The Dissertation/FYP thread 2008

[B&W]

Commencing brightening..

 

[gumbald]

Err, maybe a clue as to what's going on when it's not so obvious?

 

[B&W]

That's a NIDS in work on a VM, detecting suspicious network activity which in this case is port scans and the like.

Whats yours about, you making one of them masks they used in the first hannibal lecter film?

 

[gumbald]

Nope, I've detected those features just from a laser range grid of a face input.

 

[geuben]

Not sure if mine qualifies, Im in my 3rd year of a 4yr MEng Electronic Engineering degree. This years project is worth 1/4 of the year. I absolutly hate mine. "Determination of so called k-factors (sensitivity factors) for the X-ray detector on the JEOL2010F microscope", really boring and dull. I've got till friday to write about 4000 more words (6000 limit).

This years is classed as a research project, next year we have to do a group design project. I'm really hoping I get a more interesting subject and more importantly a good group.

 

[B&W]

hmm facial recognition, we did that earlier in the year. fiducial points and the like.

 

[Pho]

39K how have you managed to write that much ???!!!

my distro for my BSc CS only have around 9K

I wish I knew, at the start I was worried I wouldn't have enough pages and started bulking it out. Now I'm removing the bulk .

Obligatory screen-shot:

 

[garyh]

Commencing brightening..

Snort on Windows? Urgh! - Why didn't you do an IPS too? IDS is like 1990s

 

[R.O.S.S.I]

Music and the People - Is There A Link Between Emotional Intelligence and Music Preference in University Students.

Abstract
A survey based experiment was carried out amongst University undergraduate students aiming to illustrate any links between their levels of Emotional Intelligence and their musical preference. This was done via the use of the Emotional Intelligence Self Assessment Questionnaire (EISAQ) and the Short Test of Musical Preference (STOMP). The sample consisted solely of students (n = 50), the data was collected on their level of Emotional Intelligence as indicated via the EISAQ, and they were scored on 4 personality dimensions from the STOMP. Upon conducting a Mann-Whitney-U test of significance on the data the primary hypothesis of ‘University students scoring highly on the EISAQ will also score higher in the reflective and complex dimension of the STOMP’ was rejected (U=298.5, N1=30, N2=20, p>0.05), the secondary hypothesis of ‘Females will score higher in the reflective and complex dimension of the STOMP compared to males’ was also rejected (U=261, N1=15, N2=35, p>0.05), a further Spearmans rho correlation analysis was also conducted on EISAQ scores and the scores on the reflective and complex dimension of the STOMP, this showed no significant relationship with rs = 0.382, N = 50, p > 0.05.
From the data obtained implications for further research were debated, involving the use of other measures of Emotional Intelligence as well as the EISAQ (MSCEIT, EQ-i, and the TEIQue) and a more rounded measure of music preference (the revised version of the STOMP). Coupling these factors with a larger representative sample of University students (having obtained a sample power of 4.4%), and a deeper analysis looking at specific music genres and their correlations, may have yielded more significant results.

For those that wanted to know!

 

[edgedemon]

Edit. FYI, Mine is entirely based around Cisco IOS QoS Implementation, quite generic,but the supervisor likes it.

Im intrigued - Im in my second year and am halfway through doing 8000 word analysis of the Pakistan You tube outage and how future technologies in theory should stop it happening again if ever implemented..
I wanted to do something networky, but was a bit stumped as all the 802.xx standards are clearly defined, and well known so couldn't work out how to get a meaningful essay out of it?
Id be interested to know how you are tackling QoS - what is there thats new or not documented to write about..
The only thing I could think of as back up plan B was to look at Carrier grade Ethernet technologies - thank God I came up with the You Tube outage

 

[Nitefly]

For those that wanted to know!

I.e. do wimpy whiney and or depressing people listen to Radiohead?

Yes of course

A strong correlation!

 

[Rhumsaa]

My research project is titled: "Generation of a cell line expressing a mutant E3/19K protein of adenovirus 2: effect of the mutation on HLA and MIC downregulation"

8K limit. Due 11th June.

 

[Monkey Puzzle]

Argh, my extended essay needs to be understandable to a general scientist, with easy to understand titles like

What evidence is there for interactions with the GABA-A receptor?

but the topic isn't really suited for simple explanations, and I'm struggling to keep within the word limit. I hate having to write down references; it takes ages. Due tomorrow at 5pm.

 

[gumbald]

Think mine's cooked as much as it's going to get... 23226 was the last count. Still another week until hand-in, but another module essay still to do, still.

Also needs proof-reading by my mother, she's eagle-eyed like an eagle.

 

[TheVoice]

Here I am writing my last ever essay for my degree. Another last-minute one sadly, and annoyingly since having handed my dissertation in a few weeks ago, I'm just not feeling any pressure at all to get this one finished. Very annoying, because it has to be done. Struggling to do it without feeling any pressure to do it.

Two more exams after this and then that's my degree finished. Can't believe how quickly it's all gone by.

 

[Nitefly]

I hate having to write down references; it takes ages. Due tomorrow at 5pm.

I was shown a few days ago how to use a programme which did it all for you... shame I was told after I spent nearly a day painstaking getting ~60 references correct... (e.g. formatting, checking they were correct, alphabetical order etc)

 

[gord]

My document is now reporting 19401 words within 82 pages.

About 3/4 of the content in there I think. My final document will be 10000 main body and about 15K appendices.

Joy..

 

[peetee]

we'v all got an extension due to technical extenuating circumstances till the 9th : only up to a few thousand words atm, most people I know are only about 10k-15k which i didnt think was much at all, a few are about 18k, I think thats what Ill probably finish on if i do infact finish(POOOR motivation)

 

[Monkey Puzzle]

Hmm, stupid question; it's been a few years since I had to write my an essay with references... Should they be put alphabetically in the references section, with references in the body of the essay like

A group of gorillas may be known as a flange(Smith and Jones 1987)

, or in the order referred to in the text, as in

Anaesthetics such as Ketamine may make people think they have had an out-of-body experience 1(superscript)

References

1 Ketamine reference

???

 

[megalomanic]

do testing - on this
Update first screenshot text in program cos its wrong atm
check test design
finish screen/menu design
add pseudo to DFD lv2’s
comment on screenshots
Finish report!!11 /discussion/concl/etcetc ------start by tomorrow mid-day

...luckily my checklist is getting smaller, it's starting to come together, at last.