Mesoscopic light transport through disordered medium (randomly scattering medium) is an ubiquitous phenomenon. Understanding this transport phenomenon is of fundamental importance and helps to answer the unsolved questions ...
Rodents are diverse yet one of the most neglected mammalian group. The Himalayas, which are known as a biodiversity hotspot remain poorly studied in terms of rodent species assemblages. We used Cytochrome b phylogeny and ...
DNA alkylating agents are one of the most common DNA damaging agents that we encounter and widely used in cancer chemotherapy. The greatest limitation of such drugs is they can often induce carcinogenic mutations. ...
DNA is exposed to different damaging agents and prolonged exposure to these agents may lead to cancer. This study aims to understand the role of DNA damaging agents such as UV and Proflavine in transformation of breast ...
Grid cells in the medial entorhinal cortex (mEC) fire action potentials whenever the
animal is positioned at the vertices of a tessellating hexagonal grid. Changes to the
animal’s environment can alter grid orientation, ...
The hot-spots or the region of highly enhanced electric fields between nanostructures possess exciting properties. These cavity structures have electric fields that are highly confined and enhanced. Thus placing a fluorophore ...
Extensive studies have been conducted on mate-choice and courtship behaviour in
animals. It has been established that certain traits have an evolutionary advantage in
terms of getting selected by the opposite sex. Previous ...
Gene-culture coevolutionary theory examines the effects of cultural traits, in addition to
passing on of genetic traits from one generation to the next differentially. I construct a
theoretical model that studies, in ...
A detailed study of the dynamics of unimolecular dissociation of 1,2-dioxetane (DO) using direct chemical dynamics simulations is presented. Of special interest is the comparison of the dissociation kinetics with the ...
Thermoelectrics are devices that can convert waste heat into usable electrical energy. There is a longstanding challenge to synthesize materials with large conversion efficiencies and lower Cost per Watt ratios so that ...
Morphogenesis in plant development has been of great interest for researchers
engaged in plant physiological studies. Complex tissue types of higher plants make
these studies difficult. A lot of work has been done on the ...
Cisplatin and taxanes are anticancer drugs commonly used to treat solid tumour type of cancers. The mechanisms of action of these drugs on the cells are vastly different, with cisplatin being a DNA intercalating agent and ...
atalyst for oxygen evolution reaction
(OER) and oxygen reduction reaction
(ORR) are at the heart of key renewable energy technologies such as water splitting
and rechargeable batteries. But developing ...
The study of electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational waves holds immense potential
for breakthroughs in our understanding of short gamma ray bursts, sites of r-process nucle-
osynthesis, and even cosmology. The ...
The skin functions as a protective barrier for the body. The epidermis is the outermost layer of the skin and is constantly exposed to wear and tear. Some mutants of zebrafish show balling up of epidermal cells wherein the ...
Species invasions have become a global threat to native biodiversity in the past couple of centuries. Getting rid of invasive species from an ecosystem is a difficult task, owing to their aggressive nature; but there are ...
The current study has made an attempt to understand two important aspects of movement preparation – velocity (kinematics) planning and the temporal planning. To do so, I had designed a novel reaching movement task where ...
Communication in animals depends on factors that enhance or attenuate transmission of acoustic signals and which, in turn, are necessary for development of strategies for effective communication. One such prominent factor ...
The subject of this thesis is the theoretical investigation of an atomic chain of Rydberg atoms
embedded in a photonic crystal waveguide. Atoms coupled to the photonic crystal show
prodigious coherent and dissipative ...