Theses and Dissertations at Montana State University (MSU): Recent submissions
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Supporting immunization clinic nurses in framing the conversation: recommending HPV vaccination for 11-12-year-old adolescents to increase HPV immunization rates
(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Nursing, 2019)Despite the widespread availability of a safe and effective vaccine to prevent cancers caused by high-risk strains of human papillomavirus (HPV), vaccination rates in the United States remain low. Rates in Flathead County, ... -
Regarding policy in chronic traumatic encephalopathy as a transhistoric disorder
(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Letters & Science, 2019)An individual historian can be categorized as belonging to one of two mutually exclusive and exhaustive groups: transhistoricists, those that believe in an object's existence independent of external forces and its ability ... -
Nurse-initiated protocols in the emergency department
(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Nursing, 2019)Emergency departments are overcrowded. Overcrowding has resulted in resources being stretched beyond their capacity, leading to decreased patient satisfaction, increased numbers of patients leaving without being seen, and ... -
An acoustic emission and hygrothermal aging study of fiber reinforced polymer composites
(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Engineering, 2019)Fiber reinforced polymer matrix composites are a premier choice for offshore wind turbines and Marine Hydro-Kinetic Devices, which operate in harsh and isolated marine environments. These factors combined with decades long ... -
Sepsis bundle evaluation for quality improvement
(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Nursing, 2019)Sepsis is a common diagnosis in the acute care setting. Left untreated, sepsis can result in many long-term complications including permanent organ damage and death. Sepsis has become such a common diagnosis that the Centers ... -
Testing alternative theories of gravity using low frequency gravitational waves
(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Letters & Science, 2019)General Relativity aptly describes current gravitational observations. However, there is great theoretical interest in its validity in untested regimes. Alternative theories of gravity attempt to relax some of the assumptions ... -
Predilection, progress and prejudice: coon songs and the construction of race in nineteenth century American culture
(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Letters & Science, 2019)This is a study about the history of American culture and the construction of race through the musical idiom of coon songs. It is an examination of the jazz narrative and the role of blackface minstrelsy and coon songs, ... -
Guiding visions of the space age: how imaginative expectations directed an industry
(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Letters & Science, 2019)This essay presents a unique historical perspective on the roots of the burgeoning private space industry's fixation with Mars as an inevitable frontier for human settlement. While changing legislation, new innovations and ... -
Empathy assessment in doctor of nursing practice curriculum
(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Nursing, 2019)Nursing is a caring profession requiring empathetic care for positive patient outcomes. The doctor of nursing practice (DNP) degree has recently become the standard of educational preparation for advanced prepared registered ... -
The representation of mental illness in the media: the use of the nature documentary
(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Arts & Architecture, 2019)The misrepresentation of mental illness in the media has been the norm for the last sixty years. Mental illness in film and television is portrayed as dangerous and criminal. The representations shifted to show weakness ... -
Palliative care use in the rural primary care setting
(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Nursing, 2019)Background: Palliative care is helpful to patients who are suffering from chronic or terminal illnesses. It can be initiated at any stage of the illness. Rural populations have an increased risk for not receiving palliative ... -
Transduction of antigens into amplifiable DNA signals using structure switching aptamers
(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Engineering, 2019)Detection of specific antigens has one vital step in common: detection of biomarkers. Diagnostic testing that is rapid and reliable is unavailable in limited resource and rural settings. The solution to this need must be ... -
Effects of backpack chest straps on simulated shooting performance following repeated bouts of treadmill marching
(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Education & Health & Human Development, 2019)Soldiers must quickly take action when called upon and normally carry heavy loads in the process. One piece of equipment that is vital to carrying this load is a backpack. While load carriage and physical performance have ... -
Fabrication and assessment of anode supported SOFCS doped with aluminum titanate via electrochemical and non-destructive micro-indentation testing
(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Engineering, 2019)Ceramic-metal (cermet) composites are the most promising electrochemical anodes for commercial implementation in solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC). Recent advances at MSU in cermet formulations utilizing aluminum titanate (ALT) ... -
The material verse agency of the innate
(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Arts & Architecture, 2019)As technology advances, people around the world are losing, to a large degree, the material intelligence that once allowed humanity to engage and create from the world around them. In the field of ceramics alone more artists ... -
The reactive form of a C-S bond-cleaving CO 2-fixing flavoenzyme
(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Letters & Science, 2019)Atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2) is used as a carbon source for building biomass in plants and most engineered synthetic microbes. Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (RuBisCO), the most abundant enzyme on ... -
Breaking the cycle of adverse childhood experiences: a program evaluation
(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Nursing, 2019)Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are specific types of childhood trauma, that, when experienced, have been found to have dose-response relationship to poor health outcomes later in life, namely, many of the leading ... -
Designing pattern formation through anisotropy
(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Letters & Science, 2019)When governed by appropriate potentials, systems of particles interacting pairwise in three dimensions self assemble into diverse patterns near the surface of a sphere. The resulting structure of these minimal energy states ... -
Interventions for the prevention of opiate use disorder in patients with high adverse childhood experience scores in northern New Mexico: a qualitative project
(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Nursing, 2019)Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are known to be associated with chronic disease, various disorders, and social-emotional challenges (Anda et al., 2008). Furthermore, illicit drug use has been indicated to be associated ... -
Measuring methane emissions from American bison (Bison bison L.) using eddy covariance
(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Agriculture, 2019)American bison (Bison bison L.) have recovered from the brink of extinction over the past century. Bison offer potential environmental benefits as they re-occupy their native range, but many specific impacts of bison ...
