Information seeking behaviour is an essential component in designing and developing of need based information centers for meeting the information requirements of users. The study undertaken is an output of doctorate research in the field of agricultural sciences scanned in Indian context. The study covers various facets of information seeking behaviour of agricultural scientists and their conce...

In the last few decades, several researches have been conducted in the field of robotic rehabilitation to meet the intensive, repetitive and task-oriented training, with the goal to recover the motor function. Up to now, robotic rehabilitation studies of the upper extremity have generally focused on stroke survivors leaving less explored the field of orthopaedic shoulder rehabilitation. In this...

Participatory design (PD) has shown its utility in the field of health care in terms of both efficiency of production and acceptance by care givers and patients. The authors consider the particular case of video game design for health. This field involves the inclusion of extra roles such as game designers to create a more complex design which takes into account not only the health aspects but ...

Optical microcavities with whispering-gallery modes (WGMs) have been indispensable in both photonic researches and applications. Besides, metasurfaces, have attracted much attention recently due to their strong abilities to manipulate electromagnetic waves. Here, combining these two optical elements together, we show a tubular cavity can convert input propagating cylindrical waves into directed...

This paper proposes a novel dc-dc converter called the dc-dc multilevel voltage multiplier (mvm). In general, an nx mvm can be built by using two switches, 2n-2 diodes and 2n-2 capacitors, free of magnetic components. It is based on the multilevel converters principle and designed for unidirectional power transfer applications. Each device blocks one voltage level, therefore high voltage conver...

One of the most important breakthroughs in modern biology was discovering that double chain small or large RNA molecules are able to regulate gene expression. Formerly it was thought RNAs have just two broad functions in cells: Single-stranded messenger RNAs (mRNAs) are vital intermediaries in gene expression, transmitting information between DNA and protein. Ribosomal and transfer RNAs have st...

My research interest is to solve problems from mathematics and physics with simple and clean ideas, and along the way to learn and to find new mathematical structures and theories. Localization techniques in various settings, combining with various subjects of mathematics, have played central roles in my researches. See my ICM lecture [38] for more detailed discussions. I divide my past researc...

Titanium is an ideal material for use in prosthodontics because of its biocompatibility, corrosion resistance, and mechanical strength combined with its lightweight. Recently the use of titanium and titanium alloys for fixed restorations has increased substantially, mainly due to the improvement of techniques for the casting titanium and its alloys. This article reviewed the studies on titanium...