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Mathematics for Social Justice
(Montana State University Billings, 2021-04)This research project shares findings from my study of Social Justice Mathematics (SJM), which is mathematics that focuses on promoting equity within the mathematics classroom, but also on empowering students to understand ... -
"Idiots and Distracted Persons:" Shifting Views on Mental Health in Eighteenth Century Colonial America
(Montana State University Billings, 2021-04)With research deriving from many historians, and the help of Dr. Arendt, this project explores the eighteenth-century colonial period’s shifting views of mental health. These views during this time period were not solely ... -
Relationship between Language Patterns and Antisocial Personality Disorder
(Montana State University Billings, 2021-04)Background:Presently the diagnosis of personality disorders, particularly those that are concerned with manipulative traits such as those associated with Antisocial Personality Disorder, are extremely time consuming and ... -
Sustainability Perspectives Among Montana State University Billings Students
(Montana State University Billings, 2021-04)The Honors Inquiry and Research class at Montana State University Billings set out to conduct a survey about sustainability amongst their fellow peers. The goal of this survey was to determine the knowledge and efficacy ... -
A Crisis Like Never Before: The Economic and Ideological Divide of the Colonists and Britain, 1763-1769
(Montana State University Billings, 2021-04)This research seeks to prove that the debt crisis in Britain following the Seven Years’ War manifested itself as an economic and ideological crisis for colonial America. It seeks to examine the shockwaves that follow the ... -
Introduction to Intersex and Intersexuality
(Montana State University Billings, 2021-04)There is an extraordinarily special moment in life for many couples--the magical day when they welcome a newborn child into the word. Everyone is excited for the pink or blue, male or female baby that is being brought into ... -
Habitat Targets for Imperiled Grassland Birds in Northern Mixed-Grass Prairie
(2020-07)Grassland bird populations are declining faster than any other avian guild in North America, and promotion of favorable habitat conditions in rangeland breeding cores is important for their maintenance. There is much ... -
Variation of Small-Strain Shear Modulus of Unsaturated Silt under Successive Cycles of Drying and Wetting
(2020-07)A new framework is developed to extend an existing small-strain shear modulus (𝐺max) model to determine 𝐺max of unsaturated silty soils along different paths of the soil water retention curve (SWRC) including the scanning ... -
Evaluating the Use of Drones Equipped with Thermal Sensors as an Effective Method for Estimating Wildlife
(2020)Drones equipped with thermal sensors have shown ability to overcome some of the limitations often associated with traditional human‐occupied aerial surveys (e.g., low detection, high operational cost, human safety risk). ... -
Revision of Acroleptus Bourgeois, 1886 and descriptions of New Acroleptina taxa (Coleoptera, Lycidae, Calopterini)
(2019-12)The Neotropical lycid genus Acroleptus Bourgeois, 1886 is revised and illustrations of diagnostic characters, geographic distribution maps and an identification key to the species are presented. Acroleptus chevrolati ... -
Horseshoe crab trace fossils from the Upper Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation of Montana, USA, and a brief review of the xiphosurid ichnological record
(2020-05)A locality in the Upper Cretaceous Two Medicine Formation of Montana preserves abundant and variable horseshoe crab tracks and trails of the ichnotaxon Kouphichnium isp. These specimens span six morphologies differing in ... -
Insect trace fossils elucidate depositional environments and sedimentation at a dinosaur nesting site from the Cretaceous (Campanian) Two Medicine Formation of Montana
(2019-11)We describe the diversity and abundance of insect (specifically hymenopterans and coleopterans) pupation structures in the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Two Medicine Formation at the Egg Mountain locality, western Montana, ... -
The description of Prototrichalus gen. nov. and three new species from Burmese amber supports a mid-Cretaceous origin of the Metriorrhynchini (Coleoptera, Lycidae)
(2020-07)Despite the many substantial advances and progress in understanding the internal evolutionary relations of several Lycidae groups, the divergence time estimation of the family within Elateroidea remains subject of debate, ... -
Inclusivity with a Little Bit of STEAM: A blueprint for a five-day camp for children of all abilities featuring activities from the NASA AEROKATS and ROVER Education Network
(MSU Science Math Resource Center, 2020-10)This document was created in Fall 2020 by Montana State University students Sierra Fisher-Dykman and Bryce Lingle as a plan for a five-day summer camp for students of all abilities. This guidebook features five days’ worth ... -
Joint coordination when running in minimalist, neutral, and ultra-cushioning shoes
(2020-03)Ultra-cushioning (ULTRA) shoes are new to the running shoe market. Several studies have evaluated kinematics and kinetics while running in ULTRA shoes, however it remains unknown how such shoes influence joint coordination. ... -
Development of the Pediatric Advanced Life Support Skills Self-Efficacy Inventory to Assess Rural Healthcare Providers
(2020-03)BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Rural healthcare provider's willingness to implement pediatric resuscitation may be impeded by comfort level. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Pediatric ... -
Farmer and Rancher Perceptions of Climate Change and Their Relationships with Mental Health
(2020-04)The impacts of climate change are having negative consequences on agricultural communities in the United States and other regions of the world. More specifically, these impacts are expected to increase in both scale and ... -
Operando optical studies of next generation anode materials in high temperature solid oxide fuel cells
(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Letters & Science, 2020)Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) are high temperature energy conversion devices capable of efficient and sustainable energy production. Because of the need to electrochemically reduce molecular oxygen and the relatively high ... -
Testing the effects of anthropogenic pressures on African lions and their prey in the Greater Kafue Ecosystem, Zambia
(Montana State University - Bozeman, College of Letters & Science, 2020)Rapid human population growth across Africa has put tremendous pressure on large herbivore and large carnivore populations, and most of these large terrestrial species are now limited to residing within or adjacent to ... -
Enabling rapid prototyping of audio signal processing systems using system-on-chip field programmable gate arrays
(Montana State University - Bozeman, Norm Asbjornson College of Engineering, 2020)System-on-Chip Field Programmable Gate Arrays are excellent devices for high performance, low latency signal processing. Unfortunately, they are notoriously difficult to use, requiring significant hardware and software ...
