Schedule

 

Friday, March 16th, 2012

3:00pm

3:30pm 

Opening Ceremonies in LC 100 

3:45pm

5:15pm 

Oil, Soil and Alternative Energy

Session 1.1

LC 202 

Overcoming stress & Farming Here and There

Session 1.2 

LC 207 

Trauma, Molestation and Organ Transplantation Session 1.3

LC 213 

3:45pm 

Ememobong Essien, Hussameldin Ibrahim, Mehran Mehrandezh and Raphael Idem
Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS Based Model Predictive Contro (MPC) for Carbon Dioxide Reforming of Methand (CDRM) in a Plug Flow Tubular Reactor for Hydrogen Production

Irene Forcheh

Stressors and coping strategies of older adults as caregivers in the era of HIV/AIDS: A case study of Botswana

Anna Bajpai

How Flow Saved My Life: The creative flow as healing in trauma-induced mental disorders. 


4:15pm 

Ramy Saadeldin Experimental and Numerical Analysis of Highway Embankment on Problematic Soil

Helen Rud

Reconciling the Divide: Farming Strategies and the Corporate-Environmental Food Regime

Greg Procknow

Molesting Innocence: The metamorphosis of a sexual serial predator 

4:45pm 

Barialo Zorzora
Crude Oil Exploration and its Environmental Consequences in Nigeria

Yordanos Tesfamariam
Gender Analysis of Climate Change, Vulnerability of Farmers and Adaptation: A Case Study of Eritrea, Africa 

Michael Sherar

Where'd you get those eyes? The messy world of organ transplantation and donation in Saskatchewan 

5:15pm

5:30pm 

Break 








Friday, March 16, 2012 

5:30pm

7:00pm 

Using Mutations, Sugar and Cells & Antibiotic

Session 2.1 

LC 202 

Image and Video Distortion, Video Games, and Online Shopping

Session 2.2 

LC 213 

5:30pm 

Kara Neudorf; Dr. Christopher Yost

Using a Suppressor Mutation Strategy to Identify Outer Membrane Gene Function in Rhizobium leguminosarum.

Richard Dosselmann

Detection and Assessment of Wavelet-based Compression Distortions in Images and Video 

6:00pm 

Biplab Paul; Amira El-Ganiny; Susan Kaminskyj; Tanya E.S. Dahms

The Sugar Galactofuranose is essential to maintain the cell wall integrity of the fungus Aspergillus nidulans.

Shulang Lei

Gamify learning for programming skills 

6:30pm 

Alyssa Walterson

Characterization of a Unique Antibiotic Produced by Pantoea Agglomerans Strain BRT175

Bandar Mohammed; Malek Mouhoub

Quantitative and Qualitative Preferences for Online Shopping Systems 


7:00pm

7:30pm 

Break 

7:30pm

9:00pm

Keynote by Dr. Mark Roseland in RIC 119

9:00pm

10:30pm 

Evening social in the Graduate Students Association RIC 118 (The glass room within the Research and Innovation Center) 




Saturday, March 17, 2012  

9:00am

10:30am 

Minimum Wage, The Ghetto & First Nation Funding

Session 3.1 

LC 202 

Neural Networks and Land Use

Session 3.2

LC 207 

Back Injuries and Child Motor Learning

Session 3.3

LC 208

Water and Oil

Session 3.4

LC 211

9:00am

Abayomi Akintola

Implications of Minimum Wage Hikes

Sultan Uddin Ahmed

Injection of Chaos into the Hidden Neurons of Feedforward Neural Networks

Noah Anderson

The Influence of Hardiness Levels on the Rate of Return to Work For Those who Have Sustained a Back Injury

Mike Agbadogbe

Water Pollution: A Case Study on Sewage Discharge, Agrochemicals, Industrial Wastes, and Oil Spills

9:30am

Melissa Lalonde

Issues of Residential Segregation: Race, Class and the American Ghetto


Munira Faysal Al-Ageili; Marilyn Andrews
GIS-Based Land-Use Suitability Analysis: A Multi-Criteria Decision Making Approach to Sustainable Land-Use Planning for the City of Regina, SK

Tarun Arora; Kerri Staples

Physical activity in individuals with SCI

Ying Lu; Gordon Huang

Planning Regional Water Resources System under uncertainty

10:00am

Cassandra Opikokew

Failing the Grade and Passing the Buck: Analyzing Federal Funding for First Nations PSE



Chantelle Zimmer; Kerri Staples

An Examination of Motor Learning of Children with Learning Disabilities and/or Developmental Coordination Disorder

Ryan R. Wilton

The Road Ahead: Emerging Technologies for Enhancing Heavy Oil Production in Saskatchewan

10:30am

10:45am

Break






Saturday, March 17, 2012 

10:45am

12:15pm

Names, Gender, and the Stern Gang

Session 4.1

LC 202
Isolates, Secretion Systems, and Novel Plasmi

Session 4.2

LC 207

Narrative, Bearing Arms, and the Arctic

Session 4.3

LC 208
Energy Systems and Waste Management

Session 4.4

LC 211

10:45am

Jesse Bailey

Whats in a Name? Revelation's History and the Problem of Tradition

Amanda Dancsok

Comparative virulence assays of environmental and clinical isolates of Pantoea sp. on Caenorhabditis elegans nematodes

Jonathan Petrychyn

Destabilizing Modernity: Postmodern Narrative and Non-Narrative Form in Rabbits, Scorpio Rising, and Inglourious Basterds

Jiapei Chen; Gordon Huang

An inexact energy system modeling for supporting regional energy system planning and greenhouse-gas emission management in Province of Yukon, Canada


11:15am

Sarah Frances Hagel

Becoming Woman: Gender Construction in Roman Catholicism

Morgan Kirzinger; John Stavrinides

Identification, distribution and evolution of three type III secretion systems in the multi-host pathogen Pantoea

Thomas Schneider

The Second Amendment: The Right to Keep and Bear Arms in America

Wei Sun; Gordon Huang

Waste Management; dual uncertainties


11:45am

Michelle Wagner

The Stern Gang: Its Origins, Ideology and Contextualization Through a Postmodern Perspective


Derek David Norman Smith; John Stavrinides

Characterization of the Novel Plasmi pPMA4326D and pPMA4326E from Pseudomonas syringae pv. maculicola ES4326

Ciara Sebastian

The Evolution of the Arctic Council: Analyzing the changing role of the Arctic Council from 1996 to 2011



12:15pm

2:00pm

Poster Session and Lunch in LC 100 (1st floor Luther College)


Please see schedule on page 20 for detailed listing of poster authors and titles




Saturday, March 17, 2012  

2:00pm

3:30pm

Learner Self, Environment, and Relationships

Session 5.1

LC 202

Volcanoes, Fluids, and Rock

Session 5.2

LC 207

Granular Computing, Synthesis, and State Space Search

Session 5.3

LC 208


2:00pm

Rhonda Nelson, Reconstruction of a Learner Self: A Phenomenolog ical Study with Youth and Young Adults Post- Incarceration

Julie Fillmore

The Garibaldi Volcanic Complex: Eruptive Frequency and Hazard Prediction

Xiaofei Deng

A Granular Computing Paradigm for Concept Learning


2:30pm

Michael Paul; Dr. Donald Sharpe

Fly Me To The Blue Bin: An Environmental Study of University Students

Ryan Scott

Assessing the Role of Diagenetic Fluids in the Athabasca Basin: A Microscopic and Fluid Inclusion Study of the Athabasca Group Sandstones

Yamuna Sangeetha Kandasamy; R. Scott Murphy

Synthesis of Photochromic Asymmetrical Dithienylethene Derivatives


3:00pm

Marley Resch
Attachment Style and Relationship Satisfaction in Intimate Relationships of Adult Children of Alcoholics

Bree Wrolson

Petroleum source rock characterization: examining the hydrocarbon generative potential of the Bakken Formation in the Williston Basin, Saskatchewan.

Jigang Luo

State Space Search by Granulated Attribute Graph


3:30pm

4:00pm

Break

4:00pm

6:00pm

Keynote by Dr. Eric Grimson in RIC 119

6:00pm

6:30pm

Break

6:30pm

9:00pm

Conference banquet at 10 Research Dr. (The Terrace)



Detailed Conference Schedule ~ Poster Presentations


Ashley Fortney; Ray Poulin; Christopher Somers

Richardsons Ground Squirrels: Where and Why?

Christopher Smith

Band Election Incentives and Government Negotiation Policy

James Alan Oloo

Citizenship Education in Kenya: Revisiting Westheimer and Kahnes the Good Citizen

James Alan Oloo

Immigrant Teachers in Albertas Urban Schools: A narrative analysis of experience and perception

Andrea Torres Saldarriaga; Maria I. Velez; Ian M. Coulson

Diatom analysis for the reconstruction of Holocene floodplain lacustrine systems: The sedimentary record of the Cauca River, Colombia

Simon Schaerz; Patrick Neary

Cerebral Hemodynamics during Time-to-Exhaustion Cycling in Hyperthermia

Ciara Sebastian

Canadian Arctic Foreign Policy in an Era of Cooperative Arctic Governance: Analyzing the Use of Multilateralism in Canadian Arctic Foreign Policy

Alicia Chow; Dr. Ahmad Moustapha

Midterm Results of Complex Myocardial Revascularization

Darshan Patel; Jennifer Culig

A Rare Case of Arteriovenous Fistula; Complication of Transradial Coronary Angiography Access

Leah Allerdings; Sarah Biss; Laurie Sykes Tottenham; Katherine D. Arbuthnott

Sex Differences in the Recognition of Promotion and Prevention Emotions

Leah Allerdings

Top-down control attenuates dimensional interference in task switching

Sarah Bruyninx; Mary Hampton

Sexuality Reported by a Sample of Women Who Have Experienced Intimate Partner Violence

Mathew G. Fetzner; Samantha C. Horwill

Intolerance of uncertainty and PTSD: Exploring the relationship in people with a heterogeneous trauma history

Bianca Hatin; Laurie Sykes Tottenham

Here's Looking at You: Visuospatial Biases Can Influence Judgements of Faces and Art

Constance T. Heidt; Dr. Katherine D. Arbuthnott

Indoor/outdoor Location, Nature Connection, and Well-being

Carmel Kleisinger; Dennis Alfano

Environmental stressors and behavioural presentations in a sample of Canadian First Nations youth exposed to trauma

Jamie Oakenfold; Jacqueline Harrison; Dr. Lynn Loutzenhiser

Parents' perceptions of the effectiveness of controlled crying techniques I managing night waking in infants and toddlers

Jamie Oakenfold; Dr. Dennis Alfano

Personality and Emotional Functioning following Cerebrovascular Disease

Jill A. B. Price; Josh D. Gonzales; Ryan J. Fitzgerald

Sex Differences in Eyewitness Memory

Sarah Sangster; Dr. Donald Sharpe

Anticipated Guilt as a Mediator of the Relationship Between Goal-Setting and Academic Performance