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Anty 220s.50: Culture & Society, Kimber Haddix Mckay

University of Montana Course Syllabi

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Bmkt 413.01: Sports Marketing, Carol L. Bruneau

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Ling 484.01: North American Indigenous Languages & Linguistics, Leora Bar-El

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Ling 477.01: Bilingualism, Mizuki Miyashita

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Ling 571.01: Phonetics And Phonology, Mizuki Miyashita

University of Montana Course Syllabi

No abstract provided.

Ling 470.01m: Linguistic Analysis, Leora Bar-El

University of Montana Course Syllabi

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Anty 600.01: Issues In Cultural Heritage, Gregory Ray Campbell

University of Montana Course Syllabi

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Camas, Summer 2018

Camas

If Rivers Were Round: An Interview with Richard Manning / Marko Capoferri -- Following the River Home / Richard Manning -- Oedipus Oncorhynchus Keta / Kevin Maier -- Unseen Canyon / Jenny O'Connell -- To You, O Fire / Missy Peterson -- By the Light of Distant Fires / Jan Clausen -- Nymph / Patrick D. Watson -- River Sketch - Monte Rio / Virginia Barrett -- Because You Like Names / Kristin Fogdall -- Call It, Once More, A River / Diane Raptosh -- the other brown poets / Miguel Garcia -- She Dropped From the Clouds / Virginia …

Two Notions Of ‘Linear Function’ In Lower Secondary School And Missed Opportunities For Students’ First Meeting With Functions, Dyana Wijayanti

The Mathematics Enthusiast

The notion of function is considered one of the most difficult parts of the common lower secondary curriculum. In this paper we discuss the potential role played by linear functions, invariably used as first examples of this new notion. As empirical basis we use a praxeological analysis of the function chapter in four Indonesian lower secondary textbooks. The main point of our analysis is that the class of functions of type 𝑓(𝑥)=𝑎𝑥 (where a is some given number) does not appear explicitly at the level of theory, neither in the sense of being given a name, or in the sense …

Mathematics Teachers’ Teaching Practices In Relation To Textbooks: Exploring Praxeologies, Anna Pansell, Lisa Bjorklund Boistrup

The Mathematics Enthusiast

In this article, we explore affordances of adopting the framework of praxeology by Chevallard in the analysis of mathematics classroom communication in relation to the communication in a textbook. While adopting praxeology, we carried out detailed analysis of communication in both classroom data and textbooks. The construed praxeologies describe the organisation of knowledge expressed for the same type of task in both classroom and textbook. The praxeologies were compared, with specific attention to the teacher’s practice. This analysis illuminates how teachers’ practices, realised in classroom communication, may be compared to other texts describing the same topics, with a focus on …

July 2018 News Releases, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

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University Of Montana Commencement Program, 2018, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of The Registrar

University of Montana Commencement Programs, 1898-2020

Commencement program from the University of Montana.

Resilience Through Connection To Place: How Native Peoples Rely On The Land And How The Land Relies On Us, Tabitha N. Espinoza

Graduate Student Portfolios, Professional Papers, and Capstone Projects

No abstract provided.

Minutes From The May 3, 2018 Meeting Of The University Of Montana Faculty, University Of Montana--Missoula. Faculty

University of Montana Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes

Meeting minutes from the May 3, 2018 meeting of the University of Montana faculty.

May 2018 News Releases, University Of Montana--Missoula. Office Of University Relations

University of Montana News Releases, 1928, 1956-present

No abstract provided.

Rocky Mountain High: An Investigation Of Downhill Snowspnorts And Marijuana Use, Silas Phillips

University of Montana Conference on Undergraduate Research (UMCUR)

What comes to mind when you imagine a ‘stoner?’ Most stereotype the term– some couch-bound, chip-munching slouch with a foggy gaze (and perhaps a goofy grin). Marijuana and its chemical effects hold an increasing presence in American minds. With full legalization of recreational use in 8 states and various degrees of medical legality in 18 others, the substance is caught up in a cultural shift. Our society is tackling the ethicality of marijuana, and the stigmas built around the drug are changing. What was once cited for ‘reefer madness’ is becoming (to some) a medical treatment, or just another way …

Ethnomusicology Collection At The University Of Montana’S Anthropological Collections Facility (Umacf), Rachel A. Steffen

University of Montana Conference on Undergraduate Research (UMCUR)

Since 1959, the University of Montana Anthropological Collection Facility (UMACF) has housed an extensive ethnomusicology collection, donated by cultural anthropologist Alan P. Merriam (1923-1980). My Senior Honors Research Project was to inventory the collection of 2,300 78 RPM records, as well as conduct historical background research. My project was also for the purpose of writing grants which would be used to purchase materials that would aid in the preservation, digitization, and cataloging of the collection. The inventory was conducted through examining each item and recording the pertinent information from each disk into an Excel spreadsheet. This information allows the correlation …

The Identification Of 'Mystery' Seeds From Bridge River, Bc, Lauren T. Clark

University of Montana Conference on Undergraduate Research (UMCUR)

Housepit 54 is a long-lived pithouse that forms part of the ancient Bridge River village in the Mid-Fraser region of southern British Columbia, Canada. It was one of over eighty pithouses in a village occupied intermittently for over a millennia by the ancestors of the Upper St’át’imc people. Prior to the gold rush, the St’át’imc, a group of complex hunter-fisher-gathers, also cultivated plants that were indigenous to this region. Present at the site are “mystery” seeds of an unknown species, which is both ubiquitous and abundant in the archaeobotanical assemblages from the floors of Housepit 54 (Lyons et al 2017), …

Dna Extraction And Analysis Of Bone Samples From The Orton Quarry Ossuary, Paige N. Plattner

University of Montana Conference on Undergraduate Research (UMCUR)

The Orton Quarry site (36ER243) is a Late Prehistoric ossuary along the coast of Lake Erie in northwestern Pennsylvania. In March 1991, heavy-equipment operators accidentally exposed and destroyed approximately two-thirds of the original ossuary, leaving only the eastern third intact. Due to a personal interest in ossuaries an extensive literature search and personal communication with a one of the lead archeologists from the site was conducted. It was discovered that very little had been published on the site’s importance or its original inhabitants. One of the primary objectives of this project is to change that. By extracting and analyzing the …

Suprasegmental Production By American Learners Of Japanese: A Phonetic Investigation, Yuna Hiranuma

University of Montana Conference on Undergraduate Research (UMCUR)

This research examines second language acquisition (SLA) of English speakers learning Japanese by investigating how acoustic features of the first language influence the learners’ pronunciation. According to the theoretical notion of language transfer in SLA, linguistic features of learners’ first language emerge in their pronunciation of second language (Saville-Troike, 2006). Linguistic features concerned here are phonetic elements of word prominence (strongest part of a word). Beckman (1984; 1989) claims that English is considered a stress-accent language in which prominence is indicated by the combination of pitch and loudness, whereas Japanese is a pitch-accent language in which prominence is solely indicated …

Scraping Away At The Past: Extracting Ancient Dna From Stone Tools, Mckenzie L. Morgan

University of Montana Conference on Undergraduate Research (UMCUR)

This research project seeks to explain the use of lithics found at the Bridge River site in British Columbia through the extraction and analysis of ancient DNA (aDNA) found on the surface of stone tools. The methods used for extraction were nondestructive. Using sonication to release the trapped aDNA from microcracks on the tool’s surface, and the amplification of mitochondrial DNA regions Cytochrome B and 16S in order to determine what species the tools were used to process. The findings of this project have the potential to further refine the extraction process for ancient DNA present on lithic material, as …

Language In Totalistic Social Groups, Emily H. Allen

University of Montana Conference on Undergraduate Research (UMCUR)

A totalistic social group is defined as a collection of individuals who share similar values and goals and who live together within intensive boundaries enforced by the group’s leadership and/or members themselves (Lifton 1969). The focus of this project is to better understand the effect of language on (I) a totalistic group’s social structure and (II) the ideologies and actions of members. The limited linguistic research on totalistic groups claims that leaders and members use language in order to enforce rules and beliefs, encourage conformity, and maintain as well as increase membership. By examining language practices in the US military, …

Umcur 2018 Program Pdf

University of Montana Conference on Undergraduate Research (UMCUR)

The original program includes the general schedule as well as individual poster and presentation schedules and abstracts.

Montana Kaimin, April 25, 2018, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.

Documents From The April 25, 2018 Meeting Of The Associated Students Of The University Of Montana, University Of Montana -- Missoula. Associated Students

Senate Meeting Agendas and Minutes, 2007-Present

The agenda and meeting minutes for the April 25, 2018 meeting of the Associated Students of the University of Montana (ASUM). The following resolutions were discussed:

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SB46-17/18

Uncovering The Rules Of Language: What The Case Of The Word 'Glimpse' Can Teach Us, Jessica Holtz

UM Graduate Student Research Conference (GradCon)

Humans are able to naturally produce grammatical sentences they’ve never heard before in their native languages and have others understand what they mean, an amazing feat for a process which we go through daily without much effort. Languages are rule-governed and systematic in ways that are sometimes not so transparent. These rules are what create the structure within a language, making it learnable and usable. By studying these rules and systems we can better understand how the human brain processes and produces language (Pinker, 2007). One way in which we classify verbs in order to better understand them is to …

No One Left Behind: Forensic Anthropology In The Community, Keith Biddle, Britney Radford

UM Graduate Student Research Conference (GradCon)

Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology are subdisciplines of the field of Physical Anthropology. Forensic Anthropology deals with the study of human remains in the medico-legal context, while Bioarchaeology focuses on human remains and their excavation within the archaeological record. This historic burial case came to the University of Montana through the initiated request of a citizen in an effort to identify his relatives’ remains by correlating our findings with family records before being re- located to another cemetery. The remains were originally exhumed by Beaverhead County and transported to the Montana State Crime Lab in Missoula before being transferred to the …

“Is This My Great Aunt?”: An Analysis Of Human Skeletal Remains To Construct A Biological Profile, Hayley Savage, Samantha Ramey

UM Graduate Student Research Conference (GradCon)

Forensic anthropology is the sub-discipline that applies the principles and methods of physical anthropology to medico-legal cases. Forensic anthropologists have a multiplicity of skills that are used in various ways, but amongst those is the ability to construct a biological profile from a set, or sets of, unknown, skeletonized remains. Biological profiles of adult human skeletal remains consist of sex, age-at-death, ancestry, stature, trauma, and pathology. The information gained through these analyses are used in two ways: to provide immediate supporting evidence for identification, and to provide a means of narrowing potential lists of individuals. There are various methods to …

The Use Of Forensic Anthropology Outside The Medico-Legal Context: Creating A Historic Biological Profile, Elena Hughes

UM Graduate Student Research Conference (GradCon)

The analysis of skeletal remains in the medico-legal context falls in the hands of a forensic anthropologist. The hands on skills that forensic anthropologists learn, and practice, help them to recreate the life and personhood of the deceased. In order to do so, the skeletonized remains of an individual or individuals is examined for characteristics indicative of age-at-death, sex, ancestry, pathology, stature, as well as trauma. This information is used to create a biological profile that can then be given to law enforcement to help identify the individual. There are various types of analyses that can be done to create …

Pig Trauma Models: A Civilian Perspective On Ar-15 Skeletal Trauma, Lauren M. Kenney

UM Graduate Student Research Conference (GradCon)

In the last decade, our country has seen an unprecedented wave of terror punctuated by increasing events of gun-related violence. Consequently, the use of firearms against civilians or upon targets containing civilians has inevitably had a direct impact on the health of those affected, and in many cases these events have concluded with mass number fatalities. The driving force for this research falls to the lack of available literature regarding the skeletal trauma associated with high-velocity firearms outside of realm of the military. Trauma from high-velocity firearms encountered in the civilian setting differ from what is seen in military combatants …