Like many Americans, especially New Yorkers like me, and probably most readers of Palliative & Supportive Care around the world, I don’t often think about the great state of Montana (aka Big Sky Country) in the Western United States. It usually doesn’t make news, and because it’s ranked 44 in population (about 1 million people) and has very few electoral college votes, it isn’t even one of thos...

Arnica montana has been widely used as a homeopathic remedy for the treatment of several inflammatory conditions in pain management and postoperative settings. This review gives an overview of the therapeutic use of Arnica montana in the above-mentioned fields also focusing on its mechanisms of action learned from animal models and in vitro studies. Arnica montana is more effective than placebo...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to evaluate the antioxidant and antimicrobial activity of extracts (aqueous, ethanolic and essential oil) from Satureja montana and to characterise the chemical composition of its essential oil. RESULTS Satureja montana L. essential oil had relatively high antimicrobial activities against the seven species of bacteria tested. In contrast, aqueous extracts did not r...

The Montana C++ programming environment provides an API interface to the compiler, which allows the compilation process to be extended through programmer-supplied tools. This paper investigates the feasibility of that interface, using smart pointers as an example. Smart pointers are a powerful feature of the C++ language that enable a variety of applications, such as garbage collection, persist...

Patrick J. Kennelly* Assoc. Research Professor & GIS Manager Montana Tech of the University of Montana Montana Bureau of Mines and Geology 1300 W. Park Street Butte, MT 59701 Hillshading renders a surface with a three-dimensional appearance using shades of gray. Although shades appear as continuous tones, they must undergo a halftoning process for use with most computer output devices. This pro...

Montana Salish is an Interior Salishan language spoken on the Flathead reservation in Northwest Montana by an estimated population of about 40 speakers. This paper describes the basic phonetic characteristics of the language based on data from five speakers. Montana Salish contains a number of typologically unusual consonant types. including glottalized sonorants, prestopped laterals, and a ser...

I introduce the idea of the “algorithms studio,” a novel approach to integrating algorithm visualiza-tion technology into undergraduate courses on algorithms. I then present a five-year research project,funded by the National Science Foundation, for developing and empirically evaluating the idea. Fi-nally, I report on the current status of the research. 132Second Program Vis...

We documented sarcoptic mange caused by mites (Sarcoptes scabiei) in 22 gray wolves (Canis lupus) in the northern Rocky Mountain states of Montana (n=16) and Wyoming (n=6), from 2002 through 2008. To our knowledge, this is the first report of sarcoptic mange in wolves in Montana or Wyoming in recent times. In addition to confirming sarcoptic mange, we recorded field observations of 40 wolves in...