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B, N containing π- conjugated systems: room temperature phosphorescence, fullerene complexation, and cell differentiation
Advances in heteroatom (B, N, and B-N) incorporated π-conjugated systems have attracted considerable attention because of their desirable properties and widespread applications. Substitution of isoelectronic B–N units for ... -
Bacterial cellular heterogeneity in inducible gene expression and drug susceptibility
Biological processes are inherently noisy, and such stochasticity can result in significant cell to cell variability in isogenic bacterial populations. Functionally, cellular heterogeneity can have significant impact on ... -
Bacterial transformation of nitroaromatic compounds and its implicatins in detoxification
Nitroaromatic compounds form a major group of environmental pollutants because of their high toxicity, widespread use, and recalcitrance to microbial degradation. The studies incorporated in this thesis aimed at understanding ... -
Balancing Money and Time for OLAP Queries on Cloud Databases
(2017-12-16)Enterprise Database Management Systems (DBMSs) have to contend with resource-intensive and time-varying workloads, making them well-suited candidates for migration to cloud plat-forms { specifically, they can dynamically ... -
Ballast-Free Variable-Speed Generation for Standalone and Grid-Connected Micro-Hydel Power Plants
(2017-12-12)Concerns about climate change brought about by the increasing usage of fossil fuels has made it imperative to develop sustainable energy usage based on renewable sources. Micro-hydel plants are an important source of ... -
Balloon-borne far infrared observations of galactic star forming regions
Stars are born predominantly within dense cores of giant molecular clouds having number densities > 10? cm?³. This premise is strongly supported by a wealth of observations showing that the hallmarks of newly formed ... -
Band-matched transport layers and intrinsically stable perovskite solar cells for application to perovskite Si tandem cells
Hybrid perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells offer low-cost alternatives to the commercially established silicon solar cells. In this thesis, we present the material and device optimizations of the subcells that can be ... -
Bandit Algorithms: Fairness, Welfare, and Applications in Causal Inference
We study regret in online learning from a welfarist perspective and explore an application of bandit algorithms in causal inference. We introduce Nash regret, which measures the difference between the optimal action ... -
Barrier Coverage using UAVs and Camera Sensors
With advancements in camera sensor technology, camera sensor networks are increasingly utilized for border surveillance. UAVs equipped with downward-facing cameras also serve as effective sensors, and their features, ... -
Barrier Function Inspired Reward Shaping in Reinforcement Learning
Reinforcement Learning (RL) has progressed from simple control tasks to complex real-world challenges with large state spaces. During initial iterations of training in most Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms, agents ... -
Basic studies on electromechanical power sources - Voltage transients, alternating current impedance and steady state discharge characteristics of magnesium-manganese dioxide dry cells and supplementary investigation on titanium-substrate cobalt oxide and magnetite anode development for electrosynthesis
The extended shelf life of high-energy primary batteries based on lithium, magnesium, and aluminum is primarily attributed to the presence of a protective passive film on the surface of the reactive metal anode. Evaluating ... -
Batch Processsor Scheduling - A Class Of Problems In Steel Casting Foundries
(2010-09-15)Modern manufacturing systems need new types of scheduling methods. While traditional scheduling methods are primarily concerned with sequencing of jobs, modern manufacturing environments provide the additional possibility ... -
Battery Buffered Stiff Micro Grid Structure For A Variable Speed Slip Ring Induction Machine Based Wind Generation System
(2010-04-12)Electric power has become a basic necessity of human life. The major share of electric power comes from fossil fuel which results in global warming and pollution. A share of generated power comes from nuclear power which ... -
Battle of Bandits: Online Learning from Subsetwise Preferences and Other Structured Feedback
The elicitation and aggregation of preferences is often the key to making better decisions. Be it a perfume company wanting to relaunch their 5 most popular fragrances, a movie recommender system trying to rank the most ... -
Bay of Bengal Circulation Features at Different Spatio-temporal Scales
The Bay of Bengal is a semi-enclosed tropical basin shaped by monsoon winds and massive freshwater input, producing a warm, low salinity, stratified upper ocean with a shallow mixed layer and a thick barrier layer in the ... -
Bay of Bengal Freshwater in the tropical Indian Ocean
The annual total continental runoff into the Bay of Bengal (BoB) is more than half the runoff into the entire tropical Indian Ocean. The net freshwater (FW) content in the Bay of Bengal mixed layer increases from a minimum ... -
Bay of Bengal freshwater in the tropical Indian Ocean
The annual total continental runoff into the Bay of Bengal (BoB) is more than half the runoff into the entire tropical Indian Ocean. The net freshwater (FW) content in the Bay of Bengal mixed layer increases from a minimum ... -
Bayes Optimal Feature Selection for Supervised Learning
(2018-02-18)The problem of feature selection is critical in several areas of machine learning and data analysis such as, for example, cancer classification using gene expression data, text categorization, etc. In this work, we consider ... -
Bayesian Accelerated Life Testing of Series Systems
(2018-01-18)Consider life testing of J-component series systems that are subjected to stress levels that are steeper than that at normal usage condition. The objective of performing such life tests, commonly known as Accelerated Life ...