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Research & Creative Activity SHOWCASE 2014 original painting by Miranda "Randy" Klein, Fine Art diploma 2014 Dr. John Corlett Provost and Vice-President, Academic PROVOST’S MESSAGE MacEwan University is an knowledge is created and undergraduate institution with communicated here at MacEwan a passion for excellence in every year as a collaborative teaching and learning. And an adventure of discovery, integration important part of our commitment and engagement. I encourage you to excellence in undergraduate to read about the many innovative education is the way in which research initiatives that make the outstanding scholarship MacEwan University such an of our faculty is integrated into exciting place for our faculty, staff the learning experiences of our and students to work, study and students. In this showcase you learn together. will discover why, at MacEwan University, we believe that research and creative activity need not wait until graduate school or be the purview only of "research-intensive universities." For us, research and creative activity is an everyday reality. New and important Meghan Abbott Director of Research Services 780-633-3265 [email protected] ACKNOWLEDGMENTS A special thanks to MacEwan expression. Thank you to faculty for University’s various community and presenting the research featured within, industry partners who contributed continuing to share their scholarship not only to the projects featured that inspires teaching and learning within this publication but continue to at MacEwan. Finally, thanks to the collaborate on various research and various students, faculty and staff innovation engaging our students, who contributed to developing this faculty and the community at large. publication; including: Thank you to Syncrude for their • Designer: Samantha Walker ongoing sponsorship, in part, of the • Photography: Nicole Colantin, Luke Murray and Samantha Walker annual Student Research Week, • Copy Editors: Danica Erickson, Lainna whose student presenter abstracts El Jabi and Stephanie Sparks are featured within this publication. • Peer Editors: Dr. Etayankara Muralidharan (Murli) and Natasha In its third year, this week-long event, Wismark is just one of the many successes We look forward to once again of the university’s Undergraduate celebrating in 2015 at “iResearch” Student Research Initiative dedicated Student Research Week, to fostering student involvement in January 26 to 30. research, scholarly activity, and creative TABLE OF CONTENTS Faculty of Arts Borch, Garnet Bachelor of Science in Engineering Transfer ........................................................11 and Science .......................................1 Algorithms for the Automatic Placement of Labels in Images FacultyAbstracts Boyes, Arielle Bachelor of Arts, Psychology .........12 Anton, Dr. Cristina Mathematics and Statistics .......2 An Inquiry into the Lack of Nightmare Protection Expansion of the Global Error for Weak Associated with Video Game Play by Female Symplectic Schemes for Stochastic Hamiltonian Gamers Systems Calderon, Joanna Bachelor of Arts, Sociology ......13 Holland, Dr. Kathryn English ..............................3 Patient Motivation Control in Health Behaviours The Academic Conference as Pedagogical Site: Research and Teaching at Interdisciplinary/ Doell, Dawn Bachelor of Science, Multidisciplinary Woolf Biological Sciences ..........................................14 Wildlife Rehabilitation in Alberta: A Retrospective Judge, Dr. Kevin Biological Sciences ....................4 Analysis of Birds, Mammals and Herptiles, 1990- The Evolution of Aggressive Behaviour and 2013 Weaponry in North American Field Crickets Flockhart, Carson and Ditner, Alison Bachelor of Katz, Dr. Marco English ....................................5 Arts, Psychology .............................................15 Critical Music: How Notes Discuss Words The Relationship Between Video Game Play and Dreams Through Movie Viewing McKenzie, Dr. Hugh Anthropology ......................6 Alberta Historical Cemeteries Project: A Gahr, Sarah Bachelor of Arts, Psychology ............16 Multidisciplinary Community-Engaged Research The Relationship Between Self-Construal, Media Project into Alberta’s Past Use and Dreams: A Cross Cultural Study Schmaltz, Dr. Rodney Psychology with Enstroem, Rickard Decision Sciences and Supply Chain Jonas, Julianne Bachelor of Arts, Sociology ........17 Creating Change for “At Risk” Youth: The Impact Management ....................................................7 of a Community Based Employability Program Take a Chance on Me: The Role of Music in Domain-Specific Risk Taking Gonzales, Ana Mariella Salinas Bachelor of Science, Biological Sciences ..........................................18 Seredycz, Dr. Michael Sociology ........................8 Climate Change Coverage in the Globe and Mail Coming Home to a Sense of Despair: Breaking and Edmonton Journal, A Comparative Content and Entering in Edmonton Analysis Striemer, Dr. Christopher Psychology..................9 Hollenbeck, Evan Bachelor of Science, Computer Real-time Visual Processing in the Absence of Science ........................................................19 Conscious Vision Making Object Recognition Easier in Mobile Applications StudentAbstracts Huybregts, Lauren Bachelor of Science, Physical Bailie, Thomas Bachelor of Arts, Psychology .......10 Sciences .......................................................20 Vicarious Hope and Vicarious Gratitude Modification of Camelina Wax for Novel Applications Ibsen, Stephanie Bachelor of Science, Biological School of Business .....................33 Sciences .......................................................21 Mapping the Effects of Bitumen Extraction in the FacultyAbstracts Northern Alberta Oilsands Angulo, Dr. Fernando Commerce .....................34 LePage, Michele and Ramkhelawan, Rachel Consumer Empowerment in the Financial Bachelor of Science in Engineering Transfer ...........22 Industry: A Focus on Youth Financial Literacy The Role of Fluid Modifiers in the Enhanced Recovery of Oil in Reservoirs Roberts, Dr. Michael Commerce ......................35 Psychological Distance and the Zone of Proximal Lind, Stephen Bachelor of Science, Computer Development: International Knowledge Transfer Science ........................................................23 by Returnee Managers Automatic Segmentation of Knee Structures in MRIs via Image Analysis Algorithms Teyarachakul, Dr. Sunantha Commerce ............36 Steady State Characteristics Under Processing- Lucas, Kayla and Gallup, Joshua Bachelor of Arts, Time Learning and Forgetting Psychology ....................................................24 Scopolamine Induces Anxiolytic Effects in Zebrafish StudentAbstracts Bakewell, Nicholas Bachelor of Commerce .........37 Panech, Ravneet Bachelor of Science, Biological Darden Restaurants Inc.: Potential International Sciences .......................................................25 Expansion into South America Biochemical Characterization of C. Elegans PNKP Enzyme Mesluk, Amanda and White, Raven Bachelor of Commerce, Management ..................................38 Piat, Christopher Bachelor of Arts, Psychology ....26 Corporate Reporting in the Information Revolution Sex, Violence, and Stereotypes: How Extralegal Factors Influence Perceptions of Domestic Wang, Zechen Bachelor of Commerce, Violence Incidents Management ..................................................39 Economic Nationalism and the Politics of Robock, Nathan Bachelor of Science, Mathematics Economic Catch-Up in China and Statistics .................................................27 Fixed Point Factorization of the Exceptional Algebras Faculty of Fine Arts and Communications ..........................41 Russell, Karyn and Nath, Priya Bachelor of Arts, Psychology ....................................................28 FacultyAbstracts The Effects of Magnitude Shifts of Prism Adaptation on Spatial Attention in Healthy Gilliland, Dr. Allan Music .................................42 Individuals From Blank Page to Orchestral Recording: A Student’s Journey Through the Creative Process Schimpf, Kaitlyn Bachelor of Arts, Sociology .......29 Representation of Youth Crime in the Popular Richards, Dr. William Music.............................43 Television Show Law & Order Jazz Composition and Collective Improvisation: Challenges and Opportunities in the Recording of the Celsius Quartet CD Skolney, Jennifer Bachelor of Arts, Psychology ....30 The Role of Cultural Experiences in Understanding Musical Meter Van Seters, Dr. Tom Music ..............................44 Composing, Performing, and Recording Drum Inspired Music White, Willow Bachelor of Arts, English ...............31 “Come, the Longest Sword Carries Her”: Aphra Behn and Constructions of Masculinity StudentAbstracts LibraryAbstract Adle, Rob; Haddad, Mia; Hager, Martin; Jones, Knoch, Jessica Library Ethan; Levasseur, Dan; McLeod, Rhiannon; Miller, ...................................53 Cross-Institutional Assessment of Information Josh; Pearson, Diana; Proznik, Ciara; Robertson, Literacy Skills: The Information Literacy Zachary; Sutton, Bailey; Tonack, Ethan; Van Assessment and Advocacy Pilot (ILAAP) Orden, Mia; and Yazdanmehr, Roya Bachelor of Music ...........................................45 Multimedia Display: Music 263 Introduction to Footnotes ....................................................54 Music Technology References ..................................................54 Snellen,