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Absorptive Capacity, Cluster Level Interactions, Innovation and Performance of Firms in the High-tech Manufacturing Cluster of Bengaluru
Researchers have identified absorptive capacity, which is a measure of dynamic capability of a firm, as one of the critical factors that drives interactions of a firm with other firms and associated institutions within and ... -
Influence of Western Ghats Orography on Temporal and Spatial Distribution of Rainfall over South Asia
The Western Ghats (WG) orography that runs along the western coast of peninsular India, is a long and narrow mountain chain with an average height of about 1200 meters. The orientation of this orography is approximately ... -
Characterization of Corneal Lens of Drosophila melanogaster and its Genetic Mutants using Atomic Force Microscope and Scanning Electron Microscope
Drosophila melanogaster (the fruit fly) is a widely used model organism for the study of human disease condition and genetic pathways due to the high degree of gene conservation between fly and human. The compound eyes of ... -
Algorithms for Multilingual IR in Low Resource Languages using Weakly Aligned Corpora
Multilingual information retrieval (MLIR) methods generally rely on linguistic resources such as dictionaries, parallel corpora, etc., to overcome the language barrier. For low resource languages without these resources, ... -
Integrating Read-Copy-Update Synchronization and Memory Allocation
The evolution of multicore systems with thousands of cores has led to the exploration of non-traditional procrastination-based synchronization techniques such as Read-Copy- Update (RCU). Deferred destruction is the ... -
Development of wrought Mg-Li based alloys with improved strength and ductility
A comprehensive investigation has been undertaken to develop cold rolled Mg-Li based alloys with tensile properties superior to the existing commercial or experimental Mg-Li based alloys. In this endeavor, melting and ... -
Quality-quantity trade off during antibody production and the design of optimal passive immunization protocols
Passive immunization has been used classically to rapidly clear antigen and reduce disease burden. Surprisingly, recent studies have found passive immunization to induce lasting improvements in the humoral response, ... -
Denoising and Refinement Methods for 3D Reconstruction
Capturing raw 3D data from the real world is the initial step for many 3D reconstruction pipelines in different computer vision applications. However, due to inaccuracies in measurement and oversimplification in mathematical ... -
Environmental Behaviour of Indian ICT consumers in the context of e-waste: An Exploratory Study
Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) or simply, electronic waste (e-waste), is a rather recent addition to the waste landscape. Nevertheless, growing incomes and rapid technological advancement has turned e-waste ... -
Insights into Nucleation, Growth and Shape Control for Designing Anisotropic Nanostructures and Heterostructures
The properties of nanomaterials significantly depend on the size and shape of the nanocrystals. Thus the size and shape control becomes an important and interesting aspect of nanocrystal synthesis. Wet chemical method of ... -
Synthesis and testing of eco-friendly, non-toxic cutting fluid emulsions
The evolutions in the development of metal working fluid (MWF) from petroleum based products have brought remarkable changes to the present growing machining industry. The established MWF/Cutting fluids have reduced the ... -
Deep Learning for Hand-drawn Sketches: Analysis, Synthesis and Cognitive Process Models
Deep Learning-based object category understanding is an important and active area of research in Computer Vision. Most work in this area has predominantly focused on the portion of depiction spectrum consisting of ... -
Design and Application of Self-Assembled Coordination Cages for Catalysis and as Drug Carrier
In summary the present thesis accounts for the design and synthesis of various coordination cages formed through the self-assembly reaction of the newly designed pyridine and pyrimidine based ligands with various 90° ... -
Aqueous and Non- aqueous dispersions of MoS2 Nanosheets
The focus of this thesis is an attempt to provide a molecular perspective of the interactions of solvent and ligand molecules with sonication assisted exfoliated MoS2 nanosheets in aqueous and non-aqueous dispersions. In ... -
Mid-Air Collision Avoidance of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Autonomy is an essential feature of any robotic system. Aerial robots, commonly known as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), are being integrated into airspace and various trials towards achieving higher levels of autonomy ... -
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 ... -
Neural Correlates and Behavioral Underpinnings of Remote Memories during Systems Consolidation
Remote retrieval of declarative memories has been under investigation for a long time. After acquisition, long-term encoding of memories happens through crosstalk across multiple brain regions. Through systems consolidation, ... -
Acquiring diagnostic knowledge from documents to predict issues in aircraft assembly
Expert knowledge is important in a product's lifecycle, especially during the manufacturing part of the lifecycle. Most of such knowledge is obtained through experience and its reuse can help prevent potential issues in ... -
Development of Nanomaterials as Antioxidant Enzyme Mimetics for Cellular Redox Homeostasis
Nanomaterials possess a myriad of potential in various biomedical fields such as cancer diagnostics, biosensing, imaging, immunoassay, drug delivery and therapeutics etc. In particular, the ability of the nanozymes to ... -
Investigations into the changes in biomechanics of liver cells upon HCV infection
Biomechanics is an important regulator of cell function. Active (external forces) as well as passive (substrate stiffness) mechanical stimuli from the cell microenvironment can alter fundamental aspects of cell function ...