PhD defences
Academic Year 2003 - 2004
Anne Kearney
Faculty of Medicine
Wednesday, September 1, 2004
10 a.m.
EN4002, S.J. Carew Building
Making the Connections: Women Talk About Breast Self
Examination
Robert Ian Goudie
Department of Biology
Monday, September 13, 2004
10 a.m.
ER-4002, Alexander Murray Building
Effects of Aircraft Disturbance on Behaviour of Harlequin Ducks
(Histrionicus histrionicus)
Richard Wright
Department of Earth Sciences
Friday, September 17, 2004
2:30 p.m.
ER-4002, Alexander Murray Building
4D Seismic Analysis of the Hibernia Oil Field, Grand
Banks
Jeremiah Kang'ombe
Department of Biology
Monday, August 9, 2004
10:00 a.m.
Room ER-4002 (Alexander Murray Building)
Development of Feeding Protocols for Tilapia Rendalli in Malawi
Reared in Semi-Intensive Culture Systems
Patrick Timko
Department of Physics & Physical Oceanography
Thursday, August 5, 2004
10:00 a.m.
Room ER-4002, Alexander Murray Building
Tidal and Wind Forced Flow in Clode Sound: Observations and
Numerical Modelling
Wei Zhao
Faculty of Engineering & Applied Science
Monday, August 2, 2004
10 a.m.
EN-4002, S.J. Carew Building
A Moving Boundary Approach for Cylinders Subjected to High
Internal Pressure
Kurt Korneski
Department of History
Friday, July 30, 2004
10:00 a.m.
BN-4000, Business Administration Building
The West in Transition: The Reorientation of Liberalism in
Winnipeg, 1890's - 1920's
Cheng Li
Faculty of Engineering & Applied Science
Friday, July 16, 2004
10 a.m.
EN-4002, S.J. Carew Building
Design, Modelling and Analysis of the Balanced Gamma Multicast
Switch for Broadband Communications
Jingtang Ma
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
Monday, July 5, 2004
10 a.m.
ER-4002, Alexander Murray Building
Discontinuous Galerkin Methods and Cascading Multigrid Methods
for Integro-Differential Equations
Dashun Xu
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
Monday, July 5, 2004
2:30 p.m.
ER-4002, Alexander Murray Building
Asymptotic Behavior and Traveling Waves for Some Population
Models
Nicole Richoux
Department of Biology
Monday, June 28, 2004
10 a.m.
ER-4002, Alexander Murray Building
Population Dynamics and Seasonal Lipid Cycles in Hyperbenthic
Crustaceans from a Cold-Ocean Environment (Conception Bay,
Newfoundland): Mysis mixta (Mysidacea) and Acanthostepheia
malmgreni (Amphipoda)
Michael Doyle
Faculty of Medicine
Friday, May 7, 2004
10 a.m.
EN-4002, S.J. Carew Building
An Evaluation of the Development, Implementation and Outcome of
a Pilot Prescription Monitoring Program in Newfoundland and
Labrador
Lena Williams-Carawan
School of Social Work
Monday, May 10, 2004
10 a.m.
ER-4002, Alexander Murray Building
Listening to the Voices of the Fishing People: How Fishers Make
Sense of Their Lives in Today's World
Tram Pham
Faculty of Medicine
Monday, May 10
10 a.m.
EN-4002, S.J. Carew Building
Protein Kinase C-ETA (PKC-n) Is Required for the Expression of
the Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase (NOS II) in Human Monocytic
Cells: A Correlation in Transcription Between PKC- and NOS II in
Inflammatory Arthritides
Zhihu Ding
Faculty of Medicine
Thursday, May 6, 2004
10 a.m.
EN, 4002 S.J. Carew Building
Characterization of the Novel Transcriptional Regulator Human
Mesoderm Induction Early Response Gene 1 (hMI-ER1): Its Promoters,
Interacting Proteins and Transcriptional Regulatory
Functions
Jill Elizabeth Hatchette
Department of Psychology
Friday, April 23, 2004
2 p.m.
B-4000, Business Administration Building
Pain Self-Management in Adolescents: A Solid Communications
approach to Understanding the Acquisitions of Knowledge, Attitudes
and Behaviour
Martha Robertson
Cognitive & Behavioural Ecology
Monday, April 5, 2004
10 a.m.
EN4002, S.J. Carew Building
Winter Movement, Activity and Habitat Use of Atlantic Salmon
Salmo salar L. Parr in Newfoundland
Ning Zhong
Department of Computer Science
Thursday, March 25, 2004
2:30 p.m.
Astra Zeneca Room, 4th. Floor Spencer Hall
Color Segmentation Based on Adjustable Fuzzy Neural Networks
and High Level Understanding of Topographical Maps
Anna Guigné
Department of Folklore
Friday, March 26, 2004
10 a.m.
ER-4002, Alexander Murray Building
Kenneth Peacock's Songs of the Newfoundland Outports: The
Politics of a Newfoundland Song Collection
Paul Winger
Cognitive & Behavioural Ecology
Friday, March 26, 2004
2 p.m.
ER-4002, Alexander Murray Building
Effect of Environmental Conditions on the Natural Activity
Rhythms and Bottom Trawl Catchability of Atlantic Cod (Gadus
morhua)
Blue Lake
Faculty of Medicine
Friday, March 12, 2004
10 a.m.
ER-4002, Alexander Murray Building
Patterning the Embryonic Brain: Multiple Signals Converge to
Establish Spatial Identity Within a Neuromeric Field
Yan Jiao
Department of Biology
Friday, January 30, 2004
10 a.m.
ER-4002, Alexander Murray Building
Modeling Uncertainty in Fish Population Dynamics
Alireza Azizian
Faculty of Engineering & Applied Science
Monday, January 19, 2004
10 a.m.
EN-4002, S.J. Carew Building
Seismic Analysis of Submarine Slopes: Retrogressive and
Three-Dimensional Effects
Abdel-Rahman Abu-Labdeh
Department of Physics & Physical Oceanography
Tuesday, January 20, 2004
10:30 a.m.
EN-4002, S.J. Carew Building
Monte Carlo Simulations for Classical Two-Dimensional Dipolar
Antiferromagnetic Systems on a Square Lattice
Charles Robertson
Faculty of Engineering & Applied Science
Monday, January 12, 2004
10 a.m.
EN-4002, S.J. Carew Building
The Live Paper System
Sabina Wilhelm
Cognitive & Behavioural Ecology Program
Friday, December 19, 2003
2:30 p.m.
ER-4002, Alexander Murray Building
Behavioural and Physiological Responses to Varying Breeding
Conditions in Common Murres (Uria aalge): Exploring Inter-Annual
Variability Within Individuals
Lu Xiao
Faculty of Engineering & Applied Science
Monday, December 15, 2003
10 a.m.
ER-4002, Alexander Murray Building
Implementation Analysis of Block Cipher Components and
Structures
Chrisestom M. Mlewa
Department of Biology
Friday, December 12, 2003
10 a.m.
ER-4002, Alexander Murray Building
Biology of the African Lungfish Protopterus aethiopicus Heckel
1851, and some aspects of its fishery in Lake Baringo,
Kenya
Jeff Biernaskie
Faculty of Medicine
Tuesday, December 9, 2003
10 a.m.
ER-4002, Alexander Murray Building
Rehabilitative Experience Following Focal Ischemic Brain
Injury: Evidence for Bi-hemispheric Neural Reorganization and the
Existence of a Critical Period for Enhanced Neuro-Morphological
Plasticity and Functional Recovery
Catherine Stevens
Department of Biology
Friday, December 5, 2003
2 p.m.
ER-4002, Alexander Murray Building
Lipid-Based Assessments of Omnivory in Arctic
Copepods
Claude Olivier
School of Social Work
Wednesday, December 1, 2003
10 a.m.
ER-4002, Alexander Murray Building
Relationship Between Income Level and Work, Service Use, and
Informal Relations Among People Living With HIV/AIDS
María de las Nieves Martínez-Murillo
Department of Biology
Friday, November 21, 2003
2 p.m.
ER-4002, Alexander Murray Building
Size Based Dynamics of a Deversal Fish Community: Modelling
Fish-Fisheries Interactions
Alanna Bondar
Department of English Language & Literature
Friday, November 14, 2003
10 a.m.
A-2029, Arts and Administration Board Room
Greening the Green Space: Exploring the Emergence of Canadian
Ecological Literature Through Ecofeminist and Ecocritical
Perspectives
David J. Goodyear
Department of Physics & Physical Oceanography
Friday, November 14, 2003
10 a.m.
ER-4002, Alexander Murray Building
Deuterium Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Molecular
Dynamics Studies of Transmembrane Polypeptides
Jane C. (Maddigan) Gamberg
Faculty of Medicine
Wednesday, November 5, 2003
9:30 a.m.
EN-4002, S.J. Carew Building
CD8+ Cytotoxic T Lymphocytes in Human Immunodeficiency Virus
Infection
Lori M. Stead
Department of Biochemistry
Monday, November 3, 2003
7 p.m.
ER-4002, Alexander Murray Building
Regulation of Homocysteine Metabloism
Alex Ambrozic
Department of English Language & Literature
Monday, September 29, 2003
2 p.m.
B-4000, Business Administration Building
A World Unmistakably Like Our Own: Frederick Barthelme and the
New American Minimalism
Iain J. Stenhouse
Cognitive & Behavioural Ecology
Monday, September 29, 2003
10 a.m.
ER-4002, Alexander Murray Building
The Reproductive Behaviour and Ecology of Sabine's Gulls (Xema
sabini) in the Eastern Canadian Arctic
A. Mary Murphy
Department of English Language & Literature
Friday, September 26, 2003
2 p.m.
SP-4004 Spencer Hall
The Theory and Practice of Life Writing: A Cross-Disciplinary
Group Biography of Adele, Craig, Laura, Henrietta, Lucy, and Mary
Pierce, 1915-1940
Batia Stolar
Department of English Language & Literature
Monday September 22, 2003
2:30 p.m.
SP-4006, Spencer Hall
Immigrant Nations, Postimmigrant Subjectivities: Locating the
Immigrant in the Age of Globalization
Robert Evans
Department of Biology
Monday September 22, 2003 2 p.m.
B-4000, Business Administration Building
Characterization of Skin and Plasma Type I Antifreeze Proteins
from Atlantic (Liparis atlanticus) and Grubby (Liparis gibbus)
Snailfish
Jianchun Cao
Faculty of Engineering & Applied Science
Friday September 19, 2003
2 p.m.
EN-4002, Engineering Building
Centrifuge Modeling and Numerical Analysis of the Behaviour of
Suction Caissons in Clay
Susan Walling
Department of Psychology
Friday September 12, 2003
2 p.m.
ER-4002, Alexander Murray Building
Insights into the Effects of Norepinephrine on Memory: Studies
of Noradrenergic Modulation of Synaptic Plasticity in the Dentate
Gyrus of the Rat
Benjamin Laurel
Cognitive & Behavioural Ecology
Monday September 8, 2003
2 p.m.
ER-4002, Alexander Murray Building
Interactions of Predators, Habitat and Conspecifics on the
Coastal Distribution of Age 0 Juvenile Cod (Gadus spp.) in
Newfoundland
