The thesis is an attempt to write a biography of Lakshminath Bezbaroa (1864-1938), an acknowledged writer of modern Assamese literature, situating him against the broader social history of the time. While exploring language, ...
Landfilling is one of the major municipal solid waste (MSW) disposal methods practiced worldwide. Though it is considered the most cost-effective means of waste disposal, poor management practices in developing countries ...
The increasing use of non-renewable resources and their continuous depletion have become a major concern nowadays. The production of renewable fuels from agricultural lignocellulose waste is sustainable and economically ...
Parthenium hysterophorus, Lantana camara and Ageratum conyzoides are considered
to be among the world's top ten worst terrestrial weeds due to their reproduction potential. They can grow within a few weeks and cover entire ...
Code-switching refers to the alternate use of two or more languages (or dialects) during
the conversation. This phenomenon has been observed in many multilingual
communities across the globe. Therefore, handling ...
Applications like electric vehicle, LED drivers, and portable devices are moving towards miniaturization. The power management unit of these applications operating from single voltage source demand better efficiency, ...
Heparosan is a commercially expensive glycosaminoglycan (GAG), composed of repeating disaccharide units of GlcA and GlcNAc linked by α (1→4) and β (1→4) glycosidic bonds. Heparosan production through microbial fermentation ...
Power plants and chemical process industries face a huge challenge in efficient CO2 separation from the flue gases over decades. The concern is furthermore important with respect to climate change. Various technologies ...
CRISPR-Cas based adaptive immunity protects the genome of bacteria and archaea from the attack of foreign genetic elements such as bacteriophages and plasmids. A specialized region on the genome termed CRISPR locus is the ...
The current thesis mainly focuses on a bioinspired inorganic source such as hydroxyapatite, whose composition resembles to that of human hard tissues, and its development into drug delivery nanocarriers. Chapter 1 is the ...
Drought is one of the worst natural disasters that affect the economic, social, and environmental status of any country. The long-term drought affects the soil ecosystem and can initiate desertification and deterioration ...
With the advancement in technology, most drivers (personal as-well-as hired car) use mobile phones as portable navigation devices for cars. One of the detrimental effects of using mobile phones while driving is the distraction ...
The main objective of the present study is to design, develop and investigate the thermal performance of a suitable indoor solar hybrid cooking system using thermal energy storage materials. For this reason, a parabolic ...
With the increase in Twitter's popularity, topic modeling on Twitter has become an important problem with applications in diverse fields such as text summarization, document clustering, information retrieval, and sentiment ...
The Bodos, as peasants, have featured significantly in the colonial agrarian history of Assam. However, there is a massive research gap on the transformations surrounding the Bodo peasantry in more contemporary times. The ...
Electroporation method is a useful tool for delivering drugs into various diseased tissues in the human body. In this thesis, mathematical models are developed to demonstrate how to deliver drugs into the diseased cells ...
A rapid increase in industrialization is leading to the generation of high metal toxicity to the ecosystem. Landfilling has been carried out as the most preferred method of waste disposal around the globe. In the present ...
A detailed Density Functional theory calculations and experimental studies have been reported on few novel spinel cobaltites. A substantial increase in the size of the unit cell along with the collapse of long-range ...
Taking inspiration from nature is a very innovative, creative, and novel approach to design products. Over time, one can cite several innovations inspired by nature - from the weapons made by cavemen to the modern day ...
Mesoscopic liquid droplets are ubiquitous in nature. From sessile droplet-based diagnostic devices to rainwater energy harvesting - liquid droplets offer a versatile platform for the construction of functional systems. ...