltation and urban sprawl. The resulting proposal reconnects the …
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Nutrient dynamics in the Lake Manassas (Virginia) watershed
… of Broad Run. It is located in western Prince William County at the periphery of the metropolitan Washington, D. c. area. Its watershed drains approximately 46,500 acres of rural land that is expected to undergo rapid development in the next 25 years. The objective of this study was to …
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Group counseling for anger control: the effects of an intervention program with middle school students
… or seventh-grade boys at seven middle schools in Prince William County, Virginia, who were not in any special education program. A pretest-posttest, experimental/control group design was used. Variables studied were the extent of the conduct problems measured by the number of discipline referrals …
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