Theses and Dissertations at Montana State University (MSU)
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Item Comparison of kinematic and kinetic data of the shoulder during internal rotation and transverse flexion(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Education, Health & Human Development, 1993) Higgs, Robert MitchellItem Rhythmic Movement(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Arts & Architecture, 2008) Johnson, Kody Winship; Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Ralph Johnson; Henry Sorenson (co-chair)To design a structure through human movement it is essential to analyze and understand how humans move and react in their environments. Creating an environment where as individuals move through space, space can begin to move with them, stimulating awareness of its presence and their presence within it. It is one's intent to explore architecture as an instance in which individuals interact with the physical environment to transform their spatial experiences, therefore making them more aware of their movement within space. As indicated by this theoretical approach, it is through the understanding of the influence the human body on space and the way one moves to experience space, that the idea of movement can be actively expressed in architecture. In this expression an idea of human movement will emerge. It is through architecture that one's interests in affecting the inhabitant or observer of space comes to fruition. This thesis revolves around the idea of how to create "affects" which evoke emotion through the relationship between space and movement. It is one's intent to explore the possibilities of a built environment that is capable of transforming, through its interaction with people and nature. One can then design a space/environment where technology, human experience, and environment exist in a single arrangement. For the inhabitant, architecture becomes a more substantial sensation, by means of movement through architecture. Hence, the potential of architecture generated from a dynamic perspective is to produce a fundamentally different architecture, an architecture that is meant to stimulate the interaction between movement of the human body, perception of movement, and movement of space. Normally people are not aware of the rhythms of their own body, the heart, breathing, and the senses. It is only in suffering that a particular rhythm begins to call attention to itself, altered by an illness. Understanding one's kinetic being and one's own kinetic imagination can help one to understand and discover one's own ways to work with long standing difficulties, injuries, or illnesses. This architectural design encompasses not just the structure, but also the reaction of the structure based on a subjects movements. Architecture becomes intimately involved with experience.Item A paradox of cinematic sight : exploring the ramifications of high-speed digital cinematography in science & natural history documentary(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Arts & Architecture, 2010) Smith, Richard Francis Xavier; Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Ian van Coller.The immense popularity of science and natural history documentaries ensures the genres' influential role in shaping the viewer' relationship with the world. Many scholars and scientists have critiqued various aspects of the genre's overall construction as contributing to the maintenance of the separation between humans and nature. Beyond these structural critiques, there seems to be a more fundamental ideological consequence resulting from the relationship between the cinematic techniques used in creating science and natural history programming and the audience. The genre's dependence on new technologies of "seeing" is indicative of the underlying epistemology of the medium and suggests the importance of understanding ideological consequences of the cinematic apparatus itself. One of these new ways of "seeing" that is particularly useful for exploring the relationship between the cinematic apparatus and the audience is high-speed digital photography. An investigation of the historical origins of both the photograph and the cinema will show how high-speed photography is representative of the deeply ingrained epistemological foundations of these pictorial technologies. Photography's origins as a manifestation of scientific objectivity position the medium uniquely as a popularizer of scientific and factual information. Exploring the dynamic between the scientific profession and the lay public is integral to teasing apart how the genre of science and natural history documentary film affects the viewer. Photographic technologies privileged status as an unfiltered representation of physical truth lies at the center of the development of positivist science and the popularization of science and nature. Its privileged status derives from the denial of human subjectivity and the emphasis of mechanically mediated representations of the world. The cinematic apparatus' techno-scientific origins and its implicit promise to supplement our deficient perceptual abilities paradoxically functions to distance the viewer from the world it so acutely represents.Item Architecture and the motion of life(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Arts & Architecture, 2009) Carey, Katherine Elizabeth; Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Zuzanna Karczewska; Angie Keesee (co-chair)We experience our world through the mobile unit that is our body. As we move through space we are experiencing the riches that make up life. We meet new friends, travel new roads, and see wondrous sights. If architecture is used as a tool to encourage these movements it stands to be conceived that architecture can promote the enrichment of life.Item Kinetics and community profiling of sulfate-reducing bacteria in organic carbon treated mine tailings(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Engineering, 2005) McBroom, Mark David; Chairperson, Graduate Committee: Alfred Cunningham.Acid rock drainage (ARD) poses a significant health and environmental hazard worldwide via the discharge of highly acidic waters and potentially toxic levels of mobile metals. This is a result of weathering and microbial oxidation of pyretic minerals present in mine tailings. Sulfate reducing bacteria (SRB), which are often indigenous to mine tailings, have demonstrated promising potential in metabolically raising effluent pH and immobilizing metals through precipitation and biomineralization. The addition of an organic carbon source has the potential of stimulating the SRB and reducing ARD at its source. Often the success of a process based on implementing endemic microbial consortia for in situ bioremediation is highly dependent on an understanding of the community structure and potential activity of microbial community members when provided a specific substrate. The goal of this research was to identify viable methodologies that can be used to select and monitor successful bioremediation treatments. Differences in microbial community structure and activity of batch cultures inoculated with tailings were observed for independent treatments of whey and lactate as carbon sources. Community response to whey treatment of bench-scale columns was also observed. Development and optimization of DNA extraction and purification methods was required for the highly contaminated tailing samples. Microbial community structure and phylogeny were identified using denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) and automated sequencing. The methods used in this paper were successful at identifying pre- and posttreatment community structure of endemic microbial populations. Shifts in community structure were observed in treated columns and treated batch cultures. Sulfate reduction in treated batch cultures was highly variable between samples, suggesting microheterogeneities in community structure of sampled tailings. Selection for specific phylogenies was evident with respect to carbon source treatment, culturing conditions, and sampled inocula. Variability in community structure was roughly correlated to sulfate reduction in individual organic carbon treatments. Resulting community profiles were highly dependent on methods used in obtaining, amplifying, and isolating community DNA of phylogenetically distinct populations. The success of implementing molecular techniques to observe and optimize bioremediation is ultimately dependent on the methodology used.