University of Regina

Exploring Medical Professionals’ Perspectives on Cannabinoid Use in Professional and Elite-Level Contact Sports: A Qualitative Inquiry

BACKGROUND: The legalization and growing use of cannabis in elite sport raise concerns about the preparedness of sports medical staff, who often lack formal cannabinoid education and face regulatory, ethical, and communication challenges. HYPOTHESIS: Elite and professional contac...

Mixture cure rate model with artificial neural network for interval-censored data

Mixture cure rate models represent a valuable tool to delineate the presence of a cured subgroup in the entire population under study. Among the vast literature, a popular research line is to regress the probability of an individual being cured on covariates through a parametric...

Warming Accelerates and Intensifies Meteorological-to-Agricultural Drought Propagation in the Northern Great Plains

Drought propagates from atmospheric water deficits into root-zone soil–moisture stress, yet the extent to which warming will alter the severity and speed of this transition in cold, semi-arid regions remains poorly quantified, and most propagation studies rely on a single linkage...

Responsible use of large language models in digital health: an equity-first governance framework

Large language models (LLMs) are being rapidly deployed for digital health, yet their equity impacts remain poorly characterized. We present an equity-first audit framework anchored in the first nations mental wellness continuum framework (FNMWCF) and apply it to three open-sourc...

Understanding memory confidence in childhood: Evidence from self-reflection and vignette scenarios

While researchers have examined the link between children's memory confidence and accuracy, little is known about how children understand what confidence represents. This study involved interviewing school-aged children ( N = 253; 6- to-14-years-old) about their conceptualization...

Reclaiming multilingualism in Saskatchewan schools: historical thinking, policy discontinuities, and language futures

This article explores past struggles over planned language shift in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan to demonstrate how historical thinking about language policy can be used to provide insight into contemporary and future efforts to reclaim societal multilingualism. We write...

Advancing equity in routine-care internet-delivered cognitive behaviour therapy: Representativeness, outcomes, engagement, and satisfaction

Background Internet-delivered cognitive behaviour therapy (ICBT) has potential to reduce access barriers, yet it remains unclear how well routine-care ICBT reaches underserved groups and whether symptom outcomes, engagement, and satisfaction are comparable across demographic subg...

Participant-Reported Impact of Conspiracy Beliefs on Intimate Relationships: A Qualitative Exploratory Case Study

There is abundant research on the consequences of conspiracy theories in various domains, including mental health, social well-being, and climate change skepticism. However, research on the effects of conspiracy theories on interpersonal relationships is scarce, and research on t...

IWASAWA THEORY OF GRAPHS AND THEIR DUALS

Abstract In this article, we study questions pertaining to ramified Z p d $\mathbb {Z}_p^d$ double struck upper Z Subscript p Superscript d -extensions of a finite connected graph X $X$ upper X . Let X ∞ $X_\infty $ upper X Subscript infinity denote a Z p d $\mathbb {Z}_p^d$ doub...

Spatial variation of the fish community in a mine tailings dam

Abstract It is expected that the spatial distribution of ichthyofauna in reservoirs within mining areas will be affected by environmental changes imposed by damming and the progressive deposition of tailings. In this context, we evaluated variations in the taxonomic and functiona...

Assessing Challenges and Barriers to Effective Wound Care in Rural Indigenous Communities

OBJECTIVE: To explore the lived experiences of patients with chronic wounds from a remote Indigenous community in Northern Manitoba, Canada, focusing on challenges in wound management, the impact on quality of life, barriers to wound care access, and the role of traditional heali...

Geometry of essential matrix ranges and the Smith–Ward problem for operator systems

Abstract A ‐tuple of bounded linear selfadjoint operators acting on an infinite‐dimensional separable Hilbert space is said to have the Smith–Ward property if the identity map of the image of the operator system in the Calkin algebra has a completely positive lift. In this paper,...

Agricultural Producer Adaptation to Climate Change in Saskatchewan, Canada: Size Matters—but Most Importantly Cash Flow

An ethnographic study employing 72 qualitative interviews with agricultural producers and associated water decision-makers concerning farm climate change adaptation in Saskatchewan, Canada concludes that farm size matters. Inductively we established a distinction of 2025 hectares...