This collection includes 12138 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
Mindfulness as a Predictor of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptomatology in an Experiential Avoidance Model, Brian Lantz Thompson
"Middle" generation Hmong students' perceptions of their college experiences at the University of Montana: A phenomenological analysis, Eloise K. Thompson
Regional ecosystem simulation: Combining surface- and satellite-based observations to study linkages between terrestrial energy and mass budgets, Peter Edmond Thornton
Biochemical effects of Centaurea maculosa on soil nutrient cycles and plant communities, Andrea S. Thorpe
Modeling the distribution of woodpecker species in the Jura France and in Switzerland using atlas data, Claudine Tobalske
ECOLOGICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL INFLUENCES ON ALTRICIAL BIRD GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT, Riccardo Ton
ECOTOXICOLOGICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF SALINITY ON AMPHIBIANS, Brian James Tornabene
Life changes as possible predictors of secondary conditions, Meg Ann Traci
PSYCHOMETRIC EVALUATIONS OF AN ACCULTURATION SCALE AND AN ACCULTURATION STRESS SCALE WITH AMERICAN INDIAN UNIVERSITY STUDENTS, Michael Brian Trahan
Examination of empowerment and rape myth acceptance among male adolescents in a sex offender treatment program, Mary A. Trankel
Improving the efficiency of helicopter operations on large wildland fires by including helicopter performance information in the decision process, Diane Trethewey
PRE- AND POST-COPULATORY SEXUAL SELECTION IN THE TORTOISE BEETLE ACROMIS SPARSA (COLEOPTERA: CHRYSOMELIDAE), Paula Alejandra Trillo
Diagnosis Threat in a Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Population, Haley Gail Trontel
MULTINUCLEATED GIANT CELL FORMATION AND PHENOTYPE, Kevin Lewis Trout
Hispanic participation in an extended-day program, Rebecca A. Truelove
The objectivity of student ratings of instructors among Taiwanese students, Shu-Hui Tsai
ADDRESSING LONG-STANDING WATER CONTAMINATION ISSUES IN DINÉ COMMUNITIES USING INDIGENOUS AND WESTERN SCIENTIFIC APPROACHES, Ranalda Lynette Tsosie
Assessing changes in connectivity and abundance through time for fisher in the southern Sierra Nevada, Jody Marlene Tucker
A Phenomenological inquiry of international service-learning experiences and their impacts on post-service educational experiences, C. Roch Turner
Summit Learning and Rural Montana Teacher Efficacy, a Phenomenology, C. Roch Turner
Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Iso-1-cytochrome c Denatured State, Franco Ollan Tzul
Examining the variability in the long term adjustment of child sexual abuse victims, Heather Marie Ulrich
EVOLUTION AND DIVERSIFICATION OF THE NOVEL CHLOROPHYLL D-BASED PHOTOSYNTHETIC APPARATUS, Nikea Jonelle Ulrich
Athletic department practices that relate to the academic performance and persistence of student-athletes, Richard L. Unruh
Historic Inscriptions of the Northern Plains: Identity and Influence in the Residual Communication Record, Timothy Rostov Urbaniak
A physiologically-based comparison of even- and multi-aged ponderosa pine stand productivity, Narayanan Illath Valappil
LIFE AFTER ICE: ECOLOGY OF MOUNTAIN LAKES ACROSS GLACIAL AND ELEVATION GRADIENTS, Joseph William Vanderwall
The evolution of nutritional co-endosymbionts in cicadas, James Theodore Van Leuven
AERODYNAMICS AND ECOMORPHOLOGY OF FLEXIBLE FEATHERS AND MORPHING BIRD WINGS, Brett Klassen Van Oorschot
Can agency-led initiatives conform to collaborative principles? Evaluating and reshaping an interagency program through participatory research, Laura Van Riper
Proof Processes of Novice Mathematics Proof Writers, Hillary Dee VanSpronsen
Strange Vicissitudes: The Memory and Uses of Indian Captivity in the Progressive Era, Molly Kathleen Burnett Varley
CHARACTERIZATION OF NOVEL CYP26B1-INHIBITOR, DX314, FOR THE TREATMENT OF KERATINIZATION DISORDERS, Joachim Gwenn-Stephan Veit
Community perspectives in higher education service learning and volunteerism, Andrea Vernon
HABITAT USE AND THE EFFECTS OF DISTURBANCE ON WINTERING BIRDS USING RIPARIAN HABITATS IN SONORA, MEXICO, Jose Fernando Villasenor
“REAL COLLABORATION IS EMPOWERING:” FACILITATORS, BARRIERS, AND BENEFITS OF A COMMUNITY-SCHOOL PARTNERSHIP IN AN INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY, Amy Elizabeth Violante
Integrating wildlife conservation with community -based development in Northern Areas Pakistan, Amjad Tahir Virk
Part One. Synthesis of iso-polydiacetylenic precursor. Part Two. The study of asymmetric addition of dimethyl thiophosphite to imines, Troy Mason Voelker
Building Bridges: Supervisors' Management of Competency Questioning, Arianna Camille Vokos
BUILDING BRIDGES: SUPERVISORS’ MANAGEMENT OF COMPETENCY QUESTIONING, Arianna Camille Vokos
IT’S THE LITTLE THINGS: AN EXPLORATION OF SMALL RNAS AND SELFISH GENETIC ELEMENTS OF THE HUMAN BACTERIAL PATHOGENS COXIELLA BURNETII AND BARTONELLA BACILLIFORMIS, Shaun Gregory Wachter
DIRECTIONAL NON-COVALENT INTERACTIONS: EXPLORING THE NUANCES OF HALOGEN BONDS AND HYDROGEN BONDS IN SOLUTION AND THE SOLID-STATE, Nicholas Blouin Wageling
College Dating Couples' use of Conflict Management during a Prisoner's Dilemma Task: An Exploratory Study, Kristen E. Waldemayer
Greater Sage-Grouse Response to Coal-Bed Natural Gas Development and West Nile Virus in the Powder River Basin, Montana and Wyoming, USA, Brett Lincoln Walker
Factors Affecting Plant Responses to Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Soil Fungal Communities, Lauren Priestman Waller
A ZOOARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDY OF GENERATIONAL DECISION-MAKING: MODELING SUBSISTENCE AND DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE IN LATE-HOLOCENE OCCUPATIONS OF HOUSEPIT 54 AT THE BRIDGE RIVER SITE (EeRl4), MID-FRASER, B.C., Matthew Joseph Walsh
EXPLORING A DEFINITION OF LEADERSHIP AND THE BIOGRAPHY OF DR. FRANK B. WYNN, David Clyde Walters
CHINESE NATIONAL POLICY REGARDING FOREIGN EXPERTS: PERCEPTIONS OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS DEANS, Jun Wang
P115-SNARE INTERACTIONS REVEAL A NEW MODEL OF FUNCTION FOR THE TETHERING FACTOR P115, Ting Wang
Investigating the coordinate regulation of stem cell proliferation and differentiation by FBF proteins, Xiaobo Wang
Faculty attitudes about students' ratings of instruction: Enhancing quality management in higher education, Yumei Wang
DEVELOPMENT OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN FORELAND BASIN: COMBINED STRUCTURAL, MINERALOGICAL, AND GEOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF BASIN EVOLUTION, ROCKY MOUNTAIN THRUST FRONT, NORTHWEST MONTANA, Emily Geraghty Ward
HYPERCONNECTED SCHOOL LEADERSHIP: SHARED EXPERIENCES, Elizabeth Sue Wargo
System xc- pharmacology and its role in beta-L-ODAP pathology and glutathione synthesis, Brady Alan Warren
Non-coding RNAs of the Q fever agent, Coxiella burnetii, Indu Ramesh Warrier
A phenomenological study of leadership: Developmental pathways of leaders with disabilities, Mika Watanabe
Changing Participation in Guided Interactive Shared Reading: A Study of Early Childhood Teachers' Implementation and Children's Engagement, Nanci Lynn Waterhouse
Geography education: Learning from the leaders, Susan K. Watne
Analysis of Montana education litigation 1999--2003, Donald K. Wattam
N-‐HETEROCYCLIC ANTHRYL ISOXAZOLE AMIDES (AIMS) BIND QUADRUPLEX DNA AND EXHIBIT ROBUST ANTITUMOR ACTIVITY, Matthew Jacob Weaver
ECOLOGY, EPIDEMIOLOGY, AND EVOLUTIONARY GENETICS OF CANINE DISTEMPER VIRUS SPILLOVER IN AFRICAN LIONS, Julie Kay Weckworth
A narrative inquiry of non -profit organization turnaround: Leadership through operant focus, Rory A. Weishaar
The role of excitatory amino acid transporters in neuroprotection and neuropathology, Melodie L. Weller
The initiation of coarse bed load transport in gravel bed streams, Andrew C. Whitaker
Effects of historical and contemporary factors on genetic diversity in the mountain whitefish (Prosopium williamsoni), Andrew Robert Whiteley
ALTERNATIVE SPLICING REGULATES THE INNATE IMMUNE RESPONSE TO VIRAL INFECTION, Luke A. White
Monitoring and modeling growing season dynamics, Michael White
THE ANZICK ARTIFACTS: A HIGH-TECHNOLOGY FORAGER TOOL ASSEMBLAGE, Samuel Stockton White V
CONSTRUCTING DISTANCE, RESPONSIBILITY, AND MEMORY MANAGEMENT THEORIES: AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL APPROACH TO DEATH NOTIFICATION INTERACTIONS, Teresa Ann 'Lilly' White
The use of computer manipulatives in building integrated concrete understandings in secondary mathematics education, Jane Antoinette Whitmire
Effects of fish on lacustrine invertebrate community and seston dynamics, Dan Wicklum
The impact of administrator and teacher leadership on the development of an exemplary arts program and its role in school, Michelle Wiebe Zederayko
The role of Zinc and Reactive Oxygen Species in the Regulation of Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase, Jason Michael Wilham
A NEW CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM FOR ANALYZING BURNED HUMAN REMAINS, Amanda Noel Williams
GENERATIONAL PERSPECTIVE OF HIGHER EDUCATION ONLINE STUDENT LEARNING STYLES, Chad James Williams
An experimental demographic approach to exotic plant success: Cynoglossum officinale in its native and introduced ranges, Jennifer Lynn Williams
TROPICAL PLANT-ANIMAL INTERACTIONS: LINKING DEFAUNATION WITH SEED PREDATION, AND RESOURCE-DEPENDENT CO-OCCURRENCE, Peter Jeffrey Williams
Curriculum revision and implementation: Implications for business teacher education, Sandra R. Williams
PERSONALITY AND MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT EFFECTS ON OCCUPATIONAL TRAUMA AND POSTTRAUMATIC GROWTH IN POLICE OFFICERS, Jennifer Leigh Wills
A simple methodology for the production of three -dimensional models: Serotonin transporter as an example, Paul A. Wilson
An outcome study of integrative couples therapy delivered in a group format, John David Wimberly
Transformational leadership and teachers' tendency to take risks, David Arden Wipf
VARIATION IN BODY COMPOSITION IN DEER MICE: THE BIOGEOGRAPHY AND ECOPHYSIOLOGY OF ENERGY ALLOCATION, Cole Joseph Wolf
PURPOSE AND SATISFACTION OF ACTIVITIES IN RURAL COMMUNITIES USING ECOLOGICAL MOMENTARY ASSESSMENT, Jennifer Lauren Wong
Toward a Child-Friendly Worldview Measure, Shailee Rose Woodard
A Grounded Theory of Teacher Sensemaking Processes in a Climate of Change, Dorothea Reynolds Wood
Language socialization, revitalization and ideologies in the Salish-Pend d'Oreille community, Rebecca Jo Wood
What school communities say is needed in elementary school counseling programs as reported in Montana, Sally A. Woodruff
Cultural Characteristics of Western Educational Structures and Their Effects on Local Ways of Knowing, Cheryl L. Woolsey Des Jarlais
Impacts of interdisciplinary team teaching on assessment practices in high school classrooms, Christine Wortman
Relationship between school principals' workload and their quality of life in Taiwan, Hui-Tzu Wu
Effects of Long-term Strenuous Exercise on Oxidative DNA Damage and Proteinuria in Humans, Nobuo Yasuda