4th Annual Graduate Research Conference
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Conference Schedule

Friday, April 3rd, 2009

11:00am -5:00pm

Information & Registration Desk

(outside of Education Auditorium)

1:00pm – 1:20pm

Opening Remarks (ED 191)

1:20pm – 3:40pm

Oral Presentations (Schedule 1)

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Special Appearance

Dr. Jorge Cham

(ED 191)

5:30pm – 6:30pm

Poster Presentations

(Multi purpose room – Riddell Centre)

6:30pm

Closing Remarks

 

Saturday, April 4th, 2009

8:00am – 4:00pm

Information & Registration Desk

(outside of Education Auditorium)

8:45am – 9:30am

Continental Breakfast

9:45am – 10:00am

Welcome (ED 191)

10:00am – 12:00pm

Oral Presentations (Schedule 2)

12:00pm – 12:30pm

Lunch Break

12:30pm – 3:30pm

Oral Presentations (Schedule 2)

3:45pm – 4:15pm

Doors open for Keynote Speaker

(Education Auditorium)

4:15pm – 4:30pm

Welcome and introduction of Keynote Speaker

4:30pm – 5:30pm

Keynote Speaker Presentation

Jay Ingram

(Education Auditorium)

6:00pm – 6:30pm

Doors open for dinner

Regina Inn – Wascana Ballroom

(A ticket is required for this event)

6:30pm – 7:00pm

Cocktails

7:30pm – 8:30pm

Dinner

8:30pm – 8:45pm

Presentations and dessert

10:45pm

Final remarks and invitation to the 2009 conference.


Oral Presentation Schedule 1
Friday, April 3rd


 

Friday, April 3rd

Rooms

ED 191

ED 114

CK 187

1:00 PM

ED 191 - Opening Remarks

1:20 PM

ED 191 - Feature Presentation: Cathy Mills
“If there is a chunk of ice I’d probably be able to do the same thing”:
Participant perspectives on artifacts in their figure skating arena.

1:40 PM

Danielle Salmon
Exercise training to mitigate neck muscle dysfunction in Canadian Forces CH-146 helicopter aircrew

Sean Graham
This Hour Has Seventy Years: The CBC and Canada's Cultural Autonomy

Helen Rud
Boom or Bust: How Commodity Price Volatility Impacts Farm Management Strategies

2:00 PM

Tyler Frederick
Assessing the Physical Impact of the 2005 Jeux du Canada Summer Games on the University of Regina Faculty of Kinesiology

Dwayne Meisner
Livy and the Bacchanalia: Rome's reaction to Dionysus in 186 BC

Kelly-Anne Riess
Sexualizing Weena in H.G. Wells' Time Machine

2:20 PM

Break

2:40 PM

Dana Tiggelman
Relationships between communication, cohesion, and role clarity in team sports

Michelle James
Neville Longbottom and his internal struggle to be a hero.

3:00 PM

Nana Bonsu
A Taste Test of Orange Juice after being mixed with a powdered fibre supplement and a natural sweetener

Amber Fletcher
Saskatchewan Farm Women and Neoliberal Policy: Consequences and Considerations

Dong Won Kim
A Web-based Learning Support System for Inquiry-based Learning

3:20 PM

Katherine McLeod
Osteoporosis Screening Management – A Population Health Perspective

 

Don Wren
The Foundation of the House of Labour: Freirean Pedagogy and Union Education

3:40 PM

Break

4:00 PM

Special Appearance:

Dr. Jorge Cham
ED 191: 4:00pm - 5:00pm
"The Power of Procrastination"

5:00 PM

Break

5:30 PM

Poster Presentations
Multi purpose room - Riddell Centre


Poster Presentation Schedule
Friday, April 3rd

 

Friday, April 3rd, Multipurpose Room, Riddell Centre:

5:30 pm – 6:30 pm

Rodrigo Arrobo
Mass Wasting and Erosional Processes on the Moose Jaw River, Wakamow Valley Area

Chakra Balayar
Intelligent Device Discovery in P2P Systems using Backpropagation Neural Network

Patrick Barks
Are double-crested cormorants to blame for the lack of large yellow perch in Dore Lake, Saskatchewan?

Adam Belton
Income Distribution for Women and Men by Income Source in Saskatchewan, 2005

Nathalie Berard
Long-term neuropsychological consequences of mild traumatic brain injury

Jordan d'Almeida
An examination of applying a dissemination model in developing countries for water and sanitation technology.

Jennifer Doucette
Did devil birds eat my walleye? Food web studies of cormorants and sport fish in Saskatchewan

R Dawn Guba
Environmentally Friendly Manufacturing Processes Related to Flax Fibers

Jonathan Harris
Physical activity interventions and physical function in older adults with dementia in long term care: A systematic review

Holly Hennin
Belly up! Non-native grassland provides a buffet to Burrowing Owls

Kosar Karimi Pour
Patterned Interactions and Identity construction, Iranian Network in Sheffield

Roz Kelsey
Investigating Experiential Learning in Kinesiology and Health Studies

Tricia Lawrie
Quantifying the Role of Experience in Other-Race Face Identification

Yongxing Liu
Fluid Characteristics and Fluid-Structural Relationships in the Red Lake Mine Trend, Red Lake Greenstone Belt, Ontario

Thilakavathi Mani
Modeling of rRNA synthesis from yeast

Amanda McIntyre
How psychology can help save the environment: Conservation Psychology theory and research.

Pulikesi Murugan
Geographical comparison of seasonal variation of surface ozone- South Asia and North America

Takaya Ono
An examination of (the applicability of) socially responsible investing in marginalized regions

Amber Orosz
Utility of the Trail-Making Test in the Neuropsychological Assessment of Sport-Related Concussion

Mamata Pandey
The nature of the response set

Mamata Pandey
Emotional Intelligence and Hindsight Bias

Joel Rathgaber
Cody's Corner: Remembering Cody Through Music

Heather Ritenburg
No Flabby Abs or Thunder Thighs! Desiring the Dancer's Body

Riddhi Shukla
A Systematic Review of Nutritional Intake of the Institutionalized Elderly

Amanda Sockett
Memory Processes in Three Mental Health Disorders

Ionel Soica
Is there a connection between handedness and spirituality?

Xinglin Zhang
Chord Detection Using Instrument Voicing Constrains

Bhabani Panigrahy

Agriculture and Agro-Industry Development in Orissa, India in 2008

Qin Xu

A Diagenetic Study of the Mannville Group in the Lloydminster Area, Western Saskatchewan

 

 Demonstration

Brien Beattie
Computer Graphics and Steady State Fluid Flow

 Demonstration

Richard Dosselmann
Photographic Level-of-Detail


Oral Presentation Schedule 2
Saturday, April 4th

 

 

Saturday, April 4th

Rooms

ED 191

ED 193

ED114

CK 187

10:00 AM

ED 191 - Feature Presentation: Greta Chan
How does context facilitate memory?

10:20 AM

Bianca Hatin
The Relationship Between Pseudoneglect and Collisions in an Older Population

Amy Balfour
Documenting the Antecendents of Female Adolescent Engagement in Prostitution: A Multi-Strategy Approach

Michele Dawson
Expanding the ‘Sport Posse’: Masculinizing the Feminine in Jump In and High School Musical

Gongchen Li
A Two-stage interval-stochastic management model for non-emergency evacuation

10:40 AM

Tricia Lawrie
Verbal Overshadowing in Cross-race Face Identification: A Theory Reconciliation

Ryan Fisher
Landscape and local influences on habitat use by a grassland songbird in Saskatchewan and Alberta

Heather Ritenburg
Constructing the Ideal Body: No Thunder Thighs or Flabby Abs

Renfei Liao
Neural Network-based Predictive Control System for Petroleum Separation Process

11:00 AM

Tennille Ma
Exploring how individuals use yoga to recover from experiences of depression

Nicole Denis
Putting Culture Back Into Translation Studies

Janet Moleski
No Greater Love than between a Man and a Woman: The Homoerotic Tragedy of The Merchant of Venice

Behrooz Razban
Changes in Bacterial Population during Wastewater Treatment

11:20 AM

Bhabani Panigrahy
Properties of Fibre and Biocomposites

Alisha Nugent
Battle to the Death: The Narrative of Experience vs. History and the Monument in Ian McEwan

Asha Srinivasan
Uptake of oil from water using fungal biomass

11:40 AM

ED 191 - Feature Presentation: Brett Dolter
Ecovillages Will Save the Planet - But Who Wants to Live in Them?

12:00 AM

Lunch Break

12:30 PM

ED 191 - Feature Presentation: Miranda Dunbar
Hibernation in bats: who's hot and who's not

Rooms

ED 191

ED 193

ED114

CK 187

12:50 PM

Yvonne Dzal
What is the influence of reproductive status on the use of torpor by female little brown bats?

Atif Shujah
Meta-cognitive basis of cultural-competent psychotherapy

Nadine Kirzinger
‘The Trials of Arabella’: A Narrative Arc

Walid ElMoudir
Development of Mechanistic Rate Models for Water Gas Shift Reaction

1:10 PM

Julia Kilgour
Understanding the Social Organization of Big Brown Bats

Myron Soloduk
Reasonable Error: Mistakes and the Daily Grind

Peta White
(Re)claiming ‘activism’ in the context of environmental education

R Dawn Guba
Biocomposites and Environmental Impacts

1:30 PM

Samuel Skalak
Acoustic detectors and bat conservation: understanding how study design can influence data interpretation

Coby Stephenson
The Short Story and Bi-polar Disorder: Violet

Robin Adeney
Tales from the dollhouse: A narrative inquiry into children's understandings about the meaning of play

Kristina Nelson
The application of the RASI-MIDI methodology to identify bacterial community structures in microbial fuel cells.

1:50 PM

Break

2:10 PM

ED 191 - Feature Presentation: Joey Pankiw
Carbon Capturing Inventory in Prairie Shelterbelts

2:30 PM

Roberta Kotowich
Sediment Cores from two Alluvial Fans in the Qu’Appelle Valley area of Saskatchewan

Kimberly Dohms
Using nestling growth to assess habitat suitability for a grassland songbird

Adam Vaughan
Hate Crime in Canada: Prosecutorial Perceptions of Sentencing Enhancements

 

2:50 PM

Christina Canart
The Impact of Agricultural Policy: A Manitoba/Saskatchewan Case Study Comparison

Derek Donald
The effects of nitrogen pollution on water quality in fertile lakes; can it stimulate the growth of toxic blue-green algae?

John Fraser Needham
Saskatchewan's Medicare Hero: Why No One Remembers Woodrow Lloyd

 

3:10 PM

Kim Turchenek
The impact of snow cover variability on snow water equivalent estimates derived from remote sensing imagery

Teslin Donald
Environmental and Temporal Influences on Incubation Attentiveness in Sprague's Pipit (Anthus spragueii)

Kosar Karimi Pour
Promotion of ‘Normative’ Version of Scientific Knowledge, Public Understanding of Science in What on Earth! Gallery

 

3:30 PM

Break

4:00 PM

Keynote Speaker
Jay Ingram

Education Auditorium: 4:00 pm
"Watson and Crick; Lennon and McCartney"