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Showing 1 to 20 of 78 for “"Southeastern Virginia"”.
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Food Habits and Ecology of Beavers in Southeastern Virginia
… of three beaver colonies in James County, Virginia were studied. Vegetation surrounding the colonies was characterized as southern mixed hardwood forest or lowland swamp forest. Stream flow values ranged from 0.013 to 0.369 m<sup>3</sup>/sec. Water depth ranged from 0.5 60 4.0 m. Caloric …
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Hydrologic Variations Within Created and Natural Wetlands in Southeastern Virginia
… vegetation communities. During 2002–2004, the Virginia Department of Transportation constructed large mitigation wetlands on two different Quaternary aged surfaces with very similar hydrogeomorphic conditions. The Sandy Bottom Nature Park site (SBNP) located in Hampton, VA and rests on the …
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An economic approach to water supply planning in southeastern Virginia
… to the water supply situation in four cities in southeastern Virginia. Cost/benefit analyses were performed for the provision of projected levels of use and for reductions in those levels of use achieved with the use of quotas, price increases, and water saving devices. An important element of …
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Elementary Principals' Perceptions of 21st Century Skills in Southeastern Virginia
… perceptions of elementary school principals in Southeastern Virginia regarding implementation of 21st century skills. The Partnership for 21st Century Learning Skills framework was used as a foundation to identify the skills needed for the 21st century. In addition, the framework was used to …
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A Denroecological Analysis of Disturbance of Remnant Pinus Palustris, Southeastern Virginia
Pinus palustris Miller (longleaf pine), in Virginia, is at the northernmost extent of its range. During presettlement times, this species occurred throughout the Piedmont and Coastal Plain of Virginia in pure and mixed stands, covering 607,000 hectares. This forest type has since been reduced to 81 …
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Evaluating Conservation Agricultural Management for Soil Health Outcomes in Southeastern Virginia
Improving soil health in agricultural soils is vital as the effects of climate change and an increasingly affluent population are putting a strain on land resources. Conservation agricultural practices such as cover cropping and conservation tillage systems (e.g., strip tillage, minimal tillage, or …
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An evaluation of some rabbit management procedures as applied in southeastern Virginia
This study, conducted at Camp Pickett, Virginia, attempted to evaluate several rabbit management practices currently in use on this deactivated military reservation. The methods being applied by the Virginia Come mission of Game and Inland Fisheries consist of establishment of wildlife food plots, …
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Dispositions of Effective Elementary Teachers in an Urban District in Southeastern Virginia
In an attempt to staff every classroom with a highly qualified teacher, the No Child Left Behind Act (2001) mandated that only "highly qualified" teachers be hired to teach beginning in the 2005 school-year (U.S. Department of Education, 2002). Highly qualified is defined by a teacher's background …
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Mechanisms for intergovernmental cooperation in the Southeastern Virginia Planning District: an evaluation
… primarily among the four major cities. of the Southeastern Virginia Planning District, were evaluated relative to existing legislative provisions for the planning district to become a multi-purpose service district. Those new mechanisms included: an urban services corporation; a regional urban …
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Stratigraphy and Depositional Environments of a Late Pleistocene Barrier Island Complex, Southeastern Virginia
… Bridge Formations beneath the HIckory Scarp of southeastern Virginia are reinterpreted as representing one glacio-eustatic transgressive cycle. The timing of this transgressive event is set during the earliest Wisconsinan. The formations were previously interpreted as unconformable overlying one …
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The Effects of Urbanization on Tick Parasitism Rates in Birds of Southeastern Virginia
<p>The coastal region of southeastern Virginia is one of the largest urban areas along one of North America’s migratory flyways. Because hundreds of avian species use this flyway, understanding factors affecting birds and their health is of paramount concern. Within this region, 14 species of ticks …
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Resident and migrant blackbirds in southeastern Virginia: Agricultural depredations and winter roost locations
In an effort to determine type, extent, and distribution of agricultural damage by blackbirds, county-wide damage appraisals were conducted in the fall of 1960. Crops checked included corn, peanuts, and milo. Based on the 96 fields examined throughout Nansemond County, the average monetary loss to …
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A Study on Teacher Attrition in Two Small School Districts in Southeastern Virginia
… attrition in two small school districts in Southeastern Virginia. This study through survey responses gathered data from teachers who left both districts after the 2007-2008 school year on the factors that impacted their decisions to leave and the challenges they perceived both school …
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A multiperiod linear programming model of farm growth and bmp adoption in southeastern Virginia
… (BMP) adoption of a representative, diversified, southeastern Virginia, farrow to finishing hog farm is examined in a multi-period linear programming framework. Specific attention is focused on the acquisition of additional productive resources and the impact of BMP adoption on the optimal …
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Sedimentologic and Stratigraphic Significance of Boulder Layers in the Outer Coastal Plain of Southeastern Virginia
<p>In southeastern Virginia one to two discontinuous boulder layers occur at the base of the Pleistocene Norfolk Formation. The sediments, heavy minerals and microfossils within the boulder layers in addition to boulder lithologies, dimensions and orientations were studied to determine the origin …
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An Examination of Seasonal Growth and Survivorship of <i>Sigmodon hispidus</i> in Southeastern Virginia
… coast of the United States. Previous studies of Virginia cotton rats were based on data from necropsies, which do not allow for the determination of certain population characteristics, such as density, growth, and survival. General population trends and rates of growth and survival in males and …
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Investigation of a major reduction in hunter harvest of the cottontail rabbit in southeastern Virginia
Hunter kill records maintained by the Virginia Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries have indicated that continuous declines of cottontail rabbit (Sylvilagus floridanus) populations have occurred in some areas of Virginia since the early 1930's. This study was undertaken to determine the …
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Evaluation of Cover Crops, Conservation Tillage, and Nitrogen Management in Cotton Production in Southeastern Virginia
… in two experiments located in coastal plain Virginia and North Carolina. The first experiment examined 1) soil compaction and cotton yield response to strip-tillage compared to no-tillage with a precision planted tillage radish and 2) the influence of legume mix, rye, and legume mix/rye …
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A Study of the Recruitment of Teachers in a Rural School Division in Southeastern Virginia
… a case study of how one rural school division in Virginia used continuous process improvement to change the way it recruited teachers. The report includes the step-by-step process used by a team of school personnel to: (1) gain support of upper-level management, (2) define the current process, (3) …
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Stink bug egg studies in southeastern Virginia: parasitoid survey, and susceptibility and chorion permeability to insecticides
… conducted in row crops and vegetables in eastern Virginia. Parasitization was highest in Euschistus servus (Say) with 89.7% and 49.2% of egg masses and individual eggs parasitized, respectively, followed by Acrosternum hilare (Say), with nearly half of all individual eggs parasitized. The most …
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