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Advancements in Nucleic Acid Lateral Flow Assay
In recent decades, the demand for rapid and precise nucleic acid amplification tests (NAATs) has grown significantly, driven by the need to address pandemics like COVID-19 and diagnose infectious diseases such as ... -
Aggregate and Disaggregate-level Models of Public Transit Ridership in Bengaluru, India
Ridership forecasting models are valuable tools for public transit agencies to assess and quantify the possible impacts of their operational strategies and service improvements on transit demand and revenue. Although ... -
Analog Compute for Edge-AI: Devices, Circuits & SoC
Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence research has yielded models with huge computational complexities to solve a multitude of problems. These complex models require substantial computational resources to perform ... -
Arabian Sea High Salinity Core in the Bay of Bengal
The Summer Monsoon Current (SMC) advects high salinity water from the Arabian Sea into the Bay of Bengal (BoB) during the summer monsoon. This high salinity water subducts and enters the BoB as a subsurface high salinity ... -
Astroglial development as the basis for the effects of early life stress on adult depressive-like behavior
This thesis investigates the enduring effects of early-life stress, specifically maternal separation, on astroglial population and the subsequent behavioral outcomes in adult mice. While the persistent impact of early-life ... -
Bandit Algorithms: Fairness, Welfare, and Applications in Causal Inference
We study regret in online learning from a welfarist perspective and explore an application of bandit algorithms in causal inference. We introduce Nash regret, which measures the difference between the optimal action ... -
Biophysics of focal adhesion and cytoskeletal remodeling under fluid shear
Mechanosensors play a vital role in how cells respond to external forces, impacting cell-substrate adhesions through integrin clustering and focal adhesion formation associated with actomyosin contractility. Adhesions ... -
A co-kurtosis tensor based featurization of chemistry for scalable combustion simulations
For turbulent reacting flow systems, identification of low-dimensional representations of the thermo-chemical state space is vitally important, primarily to significantly reduce the computational cost of device-scale ... -
Decentralized information flow control for the robot operating system
The Robot Operating System (ROS) is a popular open-source middleware widely used in the robotics community. While ROS provides extensive support for robotic application develop- ment, it lacks certain fundamental security ... -
Design and Performance Analyses of Osculating Cone Waveriders
Modern mission requirements for long-range maneuverable hypersonic vehicles for space, military, and transportation applications necessitate vehicle design innovations. The primary challenges that a hypersonic vehicle ... -
Development of High Throughput Intelligent Indoor Optical Wireless Communication Systems
The proliferation of mobile devices in indoor environments has led to insatiable demand for high-speed, high-bandwidth data connectivity. Optical wireless communication (OWC) is seen as a promising technology capable of ... -
Effects of 3d Morphological Characteristics of Sand on Multi-scale Intergranular and Sand-geosynthetic Interactions
To understand the process of mobilization of shear strength in sands and sand-geosynthetic interfaces at a fundamental level, it is essential to precisely characterize the size and shape of the grains and the shear-induced ... -
Evaluation Frameworks for Informed Multi-Site Multi-Variate Hydrological Assessment
The process of choosing a suitable hydrological model, calibrating it, and evaluating its performance poses intricate challenges for a modeler. The process of model selection is frequently influenced by the modeller's ... -
An Explainable Hierarchical Class Attention Model for Legal Appeal Automation
Judicial systems worldwide are overburdened due to the limited number of legal professionals. The digitization of legal processes has resulted in abundant legal data, paving the way for the development of legal automation ... -
Flux Rate Controlled Harmonic Filtering of Integrated Magnetic-Based Isolated-Inverter Topologies and Dynamically Variable Inductors
An intermediate filtering stage is mandatory to deliver smooth sinusoidal output voltage across the load. Several multilevel and modular multilevel-based inverter topologies are reported in the literature to reduce the ... -
Geometry of normed linear spaces in light of Birkhoff-James orthogonality
In this thesis, we have tried to understand the geometry of normed spaces in the light of Birkhoff-James orthogonality. Using the first two chapters to give introductory notes and to establish relevant notations and ... -
An importance sampling in N Sphere Monte Carlo and its performance analysis for high dimensional integration
Statistical methods for estimating integrals are indispensable when the number of dimensions (parameters) become greater than ~ 10, where numerical methods are unviable in general. Well-known statistical methods like ... -
Improved Derivative-based Regularizations for Imaging Inverse problems
Images undergo degradation during the capturing process due to physical limitations inherent to the capturing devices. Addressing this degradation and recovering high-quality images constitute the image recovery problem, ... -
Insights into Structure-Property Relationships via First Principles and Machine Learning Approaches
The increasing concerns about a sustainable future demand accelerated design and development of new materials with enhanced properties. The process of material development immensely depends on the structure-to-property ... -
Integration of Drones/Uavs into Indian Civil National Airspace System, Regulatory Framework for Commercial Usage of Drones
Tremendous growth has occurred in drone or unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) usage in the military and civilian sector over the past several years, and this burgeoning industry brings tremendous potential economic and social ...