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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Vicksburg"”.
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Determination of the Hvorslev parameters of Vicksburg buckshot clay
Thesis (Civ.E)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Sanitary Engineering, 1960.
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A Tale of Two Cities: Vicksburg and Natchez, Mississippi During the American Civil War
<p>In 1860, Vicksburg and Natchez, Mississippi, had far more in common with each other than with the rest of the state. Most significantly, they both opposed secession. Beyond that opposition and their initial support for the war, however, the two city’s reactions differed. This thesis argues that …
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Financial Aspects of the American Civil War: War News, Price Risk, and the Processing of Information
… despite Confederate defeats at Gettysburg and Vicksburg in July 1863. Offsetting adverse war news were movements in the price of the cotton collateral of the war bonds.
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Exploring Overbank Sediment Deposition Variation in Heavily Modified Floodplains of the Lower Mississippi River: A Sedimentological and Geophysical Analysis
… longer and more severe inundation compared to Vicksburg, MS. This research focuses on integration of clastic sedimentary characteristics and ground-penetrating radar (GPR) data from overbank profiles at Shipland WMA (48 km northwest of Vicksburg) and St. Catherine Creek NWR (18 km southwest of …
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An Analysis of Daily Newspapers in Mississippi That Charge for Online Content
… their websites. The papers analyzed include the Vicksburg Post, Greenwood Commonwealth, Columbus Dispatch, Starkville Daily News, Daily Times Leader, Herald and Oxford Eagle. The thesis discusses the pay models used by each paper's website, the reasons for switching to a pay site from a free site …
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Análise de fundações de máquinas sujeitas a excitações verticais
… test results carried out on silty clay soil from Vicksburg (WES) (USA), sandy soils of Eglin (USA) and silty sand from Volta Redonda (BRAZIL) are analysed. The Brazilian soil was of young residual gneiss type. Finally, this work, also, shows design criteria, calculations methods and soil …
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Cretaceous and Paelogene Stratigraphy of Forrest County, Mississippi
… and western Perry Counties. The Jackson and Vicksburg Group carbonate sediments undergo a facies change along a north-south trend within the study area.</p>
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Localization And Mapping Of Unknown Locations And Tunnels With Unmanned Ground Vehicles
… System (ROS). Physical testing was conducted in Vicksburg, MS using a Coroware Explorer. Both the simulation and physical testing evaluated three SLAM algorithms, i.e., Hector SLAM, gMapping, and CORESLAM to determine the superior algorithm. The superior algorithm was then used to localize the …
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Furnish the Balance: The 1863 Roots of Hard Strategy in the American Civil War
… first applied hard war strategy during the 1863 Vicksburg campaign, this thesis examines the diaries and letters of Jackson residents, contemporary news reports, and Grant and Sherman's memoirs and correspondence. By cross-checking these sources with the Southern Claims Commission records, this …
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Assemblage characteristics and sampling considerations for aquatic macroinvertebrates inhabiting a lower Mississippi River stone dike
… baskets were implanted into a dike near Vicksburg, Mississippi, in February 1979, and retrieved four months later. The resulting data indicated the presence of a diverse and productive assemblage (38 taxa; average of 101,968 organisms/m²), characterized by net-spinning caddisflies, …
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"Is This Park to Memorialize Confederate Valor and History or Not?": Sectionalist Civil War Memory in the History of Manassas National Battlefield Park, 1861-2011
… Antietam, Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Shiloh National Parks. By examining the history of Manassas National Battlefield Park in Manassas, Virginia—a National Park Service site created after the turn of the twentieth century and one that preserves two Confederate …
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Characterizing Variable Flow Pathways And Geochemical History Of Seepage Under The Mississippi River Levee: 2011, 2015, And 2016 Floods
… deposits. A preliminary investigation north of Vicksburg, MS, during the 2011 flood, demonstrated the potential for using aqueous geochemistry to differentiate sand boils forming at the end of deep and shallow flow pathways, though the study was limited to cation and trace metal analyses. …
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Experimental and theoretical investigation of constant rate of strain consolidation
… Boston Blue Clay (RBBC) and Resedimented Vicksburg Buckshot Clay (RVBC) to study the behavior during constant rate of strain consolidation. Strain rate sensitivity was measured using the Wissa Constant rate of strain device. Two special CRS tests were performed to evaluate the pore …
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Transient Seepage Analysis for Levees and Dams: Numerical and Monitoring Approaches
… Research and Development Center located in Vicksburg, MS. Tensiometer and porous block sensors were used to monitor the pore water pressures in the embankments. It was found that when measuring the field soil water retention, tensiometers were more responsive than porous block sensors at low …