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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Roanoke (Va.)"”.
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Linking GIS, youth environmental literacy, and city government functions to define and catalyze community heat resilience planning in Roanoke, VA
… effect, a phenomenon which significantly elevates temperatures due to the various absorption characteristics of built environment features. Historical discriminatory mortgage lending schemes and planning practices that targeted communities of color have intensified that issue, endangering the …
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Assessing Working Models' Impact on Land Cover Dynamics through Multi-Agent Based Modeling and Artificial Neural Networks: A Case Study of Roanoke, VA
… Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) changes within Roanoke, Virginia. The study uniquely explores the dynamic interplay between macro-level policies and micro-level individual behaviors—categorized by employment types, social activities, and residential choices—shedding light on their collective …
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Carilion Clinic and Excellence: A Case Study Evaluating Excellence in a Clinic-model Structured Health Organization
… Clinic, a large health organization based in Roanoke, Va. Using the excellence theory combined with organizational culture perspectives as a lens, the study interviewed Carilion Clinic communications employees to uncover the presence of excellence principles in their public relations. A second …
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An Evaluation of a Jail-based Public Inebriate Intervention and Treatment Program
… and Intervention Program, in the city of Roanoke, VA, is evaluated. This program targets those who have violated their interdiction status, ordered by the Circuit Court, to not consume, possess or purchase beverages containing alcohol. A voluntary treatment program has been set up to treat …
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Towards a Human-like Robot for Medical Simulation
… training; thus, additional features such as movable limbs and eyes, vision processing and realistic social interaction will provide a more fulfilling learning experience. A humanoid robot with a 23 degree of freedom (DOF) hand was developed which is capable of performing complex dexterous tasks …
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Comparison of accuracy and efficiency of five digital image classification algorithms
… by application to imagery of three test sites (Roanoke, VA., Glade Spring, VA., and Topeka, KA.) A variety of land cover features and two types of image data (Landsat MSS and Thematic Mapper) were represented. Classification algorithms were selected from the General Image Processing System …
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A study of the stream pollution problem in the Roanoke, Virginia, metropolitan district
… investigation of the pollution existing in the Roanoke River within the Roanoke Metropolitan district was carried out from June, 1940 to May, 1941 by various departments of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute with the material aid of several other interested groups. Studies of the chemical and …
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Understanding the Tea Party Response to Local Environmental Initiatives: A Conflict Between Individualism and Collectivism
… American politics in 2009. Soon after their arrival on the national scale, this movement turned its attention to environmental policymaking. In particular, it spurred a strong opposition to local sustainable development initiatives. While this conflict has run its course in most places, it …
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The Effect of Current and Perceived Economic Conditions on Consumer Apparel Purchase Expenditures
… predictors of apparel expenditures. Demographic variables were included to see if demographics had any significant influence on current and future perceptions, importance of fashion, and/or apparel expenditures. Data for this study was obtained by administering a paper and internet survey to 166 …
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A Novel Thermal Method for Pipe Flow Measurements Using a Non-invasive BTU Meter
… presents the development of a novel and non-invasive method that measures fluid flow rate and temperature in pipes. While current non-invasive flow meters are able to measure pipe flow rate, they cannot simultaneously measure the internal temperature of the fluid flow, which limits their …
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Design Process to Integrate Natural and Human Systems
… one purpose: they are either reserved for conservation as are the great national parks, or are planned for recreation or development that ignores natural systems. "Most...landscape designers are still inspired by and primarily focused on aesthetics; society's other major objectives are secondary …
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Design guidelines for small community-based residential facilities for disabled children
… children. Each of the major issues which are relevant to these types of facilities were looked at in some detail. These issues were therapeutic environments in general, small residential facilities, community-based facilities, and disabled children, as well as the concept of design guidelines and …
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Toward Local Brownfield Regeneration: Factors Affecting People's Attitude and Preference of Brownfield Landscape
… neighborhoods along the rail yard in the City of Roanoke was conducted. A dimensional analysis found six brownfield landscape types. First of all, historical landmark and maintained landscape types received the highest ratings regardless of the participants characteristics and backgrounds. These …
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Aspects of dispersal and population structure of Blattella germanica (L.) in field habitats and attitudes concerning aesthetic injury levels
… in non-elderly public housing projects in Roanoke, VA, Norfolk, VA, and Baltimore, MD. One hundred surveys were taken in each of the cities. The results of the survey indicate that the aesthetic injury level concept can not be successfully applied to control programs for insect pests …
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Reduction of Average Cycle Time at a Wafer Fabrication Facility
… which the study is being conducted is based in Roanoke, VA. The facility consists of 92 machines and its products can be classified into six different types. The data required for each product such as routing, processing times, yield at each operation etc. have been acquired from the facility. …
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Pilot Findings from a Randomized Controlled Trial Targeting Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Behaviors
… The primary aims of this pilot project were to evaluate participant's feedback through process and summative evaluation as well as evaulate intervention content and/or delivery through process evaluation by staff tracking for quality improvements. Secondary aims included the assessment of changes …
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Initiation, Propagation, and Mitigation of Aluminum and Chlorine Induced Pitting Corrosion
… trends from earlier work. At certain pH values, the presence of chlorine and aluminum solids does seem to initiate pitting corrosion of copper. Although the problem is most severe at higher pH, it is likely that long-term exposure at lower values such as pH 8 could lead to pitting. There …
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Emotional Agents: Modeling Travel Satisfaction, Affinity, and Travel Demand Using a Smartphone Travel Survey
… 6,000 completed trip surveys) in the Blacksburg-Roanoke, VA, Washington, DC, and Minneapolis, MN metropolitan areas from fall 2016 to spring 2018. Respondents answered an entry survey, tracked their travel for 7 days, and answered a trip survey associated with each trip. The dataset provides …
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Distributed Situation Awareness Framework to Assess and Design Complex Systems
… The main objective of this research was to advance methodology in the DSA literature for (1) deriving design implications from DSA models, and (2) developing quantitative DSA models to formally compare system designs. This DSA research was situated in the domain of patient flow management. …