All Outputs (51)

The combined effect of high intensity intermittent training and vitamin D supplementation on insulin sensitivity in overweight and obese males and females (2016)
Thesis
Lithgow, H. M. (2016). The combined effect of high intensity intermittent training and vitamin D supplementation on insulin sensitivity in overweight and obese males and females. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.u

High intensity intermittent training (HIIT) is a time efficient mode of exercise, which has been shown to induce metabolic benefits, such as an improvement in insulin sensitivity (IS) and thus type 2 diabetes (T2D). Vitamin D₃ (25(OH)D₃... Read More about The combined effect of high intensity intermittent training and vitamin D supplementation on insulin sensitivity in overweight and obese males and females.

Mind the Gap – Financing Decisions in Midcap Firms Financing Strategy and Financing Process in Replacing Standard Mezzanine in Germany (2016)
Thesis
Hill, M. (2016). Mind the Gap – Financing Decisions in Midcap Firms Financing Strategy and Financing Process in Replacing Standard Mezzanine in Germany. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/453629

There is still limited knowledge available on how SME and midcap firms perform financing decisions and on what such a decision is based on. The literature revealed that capital structure theories can only partly explain parameters that determine fina... Read More about Mind the Gap – Financing Decisions in Midcap Firms Financing Strategy and Financing Process in Replacing Standard Mezzanine in Germany.

Participation Space Studies: a socio-technical exploration of activist and community groups’ use of online and offline spaces to support their work (2016)
Thesis
Taylor-Smith, E. Participation Space Studies: a socio-technical exploration of activist and community groups’ use of online and offline spaces to support their work. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/36

Participation Space Studies explore eParticipation in the day-to-day activities of local, citizen-led groups, working to improve their communities. The focus is the relationship between activities and contexts. The concept of a participation space is... Read More about Participation Space Studies: a socio-technical exploration of activist and community groups’ use of online and offline spaces to support their work.

Exploring the Role of the Stakeholder in Fast-Moving Consumer Goods Cross-sector Collaborations: a Phenomenological Study (2016)
Thesis
Axon, D. (2016). Exploring the Role of the Stakeholder in Fast-Moving Consumer Goods Cross-sector Collaborations: a Phenomenological Study. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/452874

This thesis aims to explore the experiences of those individuals involved in the phenomenon of cross-sector collaborations within the Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) global food sector. The research is situated within a landscape of diminished avai... Read More about Exploring the Role of the Stakeholder in Fast-Moving Consumer Goods Cross-sector Collaborations: a Phenomenological Study.

The relationship between stress and retention within science undergraduates, their use of support and the potential remedial effect of stress education. (2016)
Thesis
Harris, P. J. (2016). The relationship between stress and retention within science undergraduates, their use of support and the potential remedial effect of stress education. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Ou

Students experience stress due to many factors including educational unpreparedness, financial strain and the inability to integrate socially. This mixed methods study aimed to investigate stress levels of undergraduate students in a post-1992, Scott... Read More about The relationship between stress and retention within science undergraduates, their use of support and the potential remedial effect of stress education..

WazzUp Mama?! The development of an intervention to prevent and reduce maternal distress during pregnancy (2016)
Thesis
Kuipers, Y. (2016). WazzUp Mama?! The development of an intervention to prevent and reduce maternal distress during pregnancy. (Thesis). Maastricht University. Retrieved from http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2871410

Intervention Mapping was used as a framework to develop a midwife-led intervention to prevent or reduce maternal distress during pregnancy. An extensive needs assessment showed that both pregnant women and midwives needed to be taught to recognise th... Read More about WazzUp Mama?! The development of an intervention to prevent and reduce maternal distress during pregnancy.

A Multidimensional Sketching Interface for Visual Interaction with Corpus-Based Concatenative Sound Synthesis (2016)
Thesis
Tsiros, A. (2016). A Multidimensional Sketching Interface for Visual Interaction with Corpus-Based Concatenative Sound Synthesis. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/463438

The present research sought to investigate the correspondence between auditory and visual feature dimensions and to utilise this knowledge in order to inform the design of audio-visual mappings for visual control of sound synthesis. The first stage o... Read More about A Multidimensional Sketching Interface for Visual Interaction with Corpus-Based Concatenative Sound Synthesis.

Visualizing genetic transmission patterns in plant pedigrees. (2016)
Thesis
Shaw, P. D. (2016). Visualizing genetic transmission patterns in plant pedigrees. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/463271

Ensuring food security in a world with an increasing population and demand on natural resources is becoming ever more pertinent. Plant breeders are using an increasingly diverse range of data types such as phenotypic and genotypic data to identify pl... Read More about Visualizing genetic transmission patterns in plant pedigrees..

Marginalisation Vs. Emancipation: The (New) Woman Question in Dollie Radford’s diary and poetry (2016)
Thesis
Azhar, H. J. (2016). Marginalisation Vs. Emancipation: The (New) Woman Question in Dollie Radford’s diary and poetry. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/452895

This thesis sheds light on Dollie Radford as one of the talented women writers whose work is still insufficiently acknowledged by contemporary studies because of the lack of extant information about her life. LeeAnne Richardson, Ruth Livesey, and Emi... Read More about Marginalisation Vs. Emancipation: The (New) Woman Question in Dollie Radford’s diary and poetry.

Towards an understanding of the management contribution in post-92 universities (2016)
Thesis
Mcintosh, I. L. Towards an understanding of the management contribution in post-92 universities. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/462269

Over recent years there has been considerable debate about the purpose, value and expectations of higher education. The relationship between government and the higher education sector has become focussed on the efficiency and effectiveness of the sec... Read More about Towards an understanding of the management contribution in post-92 universities.

Exporting hospitality & tourism education abroad and its influence on the home programme internationalisation (2016)
Thesis
Lagiewski, R. M. (2016). Exporting hospitality & tourism education abroad and its influence on the home programme internationalisation. (Thesis). Edinburgh Napier University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/455560

HEIs have, over the recent decade, been involved in internationalisation of their academic programmes and in the delivery of their degrees in international locations. Internationalisation is associated with the incorporation of international facets i... Read More about Exporting hospitality & tourism education abroad and its influence on the home programme internationalisation.