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Decentralized information flow control for the robot operating system
The Robot Operating System (ROS) is a popular open-source middleware widely used in the robotics community. While ROS provides extensive support for robotic application develop- ment, it lacks certain fundamental security ... -
Uniaxial Fatigue Behavior of Freestanding Platinum-Aluminide (PtAl) Bond Coat
Pt-aluminide (PtAl) bond coat is used as a part of Thermal Barrier Coating (TBC) system on Ni-base superalloy components in advanced gas turbine aeroengines. The thickness of B2-NiAl intermetallic based diffused coating ... -
Model-based Evaluation of Multiple Solutions to Grid Integration Challenges of Large-scale Renewable Power
Worldwide renewable installations are growing exponentially in the electricity mix. In a renewable-rich electricity grid, the demand, as well as the generation, varies in different time scales. It is highly complicated to ... -
Aggregate and Disaggregate-level Models of Public Transit Ridership in Bengaluru, India
Ridership forecasting models are valuable tools for public transit agencies to assess and quantify the possible impacts of their operational strategies and service improvements on transit demand and revenue. Although ... -
Algorithmic Problems on Vertex Deletion and Graph Coloring
In the thesis, we mainly discuss variants of two well-studied graph theoretical problems - vertex deletion problem and graph coloring problem - both have been used to tackle many real-world problems in diverse fields. Vertex ... -
Sparsification of Reaction-Diffusion Dynamical Systems on Complex Networks
Graph sparsification is an area of interest in computer science and applied mathematics. Spar- sification of a graph, in general, aims to reduce the number of edges in the network while preserving specific properties of ... -
Mesoscale Modelling of sheared lamellar mesophases
The lamellar phase or smectic lyotropic liquid crystalline medium, which is made up of alternating flat sheets of water and surfactant bilayers shearing past each other in an imposed flow. Surprisingly, In practical ... -
Mechanistic Insights into the Chemical and Electronic Doping for Advanced Optoelectronic, Catalytic, and Quantum Applications
Doping via the incorporation of ionizable entities within solid-state materials represents a promising strategy for the generation of mobile or localized charge carriers. Conventionally, doping has been perceived as an ... -
Adaptive Wideband Microwave Signal Processing Using Reconfigurable Integrated Photonics
The advancement of wireless communications in domains such as satellites, radars, 5G, and future technologies necessitates the utilization of broadband microwave and millimeter wave signal processing. Unlike their electronic ... -
Analog Compute for Edge-AI: Devices, Circuits & SoC
Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence research has yielded models with huge computational complexities to solve a multitude of problems. These complex models require substantial computational resources to perform ... -
Chaos, entanglement, and non-equilibrium dynamics in Hermitian and non-Hermitian quantum many-body systems
Quantum chaos and entanglement have appeared as two key intertwined concepts to characterize fundamental quantum correlations of quantum many-body states and to understand the emergence of thermal and non-thermal steady ... -
Unravelling the composition space of Zr2FeNiSb2 double half-Heusler thermoelectric material
More than half of annual energy consumption in thermal power plants are released in the form of waste heat. However, this waste heat could be harnessed with the help of thermoelectric (TE) devices which can convert this ... -
Linear Nanopositioning Systems for Scanning Probe Microscopy
Scanning probe microscopes (SPM) are vital for visualizing and characterizing samples of interest to various fields with nanometer resolution, such as semiconductor fabrication, microbiology, and material engineering. The ... -
Exploring Hydrological Processes, Modeling Decisions, and Deep Learning for Improved Hydrologic Assessment
Hydrological modeling is complicated by the intricate challenges and uncertainties associated with understanding hydrological processes. This thesis aims at answering some of the key research questions related to ... -
Electro-optically Tunable General-Purpose Microwave Photonic Processors: Platforms, Device Analysis, and Auto-routing Algorithms
Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) have been primarily developed as application-specific PICs (ASPICs), relying on time-consuming fabrication processes and exhibiting insertion losses between interconnected ASPICs. To ... -
In vivo mechanistic insights into the trans-splicing based expression of Hsp90 in Giardia lamblia
Giardia lamblia, a simple yet intriguing protozoan parasite, challenges conventional paradigms in gene expression through its unique mechanism of trans-splicing for Heat Shock Protein 90 (Hsp90). As a primitive organism, ... -
Numerical Simulations of Deforming Capsules and Cells in a flow
Understanding the evolution of deforming capsules and cells in various flow configurations can assist in better diagnosis of diseases like Malaria and sickle cell anemia. Flow of deformable capsules is also useful in ... -
Investigation of multiscale biological phenomenon using kinetic modeling and molecular dynamics simulations
Biological systems inherently function at multiple spatial and temporal scales by integrating information across these scales. In this thesis, we are interested in investigating two classes of biological phenomena that ... -
Exploring the Marine Algicolous Endophytic Fungi: A Promising Source of Novel Cancer Therapeutics
Cancer is the second leading cause of mortality globally, with over 6 million new cases diagnosed annually. Research on effective therapies is crucial due to the disease's complexity. Natural materials in chemotherapy have ... -
Conformational Heterogeneity, Solution Structure and Autoregulatory Roles of the MazE9 Antitoxin from Mycobacterium tuberculosis
The work presented in this thesis endeavors to decode the details of the dynamics of MazE9 antitoxin of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis MazEF9 toxin-antitoxin system and the transcriptional autoregulation effected by it. ...