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Influence of Surface Topography and Roughness on Lubrication, Friction and Scuffing in High Hardness Steels
In tribology engineering, friction control is a significant challenge. The interacting surfaces of mechanical components are typically designed for best efficiency during tribological operations and are primarily achieved ... -
Understanding the dynamics and evolution of cratons
The earth is the only rocky planet in the solar system that exhibits plate tectonics. One of the basic tenets of plate-tectonics is that it recycles the lithosphere within a few hundred million years. No oceanic lithosphere, ... -
Mechanistic insights into the effects and applications of shockwaves in prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms
Shock waves are non-linear waves propagating at speeds greater than the speed of sound, with a unique characteristic of instantaneously increasing the pressure, temperature and density of the medium through which they ... -
Studies on Fracture in Ductile Bulk Metallic Glasses
Bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) possess very attractive mechanical properties like high yield strength (~ 2 GPa), high elastic strain limit (2 %), and good corrosion resistance. BMGs display fracture toughness values (in mode ... -
Problems on bend-number, circular separation dimension and maximum edge 2-colouring
Representation of graphs as the intersection graphs of geometric objects has a long history. The objective is to a nd a collection of \simple" sets S such that a given graph G is its intersection graph. We are interested ... -
Engineering 3D Organotypic Models for the Study of Breast Cancer Metastasis
Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer among women the world over. Metastasis, or, the spreading of the primary tumor to other vital organs, is the major cause of mortality in breast cancer. Metastasis is a ... -
Development of noble metal catalysts and detailed kinetic models for CO oxidation and water gas shift reactions
Noble metal (Pt, Pd, Rh) based catalysts have been highly effective for CO abatement applications such as CO oxidation and the water gas shift reaction (WGS). In the venture for development of novel catalysts, noble metal ... -
New Mechanical Methods to Join Sheets in Lap and Butt Configuration and Analytical Model to Predict and Improve Clinching Joint Strength
Mechanical joining of sheets has many advantages over other joining methods in terms of wide variety combination of similar, dissimilar and non-metallic material sheet joining. In conventional SPR joining, the rivet and ... -
Conservation and divergence of the nucleotide excision repair pathway: Comparison of UvrB and UvrC proteins from Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Escherichia coli reveal significant differences in their functional properties
This thesis is presented in three chapters divided by topics. Chapter I will begin with an overview of literature regarding different types of DNA damage, DNA repair pathways in bacteria, properties of E. coli UvrABC ... -
On the Geometry and Operator Theory of the Bidisc and the Symmetrized Bidisc
This work is concerned with the geometric and operator theoretic aspects of the bidisc and the symmetrized bidisc. First we have focused on the geometry of these two do- mains. The symmetrized bidisc, a non-homogeneous ... -
Multiplexing Nanoplasmonic Sensors
Complex biological samples such as serum contain thousands of proteins and other molecules spanning up to 13 orders of magnitude in concentration. Present measurement techniques such as protein microarrays and quantum dot ... -
On the electrical transport of weak topological insulators and Weyl semimetals
Topological insulators have garnered enormous amount of attention owing to their unique topological properties. The surface states protected by the topology of the system hold limitless potentials including topological ... -
Development and Characterization of a potent Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha blocking agent
Tumor necrosis factor-α (TNFα), one of the major pro-inflammatory cytokines, plays a pivotal role in an effective inflammation process and immune response. TNFα interacts with two different receptors, TNFR1 and TNFR2, which ... -
Novel Deep Learning Methods for Improving Low-Dose Computed Tomography Perfusion Imaging of Brain
Computed Tomography (CT) Perfusion imaging is a non-invasive medical imaging modality that has also established itself as a fast and economical imaging modality for diagnosing cerebrovascular diseases such as acute ischemia, ... -
Roles of N10-formyl-tetrahydrofolate (N10-fTHF), ribosomal large subunit pseudouridine synthase D (RluD), and transcription-translation coupling in the fidelity of translation initiation in Escherichia coli
Protein synthesis is a fundamental process in gene expression. It involves four basic steps – initiation, elongation, termination, and ribosome recycling in bacteria. However, the step of initiation is the most regulated ... -
Exotic eutectic microstructures
Solidification of eutectic systems delivers compelling examples of microstructure formation, which makes the phenomena intriguing to many engineers and scientists. Therefore, eutectic solidification is extensively studied ... -
Algorithms for Estimating Integrals in High Dimensional Spaces
Sampling, estimation and integration in high dimensional continuous spaces is required in diverse areas ranging from modeling multi-particle physical systems and optimization to inference from data. When the number of ... -
Guarding Terrain using k-Watchtowers
The discrete k-watchtower problem for a polyhedral terrain T in R3 with n vertices is to nd k vertical segments, called watchtowers, of smallest height, whose bottom end-points (bases) lie on some vertices of T, and ... -
Integrated Optical Double Ring Resonators with MEMS for Pressure and Acceleration Sensing
Silicon Photonics has become a signi ficant area of research in last three decades because of its high speed operation, low power consumption and the most important feature, resistant to electro-magnetic interferences. ... -
Heat Treatment and Surface Engineering of Selective Laser Melted Ti-6Al-4V for Improved Performance in Biomedical Implants
Metals and alloys are extensively used to prepare a wide variety of biomedical implants. The commonly employed materials are stainless steel (SS), cp-Ti, Ti-6Al-4V, etc., because of their biocompatibility and corrosion ...