Speaker diarization, the task of determining "who spoke when" in an audio recording, is a critical component in applications such as meeting transcription, voice assistant technolo gies, and conversational analysis. ...
This thesis presents a survey of recent developments at the intersection of causal inference and reinforcement learning (RL), with a focus on how causal reasoning can enhance sequential decision-making. We examine key ...
Ferroelectric phosphate-based materials are known for their biocompatibility, proton conductivity, dipole switching, and high thermal stability. In this context, we report a new family of organic ferroelectric material, ...
Persulfides (RS-SH) are highly reactive and unstable species belonging to the category of reactive sulfur species (RSS), which are known to reduce oxidative stress. Low molecular weight persulfides like glutathione persulfide ...
Large-scale production of radioactive iodine isotopes (129I and 131I) in nuclear reactors is a serious environmental and health hazard in fallout situations, which requires the synthesis of highly effective iodine sequestration ...
Streptococcus pneumoniae, a gram-positive bacterium is the causative agent for community acquired pneumonia. The infection results in pus filled alveolar sacs in the lungs leading to chest pain and respiratory distress. ...
The constant rise in heat and humidity levels in the atmosphere due to climate change has been a global concern impacting various aspects of life. Studies and surveys showed that heat humidity stress can significantly ...
Small Ras-like GTPases are known to act as molecular switches and regulate vital cellular processes across different kingdoms of species. In Myxococcus xanthus, two paralogous small Ras-like GTPases MglA and SofG act in ...
Type IV pili are a vital component to bacterial surface sensing. It is a polymer that is composed of the major pilin PilA – it extends from the surface of the cell, attaches to a surface and pulls the cell forward upon ...
Solar radio bursts are unambiguous and sensitive tracers of non-thermal electrons in the corona. These non-thermal electrons owe their origin to episodes of solar activity and lead to a wide variety of radio emissions, ...
Quantum shadow tomography based on the classical shadow representation provides an efficient way to estimate properties of an unknown quantum state without performing a full quantum state tomography. In scenarios where ...
This thesis explores the application of the principles of unitarity and symmetries in possible theories governing early universe in deriving corresponding identities that must be satisfied by the cosmological observables ...
Histones perform a fundamental role in constituting the genetic structure of organisms. Histone variants replace some of these canonical histones, altering the nucleosome structure, leading to varying interactions within ...
The bidirectional relationship between stress and itch represents a critical but incompletely understood aspect of pruritic skin disorders that affects millions of patients worldwide. This thesis identifies a specific ...
Antibody-Antigen interactions are fundamental in immunological research, influencing vaccines, diagnostics and therapeutic developments. However, existing computation models for predicting the antibody-interacting residues ...
Live-dead (LD) fidelity is a measure used to assess how well the composition of dead faunal assemblages reflects the composition of living communities. It helps determine how accurately death assemblages preserve ecological ...
We investigate two questions regarding the lambda-invariants of Mazur-Tate elements of elliptic curves and modular forms defined over the field of rational numbers. At additive primes, we explain their growth and how these ...
For a group $G$ and an abelian group $A$, the theory of group cohomology gives an isomorphism $\mathbb{E}(G,A)\to H^2(BG,A)$, where $\mathbb{E}(G,A)$ is the group of central extensions of $G$ by $A$. We generalize this ...
In this study, glycosylation of calix[4]arenes was explored utilizing silver-assisted gold- catalyzed conditions. We have optimized reaction conditions for higher yields and selectivity. Alkynyl glycosyl carbonate donors ...
The emergence of highly selective catalytic sequences was a crucial step towards the origin of life. Templated ligation of RNA has been proposed as a pre-biotic mechanism to achieve self-replicating sequences without complex ...