College of Letters & Science: Recent submissions
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Contribution of wild foods to diet, food security, and cultural values amidst climate change
(2019-11)Wild foods are recognized to contribute to diet and food security through enhancing the availability of local, diverse, and nonmarket food sources. We investigated the contribution of wild foods to diet, food security, and ... -
Antimicrobial activity of naturally occurring phenols and derivatives against biofilm and planktonic bacteria
(2019-10)Biofilm-forming bacteria present formidable challenges across diverse settings, and there is a need for new antimicrobial agents that are both environmentally acceptable and relatively potent against microorganisms in the ... -
Janthinobacterium CG23_2: comparative genome analysis reveals enhanced environmental sensing and transcriptional regulation for adaptation to life in an Antarctic supraglacial stream
(2019-10)As many bacteria detected in Antarctic environments are neither true psychrophiles nor endemic species, their proliferation in spite of environmental extremes gives rise to genome adaptations. Janthinobacterium sp. CG23_2 ... -
DropSOAC: Stabilizing Microfluidic Drops for Time-Lapse Quantification of Single-Cell Bacterial Physiology
(2019-09)The physiological heterogeneity of cells within a microbial population imparts resilience to stresses such as antimicrobial treatments and nutrient limitation. This resilience is partially due to a subpopulation of cells ... -
The structure of Photosystem I acclimated to far-red light illuminates an ecologically important acclimation process in photosynthesis
(2020-02)Phototrophic organisms are superbly adapted to different light environments but often must acclimate to challenging competition for visible light wavelengths in their niches. Some cyanobacteria overcome this challenge by ... -
Atomistic Structures of Zeolite-Templated Carbon
(American Chemical Society, 2020-03)Zeolite-templated carbons (ZTCs) are a distinct class of porous framework materials in which a three-dimensional network of pores is contained between atomically thin, polycyclic hydrocarbon walls, synthesized by carbonization ... -
A turbulent upriver flow: steamboat narratives of nature, technology, and humans in Montana Territory
(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Letters & Science, 2019)For a 25 year period in the second half of the 19th century, steamboat travel was a critically important transportation technology which influenced the material, social, and cultural existence of people and landscapes in ... -
Dietary Beliefs and Management of Older American Indians With Type 2 Diabetes
(2019-07)Objectives This qualitative study examined dietary-related beliefs and self-management among older American Indians with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Design Semistructured in-person interviews were conducted and ... -
Thermal variability drives synchronicity of an aquatic insect resource pulse
(2019-08)Spatial heterogeneity in environmental conditions can prolong food availability by desynchronizing the timing of ephemeral, high‐magnitude resource pulses. Spatial patterns of water temperature are highly variable among ... -
Type I-F CRISPR-Cas provides protection from DNA, but not RNA phages
(2019-10)The type I-F CRISPR–Cas system from Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA14) provides sequence-specific elimination of invading DNA1,2. Recently, a paper published in Cell Research reported that this system targets mRNA through a ... -
Educating for Sustainability in Remote Locations
(National Rural Education Association, 2019-07)At a time when social, economic and political decisions, along with environmental events, challenge the viability of remote communities, educators need to better prepare young people in these communities to work towards ... -
Long-Term Flow through Human Intestinal Organoids with the Gut Organoid Flow Chip (GOFlowChip)
(2019-09)Human intestinal organoids (HIOs) are millimeter-scale models of the human intestinal epithelium and hold tremendous potential for advancing fundamental and applied biomedical research. HIOs resemble the native gut in that ... -
Inter-population differences in salinity tolerance of adult wild Sacramento splittail: osmoregulatory and metabolic responses to salinity
(2016-02)The Sacramento splittail (Pogonichthys macrolepidotus) is a minnow endemic to the highly modified San Francisco Estuary of California, USA and its associated rivers and tributaries. This species is composed of two genetically ... -
Using time lapse photography to document terrain preferences of backcountry skiers
(2020-04)Travel in avalanche terrain requires considered and careful selection of appropriate terrain to reduce exposure to avalanche danger. In many parts of the world, recreational backcountry skiers in avalanche terrain are aided ... -
Reaction centers of the thermophilic microaerophile, Chloracidobacterium thermophilum (Acidobacteria) I: biochemical and biophysical characterization
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019-06)Chloracidobacterium thermophilum is a microaerophilic, anoxygenic member of the green chlorophototrophic bacteria. This bacterium is the first characterized oxygen-requiring chlorophototroph with chlorosomes, the FMO ... -
An Alternative to the Carnegie Classifications: Identifying Similar Institutions with Structural Equation Models and Clustering
(2019-01)The Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education is a commonly used framework for institutional classification that classifies doctoral-granting schools into three groups based on research productivity. ... -
Comparing exploratory factor models of the Brief Electricity and Magnetism Assessment and the Conceptual Survey of Electricity and Magnetism
(2019-10)While numerous studies have analyzed the conceptions probed by the Force Concept Inventory (FCI), assessments dedicated to electricity and magnetism lack similar analyses. This paper investigated the conceptions explored ... -
Nesting success of wood-cavity-nesting bees declines with increasing time since wildfire
(2019-10)Bees require distinct foraging and nesting resources to occur in close proximity. However, spatial and temporal patterns in the availability and quantity of these resources can be affected by disturbances like wildfire. ... -
Green museums waking up the world: indigenous and mainstream approaches to exploring sustainability
(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Letters & Science, 2018)Mainstream and Indigenous Museums are ideally situated, both geographically and culturally, to educate the public about complex twenty-first century environmental issues. The most effective approaches to understanding, ... -
An investigation of coliform contamination in private well water on the Crow Reservation
(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Agriculture, 2019)The Crow reservation has a rural population that depends on home well water for domestic use. Many of the home wells do not have a suitable well cap, allowing a potential pathway of bacterial contamination of groundwater. ...
