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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Westmoreland"”.
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The cultural and social milieu of Westmoreland Davis
… into an aristocratic Southern family in 1859, Westmoreland Davis grew up in Richmond, Virginia. He received his education at the Virginia Military Institute, the University of Virginia and the Columbia University. After graduation in 1886 with a degree in law from Coluabia, Davis remained in …
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Differential Response of a Virginia Common Lambsquarters (Chenopodium album) Collection to Glyphosate
… (Chenopodium album) collection from Westmoreland County, Virginia, which exhibited a differential response to glyphosate treatments as compared to most other common lambsquarters. Plants from this site that survived glyphosate applications were collected in both 2002 and 2004. …
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Model development, testing and computer implementation for a coal blending and distribution problem
… on the blending and distribution problems. Westmoreland Coal Company at Big Stone Gap, VA serves as the basis for our study. The problem here is to determine decisions and schedules for coal shipment to silos, cleaning and blending operations at silos, and the subsequent shipment of coal to …
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Use of the Electronic Health Record in Private Medical Practices
… record (EHR) by physicians in Allegheny and Westmoreland counties in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Five research questions were designed to inquire about the physician practice characteristics and its relationship to the EHR deployment, the importance of educational intervention in the EHR …
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Marguerite Inman Davis: first progressive first lady of Virginia
… piano in Bonn and Paris. After her marriage to Westmoreland Davis in 1893, she continued to travel extensively in Europe and the Orient. In 1903, after she and her husband purchased the 1,500 acre Morven Park estate in Loudoun County, Virginia, Mrs. Marguerite Inman Davis assumed the life of a …
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Effects of forest harvesting best management practices on surface water quality in the Virginia coastal plain
Three watersheds located in Westmoreland County, Virginia were monitored to evaluate effectiveness of forestry best management practices (BMPs) for minimizing hydrologic and water quality impacts associated with timber harvesting. One watershed was clear-cut without implementation of BMPs, one …
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Characterization and Management of Acetolactate Synthase Inhibiting Herbicide Resistant Mouse-Ear Cress (Arabidopsis thaliana) in Winter Wheat
… cress, was reported in winter wheat fields in Westmoreland County, Virginia. A putative resistant (R) mouse-ear population was assessed for ALS resistance relative to a putative susceptible (S) and a susceptible lab population Columbia (C). Results indicated that the R population needed 23 to …
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Impact of best management practices on water quality in the Nomini Creek Watershed
… Plain of Virginia. The watershed is located in Westmoreland County, Virginia. The goal of the project was to provide data needed to quantify the water quality impacts of cropland BMP implementation in a watershed with a complex landuse. The data collected during the project included landuse, …
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Strategic and tactical models and algorithms for the coal industry under the 1990 Clean Air Act
… operational data and future projections from the Westmoreland Coal Company are used for testing purposes.
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Evaluation of a nontidal riparian wetland as a naturally occurring decontamination zone
… managed agricultural field, located in Westmoreland Co., Virginia, and a riparian stream that borders the field was investigated in this study. The ground-water chemistry was evaluated using water samples from ground-water wells and the stream. Seventeen ground-water wells were installed …
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A Look At Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century American Moravian Worship
This thesis project is centered around the collection and editing of four eighteenth-century Moravian liturgical hymn services. In this context paper I describe Moravian worship practices in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in America, and discuss how the liturgical hymn services fit into …
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Evaluating Social Capital Effects On Adolescent Sexual Health Behaviors
<p><bold>Background:</bold> Adolescents continue to bear the burden of sexually transmitted diseases suggesting that innovative solutions to safe sexual health behaviors must be discovered to help reduce the rates of sexually transmitted diseases in this population. Research has suggested that …
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Root metaphor analysis in marital communication : an alternative method to studying coping mechanisms of dual-career spouses.
This field descriptive study examines the role communication plays in helping dual-career spouses structure their experiences in balancing work and family life. Specifically, the study examines: (1) the content and function of root metaphors used by dual-career spouses to describe their …
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"The language of Enrique de Villena's ""Arte cisoria"""
This dissertation is a descriptive study of the language of Enrique de Villena's Arte cisoria (1423). The short introduction on Villena, the Cisoria, and his other works, is followed by chapters on the phonology, inflectional morphology, derivational morphology, lexicon, and syntax found in the …
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Experimental and theoretical analysis of oxidation and growth chemistry in a fuel-rich acetylene flame
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, 1986.
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Assessment of small town form and patterns
Overall physical growth in this country is characterized by homogeneity or a lack of connection with its surroundings. Designers and planners need to develop a way to combat homogeneity in future growth. In order to do this, we must look closely at an area to provide context for new development …
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Jocus : a personification of folly and play and an attribute of carnal love in Renaissance art
Jocus is a virtually forgotten and unrecognised figure in Renaissance iconography today; yet this personification has a substantial history in both art and literature. This study recovers the iconographic tradition of Jocus, identifying its classical literary origins, and tracing its survival, …
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The effect of carbon addition, pH and Fe concentration of microbial sulfate reduction and the subsequent precipitation of Fe and Mn from acid mine drainage in wetland mesocosms
A wetland was constructed near Norton, VA by Westmoreland Coal Company to treat acid mine drainage (AMD) from an inactive coal refuse pile. The AMD had an average inflow pH of 7.0, and average inflow concentrations measuring 4 mg/L total Fe, 3 mg/L total Mn and 450 mg/L dissolved sulfate. An 18 …
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A model of nitrate leaching from agricultural systems in the northern neck of Virginia
… applied to the Virginia counties of Richmond, Westmoreland, Lancaster, King George and Northumberland to assess the potential for long term N leaching to groundwater. Soil surveys indicated that 34 soil map units occurred within 123,000 hectares of cultivated land. In order to reduce the number …