This collection includes 12136 University of Montana graduate student theses, dissertations, and professional papers (ETDs) from 1899-present. Use the following links to search discipline-specific ETDs:
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Dissertations
The genetic basis of fitness: detecting inbreeding depression and selective sweeps in bighorn sheep, Martin Dennis Kardos
MODULES, FIELDS OF DEFINITION, AND THE CULLER-SHALEN NORM, Charles Walter Katerba
TEACHER TURNOVER AND RETENTION THE CHOICE TO LEAVE: LIVED EXPERIENCES OF TEACHERS IN RURAL MONTANA, Brittany Elizabeth Julie Katzer
MECHANISMS AND CYTOTOXIC EFFECTS OF NQO1-DIRECTED LAVENDAMYCIN DERIVATIVES AND MITOCHONDRIA-TARGETED ANTHRACENYL ISOXAZOLE AMIDES AS NOVEL ANTITUMOR AGENTS, Alison King Kearns
ADAPTIVE HARVEST MANAGEMENT OF WOLVES: THE ROLE OF RECRUITMENT AND HIERARCHICAL DEMOGRAPHY IN POPULATION DYNAMICS OF A SOCIAL CARNIVORE, Allison Christine Keever
THE ENDURING IMPORTANCE OF WILDNESS: SHEPHERDING WILDERNESS THROUGH THE ANTHROPOCENE, Patrick Ram Kelly
Microscopic examination of rib heads: a useful adjunct in the investigation of infant deaths, Walter Loren Kemp
Modifying Lysosomal Cholesterol or Potassium Channel Activity Prevents Silica-Induced Inflammation, Rebekah Louise Kendall
Battered women's dynamic change process: Examining self-efficacy trauma symptoms anger and coping in relationship status groups, Linda Thomas Kennedy
The Ethnography of On-Site Interpretation and Commemoration Practices: Place-Based Cultural Heritages at the Bear Paw, Big Hole, Little Bighorn, and Rosebud Battlefields, Helen Alexandra Keremedjiev
IRRIGATION IN THE WESTERN UNITED STATES: OCCURRENCE, IMPACTS, AND SUSTAINABILITY, David Granger Ketchum
TO THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITY: LEADERSHIP JOURNEYS OF PERSIAN IMMIGRANT WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES, Shaima Khinjani
Extremal Problems for Forests in Graphs and Hypergraphs, Omid Khormali
Women's Views on Conservation-Based Income Generation and Women's Empowerment in Kwandu Conservancy in Caprivi, Namibia, Kathryn Elizabeth Khumalo
THE TRIBAL COLLEGE MOVEMENT: ENSURING THAT NATIVE AMERICAN STUDENTS SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETE AN ASSOCIATE DEGREE AND PERSIST TO EARN A FOUR-YEAR DEGREE, Cheri Lynn Kicking Woman
SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF PARTICIPATING IN ADVENTURE EXPERIENCES: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY, Abby Marie Kiklevich
Perspectives of Foster Parents and Former Foster Children Surrounding Emancipation and College Supports and Barriers, Ashlyn Maize Kincaid
The Role of Dispositions in Teacher Candidate Education, William Alexander Kinderwater
Cobalt sorption studies on a bacterium and a natural organic material and On-line beehives: Counter design and software, Bruce E. King
Adaptive Variation in Microbes: Insights from Wild and Experimental Populations of Escherichia coli, Margaret Ann Kinnersley
Inattentive and impulsive profiles of the CPT -II and their relationship with DSM -IV ADHD subtypes, Kristin A. Kirlin
The effects of magnified effort demands on the response to resource variability, Ari P. Kirshenbaum
LINKING LIFE HISTORY AND POPULATION DYNAMICS OF AN ICE-ASSOCIATED SEABIRD, THE KITTLITZ’S MURRELET (BRACHYRAMPHUS BREVIROSTRIS), Michelle Lynn Kissling
Assessing ecological condition of large landscapes with limited human impacts, William James Kleindl
Identification and characterization of a unique DNA-binding protein in Borrelia burgdorferi, Scott W. Knight
The ribosome builder: A software project to simulate the ribosome, William A. Knight
Structure-activity relationships of the high-affinity glutamate transporters in synaptosomes, Hans-Peter Koch
Accuracy assessment in multivariate Bayesian forecasting linear and nonlinear models, Clark Joachim Kogan
Mechanistic and structural studies of bond making and bond breaking processes on triosmium clusters, Douglas S. Kolwaite
SPERMATOGENESIS MOLECULAR EVOLUTION IN MURINE RODENTS, Emily Emiko Konishi Kopania
PRINCIPALS’ PERCEPTION OF TEACHER PERFORMANCE GIVEN SELECTED BARRIERS TO ACCURATE EVALUATIONS, Thomas J. Korst
Biosignature storage in sulfate minerals- synthetic and natural investigations of the jarosite group minerals, Julia Michelle Kotler
Analysis of bacterial transport and survival in the subsurface, William P. Kovacik
Analysis of a class of integro -differential equations describing age dynamics of a natural forest, Michael A. Kraemer
Insight Dialogue: Investigation of a Relational Meditation Practice, Zed David Kramer
CONSEQUENCES OF ARYL HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR ACTIVATION: THYMIC ATROPHY AND THERAPEUTIC LIPOSOMAL NANOPARTICLES, Joanna Michelle Kreitinger
Habitat selection and use by the Dusky Flycatcher (Empidonax oberholseri) at multiple scales: Implications for habitat-based methods for population viability analysis, Andrew James Kroll
Risk-Sensitive Foraging in Humans Budgeting Time: Correlated with Real-World Financial Situation, Stephanie Carsten Kucera
BIOTIC AND ABIOTIC DRIVERS OF ACYCLIC SNOWSHOE HARE POPULATION DYNAMICS IN A SPATIOTEMPORALLY COMPLEX SYSTEM, Alexander Vishvamitra Kumar
Predation by wolves and other large carnivores in northwestern Montana and southeastern British Columbia, Kyran E. Kunkel
GAY FREEDOM: AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF COMING OUT, Robert James Kus
An investigation of domestic tourists' loyalty to a nature-based tourist setting from a relational and transactional perspective at the Victoria Falls World Heritage site, Jane Musole Kwenye
GENERATION, CHARACTERIZATION, AND C-H BOND ACTIVATION REACTIVITY BY MONONUCLEAR HIGH-VALENT COBALT(IV) AND NICKEL(IV) NON-OXO COMPLEXES, Yubin Maria Kwon
Part 1. HIV-1 binding and entry events: Implications for vaccine strategies. Part 2. The effects of AZT on the relative mutation frequency of FIV, Rachel A. LaCasse
The role of trust and ownership in community wildfire protection planning in west central Montana, Paul R. Lachapelle
P-GLYCOPROTEIN TRANSPORT IN PESTICIDE PHARMACOKINETICS AND TOXICITY: INVESTIGATING A LINK TO PARKINSON'S DISEASE RISK, Sarah Elizabeth Lacher
QUANTIFYING THE EFFECTS OF BEAVER DAMS AND STREAM RESTORATION ON HEADWATER SALMONID POPULATIONS, Andrew Biche Lahr
Effects of host stored resources on bark beetle-fungal-conifer interactions, Eleanor Carol Lahr
Does Attainment of Piaget's Formal Operational Level of Cognitive Development Predict Student Understanding of Scientific Models?, Richard Dennis Lahti
Predation Risk and Vegetation Effects on Avian Diversity, Species Turnover, Reproduction, and Fitness, Joseph Anthony LaManna
Spectral Preserver Problems in Uniform Algebras, Scott Alan Lambert
“Making a Science of Cooperation”: Labor, Business, Government, and the Defense Council System in the Wartime American West, 1916-1921, Robert Michael Joseph Lambeth
The effect of fluoxetine on self-control in betta splendens, Kathryn Gwen Lamp
Mathematical and Computational Applications in Disease and Landscape Ecology, Erin Landguth
POLAR GIGANTISM AND SEA SPIDERS: A STUDY OF RESPIRATORY SCALING, Steven Joseph Lane
A GEOPHYSICAL INVESTIGATION IN THE BITTERROOT VALLEY WESTERN MONTANA, Robert W. Lankston
REGULARIZATION METHODS FOR ILL-POSED POISSON IMAGING, N'Djekornom Dara Laobeul
AQUATIC LOCOMOTION IN BIRDS – BIOMECHANICS, MORPHOMETRICS, AND EVOLUTION, Anthony Barrett Lapansky
The Piegan View of the Natural World, 1880-1920, Rosalyn R. LaPier
It's a Small World: Biogeography and Invasion in the Mouse Intestine, Ellen Lark
Climatological, Hydrological, and Economic Analysis of Agriculture in Montana and the Western U.S.A., Zachary H. Lauffenburger
Forest and range ecotone restoration in central Montana, Darin Jay Law
FLOWERS FROM THE DEVIL: AN AMERICAN OPIATE CRISIS, THE CRIMINALIZATION OF MARIJUANA, AND THE TRIUMPH OF THE PROHIBITION STATE, 1840-1940, Clinton David Lawson
Three Facets of Pau Casals' Musical Legacy, Silvia Maria Lazo
STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF A NEURONAL GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER, Gregory Patrick Leary
Vegetation and process of the Kootenai National Forest, Daniel M. Leavell
PROBING DENATURED STATE CONFORMATIONAL BIAS IN 3-HELIX BUNDLES WITH FOLDABLE OR INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED DOMAINS, Moses Joseph Leavens
Democratic Administration in the United States Forest Service, Nancy Leigh Leifer
Modulation of cytochrome c’s peroxidase activity by Ω-loops C and D in monomers and dimers, Haotian Lei
SCHOOL COUNSELOR SELF-ADVOCACY AND TRAIT EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AS PREDICTORS OF PROFESSIONAL QUALITY OF LIFE IN SCHOOL COUNSELORS, Kindle Dawn Lewis
The Role of Silicates in Interstitial Lung Disease, Francisco Jose Leyva
The relationship between president's leadership style and faculty's job satisfaction at upgraded universities of technology in Taiwan, Lung-chuan Lawrence Liao
A STUDY OF THE PERCEPTIONS OF ENGLISH FACULTY AND STUDENTS OF EXIT ENGLISH EXAMINATIONS AT TAIWAN'S TECHNOLOGICAL AND VOCATIONAL HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS, Yirng-Hurng Emma Liauh
THE CLIMATIC, BIOTIC AND TECTONIC EVOLUTION OF THE PALEOGENE RENOVA FORMATION OF SOUTHWESTERN MONTANA, Kevin John Lielke
SCHOOL SUPPORTS FOR LGBTQ STUDENTS: COUNTERACTING THE DANGERS OF THE CLOSET, Lauri Mae Lindquist
The Relationship Among Washington State County Commissioners Knowledge and Perceptions of Washington State University Extension and Their Willingness to Fund WSU Extension, James Hilmer Lindstrom
TEACHER, LEADERSHIP, AND CURRICULUM FACTORS PREDICTIVE OF STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT IN INDIAN EDUCATION FOR ALL, Erin Robin Lipkind
PERSISTENT STRUCTURE OF HIGHER-RANK GRAPHS AND THEIR C∗-ALGEBRAS: A Path Towards Geometric Classification, Samuel Joseph Lippert
#THERAPY: SOCIAL MEDIA VIDEO INTERVENTIONS AND HELP SEEKING INTENTIONS AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS, Jennifer Leigh Lippold
Cows and Plows: Science-based Conservation for Grassland Songbirds in Agricultural Landscapes, Marisa K. Lipsey
The relationship of business school performance to deans' self -perceived leadership styles in Taiwan, Kai Li Liu
ECOLOGICAL MOMENTARY ASSESSMENT OF DAILY MICROAGGRESSIONS AND STIGMA-BASED SUBSTANCE USE AMONG LESBIAN, GAY, AND BISEXUAL INDIVIDUALS, Nicholas Alexander Livingston
Cultural Property Protection and Preservation During Counterinsurgency Operations: A Handbook for Archaeologists Choosing to Serve with the American Military in the Global War on Terrorism, Thomas Joseph Livoti
GENERATION, CHARACTERIZATION AND REACTIVITY OF COBALT DIAMOND CORE AND COBALT PEROXO COMPLEXES, Yan Li
Avian life-history evolution: Explaining variation among species populations and individuals, John D. Lloyd
Modeling interactions among climate landscape and emerging diseases: A hantavirus case study, Rachel Andrea Loehman
SELF-COMPASSION AND FEAR OF COMPASSION AS MEDIATORS IN THE RELATIONSHIPS OF CHILDHOOD INVALIDATION WITH EMOTION DYSREGULATION AND WITH BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER CHARACTERISTICS, Priyadarshani Florence Loess
SMOKING CESSATION FOR PATIENTS IN MULTIDISCIPLINARY PAIN TREATMENT SETTINGS: A PRELIMINARY TEST OF ACCEPTANCE AND COMMITMENT THERAPY, Anayansi Lombardero
I. Metabolic modeling of glucose metabolism in Rhizopus oryzae and II. The effect of transcription on starvation-induced mutations in Escherichia coli, Angelika Longacre
THE ACCEPTABILITY OF USING MOODGYM TO TREAT DEPRESSION IN ADOLESCENTS: A PILOT STUDY, Jaime Rebekah Long
Phytostabilization of mine tailings piles utilizing biopolymer and industrial byproducts, Timothy L. Looper
FLICKER FEATHER FILMS: VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY, INDIGENOUS FILM, AND DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING, Martin I. Lopez
The Relationship Between School Board Governance Behaviors and Student Achievement, Ivan J. Lorentzen
A BIOGEOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVE ON THE IMPACTS AND IMPORTANCE OF RODENT GRANIVORY ON NATIVE VS. INVASIVE PLANTS, Jacob Elias Lucero
The response of physical education department leaders to organizational restructuring mandated by Taiwan higher education reform, Christine Ting-Yi Luo