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Thesis (Ed. D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 205-210). Also available online (PDF file) by a subscription to the set or by purchasing the individual file.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 205-210).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 31-33).

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This study purposes to compare two groups of girls, those with three or more years of 4-H Club experience and those with no 4-H Club experience, in Amherst County, Virginia s to the following: 1. The educational, vocational, and marriage plans of the girls. 2. The personal adjustment and interests of the girls. 3. The home and community participation of the girls. / M.S.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Dept. of Art and Art History and Dept. of History. University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2005. / "A dissertation in art history and history." Advisors: Donald Matthews and Burton Dunbar. Typescript. Vita. Title from "catalog record" of the print edition Description based on contents viewed June 26, 2006. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 263-283). Online version of the print edition.

Youth councils are an increasingly popular tool that both government and non-governmental organizations use to inform policy and program development, to increase the participation of young people, and to improve the connection of youth to their communities and to civic life more broadly. In this thesis, the youth engagement experiences of local governments in Amherst, Nova Scotia, and Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia are examined. Both municipalities initiated youth councils in recent years in an attempt to consult on issues affecting youth in their communities. The two communities have experienced varied degrees of success in implementing these strategies. In broad terms, youth councils operated more successfully in the smaller, more self-contained community of Amherst than in the more sprawling urban municipality of the Halifax area. The divergent experiences of these two municipalities inform a discussion about the merits of youth councils as a tool for engagement for local governments. It is concluded that while youth councils can be both effective in terms of achieving immediate objectives, success is not easily reproduced in all scenarios and depends to a large extent on the characteristics of the community itself, the level of support from adults and facilitators, and the ability of the councils to meet their objectives and thus achieve legitimacy among stakeholders, creating a positive feedback look which engenders further effectiveness.

The titanium deposits of Nelson and Amherst counties, Virginia, occur in Precambrian (?) rocks that constitute part of the core of the Blue Ridge-Catoctin Mountain anticlinorium. Approximately 72 square miles were mapped in this study. The central part of the mapped area is underlain by a mass of pegmatitic anorthosite, about which other mappable rock units are distributed more or less peripherally. The chief units, listed from oldest to youngest, are: augen gneiss, biotite pencil gneiss, biotite aplitic gneiss, granitic gneiss, feldspathic gneiss, hypersthene granodiorite, pegmatitic anorthosite, and nelsonite. The pegmatitic anorthosite occurs as sills and dike-like bodies. It originally consisted of coarse-grained, antiperthitic plagioclase (An₃₀). Most of the primary textures in this rock have been obliterated by alteration so that the present rock consists of saussuritized feldspar and minor amounts of altered mafic minerals, plus introduced or recrystallized quartz, rutile, and ilmenite. The mafic minerals include tremolite or anthophyllite, in complete or partial pseudomorphs after coarse-grained pyroxene crystals, and abundant alteration halos of biotite and chlorite. Most of the rocks have a well developed, generally northeasterly striking, southeasterly dipping gneissosity. The rocks were deformed prior to and after alteration and mineralization. Layered structures in hypersthene granodiorite suggest that the rocks have a domal arrangement. A low angle fault in the northeast part of the mapped area apparently resulted in thrusting of the augen gneiss over part of the pegmatitic anorthosite. Most of the rock types are believed to be of igneous origin, although the augen gneiss may be all or in part metasedimentary. The pegmatitic anorthosite and the hypersthene bearing rocks are believed to be comagmatic. Most of the titanium occurs as ilmenite in ilmenite nelsonite bodies and disseminated in highly altered rocks adjacent to the pegmatitic anorthosite. Lesser amounts of rutile occur disseminated in relatively pure but altered pegmatitic anorthosite, in rutile nelsonite end in rutile-bearing quartz veins. The titanium deposits are associated with zones of intense alteration characterized by the development of chlorite, biotite, and amphiboles from mafic minerals in the wall rock, and by saussuritization of the feldspars. Evidence indicates that most or all of the deposits formed by replacement of the wall rock. Titanium, fluorine, phosphorus, water and minor carbon dioxide were added to the wall rocks during alteration and mineralization. The iron-titanium. ratio increases outwardly from the central pegmatitic anorthosite. The original mineralizing fluids may have acquired iron from alteration of the wall rocks. Although the mineralizing fluids may have been derived by differentiation of the same magma from which the hypersthene granodiorite and pragmatic anorthosite were derived, the mineralization was later than the crystallization of the relatively titanium-rich wall rocks. The purer pegmatitic anorthosite is quarried and ground principally for use in the glass industry. Reserves are probably large, but the discontinuity of the pure feldspar rock units demands that each prospective quarry site be drilled thoroughly to determine the quality and extent of the feldspar. A conservative estimate places the reserves of TiO₂ at approximately 12 million tons. Only weathered deposits of ilmenite, at Piney River and the Wood property, are being mined at present, but some of the dike-like ilmenite nelsonite bodies and the disseminated rutile deposits are of present-day ore grade. Areas of intensely altered rocks near or adjacent to the border of the pegmatitic anorthosite should be investigated further so far as their containing economically recoverable titanium. / Ph. D.