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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"United States Virgin Islands"”.
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Water reuse and conservation in the United States Virgin Islands
… water conservation and reuse practices in the United States Virgin Islands was undertaken by administering surveys to Territory Permit Discharge Elimination System permit holders and performing interviews. Currently, many resorts and condominiums in the US Virgin Islands (USVI) reclaim …
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MEASURING AND MODELING POTABLE WATER DEMAND IN THE UNITED STATES VIRGIN ISLANDS
… measure and estimate potable water flows in the United States Virgin Islands (USVI). The USVI potable water system is considerably more complicated than typical systems in the mainland United States. For this reason, we conduct a first-principles analysis on water production, storage, delivery, …
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East Caribbean immigrant students in the United States Virgin Islands public high schools
Twenty-four years ago the United States District Court in the Virgin Islands made a landmark decision in Hosier v. Evans (1970) which allowed immigrant students from the Eastern Caribbean to attend Virgin Islands public schools for the first time, rejecting department of education argument for not …
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An Evaluation of the Driver Education Program in the United States Virgin Islands (Safety)
How do the driving records of Virgin Islands driver education students compare with the driving records of schoolmates who did not participate in a high school driver education course? This question was studied over a period from January 1981 through June 1985 with both traffic violations and …
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Materials Recovery Facilities in the United States Virgin Islands: A Regional Facilities Location Model Study
… were developed and applied to a network of islands. A series of hypothetical material recovery facilities (MRF) location scenarios were studied using actual and projected data obtained for the three-island territory of the U. S. Virgin Islands. In all cases, a significant reduction in …
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The development of teacher education in the Caribbean, with special reference to Antigua, Grenada and the United States Virgin Islands
… examine teacher education in certain Caribbean states through both field and documentary research and the use of case studies. The general history of the development of this sector in the Caribbean is broadly known, but only detailed local work can illuminate the general through the …
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"""Tell me a story about long time"": A Study of the folkstory performance tradition in the United States Virgin Islands"
Previous studies of the United States Virgin Islands' cultural traditions focused primarily on folkstories and folksongs as ends in themselves--Virgin Islands folklore-as-materials, Virgin Islands folklore-as-texts, Virgin Islands folklore-as-products. The present study investigated the existing …
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Item Bias in the Verbal Segment of the Scholastic Aptitude Test (Sat) for High School Students in the United States Virgin Islands
… and seniors attending public schools in the United States Virgin Islands. There were two components to the study: (a) a quantitative item analysis using the item bias detection technique indicated above, and (b) a qualitative item analysis of the items identified as biased by the modified IRT …
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An Analysis of Expectation for Principal Behavior in the United States Virgin Islands Educational Documents and the Relationship of Document Importance to Perception of Role Conflict and Ambiguity
… to answer the following questions: (a) Do Virgin Islands educational system documents contain differing expectations for the behavior of principals?, and (b) Do principals in the Virgin Islands perceive role conflict and/or role ambiguity. Based on the work of Kahn, it was hypothesized that …
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Preceramic procurement patterns at Krum Bay, Virgin Islands
… of the Krum Bay site on St. Thomas in the United States Virgin Islands. Located in a cluster of three related sites with a long history of investigation, the deposit is a small, preceramic period stratified shell midden that is composed predominantly of pearl oysters. Radiocarbon results …
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Ecological assessment of salt ponds on St. John, USVI
… several valuable ecological functions in the United States Virgin Islands (USVI), although they have traditionally been undervalued and poorly understood. This thesis describes an ecological assessment performed to provide baseline information on salt ponds on St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands, to …
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Petrological and geochemical study of spilites and associated dike rocks from the Virgin Island core (Caribbean Island arc)
… 2h30 feet that was taken at St. John, U. S. Virgin Islands. The present study is confined to the upper 1180 feet and comprises a cummulative total of 950 feet of albitized mafic extrusive rocks (spilite). This portion of the core is also intruded by four dikes: two amphibole porphyryes …