Browsing School of Science LYIT by Title
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Factors affecting the concentration of domoic acid in scallop, pecten maximus
(Letterkenny Institute of Technology, 2006)Domoic acid, a neurotoxin produced by some Pseudo-nitzschia species, can accumulate in shellfish, consumption of which can result in Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning. Since its detection in Irish king scallop, Pecten maximus, ... -
Fingerprint watermarking using svd and dwt based steganography to enhance security
(Letterkenny Institute of Technology, 2015-09-15)Identification of persons by way of biometric features has evolved significantly over the years. During this time, biometric recognition has received much attention due to its need for security. Amongst the many existing ... -
High performance liquid chromatography method development and chemometric analysis of ecstasy and cocaine
(Letterkenny Institute of Technology, 2011)Consumption of illegal drugs of abuse remains a major social issue aligned with a global law-enforcement priority. Forensic analysts are faced with the challenge of continually developing sophisticated methods of ... -
An implementation and evaluation of PCI DSS 3.0 for E-Commerce in a testing environment
(Letterkenny Institute of Technology, 2015-03)Threats to personal payment card information are continually on the rise. To implement a formal process for protecting this information PCI DSS was created. However credit card fraud is still rising. This leads to the ... -
Improving compliance with Bluetooth device detection
(Letterkenny Institute of Technology, 2015-05)Attributed to Joshua Wright (2012) “Security will not get better until tools for practical exploration of the attack surface are made available”. With Bluetooth enabled but discovery mode turned off, auditing for Bluetooth ... -
The interaction between A20 and the NR4A subfamily of nuclear receptors in the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis
(Letterkenny Institute of Technology, 2011)Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, progressive inflammatory disease that affects nearly 1 % of the world’s population. RA is characterized by inflammation of the synovial joints leading to joint damage which can ... -
Investigation of indoor positioning based on WLAN 802.11
(Letterkenny Institute of Technology, 2013-08)The need for location based services has dramatically increased within the past few years, especially with the popularity and capability of mobile device such as smart phones and tablets. The limitation of GPS for indoor ... -
Legal, ethical & social issues in the case of an intrusive remote monitoring software
(The Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science, 2012-10)In 2008, a laptop was stolen from a high school student in the USA. The laptop was being monitored by remote recovery software. The thief sold the laptop in question to another student who in turn sold it to a teacher. The ... -
Lightweight cryptography and authentication protocols for secure communications between resource-limited devices and wireless sensor networks: evaluation and implementation
(Letterkenny Institute of Technology, 2010)This dissertation examines the theoretical context for the security of wireless communication between ubiquitous computing devices and presents an implementation that addresses this need. The number of Resource-Limited ... -
Magnumserver pages: improvements and extensions to java server pages
(Letterkenny Institute of Technology, 2005)Today vast amounts of services and information are provided by the WWW. By its very nature, the information involved is changeable; hence static web pages are no longer adequate and methods of coping with dynamic ... -
Malware analysis and antivirus signature creation
(Letterkenny Institute of Technology, 2015-05)The rapid advances social media, educational tools and communications platforms available today have expanded the attack landscape through which the malicious user can propagate their work can carry out damaging attacks. ... -
Mental health nursing students' experience of stress: burdened by a heavy load
(Blackwell Publishers Limited., 2009)This paper reports research outcomes of a study into personal stress experienced by mental health student nurses undertaking a diploma programme in Ireland. It uses a phenomenological research approach. The sample was ... -
A novel approach to digital watermarking, exploiting colour spaces
(Letterkenny Institute of Technology, 2011)Watermarking is the process of embedding information in a carrier in order to protect the ownership of text, music, video and images, while steganography is the art of hiding information. Normally watermarks are embedded ... -
Performance comparison of enterprise applications on mobile operating systems
(Telkomnika, 2011-12)Due to the advances in mobile phone technology, Smartphones have the ability to access web services within applications the user interacts with to retrieve and send information from and to web services. As Smartphones have ... -
A preliminary exploration of database performance for use with ‘big data’ projects in the aviation industry
(Letterkenny Institute of Technology, 2014)This thesis will demonstrate the effectiveness of processing data for the airline industry using both a MariaDB and MongoDB database. Conclusions will be drawn on pertinent issues such as the performance of processing large ... -
Prose warping for realtime animation
(Letterkenny Institute of Technology, 2007)3D computer games with animated characters are restricted to the animations provided by an animator. This thesis explores a method for having a character perform different animations using only simple base animations ... -
Searchable symmetric encryption (sse): a mechanism for searching symmetrically encrypted data stored in the Cloud
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Stealth analysis of Network Topology using Spanning Tree Protocol
(Letterkenny Institute of Technology, 2015-05)Almost every network over the last 30 years is built on Spanning Tree Protocol (STP). This protocol makes topology information available to individual switches by exchanging Bridge Protocol Data Units (BPDUs) containing ... -
Synthesis and characterisation of novel astaxanthin metal complexes
(Letterkenny Institute of Technology, 2015-10)Astaxanthin is produced in a wide range of organisms, its extractability from the native Irish brown crab (Cancer pagurus) was carried out using glacial acetic acid. The extractable natural astaxanthin yield is quantified ... -
Synthesis and characterisation of some osmium and ruthenium complexes and the application of Os(bpy)2-(pyridine-4-COOH)-CI in an electrochemical DNA biosensor
(Letterkenny Institute of Technology, 2008)This thesis details the synthesis and characterisation of seven osmium and ruthenium bipyridyl complexes, reports on their electrochemical characteristics and outlines an application for one of the synthesised complexes ...