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Attenuation Characteristics and Seismicity Analysis of Himalayan Region with Linear Joint Time-frequency Analysis Techniques
About 59% of the land area of the Indian subcontinent has high chances of moderate to severe earthquakes, of which the Himalayas are the most seismically active. Regardless of the high seismic activity, the seismic network ... -
Automated Meshless CFD Process using Cartesian Point Distribution
The thesis deals with the meshless methods based on generalized finite difference procedure operating on the mere distribution of points. The work per se focuses on maturing the meshless LSFD-U solver as a standard industrial ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Blast Mitigation Strategies for Marine Sandwich Structures
Blast mitigation is being researched from the time of world war II. There were full field blast tests and analytical studies on the performance of monolithic structures to mitigate blast load. Sandwich structures were also ... -
Caenorhabditis elegans-Bacteria interactions: Neuronal Regulation of Innate Immune Responses
The survival of an organism depends on its ability to sense threats and execute appropriate defense mechanisms. C. elegans is a soil-dwelling nematode that feeds on bacteria in rotting vegetation. The nematode has few ... -
Catalytic Studies with Ru and Ir Half-sandwich Complexes Bearing NHC Ligands
The thesis describes the study of arene-tethered and untethered Ru half-sandwich complexes as catalysts in the addition of hydroelements (E‒H, E = H, B, Si) across unsaturated C-C, C-N and C-O bonds and transfer hydrogenation ... -
CcdB : Stability, folding and application to design novel antibacterials
The primary amino acid sequence typically dictates the ultimate conformation of the protein. Mutations in the sequence demonstrate neutral, positive or negative effects on the structure-function relationship of the protein. ... -
Cholinergic-receptor-independent modulation of intrinsic properties of subicular neurons through inhibition of hyperpolarization-activated cyclic nucleotide-gated channels
Acetylcholine release is vital in tuning the hippocampal theta oscillations. Subiculum, the output region of the hippocampus endowed with different neuronal subtypes, also generates theta oscillations during arousal and ... -
Coarse-grained dynamics derived structural ensemble for prediction of metal binding sites of protein and phenotypic effects of variants
Structures of proteins play a key role in determining their functions. Knowledge of structure, especially the details of specific sites of a protein can help us understand their contribution to the overall activity. ... -
Codes for distributed storage, private information retrieval and low-latency streaming
This thesis presents results on error correcting codes for settings such as: (a) distributed storage, (b) private information retrieval, and (c) low-latency streaming. It also presents two new decoding algorithms for Polar ... -
Computational Investigation of Heterogeneous Lateral Organisation in Biological Membrane
The study of lateral heterogeneity on membrane surface has come a long way from the fluid mosaic model. Simulations and experimental studies have observed non-random mixing of lipids and proteins in the membrane. In this ... -
Computational Study of General Relationships in Chemistry: C−C, C−N, and B−B Coupling, B−B Catenation, and 2D Metal Borides
Elements in the periodic table are categorized into four major blocks, main group (MG) elements, transition metals (TM), lanthanides (Ln), and actinides (An), which differ dramatically. Recent studies revealed some interesting ... -
Concentration Gradient Driven Natural Convection in Soluble Lead Redox Flow Batteries
Low cost and long cycle-life energy storage systems are needed to harness renewable sources of energy at large scale. Among the options available, redox ow batteries (RFB) offer the maximum potential. The vanadium based ... -
Constant-rate Non-malleable Codes and their Applications
Non-malleable codes(NMC) introduced by Dziembowski, Pietrzak and Wichs in ITCS 2010, provide powerful security guarantees where error-correcting codes can not provide any guarantee: a decoding of tampered codeword is ... -
Coulomb drag to thermopower response in dimensionally mismatched InAs nanowire-Graphene heterostructures and anisotropic noise in ReS2
Coulomb drag technique is a notable tool for probing electron-electron interaction in double-layer systems, where the momentum and energy transfer from one layer to the other layer as a result of Coulomb interaction. In ... -
Cross-Modal Retrieval and Hashing
The objective of cross-modal retrieval is to retrieve relevant items from one modality (say image), given a query from another modality (say textual document). Cross-modal retrieval has various applications like matching ... -
The Crystal Form Diversity From Cocrystals To Eutectics: Design, Synthesis, Production And Property Evaluation
This thesis aims to design and synthesize organic molecules to generate properties like SHG, ferroelectric and dielectric. In continuation, we have done cocrystallization studies to study the trend in between the two ... -
Deciphering the genetic regulators of cuticle barrier function and longevity in Caenorhabditis elegans
Ever since Sydney Brenner introduced Caenorhabditis elegans in the early 60s as a model system, this worm has contributed to many ground-breaking discoveries in science. It has served as an excellent model to study animal ... -
Decision Making under Uncertainty : Reinforcement Learning Algorithms and Applications in Cloud Computing, Crowdsourcing and Predictive Analytics
In this thesis, we study both theoretical and practical aspects of decision making, with a focus on reinforcement learning based methods. Reinforcement learning (RL) is a form of semi-supervised learning in which the agent ...