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Formulation of A Framework for Needs Analysis and Stakeholders' Behavioral Simulation for Design for the BOP
Poverty, and associated undesirability, distinguishes a population as Base of the (economic) Pyramid (BoP). Lack of necessities and vulnerability negatively affect the well-being of BoP populations. Literature reveals ... -
Investigations on the Corona Degradation of Polymeric Insulating Samples
Insulators play an important role in the reliability and safe operation of EHV/UHV transmission lines. Recently several utilities in the country and elsewhere are using polymeric insulators for the high voltage transmission ... -
Enhancement of Small Signal Stability in Power Systems: Novel Approaches
The modern power system is a highly nonlinear system that operates in a constantly changing environment. Power system, need to maintain more or less flat voltage profile across the grid and maintain stability for small and ... -
On Applications of 3D-Warping and An Analysis of a RANSAC Heuristic
In recent years communication of the scene geometry is gaining importance. With development of technologies such as head mounted displays and Augmented Reality (AR) the need for efficient 3D scene communication is becoming ... -
Targeting RAD51C Pathological Mutants by Synthetic Lethality and Extended Functions of RAD51C/XRCC3 in Mitochondrial Genome Maintenance
To counteract the potentially calamitous effects of genomic instability in the form of double-strand breaks (DSBs), cells have evolved with two major mechanisms. First, DNA non¬homologous end joining (NHEJ) which requires ... -
Distributed Target Tracking in Camera Networks
Recently, there is a tremendous increase in usage of multi-camera set-up in many applications such as surveillance, smart homes, sports analysis etc. Since manual analysis of videos in multi-camera set-up is tedious and ... -
Multiple Stable States and Abrupt Transitions in Spatial Ecosystems
Ecosystems can exhibit multiple stable states at similar external conditions. Such systems shift from one stable state to another abruptly and discontinuously, when they cross certain threshold parameters. Some examples ... -
Structure and Dynamics of a Tropical Dry Forest Plant Community
This thesis is spurred by the overarching question “why is a plant where it is in space and time?”, which, when asked in different global communities over the last century or so, has contributed to the development of general ... -
Magnetic, Electrical and Structural Properties of Doped Manganite, Ferrite and Nickelate Perovskites
Multifunctional materials with novel magnetic and electric properties have attracted intense research interest due to prospects in technological applications as well as understanding of fundamental physics. Perovskite ... -
Anti-thrombotic Secondary Metabolites from Endophytic Fungi of Datura Metel and Cassia Fistula
Blood coagulation is a process that occurs normally in an animal during bleeding, to prevent the loss of blood from the body and is assisted by two key players -blood platelets and coagulation factors particularly thrombin. ... -
Computational and Experimental Approaches to Protein Design
Protein design is a rapidly maturing field, with the goal of designing proteins with customized structures and functions. A large number of protein structures are experimentally determined, which have facilitated an ... -
Total Synthesis of Natural Products Diospongin a, Cryptofolione, CryptopyranmoscatoneB2, SCH725674 and Towards the Total Synthesis of Palmerolide C
First chapter of the thesis describes the total synthesis of tetrahydropyran containing natural products, diospongin A, cryptopyranmoscatone B2, hydroxy δ-lactone containing natural product cryptofolione and macrolactone ... -
Anomalous Diffusion in a Rearranging Medium Diffusing Diffusivity Models
Diffusion processes, because of their applications to a wide range of phenomena, have been a subject of great scientific interest ever since Einstein formulated the celebrated theory of Brownian motion. Brownian motion is ... -
Understanding the Sequence Dependence of NHEJ Mediated Double-strand Break Repair, and Identification of Novel DNA Ligase Inhibitors and their Potential Use as Cancer Therapeutics
Repair of DNA breaks is essential for maintenance of genomic integrity. DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs) are considered as the most harmful DNA lesions within the cells which if left unrepaired or are misrepaired, can lead ... -
Optimal Routing and Data Transmission for Multi-Hop D2D Communications
Device-to-Device (D2D) communication, which enables direct link communication between nodes without going through the infrastructure, has received considerable attention in recent years, particularly in the context of ... -
Characteristics of Convective Clouds Over the Indian Monsoon Zone from Weather Radar Data
Deep convective clouds play an important role in global energy balance through vertical transport of water vapor, momentum and energy, altering radiation and also influence hydrological cycle via precipitation. These clouds ... -
Engineering Bioactive Polymer/Ceramic Composite Nanofibrous Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Regeneration
Tissue repair and regeneration is a natural healing process seen in human body in response to injuries and infections. The regenerative capacity of most tissues decelerates with age and its associated pathological conditions. ... -
Optoelectronic Properties of Graphene Based Van-der-Waals Hybrids
Light matter interactions in atomically thin van der Waals materials have attracted significant attention in recent day [1–6]. Although the thickness does not exceed few nano-meters, such an atomically thin materials alone ... -
Influence of Surface Topography and Tribosystem on Reciprocating Friction in Sparsely Lubricated Contacts
Surface texturing to achieve reduced sliding friction has been a widely studied topic, as seen in contemporary literature. Laser surface texturing, grinding and ion beam milling are popular techniques accepted by researchers ... -
Nanoscale surface engineering of metallic biomaterials for enhancement of mechanical and biological responses
Metallic materials are widely used in load bearing orthopedic applications. The alloys used in the implants are 316L stainless steel (SS), commercially pure Ti (cp-Ti), Ti-6Al-4V and Co-Cr-Mo alloys. The life of implants ...