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Exploring Fairness and Causality in Online Decision-Making
Online decision-making under uncertainty is a fundamental aspect of numerous real-world problems across various domains, including online resource allocation, crowd-sourcing, and online advertising. Multi-Armed Bandits ... -
Exploring Hydrological Processes, Modeling Decisions, and Deep Learning for Improved Hydrologic Assessment
Hydrological modeling is complicated by the intricate challenges and uncertainties associated with understanding hydrological processes. This thesis aims at answering some of the key research questions related to ... -
Exploring Hyperbranched Polymers as Multifunctional Scaffolds
Hyperbranched polymers (HBPs) are highly branched macromolecules that exhibit excellent solubility, low melt viscosity, and they possess a multitude of modifiable peripheral functional groups.1 Unlike their structurally ... -
Exploring Intermolecular Space By Charge Density Analysis In Molecular Crystals
(2013-06-21)The thesis entitled “Exploring Intermolecular Space by Charge Density Analysis in Molecular Crystals” consists of five chapters. A short introductory note highlights the importance of intermolecular interactions and presents ... -
Exploring Nature's Inventory: Investigating the Role of Amide to Thioamide Substitution on Protein Stability
The peptide backbone holds a protein together and plays a crucial role in guiding its three-dimentional structure. The tertiary structure of proteins regulates several biological processes. Therefore, peptide bond modification ... -
Exploring New Designs of Amphiphilic Graft Copolymers and Forays into 2D Polymers
Amphiphilic polymers, wherein two or more immiscible polymeric segments are connected covalently, form an interesting class of macromolecules that can self-assemble in block selective solvents as well as in bulk, to exhibit ... -
Exploring one and two-channel Kondo effect and investigating dielectric properties in ferrimagentic nanocomposites of LaNiO3 and CoFe2O4
The Kondo effect is a well-known and intensely studied phenomenon in condensed matter physics. After the theoretical prediction of Zawadowski and Noizères about the two-channel Kondo (2CK) effect, several successful attempts ... -
Exploring One-dimensional Micromechanical Resonators with Residual Stresses for Potential Sensing Applications and Measurement of Mechanical Properties
Recently the domain of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) has seen an unprecedented rise in use of varieties of new materials other than the conventional silicon and related materials originally borrowed from semiconductor ... -
Exploring Polynomial Convexity Of Certain Classes Of Sets
(2011-07-18)Let K be a compact subset of Cn . The polynomially convex hull of K is defined as The compact set K is said to be polynomially convex if = K. A closed subset is said to be locally polynomially convex at if there ... -
Exploring Protein-Nucleic Acid Interactions Using Graph And Network Approaches
(2009-09-22)The flow of genetic information from genes to proteins is mediated through proteins which interact with the nucleic acids at several stages to successfully transmit the information from the nucleus to the cell cytoplasm. ... -
Exploring Scalable Material Strategies Towards the Practical Metal-Sulfur Batteries
Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) dominate the market of portable electronic devices and currently serve as the stand-alone power source for electric vehicles. LiBs are approaching their theoretical energy density limit, ... -
Exploring Scalar-Tensor Theories of Gravity in Light of Tensions and Anomalies in Standard Cosmology
The $\Lambda$CDM model, the standard model of cosmology, has been highly successful in describing a wide range of cosmological observations. However, in the era of precision cosmology, it faces increasing challenges in the ... -
Exploring Single-Chain Collapse Transition in Periodically Grafted Amphiphilic Polymers
Synthetic polymers that emulate the complexity and responsiveness of biological macromolecules are at the forefront of modern materials research. One challenge in this field is to design polymer systems that can fold or ... -
Exploring Soft Matter and Modified-Liquid Electrolytes for Alkali metal (Li, Na) Based Rechargeable Batteries
The current upsurge in demand for high energy density batteries for applications across industries ranging from small scale portable electronics, electric automobiles to storage grids, has led to research in next generation, ... -
Exploring Structure and Reactions : Computational Studies on Three-Membered Rings, Metal-Boron Multiple Bonds and Biradical Reactions
(2018-04-06)The utility of computational study lies not only in rationalizing a chemical phenomenon but also in its predictive value. Broadly, the scope of my research work includes understanding of the structure and bonding of molecules ... -
Exploring the atomic-level solute-defect interactions for designing high-performance disordered Ni-Co base alloys and ordered Ni base superalloys
For structural applications, a major section of high-strength alloys, such as steels, superalloys, etc., has a base element of iron, nickel, cobalt, titanium, aluminium or their combinations. Such materials enable ... -
Exploring the Evolution of Cellobiose Utilization in Shigella Sonnei And the Conservation of ChbG Orthologs in Eukaryotes
(2017-10-11)The chb operon constitutes the genes essential for utilization of chitooligosaccharides in Escherichia coli and related species. The six genes of the operon code for a transcriptional regulator (ChbR) of the operon, a ... -
Exploring the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect and Electron-Electron Interactions in ABA Trilayer Graphene through Electric Fields
Since the discovery of graphene (a single sheet of carbon atoms) in 2004, the field has expanded with groundbreaking discoveries like the Quantum Hall effect, correlated phenomena, superconductivity, and ferromagnetism. ... -
Exploring the Fundamental Limits of Information-Theoretically Secure Key Generation and DNA-Based Data Storage
In this dissertation, we carry out an exploration of the fundamental limits of information-theoretic security in two different settings: multiterminal key agreement and DNA-based data storage. Most of the dissertation ... -
Exploring the Inherent Saliency in Visual Data through Convolutional Neural Networks
Saliency plays a key role in various computer vision tasks. Extracting salient regions from images and videos has been a well-established problem in computer vision. Determining salient regions in an image or video has ...