This collection includes 12522 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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Theses
Markov chain models of genetic algorithms, Yong Zhao
Using Markov chain model to compare a steady-state and a generational GA, Cuixiu Zheng
Object-oriented method for graphical user interface design in a distributed system environment, Li Sun Zheng
Partial parallelization of VMEC system, Mei Zhou
Heterogeneous internetworking model with enhanced routing security and management functions, Yan Zhu
Syrian-Lebanese question before the Security council in 1946, Robert William Zibell
Analysis of the data processing requirements of Darigold Farms, Missoula-Ronan, Montana, Jeffrey Lea Zickler
Stratigraphy sedimentology and diagenesis of the Precambrian upper Newland Limestone central Montana, Gerald A. Zieg
COPING AS A MEDIATOR BETWEEN CHILDHOOD TRAUMA AND CURRENT TRAUMA SYMPTOMS IN FEMALE SURVIVORS OF INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE, Aryn Violet Ziehnert
Test of detente: Soviet-American relations and the Yom Kippur War, David Zierler
Amtrak multiple passenger train routes crossing Montana: Are they needed?, Angelo Rosario Zigrino
The problems of grading physical education, Joseph A. Zile
Source book for piano pedagogy with suggested syllabus, Dorcas L. Zimmerman
A study of drumlins in the Tobacco Plains/Stillwater Valley and Seeley/Swan Valley in Montana, Eric D. Zimmerman
Meristic characters of the cutthroat trout; Salmo clarki, Gail Dean Zimmerman
Women in the Montana Legislature 1941-1993, Laurie Jerin Zimorino
Camouflage mismatch in seasonal coat color due to decreased snow duration: Will snowshoe hares keep up with climate change?, Marketa Zimova
"Parabola and parable" in the zone of Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, Brian D. Zindel
Sarah Palin, Conservative Feminism, and the Politics of Family, Jasmine Rose Zink
Politics and institutionalized change: The failure of regional development planning in northeast Brazil 1961-1964, Daniel Gates Zirker
Effects of instructional set on free-speech samples, Elizabeth Maria Zischka
Site productivity and soil conditions on terraced ponderosa pine stands on the Bitterroot National Forest, Elena J. Zlatnik
Convergent and discriminant validity of the Experiential world inventory, Clarence Joseph Zohn
Mitochondrial DNA Diversity in West Mexico, Emma Zoiss
Touch memories in psychiatric and non-psychiatric populations, Andrea Zojourner
Using knowledge-based neural networks in the prediction of permeability, William K. Zollinger
John Marston and the decline of the Elizabethan tragedy, Frederic Homer Zook
Study of the Union and the Confederate reactions to the Emancipation Proclamation, Robert J. Zorick
Effects of selection harvest and prescribed burning on nitrogen availability in the mineral soil under ponderosa pine, Kris Zouhar
User's directory of outdoor recreational services for the disabled in the northern Rocky Mountain region, Mary Claire Zrinscak
Otis in the summer of love, Eric Zuckerman
No-Fault Insurance: The Answer to Rising Automobile Insurance Costs, Theodore Thomas Zuendt
Characters in the early novels of Mariano Azuela, Lucy Imogene Zuercher
Metropolitan park planning and county government, Edwin F. Zuern
Powder River country, Marianne Zugel
Eyewitness confidence and the impact of expert testimony by a psychologist versus an opposing psychologist, Jonette R. Zulauf
Cultural impact of NAFTA on Mexico, Maitane Zuloaga
A Comparative Analysis between Knowledge and Bear Safety Information Utilization by Day Hikers in Glacier National Park, Phillip Wayne Zumstein
Boundaries| The seventh wave| [Short stories], Ann McGill Zupan
Water Maps| [Poems], Janet Zupan
Attitudes of ninth grade male and female students who participated in the Montana Mathematics and Science Project, Barbara Zuuring
Psychological Safety at Amazon: A CCO Approach, Kathryn K. Zyskowski
Theses - Campus Access Only
Woman in Islam: A Stereotyped Westernized Imagee in Nawal Al Saadawi's "Woman at Point Zero", Ahlam Attyya Abulaila
Biomass burning emissions on regional-global scales, Sheryl Kashi Akagi
UNSEALED: A Memoir, Alyssa Witbeck Alexander
There Will Be Waffles!, Christopher Joel Alexander
COMMUNICATIVE CONSTRUCTION OF EXPECTATIONS: AN EXAMINATION OF EXPECTATIONS REGARDING MOTHERS IN NARRATIVE CONSTRUCTION, Jordan A. Allen
When the wind stops blowing, Sarah Dawn Alling
Distributed Agency: An Analysis of Get-Passive in English, Mushtaq Al Rashidany
Badluck Way, Bryce Patrick Chartier Andrews
The Millennial Garden: A Post-hybrid Reading of Zadie Smith's White Teeth and On Beauty, Andrea Lea Armstrong
And Other Bodiless Powers, Sarah B. Aronson
The Fourth Estate, Jason Bacaj
Colonization of the Crown: Hunting, Class, and the Creation of Glacier National Park, 1885-1915, Shawn Patrick Bailey
POCO A POCO, SE VA LEJOS: A COLLECTION OF NOVEL EXCERPTS AND SHORT STORIES, Catalina Mullan Baker
Unsettled: A Memoir, Elizabeth Anne Baker
Ornament and Crime, Norma Barksdale
In the wilderness| A memoir, Kim Barnes
Honor Killings Among Westward-Immigrating Muslim Communities - An Applied Anthropological Approach, Ariel Deborah Barrett
Three wonder stories, Dave Barrett
PETROLOGY, GEOCHEMISTRY, AND AGE OF EXTENSION IN THE LOST TRAIL PASS DIKE SWARM, SOUTHWEST MONTANA, Whitney Gustin Bausch
Analysis of creative project| Closer to fine, a short story, Adele Myer Beauchene
Gelatwirl, Caren Beilin
American Taghairm, John Coleman Bennett
Essays About Leaving, Sometimes About Arriving, Christopher Benz
Mortality to Eternity: Queer Temporality in Three Twentieth-Century Novels, Cecile Ceuillette Berberat
Spatiotemporal Controls On Hydrologic Exchange Between Hillslopes, Valley Bottoms, And Streams From The Reach To The Watershed Scale, Anna Bergstrom
Does nest size constrain clutch size? A tropical-temperate test, Atilio Luis Biancucci
White Elegies, Daniel Ross Biegelson
Carbon Storage in Old-Growth Western Larch (Larix occidentalis) Forests of Western Montana, Sarah M. Bisbing
Lick: A Novel, Robin Tiffany Bissett
Black Hole, Alice Elizabeth Bolin
Surface Tension: Essays on an Evolving Faith, Sydney Jo Bollinger
Old and in the way| An evaluation of Alaska's dams and anadromous fish, Meagan Boltwood
The Golden Guipil: A story of the endangered Maya-Pokomchi and the golden-cheeked warbler in Guatemala, Douglas S. Booth
Connectivity and Spatial Organization of Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep in Idaho, Nathan Jeffery Borg
Magnificent mistakes| A collection of stories, Eric Bosse
REFORESTATION IN THE BRAZILIAN AMAZON: POLICY IMPLICATIONS FOR CURRENT AND FUTURE REFORESTATION, Christopher Bryant Bradley
Searching for the Real McCoy, Carrie Adams Braman
Assessing the effects of field plot size and stand structure on forest inventory estimates derived from laser altimetry data, Jody Paul Bramel
Examination of the Sensitivity and Specificity of the MMPI-2 and PAI: An analog Study of Brain Injury and Test Effort, Cameron Craig Brewer
Instructions for a burial, Elizabeth Brinsfield
In the Family of Things: Stories About Simple Choices and Radical Change, Grace Charlotte Brogan
The Anatomy and Production of the Short Story, Evanthia Hill Bromiley
Some critical mass| [Short stories], Erin Stewart Brown
A PRELIMINARY EVALUATION OF THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE TRIBAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICE PROGRAM IN MONTANA, Heather Allison Brown
Klonopin Collectifs, the “Charms” of Diverted Pharmaceuticals and Other Pleasures of Non-Medical Prescription Drug Use, Henry Erikson Bundy
A Comparison Study of Vertebral Degenerative Joint Disease in the Hunter-Gatherer Population at Indian Knoll, Kentucky and Agriculturalists, Ashley Lynn Burch
Implications for Restoration: Effects of Riparian Vegetation and Shade on Temperature Gradients in Lower Gold Creek, Southwest Montana, Ashley Brandyn Burry-Trice
Plums at junction of two rivers| [poems], Heather M. Cahoon
Antonio Fogazzaro and the Development of Liberal Catholicism in Modern Italy, Margaret Ashley Caldwell
Graduate Teaching Assistant Interpretations and Responses to Student Immediacy Cues, Clair Owen Canfield
A User Study on 2D Wind Visualization Methods, Chen Cao
All Lit Things Predict Their Own Demise, Caylin Capra-Thomas
The Weight of it all: A Look At Variation of Organ Weights, Jenny E. Cavallari
Evolution of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the Cystic Fibrosis Lung, Christine Bryanne Chandler