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Characterization of mouse Apolipoprotein L9 and investigation of its cellular functions
This thesis is divided into 3 chapters. Chapter 1, titled General Introduction, is a chapter that familiarizes the reader with the general subject matter of the thesis so that the content of Chapters 2 and 3 can ... -
Small Heat Shock Proteins from Bacteria and a Bacteriophage
Proteins can unfold during heat and other types of stress and tend to aggregate with subsequent loss of function. This event is prevented by small Heat Shock Proteins (sHSPs) acting as molecular chaperones. sHSPs do not ... -
Robust Electrochemical Sensing Techniques for Serum Creatinine Biosensor
Creatinine is an important biomarker for evaluating the renal function and its concentration in serum can be utilized for early detection of kidney disease, thyroid disorders, and muscular dystrophy. Accurate, reliable, ... -
Interference Effect of Closely Spaced Square Footings on Geocell Reinforced Sand and Clay Beds: Experimental and Numerical Studies
With rapid growth of construction rate and lack of suitable land sites for construction, placing building foundations close to each other and on soft-grounds is inevitable. When the foundations are placed close enough on ... -
Engineering Disease Models for Cardiac and Skeletal Muscle Tissues
Biomedical research aims to gain deeper insights into the mechanisms of human pathophysiology to develop improved therapies and diagnostics. Despite significant advances made in the understanding and treatment of human ... -
Hypergraph Network Models: Learning, Prediction, and Representation in the Presence of Higher-Order Relations
The very thought about “relating” objects makes us assume the relation would be “pairwise”, and not of a “higher-order” — involving possibly more than two of them at a time. Yet in reality, higher-order relations do exist ... -
Synthetic Applications of C-2 Substituted Glucal
This report concerns the development of a synthetic approach towards synthesis of seven-membered septanosides, such as, substituted oxepanes from protected 2-hydroxyglycals. Important precursors to the synthesis of the ... -
Total variation cutoff for random walks on some finite groups
This thesis studies mixing times for three random walk models. Specifically, these are random walks on the alternating group, the group of signed permutations and the complete monomial group. The details for the models are ... -
Engineering van der Waals Heterojunctions for Electronic and Optoelectronic Device Applications
Efficient preparation and characterization of layered materials and their van der Waals heterojunctions lay the foundation for various opportunities in both fundamental studies and device applications. The vast library ... -
Tuning of Multi-Band Power System Stabilizers in Multi-Machine Power Systems
Intermittent nature of renewables acts as a frequent trigger for small signal oscillations in power grid. These oscillatory modes correspond to either the rotor modes associated with the synchronous machines of conventional ... -
Numerical and experimental investigation of Process-Structure-Property relationship in Organic Photovoltaics
Organic Photovoltaics (OPVs) are considered to be potential contenders amongst the third-generation solar technologies. The primary reason for their popularity has been the possibility of applying various cost-effective ... -
Oxide Semiconductors for Silicon Tandem Solar Cells
In tandem solar cells two or more solar cells share the solar spectrum. The structure consists of two sub-cells on top of each other, with the top cell absorbing the blue photons and the bottom cells absorbing the red ... -
Polymer-based investigations into the surface chemistry of some sulphide minerals and the beneficiation of a low grade siliceous copper ore
Tanzania is endowed with rich mineral deposits containing gold, tanzanite, diamond, coal, uranium, iron ore, gemstones with low grade of the sulphide minerals namely chalcopyrite and pyrite. It is the third largest producer ... -
Methylammonium Lead Iodide thin lms grown by Pulsed Laser Deposition for Photodetector Applications
This thesis studies the fabrication and characterization of Methylammonium Lead Iodide perovskite thin films for photodetector applications. Unlike, any other perovskite halide material, Methylammonium Lead Iodide perovskite ... -
Crystalline Silicon Carbide Thin Films for Ultraviolet Detection
UV light detection has a lot of applications including secured satellite communication, solar and celestial observation and biological imaging. Wide bandgap materials are used to sense UV light. SiC is an excellent material ... -
Coulomb drag to thermopower response in dimensionally mismatched InAs nanowire-Graphene heterostructures and anisotropic noise in ReS2
Coulomb drag technique is a notable tool for probing electron-electron interaction in double-layer systems, where the momentum and energy transfer from one layer to the other layer as a result of Coulomb interaction. In ... -
Protection Schemes for Maintaining the Coordination Time Interval Between the Relays in Micro-grid
Conventional power system alone cannot meet the ever growing needs of electrical power in the world in a reliable manner. Under these circumstances, large penetration of Dis- tributed generators in the distribution level ... -
Exploration of exfoliation, functionalization and properties of MXenes via first-principles and machine learning
The monolayers of early transition metal carbides and carbonitrides named MXenes are exfoliated from the corresponding bulk MAX phases (Mn+1AXn, M = early transition metal, A = group IIIA or IVA element and X = carbon ... -
Development and Characterization of Mercury Cadmium Telluride Colloidal Quantum Dot Based Infrared Optical Sensor
Motivation of this thesis is to synthesize HgCdTe quantum dots responsive in MWIR spectral range using chemical synthesis method and develop room temperature operated MWIR focal plane array using commercial silicon ROIC ... -
Visual Speech Recognition
Visual speech recognition (VSR), or automatic lip-reading, is the task of extracting speech information from visual input. The addition of visual speech has been shown to improve the performance of traditional audio ...