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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Rockingham"”.
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The sculpture collection of the second Marquis of Rockingham at Wentworth Woodhouse
… of George Stubbs, the second Marquis of Rockingham has been recognised almost exclusively for his patronage of Joseph Nollekens in the 1770's. This thesis attempts to correct such a narrow view and demonstrates that the Marquis was engaged in widespread patronage of sculptors in Italy and …
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Divisions, debates and `dis-ease': the Rockingham Whig Party and the House of Lords, 1760-1785.
… political party led by the second Marquess of Rockingham, from the perspective of the Upper Chamber of Parliament. The historiography of the Rockingham Whigs is extensive but underplays the House of Lords, while the literature on the House of Lords is growing, but lacks a major analysis of this …
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Financial costs and economic tradeoffs of alternative manure management policies on dairy and dairy/poultry farms in Rockingham County, Virginia
This study examines farm-level financial costs and environmental benefits from three alternative manure management policies, incorporating all manure (INCORP), limit nitrogen applications to agronomic recommendations (NLIMIT), and phosphorus applications limited to crop removals (PLIMIT), on …
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Spatial ecology and demography of eastern coyotes (Canis latrans) in western Virginia
… dynamics of coyote populations in Bath and Rockingham counties. I deployed 21 GPS satellite collars on 19 coyotes over 32 months. I estimated home range size (mean = 13.46 km², range = 1.23 km² - 38.24 km²) across months using biased-random bridges and second-order habitat selection at four …
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Structural analysis of the valley and ridge extension of the Parsons Lineament
… into the Valley and Ridge Province in northern Rockingham County, Virginia. Regional and second—order folds change in strike from typical Central Appalachian trends (N30—35°E) to near due north within the CSD, regional anticlines plunge out, and major thrusts terminate within thisi zone. ln the …
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The history, ecology, and reintroduction of the chequered skipper butterfly Carterocephalus palaemon in England
… reintroduction of C. palaemon to Rockingham Forest in Northamptonshire known as Back from the Brink – Roots of Rockingham (2018-21), a research project was developed to enhance the 266 historic records of C. palaemon that exist on the Butterflies for the New Millennium (BNM) …
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Diet and Feeding Ecology of the Coyotes, Black Bears, and Bobcats in Western Virginia and Preliminary Assessment of Coyote Parasites
… in Bath County (4.75 - 16.06 deer/km²) than in Rockingham County (0.17 - 3.55 deer/km²). I estimated availability of other food items only in Bath County. For mid-sized mammals, I estimated low activity as shown by constant, but low, trapping rates (#photo events/trap nights*100) of opossums, …
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GIS and the dairy industry: examining the roles of government regulation and dairy cooperatives in the shipment of fluid milk
… and regional scales. The case study focuses on Rockingham and Augusta counties in northwestern Virginia and the surrounding hinterland. On the local scale GIS network functions are used to determine optima] routes for milk trucks between dairy farms in these counties and the processing plant in …
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Effects of Cattle Exclusion on Stream Habitat in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia
… presence. Macroinvertebrates from 24 sites in Rockingham County, VA were used to calculate bioassessment metrics. Fourteen sites made up 4 longitudinal studies where improvement of biotic condition with distance from cattle impact was examined. Linear regression and multilevel modeling results …
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Compartmental Process-based Model for Estimating Ammonia Emission from Stored Scraped Liquid Dairy Manure
… dairy manure storage of a dairy farm located in Rockingham and Franklin counties in Virginia. Ammonia emission was estimated under different management and weather scenarios: two different manure storage periods from November to April and May to October using historical weather data of the two …
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Managing ground water contamination from agricultural nitrates
… model of a representative dairy farm in Rockingham County, Virginia. A mixed integer programming model with stochastic constraints on nitrate loading to ground water and silage production was used to simulate the impacts of various nitrate loading reduction strategies on estimated farm …
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Digestibility of Foods and Anthropogenic Feeding of Black Bears in Virginia
… primarily during July, August, and September. Rockingham County had the highest proportion of feeders (47%), followed by Giles (15%), Augusta (14%), Craig (9%) and Montgomery (9%) Counties. Accordingly, Rockingham County received the highest proportion of food (42%), followed by Craig (8%), …
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Political correspondence relating to Kingston-upon-Hull, 1678-1835
… in the Commons. Between 1766 and 1820 the Rockingham Fitzwilliam interest returned many personal nominees, and the quality of many of the members rose. These Whig magnates did not, however, have a monopoly at Hull. Wilberforce stood as an independent and later several government, or perhaps …
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Pedogenesis and geomorphic implications of soils developed on Blue Ridge alluvial fans, Virginia
… research was conducted in Botetourt, Augusta, Rockingham, and Page counties, Virginia with the intent to gain information about soil properties and to clarify genetic concepts. The objectives were to 1) characterize selected alluvial fan soils distributed along mountain footslopes, 2) show two …
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An Investigation of the Relationships Between Stream Benthic Macroinvertebrate Assemblage Conditions and Their Stressors
… within 13 counties in Virginia (Rockbridge, Rockingham, Augusta, Frederick, Shenandoah, Page, Loudoun, Fairfax, Prince William, Fauquier, Culpeper, Rappahannock, and Madison) and in watersheds dominated by agricultural, urban, and forested landuses. Virginia currently uses the Rapid …
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Use Of Small Format Aerial Photography in NPS Pollution Control Applications
… 35-mm slide images randomly selected from the Rockingham County data set, which contained over 2000 slides, was used to evaluate the automated procedure. The slides contained 182 poultry houses previously identified through manual procedures. Seven facilities were missed and 175 were correctly …
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Public street surveillance: A psychometric study on the perceived social risk
Public street surveillance, a domain of Closed Circuit Television (CCTV), has grown enormously and is becoming common place with increasing utilization in society as an all-purpose security tool. Previous authors (Ditton, 1999; Davies, 1998; Horne, 1998; Tomkins, 1998) have raised concern over …
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Ground-water geology along the northwest foot of the Blue Ridge between Arnold Valley and Elkton, Virginia
… of the Blue Ridge in Rockbridge, Augusta, and Rockingham counties, Virginia. It spans the boundary between the Blue Ridge and the Great Valley physiographic provinces. The southeastern (Blue Ridge) portion of the area is mountainous and underlain by Precambrian crystalline and lower Cambrian …