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GRACE-based Assessment of Climatic Controls on Hydrological Variables
Anthropogenic climate change is now well-established and is expected to have serious implications on Terrestrial Hydrologic cycle. This inspired scientific investigation to assess the impact of various climatic processes ... -
Grain Boundary Processes In High Temperature Densification And Deformation Of Nanocrystalline Zirconia
(2011-02-08)Grain boundary processes play a major role in controlling different rate processes in yttria stabilized tetragonal zirconia. The present study concentrated on rate processes in tetragonal zirconia, which were significantly ... -
Granular Media Supported Microbial Remediation of Nitrate Contaminated Drinking Water
(2018-01-11)Increasing nitrate concentration in ground water from improper disposal of sewage and excessive use of fertilizers is deleterious to human health as ingestion of nitrate contaminated water can cause methaemoglobinemia in ... -
Graph Clustering Approaches for Speaker Diarization of Conversational Speech
In this era of advanced machine intelligence, real-world speech applications need to be equipped to deal with conversations involving multiple speakers. An essential first step in speech information extraction from ... -
Graph Models For Query Focused Text Summarization And Assessment Of Machine Translation Using Stopwords
(2014-04-09)Text summarization is the task of generating a shortened version of the original text where core ideas of the original text are retained. In this work, we focus on query focused summarization. The task is to generate the ... -
Graph Neural Networks with Parallel Local Neighborhood Aggregations
Graph neural networks (GNNs) have become very popular for processing and analyzing graph-structured data in the last few years. Using message passing as their basic building blocks that aggregate information from neighborhoods, ... -
Graph Spectral Methods for Analysis of Protein Structures
Network representation of protein structures is an information-rich mode of examining protein structure, dynamics and its interactions with biomolecules. Graph spectral methods are extremely useful and powerful in analysing ... -
Graphene And Carbon Nanotubes : Field Induced Doping, Interaction With Nucleobases, Confined Water And Sensors
(2010-12-08)This thesis presents experimental and related theoretical studies of single layer graphene, bilayer graphene and single walled carbon nanotubes. The thesis is divided into three parts; the first part describes the phonon ... -
Graphene and Graphyne based three dimensional porous architectures
The main objective of the thesis is to introduce porous structure into graphene/graphene oxide materials and study their effects on various physics/chemistry related applications. Introduction of porosity may be achieved ... -
Graphene based materials : Mechanistic insights into corrosion inhibition and supercapacitance
In the contemporary scenario, protecting metals and alloys from deterioration through the coating is the main concern that extracts worldwide attention. Although existing coating processes and methods such as epoxy ... -
Graphene derivatives sandwiched with porous polyvinylidene fluoride based thin film composite membranes for effective water remediation
Safe drinking water for all is perhaps one of the prime nexus of the 21st century and one of the prime sustainable development goals. Around 1.2 billion people still lack access to safe potable water, while around 2.6 ... -
Graphene Nanostructures : A Theoretical Study Of Electronic, Magnetic And Structural Properties
(2014-09-26)Graphene is a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in honeycomb lattice. Over a long period of time it was treated as a hypothetical material to understand the properties of other allotropes of carbon, such as graphite, ... -
Graphite Oxide And Graphite Oxide-Based Composites : Physicochemical And Electrochemical Studies
(2013-07-19)One of the major directions of research in the area of materials science is to impart multifunctionalities to materials. Carbon stands on the top of the list to provide various multifunctional materials. It exists in all ... -
Grassmannian Fusion Frames for Block Sparse Recovery and Its Application to Burst Error Correction
(2018-05-01)Fusion frames and block sparse recovery are of interest in signal processing and communication applications. In these applications it is required that the fusion frame have some desirable properties. One such requirement ... -
Gravitational Waves From Inspiralling Compact Binaries : 3PN Polarisations, Angular Momentum Flux And Applications To Astrophysics And Cosmology
(2010-09-03)Binary systems comprising of compact objects like neutron stars (NS) and/or black holes (BH) lose their energy and angular momentum via gravitational waves (GW). Radiation reaction due to the emission of GW results in a ... -
Gravity flow of granular materials through a vertical channel
Grains and powders are the second most widely used materials in industries and daily life after simple fluids. There are a variety of granular materials such as food grains, detergents, tablets and capsules, fertilizers, ... -
The Green's Function, the Bergman Kernel and Quadrature Domains in Cn
(2018-06-08)In the first part of this thesis, we prove two density theorems for quadrature domains in Cn ,n≥2. It is shown that quadrature domains are dense in the class of all product domains of the form D×Ωwhere D⊂Cn−1 is a smoothly ... -
Grey Optimization For Uncertainty Modeling In Water Resources Systems
(2009-07-08)In this study, methodologies for modeling grey uncertainty in water resources systems are developed, specifically for the problems in two identified areas in water resources: waste load allocation in streams and floodplain ... -
Grid Interactive Quality AC Power Supply With Switching Arm Based Integrated Magnetics For Dynamically Controlled Interconnection Among Multiple Sources And Loads
(2013-09-17)The extensive use of nonlinear loads in today’s world has inspired considerable research interest in the area of power quality improvement. This thesis proposes an integrated magnetics based compact solution which provides ...