All Outputs (986)

Identifying Barriers To The Implementation Of Bus Policy At A Local Level In Great Britain Using A Decision Support Framework (2018)
Thesis
McTigue, C. Identifying Barriers To The Implementation Of Bus Policy At A Local Level In Great Britain Using A Decision Support Framework. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1516301

The current debate on transport policy in the UK is focused on the need for a sustainable transport system. Buses play a vital role in achieving this, as they are the most frequently used and most accessible mode of public transport. However, the lit... Read More about Identifying Barriers To The Implementation Of Bus Policy At A Local Level In Great Britain Using A Decision Support Framework.

The role of networking and social media tools during job search: an information behaviour perspective (2018)
Thesis
Mowbray, J. A. The role of networking and social media tools during job search: an information behaviour perspective. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1516318

This research reported in this thesis explores job search networking amongst 16-24 year olds living in Scotland, and the role of social media platforms (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn) during this process. Networking is treated as an informatio... Read More about The role of networking and social media tools during job search: an information behaviour perspective.

Development and evaluation of a theoretical model to predict medicines adherence in people with mild to moderate intellectual disability and diabetes: a mixed methods study. (2018)
Thesis
Paterson, R. E. Development and evaluation of a theoretical model to predict medicines adherence in people with mild to moderate intellectual disability and diabetes: a mixed methods study. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1526669

Background: Fifty percent of medications are not taken as prescribed. This is a major public health issue yet there is very limited evidence on the factors associated with medicines adherence in people with mild to moderate Intellectually Disabilitie... Read More about Development and evaluation of a theoretical model to predict medicines adherence in people with mild to moderate intellectual disability and diabetes: a mixed methods study..

Load balancing and context aware enhancements for RPL routed Internet of Things. (2018)
Thesis
Qasem, M. Load balancing and context aware enhancements for RPL routed Internet of Things. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1532122

Internet of Things (IoT) has been paving the way for a plethora of potential applications, which becomes more spatial and demanding. The goal of this work is to optimise the performance within the IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Network... Read More about Load balancing and context aware enhancements for RPL routed Internet of Things..

Research grounded support of student learning in Higher Education: The importance of dialogue and subject embedded, contextualised language and content. (2018)
Thesis
Richards, K. Research grounded support of student learning in Higher Education: The importance of dialogue and subject embedded, contextualised language and content. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1532248

This aim of this thesis is to demonstrate how the research that has been conducted by the author, as illustrated through the publications presented, adds to the domain of academic support – specifically the theory and practice of academic support wit... Read More about Research grounded support of student learning in Higher Education: The importance of dialogue and subject embedded, contextualised language and content..

Generating ag-specific human regulatory T-cells by TCR gene transfer for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. (2018)
Thesis
Riddell, V. Generating ag-specific human regulatory T-cells by TCR gene transfer for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1532334

Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a systemic autoimmune disease that develops when the immune system loses tolerance to self, resulting in effector cells erroneously causing joint damage. Despite advances in biological therapy there is currently no cure f... Read More about Generating ag-specific human regulatory T-cells by TCR gene transfer for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis..

A pattern-driven corpus to predictive analytics in mitigating SQL injection attack (2018)
Thesis
Uwagbole, S. A pattern-driven corpus to predictive analytics in mitigating SQL injection attack. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1538260

The back-end database provides accessible and structured storage for each web application’s big data internet web traffic exchanges stemming from cloud-hosted web applications to the Internet of Things (IoT) smart devices in emerging computing. Struc... Read More about A pattern-driven corpus to predictive analytics in mitigating SQL injection attack.

Reliable and energy efficient scheduling protocols for wireless body area networks (WBAN) (2018)
Thesis
Salayma, M. Reliable and energy efficient scheduling protocols for wireless body area networks (WBAN). (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1532410

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) facilitates efficient and cost-effective e-health care and well-being applications. The WBAN has unique challenges and features compared to other Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). In addition to battery power consumpti... Read More about Reliable and energy efficient scheduling protocols for wireless body area networks (WBAN).

An Exploratory Study Of Perceived Complexity In IT Projects (2018)
Thesis
Klotz, D. An Exploratory Study Of Perceived Complexity In IT Projects. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1510626

The considerable failure rate of information technology (IT) projects remains a problem for many organisations and impacts their ability to successfully participate in the digital economy. Previous root cause analysis identified project complexity as... Read More about An Exploratory Study Of Perceived Complexity In IT Projects.

Impact of bank funding on the growth of Nigeria’s manufacturing Sector (2018)
Thesis
Ogbonna, D. Impact of bank funding on the growth of Nigeria’s manufacturing Sector. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1516539

Several studies and theories have linked economic growth to finance and further posit that a well funded and supported manufacturing sector could transform the economic fortunes of nations. However, the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria has compla... Read More about Impact of bank funding on the growth of Nigeria’s manufacturing Sector.

An interpretive phenomenological approach to understanding employee meaning of lean and respect for people (2018)
Thesis
Sloan, B. An interpretive phenomenological approach to understanding employee meaning of lean and respect for people. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1532542

Lean is a popular approach for improving operational efficiencies in an organisation through the reduction of wasteful activities. Entities of every size and description today are implementing Lean techniques to maximise customer value, operational e... Read More about An interpretive phenomenological approach to understanding employee meaning of lean and respect for people.

The reproduction of elite mobilities in Washington D.C. (2018)
Thesis
Schubert, F. The reproduction of elite mobilities in Washington D.C. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1532472

In this thesis, I seek to analyse the reproduction of elite mobilities through participation in Study Internship Programmes (SIP) in Washington D.C. SIPs are programmes for both American as well as international students that come to Washington and p... Read More about The reproduction of elite mobilities in Washington D.C..

Stationary and Time-Varying Factors Affecting Highway Accident Occurrence and Injury-Severity: Addressing Unobserved Heterogeneity with Alternate Random Parameters and Latent Class Models (2018)
Thesis
Fountas, G. Stationary and Time-Varying Factors Affecting Highway Accident Occurrence and Injury-Severity: Addressing Unobserved Heterogeneity with Alternate Random Parameters and Latent Class Models. (Thesis). University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2671368

In contemporary accident research, unobserved heterogeneity is recognized as one of the most challenging statistical modeling misspecification issues.Unobserved heterogeneity (i.e.,unobserved characteristics varying systematically across ob... Read More about Stationary and Time-Varying Factors Affecting Highway Accident Occurrence and Injury-Severity: Addressing Unobserved Heterogeneity with Alternate Random Parameters and Latent Class Models.

An Investigation of the Process and Characteristics used by Project Managers in IT Consulting in the Selection of Project Management Software (2018)
Thesis
Meyer, E. An Investigation of the Process and Characteristics used by Project Managers in IT Consulting in the Selection of Project Management Software. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1253385

As project management (PM) and information technology (IT) evolved over the last decades, an increasing number of project management software products have emerged. Project managers in IT consulting can improve the success of projects through the uti... Read More about An Investigation of the Process and Characteristics used by Project Managers in IT Consulting in the Selection of Project Management Software.

Governing EU Cohesion Policy in central and eastern Europe: the interplay between administrative capacity and political factors. The case of Structural Funds absorption in Bulgaria and Romania (2007–2013) (2018)
Thesis
Surubaru, N. (2018). Governing EU Cohesion Policy in central and eastern Europe: the interplay between administrative capacity and political factors. The case of Structural Funds absorption in Bulgaria and Romania (2007–2013). (Thesis). Loughborough University

This dissertation examines how new European Union (EU) member states manage and implement European Cohesion Policy (CP). It assess the administrative and political factors that might explain the variation in the financial absorption of Structural Fun... Read More about Governing EU Cohesion Policy in central and eastern Europe: the interplay between administrative capacity and political factors. The case of Structural Funds absorption in Bulgaria and Romania (2007–2013).

Nurse-led mobile health intervention to promote cardiovascular medication adherence in a cardiac rehabilitation setting: a pilot feasibility study (2018)
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Khonsari, S. Nurse-led mobile health intervention to promote cardiovascular medication adherence in a cardiac rehabilitation setting: a pilot feasibility study. (Thesis). University of Edinburgh. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/3489682

Background - Mobile health (mHealth) interventions to promote medication adherence have shown promise; among patients primarily diagnosed with Coronary Heart Disease (CHD), however, there is a lack of evidence for nurse-led mHealth interventions, in... Read More about Nurse-led mobile health intervention to promote cardiovascular medication adherence in a cardiac rehabilitation setting: a pilot feasibility study.

Investigating the performance and underlying mechanisms of a novel screening measure for developmental dyslexia: Implications for early identification (2018)
Thesis
Piotrowska, B. Investigating the performance and underlying mechanisms of a novel screening measure for developmental dyslexia: Implications for early identification. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1253563

Developmental dyslexia is a common disorder affecting around 10% of the British population characterized by difficulties with reading despite adequate intelligence and education (IDA, 2007). Although most researchers and practitioners would agree tha... Read More about Investigating the performance and underlying mechanisms of a novel screening measure for developmental dyslexia: Implications for early identification.

Improving student satisfaction at a Caribbean university using a customer focussed strategy (2018)
Thesis
Murray, J. A. Improving student satisfaction at a Caribbean university using a customer focussed strategy. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1253524

The study aimed to determine the drivers of student satisfaction with the services offered by a Caribbean university. The study, premised on the marketing concept of customer satisfaction, used the Expectation Disconfirmation Model, a widely used too... Read More about Improving student satisfaction at a Caribbean university using a customer focussed strategy.

Fraud prevention in the B2C e-Commerce mail order business: a framework for an economic perspective on data mining (2018)
Thesis
Knuth, T. Fraud prevention in the B2C e-Commerce mail order business: a framework for an economic perspective on data mining. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1256175

A remarkable gap exists between the financial impact of fraud in the B2C e-commerce mail order business and the amount of research conducted in this area — whether it be qualitative or quantitative research about fraud prevention. Projecting publishe... Read More about Fraud prevention in the B2C e-Commerce mail order business: a framework for an economic perspective on data mining.

An Investigation into Service Quality in the Supreme Court Civil Registry in Jamaica (2018)
Thesis
McKoy, G. A. An Investigation into Service Quality in the Supreme Court Civil Registry in Jamaica. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1253090

Notwithstanding the strategic importance of service quality to public sector reforms, the Government of Jamaica has given it no consideration in its justice reform project. Neither had anyone previously applied the service quality methodology to serv... Read More about An Investigation into Service Quality in the Supreme Court Civil Registry in Jamaica.