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Lightning Shielding Failure Analysis of Ultra High Voltage Power Transmission Lines
(2018-08-14)In India, the natural energy resources (thermal and hydro) are unevenly distributed and are mostly present in the remote areas and the load centers are distributed across various regions of the country. Therefore high ... -
Unified Cognitive Radio : Architectural Analysis, Design and Implementation
(2018-08-14)This thesis addresses the problem of building a Cognitive Radio that has the ability to interact with human users in a better way by making use of Quality of Experience (QoE) as its basis and marshalling its resources ... -
Design and Analysis of Consistent Algorithms for Multiclass Learning Problems
(2018-08-14)We consider the broad framework of supervised learning, where one gets examples of objects together with some labels (such as tissue samples labeled as cancerous or non-cancerous, or images of handwritten digits labeled ... -
Role of VILAMBIT Genes Controlling Flowering Time and Jasmonic Acid Signaling in Arabidopsis
(2018-08-14)The transition to flowering is an important decision for plants since seed-setting and the survival of the progeny depend on the environmental conditions prevalent during this transition. Therefore, to ensure maximum ... -
Effective Characterization of Sequence Data through Frequent Episodes
(2018-08-14)Pattern discovery is an important area of data mining referring to a class of techniques designed for the extraction of interesting patterns from the data. A pattern is some kind of a local structure that captures correlations ... -
Influence of Electric Field on the Global and Local Structure in the Ferroelectric Ceramic Na1/2Bi1/2TiO3 and its Solid Solutions with BaTiO3 and K1/2Bi1/2TiO3
(2018-08-14)Ferroelectric ceramics are very promising materials for a variety of piezoelectric applications such as high permittivity dielectrics, piezoelectric sensors, piezoelectric/electrostrictive transducers, actuators, electro-optic ... -
Advanced Optimal Control Design for Nonlinear Systems including Impulsive Inputs with Applications to Automatic Cancer Treatment
(2018-08-14)The motivation of this research is to propose innovative nonlinear and optimal control design algorithms, which can be used in real life. The algorithms need to be computationally efficient, should deal with control ... -
Mechanical Characterization of Carbon Nanotubes and Nanocomposites
(2018-08-14)Measurement of all the mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes is extremely difficult because of its small size. In the present work, all the five transverse isotropic properties of single wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) ... -
Antiresonance and Noise Suppression Techniques for Digital Power Distribution Networks
(2018-08-14)Power distribution network (PDN) design was a non-existent entity during the early days of microprocessors due to the low frequency of operation. Once the switching frequencies of the microprocessors started moving towards ... -
Structure and Dynamics of the Inter-tropical Convergence zones
(2018-08-13)The east-west oriented cloud bands in the tropics are called the Inter-tropical Con-vergence Zones (ITCZ). Till recently, the ITCZ has been assumed to have a simple vertical structure with convergence near the surface ... -
Approximate Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning - Algorithms, Analysis and an Application
(2018-08-13)Problems involving optimal sequential making in uncertain dynamic systems arise in domains such as engineering, science and economics. Such problems can often be cast in the framework of Markov Decision Process (MDP). ... -
Experience Mapping based Prediction Controller
(2018-08-13)A novel controller termed as Experience Mapping based Prediction Controller (EMPC) is developed in this work. EMPC is developed utilizing the broad control concepts of human motor control (HMC). The concepts of HMC are ... -
Optical Interrogation of the 'Transient Heat Conduction' in Dielectric Solids - A Few Investigations
(2018-08-13)Optically-transparent solids have a significant role in many emerging topics of fundamental and applied research, in areas related to Applied Optics and Photonics. In the functional devices based on them, the presence of ... -
Experimental Studies on Acoustic Noise Emitted by Induction Motor Drives Operated with Different Pulse-Width Modulation Schemes
(2018-08-13)Voltage source inverter (VSI) fed induction motors are increasingly used in industrial and transportation applications as variable speed drives. However, VSIs generate non-sinusoidal voltages and hence result in harmonic ... -
A Study of Two Problems in Nonlinear Dynamics Using the Method of Multiple Scales
(2018-08-13)This thesis deals with the study of two problems in the area of nonlinear dynamics using the method of multiple scales. Accordingly, it consists of two parts. In the first part of the thesis, we explore the asymptotic ... -
Algorithm-Architecture Co-Design for Dense Linear Algebra Computations
(2018-08-13)Achieving high computation efficiency, in terms of Cycles per Instruction (CPI), for high-performance computing kernels is an interesting and challenging research area. Dense Linear Algebra (DLA) computation is a representative ... -
Mechanical Behavior Study of Microporous Assemblies of Carbon Nanotube and Graphene
(2018-08-13)Carbon nanotubes (CNT) and graphene have been one of the noticeable research areas in science and technology. In recent years, the assembly of these carbon nanostructures is one of the most interesting topic to the scientific ... -
Modeling and Analysis of Grid Connected Variable Speed Wind Generators
(2018-08-13)The growing demand for power and increased environmental concerns gave an impetus to the growth of clean and renewable energy sources like wind, solar etc. There is a remarkable increase in the penetration of wind energy ... -
Experimental Study of Patterns in Hydrodynamically Deposited Dispersed Phase of CaCO3 on Surfaces of Straight Cylindrica Silica Tubing
(2018-08-13)Deposition of dispersed phase from flowing dispersions onto a substrate surface is of utmost relevance for various industrial processes like fouling of sparingly soluble salts, such as CaCO3 and CaSO4 in heat exchangers and ... -
Evolutionary Aspects of Archean Kolli-Massif, Southern India : An Archive of Crustal Processes
(2018-08-13)The continental crust is the record of the history of the Earth, of the processes and events that have contributed to the planet's evolution. It is now understood that the continental crust is growing continuously since ...