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Modelling Cable-driven Continuum Robots and their applications
Flexible robots have been gaining traction in real-world applications over their rigid counterparts for their favourable features such as flexibility, compliance, better manoeuvrability, lightweight construction and ability ... -
Modelling Drop Size Distribution Evolution in Dispersion Devices through Multiple Breakup Modes
Emulsions are dispersions of one immiscible liquid within another as tiny droplets. Emulsions are crucial across various industries, including food, pharmaceuticals, petroleum, and cosmetics. The emulsification process is ... -
Modelling Evapotranspiration from Satellite Data using semi-empirical Models : Applications to the Indian Subcontinent
(2018-05-22)The major aim of this work is to develop a framework for the estimation of Evapotranspiration (ET) over the Indian landmass using remote sensing (RS) datasets in a repeated and consistent manner with improved spatial ... -
Modelling How Refractoriness to Interferon Compromises Interferon-Free Treatment of Hepatitis C Virus Infection
(2018-05-25)Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection globally affects 130-150 million people. It causes both acute and chronic infections. Due to the severe side effects and low success rates of interferon based treatments, which formed the ... -
Modelling Hydrology of Upper Cauvery Basin Considering Changes in Climate and Landuse/Landcover
In the recent times, changes are noted in hydrological processes (e.g., surface runoff, lateral flow, infiltration, return flow, evapotranspiration, soil moisture and streamflow) in different river basins of the world due ... -
Modelling Multimodal Mode Choice Behaviour with Spatial Variability in Level of Service Attributes
Cities worldwide are grappling with declining public transit usage, primarily due to insufficient spatial coverage of mass transit corridors in sprawling urban regions and inadequate first- and last-mile connectivity options ... -
Modelling Of Precipitation In Reverse Micelles
(Indian Institute of Science, 2005-09-20)Nanoparticles have important applications in ceramics, metal catalysts, semiconductors etc. They are normally required to be of small size (~ nm) and monodisperse. The aim of the present work is to model the formation of ... -
Modelling Of Single And Multiple Recharge Wells In Layered Aquifers
(2009-05-06)Artificial recharge and rainwater harvesting methods are being applied for mitigating effects of groundwater depletions in severe over-drafting urban and rural situations. When the aquifer to be recharged is situated at ... -
Modelling Simulation and Statistical Studies of Primary Fragmentation of Coal Particles Subjected to Detonation Wave
(2018-08-11)Coal is likely to remain an important energy source for the next several hundred years and hence advances in coal combustion technologies have major practical impact. Detonation combustion of coal initiated by a plasma ... -
Modelling spatial and non-spatial conflicts across multiple design domains
This thesis aims to detect spatial and non-spatial conflicts in product design arising out of requirements in different design domains. Handling such conflicts requires modelling the non-geometric knowledge outside the ... -
Modelling the lifted minimum phenomenon in the atmospheric
The Ramdas Paradox, also known as the lifted minimum phenomenon, has been a longstanding micrometeorological puzzle. It concerns the vertical distribution of air temperature which, near the ground during nights, generally ... -
Modular Kinematic Analysis Of Planar Linkages
(2009-04-24)This thesis has developed an efficient methodology for automatic kinematic analysis of planar linkages using the concept of modular kinematics. Unlike conventional general purpose kinematic analysis packages where each joint ... -
Modulation of Metal Fluxes and their Isotope Ratios in the Ganga (Hooghly) Estuary
This thesis aims at constraining the impact of estuarine processes on the net riverine fluxes of select metals and their isotopic composition to seawater. I studied the Ganga (Hooghly) River estuary, a monsoon-dominated ... -
Moist and Dry Dynamics in Shallow Water and General Circulation Models
Various aspects of dry and moist atmospheric dynamics are explored through systems of varying complexity, ranging from a 2-D shallow water model to a more complex 3-D general circulation model. First, we examine the response ... -
Moisture Barrier Polymer Nanocomposites for Organic Device Encapsulation
(2018-07-10)The advancement in smart technologies for organic conducting polymers as flexible substrates in LEDs, PVs and solid state lighting necessitates the development of ultra-high barrier films to protect the devices from moisture ... -
Molecular Analysis of the Pore Forming Mechanism of an α-Helical Cytolysin
Pore forming toxins (PFTs) are lytic membrane binding proteins that are ubiquitous across the animal kingdom and disrupt the structural integrity of the host cell membrane. A unique characteristic of these toxins is that ... -
Molecular dynamics investigations of the bacterial cell envelope: Elucidating differential barriers for antimicrobials
The bacterial cell envelopes possess a complex multilayered architecture exhibiting unique properties evolved to regulate interactions with the external environment and molecules with antimicrobial properties. A molecular ... -
Molecular Dynamics simulations reveal the role of membrane cholesterol in the pore forming pathway of Cytolysin A
We investigate the interactions of pore-forming toxins (PFTs) with cholesterol-rich membranes through atomistic molecular dynamics simulations. The PFT of interest is Cytolysin A (ClyA or HlyE). Cytolysin A (ClyA), an ... -
Molecular Simulation of Anisotropic Stress and Structure in polymers
(2018-02-15)This dissertation presents a numerical study using molecular dynamic simulations that interrogates the polymer structure as it is strained continuously in time and correlates it with the stress developed in it. We investigate ...