The determinant is an operator on square matrices, such that the determinant of any square matrix yields a scalar. There exist a few generalisations to non-square matrices, such as the geome…
Systems Software
Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder and its root cause is the aggregation of the protein a-synuclein, which leads to neural cell death. There exists no technique through whic…
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates, there are about 285 million visually impaired people in the world. They face many problems in their day to day life; the major one…
Fourth Award
Enterobiasis, the most common parasitic infection known, is caused by human pinworm, Enterobius vermicularis, which mainly infests infants and children. Eggs are present everywhere including…
Pandanus unipapillatus of Pandanaceae family, common in coastal belt, Western Ghats along banks of streams, marshy places is investigated for its potential antibacterial and antifungal prope…
Multi-drug resistance (MDR) is a condition enabling disease causing microorganisms to resist distinct antibiotics. At present, the only way to fight against this problem is to develop a new…
Development of miniaturized Nanosensor for detection of CO (Carbon Monoxide) gas at low temperature, with lower detection limit and long term stability. Several nonmaterials in particular Se…
Second Award
Traditional experimental techniques like AFM and STM used to characterize surface morphology of two dimensional nano structures are expensive and slow. Today it is possible to view such stru…
Among several dental problem caries process is deadly serious and chronic too. It is an irreversible microbial disease of calcified tissues of teeth. Bacterial plaque plays the primary role…
Biomedical Engineering
Diabetes, a prominent metabolic disorder characterized by hyperglycaemia, associated with impairment in insulin secretion as well as alteration in intermediary metabolism of carbohydrates, p…
Semiconducting polymers opened up new avenues in electronics device technology and with advantages such as economic feasibility, low temperature processing, large area and roll to roll print…
Third Award
People suffering from Developmental-Disabilities, Tetraplegia, Parkinson’s disease etc. are almost entirely paralyzed and are not able to communicate in any way except using an Augmentative…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
New transition metal complexes of Co(II), Ni(II), Cu(II) and Zn(II) with the Schiff bases derived by condensation of 3-formyl-2-hydroxy quinoline with Guanine(GUOH) and 3-formyl-2-mercapto q…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Fourth Award
Fruits and vegetables provide us nutrition including vitamins and minerals to stay healthy – both mentally and physically. In pursuit of a pest-free produce, farmers use pesticides, far abov…
Physics and Astronomy
Fourth Award
The quantity and quality of the apple crop mostly depends on the pollination in apple orchards during March-April, for that apple grower’s use many techniques to pollinate. They use polliniz…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Dermatitis due to scabies is a common skin disease in cattle. Dermatitis causes economical loss in terms of abrogated levels of milk, meat and hides production. Available drugs are either ch…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Tonnes of chicken feather and goat hair wastes are being produced by the slaughter houses and leather industry. These cause a huge problem in the present scenario and the management of the s…
Embedded Systems
White’s illusion defies the Standard Lateral Inhibition theory used to explain Simultaneous Brightness Contrast illusion. These two contradictory grayscale optical illusions have been unifie…
Energy: Physical
Semiconductor solar cells are used to harness solar energy, a clean renewable energy source for solving global pollution and energy crisis. These photovoltaic-cells are expensive and non-eco…
Embedded Systems
Fourth Award
Around 7% of the world's population is color-blind. The aim is to determine the most effective algorithm to optimize digital content for color-blind viewers and to develop an application tha…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The explosive growth of verbose content on the internet in recent years, especially of news articles and blogs, coupled with a shift towards mobile internet access, has created a case for in…
Materials Science
The aim of this project is to explore a new statistical method to detect non-randomness in outputs obtained by a random number generator. The test detects convergence of a particular sequenc…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Giardia intestinalis is one of the most common causes of protozoan diarrhoea worldwide, and leads to significant morbidity and mortality. The organism is ubiquitous and has been identified i…
Energy: Chemical
Fourth Award
The project enables the speech impaired people, who have defects in the larynx, to speak. For a particular sound or word, there exist a particular tongue and lip movement. Sensing the tongue…