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Sensory Ecology Of Acoustic Communication In The Tropical Bushcricket Genus Mecopoda : Mechanisms And Evolution Of Synchrony
(2009-07-10)In this thesis, I characterise five species of the bushcricket genus Mecopoda with respect to their acoustic signals and morphology and investigate the phenomenon of acoustic synchrony in one of these five species: Mecopoda ... -
Sentiment-Driven Topic Analysis Of Song Lyrics
(2015-08-17)Sentiment Analysis is an area of Computer Science that deals with the impact a document makes on a user. The very field is further sub-divided into Opinion Mining and Emotion Analysis, the latter of which is the basis for ... -
Separated Local Field NMR Spectroscopy In Partially Ordered Systems - New Methodologies And Applications
(2010-09-06)Dipolar couplings are one of the major source of structural information. Due to their dependence on the distance between the nuclei and the angle of orientation of the dipolar vector with respect to the magnetic field, ... -
Separation control in diverging channels
The work presented herein consists of the separation control methods to minimize losses and recover as much velocity head as possible after the divergence in a straight-walled diverging channel in the subcritical flow ... -
Sequence Alignment to Cyclic Pangenome Graphs
The growing availability of genome sequences of several species, including humans, has created the opportunity to utilize multiple reference genomes for bioinformatics analyses and improve the accuracy of genome resequencing ... -
Sequence Analysis And Design Of Immunogens From The Stem Domain Of Influenza Hemagglutinin
(2013-07-10)Influenza is an important respiratory pathogen that infects several million people each year. Currently available flu vaccines have to be updated regularly in order to be effective as the virus changes its composition by ... -
Sequence And Structural Determinants of Helices in Membrane Proteins
(2017-09-23)Membrane proteins roughly constitute 30% of open reading frames in a genome and form 70% of current drug targets. They are classified as integral, peripheral membrane proteins and polypeptide toxins. α-helices and β -strands ... -
Sequential Controlled Sensing to Detect an Anomalous Process
In this thesis, we study the problem of identifying an anomalous arm in a multi-armed bandit as quickly as possible, subject to an upper bound on the error probability. Also known as odd arm identification, this problem ... -
Sequential Decision Making with Risk, Offline Data and External Influence: Bandits and Reinforcement Learning
Reinforcement Learning (RL) serves as a foundational framework for addressing sequential decision-making problems under uncertainty. In recent years, extensive research in this domain has led to significant advancements ... -
Sequential Detection Based Cooperative Spectrum Sensing Algorithms For Cognitive Radio
(2011-07-11)Cognitive radios are the radios which use spectrum licensed to other users. For this, they perform Radio Environment Analysis, identify the Spectral holes and then operate in those holes. We consider the problem of Spectrum ... -
Sequential Transfer in Multi-Armed Bandits using Reward Samples
We consider a sequential multi-task problem, where each task is modeled as a stochastic multi-armed bandit with K arms. We study the problem of transfer learning in this setting and propose algorithms based on UCB to ... -
Serendipitous Assembly Of 3d Metal-Ion Polyclusters : Structures, Magnetic Behavior And Theoretical Studies
(2017-02-22)The last two decades have seen extensive growth in interest in metal-ion assemblies, especially for building new polynuclear exchange-coupled magnetic systems. However, the concept of designing polynuclear extended structures ... -
Service quality of Intercity Bus transport
Public transportation has become one of the cornerstones for country’s infrastructure development. Road transportation is one of the important means of public transportation. Within road transportation, a large number of ... -
Service scheduling with Service, Waiting and Dissatisfaction costs
Service or job scheduling problems arise in many contexts such as cloud computing, task scheduling in CPUs, traffic routing and scheduling, production scheduling in plants, scheduling charging of electric vehicles (EVs), ... -
Sexual Selection On Elephant Tusks
(2017-06-12)Darwin was troubled by elaborate male traits observed in many species that are seemingly maladaptive for survival, the peacock’s tail being the most iconic of all. He wrote "The sight of a feather in a peacock’s tail, ... -
Shaking Table Studies on Seismic Response of Unreinforced and Geosynthetic Reinforced Soil Slopes
Experiences from recent earthquake records all over the world suggest that reinforced soil slopes provide better resistance to the seismic forces and possess higher yield accelerations compared to unreinforced slopes. ... -
Shaking Table Tests to Study the Influence of Ground Motion, Soil and Site Parameters on the Initiation of Liquefaction in Sands
(2018-01-12)Liquefaction is a phenomenon in which soil loses a large percentage of its shear resistance due to increased pore water pressure and flows like a liquid. Undrained cyclic loading conditions during earthquakes cause ...