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Partners In Conservation Education : Scientists Teachers Students And Sea Turtles In Costa Rica, Scott B. Pankratz

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Dear Knucklehead: Wise Up, Chris Crowe

Faculty Publications

Dear Chris:

I am a dear friend writing to you from the futurethe year 2000, in fact-to share some hindsight that will go a long way in helping to get your brand-new career off to a better start. Trnst me on what I'm about to tell you, pal; I know you better than anyone does.

Let me get right to the point: You are a Knucklehead.

You're twenty-three years old, the ink on your diploma is barely dry, you're about to start your career as a high school English teacher, and you are too naive, obtuse, and self-conscious to know …

Muddying Boundaries: Mixing Genres With Five Paragraphs, Deborah M. Dean

Faculty Publications

The Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch is a charming children's picture book. Part of its charm lies in its ability to anticipate the conventions of the fairy tale genre, creating expectations for readers, then pushing the boundaries of the genre in novel ways. As the story moves outside traditional expectations with its unexpected reversals (the princess fights the dragon to save the prince, and the fight is more mental trickery than physical battle), the boundaries of the genre are muddied, making my secondary students smile when I read to them. But it is the ending that surprises them most. …

An Investigation Of Undergraduate Calculus Students' Conceptual Understanding Of The Definite Integral, Todd D. Oberg

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Even-Aged And Multiaged Ponderosa Pine: A Physiological Comparison Of Stand Structure And Productivity, Linda Marie Nagel

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Geography Education: Learning From The Leaders, Susan K. Watne

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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In Situ Chemical Sensor Measurements In A Freshwater Lake: An Analysis Of The Short-Term And Seasonal Effects Of Ice Cover Ice Out And Turnover On Carbon Dioxide And Oxygen, Matthew M. Baehr

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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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

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Breeding Biology Of Birds In A Western Riparian Forest: From Demography To Behavior, Joshua J. Tewksbury

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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The Effects Of Wildfire And Prescribed Fire On Soil Nitrogen And Carbon Dynamics In Ponderosa Pine Forests, Urszula Choromanska

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Affects [Sic] Of Ground Water Velocity On Ms2 Transport Through A Sand Matrix, Thomas L. Troy

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Make It Simple: Encouraging Recycling And Waste Reduction Behavior In An Apartment Complex, Alexandra G. Gorman

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Reactivity And Ecological Momentary Assessment Using A Sample Of Undergraduate Problem Drinkers, Alan L. Shields

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Status And Management Of Forest Carnivores On The Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, Benjamin R. Conard

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Subversion Of The Traditional Narratives And Themes In Cronica De Desamor By Rosa Montero, Lillian E. Striker

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Sacred Language, Sacred Land| Journeys In And Around The Black Hills, Terry Ryan

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Russian Parenting Styles And Family Processes: Linkages With Subtypes Of Victimization And Aggression, Craig H. Hart, David A. Nelson, Clyde C. Robinson, Susanne F. Olson, Mary Kay Mcneilly-Choque, Christin L. Porter, Trevor R. Mckee

Faculty Publications

Political changes in the former Soviet Union have allowed social scientists to explore a variety of family and child development issues that were closed to systematic investigation for many decades (Maddock, Hogan, Antonov, & Matskovsky, 1994). Prior Soviet psychological research focused on cognitive rather than socioemotional processes for political reasons (Kerig, 1996). Therefore, Western researchers had little opportunity to conduct research on children’s social development in the context of the family in the former Soviet Union.

Cultural Values And Happiness, Timothy B. Smith

Faculty Publications

Csikszentmihalyi (1999) has reminded us that social scientists cannot shrink from challenging the validity of our most cherished values, including the fundamental nature of happiness. He cites research affirming that material wealth does not correlate with happiness and then presents data correlating happiness with the experience of flow. However, in making this leap Csikszentmihalyi confuses correlation with causation. Because losing oneself in a project, relationship, or dream is followed by a very positive condition does not mean that the experience itself caused happiness. It is equally likely that losing one self is the causative factor. In looking at his data …

The Use Of Two Mixture Fractions To Treat Coal Combustion Products In Turbulent Pulverized-Coal Flames, Daniel V. Flores, Thomas H. Fletcher

Faculty Publications

Previous coal combustion models using assumed-shape PDF's to treat turbulence-chemistry interactions have used only one progress variable to treat products from coal reactions. This assumes that the products of all coal reactions have the same composition. However. the composition of the combustion products of coal particles is known to vary with burnout, especially between devclatilization and char oxidation. In this work, two progress variables were implemented which distinguish between the products of devolatilization and those of char oxidation. This new approach requires as input the specified volatile content and elemental release during devolatilization. The values for these parameters were estimated …

Comparison Of Three Machine Learning Algorithms For Automated Feature Extraction From Digital Images, William D. Bain

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Personal Values And Work Satisfaction Of Registered Nurses Working In Hospitals, Marie M. Prothero, Elaine S. Marshall, Donna M. Fosbinder, Leland J. Hendrix

Faculty Publications

Personal values are increasingly recognized as important factors in work environments, including health care systems (Cameron & Whetten, 1995; Covey, Merrill, & Merrill, 1995; Fagermoen, 1997). The personal values of nursing students have been explored (Eddy, Elfrink, Weis, & Schank, 1994; Sivberg & Petersson, 1997) as have those of nurses, in the context of work design (Koerner, 1993 ). Factors of nurses' work satisfaction have also been studied extensively (Avallone & Gibbon, 1998; Brown, Naughton, & Nolan, 1998; Johnston,1997; Kangas, Kee, & McKee-Waddle,1999; Seymour & Buscherhof,1990). However, little is known about the personal values of nurses as they relate to …

Collaborative Approaches In Natural Resource Decision-Making: A Southeast Alaskan Perspective, Kimberly S. Baker

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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The Treatment Of Essential Voice Tremor With Botulinum Toxin A: A Longitudinal Case Report, Christopher Dromey, Paul Warrick, Jonathan Irish, Lisa Durkin

Faculty Publications

Summary: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of bilateral botulinum toxin injection into the thyroarytenoid (TA) muscles of a patient with essential voice tremor. Acoustic and aerodynamic data were collected weekly over a 16-week period. Flexible nasolaryngoscopy was performed prior to injection and 2, 6, 10, and 16 weeks post injection. Perceptual analyses of the acoustic and nasolaryngoscopic data were performed. A reduction in frequency tremor and, to a lesser extent, amplitude tremor was observed during the 1-10 week period. Estimated laryngeal resistance decreased after injection and was accompanied in perceptual measures by a reduction in …

"Divine Wisdom And Grace Guided St. Frances..." A Rhetorical Analysis Of The Ultimate Terms In The Narratives Of "The Little Flower Of St. Francis", Karen Feilzer Fishman

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Caregivers Locus Of Control For Child Improvement, Timothy B. Smith

Faculty Publications

A potentially important variable that has received little attention in the disabilities literature is the caregiver's locus of control beliefs for child improvement as they relate to treatment compliance and actual child improvement. To evaluate the construct's utility in a practice setting, 131 caregiver-child dyads were assessed twice, twelve months apart. Children were an average of approximately four years old at the first assessment, and all of them had mild to severe developmental disabilities. Aspects of caregiver compliance to treatment were rated, and measures of child development status, family functioning, and caregiver locus of control were administered. Results indicated that …

Guidebook For Facilitators In The Cybersetting, Kristin Opsum

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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All About Amphibians : An Environmental Education Curriculum For Western Montana High Schools, Eric A. Leach

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Paleontology Of Two North American Triassic Reef Faunas : Implications For Terrane Paleogeography, Jeannette M. Yarnell

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Effects Of Disturbance Edges On Plant Communities And Invasive Species In A Western Montana Forest, Bruce Threlkeld

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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Fish Diversity Behavior And Microhabitat Use In Secondary Channels Of The Bitterroot River Montana, Troy M. Brandt

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

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