The thesis examined whether Indian undergraduate chemistry labs could use inquiry-based methods. Chemistry education research (CER) encourages inquiry approaches for lab education. In the Indian context, the National ...
Asian elephants can exhibit complexity in social behaviour due to their longevity, behavioural plasticity and high cognitive abilities. Consequently, various behavioural changes have been studied in this species, including ...
Interacting humans tend to align with each other at physiological, neural and behavioural levels. The degree to which behaviours in an interaction are patterned or synchronised in both timing and form is termed behavioural ...
The composition of microbial communities, in terms of relative abundances of constituent taxa, is constantly subjected to external perturbations, largely from changes in environmental parameters affecting dynamical ...
This thesis investigates the use of predictive modelling to improve decision-making for events that are distributed over discrete space and occur in discrete time. We explore three main statistical methods: Kernel Density ...
Hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) exhibit self-renewal and can differentiate into mature blood cells. Long-term HSCs (LT-HSCs) have long-term reconstitution potential to replenish the HSC pool. Based on reaction to stress, ...
Stages 8, 9, and 10 of Drosophila oogenesis are critical for border cell (BC) migration. During stage 8, migration initiation occurs, while stage 9 sees BCs traversing nurse cells toward the oocyte. By stage 10, BCs reach ...
Motor preparation is essential for the efficient execution of any motor activity. Prior studies mostly focused on motor preparation before artificially trained motor movements, but the nature of motor preparation before ...
Segmentation is a feature of all bilaterian chordates. It is initiated in the early embryo through a process called somitogenesis. The paraxial mesoderm, composed of mesenchymal cells, gives rise to repeated epithelial ...
Discrete time crystals are an emerging research topic in quantum many-body physics and con-
densed matter. The concept of time translational symmetry breaking which governs discrete time crystals is an interesting topic ...
In this thesis, we study pattern formation in a stack of periodically driven quasi one-dimensional dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates. We study the excitation spectrum of the spatially separated dipolar condensates using ...
Strand separation by negative supercoiling of B-DNA is known to give rise to noncanonical DNA structures. It is hypothesized that negative supercoiling might give rise to the formation of G-quadruplexes. Current literature ...
Earth-directed solar Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) often interact with the magnetosphere, causing geomagnetic storms that disrupt a range of technologies we routinely rely on. A good understanding of the CME-magnetosphere ...
Our efforts towards a chiral pool synthesis of (-)-brasilenol from (-)-β-pinene is reported here. Starting from relatively abundant (-)-β-pinene, the unnatural enantiomer (-)-brasilenol was targeted in 11 steps. Use of ...
This thesis aims to provide an overview of the Integro-differential equations of fractional type and the associated regularity results for the viscosity solution. In the second part of the thesis, we consider a nonlocal ...
Cholesterol and cholesteryl esters form the major sterol component of an animal cell. While there are extensive studies on understanding protein-cholesterol interactions, the protein interactors of cholesteryl esters mostly ...
Stimuli-responsive polymers are promising materials that aim to mimic the adaptive responses of biological systems like proteins, which respond to changes in pH, oxidation, and other stimuli. Polypeptides stand out because ...
Cytokinesis in eukaryotes includes assembly, constriction, and disassembly of the contractile ring (CR). Failure in any of these can lead to polyploidy and tumour formation. Fission yeast has been widely used as a model ...
Exponential reduction in Lithium reserves is an alarming indicator for requirement of alternate energy storage solutions to reduce the dependency on Lithium-ion Batteries. Sodium-ion batteries are considered as the ...
Antibiotic resistance poses a significant threat to public health, necessitating the development of alternative antimicrobial agents. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have emerged as promising candidates due to their ...