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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 ... -
Investigation on AxMn3O7 Class of Layered Oxides as Versatile Battery Cathodes: Structure and Electrochemistry
Rechargeable battery technologies have been the spotlight of global scientific research in the quest to address steadily growing energy demand. Currently, Li-ion batteries have unanimously occupied consumer electronic ... -
Development of anti-infective therapy against intracellular pathogens using targeted particulate delivery systems
Pathogens from bacterial class: Salmonella, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Listeria can survive and replicate intracellularly. While some pathogens remain cytosolic others such as Salmonella and Mycobacterium tuberculosis ... -
Non-linear Vibration of Beam Immersed in Fluid
In space launch vehicles with liquid propulsion system, various sub-systems like gas bottles, anti-slosh baffles and fluid lines are placed inside the propellant tanks which become partially filled over time during flight. ... -
Compositionality of Object Representations in Brains and Machines
Compositionality in object vision can be defined as the principles governing the relationship between whole objects and their constituent attributes. It is known that object information falling on the retina is processed ... -
Blue and Red Shifting H-Bonding in X−H···Y(X=C, O: Y = O, N, S) Complexes: A Gas Phase FTIR and ab initio Study
Regular H-bonding is essential for sustenance of many chemical and biochemical processes and has been investigated thoroughly since its discovery in the 1920’s. However, experimental finding of blue shifting of X-H stretching ... -
A role for the cohesin complex in subtelomeric gene silencing in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Chromatin is a dynamic structure which reorganizes to support numerous chromosomal processes. Various histone and non-histone proteins are involved in chromatin organization. One such group of non-histone proteins, known ... -
Optimizing Dense Matrix Computations with PolyMage
Linear algebra computations and other arbitrary affine accesses are ubiquitous in applications from domains like scientific computing, digital signal processing (DSP), and deep neural networks. Libraries such as OpenBLAS, ... -
Development of advanced regularization methods to improve photoacoustic tomography
Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) is a scalable imaging modality having huge potential for imaging biological samples at very high depth to resolution ratio, thereby playing pivotal role in the areas of neuroscience, ...