College of Letters & Science
The College of Letters and Science, the largest center for learning, teaching and research at Montana State University, offers students an excellent liberal arts and sciences education in nearly 50 majors, 25 minors and over 25 graduate degrees within the four areas of the humanities, natural sciences, mathematics and social sciences.
Sub-communities within this community
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Agricultural Economics & Economics
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American Studies
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Cell Biology & Neuroscience
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Chemistry & Biochemistry
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Earth Sciences
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Ecology
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English
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History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies
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Mathematical Sciences
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Microbiology and Immunology
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Modern Languages & Literatures
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Native American Studies
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Physics
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Political Science
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Psychology
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Sociology and Anthropology
www.montana.edu/socanth
Recent Submissions
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Recalibration of the Soft X-Ray Telescope Onboard Yohkoh
(2018-10)We present a new derivation of the X-ray spectral sensitivity of the Soft X-ray Telescope (SXT) experiment onboard Yohkoh. The recalibration is based upon the hypothesis that, during the first 15 months of the mission, an ... -
Conditional Synaptic Vesicle Markers for Drosophila
(2019-01)The release of neurotransmitters from synaptic vesicles (SVs) at pre-synaptic release sites is the principle means by which information transfer between neurons occurs. Knowledge of the location of SVs within a neuron can ... -
The catalytic mechanism of electron bifurcating electron transfer flavoproteins (ETFs) involves an intermediary complex with NAD
(2018-12)Electron bifurcation plays a key role in anaerobic energy metabolism but it is a relatively new discovery and only limited mechanistic information is available on the diverse enzymes that employ it. Herein, we focused on ... -
Statistical Analysis of Maximally Similar Sets in Ecological Research
(2018-12)Maximally similar sets (MSSs) are sets of elements that share a neighborhood in a high-dimensional space defined by a symmetric, reflexive similarity relation. Each element of the universe is employed as the kernel of a ... -
How a cofactor-free protein environment lowers the barrier to O2 reactivity
(2019-01)Molecular oxygen (O2)-utilizing enzymes are among the most important in biology. The abundance of O2, its thermodynamic power, and the benign nature of its end products have raised interest in oxidases and oxygenases for ... -
Reinterpretation of the substrate specificity of the voltage-sensing phosphatase during dimerization
(2019-02)Voltage-sensing phosphatases (VSPs) cleave both 3- and 5-phosphates from inositol phospholipids in response to membrane depolarization. When low concentrations of Ciona intestinalis VSP are expressed in Xenopus laevis ... -
Instrument Calibration of the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) Mission
(2018-11)The Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) is a NASA small explorer mission that provides high-resolution spectra and images of the Sun in the 133-141nm and 278-283nm wavelength bands. The IRIS data are archived in ... -
Elastic Constants, Bulk Modulus, and Compressibility of H2O Ice Ih for the Temperature Range 50 K–273 K
(2018-09)Published elastic constant data for H2O ice in the Ih phase are compiled and evaluated. Fits of the five elastic constants for 50 ≤ T/K ≤ 273 are conducted to yield a reliable and convenient source for elastic constant ... -
Checklist of bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) from small diversified vegetable farms in south-western Montana
(2019-01)Background: Over three years (2013-2015), we sampled bees using nets and bowl traps on four diversified vegetable farms in Gallatin County, Montana, USA, as part of a study evaluating the use of wildflower strips for ... -
Four-dimensional model of Cretaceous depositional geometry and sediment flux in the northern Great Valley forearc, California
(2018-12)The Great Valley forearc basin records Jurassic(?)-Eocene sedimentation along the western margin of North America during eastward subduction of the Farallon plate and development of the Sierra Nevada magmatic arc. The ... -
Case series: rheumatological manifestations attributed to exposure to Libby Asbestiform Amphiboles
(2018-06)An increased risk for Systemic Autoimmune Diseases (SAID) has been reported in Libby, Montana, where extensive exposures to fibrous amphiboles occurred due to mining and use of asbestos-laden vermiculite. In addition, ... -
A bioinformatic pipeline for identifying informative SNP panels for parentage assignment from RADseq data
(2018-06)The development of high-throughput sequencing technologies is dramatically increasing the use of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) across the field of genetics, but most parentage studies of wild populations still ... -
Light-Based 3D Printing of Hydrogels with High-Resolution Channels
(2019-01)Hydrogels are soft, water-based gels with widespread applications in personal care products, medicine and biomedical engineering. Many applications require structuring the hydrogel into complex three-dimensional (3D) shapes. ... -
Variation in the vital rates of an Antarctic marine predator: the role of individual heterogeneity
(2018-10)Variation in life-history traits such as lifespan and lifetime reproductive output is thought to arise, in part, due to among-individual differences in the underlying probabilities of survival and reproduction. However, ... -
Using Satellite Data to Support Fieldwork: Can Species Distributions Be Predicted?
(1996-07)Although species extinction has become a global concern during the last decade, our knowledge of species distribution patterns remains limited. If we don't know where a species has existed historically, we cannot determine ... -
Natural Ecosystems I. The Rocky Mountains
(2003-10)This assessment of climate-change effects on Rocky Mountain terrestrial ecosystems is prepare from information generated by a workshop focused on terrestrial systems of the Rocky Mountains, and held in Boulder, CO, on 29-30 ... -
Forest Fragmentation and Matrix Effects: The Matrix Does Matter
(2006-10)When ecologists envision a traditional habitat fragmentation study, they usually conjure up an image of very discrete fragments, perhaps rectangular or even square, surrounded by a matrix of very different, inhospitable ... -
Regal Fritillary and its Host Plant Studied at Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge (Iowa)
(2000-12)Traditional tallgrass prairie restoration efforts have focused primarily on planting and managing the dominant species of prairie vegetation. Meanwhile, little is known about techniques for restoring prairie insect species, ... -
Butterflies and Continuous Conservation Reserve Program Filter Strips: Landscape Considerations
(2006-11)Filter strips or buffers are areas of grass or other perennial herbaceous vegetation established along waterways to remove contaminants and sediments from agricultural field runoff. In the heavily cultivated regions of the ... -
Butterfly Responses to Prairie Restoration Through Fire and Grazing
(2007-11)The development of land for modern agriculture has resulted in losses of native prairie habitat. The small, isolated patches of prairie habitat that remain are threatened by fire suppression, overgrazing, and invasion by ...
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