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Assessing Housing Retrofits in Historic Districts in Havre Montana
(2019-11)This paper explores the impact of retrofitting single-family residential buildings in historic districts with energy efficiency measures that are compliant with the 2012 version of the International Energy Conservation ... -
Wildfires Influence Abundance, Diversity, and Intraspecific and Interspecific Trait Variation of Native Bees and Flowering Plants Across Burned and Unburned Landscapes
(2019-07)Wildfire regimes are changing in the western United States, yet the ways in which wildfires influence native bees, the resources they depend on for food and nesting, or the traits that influence their interactions with ... -
Applying Attributes of Contemplative Technopedagogy to a Social Media Assignment
(2019-06)With widespread prevalence of digital technology in contemporary higher education, researchers have been keen to identify best practices and understand impacts. Social media present opportunities to cultivate interactive, ... -
Agro-economic returns were reduced for four years after conversion from perennial forage
(2019-09)Perennial crops are increasingly converted to annual cropping systems as Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) contracts expire. We compared crop yields and net returns across 2013–2018 for no‐till pulse crop‐wheat (Triticum ... -
Re-evaluation of the taxonomic status of Vegaranina (Crustacea: Raninidae) from the Late Cretaceous of Cuba, with description of a new species
(2018-10)A new species of raninid crustacean, Vegaranina rivasi sp. nov, is described based on three specimens collected from a Late Cretaceous deposit in central Cuba. Previous studies assigned one of the specimens to Vegaranina ... -
Distal spinal nerve development and divergence of avian groups
(2020-04)The avian transition from long to short, distally fused tails during the Mesozoic ushered in the Pygostylian group, which includes modern birds. The avian tail embodies a bipartite anatomy, with the proximal separate caudal ... -
Variable Selection and Parameter Tuning for BART Modeling in the Fragile Families Challenge
(2019-09)Our goal for the Fragile Families Challenge was to develop a hands-off approach that could be applied in many settings to identify relationships that theory-based models might miss. Data processing was our first and most ... -
Elementary teachers' perceptions of K-5 engineering education and perceived barriers to implementation
(2019-04)Background The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) call for the integration of engineering content and practices in elementary science curricula, yet little is known about elementary teachers' preparedness to do so ... -
Effects of sucrose supplementation and generation on life-history traits of Bracon cephi and Bracon lissogaster, parasitoids of the wheat stem sawfly
(2019-12)Knowledge of the life‐history traits that influence the reproductive success of parasitoids could provide useful information to enhance their effectiveness as biological control agents. The wheat stem sawfly Cephus cinctus ... -
Characterization of velocity fluctuations and the transition from transient to steady state shear banding with and without pre-shear in a wormlike micelle solution under shear startup by Rheo-NMR
(2020-04)Rheo-NMR velocimetry was used to study shear banding of a 6 wt.% cetylpyridinium chloride (CPCl) worm-like micelle solution under shear startup conditions with and without pre-shear. 1D velocity profiles across the fluid ... -
The logic of parliamentary action: Brexit, Early Day Motions, and bolstering the personal vote
(Taylor & Francis, 2020-11)More than 300 Members of Parliament (MPs) found themselves in an awkward position after the vote on Britain’s membership in the EU: They had taken a public stance on Brexit in opposition to their constituents. We investigate ... -
Biogeography of American Northwest Hot Spring A/B'-Lineage Synechococcus Populations
(2020-02)Previous analyses have shown how diversity among unicellular cyanobacteria inhabiting island-like hot springs is structured relative to physical separation and physiochemical differences among springs, especially at local ... -
Geology and paleontology of the Upper Cretaceous Kem Kem Group of eastern Morocco
(2020-01)The geological and paleoenvironmental setting and the vertebrate taxonomy of the fossiliferous, Cenomanian-age deltaic sediments in eastern Morocco, generally referred to as the "Kem Kem beds", are reviewed. These strata ... -
How should we train and assess our STEM graduate students in oral communication?
(2020-01)A poster presented at a IGE annual PI's reporting meeting in January 2020. Today’s STEM graduate students need to be able to effectively communicate their research with the public. How do we develop and assess a curriculum ... -
RLST206IH (ORIGINS OF GOD) COVID Responses
(Montana State University, 2020-04)Discussion prompt: View the Buddhist dharma lecture and the Taoism lecture. Discuss at least 4 concepts (two from each) . For each concept, discuss EITHER how it compares or contrasts to earlier material we have covered ... -
Recent and historical water use strategies of western U.S. conifers
(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Letters & Science, 2017)Understanding the physiological traits that trees utilize to manage water use can reveal important insights into how and why they occur in their realized habitat. Among the tools to investigate these traits include measuring ... -
Enzymatic strategies for controlling and harnessing the oxidative power of O 2
(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Letters & Science, 2018)Dioxygen, one of Nature's most powerful oxidants, is essential for countless biological reactions. To harness this oxidant's power while minimizing toxicity, enzymes evolved to interact with O 2, activate it, and poise it ... -
Value-added composite bioproducts reinforced with regionally significant agricultural residues
(Montana State University - Bozeman, Norm Asbjornson College of Engineering, 2018)Biopolymers, such as polyhydroxybutyrate-co-hydroxyvalerate (PHBV), combined with natural fiber into biocomposites have potential as sustainable alternatives to traditional plastics and composites for which recycling is ... -
Delineating the determinants of carboxylation in 2-ketopropyl coenzyme M oxidoreductase/carboxylase: a unique CO 2-fixing flavoenzyme
(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Letters & Science, 2018)Global CO 2-emissions are continuously rising, accelerating the impact of associated environmental processes such as climate change, deforestation, and ocean acidification. As a consequence, there is great interest in ... -
The relationship of formal reasoning, motivation, and conceptual change: a quantitative study of introductory biology students across the United States
(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Education, Health & Human Development, 2018)There is a noticeable disconnect between conceptual change research carried out in different domains of knowledge. This is starkly apparent in the divide between theoretical models of conceptual change stemming from cognitive ...
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