The competency of an organism to sense the stressful conditions and appropriately respond to them determines its survivability. Insulin/IGF-1 signaling is one of the most studied pathways that sense different stress ...
The concept of Molecular Optomechanics was recently proposed, motivated by the fact
that molecular vibrations behave as mechanical oscillators in their quantum ground state at
room temperature, and that they can be coupled ...
In this thesis we study some aspects of causal set theory. In Chapter 1 we briefly motivate
this theory, outline some important results and describe some of the work that has been in
done this field so far. In Chapter 2 ...
The Makran-Chagai volcanic arc transcends the Pakistan-Iran border and contains numerous strato-volcanoes prominent being the Kuh-e-Sultan, Kuh-e-Taftan, Kuh-i-Bazman and the Shahsavaran volcanic fields. Volcanism in this ...
In this thesis we study three interesting ideas in Particle Physics and Cosmology:
de-Sitter conjectures, some aspects of Inflation and Axions as Dark
matter. The de-Sitter conjectures are statements about consistency ...
Inhibition has been shown to play an important role in determining the critical period
of development of sensory systems but its role in motor system is unknown. Here, I
study the zebra finch, a bird that develops a motor ...
We have synthesized Yb3+ doped 2D (C8H9NH3)2PbBr4 nanoplatelets which shows new optical functionality which is emission in the NIR region (998 nm). Further study in this direction may lead to applications in NIR LEDs and ...
Communication is vital for survival in the animal kingdom. Communication through vocal learning is an ability possessed by very few taxa. Zebra finch serves as a good model system to study evolution of vocal learning. Akin ...
Since the fossil fuels are limited, and are fast depleting, there is an urgent need to search
for alternative energy sources that are, both, clean and economically viable. Thermoelectric
(TE) devices can play a crucial ...
Behaviour can be altered by the presence of kin, and this is seen in multiple
organisms. This phenomenon is comparatively less studied in organisms that do not
show group-living behaviour, like Drosophila melanogaster. ...
This thesis presents the calibration and performance study of CMS High Granularity Calorimeter (HGCAL) based on the data collected during the beam tests conducted in 2018. The muon run data was used to calibrate the silicon ...
NTERA-2 cl.D1 (NT2/D1) is an embryonal carcinoma cell line that differentiates into a neuronal phenotype upon induction with retinoic acid (RA). Cellular differentiation incorporates various stimuli and involves multiple ...
We explore the changes in the phase diagram of spin-1 Bose gas due to incorporation of correlations and the finite size of the system. We find that the correlations lead to a significant shift in the phase-boundaries ...
With the increase in high temperature incidences due to global warming, it has become very important to understand the thermotolerance of plant species. In this study, the thermotolerance and leaf traits of 41 forest species ...
The first binary neutron star inspiral was observed on 17 th Aug 2017 at 12:41:04 UTC by Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. The signal, GW170817 had multiple electromagnetic counterparts – a γ-ray burst and other transients. ...
The aim of our project was to predict the depths of all the amino acids in a given
query sequence. Residue depth is an important parameter to study various other
properties of the protein. To predict the same we used ...
Galaxy clusters form the largest gravitationally bound structures in the Universe. Galaxy clusters form at rare peaks in the initial density fluctuation field in the Universe. Therefore their abundance is very sensitive ...
Fair pricing of financial instruments is at the heart of market stability. Mispricing
securities can lead traders into suffering massive losses which can indirectly
affect the financial health of markets. It is thus, ...
Crystal engineering is the synthesis of crystals with predefined and targeted properties using non-covalent interactions. Halogen bond being one of the interactions is the bond between a halogen atom (Lewis acid) and a ...
Diffractive Deep Inelastic Scattering – defined by a colorless exchange between the target
nucleus and the incoming electron – is sensitive to the geometric structure of hadrons, and
hence can be used as a probe for ...