Browsing by thesis submitted date"2018"
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Spatial and Coevolutionary Dynamics of Cooperation
Cooperation is ubiquitous across taxa in the animal kingdom. For example, microbes cooperate in producing antibiotic-resistant biofilms, mammals and birds collectively mob predators, and humans cooperate in utilization of ... -
Speech enhancement using deep mixture of experts
Speech enhancement is at the heart of many applications such as speech com- munication, automatic speech recognition, hearing aids etc. In this work, we consider the speech enhancement under the framework of multiple ... -
Stabilized finite element schemes for computations of viscoelastic free-surface and two-phase flows
Viscoelastic flows can be found in a wide range of industrial and commercial applications such as enhanced oil recovery, pesticide deposition, medicinal/pharmaceutical sprays, drug delivery, injection molding, polymer ... -
State and Parameter Estimation in Water Distribution Systems
Water Distribution Systems (WDS) are one of the most important infrastructures in a society, which has a direct impact on human lives. Water authorities around the world are expected to supply the required amount of water ... -
Stationary diesel exhaust treatment by blending discharge plasma/ozone with industry wastes: a study on abatement of NOx and THC
Increased usage of fossil fuels, especially diesel, has made a large impact on the environment in the form of rise in global temperature, increased acidity in the rain water, decreased yield in vegetation and numerous ... -
Stimulus statistics and HCN current mediated resonance sets the scale of input-output mapping in Stellate cells of the Medial Entorhinal Cortex
The functional significance of the computations performed by Stellate cells of the Medial Entorhinal Cortex, proven time and again, makes them insightful, yet intriguing. The gradients of the intrinsic properties of these ... -
Stochastic Approximation with Markov Noise: Analysis and applications in reinforcement learning
Stochastic approximation algorithms are sequential non-parametric methods for finding a zero or minimum of a function in the situation where only the noisy observations of the function values are available. Two time-scale ... -
Strain Hardening in Extruded Pure Magnesium
There has been a surge in interest in wrought magnesium alloys for structural applications in automotive industry. However, the application of wrought alloys is limited by its poor plasticity, due to its inherent strong ... -
Strain-rate Dependence of Rock Joint Strength and Related Stability of Slopes and Tunnels
Understanding the strain rate-dependent strength behavior of rock joints is important since displacement rates along rock joints in field can exceed the suggested displacement rates (0.02 mm/min-0.5 mm/min) for laboratory ... -
Structural and functional studies on DNA synthesis and repair proteins
The work reported in this thesis includes structural and functional studies on thymidylate kinase and RecFOR pathway proteins from Thermus thermophilus HB8. In the first part, a study was performed on the thymidylate ... -
Structural and magnetic properties of Al-doped yttrium iron aluminum garnet and optical properties of Mn, Sr, Fe-doped ZnO prepared by solution combustion method
The structural and magnetic properties of Al substituted yttrium-iron garnet (Y3AlxFe5-xO12, x = 0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 1.0, 1.2, 1.4, 1.6 and 1.8) ceramic powders synthesized using solution combustion method ... -
Structural and mechanistic studies on Staphylococcal RNA degrading enzymes and multienzyme complexes
RNA degrading enzymes and multi-enzyme complexes govern a variety of cellular processes. The role of these enzymes and multi-enzyme assemblies has been suggested to govern gene expression levels in bacteria with modulations ... -
The Structural Chemistry of Boron, Borospherenes and Borophenes: A Computational Study
Structural complexity is one of the characteristics of boron chemistry. The 3D solids formed from icosahedral B12 units is thought of as most favorable arrangement for boron allotropes. However, recent discoveries in this ... -
Structural dynamic testing for seismic response simulation and time variant reliability estimation
The research work reported in this thesis addresses a few problems which arise in the context of experimental dynamic testing of engineering structures under earthquake loads. Firstly, we consider the problem of characterizing ... -
Structural Health Monitoring with Laser Doppler Imaging of Ultrasonic Guided Waves
This thesis deals with ultrasonic guided wave based non-destructive inspection and health monitoring of aircraft structural components using a non-contact sensing scheme based on laser Doppler scanning imaging technique. ... -
Structural Reliability Estimation Using Markov Chain Splitting and Girsanov’s Transformation Based Methods
The work reported in this thesis is in the area of Monte Carlo simulation based methods for structural reliability estimation with special focus on strategies to reduce sampling variance of the estimator for the probability ... -
Structural, Magnetic and Electrical Studies of Multiferroic BiFeO3 and CuO Epitaxial Thin Films
The multiferroics are an important class of multifunctional material which simultaneously possess spontaneous ferroelectric polarization and magnetic ordering. If there exists a coupling between the ferroelectricity and ... -
Structure analysis of lectin and lectin-like domains from Entamoeba histolytica
Lectins are a diverse group of proteins which can recognize different types of carbohydrates specifically and reversibly. Though first characterized in plants, lectins have now been identified in all other forms of life. ... -
Structure and Dynamics of a Tropical Dry Forest Plant Community
This thesis is spurred by the overarching question “why is a plant where it is in space and time?”, which, when asked in different global communities over the last century or so, has contributed to the development of general ... -
Structure and Dynamics of Fluids Under Nanoscale Confinement
Fluid molecules confined between solid surfaces separated by a few nanometers are of considerable interest in nanoscience and nanotechnology as they undergo structural and dynamical transitions absent in their corresponding ...