Vibration Damping in Long-Span Footbridges
Tuned mass dampers suppress pedestrian-induced lateral sway within comfort limits.
Differentially Private Recommendation at the Edge
A federated recommender adds calibrated noise on-device, preserving utility under a strict privacy budget.
Minimum Support Prices and Cropping Decisions
Announced support prices shift planting toward covered crops, with downstream effects on water use.
Quantised Transformers for Embedded Vision
Post-training quantisation retains accuracy on embedded vision tasks at a quarter of the memory footprint.
Digital Payments and Household Savings Behaviour
Adoption of digital payments is associated with modest but persistent increases in formal savings.
Community Health Worker Networks and Maternal Outcomes in Rural Karnataka
Denser community health worker networks correlate with a 23% reduction in maternal complications across 62 villages.
Room-Temperature Synthesis of Stable Perovskite Thin Films
A solvent-engineering route yields perovskite films retaining 90% efficiency after 1,000 hours.
Graphene-Reinforced Geopolymer Concrete
Small graphene-oxide additions raise compressive strength and lower permeability in geopolymer concrete.
Point-of-Care Diagnostics for Febrile Illness: A Field Evaluation
A low-cost multiplex assay distinguishes common causes of febrile illness with sensitivity comparable to laboratory testing.
Telemedicine Uptake among Elderly Patients: A Cohort Study
Structured onboarding tripled sustained telemedicine use among elderly patients over six months.
Biodegradable Packaging from Agricultural Residue
Films from crop residue match conventional packaging on barrier properties and degrade within weeks.
Decentralised Greywater Treatment for Peri-Urban Settlements
A modular constructed-wetland treats household greywater to reuse standards at a fifth the cost of centralised systems.
Corrosion Resistance of Nano-Coated Rebar
A nanostructured coating markedly slows chloride-induced corrosion of reinforcing steel.
Fatigue Life Prediction in Additively Manufactured Titanium
A physics-informed model predicts fatigue life from micro-CT porosity maps within a factor of two.
Digital Public Infrastructure and Civic Participation
Identity and payment rails raise service uptake but show no consistent effect on broader civic engagement.
Low-Cost Structural Health Monitoring with MEMS Sensors
A MEMS sensor network detects incipient damage in road bridges at a fraction of conventional instrumentation cost.
Language Policy and Minority Rights: A Comparative View
Formal recognition of minority languages tracks participation only where matched by sustained funding.
Gendered Mobility and Access to Public Transport
Fare-free travel for women raised trip frequency and widened access to employment.
Caste, Networks, and Labour-Market Access
Referral networks shape job access in ways that reproduce existing group disparities.
Migration, Remittances, and Village Institutions
Remittances strengthen some village institutions while weakening collective labour arrangements.
Media Trust in the Age of Regional News Apps
Trust in news is higher for regional-language apps but is sensitive to perceived political alignment.