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DO CASH TRANSFERS IMPACT MIGRATION? A STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF PROCAMPO AND PROGRESA ON SHORT-TERM MIGRATION IN MEXICO, Rosemary Jan Moore
BORN HERE ALL MY LIFE: A NOVEL, Amelia Morand
Reclamation, Miranda Ruby Morgan
WRITING IN DEVISED THEATRE: PRACTICAL APPROACHES WITH COMPARISONS TO INDIVIDUAL PLAYWRITING PROCESSES, Kate Rebecca Morris
Getting Personal: Collected Essays, Anna Rebecca Mueller
Between the Lines: Friendship, Love, and Marriage in the Progressive-Era Correspondence of Robert and Louise Line, Heather Ashely Mulliner
Subjective Well-Being and Relative Income in Timor-Leste, Dmitri MurfinSimmons
The Effect of Clinician-Related Variables on Decision-Making in Dysphagia Practice, Melissa Colleen Murphy
VIOLENCE AND RHETORIC: NARRATIVE PRODUCTION IN THE WAKE OF HARPER’S FERRY, Nicholas Myers
Bassalia, Laurel Nakanishi
Effect of post-exercise environmental temperature on glycogen resynthesis, Michael E. Naperalsky
Suspension of Belief, Yaro Shon Cora Neils
Walking the spiritual path: Its relationship to health and disease and neurofeedback and biofeedback, Jan B. Newman
Mean and Volatility Spillovers in Emission Allowance and Fuel Returns, Patrick Nicholson
Wind energy development in Montana: Beginning a transformation of rural Montana, Yoshiaki Nohara
Fiction Selection, James William Nokes
Pretty pink, baby blue, Paul J. Northway
Socio-Ecological Factors that Impact Sustainable Management of the lake Bosomtwe Basin in Ghana, Hanson Nyantakyi-Frimpong
An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Montana’s HIV Prevention Groups for Men Who Have Sex With Men, Patricia Anne O'Brien
James A. Baker III and Eduard Shevardnadze: The Story of the Madrid Peace Conference of 1991, Milena Oganesyan
Growing season, Penny Orwick
Greenland Subglacial Hydrology Model, Meghan K. Oswalt
Testing of a Portuguese Method for Estimating Skeletal Age at Death in Adults Using the Acetabulum on an American Sample, Brian Paul Ouellette
Breaking Sound Barriers: Reading the Jazz Novel as a Model for More Flexible Social Interaction in a Globalized World, Dustin Pace
The study of the Private: Eudora Welty's Short Stories and Photography, Mary Elizabeth Painter
In the Light Beyond Dreaming, Robin Sisson Patten
A Restless Imminent Dread, Elizabeth M. Pellegrino
Factors influencing the distribution of late-seral woody species along the upper Missouri River in central Montana, Kali Grace Pennick
An Assessment of Livelihood Security in International Community-based Wildlife Conservation Projects, Monica Antonia Perez-Watkins
Eltopia, Brian Pillion
Watercolor painting and exhibition, Fontella Carleen Popham
Introduction to Web programming with SAS AppDev Studio TM, Frederick E. Pratter
Study of the influence of an internal linguistic model and rote imitation on performance on the Carrow Elicited Language Inventory, Jutta W. Prem
Negative Proof, Kathryn Margherita Puerini
BIOISOSTERES OF AMPA: CONFORMATIONAL ANALYSIS AND STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP, TRIDEEP RAJALE
Rescuing the tree-sitter| An environmental novel for young adults, Brianna Carolie Randall
Singing Struggles and Dreams: A New Generation of Maya Women Speaks, Cassidy J. Randall
A spatiotemporal analysis of Army base distributions in the contiguous United States from 1800 to 1900, Ben Ravitz
A WORKING RELATIONSHIP: AN ACCOUNT CONCERNING WENDELL BERRY'S CONVERSATIONAL APPROACH TO FARMING, Nicholas Brian Redig
An assessment of factors influencing territory size and the use of hunter surveys for monitoring wolves in Montana, Lindsey Noel Rich
Community, Family and Peer Influences on Alcohol, Marijuana, and Illicit Drug Use of Native American Youth: An Analysis of Protective Factors, Aislinn R. Rioux
Journey of personal transformation| Poetry and prose and reflections and assessment of the project, Ruby Rochetto
PLACE-BASED EDUCATION, FUNDS OF KNOWLEDGE AND STUDENTS’ UNDERSTANDING OF WATER SYSTEMS, Meghan Rorick
Lost innocence in the poetry of Garci¸a Lorca, William G. Rose
CRANIOMETRIC ESTIMATION OF ANCESTRY IN PEOPLES OF INDIA, Cynthia K Coe Ross
You Thrive Now and Other Stories, Jordan Rossen
Adeno-Associated Mediated Transduction of Sensory Epithelia Within the Guinea Pig Cochlea, Cherokee Rose Lee Rova
"WE THOUGHT WE SHOULD DO SOMETHING OURSELVES:" CITIZEN PARTICIPATION, SOUTHWEST DENVER AND THE MODEL CITIES PROGRAM, 1964-1994, Elizabeth Mary Ryan
Freedom, fear, and the American periphery| The Chippewa and Cree in Montana, 1885-1923, Luke C. Ryan
Flying lessons, Lynn Sainsbury
Bottomless blue and other stories, Mary Stewart Sale
If You Wanted Nice You Could Have Said Something, Skylar R. Salvatore
Stand Up Straight, Candie S. Sanderson
Formation of Identity from an Outsider Perspective: National and Personal Identities in Films of Fatih Akin and Anna Melikian, Ellina Sattarova
Flood duration and chute cutoff formation in a wandering gravel-bed river, April M. Sawyer
Statehood in Selves, Maren Schiffer
The Grow, Kelly Schirmann
DESART, Lisa Schumaier
Comparing responses to a mindful-breathing practice across traumatized and non-traumatized populations, Sarah Lynn Schwarz
Apples to Apes: Comparative Freedom in Modern Literary Art, Thomas Seiler
TOWARD A REGIONAL MODIS EVAPOTRANSPIRATION (MOD16) PRODUCT: RE-EVALUATING MOD16 LOGIC TO INCLUDE PRECIPITATION, Jami J. Seirer
Delay of Spring Snowmelt due to Storm-Induced Changes in Snowpack, Columbia River Headwaters, Western Montana, USA, Zachary M. Seligman
Wearing it on: A Map of Work and Land, Thomas Sentner
DESIGN, SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF ISOXAZOLE CONTAINING GLUTAMATE ANALOGS, SHIKHA SHARMA
Duality and Reconciliation: Kleist, Hoffmann and German Romanticism, Melissa Ann Sheedy
Essays from In-Between, Jennifer Alyn Sheets
The Importance of Multiple Study Areas in Landscape Genetics: The American Black Bear in the Rocky Mountains, Ruth Short Bull
Growth and development in Montana's Bitterroot Valley| The valley is booming---but is it a bust for the locals?, Daniel Charles Short
Varieties of Disappearance: The Beginnings of a Novel, Aaron Michael Shulman
CRACKING OUR WEARINESS AND CONTRITION: CONFRONTING THE LAST STATE OF THE HEART IN JORGE LUIS BORGES’S “THE GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS” AND JORGE VOLPI’S IN SEARCH OF KLINGSOR, Agatha Kathleen Shwayder
Protest and Proximity: The World Revolution of 1968 in Philip Roth’s American Pastoral and Mahasweta Devi’s Mother of 1084, Clare Marie Sigrist-Sutton
COUPLED ECOHYDROLOGY AND PLANT HYDRAULICS MODEL PREDICTS PONDEROSA SEEDLING MORTALITY AND LOWER TREELINE IN THE U.S. NORTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAINS, Caelan Simeone
Just one, Robin Rose Simon
ODBMS capabilities report, Nathan Anthony Singer
Flowers for Mrs. Crumpet, Sara A. Smith
the silent choir, Jessie Spring Sobey
Love knows the way home| Research and production of a video memorial to my grandmother, Debbie L. Solander
Behavior Regulation of Wildland Firefighters According to Environmental Conditions, Joseph Alan Sol
Thousand-yard stare, James Soular
Relationships Among Socio-Economic Status, Self-Esteem, and College Aspirations of High School Seniors in One Small City, Lisa Ann Speegle
What This Body Needs, Mark Aaron Spero
Inversion, Anne Marie Spidahl
We Humans: Nature, Culture, and Identity in the Anthropocene Age, Hudson Douglas Spivey
FACTORS AFFECTING MERCURY BIOMAGNIFICATION IN RIVERINE FOOD WEBS IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS: CLARK FORK RIVER BASIN, MONTANA, U.S.A., Molly Frances Staats
Motel, John Starkey
Peer Attitudes Toward Giftedness, Ian Stephens
American Indian college students' ratings for therapist-client racial homogeneity and therapy technique, Jera L. Stewart
The Mermaid of Champion Mill, Jane Elizabeth St. John
Garnet Ghost Town| A journey through time, Lorraine Stock
Into the heart of the beast| A case for environmental advertising, Tracy Stone-Manning
Developing a GIS-Based Weights of Evidence Predictive Model to Locate the Probability of Prehistoric Sites in Southwest Montana, Jason Daniel Strahl
Diplomacy in a time of war| The 1991 Persian Gulf War and the interplay between war and diplomacy, Rachel A. Swartz
The Effect of Religious Similarity on the Use of Relational Maintenance Strategies in Marriages, Jamie Karen Taylor
Lake Unloosed, Julie Ellen Taylor
Understanding Transgender Violence, Alicia Telena
Another Extremely Lucky Thing, Lise Victoria Thompson
Immune Suppression By The Herbicide Atrazine Involves Inhibition Of CD4+ T Cells And Expansion Of Foxp3+ Regulatory T cells, Lindsay Elizabeth Thueson
Put Eyes On Me Not Like a Curse, Alyssandra Tobin