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Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

This collection includes 12453 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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THE RESILIENCE OF AMERICAN INDIAN AND ALASKA NATIVE OLDER ADULTS IN THE CONTEXT OF MAJOR HEALTH DISPARITIES IN CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE, DIABETES, ASTHMA, AND ARTHRITIS: A NARRATIVE REVIEW, Ennis Frank Vaile

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

THEORY OF PLANNED BEHAVIOR AND SUICIDE SCREENING IN FAMILY MEDICINE, Jennifer Villa

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 CLOSER LOOK AT DENALI’S ALPINE WILDLIFE: ASSESSING THE INFLUENCES OF CLIMATE AND VEGETATION CHANGES ON SPECIES IN ALASKA, Jennifer Lynn Wall

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

Effect of bioactive particulates and lipopolysaccharide on immune regulation via class A scavenger receptor and Toll -like receptor 4, Rong 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

Chemical mass balance (CMB) source apportionment and organic speciation of PM(2.5) in Missoula Montana including the 2000 wildfire season, Tony J. 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

A comparison study of Montana's intermediate and K-8 schools with regard to student performance on a criterion referenced test, incidence of at-risk behaviors, and perceptions of educators from both grade configurations, Robert Jeffrey Watson

THE POWER OF THE VISUAL ARTS TO EXPLORE WHO WE ARE AND WHERE WE COME FROM: A QUALITATIVE PHENOMENOLOGICAL STUDY, Jemina Watstein

Analysis of Montana education litigation 1999--2003, Donald K. Wattam

POTENTIAL CONTRASTS IN CO2 AND CH4 FLUX RESPONSE UNDER CHANGING CLIMATE CONDITIONS: A SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING DRIVEN ANALYSIS OF THE NET ECOSYSTEM CARBON BUDGET FOR ARCTIC AND BOREAL REGIONS, Jennifer D. Watts

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

AMBIENT AIR POLLUTION, HYPERTENSIVE DISORDERS OF PREGNANCY, AND GEOMASKING IN MONTANA, Elizabeth Rae Susanne 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

Landscape features and attractants that predispose grizzly bears to risk of conflicts with humans: A spatial and temporal analysis on privately owned agricultural land, Seth Mark 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

Growth and structural dynamics of uneven -aged ponderosa pine stands in eastern Montana, Christopher William Woodall

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

FLOWER BASES IN FULL BLOOM: INTERSECTING FAMILIES AND A GENERALIZATION OF DIVERSITY, Ryan Wood

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

Modeling total reduced sulfur and sulfur dioxide emissions from a kraft recovery boiler using an artificial neural network and Investigating volatile organic compounds in an urban intermountain valley using a TD/GC/MS methodology and intrinsic tracer molecules, Christopher L. Wrobel

Relationship between school principals' workload and their quality of life in Taiwan, Hui-Tzu Wu

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GLOBAL COMPETENCE AND NATIONAL IDENTITY OF THE ISEC PROGRAM STUDENTS IN CHINA, Jing Xu

Effects of Long-term Strenuous Exercise on Oxidative DNA Damage and Proteinuria in Humans, Nobuo Yasuda

Norm-Preserving Criteria for Uniform Algebra Isomorphisms, Rebekah Yates

A cultural ethic in tribal forest management and self-determination: The human dimension of silviculture, Victoria Lynn Yazzie

EXPLORING SPATIAL CLIMATE ANALOGS FOR CLIMATE IMPACT PROJECTION, ADAPTATION, AND COMMUNICATION, Svetlana Valeryevna Yegorova

Assessment of the mechanical properties of lodgepole pine in the incipient stage of decay by a white -rot fungus, Tsair-Bor Yen

Mass Spectrometric Characterization and Fluorophore-Assisted Light Inactivation of Human Excitatory Amino Acid Transporter, Ran Ye

The relationship of teacher optimism to attitudes and beliefs regarding classroom management, Debra Peters Yerkes

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PRINCIPALS’ TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND TEACHERS’ ORGANIZATIONAL CITIZENSHIP BEHAVIOR WITHIN PUBLIC PRIMARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOLS IN BAOTOU, INNER MONGOLIA, CHINA, Chuxuan Yin

FURTHER INVESTIGATING THE UNDERLYING ATTENTIONAL PROCESSES OF BRIEF MINDFULNESS-BASED INTERVENTIONS, Erin Rachelle Yosai

USING GEOMETRY AND VISUALIZATION TO DEMYSTIFY EIGEN DECOMPOSITION IN THE CLASSROOM: AN ANALYTICAL AND PEDAGOGICAL APPROACH, Briana Marie Young

CHARACTERIZING RIVERINE CARBON: A SPATIOTEMPORAL STUDY OF ORGANIC AND INORGANIC CARBON VARIABILITY AND EVALUATION OF METHODS FOR QUANTIFYING pCO2, Fischer Larson Young

Finding Meaning in the Aftermath of Trauma: Resilience and Posttraumatic Growth in Female Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence, Melissa Dawn Young

Procedures of power and school restructuring: A phenomenological study, Wayne Milford Youngward

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERCEIVED TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP OF LEADERS AND JOB SATISFACTION AMONG PUBLIC UNIVERSITY TEACHERS IN JINZHOU, Benfeng Yu

ASSESSING DATA ANALYTICS READINESS: COMPARATIVE ANALYTICS OF The ISEC and non-ISEC FACULTY IN ISEC MEMBER UNIVERSITIES IN CHINA, Han Yu

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TEACHER AGENCY AND OCCUPATIONAL WELL-BEING AMONG PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS, Hongbo Yu

The politics of cross -boundary conservation: Meaning property and livelihood on the Rocky Mountain Front in Montana, Laurie Yung

Effortful responding and behavioral contrast, Georgann Zachary

Team teaching: A study of collaboration, Nancy L. Zadra

IMPACTS OF CONIFER REMOVAL ON SONGBIRD DENSITY, REPRODUCTIVE OUTPUT, AND HABITAT SELECTION, Elise Catherine Zarri