K3 surfaces are a special case of two very important class of objects: Hyperkähler manifolds and Calabi-Yau manifolds. This makes them integral to build an under- standing of a large part of geometry. This thesis builds ...

Songbirds within the Estrildidae family exhibit wide variation in vocal complexity, from the highly stereotyped songs of the zebra finch to the flexible and complex sequences of the bengalese finch, and the harmonic ...

Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance (TEI) is an often overlooked aspect of biological inheritance, whose underlying mechanisms still remain poorly understood. The model nematode Pristionchus pacificus, with its two ...

Coherence is an extremely valuable resource in quantum information theory. The coherent control of channels, whether over their temporal order or over the choice of channels, has been extensively studied for various ...

Soft and stretchable electronic materials have recently attracted considerable attention as promising platforms for wearable sensing and biointegrated devices because of their ability to operate in mechanically dynamic and ...

In the contemporary era of information silos, the ability to synthesise vast datasets into concise formats is a critical challenge. Timeline Summarisation (TLS) addresses this by processing extensive corpora of news articles ...

Phenotypic diversity across species is often driven by changes in gene regulation rather than the gene content itself. Cis-regulatory elements, including enhancers, form the cornerstone of regulating any developmental ...

The Integrated Stress Response (ISR) is a conserved cellular pathway that enables adaptation to diverse stress conditions by phosphorylating eukaryotic initiation factor 2α (eIF2α) via stress response kinases, including ...

This thesis investigates the Submodular Interval Stabbing Problem (SISP), a generalized optimization framework where jobs associated with temporal intervals must be served within their respective windows to minimize a total ...

The design of dynamic and responsive supramolecular systems requires precise control over intermolecular interactions and molecular architecture. Despite significant progress in this field, generalisable design principles ...