Ethics Application Form

Applicant details

Are you a member of staff, a postgraduate research student, a postgraduate taught student or an undergraduate student?

Staff
Postgraduate Research Student
Postgraduate Taught Student
Undergraduate Student

Please enter your degree programme BSc Computing Science

Please enter your module code CSCU9Z7

Please enter your student identification number 2940424

Applicant details

First Name Nihal

Surname Kaleem Nawaz

Division

Faculty

Email nnk00005@students.stir.ac.uk

Supervisor contact details

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 Use the Share functionality on the left hand Actions menu to share your application with your supervisor. You should provide
them with Read and Write access. Please note your ethics application will not be submitted without their signature and you
should work on the ethics application together.

First Name Shamik

Surname Palit

Division Faculty of Natural Sciences

Faculty

Email shamik.palit@stir.ac.uk

Type of application

Does your application involve any of the following?

A new project with Human participants

A new project with Animals
A project that has already received ethical review
An application or an amendment to a Project Licence
None of the above

Additional factors

Does the proposed project involve reproducing copyrighted work in published form (other than brief citation)?
Does the proposed project involve activities which could temporarily or permanently damage or disturb the
environment, or archaeological remains and artefacts?
Does the proposed project involve a potential conflict of interest or raise ethical issues regarding the source of
funding or where the publication of research data may be restricted?
None of the above

Project details

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 Please enter the short title of your project (max 200 characters)

Quantity identifier / delivering the items in need

Please enter the full title of your project

Due to the ongoing fast pace of business the restaurant need their ingredients as soon as
possible instead of waiting for a long period of time. Due to the ongoing competitive
restaurant business the first priority for the business is to give the customer the best service
possible which ensures customer satisfaction helping build your business, The aim of this
software is to find the item which is missing in a restaurant and open the website where there
would be options for the restaurant to choose which item they are looking for and select a
particular vendor of the restaurant choice. The main objective of this website is to give the
restaurant the best choices on the available raw materials and connecting the barrier between
the vendors and the restaurant. Restaurants may miss out the various options of raw materials
they can get which this software can help in giving them different choices and make it easier
for them to find and get it delivered to them instead of looking for different vendors and
delivery. As it’s a new website I will be adding four restaurants name like Karachi Darbar,
Nando’s, TGIF and Delhi Darbar and four vendors Karachi vegetables & fruits, Nesto, LULU and
wholesale of fruits and vegetables (street vendors) For example, if the particular restaurant
requires baby carrots and their local vendor doesn’t have then then they can find it on the
website and place the order.
The basic concept of this software is to connect the barrier between the small scale and large
scale venders to the e-commerce industry giving them an idea of what all products can be
available to them and making it easy for both the venders and the restaurant to find or sell
their product and the restaurant can get the products delivered to them instead of going out
and finding for the product it would be available on their door step. This could help them
boost their business in terms of venders their products can be recognized to other people and
in terms of the restaurant they would not need to worry about the raw materials as the
software would tell them how much stock is left and they can order the item.
Staff - If you have a Worktribe record for this project please make sure the titles are the same.

Project duration

Project start date

20/12/2022

Project end date

19/04/2023

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If different from the project start and end dates

Expected start of data collection

22/12/2022

Expected end of data collection

25/02/2023

Health and Safety

If the proposed project poses any particular physical risks to the researcher(s) or research participants a risk assessment must be
signed off by your supervisor or line manager prior to commencing fieldwork.

Has a health and safety risk assessment been successfully completed?

Yes
Not applicable
In progress

Project description

Please provide a summary of your project (~half page, one page maximum) describing the topic, and
main objectives, a summary of your proposed methodology (e.g. fieldwork, experimental procedures,
surveys, interviews, focus groups, standardised testing, video or audio recording).

Topic

Quantity identifier/ delivering the items in need

The basic concept of this software is to connect the barrier between the small scale and large
scale venders to the e-commerce industry giving them an idea of what all products can be
available to them and making it easy for both the venders and the restaurant to find or sell
their product and the restaurant can get the products delivered to them instead of going out
and finding for the product it would be available on their door step. This could help them
boost their business in terms of venders their products can be recognized to other people and
in terms of the restaurant they would not need to worry about the raw materials as the
software would tell them how much stock is left and they can order the item.

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 Main aims/objectives

1. To find out the how many restaurants are near by to the vender.
2. To know the timing of the vender when does their service starts from.
3. To deliver the materials as soon as possible.
4. To know how the restaurants work to design the website appropriately.
5. Find out the ingredients most in need and keep them in stock.

Methods

The University has a number of pre-approved protocols for common research scenarios. If you will be following one of the University's
protocols please indicate which one here.

• Website:- the website will be built using JavaScript, HTML, CSS and React the website
will be tested locally before it goes out on the market it would be given to a bunch of
restaurants and venders and test the features and see the working of the website is
running without any errors and shows the right raw materials as mentioned and
deliver them on time.
• Database(DBMS):- the system will be using MySql as the database to store the data
of the restaurants, the delivery riders and the venders and would be given to some of
my colleagues to test whether the data is being stored correctly or no and any errors
in the database which needs fixing.

Please be aware that if your methodology changes during your research, it is your responsibility to submit an amendment to your
approved application. See the Information button for further advice.

Documents

The University provides a range of template documents. We would strongly recommend that you use the templates that are available
on the research ethics and integrity website.

If relevant, please attach other documentation

Documents

Type Document Name File Name Version Date Version Size

Other documentation Participant Consent Form N Participant Consent Form N.docx 73.1 KB

Other documentation SampleUserTest N SampleUserTest N.docx 14.5 KB

Other documentation Participant Information Sheet N Participant Information Sheet N.docx 67.2 KB

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 Signing the form will lock the form and prevent further editing. If you choose to unlock the form all signatures will be invalidated
and requests will need to be made again.

Please sign your application

Signed: This form was signed by Nihal Kaleem Nawaz (nnk00005@students.stir.ac.uk) on 23/03/2023 10:02 AM

Request supervisor signature

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action menu to give your supervisor access to your form. You should only request their signature once you have reviewed
the form together and have agreed the content.

Please request your supervisor's signature

Signed: This form was signed by Shamik Palit (shamik.palit@stir.ac.uk) on 23/03/2023 1:06 PM

For Supervisors ONLY

Once you are happy to approve this application please request the signature of the second reviewer for this application.
You must also sign the application yourself!

Please request approval from the second reviewer for this application

Signed: This form was signed by Preetha VK (preetha.vk@stir.ac.uk) on 25/03/2023 11:03 AM

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