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Use of Complementary and alternative medicine among Rural Montanans: Author: Beebe, Michele Morgen; Date: 2004-08-15; Program: Nursing; Abstract: Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), an assortment of varying health care practices that exist outside the definition or accepted practices of conventional medicine, is increasing. Little is known about CAM use among rural Montanans. Health care providers need this information to better manage patient-care situations such as CAM-drug interactions or skewed laboratory results which may result from CAM use.The selected method was the qualitative approach. A convenience sample was selected, and after informed consent was obtained, interviews with the subjects were audio taped and transcr...; Download File | View full details

Bringing medicine to the Masses: Exploring the Relationship Between the Medical Documentary and the Public: Author: Backus, Alison Lorraine; Date: 2006-05-15; Program: Science and Natural History Filmmaking; Abstract: The medical documentary seeks to bridge the gap between the traditional imbalance of knowledge between the patient and her medical practitioner. This paper will examine the issue of the imbalance of the doctor and patient throughout the history of medicine, explore how the medical documentary seeks to solve this imbalance, and the methods by which it does so. By comparing three related medical documentaries and examining the strengths and weaknesses of each one in its attempt to educate and engage the viewer, I will seek to create a broad model for future medical documentaries and relate how m...; Download File | View full details

An Assessment of Health Literacy about Complementary and alternative medicine in Adult Residents of Flathead County, Montana: Author: O'Neill, Jennifer Lynn; Date: 2007-05-15; Program: Nursing; Abstract: The purpose of this study was to explore health literacy about complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in adult residents of Flathead County, Montana. The combination of documented low health literacy levels in U.S. and the proliferating use of CAM throughout the country create the potential for poor healthcare outcomes. Previous research indicates that due to lack of access to healthcare, rural residents often utilize CAM. Quantitative research methods and Margaret Newman's Health as an Expanding Consciousness provided the underlying framework for this study. A systematic sampling of 92...; Download File | View full details

Application of sequence stratigraphy to the nonmarine upper cretaceous Two medicine formation, Willow Creek anticline, northwestern Montana: Author: Shelton, Jessica Anne; Date: 2007-05-15; Program: Earth Sciences; Abstract: The purpose of this research is to create a sequence stratigraphic framework for the Upper Cretaceous Two medicine Formation exposed on the Willow Creek anticline along the western flank of the Sweetgrass Arch in Montana. The framework developed at this site was then correlated to the framework developed at the type section of the Two medicine Formation located near Cut Bank, Montana. This research is significant because: 1) it provides a chronostratigraphically-significant framework within which Egg Mountain dinosaur nesting sites can be correlated, providing an important contribution to pale...; Download File | View full details

Select Procyanidins induce gammadelta T cell activation and proliferation: Author: Holderness, Jeffery Scott; Date: 2008-05-15; Program: Veterinary Molecular Biology; Abstract: Many pharmaceutical drugs in use today were originally identified in plants from traditional medicine. However, there remain many plants in traditional medicine that produce confusing immune responses and are therefore unlikely candidates for pharmaceutical drugs. The effects of some of the traditional medicines that induce these confusing immune responses may now be explained by recent advances in the characterization of our immune system, namely in our understanding of the unique functions of the γδ T cell. These γδ T cell functions include t...; Download File | View full details

Taphonomy of the Sun River Bonebed, Late Cretaceous (Campanian) Two medicine Formation of Montana: Author: Scherzer, Benjamin andrew; Date: 2008-05-15; Program: Earth Sciences; Abstract: In the summer of 1998, a bonebed of juvenile dinosaur material was found in beds of the Two medicine Formation along the Sun River in Teton County, Montana. Initial inspection of the "Sun River Bonebed" indicated unique dominance by juvenile remains and unusually high concentration of fossil material. Modern exposure of both the bonebed and surrounding strata allowed for a detailed taphonomic study of the assemblage. In the summer of 2004, the bonebed was excavated in a fashion that recorded depthwise taphonomic data of fossil material and surrounding sediment, and allowed for thre...; Download File | View full details

alternative therapies for individuals with Dementia: Author: Fahlquist, Jeannie Marlene; Date: 2008-05-15; Program: Nursing; Abstract: Dementia is a chronic insidious disease that destroys the individual's cognitive, emotional and mental abilities. Ultimately, the individual is unable to appropriately verbalize basic wants and needs; therefore, behavioral symptoms become the way of communicating. Behavioral symptoms vary greatly from passivity to hostility and aggression. Unfortunately, due to the difficult task of caring for these individuals many families must place their loved ones in a long-term care facility for direct supervision. Long-term care facilities often use chemical restraints in order to treat the behavioral ...; Download File | View full details

Planning Business Improvement using Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Design Structure Matrix (DSM): Author: Kristof, Gary Michael; Date: 2005-12-15; Program: Industrial and Management Engineering; Abstract: Many management system engineering ideas and theories have evolved to help businesses grow and achieve their goals. Applying these ideas and theories to a business system is a strategic planning issue and results in a bewildering array of strategic alternatives for business system improvement. Choosing the appropriate alternatives is a complex and difficult decision. The most appropriate strategic alternative must be executable. To be executable the strategic alternative must not only be technically feasible, but must also overcome social and cultural obstructions. This research presents a pla...; Download File | View full details

Beyond Words: The Use of the Non-Verbal Genre in Natural History Filmmaking: Author: Haywood, Keene McDonald; Date: 2007-08-15; Program: Science and Natural History Filmmaking; Abstract: Natural history filmmaking has a history that begins with the advent of cinematography as a form of artistic and documentary expression. Natural history filmmaking has increasingly used techniques of fiction, drama and anthropomorphizing to represent the natural world in storytelling. This paper will examine the use of the nonverbal form of filmmaking as an alternative style that can be used to effectively document natural history using a more lyrical, poetic and often more thoughtful style. This work examines previous works in the non-verbal genre and discusses how this style compares with hi...; Download File | View full details

Investigations of the West Nile Virus Transmission Cycle at medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Montana, 2005-2006: Author: Hale, Kristina Marjorie; Date: 2007-05-15; Program: Entomology; Abstract: Outbreaks of West Nile virus (WNV) in American white pelicans (Pelecanus erythrorhynchos Gmelin) at medicine Lake National Wildlife Refuge, Montana prompted mosquito and WNV surveillance during 2005 - 2006 to describe the epidemiological cycle. A total of 102,118 mosquitoes representing 19 species was collected throughout the refuge from 261 trap nights. Ochlerotatus dorsalis (Meigen), a floodwater mosquito, was the most abundant (45.5%), followed by Aedes vexans (Meigen) (25.6%), Culex tarsalis Coquillett (18.8%) and Ochlerotatus flavescens (Muller) (7.3%). Seasonal light trap indices (LTI) f...; Download File | View full details

A Fast Layered alternative to Kriging: Author: Thiesen, Michael Jerome; Date: 2007-12-15; Program: Computer Science; Abstract: Empirically gathered scientific data often comes in the form of scattered locations, each with an associated measurement. Visualizing scattered data is challenging because we need to estimate the measured values at many regularly spaced intervals in order to render the data to modern displays. Kriging is a common technique for visualizing scattered data that produces high quality output, but is often too slow for large data sets. In this thesis I present Layered Interpolation, an alternative to Kriging based on the idea of fitting fractal noise functions to scattered data. This technique produ...; Download File | View full details

Natural Resource Rents and Institutional Change: Author: Scarborough, Brandon Christopher; Date: 2005-08-15; Program: Applied Economics; Abstract: Recent literature argues that nations with abundant natural resources - primarily oil and minerals - tend to grow more slowly comparatively to resource-poor nations. Much of this cross-national variation in economic performance may be explained by the interaction between natural resources and institutional quality. Focusing on the importance of economic institutions in the form of property rights and the rule of law this paper presents an alternative explanation for the diverging economic paths in resource rich nations. Economic rents generated from abundant oil and gas resources may affect in...; Download File | View full details

Study of Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Interconnects, Protective Coatings and Advanced Physical Vapor Deposition Techniques: Author: Gannon, Paul Edward; Date: 2007-05-15; Program: Engineering; Abstract: High energy conversion efficiency, decreased environmentally-sensitive emissions and fuel flexibility have attracted increasing attention toward solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) systems for stationary, transportation and portable power generation. Critical durability and cost issues, however, continue to impede wide-spread deployment. Many intermediate temperature (600-800°C) planar SOFC systems employ metallic alloy interconnect components, which physically connect individual fuel cells into electric series, facilitate gas distribution to appropriate SOFC electrode chambers (fuel/anode...; Download File | View full details

Joint Moment Estimation from Electromyography of Patients with Osteoarthritis: Author: O'Keefe, Kathryn Bernadine; Date: 2007-12-15; Program: Health and Human Development; Abstract: Biomechanical gait analysis may be used to determine treatment options, evaluate the success of rehabilitation programs or post-surgery recuperation, and provide insight for surgical planning, including functional outcomes for patients. However, gait analysis requires expensive equipment - a limiting factor for many clinical settings. One alternative that has been examined is the utilization of an artificial neural network (ANN) to model nonlinear relationships of gait. Researchers have shown initial success in ANN predictions of pathological conditions in gait as well as modeling other parame...; Download File | View full details

Rural Residential Development in the Greater Yellowstone: Rates, Drivers, and alternative Future Scenarios: Author: Hernandez, Patricia Cristina; Date: 2004-05-15; Program: Biological Sciences; Abstract: Rates of immigration and rural land use change in the American West have far exceeded the national average, and have been exceptionally rapid in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Because the Greater Yellowstone is ecologically unique, is still largely undeveloped, and is characterized by unrestrictive land use policies, it is a particularly relevant place to study past and potential future growth in rural residential development. The scientific approach used to investigate trends in rural residential development involved the both the testing of specific hypotheses regarding historical develop...; Download File | View full details

Patient perceptions of treatment options for chronic pain: Author: Benzschawel, Valerie C.; Date: 2008-05-15; Program: Nursing; Abstract: Chronic pain and pain management are frequently discussed and debated topics in American medicine today. The patients’ understanding of treatment options for management of chronic pain is a less frequently discussed topic. The purpose of this study is to explore patient perceptions of chronic pain treatment options. The framework for guiding this study was Neuman’s Systems Model (1995) based on the concepts of stress, client stability, and intervention. A review of the literature was completed that revealed very little information on the topic and therefore further research reg...; Download File | View full details

Narrative in Wildlife Films: How it Shapes our Understanding of the Natural World and Influences Conservation Choices: Author: Singh, Praveen; Date: 2005-05-15; Program: Science and Natural History Filmmaking; Abstract: Storytelling is perhaps mankind's oldest tendencies. Their narratives give meaning to our everyday experiences and help us understand our world. Wildlife and natural history films in telling stories about the nature help define, to some extent, our relationship with it. Following the historical development of the classical narrative model in wildlife and nature films, the paper explores its impact on conservation choices and argues for an alternative approach to narrative in these films in order to change the oppositional relationship that we currently share with the nature....; Download File | View full details

Cultural perceptions of American Indian women in Southcentral Montana regarding pre-diabetic education: Author: Hartford, Lori Ann; Date: 2008-08-15; Program: Nursing; Abstract: Treatment of prediabetes includes education which provides the prediabetic person with information to help them make lifestyle modification choices regarding their nutrition, exercise and weight control; in order that they control their illness and delay or prevent the development of diabetes. American Indians have a high incidence of both prediabetes and diabetes as a group compared to other ethnic groups in the U.S. There is a lack of data in the literature about what American Indians from the Crow Tribe in Montana consider to be cultural information that they feel should be included in educ...; Download File | View full details

Medication Assistance Programs for Montana Elders: Author: Judice, Martha Arambel; Date: 2004-08-15; Program: Nursing; Abstract: Prescription drugs play an ever increasing role in modern medicine. New medications are improving health outcomes and quality of life while often providing viable options to invasive treatments and hastening recovery for patients. As important as prescription medications are, not everyone has access to them. The newest medications are often the most expensive and millions of Americans, especially elderly and disabled Medicare recipients have inadequate or no insurance coverage for drugs. Nearly one third of all Medicare beneficiaries lack financial prescription assistance and are faced with th...; Download File | View full details

[Re] defining transit culture: Author: Ernst, Jeffrey Troy; Date: 2009-05-15; Program: Architecture; Abstract: Environmental concerns and energy crisis have heightened awareness of energy consumption and instigated thought into alternative and updated means of travel. High speed rail has been highly utilized for travel and transport in Europe and Japan and is experiencing its initiation in the U.S. in the state of California with future proposals in cities across the country. This thesis addresses the notion of high speed rail in a society where travel is dominated by the automobile and the geographies of cities and suburbs exist under a unique paradigm compared to other countries and continents. A pro...; Download File | View full details

An Assesment of Historic and Contemporary Models of Native Representation from Ethno-Entertainment Films to Experiential Education Films: Author: Chaikin, Eric Justin; Date: 2006-05-15; Program: Science and Natural History Filmmaking; Abstract: Ethno-entertainment is a term that makes apparent the merger of entertainment and science in the depiction of the Native presence in film. This approach to filmmaking is assessed and is determined to be defunct. Experiential-education filmmaking is offered as an alternative approach. It is suggested that Native science can inform this approach in a way that allows a contextual understanding of Native language and culture. My video thesis work, K'anecho'xdekdiigh- I'm Not Going to Teach You, is suggested as an example of how the prominence of Native science may promote survivance rather than pe...; Download File | View full details

Productive Iteration in Student Engineering Design Projects: Author: Costa, Ramon; Date: 2004-08-15; Program: Industrial and Management Engineering; Abstract: Iteration in design has different meanings, ranging from simple task repetition to heuristic reasoning processes. Determining productive iterations is important to improve the design process on cost, time, and quality, but currently there is no categorization of iterations conducive to this goal. After exploring the possible causes and attempts to address them, I propose to classify iterations as rework, design, or behavioral. The framework suggests that design teams, to improve productivity, should try to eliminate rework by increasing the resolution of design information (design iterations) ...; Download File | View full details

Smart composites: evaluation of embedded sensors in composite materials: Author: Palmer, Nathan Reed; Date: 2009-08-15; Program: Mechanical Engineering; Abstract: As an emerging form of renewable energy, horizontal wind turbines have experienced advancements in improving efficiency and reliability. These advances have pushed the limits of current technology used in wind turbines. Smart blades have been proposed as a method of addressing these limitations. Sensor integration within blade construction is the first step in development of smart blades. Thus, several low cost sensors were chosen, 1 axis strain gages, polyvinylidene fluoride films (PVDF), and single mode fiber optics either coated in acrylate or polyimide. To ensure successful bonding between...; Download File | View full details

Y ECO: Yellowstone Ecological Center for Observation: Author: Kahler, Bradley Scott; Date: 2008-05-15; Program: Architecture; Abstract: The Yellowstone Ecological Center for Observation (Y Eco) is designed to function as an educational facility that employs sustainable and ecological methods. Y Eco incorporates a living machine (an all-natural water purification system utilizing micro-organisms, various plants, etc.), various alternative energy resources (i.e. photovoltaic arrays, vertical wind turbines, hydro-electric in-stream turbines), as well as other passive and active sustainable and ecological design methods. An elevated pedestrian bridge forms Y Eco's "spine" and provides direct access to over 700 acres...; Download File | View full details

Quantifying the viscoelastic properties of treated and untreated Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus epidermidis biofilms using a rheological creep analysis: Author: Sutton, Michael Philip; Date: 2008-05-15; Program: Environmental Engineering; Abstract: Microbial biofilms are quite difficult to kill and control, and present many problems to industry and medicine. The ability to alter the mechanical properties of biofilms could aid in the control of biofilm. The goal of this research project was to develop techniques for measuring the mechanical properties of biofilms so that the effects of chemical treatments could be assessed. Constitutive material models were developed and applied to assist in this effort to quantify the effects. Biofilms are viscoelastic in nature, therefore, rheological testing techniques were utilized for this research. ...; Download File | View full details

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