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The study of errors, expectations and skills for medication delivery systems improvement: Author: Mazur, Lukasz Maciej; Date: 2008-05-15; Program: Industrial and Management Engineering; Abstract: Medication errors occurring in hospitals are a growing national concern. The enormous gaps in knowledge related to medication errors are often seen as major reasons for increased patient safety risks and increased waste in the hospital setting. However, little research effort in industrial and management engineering has been devoted specifically to medication delivery systems to improve or optimize their operations in terms of patient safety and systems efficiency and productivity. As a result, the current literature does not offer integrated solutions to overcome the workflow and management d...; Download File | View full details

Training responses of two-year-old Quarter horses fed rapidly fermentable carbohydrates: Author: Black, Wade Raymond; Date: 2009-05-15; Program: Animal and Range Sciences; Abstract: Two replicated experiments (Exp. 1: May 14 to June 8; Exp.2: June 25 to July 20) evaluated effects of feeding grain to 2-yr-old Quarter horses on behavior and physiological parameters during early stages of training. In each experiment, 6 different horses were allotted by sex and weight to 2 diets; hay only or hay plus 2.3 kg/d grain. Horses were group-housed with ad libitum access to grass/alfalfa hay and water, and were individually fed 1.15 kg grain or 40 g salt (placebo) at 0800 and 1600 for 7 d prior to and during training. The trainer was blind to diet assignments. Horses were trained 5 ...; Download File | View full details

Aging and prospective memory: the role of cue familiarity: Author: Rand, Kristina Marie; Date: 2009-05-15; Program: Applied Psychology; Abstract: Older adults often show age-related declines in retrospective and prospective memory (PM). However, when memory is tested in a way that allows for reliance on familiarity, age-related declines are eliminated. Recent research has indicated that on a number of tests of PM, no age-related memory deficits were found. It is hypothesized that such tests allow older adults to rely on familiarity to detect the PM cue. The current study uses a PM task on which reliance on familiarity will lead to a measurable error that can be distinguished from a general PM deficit. It is hypothesized that older adult...; Download File | View full details

Mapping and Change Detection of Wetland and Riparian Ecosystems in the Gallatin Valley, Montana using Landsat Imagery: Author: Baker, Corey Ryan; Date: 2004-12-15; Program: Land Resources and Environmental Sciences; Abstract: The location and distribution of wetlands and riparian zones influences the ecological functions present on a landscape. Accurate and easily reproducible landcover maps enable monitoring of land management decisions and ultimately a greater understanding of landscape ecology. Multi-season Landsat ETM+ imagery from 2001 combined with ancillary topographic and soils data was used to map wetland and riparian systems in the Gallatin Valley of Southwest Montana. Classification Tree Analysis (CTA) and Stochastic Gradient Boosting (SGB) decision-tree based classification algorithms were used to disti...; Download File | View full details

Application of the Van Der Pauw Structure as a Piezoresistive Pressure Sensor - A Numerical Study: Author: Law, Jesse Townsend; Date: 2007-08-15; Program: Mechanical Engineering; Abstract: This research characterizes a piezoresistive sensor under variations of both size and orientation with respect to the silicon crystal lattice for its application to MEMS pressure sensing. The sensor to be studied is a four-terminal piezoresistive sensor commonly referred to as a van der Pauw (VDP) structure. It is observed that the sensitivity of the VDP sensor is over three times higher than the conventional filament type Wheatstone bridge resistor. With MEMS devices being used in applications which continually necessitate smaller size, characterizing the effect of size and orientation of a V...; Download File | View full details

Population Viability of Arctic Grayling (Thymallus arcticus) in the Gibbon River, Yellowstone National Park: Author: Steed, Amber Christine; Date: 2007-12-15; Program: Fish and Wildlife Management; Abstract: The fluvial Arctic grayling Thymallus arcticus is restricted to less than 5% of its native range in the contiguous United States and was listed as Category 3 under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) until a 2007 ruling removed its protection. Fluvial grayling were thought to be restricted to the Big Hole River, Montana, where abundances were declining. Although fluvial grayling of the lower Gibbon River, Yellowstone National Park (YNP) were considered extirpated by 1935, anglers frequently reported catching grayling throughout the river since 1980. My goal was to determine if a viable population...; Download File | View full details

Design Rules, Metaroutines, and Boundary Objects - A Framework for Improving Healthcare Delivery Systems: Author: Ghosh, Manimay; Date: 2006-12-15; Program: Engineering; Abstract: The healthcare industry in the United States has been fraught with medical errors, rising costs, and wastes for many years. Despite widespread adoption of Total Quality Management and Six Sigma programs, healthcare's woes continue unabated. The Toyota Production System (TPS), progenitor of lean manufacturing, is widely regarded as the most effective production system ever devised. It has been successfully adopted by manufacturing firms worldwide resulting in significant gains in efficiency and quality in companies of all sizes. The goal of this research is to determine whether principles from ...; Download File | View full details

Remote Sensing of Wetlands in Yellowstone National Park: Author: Wright, Christopher Kevin; Date: 2004-12-15; Program: Biological Sciences; Abstract: As part of the Amphibian Research and Monitoring Initiative, satellite remote sensing was used to identify potential wetland amphibian habitat in Yellowstone National Park. Landsat Thematic Mapper imagery was combined with ancillary predictors of wetland occurrence including habitat type, cover type, landform type, bedrock geology, soil attributes, terrain measures, and climate data. Classification trees were used to predict the likelihood of palustrine wetland occurrence across the Yellowstone landscape. Wetland maps generated by this study are intended to address shortcomings of the National...; Download File | View full details

Viable Population Monitoring: Risk-Based Population Monitoring for Threatened and Endangered Species with Application to Bull Trout, Salvelinus confluentus: Author: Staples, David Franklin; Date: 2006-05-15; Program: Fish and Wildlife Biology; Abstract: Population monitoring is a vital component for managing threatened and endangered (TE) species to demonstrate recovery, or alert managers if the status is deteriorating. Common methods for analyzing monitoring data, however, have poor power to detect changes in population status and do not directly address questions about population status as defined for threatened (likely to be endangered) or endangered (in danger of extinction) species. Population viability analysis (PVA) methods are used to estimate the risk of decline for population, and have been recommended to reconcile short-term manage...; Download File | View full details

Modeling Soil Water Content for Precision Range Management: Author: Sankey, Joel Brown; Date: 2005-12-15; Program: Land Rehabilitation; Abstract: I developed site-specific empirical models to predict spring soil water content for two Montana ranches. The models used publicly available Landsat TM 5, USGS DEM, and soil survey-derived data as predictor variables. The goal of the project was to test whether ranchers could collect a limited size soil water content data set, build sitespecific regression models based on the data set, and construct soil water content maps based on the models. The response variable for models consisted of 100 and 82 average soil profile mass water content samples for each ranch, respectively. Half the samples w...; Download File | View full details

Behavioral Consequences of Calcium/Calmodulin Kinase II Inhibition in Rats: Author: Schwartz, Elizabeth Ann; Date: 2005-05-15; Program: Applied Psychology; Abstract: CaM kinase II (CaMKII) comprises 2% of hippocampal protein and plays an important role in learning and models of neural plasticity. Previous studies have employed a variety of techniques to inhibit CaMKII to investigate its role. This includes the use of chemical inhibition, genetic mutation and antisense; all have shown limitations. In the present study, RNA interference (RNAi) was used to inhibit CaMKII in the hippocampus of rats. The goal of this project was to determine if inhibition of hippocampal CaM kinase would result in behavioral deficits consistent with the role of this kinase. Thre...; Download File | View full details

Satellite monitoring of current and historical development patterns in Big Sky, Montana: 1990-2005: Author: Campos, Natalie Monique; Date: 2008-05-15; Program: Land Resources and Environmental Sciences; Abstract: The goal of this study was to map current and historical development patterns in Big Sky, Montana. Object-oriented classifications of a high-resolution Quickbird image and a fused Quickbird and LiDAR image were compared. Results demonstrated that object-oriented classification can be used to overcome the difficulty associated with pixel-based classification of high-resolution images through the addition of contextual metrics to the classification process. The fused classification resulted in decreased errors of commission and omission for each class, but the differences between the classificat...; Download File | View full details

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