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Evaluation of Hygrothermal Ageing In Cfrp Composite Material: A Study Using Non-destructive Techniques
Advanced composite materials are replacing conventional metals/alloys in aerospace industries due to their excellent strength and stiffness-to-density ratio as well as some other better physical and mechanical properties ... -
Numerical solution of non-classical beam and plate theories using di erential quadrature method
For effcient design of the nano/micro scale structural systems, detailed analysis and through understanding of size-dependent mechanical behaviour at nano/micro scale is very critical. Various approaches have been used ... -
Cricket Inspired micro Speakers
MEMS technology has ushered in a new era of miniaturized sensors and actuators. Many smart devices and systems are being developed using these sensors. Home automation is now a widespread reality owing to the development ... -
Design, Fabrication and Application of In situ Total Internal Reflection (TIR) Raman Tribometer For the Chemical Analysis of Tribological Systems
In conventional tribological experiments that study friction and wear behavior of materials, the contact interface is hidden by the contacting bodies. The physical or chemical phenomena taking place at the interface must ... -
Mechanistic and Functional Insights into Mycobacterium bovis BCG Triggered PRR Signaling : Implications for Immune Subversion Strategies
Pathogenic mycobacteria are among the most dreadful pathogens known to mankind as one third of the world’s population is latently infected with M. tuberculosis, the causative agent of pulmonary tuberculosis. Host immune ... -
Learning Across Domains: Applications to Text-based Person Search and Multi-Source Domain Adaptation
With rapid development in technology and ubiquitous presence of diverse types of sensors, a large amount of data from different modalities (e.g., text, audio, images etc.) describing the same person/ object/event has ... -
Self-referencing Techniques in Optical Label-free Bio-molecular Sensing
Measurement of molecular interactions is essential for fundamental biological studies as well as for the development of health diagnostics devices. Several label-free and labeled techniques to characterize and quantify ... -
A Few Applications of Porous Materials in Biology and Environment
The present thesis discusses the beneficial effects of confining biologically relevant molecules inside porous structures of varying morphology and dimensions. Confinement of a biomolecule such as protein, enzymes drugs ... -
Structural Studies on Hybrid Peptides : Crystallographic Characterization of Sequences Containing Backbone Homologated, Monosubstituted, Unconstrained Gamma Amino Acid Residues
X-ray crystallographic studies of designed peptides provide definitive proof of the success of a design strategy and yield essential structural information that can be utilized in the future design of biologically and ... -
Spatial downscaling and analysis of satellite and ground-based rainfall for hydrological modelling
Precipitation is a vital element of the global hydrological and energy cycles, which is intermittent and highly variable in both space and time. Accurate measurements of precipitation at various space and time scales are ... -
Defect Engineering and Doping of 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides: A First-Principles Study
The foundation of the electronic industry is based on n-type and p-type semiconductor materials, which is obtained by the ubiquitously present point defects. The presence of defects affects the electronic and optoelectronic ... -
Algorithms for Social Good in Online Platforms with Guarantees on Honest Participation and Fairness
Recent decades have seen a revolution in the way people communicate, buy products, learn new things, and share life experiences. This has spurred the growth of online platforms that enable users from all over the globe to ... -
Effect of High-Pressure Torsion and Natural Ageing on Hardness, Electrical Resistivity and Fatigue Properties of Commercially Pure Cu
Commercially pure Cu was processed through high-pressure torsion (HPT) at a pressure of 6 GPa starting from ¼ up to 50 turns. These samples were then naturally aged for 1.75 years under the laboratory condition. Subsequently, ... -
Verification of a Generative Separation Kernel
A Separation Kernel is a small specialized microkernel that provides a sand-boxed execution environment for a given set of processes (also called \subjects"). The subjects may communicate only via declared memory channels, ... -
Hydrologic Impacts of Climate Change : Detection and Attribution
Detecting, quantifying, and modelling the effects of human-induced climate change in regional hydrology is important for studying the impacts of such changes on the water resources systems as well as for reliable future ... -
Robust, Energy‐efficient Distributed Inference in Wireless Sensor Networks With Applications to Multitarget Tracking
The Joint Directors of Laboratories (JDL) data fusion model is a functional and comprehensive model for data fusion and inference process and serves as a common frame of reference for fusion technologies and algorithms. ... -
Seismic Site Classification and Response Studies of Shallow Bedrock Sites
Among all-natural hazards, earthquakes are the most damaging in terms of loss of lives and damage to infrastructure. Amplification and liquefaction are the major effects of earthquake that cause massive damages to ... -
Development of Stimuli-Responsive Self-Assembled Materials for Biomolecular Applications
The thesis entitled ‘‘Development of Stimuli-Responsive Self-Assembled Materials for Biomolecular Applications’’ deals with the design, synthesis, and characterisation of low molecular weight hydrogel systems as well as ... -
Design and Synthesis of Stimuli-responsive Gelators and Novel Gemini Surfactants and Characterization of their Properties upon Self-assembly
Chapter 1. A Brief Overview of Gemini Surfactants and Low Molecular-Weight Gelators (LMWGs) The first part of this chapter gives a brief account of the research done in the area of aqueous 3D-(ca. micelles and vesicles ... -
Distribution, activity budget and feeding ecology of Himalayan gray langur (Semnopithecus ajax) in Kashmir Himalaya
Colobines are group of primates known to inhabit harsh environments. These habitats pose different challenges which they have coped up physiologically and behaviourally. Primates in such environments are subjected to ...