Department of Applied Sciences

Academic Experience

Dr Bharti Arora has been associated with the university since July, 2013. She has more than nine years of teaching experience including Hansraj College and Lady Irwin College (University of Delhi) in past. She is actively involved in teaching Analytical Chemistry, Biophysics, Engineering Chemistry, Environmental Studies and Green Technology at NCU. She also received an appreciation for excellent classroom teaching by Head, ASIC Accreditation, UK (Prof John Wilson) in 2016 at NCU.

Fellowships/Awards

A meritorious student throughout from University of Delhi, Dr Arora has been awarded “UGC Research Fellowship in Science for Meritorious Students”. She was also selected for the “Jawaharlal Nehru Scholarships for Doctoral Research Studies” in 2008. She has been honored as “Bentham Science Ambassador” from “India” by Bentham Publishers (2019). She has received Elsevier Reviewer Recognition as Certificate of appreciation for reviewing articles for Cleaner materials (Elsevier) journal.

Research Areas/ Interest

Biophysical and Biochemical aspects of Nucleic Acids, Structural Biology, Biopolymers, Ionic liquids, Bioinformatics, Water Purification, Phase change materials, Nanocomposites, Carbon Nanotubes.

She is well acquainted with UV-visible & Circular Dichroism (CD) Spectroscopy, Gel Electrophoresis and Bioinformatic softwares/tools.

Research Guidance: Supervision of Doctoral Thesis, under progress- 01

International Collaborations: National University Corporation Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

Research Publications

Dr Arora has published seven research papers (WOS /SCOPUS) with a total SCI impact factor of 16.54. She has also published seven chapters in books (WOS /SCOPUS) and one Scopus indexed conference proceeding. She has participated and presented papers in several national and international conferences. Click here for publications

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Administrative Roles & Others

Besides her excellent teaching ability, Dr Arora is also Incharge for NIRF ranking and NAAC accreditation NCU committee. She is also a member of Institutional Innovation Council driven by MOE.

She has also organized many guest lectures by eminent scientists from India and abroad. She also organized a National Workshop on “MEMS Design, Technology & Application” from 1^st-3^rd March, 2015 in collaboration with IITD (Co-Coordinator: Dr Bharti Arora, NCU & Coordinator: Dr Madhusudan Singh, IITD). She is actively involved in delivering invited talks and has participated in panel discussions. She has also written a blog available at https://medium.com/@universitythenorthcap/why-study-chemistry-at-ncu-ba4d9557f7c4.

She is actively involved in organizing chemistry events and educational visits for students including celebration of International year of chemistry 2019. Click here for details

Certifications

"Design the Thinking" Certification, FinTech School of Design Thinking, Chennai

Scientific Associations

She is a Life member of DNA Society of India, The Indian Science Congress Association, Society of Biological Chemists (India), Indian Biophysical Society & Chemical Research Society of India. She is a reviewer for Cleaner Materials (Elsevier), Nature Scientific Reports (IF 4.011), PLOS One (IF 2.776) & Anti-Cancer Agents in Medicinal Chemistry Journal (IF= 2.556), Environment, Development and Sustainability, Springer Journal (2.191).

 

Dr Aditya Sharma has been awarded her PhD in Chemistry from IIT Delhi. She has pursued her doctoral research work in collaboration with National Physical Laboratory, Delhi, as a CSIR- Junior and Senior research fellow. She secured first position in Chemistry at her graduation level and was highest scorer in Organic Chemistry at IITD during her PhD. She continually qualified UGC-CSIR-NET/JRF exam in Chemistry (Dec. 2007,  June 2008 and Dec. 2008). She secured first position in Chemistry at her graduation level and was highest scorer in Organic Chemistry at IITD during her PhD.

Research Publications

Aditya has published twelve research articles, all in SCI-indexed, peer reviewed international journals (ACS, RSC, AIP and Elsevier publications) having an aggregate SCI impact factor of about 50 (open link for publications). The article entitled “Nanopatterned Cadmium Selenide Langmuir–Blodgett Platform for Leukemia Detection” authored by her, was a research highlight of Nature India & IITD website. She is currently guiding four PhD students at NCU (3 independently and 1 jointly).

Research Project
Project investigator in DST-SERB funded research project (25th July, 2016 to 24th June, 2019).
Title of the project: Lateral Flow Assay Strip Sensor Development for Non–Invasive Point of Care Diagnosis of Urinary Tract Infection”
Sanctioned by: Department of Science and Technology (Science and Engineering Research Board) under Young Scientist scheme.
Sanctioned amount: Rs 42.02 lakh

Research Expertise/Areas of specialization
Hands on experience on UV-Visible and FTIR spectrometer, Electrochemical analyzer (CV, DPV and EIS), Langmuir Blodgett trough, Contact angle meter, Zetasizer and Gel Electrophoresis setup.
Her areas of research interest include Nanomaterial synthesis, Thin film deposition, Biosensor development, Lateral flow assay, Cancer and  Urinary Tract Infection diagnosis.

Membership/Association with Professional Bodies/Societies
Life member of Materials Research Society of India, Chemical Research Society of India, The Indian Science Congress Association, and Indian Biophysical Society

Served as professor in the department of Mathematics and Statistics, IIT Kanpur For 35 years. Was AICTE and UGC fellow after retirement at IIT Kanpur. Recorded two 40-hrs courses for NPTEL for UG and PG curriculum. Currently emeritus professor at the Northhcap university, Gurufram, Haryana, Guiding PhD and MTech students and mentoring faculty in CSE and Applied Sciences departments. Reviewer for National and International research journals. Areas of interest are: Design and Analysis of algrithms for Optimisation Problems, Applications to Stegnography and Machine learning. Explainable AI.

Prof. Tandon served as a Senior Scientist at the National Physical Laboratory for about TWO DECADS. Subsecuently he was appointed as a Scientific Advisor to the Government of Haryana. Later on he joined the Department of Physics and Astrophysics at the University of Delhi, Delhi 110007, as Professor and also served as the Head of the Department. He has also been Scientific Consultant at the Nanocenter of the Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi, for about TWO YEARS.

Currently, he is the distinguished Visiting Faculty at the Maharshi Dayanand University (MDU), Haryana. He has also served as Governers Nominee for the Unoversity of Jammu, Jammu, and at the Kashmir University, Kashmir, for several years.

He has vast experience of Scientist/Professor at Massatusets Institute of Technology (MIT), USA, Queens University, Quebec University, Seol National University, Angers University (France), to name a few.

She has brilliant academic record and has been an outstanding student throughout her studies. She secured first position in Post Graduation. She was Topper in Tenth standard in all streams in school. She had won cash prize and Scholarship in Science Scholarship Competition . She Assisted the Food Committee in the ‘International Conference on Operator Theory and Related Areas’ held at the Department of Mathematics, University of Delhi, during January 9-12, 2008. Her research domain includes Algebraic Coding theory ,Information Theory and Cryptography.She earned her doctoral degree at the Department of Mathematics, Delhi University on the topic ‘Generalised Reed-Muller Codes’. She is presently interested in exploring new dimensions in her field . She has presented 3 research papers in national and international conferences.

She has published several research papers in reputed international journals including SCI journals. She is associated with the University since Jan 2017. She is member of various reputed Mathematical Societies including American Mathematical society , Life member of Indian Science Congress Association, Life member of Ramanujan Mathematical Society, Life member of Indian Mathematical Society . She has almost 10 years teaching and 10 years of research experience.

Areas of Research: Algebraic Coding theory ,Information Theory and Cryptography.

Research Records: Publications in International Journals: 9
International Conferences attended : 5
National Conferences attended: 12
Reviewer in reputed journals MATH SciNet and Zentrablatt
Mathematics subject expert in CBSE UDAAN project since 2015

Dr. Rajni holds a very attractive academic record throughout the course of her study. She has done her Ph.D in the field of Numerical Analysis in IIT Roorkee in the year 2018. She completed her graduation and post graduation from CCS university, Meerut. During the period of research work, she has published various research papers in the international journals of repute. She qualified National Eligibility Test (JRF) in 2012. She got DST travel award for presenting a research paper in international conference on applied mathematics ICOME-2017 held in Turkey.

Workshops and Seminars:

Computational Techniques for Differential equations with Matlab (CTDE-2015), July 02-06,2015, Department of Mathematics, IIT Roorkee.

International Conference on Mathematics and Applications (ICMA-2017), D.U. April, 26-28, 2017, presented a paper entitled “A Bernstein Polynomial Differential Quadrature Method for Numerical Solutions of Kawahara Equation”.

Annual Foundation School (AFS-I) organized in IIT Delhi by National Center for Mathematics (A joint center of TIFR and IIT Bombay), December 04-30, 2017.

Areas of Interest: Numerical solutions of PDEs, Numerical Methods, B-spline functions, Berstein Polynomials

Prof. Ashwani Sharma is a distinguished academician with an illustrious career spanning over 35 years. He served as Professor and Head of the Department of Physics at Maharshi Dayanand University (MDU) in Rohtak, until his retirement in December 2015. Alongside his Ph.D. in Physics, he earned an MCA degree during his teaching tenure, demonstrating his commitment to continuous learning.

Prof. Sharma has also taught B.Tech courses as Head of the University Institute of Engineering and Technology (UIET) at MDU, Rohtak. His academic contributions include supervising three Ph.D. scholars and publishing 38 research papers.

He has actively participated in around 15 national and international conferences, presenting his work in countries such as Canada, the UK, Japan, and the USA. Additionally, he has organized two workshops and one national conference on nanotechnology in Rohtak, showcasing his dedication to advancing research and fostering academic collaboration.

Prof. Sharma’s extensive experience and academic contributions make him an invaluable member of the institution.

I retired from M.D.University Rohtak as Prof & Head Physics.

My parents migrated to Punjab from Multan (Pakistan) in 1947.

My school education was in erstwhile Punjab and earned my higher degrees from University of Delhi under the guidance of Prof Krishan Lal and Prof G.C.Trigunayat.

During my Ph.D. I learnt fabrication of instruments for single crystal growth and reported five new structures of Cadmium Iodide.

During my career I have held various positions as Head Physics in University college, University Institute of Engineering & Technology and Dept of Physics M.D.University Rohtak.

In addition to teaching, I got a chance to visit as many as 12 countries in connection with research and have more than 40 research papers to my credit.

Not only that, I remained active in State of science education for women in Haryana and delivered many talks nationally and internationally .

During my early career I also authored a book of +2 stage in 1990.

After retiring from M.D. University in 2016 I joined Baba Mast Nath University Rohtak as Prof & Head and worked there till 2021 and could produce 6 Ph.D. students under my guidance.

At present I am active in academics and am on the panel of experts for various bodies like Uttarakhand Public Service Commission Haridwar and member Third world organisations for women in sciences, Italy.

RESEARCH interests:  

• Polymer Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Green Chemistry. Published over 20 research papers in journals of national and international repute and guided Ph.D. students. Undertaken Major RESEARCH Projects funded by DRDO, etc.


• 1981-1986

• 1990-1995

• 1995-2000

• envisioning, planning and implementation of various academic and Institutional activities at the department as well as at university levels.


• As Assistant Professor in Department of Industrial Chemistry, played key role in establishment of new Department of Industrial Chemistry including setting up the Post Graduate & Research grade laboratories.


• Founder-Warden, Girl’s hostel (1996-2000).


• Member of various academic and allied committees and statuary bodies of the university.

• 2000-2007

• 2007 -2024

• As HOD, Applied Chemistry and Incharge, Department of Applied Sciences deeply involved in all the academic & administrative work.


• A number of Seminar, Research level Workshops & Faculty Development Programs were organized regularly.

Dr Arjun Singh received M.Sc degree in Physics from University of Delhi in 2007. He completed M.Tech. from Thapar University Patiala followed by PhD from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in 2016. After two year of postdoctoral experience from India and abroad, he joined as assistant professor of physics in the Dept. of Applied Science, North Cap University, Gurugram India.

He is an experimental physicist and his research interest include printable and flexible semiconductor devices such as polymer solar cell, perovskite solar cell and thin film transistors. Dr Singh has published 13 research papers in internal peer reviewed journals. He has actively participated in 7- national and international conferences to present his work.

Area of expertise:

Semiconductor devices (polymer Solar cell, perovskite solar cell, OLEDs Thin film transistors (TFT’s) )

Research Publications-13

Research work presented in Conferences – 07

Most recent position held : Senior Consultant (Research & Co-ordination), the Chairman’s Secretariat, ICSSR Headquaters, N. Delhi (2022 onwards).

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:  Over 40 years of UG , PG teaching & research and faculty mentoring and other development & organization-building activities..

Research

• Interests: Theoretical Particle Physics & Cosmology, Modelling & Simulations, Socialogy of Sc& Tech., Social Physics, policy planning.


• Published over 45 research papers in journals of international reputes like Physical Review, J of Phys. G, Advances in High Energy Physics, Phys.of Part. & Nucle. Letts. , J of Optical Tech., National Security, etc.


• delivered a large number of invited talks /keynote addresses/lead talks within India & in countries like Japan, China, USA, Taiwan, Russia, Greece, Italy, etc.


• Sucessfully completed several major research project sfunded by DST, DAE, UGC, etc.

• Prize: “Hari Om Ashram Research Endowment Prize” 1994-95


• Fellow: “ICSC World Laboratory Fellow”, 1989-90, Geneva (Switzerland) and LNF_INFN, Frascati, (Rome), Italy.


• Associate: “Inter-Univ Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics:, 1992-95, Pune


• Visiting Fellow ; Nihon University, Tokyo (Japan), 1997


• Senior Speaker: ‘Theoretical Physics Seminar Circuit (TPSC)’ S.N.                                     Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Kolkatta,1996-98.

• One of the very-early core-team of employees of the University after its inception in December 1998, had been a part of foundational activities of the University and share the pride and the responsibility of its success story.


• Served in various capacities like: Chairman-Sports Committee (2002-2005), Dean USBAS (2005-2008), Director-Academic Affairs (2009-2011), Chairman, University Information Resource Centre (UIRC), (2009-2012); Director, Co-ordination (2015-2019); Director (Research & Consultancy) (2019-2021); Director (East Campus) -extending well into post retirement till 2022.

• Expert Member to the statuary bodies and selection committee in a number of states & central universities & other reputed institutions like UPSC, IITs, NITs, etc..


• Undertook the conceptualisation and development of the Concept Document for Delhi Sports University for the Government of NCT of Delhi.


• Member Secretary, of the VIF Task Force on “Towards more Effective Higher Education: Emergence of STEM Education in India”, VIF Publications, March 2019.

Prof. Ajay Kumar is currently Senior Scientist, National Academy of Sciences India in the Department of Mathematics, University of Delhi. He did his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Mathematics from University of Delhi.

He has been teaching at University of Delhi since 43 years along with holding various positions like Dean Research, University of Delhi; Dean, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences; Head, Department of Mathematics; Chairman, Board of Research Studies in Mathematical Sciences; etc.

His research majorly focuses on Harmonic Analysis; C*-algebras; Operator Spaces; Operator systems and complex analytic methods in partial differential equations. He has published 87 research papers in International journals of high impact factor and repute.  He has collaborated with eminent international mathematicians from University of Paderborn, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany, University of Strassbourg, France ,University of Edinburgh, U.K., Gunma University, Japan etc. He has supervised 23 Ph.D. and 19 M. Phil. theses in University of Delhi.

Prof. Ajay Kumar is a Fellow of National Academy of Sciences, India. He has received 12 international research fellowships such as DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), DFG (German Research Foundation), CIES French fellowship, Commonwealth Staff fellowship, Royal Society London Fellowship, JSPS Japanese Fellowship, Post Doctoral Fellowships of German Universities etc.

Prof. Ajay Kumar was the Sectional President of Mathematics in Indian Science Congress 2014-15, council member of Indian Mathematical Society 2014-17 and is presently a Fellow of International Society of Analysis and Applications, New York along with being member of various other international and national mathematical societies.

He has been on several academic committees of University Grants Commission, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Department of Science and Technology, Union Public Service Commission, etc.

A recipient of Shiksha Rattan Puraskar 2011, Best Citizens of India award 2011, listed in Marquis who is who in Science and Technology in the world December 2010, 2013, 2016,   listed in top 100 scientists of world in 2012, Glory of India Award 2013,and  Best Personality of India award 2016. Dr. Gupta who is presently working as a Senior Professor of Mathematics,Chairman NAAC committee of The NorthCap University, Gurugram (Formerly Professor of Mathematics, BITS, Pilani &LNMIIT, Jaipur) and having a very rich experience of about 36 years in teaching and research obtained his Master’s degree in Mathematical Statistics and Ph.D. in Operations Research from Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra (India). His field of specialization includes Applied Statistics, Optimization and Operations Research , on these topics he has published/ presented more than 90 research articles in peer reviewed national, international journals and national and international conferences. A number of students have submitted their theses/ dissertation on these topics under his supervision. He has authored four book chapters and also has 18 books in his credit on the topics of Probability and Statistics, Quantitative Methods, Optimization in Operations Research, Advance Discrete Mathematics, Engineering Mathematics , Advance Mathematics etc. Apart from these Dr. Gupta has been chief -editor for the proceedings of first, second ,third and fourth,fifthe and sixth  international conference on Operations Research and Statistics being held at April 2011 in Malaysia, 2012 in Indonesia, 2013,2016,2017 and 2018 in Singapore  respectively. He is also on the editorial board and reviewer of a number of national and International journals. He was also awarded best paper award at the annual conference of National Academy of Science India held at Calcutta University, Kolkata from 15-17 December 2009.

Dr. Gupta is a member on various academic and management committees of many Institutes/ Universities such as member board of studies, advisory committee, selection committee etc.He is also examiner for various degrees such as Ph.D., M.Phil, M.Tech, M.Sc.,M. B.A. and BE/B. Tech etc. for a number of universities and institutions.  He has participated in more than 100  national and International conferences in which he has delivered invited talks and chaired technical sessions and also has organized a number of national conferences, workshops, faculty development programmes in BITS Pilani and in other institutions outside Pilani  as well. He has also delivered expert talks on the various topics related to mathematics, statistics and operations research in India and abroad. Dr. Gupta has been member of Rajasthan board of school education and also member of various committees of RPSC Ajmer, UPSC, New Delhi and AICTE, New Delhi.

Anurag Sharma is an Emeritus Professor of Optics and Photonics and has been teaching at IIT Delhi since 1980. His research has been concerned with propagation of light in imaging and waveguiding devices. He has published over 110 journal papers and over 200 conference papers.

He received the INSA Young Scientist Medal in 1986 and the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in 1998 for his research contributions. He is a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of IIT Delhi. He is a fellow of all the three science academies (INSA, IAS and NASI) in India, the Indian National Academy of Engineering, and of Optica (USA) (formerly OSA). He has been the President of the Optical Society of India, a Vice-President of INSA and a Vice-President of NASI and is at present Chairperson of its Delhi Chapter of NASI. At IIT Delhi, he has served as Dean of Student Affairs and Dean, Academics and has been Head of the Physics Department. He has been an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at University of Karlsruhe (now Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) (Germany) and Senior Associate of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste (Italy). He has held a Homi Bhabha Fellowship and a JC Bose Fellowship. He is a recipient of the 2024 Esther Hoffman Beller Medal of the Optica (USA) for ‘his for outstanding contributions to optics and photonics teaching, research and leadership’.

Dr. Chetna has received her PhD degree from The NorthCap University, Gurugram. She is a Gold Medallist in M.Tech (Nanotechnology) from Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya, (RGPV) Bhopal. She has secured 2nd position in order of Merit in her M.Sc. (Physics) from Barkatullah University, Bhopal. She has 9 years of teaching and Research experience. Her research interest is mainly on synthesis and fabrication of nanomaterials and optoelectronic devices. Dr. Chetna was also involved in cultural activities during her college, she has won second and third prize at university level drama competition in youth festival in year 2004 and 2005.

Publications
• Number of Publications- 11
• Conferences- 12
Sponsored Project
• Title: Polymer nanocomposite based solar cell
• Role: Principal Investigator
• Funding Agency: Women Scientist Scheme-A (WOS-A), Department of Science and Technology (DST)
• Project Duration and Amount: 3 years and 24,30,000/-
Projects
• Structural, Optical and Transport properties of InxGa1-xAs/GaAs QW and InAs/InxGa1-xAs/GaAs DWELL structures, SCLS, RRCAT, Indore (M.P).
• Synthesis and characterization of CdS Quantum dot, School of Nanotechnology (SONT), Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya, Bhopal, (M.P).
Study of Optical Properties of CdS Quantum Dot Thin Film, Nanomaterial Laboratory, Department of Physics, UTD Barkatullah University, Bhopal.

Dr. Pooja Punyani received Ph.D. in Mathematics from the Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 2021. She pursued M.Sc. in Mathematics from St. Stephen's College, University of Delhi. She joined The NorthCap University, Gurugram in August 2021. Presently, she is serving as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Sciences.
She has worked on the thesis titled "On Changes in Frobenius Number" in the realm of Combinatorial Number Theory. Her research interests include Number Theory and Algebra. She obtained full travel grant from CSIR to present paper at reputed international conference in USA and was awarded highly student’s recommended Talk at La Trobe, Australia. She was also an invited speaker at CANT 2021. She has published papers in refereed international journals. Her papers can be found here.

She received National Board of Higher Mathematics, DAE, Govt. of India, research fellowship 2013 to 2018. She is Gate AIR -142 and secured highest score in B.Sc. Math (Hons.) at her alma mater Daulat Ram College, University of Delhi.

During her Ph.D. at IITD, she gained teaching assistant (TA) experience of 5.8 years. She was involved with the undergraduate and postgraduate subjects like Calculus, Discrete Mathematics, Number Theory and Advance Number Theory. She also served as a TA for Algebra at Annual Foundation School I and Core team Member of Regional Mathematical Olympiad, Delhi.

She is actively involved as a volunteer with The Art of living Foundation since 2014.

Mr. Sudesh Kumar joined as Sports Officer in Sports department on 02nd February 2015. After completion of M. P. Ed in Physical education from (EIILM) Sikkim University. Mr. Sudesh Kumar pursuing Ph.D. from SUNRISE University Alwar , RAJASTHAN . He played 33rdNational games in Netball (Guwahati). He was an International Empire of Netball game Singapore 2005 and INDO-PAK International Netball Series 2005. He has done certificate course of Netball Coach from NIS Gandhi Nagar 2005. Umpiring in 5thAsian Youth Netball Championship in India (Bangalore) 2006, INDIA V/s SRI LANKA Women Netball Series 2009, and 34thNational Games in netball as umpire (Jharkhand) 2011 and Technical Official in7thAsian Youth Netball Championship in India (Thyagaraj Stadium 2010). Having 18 year experience in teaching and coaching to students.

Dr. Anil Kumar Jharotia is the Librarian of The NorthCap University. He has 25 years’ experience in his professional area. He has passed master’s in Library & Information Science, M.A. Public Administration, Aacharya (M.A. in Sanskrit), PGDM (Marketing), M.Phil and PhD. He is author and editor of 9 books, and he contributed 92 Book Chapters/Papers/Articles in reputed Journals and Conference Proceedings.

His Vidwan score is 9.3 and he has presented a number of papers in Conferences. He organized many Library events like Conference, Seminar, Webinar, Book Exhibition and Workshop. He is Chief Editor, Journal of Information Technology and Library Science, Associate Editor, Journal of Library & Information Communication Technology, Editorial Board member and Reviewer of many reputed Journals. He is Life Member of Library Professionals Foundation, Indian Library Association, SALIS, Library Professionals Association and MRES. He developed www.librarydotcom.webs.com weblog. He received many awards for his outstanding performance in the area of Library and Information Science namely Shan-E- Granthalay Sammaan-2022, Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan National Honor 2021, Librarians Award-2021, MRES-Emerging Scholar award, Award of Excellence, Digital Excellence Award, Mitra Award, Best Paper Present Award, Best Information Service Award by DRDO & IASLIC, Best Publicity Librarian Award etc.