All Outputs (986)

Transportation Engineering-Green port strategies in China (2019)
Thesis
Du, K. Transportation Engineering-Green port strategies in China. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2383378

In responding to the increasing challenges from both global climate change and local air pollution, environmental strategies are increasingly applied by ports in many developed countries, either independently by ports or as part of a national transpo... Read More about Transportation Engineering-Green port strategies in China.

Molecular mechanisms driving prostate cancer neuroendocrine differentiation (2019)
Thesis
Sutton, J. E. Molecular mechanisms driving prostate cancer neuroendocrine differentiation. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2414975

Annually, 11,500 men in the UK die of prostate cancer (PCa). PCa tumours are initially dependent upon androgen receptor (AR) signalling and androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) is highly effective in restricting tumour growth. However, ADT resistance a... Read More about Molecular mechanisms driving prostate cancer neuroendocrine differentiation.

Assessing the toxicity of engineered nanomaterials in the male reproductive system: Developing an improved testing strategy for hazard assessment (2019)
Thesis
Ross, B. L. Assessing the toxicity of engineered nanomaterials in the male reproductive system: Developing an improved testing strategy for hazard assessment. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2404236

Reproduction is the only certain constant within animals and maintaining the integrity of this process is key to ensuring survival of the species. However, male fertility rates in the Western world are in decline and the use of assisted reproductive... Read More about Assessing the toxicity of engineered nanomaterials in the male reproductive system: Developing an improved testing strategy for hazard assessment.

RESCUE: Evaluation of a Fragmented Secret Share System in Distributed-Cloud Architecture (2019)
Thesis
Ukwandu, E. A. RESCUE: Evaluation of a Fragmented Secret Share System in Distributed-Cloud Architecture. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2455031

Scaling big data infrastructure using multi-cloud environment has led to the demand for highly secure, resilient and reliable data sharing method. Several variants of secret sharing scheme have been proposed but there remains a gap in knowledge on th... Read More about RESCUE: Evaluation of a Fragmented Secret Share System in Distributed-Cloud Architecture.

Reliable and energy efficient mechanisms for wireless sensor networks (2019)
Thesis
Ali, A. O. E. S. Reliable and energy efficient mechanisms for wireless sensor networks. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2404287

Sensor nodes and their underlying communication technologies are characterised by restricted power resources, restricted processing, limited storage capacities, low data rates and lossy links, and they may also comprise up to a thousand nodes. Wirele... Read More about Reliable and energy efficient mechanisms for wireless sensor networks.

Youth digital culture co-creation: measuring social impact in Scotland (2019)
Thesis
Pawluczuk, A. Youth digital culture co-creation: measuring social impact in Scotland. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2404195

This thesis examines youth workers’ and young people’s perceptions of social impact and social impact evaluation of youth digital culture co-creation in Scotland. The analysis is made in relation to academic domains including (but not limited) to Hum... Read More about Youth digital culture co-creation: measuring social impact in Scotland.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. Retrieved from 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.

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.

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.