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Showing 1 to 20 of 327 for “"Southwest Virginia"”.
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A chapel in southwest Virginia
“Now I seem to see all the things I have observed arranged like tools in a neat row; they are aligned as in a botanical chart, or a catalogue, or a dictionary.” - Aldo Rossi Situated along railroad tracks that wind their way around a mountain near Charlottesville is an abandoned industrial …
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Deformation in the striped rock pluton, southwest Virginia
… Fries Thrust zone in the Blue Ridge province of southwest Virginia. The multiphase granite pluton has been affected by episodes of brittle and crystal plastic deformation at both the microscopic and mesoscopic scales. Brittle deformation preceded and postdated crystal plastic deformation. The …
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A study of three counties in Southwest Virginia
… as a result of a number of years spent in the southwestern portion of Virginia working with the people of this mountainous region, teaching their children, and observing their way of life. This experience made it seem desirable to study the factors which tend to favor, as well as those which …
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Cost analysis of three southwest Virginia special education programs
School funding is one of the most critical issues in public education today. Jordan & Lyons (1992) have predicted that the great debate of the 1990s will be over what proportion of available funds should be spent on programs for special-needs students. Special education has held a prominent place …
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Agricultural Cooperation and Horticultural Produce Marketing in Southwest Virginia
Agricultural production in Southwest Virginia is characterized by numerous small, geographically disperse farms dedicated to traditional practices of producing tobacco and cattle. Community leaders have expressed the desire to diversify the region's agricultural production base to include …
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Nitrogen cycling in young mine soils in Southwest Virginia
… to study the nature of N form and dynamics in southwest Virginia mine soils. Fresh mine spoils contained a large amount of indigenous N, ranging from 650 to 2500 mg/kg soil, which complicated N studies. Most of the indigenous N was "geologic N" which was unavailable to plants. The geologic N …
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Resource productivity on test demonstration farms in Southwest Virginia
… Extension T. V. A. test demonstration farms in Southwest Virginia. The data were taken from 106 farm records kept by Unit Test Demonstrators in Southwest Virginia during 1951. The records were divided into four type-of-farm groups. These groups were beef brood farm with and without tobacco, and …
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An Evaluation of Family Planning Services in Southwest Virginia
… of family planning services in rural areas of Virginia. Through interviews with the public and not-for profit clinics, I collected various facts and through client survey, I obtained women's perceptions and feeling about the services provided to them. The goal was to reconcile responses …
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A timber supply model and analysis for southwest Virginia
… costs on delivered prices and quantities in southwest Virginia. Homogeneous supply response cells, identified from Forest Service forest survey data, were used to generate log and bolt supplies. Response cells define blocks of forest land with similar biologic, physiographic, and landowner …
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Impact of clearcutting on indigenous mammals of southwest Virginia
… Creek watershed of Montgomery and Craig Cos., Virginia. Two growing seasons after clear cutting it was evident that the shrub stratum had not caught up to the uncut forest i n the number of stems per acre, however, the 2 herb strata had surpassed the uncut forest jn density. These floristic …
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Structural evolution of the Max Meadows thrust sheet, Southwest Virginia
Fold and fault structures in sub-greenschist strata of the most internal, Southern Appalachian foreland thrust sheet developed in progressive simple shear near the ductile-to-brittle transition. Heterogeneous simple shear (γ < 3) was localized in incompetent, anisotropic pelitic rocks (Rome …
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Assisted Living Facility as a Home: Cases in Southwest Virginia
… that make residents feel "at home" in ALFs in Southwest Virginia and to suggest further policy and design guidelines for better quality of ALFs as a "home." For this purpose, residents' needs, experiences, and opinions of the physical environment, the social environment, and the organizational …
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The tectonic evolution of the Altavista area, Southwest Virginia Piedmont
… westward thrusted Smith River Allochthon of the Southwest Virginia Piedmont. It also lies at the south end of an area of continuous mapping in the central Virginia Piedmont. The stratigraphy of the Smith River Allochthon has not been related to any other in the Southern Appalachians. The units …
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Teacher Resilience in High Poverty Elementary Schools of Southwest Virginia
… of two groups of elementary teachers in Southwest Virginia. Teachers from high poverty (≥90%) and lower poverty (≤50%) elementary public schools were identified by their levels of Free and Reduced Price Lunch and qualification for the Community Eligibility Provision. The CD-RISC-25 …
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Stratigraphy and petrography of the Wytheville formation in southwest Virginia
… of sections south of Wytheville, Wythe County, Virginia, the nature of the lithofacies is fully exemplified. The Wytheville Formation, is composed mainly of rather fine-grained, very dark-gray dolomite, much of which is characterized by white calcite and dolomite veinlets. Several distinctive …
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The place of photography in vocational agriculture in Southwest Virginia
… public relations in vocational agriculture in southwest Virginia. The fifty-six vocational agriculture departments in the southwest Virginia supervisory area were included in the study. The questionnaire technique of research was used in the investigation. Questionnaires were formulated and …
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Family cohesiveness and dietary status of farm families in southwest Virginia
… limited resource farm families in South-west Virginia included dietary status (dietary score) and family cohesiveness (activity, activity quality, and observation scores). Dietary status was analyzed from an average of three 24-hour dietary recalls obtained from the respondents. The nutrients …
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Case Studies of Exemplary Elementary School Guidance Programs in Southwest Virginia
The Virginia Board of Education mandated that, by the Fall of 1989, all public elementary schools in the Commonwealth should establish elementary school guidance programs and employ an elementary school guidance counselor for every 500 students. Since that time, eight years have passed, and a …
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Creating Community Among Older Adults in Southwest Virginia Through Social Participation
… school within the rural community of Pulaski, Virginia. Further discussing elements related to site-scale design, this project wraps up with the creation of a standard evaluation form, designed to give feedback for not only the current project, but those wishing to develop communities that …
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Seroprevalence of Anaplasma phagocytophilum in the equine population of Southwest Virginia
… a tick-borne disease of clinical importance in Southwest Virginia. The disease is recognized worldwide and causes pyrexia, anorexia, limb edema, and lethargy. Diagnosis in endemic areas is often based on clinical signs, but confirmation of infection can be made via detection of morulae on a …
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