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In nature, plants are exposed to continuous changes in the environment. To ensure their growth and survival, plants have evolved intrincate molecular machinery that allows rapid adjustments in cellular functions in response ...

Plant phenolics have been studied for decades because of their role as chemodefensive compounds against herbivores and pathogens, and their assumed health benefits to humans. One of their proposed modes of actions is ...

Inaccurate software cost estimates continue causing project overruns and hurting firms’ economy. This thesis addresses the problem by focusing on top management role in applying estimation methodologies successfully in ...

Performance demands of emerging domains such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and vision, Internet-of-things etc., continue to grow. Meeting such requirements on modern multi/many core ...

Oxygenic photosynthesis is sunlight-energized conversion of CO2 into carbohydrates using electrons extracted from water. It occurs in cyanobacteria and in their endosymbiotic evolutionary descendants, the chloroplasts ...

Microalgae have been under investigation as alternatives for wastewater treatment for the last 60 years. However, we are yet to see an algal based process to be trusted as a treatment strategy on a large scale. At present, ...

During recent years, cyanobacteria have been gaining popularity rapidly as a platform for CO2 sequestration and production of a wide range of industrially attractive products. Factors such as simple nutritional requirements, ...

Sub-Arctic peatland ecosystems are undergoing rapid changes due to climate warming. Palsa and peat plateau mires, northern peatlands with permafrost as a definitive character, are degrading particularly rapidly. Rising ...

In this dissertation, I study the concept of creative landscape by exploring the concept of landscape and event philosophy side by side. I have conceptualized creative landscape as part of my dissertation process. By way ...

The work presented in this thesis describes the development of a universal platform for the biochemical detection of protein post-translational modifications (PTM) using the quenching resonance energy transfer (QRET) ...