CFDR Research Showcase: Early Bird Abstracts

Given the pandemic challenges we experienced over the last year, the 2021 Dietitians of Canada (DC) National Conference from May–June brought our dietetic community together from all across Canada and the world. This year the Canadian Foundation for Dietetic Research (CFDR) showcased another successful event with novel, relevant, timely research projects via the OnAIR Virtual Event Portal. Twenty-four research abstracts were submitted and reviewed by the Early Bird Abstract Review Committee. It was exciting to have research from different nutrition and dietetic practice areas represented. Thanks for all of the abstract submissions! Eight Early Bird abstracts were presented as Lightning Rounds during the virtual DC National Conference and were very well-received. The remaining 16 abstracts were displayed as posters for the duration of the conference with a live 7-min presentation opportunity from the poster gallery on May 19, 2021. All of the Early Bird abstracts are published in this issue of the Canadian Journal of Dietetic Practice and Research and are also featured on the CFDR website. These abstracts represent a wide variety of practice-based nutrition research projects in Canada. The Early Bird abstract research event would not have been possible without the commitment and dedication of many supportive individuals. On behalf of DC and CFDR, we extend a special thank you to members of our abstract review committee: Susan Campisi (University of Toronto); Pauline Darling (University of Ottawa); Andrea Glenn (St. Francis Xavier University); Mahsa Jessri (University of British Columbia); Grace Lee (University Health Network), Jessica Lieffers (University of Saskatchewan); Shelley Vanderhout (University of Toronto). A sincere thank you to all of the moderators, the DC Conference team and Izabella Bachmanek for their support with the Lightning Round presentations over the course of the DC virtual conference. Please consider submitting an abstract next year for the CFDR Research Showcase at the 2022 DC National Conference in Saskatoon, SK. Wishing all of you a wonderful Fall! Warm regards, Christina Lengyel PhD RD Chair, 2021 Early Bird Committee Professor Director of the Dietetics Program Food and Human Nutritional Sciences University of Manitoba Janis Randall Simpson PhD RD FDC FCNS Executive Director, CFDR Professor Emerita University of Guelph

EarlyBird Technical Manual

Technical documentation of research design, data collection, analysis, and results associated with the Early Bird Dyslexia Risk and Early Literacy Risk Screener.

Early Bird Scheme for Parking Management: How Does Parking Play a Role in the Morning Commute Problem

This paper extended the Vickrey’s point-queue model to study the early bird parking mechanism during morning commute peak hours. We not only investigated how commuters choose departure times in view of morning commute traffic congestion and the discounted early bird parking fee, but also analyzed the conditions which are determined for the existence of the user equilibrium in the analysis model provided in this paper. Moreover, the tendency of the total queuing time and the incremental parking pricing revenue was derived along with the different choice strategy between early bird parkers (ERPs) and regular parkers (RPs). The results showed that the number of commuters was jointly determined by the desired time and the bottleneck capacity for different schedules. Additionally, the method of fare incentive showed a better effect on reducing queue than the initial no-incentive method with the instantaneous travel demand. Most importantly, the incremental parking revenue can be increased by properly adjusting the parking pricing gap between ERPs and RPs. Our research not only provided several important propositions for the early bird parking mechanism but also included the optimal solutions for optimal parking pricing and schedule gap in two groups of parkers. This work is expected to promote the development of early bird parking to mitigate morning commute traffic congestion and motivate the related research of schedule coordination for regulating parking choice behavior in morning peak hours.