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Community Forests : A Study Of New Hampshire's Town-Owned Forests, Anna Christie-Carnicella
Community Forests : A Study Of New Hampshire's Town-Owned Forests, Anna Christie-Carnicella
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
New England states have a long history of forest management, beginning in the seventeenth century, with community forests evolving over time from communal forests during colonial times to town-owned forests managed by conservation commissions in the present time. New Hampshire towns provided a case study of the current state of town-owned forest protection and management, with a focus on timber management. I administered a survey to 50 randomly sampled towns and received data from 29 about permanent protection and management activities on town-owned forestland (≥ 50 acres). I used this data, demographic, and landscape data, to evaluate permanent protection and …
Perfluorinated Compounds, Thyroid Function, And Neuropsychological Status In Older Residents Of Upper Hudson River Communities, Srishti Shrestha
Perfluorinated Compounds, Thyroid Function, And Neuropsychological Status In Older Residents Of Upper Hudson River Communities, Srishti Shrestha
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) are widespread in the environment. Minimal data exist regarding the neurotoxicity and thyroid disruptive property of PFCs in aging populations and the possible mediating effects of thyroid hormones (THs). In this study, we assessed associations among PFCs, thyroid function, and neuropsychological status, and determined if the neurotoxic effects of PFCs are mediated by changes in THs in an aging population. We measured perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS), thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH), total thyroxine (T4), free T4 (fT4), and total triiodothyronine (T3) in serum and performed neuropsychological tests in men and women aged 55-74 years and living …
Relationships Between Breastfeeding, Maternal Cigarette Smoking During Pregnancy, And The Cognitive Functioning Of Akwesasne Mohawk Adolescents Exposed To Environmental Pollution, Georgia Brooke
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Previous research has suggested that breastfeeding is beneficial for children's health and that maternal cigarette smoking during pregnancy is harmful for children's health. However, there is not a consensus in the existing literature about whether or not these two maternal behaviors impact the cognitive development of children. Furthermore, understanding the role of breastfeeding in children's development is complicated by the fact that breastfeeding transmits toxicants that are stored in the mother's body, including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), to the infant. Existing research suggests that PCBs negatively impact children's cognitive functioning. The current study examined relationships between breastfeeding, maternal cigarette smoking during …
Medico-Politics And English Literature, 1790-1830 : Immunity, Humanity, Subjectivity, Amy Mallory-Kani
Medico-Politics And English Literature, 1790-1830 : Immunity, Humanity, Subjectivity, Amy Mallory-Kani
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
In 1796, Dr. Edward Jenner began vaccinating individuals against small pox by using matter from the pustules of the cow pox. Though extremely controversial because of its discomforting mixture of animal and human, by the end of the Romantic period, vaccination was celebrated as the safest way to immunize the British population. Through the practice of vaccination, Britain found a way to save its body politic from a destructive epidemic while affirming the strong connection between individual health and collective well-being that writers of the period like Mary Wollstonecraft, William Wordsworth, Jane Austen, and Mary Shelley recognized in their works. …
Exposure Assessment And Risk Management Of Engineered Nanoparticles : Investigation In Semiconductor Wafer Processing, Michele Shepard
Exposure Assessment And Risk Management Of Engineered Nanoparticles : Investigation In Semiconductor Wafer Processing, Michele Shepard
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) are currently used in hundreds of commercial products and industrial processes, with more applications being investigated. Nanomaterials have unique properties that differ from bulk materials. While these properties may enable technological advancements, the potential risks of ENMs to people and the environment are not yet fully understood. Certain low solubility nanoparticles are more toxic than their bulk material, such that existing occupational exposure limits may not be sufficiently protective for workers. Risk assessments are currently challenging due to gaps in data on the numerous emerging materials and applications as well as method uncertainties and limitations.
A Population-Based Case-Control Study Of The Association Between Extreme Heat Events And Neural Tube Defects And Oral Clefts, Aida Soim
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
With climate change it is expected that extreme weather events will become more frequent and longer in duration. The health consequences of maternal exposure during pregnancy to extreme heat events are not well understood in spite of biological plausibility for adverse effects suggested by prior findings. There is very limited research that explores the relationship between extreme heat events and birth defects. The overall goal of this line of research was to determine whether heatwaves (HW) are associated with two major classes of birth defects: neural tube defects (NTDs) and oral clefts. One component of this project aimed to describe …
The Blackness Of Black (W)Holes, Eric M. Anderson
The Blackness Of Black (W)Holes, Eric M. Anderson
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
The Blackness of Black (W)holes analyzes Toni Morrison's Sula, William Faulkner's Sanctuary, and Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man as against establishing the illusion of a coherent, recognizable self through relational identities and subservience to denotative language and categories of identity. These novel’s feature characters packing knives, I claim, because they advocate for what I term stylistic self–extrication: a rupture with prevailing forms of identity and cliché ways of speaking through rhythmic, sonorous, experimental language use. Characters who succeed at the task, I argue, are associated with a blackness in excess of racial markings, because they become unclassifiable as a result. In …
Democracy, Political Externalities & The Labour-Process, Nicholas Alan Partyka
Democracy, Political Externalities & The Labour-Process, Nicholas Alan Partyka
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
My dissertation focuses on elaborating a problem for democratic political institutions posed by an externality of the capitalist labour-process, particularly for more participatory conceptions of democracy and democratic citizenship. I argue that the labour-process under capitalism causes a transformation in the skill-level and personality of worker-citizens. In the main, the direction of this transformation is towards workers who lack important deliberative skills enabling them to effectively participate in democratic politics. If one is committed to democracy as a means of collective self-government, then this negative transformation, or deformation, should be troubling. If the labour-process under capitalism deprives workers of the …
Computational Modeling-Driven Study Of Signaling Pathway Affecting Cleft Formation During Submandibular Salivary Gland Development, Shayoni Ray
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Branching morphogenesis is a conserved mechanism of mammalian organ development (salivary glands, lungs, mammary glands, pancreas, kidney, etc.), and has been a classic topic of study for generations of developmental biologists. During the process of tissue formation, several cellular and molecular and protein signaling events occur at successive stages enabling proper formation of tissue shape and structure. In order to provide a comprehensive understanding of the process of branching morphogenesis, we need a systems level approach to integrate multifactorial information. My overall global hypothesis is that multiple mathematical modeling approaches can be utilized to extract crucial cellular and tissue level …
Facing The Epokolo : Corporal Punishment And Scandal In Twentieth Century Ovamboland, David Crawford Jones
Facing The Epokolo : Corporal Punishment And Scandal In Twentieth Century Ovamboland, David Crawford Jones
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This dissertation charts the history of corporal punishment in Ovamboland, the north-central region of present-day Namibia. Long used as a method for disciplining cattle thieves, rapists, and men who had impregnated women outside of wedlock, the region's institution of public flogging sparked a scandal in 1973, when the epokolo, the five-foot long thorned branch of the Makalani palm tree, was deployed on members of SWAPO, the leading liberation movement in the territory then known as South West Africa. In the wake of that scandal, and in a rare rebuke of the traditional authorities who had long collaborated with the South …
The Impact Of A Cognitive Defusion Intervention On Behavioral And Psychological Flexibility, Timothy Ritzert
The Impact Of A Cognitive Defusion Intervention On Behavioral And Psychological Flexibility, Timothy Ritzert
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) emphasizes the relationship people have with unwanted thoughts, emotions, and other private events. ACT utilizes cognitive defusion strategies to reduce the believability of unwanted, distressing thoughts so as to foster greater psychological flexibility. Though defusion is linked to several positive behavioral outcomes (e.g., improved pain tolerance), it remains unclear whether such effects are associated with the behavioral process of defusion itself, namely, behavior that is more sensitive to direct contingencies compared with behavior influenced by unhelpful verbal functions. To address this issue, the present study assessed the impact of a defusion intervention on behavior, as …
Uncovering Organosulfur Natural Products In The "Shy-Plant" Mimosa Pudica Via Direct Analysis In Real Time Mass Spectrometry : Volatiles Emission From Touch Sensitive Roots, Max Jacob Maron
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Mimosa pudica L. (Mimosaceae) is a small shrub endemic to South America, now pantropically distributed. M. pudica displays the properties of seismonasty where the leaves fold and stems droop in response to both touch, as well as nyctinasty, a type of circadian rhythm. It was previously reported that the principal component of the odor that is produced when M. pudica is uprooted is caused by CS2 and COS, both of which were detected by GC-MS. The present study has found that the roots emit a foul odor in response to direct root stimulation. Further, neither CS2 nor COS were observed …
The Evolutionary Fitness Of Personality Traits In A Small-Scale Subsistence Society, Michael Gurven, Christopher Von Rueden, Jonathan Stieglitz, Hillard Kaplan, Daniel Eid Rodriguez
The Evolutionary Fitness Of Personality Traits In A Small-Scale Subsistence Society, Michael Gurven, Christopher Von Rueden, Jonathan Stieglitz, Hillard Kaplan, Daniel Eid Rodriguez
ESI Publications
"Personality, or “behavioral syndromes”, are relatively stable dispositional traits and behaviors that have now been identified in a myriad of social species (Gosling, 2001; Sih et al., 2004), and with clear consequences on fitness (Smith & Blumstein, 2008). The canalization of personality during development and relative stability thereafter, despite varying circumstances over the life course that might otherwise favor greater plasticity, is an important problem attracting much theoretical and empirical attention (Dall et al., 2004; Dingemanse et al., 2010). Further, personality is highly heritable, yet how heritable genetic variation in personality traits is maintained over generations remains another conundrum (Buss …
Nanoparticle Encapsidation Of Flock House Virus By Auto Assembly Of Tobacco Mosaic Virus Coat Protein, Payal D. Maharaj, Jyothi K. Mallajosyula, Gloria Lee, Phillip Thi, Yiyang Zhou, Christopher M. Kearney, Alison A. Mccormick
Nanoparticle Encapsidation Of Flock House Virus By Auto Assembly Of Tobacco Mosaic Virus Coat Protein, Payal D. Maharaj, Jyothi K. Mallajosyula, Gloria Lee, Phillip Thi, Yiyang Zhou, Christopher M. Kearney, Alison A. Mccormick
Faculty Publications & Research of the TUC College of Pharmacy
Tobacco Mosaic virus (TMV) coat protein is well known for its ability to self-assemble into supramolecular nanoparticles, either as protein discs or as rods originating from the ~300 bp genomic RNA origin-of-assembly (OA). We have utilized TMV self-assembly characteristics to create a novel Flock House virus (FHV) RNA nanoparticle. FHV encodes a viral polymerase supporting autonomous replication of the FHV genome, which makes it an attractive candidate for viral transgene expression studies and targeted RNA delivery into host cells. However, FHV viral genome size is strictly limited by native FHV capsid. To determine if this packaging restriction could be eliminated, …
Involvement Of Sigma-1 Receptors In The Antidepressant-Like Effects Of Dextromethorphan, Linda Nguyen, Matthew J. Robson, Jason R. Healy, Anna L. Scandinaro, Rae Reiko Matsumoto
Involvement Of Sigma-1 Receptors In The Antidepressant-Like Effects Of Dextromethorphan, Linda Nguyen, Matthew J. Robson, Jason R. Healy, Anna L. Scandinaro, Rae Reiko Matsumoto
Faculty Publications & Research of the TUC College of Pharmacy
Dextromethorphan is an antitussive with a high margin of safety that has been hypothesized to display rapid-acting antidepressant activity based on pharmacodynamic similarities to the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist ketamine. In addition to binding to NMDA receptors, dextromethorphan binds to sigma-1 (s1) receptors, which are believed to be protein targets for a potential new class of antidepressant medications. The purpose of this study was to determine whether dextromethorphan elicits antidepressant-like effects and the involvement of s1 receptors in mediating its antidepressant-like actions. The antidepressant-like effects of dextromethorphan were assessed in male, Swiss Webster mice using the forced swim test. Next, …
Quantification Of Free Sialic Acid In Human Plasma Through A Robust Quinoxalinone Derivatization And Lc–Ms/Ms Using Isotope-Labeled Standard Calibration, Dan Wang, Xiang Zhou, Lin Wang, Sihe Wang, Xue-Long Sun
Quantification Of Free Sialic Acid In Human Plasma Through A Robust Quinoxalinone Derivatization And Lc–Ms/Ms Using Isotope-Labeled Standard Calibration, Dan Wang, Xiang Zhou, Lin Wang, Sihe Wang, Xue-Long Sun
Chemistry Faculty Publications
We report an accurate quantification of free sialic acid (SA) in human plasma using LC–MS/MS method with isotope-labeled standard calibration (ILSC) and robust derivatization. Specifically, derivatization of SA with a stable and inexpensive 3,4-diaminotoluene (DAT) provides a stable product of SA with high MS response, proving a convenient and cost-effective LC–MS/MS analysis of free SA. In addition, the use of 13C3-SA as calibration standard ensured the accuracy for the measurement. This assay used ultra high performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC) for separation of native/labeled SA and IS from matrix interference, and employed mass spectrometry in multiple reaction monitoring …
"My Baby Is A Dog": Exploration Of Pet Parent Identity, Lacey Y. Boston
"My Baby Is A Dog": Exploration Of Pet Parent Identity, Lacey Y. Boston
All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects
This quantitative research examined dog owners (n = 100) regarding their relationship with their pets. After beginning to treat her own dog as a child she questioned what happens when a human child enters a family and what impact that has on the pet owners' identity. The researcher hypothesized that having children under the age of 18 in the home would impact dog owners' identity and salience based on their relationship with their pet. She created 13 questions for the survey which operationalized the concepts of identity salience and prominence. By surveying 100 dog owners and asking them about certain …
Lsh 327l.01a: Gender And Sexuality In Twentieth-Century English Fiction, Ruth Vanita
Lsh 327l.01a: Gender And Sexuality In Twentieth-Century English Fiction, Ruth Vanita
University of Montana Course Syllabi
No abstract provided.
Hstr 352.01: France Revolution 1789-1848, Linda S. Frey
Hstr 352.01: France Revolution 1789-1848, Linda S. Frey
University of Montana Course Syllabi
No abstract provided.
Phl 210e.01: Moral Philosophy, Bridget Clarke
Phl 210e.01: Moral Philosophy, Bridget Clarke
University of Montana Course Syllabi
No abstract provided.
Mart 111a.02m: Integrated Digital Art, Jason L. Gutzmer
Mart 111a.02m: Integrated Digital Art, Jason L. Gutzmer
University of Montana Course Syllabi
No abstract provided.
Mart 587.01: Screenwriting Ii, Andrew J. Smith
Mart 587.01: Screenwriting Ii, Andrew J. Smith
University of Montana Course Syllabi
No abstract provided.
Enst 505.01: Literature Of Nature Writing, Phil Condon
Enst 505.01: Literature Of Nature Writing, Phil Condon
University of Montana Course Syllabi
No abstract provided.
Artz 271a.03: Printmaking - Introduction To Screen, John M. Metcalf
Artz 271a.03: Printmaking - Introduction To Screen, John M. Metcalf
University of Montana Course Syllabi
No abstract provided.
Artz 331.01: Ceramics Ii - Wheel Throwing, Julia M. Galloway
Artz 331.01: Ceramics Ii - Wheel Throwing, Julia M. Galloway
University of Montana Course Syllabi
No abstract provided.
Artz 221a.01: Painting I, James Bailey
Artz 221a.01: Painting I, James Bailey
University of Montana Course Syllabi
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Artz 231a.01: Ceramics I, Elizabeth Lo
Artz 231a.01: Ceramics I, Elizabeth Lo
University of Montana Course Syllabi
No abstract provided.
Artz 271a.01: Printmaking I - Artist Books, James Bailey
Artz 271a.01: Printmaking I - Artist Books, James Bailey
University of Montana Course Syllabi
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Artz 371.01: Printmaking Ii, Elizabeth Dove
Artz 371.01: Printmaking Ii, Elizabeth Dove
University of Montana Course Syllabi
No abstract provided.
Wgss 379l.01b: Gender And Sexuality In Twentieth-Century English Fiction, Ruth Vanita
Wgss 379l.01b: Gender And Sexuality In Twentieth-Century English Fiction, Ruth Vanita
University of Montana Course Syllabi
No abstract provided.