All Outputs (1001)

Investigations into Decrypting Live Secure Traffic in Virtual Environments (2019)
Thesis
McLaren, P. W. L. Investigations into Decrypting Live Secure Traffic in Virtual Environments. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2386517

Malicious agents increasingly use encrypted tunnels to communicate with external servers. Communications may contain ransomware keys, stolen banking details, or other confidential information. Rapid discovery of communicated contents through decrypti... Read More about Investigations into Decrypting Live Secure Traffic in Virtual Environments.

Real-time 3D Graphic Augmentation of Therapeutic Music Sessions for People on the Autism Spectrum (2019)
Thesis
McGowan, J. J. Real-time 3D Graphic Augmentation of Therapeutic Music Sessions for People on the Autism Spectrum. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2386291

This thesis looks at the requirements analysis, design, development and evaluation of an application, CymaSense, as a means of improving the communicative behaviours of autistic participants through therapeutic music sessions, via the addition of a v... Read More about Real-time 3D Graphic Augmentation of Therapeutic Music Sessions for People on the Autism Spectrum.

Investigating Regulatory Compliance: Key Issues in the Management of Food Safety Risk in the Fast Food Industry in Jamaica (2019)
Thesis
McNeil, R. H. Investigating Regulatory Compliance: Key Issues in the Management of Food Safety Risk in the Fast Food Industry in Jamaica. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2386568

Food safety is a critical issue that must be implemented and monitored in all aspects of food delivery to the public. Consumers at fast food restaurants are at risk if the proper food safety measures are not applied. Understanding why safe food pract... Read More about Investigating Regulatory Compliance: Key Issues in the Management of Food Safety Risk in the Fast Food Industry in Jamaica.

Using the Technology Acceptance Model to Measure the Effects of Usability Attributes and Demographic Characteristics on Student Use of Learning Management Systems in Saudi Higher Education (2019)
Thesis
Binyamin, S. S. Using the Technology Acceptance Model to Measure the Effects of Usability Attributes and Demographic Characteristics on Student Use of Learning Management Systems in Saudi Higher Education. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2376896

Learning management systems (LMS), which allow education at the student’s choice of place and time, have been widely adopted in higher education worldwide. In the case of Saudi Arabia, LMS have been recently introduced in Saudi universities at the re... Read More about Using the Technology Acceptance Model to Measure the Effects of Usability Attributes and Demographic Characteristics on Student Use of Learning Management Systems in Saudi Higher Education.

The Meeting Journey: Supporting the Design of Interaction Within Co-located, Collaborative Device Ecologies (2019)
Thesis
Ammeloot, A. The Meeting Journey: Supporting the Design of Interaction Within Co-located, Collaborative Device Ecologies. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2376807

The combination of personal and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) technologies with augmented "smart" spaces designed for collaborative work offers new design challenges for the HCI community. This thesis looks at how BYOD technologies can integrate with... Read More about The Meeting Journey: Supporting the Design of Interaction Within Co-located, Collaborative Device Ecologies.

Visualisation Support for Biological Bayesian Network Inference (2019)
Thesis
Vogogias, T. Visualisation Support for Biological Bayesian Network Inference. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2158180

Extracting valuable information from the visualisation of biological data and turning it into a network model is the main challenge addressed in this thesis. Biological networks are mathematical models that describe biological entities as nodes and t... Read More about Visualisation Support for Biological Bayesian Network Inference.

The evaluation of data filtering criteria in wind turbine power performance assessment (2019)
Thesis
Davison, B. The evaluation of data filtering criteria in wind turbine power performance assessment. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2376943

The post-installation verification of wind turbine performance is an essential part of a wind energy project. Data collected from meteorological instruments and from the turbine is analysed to produce an estimate of the annual energy production (AEP)... Read More about The evaluation of data filtering criteria in wind turbine power performance assessment.

Utilising Reduced File Representations to Facilitate Fast Contraband Detection (2019)
Thesis
McKeown, S. Utilising Reduced File Representations to Facilitate Fast Contraband Detection. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2386199

Digital forensics practitioners can be tasked with analysing digital data, in all its forms, for legal proceedings. In law enforcement, this largely involves searching for contraband media, such as illegal images and videos, on a wide array of electr... Read More about Utilising Reduced File Representations to Facilitate Fast Contraband Detection.

Quality of life of lifestyle entrepreneurs (2019)
Thesis
L. De S. Vieira, M. J. Quality of life of lifestyle entrepreneurs. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2383315

Owners of small businesses, within the tourism and hospitality literature, tend to be labelled as lifestyle entrepreneurs (LsEs). LsEs are described with an emphasis on the style of life they want to achieve while running their businesses, in opposit... Read More about Quality of life of lifestyle entrepreneurs.

Quickening Steps: An ethnography of pre-birth child protection (2019)
Thesis
Critchley, A. Quickening Steps: An ethnography of pre-birth child protection. (Thesis). University of Edinburgh. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2328160

This thesis is a study of pre-birth child protection practice in the Scottish context. The ‘quickening’ in the title refers not just to the movement in utero of the unborn babies at the centre of this research, but also to the intensification of UK p... Read More about Quickening Steps: An ethnography of pre-birth child protection.

An analysis of nudging as a social marketing technique using Front of Pack nutrition labels: A study of women's perceptions of food labels (2019)
Thesis
Soraghan, C. An analysis of nudging as a social marketing technique using Front of Pack nutrition labels: A study of women's perceptions of food labels. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2090514

Recently, social marketers have adopted the use of ‘nudging’ as a technique to influence behaviour through subtle tweaks to the environment (Thaler & Sunstein, 2008). Front of Pack (FoP) nutrition labels are an example of a nudge in practice, designe... Read More about An analysis of nudging as a social marketing technique using Front of Pack nutrition labels: A study of women's perceptions of food labels.

Government Export Promotion Organisations and SME Internationalisation: A case study of Ghana’s Non-Traditional Export Sector (2019)
Thesis
Sasu, E. Government Export Promotion Organisations and SME Internationalisation: A case study of Ghana’s Non-Traditional Export Sector. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2090149

Internationalisation has been identified as one of the major dimensions of firm growth (Peng and Delios, 2006). Karadeniz and Gocer, (2007) argue that exporting activities, for instance, increase profitability, improve trade balances, and help eradic... Read More about Government Export Promotion Organisations and SME Internationalisation: A case study of Ghana’s Non-Traditional Export Sector.

A Data-driven Statistical Approach to Customer Behaviour Analysis and Modelling in Online Freemium Games (2019)
Thesis
Singh Roy, A. A Data-driven Statistical Approach to Customer Behaviour Analysis and Modelling in Online Freemium Games. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2090355

The video games industry is one of the most attractive and lucrative segments in the entertainment and digital media, with big business of more than $150 billion worldwide. A popular approach in this industry is the online freemium model, wherein the... Read More about A Data-driven Statistical Approach to Customer Behaviour Analysis and Modelling in Online Freemium Games.

The Need, Challenges, and Opportunities for Finance Transformation in Global Organisations (2019)
Thesis
Schröder, C. The Need, Challenges, and Opportunities for Finance Transformation in Global Organisations. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2090289

Finance transformation is a process aiming at finance efficiency and thus supports solving critical issues in the finance function, focusing on strategy, process, talent, and technology solutions. For enterprises, it is essential to perform a finance... Read More about The Need, Challenges, and Opportunities for Finance Transformation in Global Organisations.

An Exploration of Leadership Practices in Scotland’s Contact Centre Industry (2019)
Thesis
Orozco Vidal, A. An Exploration of Leadership Practices in Scotland’s Contact Centre Industry. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2086464

The aim of this research was to explore the leadership practices implemented in Scotland’s contact centre industry in order to identify the leadership theories adopted in the customer-focused, highly controlled, and standardised environment of contac... Read More about An Exploration of Leadership Practices in Scotland’s Contact Centre Industry.

How autonomous control can improve the performance of logistics networks - a simulation experiment (2019)
Thesis
Preinl, T. How autonomous control can improve the performance of logistics networks - a simulation experiment. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2089989

In this thesis the application of autonomous control concepts to logistics networks is studied by means of a simulation model. This simulation model is based on an actual outbound bulk product supply network of a commodity company.
Logistics planni... Read More about How autonomous control can improve the performance of logistics networks - a simulation experiment.

Understanding perceived risks in a lean company for supply chain risk mitigation in the automotive sector of China (2019)
Thesis
Hui, Y. Understanding perceived risks in a lean company for supply chain risk mitigation in the automotive sector of China. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2086152

China’s automotive sector has been undergoing rapid growth over the past two decades with significant increase of volume, technology upgrade and complexity of market environment. As a result, tier one suppliers have found themselves operating in an e... Read More about Understanding perceived risks in a lean company for supply chain risk mitigation in the automotive sector of China.

The impact of team-focussed transformational and ethical leadership on team innovation: an investigation of the role of team engagement and team developmental climate (2019)
Thesis
Heidl, B. H. The impact of team-focussed transformational and ethical leadership on team innovation: an investigation of the role of team engagement and team developmental climate. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2070785

PURPOSE: The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the impact of transformational leadership and ethical leadership on innovation. Drawing on social learning and social information processing theory, this research focusses on team level processes.... Read More about The impact of team-focussed transformational and ethical leadership on team innovation: an investigation of the role of team engagement and team developmental climate.

Enhancing mobile strategy consultancy using a conceptual cognitive model of Mobile Moments (2019)
Thesis
Förster, N. Enhancing mobile strategy consultancy using a conceptual cognitive model of Mobile Moments. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2070360

The given dissertation focuses on the area of mobile business interactions and strives for a better understanding of related human cognitive characteristics. One motivation is to find out the individual triggers for someone reaching for a mobile devi... Read More about Enhancing mobile strategy consultancy using a conceptual cognitive model of Mobile Moments.

Chorus before singer: Elements of readiness for change within the Canadian public service, a bottom-up approach (2019)
Thesis
Chavremootoo, M. D. B. Chorus before singer: Elements of readiness for change within the Canadian public service, a bottom-up approach. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2058905

This thesis explores the lived experiences of public servants in the Canadian federal public service during organisational change to contribute to the organisational change literature by exploring and evaluating the factors to enhance readiness for c... Read More about Chorus before singer: Elements of readiness for change within the Canadian public service, a bottom-up approach.