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- VanishingBorjas, Emilia (Virginia Tech, 2025-10-24)Blending the uncanny with the familiar, this collection dives into Chicanx lives where characters grapple with memory, loss, patriarchal thinking, trauma, love, belonging, heartbreak, self-worth and other wound makers in order to move past survival and into a world where they can thrive.
- Evaluating the Value of Information Concerning Different Methods of Forest SamplingHorton, Jackson Davis (Virginia Tech, 2025-10-24)Forest inventory is essential for estimating stand value and assists with making informed management decisions. However, the compromise made between the cost of sampling methods during inventory, and the accuracy of the information gathered has not been fully recognized. This study evaluates the value of information across multiple sampling methods and intensities. The objectives focus on 1) evaluating measurement and travel time across multiple plot sizes, 2) comparing absolute present value errors across sampling intensities, 3) evaluating the impact of timber markets on absolute present value error, and 4) determining how sampling intensity affects the absolute harvest age error. Stands of a thinned loblolly pine plantation in Charlotte State Forest, Virginia were sampled using fixed-radius plots to inform a simulation study. An intensive sample was designated as the true optimal value during the comparison of absolute error values from the sample data. All inventory data were analyzed to compare accuracy across multiple sampling methods. The intensity of samples significantly influenced sampling error. Smaller plot sizes with decreased intensities increased error in estimates of absolute present value error and absolute harvest age error. Larger plots required fewer samples to obtain decreased error, but the cost associated with larger sample sizes increases the total inventory cost. The results confirm that as sample size and intensity increase, sampling error will decrease. However, in a management setting, mid-sized plots offer a balance between accuracy, cost, and time that provide reliable estimates without diminishing inventory costs. Forest managers can use the methodology presented in our study for their own management objectives and circumstances to determine a sampling design that is most suitable and efficient under their conditions.
- A senior high school for Blacksburg, VirginiaStaniunas, Joseph Paul (Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1947)
- Condensation reactions Vanillin-Aniline and Vanillin- DimethylanilineAtkinson, Walter Ellsworth (Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1949)
- Characteristics of a Virginia kyaniteSawyer, J. P (Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute, 1940)
- A study of the relation of Berberis canadensis Mill. to stem rust in VirginiaMatheny, Gallais E (Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute, 1939)
- Multi-routed job shop schedulingSoujanyam, Sirandasu (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1989)
- Personal factors of operator related to various efficiency and living factors 620 bright tobacco farms, Pittsylvania County, Virginia, 1993Salem, Olive Augusta (Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute, 1937)
- Economic evaluation in energy planning: the experience of communities in the United StatesFlora, Rebecca Lee (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1983)
- Phenotypic Characterization of Gluconobacter correlated with DNA/DNA homology studiesJones, Lori Michelle (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1987)
- Three-dimensional and off-design studies of a mach 7.4 hypersonic inletPingali, Uma (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1987)
- A decision support tool for the assessment of alternatives using fuzzy set theory and classical methodsHwang, Wan Cheng (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1986)
- Biological treatability and inhibitory effects of a textile waste containing caprolactamBrown, Peter Christopher (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1984)
- A book of drawingsDenegre, Joseph J (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1986)
- Extreme racism, nationalism, and national identity in Germany from 1871-1993Kalckstein, Karl-Yorck (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1993)
- Nutritional studies on Ceuthorrhynchidius horridus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae): an introduced weevil for the biological control of Carduus thistlesTrumble, John Thomas (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1977)
- Economic rents attributable to Virginia's coastal wetlands as inputs in oyster productionWilson, J. R (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1977)
- The treatability of stormwater runoff from an urban commercial catchment by settling and chemical coagulationAlexander, Scott Barry (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1978)
- Maximum insolation on a surface as an estimator of site quality in the AppalachiansWathen, Samuel Adam (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1977)
- A study of the efficiency and consistency of operation of the V.P.I. sewage treatment plantRodriguez, Caesar Aloysius (Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute, 1937)