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An Evaluation of the Requirements of a Tool for Mapping Workplace Soundscapes (2000)
Thesis
McGregor, I. P. An Evaluation of the Requirements of a Tool for Mapping Workplace Soundscapes. (Thesis)

In a visually biased culture sound becomes taken for granted until it intrudes, this makes many systems designers shy away from sound as a method of communication. We are currently moving away from the notion of an isolated user sitting at a desktop,... Read More about An Evaluation of the Requirements of a Tool for Mapping Workplace Soundscapes.

Automated synthesis and optimization of multilevel logic circuits. (2000)
Thesis
Wang, L. Automated synthesis and optimization of multilevel logic circuits. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/4342

With the increased complexity of Very Large Scaled Integrated (VLSI) circuits, multilevel
logic synthesis plays an even more important role due to its flexibility and compactness.
The history of symbolic logic and some typical techniques for multil... Read More about Automated synthesis and optimization of multilevel logic circuits..

An evaluation of presumed consent legislation in the procurement of organs for transplantation. (2000)
Thesis
Neades, B. L. An evaluation of presumed consent legislation in the procurement of organs for transplantation. (Thesis). University of Glasgow. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/7750

Within the U.K. the crisis in the numbers of organs available for transplantation has featured strongly in the health care literature over the past five to ten years. Under the terms of the Human Tissues Act 1961 (166) many strategies to increase the... Read More about An evaluation of presumed consent legislation in the procurement of organs for transplantation..

Life history and population structure of the exploited mangrove crab Ucides cordatus cordatus (Decapoda: Brachyura) in the Caete Estuary, North Brazil. (2000)
Thesis
Diele, K. Life history and population structure of the exploited mangrove crab Ucides cordatus cordatus (Decapoda: Brachyura) in the Caete Estuary, North Brazil. (Thesis). Universität Bremen. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/6575

The semiterrestrial crab U. cordatus is one of the most heavily exploited resources of Bra-zilian mangrove forests. The growing interest in protecting and managing U. cordatus populations increases the need for research on socioeconomical and biologi... Read More about Life history and population structure of the exploited mangrove crab Ucides cordatus cordatus (Decapoda: Brachyura) in the Caete Estuary, North Brazil..

Strategic management in the global container shipping industry. (2000)
Thesis
Baird, A. Strategic management in the global container shipping industry. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/3802

Container shipping is of immense importance to global industry, and one of the
critical enablers of globalisation. Analysis of the global container shipping
industry suggests the potential for significant economies of scope and scale, and
hence lo... Read More about Strategic management in the global container shipping industry..

An expert system for the performance control of rotating machinery. (2000)
Thesis
Pearson, W. N. An expert system for the performance control of rotating machinery. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/6888

This research presented in this thesis examines the application of feed forward neural
networks to the performance control of a gas transmission compressor. It is estimated that a
global saving in compressor fuel gas of 1% could save the production... Read More about An expert system for the performance control of rotating machinery..

Speed improvements for the RSA encryption method (2000)
Thesis
Wang, H.-C. Speed improvements for the RSA encryption method. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/4065

This thesis presents methods that can be used to improve the operation of the RSA encryption method. It shows the principles of encryption, and then expands this to give the operation of public-key methods, which includes the number value theorems ap... Read More about Speed improvements for the RSA encryption method.

Rectangular Hollow Sections with circular web openings. (2000)
Thesis
Ridley-Ellis, D. Rectangular Hollow Sections with circular web openings. (Thesis). The University of Nottingham. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/8229

The primary aim of the project was to develop the basis for a set of rules to be used in the design of RHS slim floor edge beams with web openings. However, since the research is fundamental in nature, the findings are also applicable to other situa... Read More about Rectangular Hollow Sections with circular web openings..

Urban Land Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Quantitative Study of Accra Ghana (2000)
Thesis
Antwi, A. Y. Urban Land Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Quantitative Study of Accra Ghana. (Thesis). Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/2504

The existing body of knowledge attributes to informal land transactions in sub-Saharan African cities observed problems in city neighbourhoods. However, the dearth of empirically insightful studies of how this eventuates continues to leave a vacuum i... Read More about Urban Land Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Quantitative Study of Accra Ghana.

Internal Technology Transfer in the Sudan: The Dichotomy Between Agricultural Research and Agricultural Practice (2000)
Thesis
Ahmed, A. E. N. O. Internal Technology Transfer in the Sudan: The Dichotomy Between Agricultural Research and Agricultural Practice. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1051806

Sudan is the largest country in Africa' and boasts the largest farm in the world. Sudan is a predominately agricultural economy, agriculture employs more than eighty percent of the country's labour force and its industry. The national agricultural re... Read More about Internal Technology Transfer in the Sudan: The Dichotomy Between Agricultural Research and Agricultural Practice.

The role of logistical structure in the development of rail freight services in Great Britain. (2000)
Thesis
Woodburn, A. G. The role of logistical structure in the development of rail freight services in Great Britain. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/4875

Modal shift from road to rail for freight movements is a potential means by which
the negative environmental and social impacts of such transport can be reduced. As
such it features strongly in contemporary transport policies in Great Britain. This... Read More about The role of logistical structure in the development of rail freight services in Great Britain..

Living cameras: a study of live bodies and mediatized images in multi-media performance and installation art practice. (2000)
Thesis
Rye, C. Living cameras: a study of live bodies and mediatized images in multi-media performance and installation art practice. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/5886

This thesis is concerned with multi-media performance and installation art
practices which foreground the live body in combination with mediatized
images. The research is conducted through the making and examination of
a number of the researcher’s... Read More about Living cameras: a study of live bodies and mediatized images in multi-media performance and installation art practice..

Inside the Palimpsest: A Study of Newsroom Information Gathering. (2000)
Thesis
Macaulay, C. Gathering. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/7241

The methodologies of systems design, rooted in engineering and in cognitivist conceptions
of human action, have been stretched to the limit by the complexity of uses to which
information and communication technologies are being turned. Within segme... Read More about Inside the Palimpsest: A Study of Newsroom Information Gathering..

Evolvable hardware design of combinational logic circuits. (2000)
Thesis
Kalganova, T. Evolvable hardware design of combinational logic circuits. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/4341

Evolvable Hardware (EHW), as an alternative method for logic design, became more
attractive recently, because of its algebra-independent techniques for generating selfadaptive
self-reconfigurable hardware. This thesis investigates and relates both... Read More about Evolvable hardware design of combinational logic circuits..

Migration decision-making processes: an empirical investigation. (2000)
Thesis
Forster, E. Migration decision-making processes: an empirical investigation. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/3711

This thesis has two purposes. The first is to investigate the motivation for household
migration - in particular, the associations between the different reasons for moving
and the characteristics of owner-occupier movers in Scotland, their houses a... Read More about Migration decision-making processes: an empirical investigation..

Fabrication and charaterisation of a novel blue organic light-emitting diode (OLED)-structure: glass/Indium-Tin oxide/Poly (N-vinylcarbazole) doped with dye p-Bis(o-methylstyryl)benzeneAluminium. (2000)
Thesis
Ramsbrock, J. Fabrication and charaterisation of a novel blue organic light-emitting diode (OLED)-structure: glass/Indium-Tin oxide/Poly (N-vinylcarbazole) doped with dye p-Bis(o-methylstyryl)benzeneAluminium. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/4166