Browsing by thesis submitted date"2018"
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Large Herbivore Dung Decomposition: Effects on Nutrient Cycling in a Tropical Forest of Southern India
Large herbivores can selectively feed on nutrient rich resources, resulting in regular deposition of high quality organic matter in the form of dung. In tropical forests such as in southern India it is estimated that large ... -
Liquid bridge breakup and detachment dynamics investigated using dynamic domain multiphase flow simulations
Liquid bridges, formed between two solid surfaces in close proximity are encountered in a variety of engineering and daily life applications. The dynamics of a liquid bridge including its evolution that typically involves ... -
Liquid Jet in Swirling Cross Flow
Liquid jets in cross flows (JICF) have been an important part of spray research in the last few decades owing to the wide spectrum of applications ranging from agricultural sprays to aircraft gas turbine engines. However, ... -
Living on the Edge A Study of Boundary Modes In Two-dimensional Topological Systems
In the last few decades an enormous amount of research has been carried out on some novel phases of matter called topological phases which are beyond the paradigm of Landau’s theory of symmetry breaking. One of the ... -
Local Interactions, Spatial Patterns and Ecosystem Stability
Many ecosystems exhibit striking patterns in the spatial distribution of organisms, for example, patterns of clumping and dispersion in semi-arid vegetation, mussel in intertidal beds and even sea-grass and macroalgae. ... -
Mass Transport in Cu-Interlayer-Si Systems under Various Thermo-Electro-Mechanical Excursions
This work falls in general area of the electro-thermo-mechanical driven mass transport in Cu-Si systems, which often finds relevance while accessing reliability issues pertaining to thin film interconnects in microelectronic ... -
Materials, Processes and Device Design for High Performance, Sub-thermionic MoS2 FETs
The shrinking of the field-effect transistor (FET), commonly termed CMOS scaling, has revolutionised the semiconductor industry and impacted most aspects of human life. However, this decades-long successful trend of scaling ... -
Matrix cracking in polymer matrix composites under static and fatigue loading
Matrix cracking is the first and most dominant mode of damage in polymer matrix composite (PMC) laminates resulting in significant stiffness degradation under static and fatigue loading. Matrix crack evolution and its ... -
Measurement of the viral phenomenon: New methodological exploration
Viral phenomenon in marketing refers to the rapid growth and adoption pattern of a product, akin to a biological virus. Viral phenomenon can be defined as “a word-of-mouth diffusion process wherein a message is actively ... -
Mechanical Behavior of a Directionally Solidified Nickel-based Superalloy Su 247LC DS at Elevated Temperature
Directionally solidified Nickel-based superalloys are the workhorse for the Jet Engine turbine rotor blades and nozzle guide vanes (NGV) applications. Su 247LC DS is the material used for turbine rotor blades and NGVs of ... -
Mechanisms of Dopaminergic Neurodegeneration in Parkinson's Disease
(2018-07-18)Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a debilitating movement disorder. The cardinal symptoms of PD are bradykinesia, resting tremors and rigidity. PD is characterized by degeneration of dopaminergic neurons of A9 region, substantia ... -
Mechanistic insights into the effects and applications of shockwaves in prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms
Shock waves are non-linear waves propagating at speeds greater than the speed of sound, with a unique characteristic of instantaneously increasing the pressure, temperature and density of the medium through which they ... -
Mechanistic insights into the replication of Sesbania mosaic virus
The present thesis deals with the mechanism of replication of Sesbania mosaic virus (SeMV), which belongs to the genus sobemoviruses. Sobemoviruses are single stranded positive sense RNA viruses which infect both mono and ... -
Mechanistic Studies of Transfer Hydrogenation Catalyzed by Ru(ll)-Half-Sandwich and Group 6 NHC complexes
The thesis explores the mechanistic aspects of transfer hydrogenation of ketones and hydrosilylation of imines; two commonly used organic transformations catalyzed by ruthenium half-sandwich complexes of 2-oxazolidinethiones, ... -
Metal Sulphide Based Semiconductors for Solar Photon Energy Harvesting
Sun light is a relatively infinite source of energy available on the earth compared to all other renewable and non-renewable energy sources put together. Harvesting solar photons in an effective and efficient manner can ... -
Micro-spectroscopic studies on Mycobacteria & Cancer cells
Evasion of the immune system is a key hallmark of cancer progression. Developing strategies that diagnose early the immune-cancer synapse may lead to long term cures from these aggressive cancers. We aimed to develop optical ... -
Microstructure and mechanical properties of a 3D printed titanium alloy
The selective laser melting (SLM) process is increasingly being adopted for the manufacturing of metal parts as it provides better design flexibility and has the capability to produce near net shape complex parts, which ... -
Microwave synthesis of superparamagnetic cobalt-ferrite thin films for RF CMOS applications
In the era of 5G technologies, the emphasis is on getting all the devices, active or passive to work in high frequencies. Higher efficiency chips can be obtained by combining both the active and passive devices on a single ... -
Mode Engineering in Micro Ring Resonators and Their Application
Silicon Photonics (SiP) has emerged as the prominent platform for Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs). CMOS technology compatible fabrication processes, high index contrast of the waveguide core-cladding leading to sharp ... -
Model Checking Temporal Properties of Presburger Counter Systems
Counter systems are a well-known and powerful modeling notation for specifying infnite state systems. In this thesis we target the problem of checking temporal properties of counter systems. We address three predominant ...