Natural barriers are large or small closely grown tree belts, vegetation walls, natural stone structures, tree fences etc. Natural barriers, have emerged as the new trend to address problems in urban areas and has developed ...
An “Insurance”, is a protection against a possible eventuality, which spans through numerous sectors of different types. Since, construction industry is known to be a high risk industry; it is always obscure the extent of ...
De Silva, END; Sampath, DBD; De Silva, CR[Article-Abstract]
Sri Lanka now has a prime market for “vertical growth” and the private sector has become the main developer. However, the government has also contributed to these developments through the condominiums constructed for low ...
De Silva, KGVK; Gunasekera, MY; De Alwis, AAP[Article-Abstract]
This article considers the challenge of setting threshold values or end points for toxic
gas exposure from Major Accident Hazards (MAH) to third parties or the public in the Sri Lankan context. Two different categories ...
According to the Buddhist philosophy, hatred (dosa) is considered as one of the three unwholesome roots which determine the actual immoral quality of volitional states and a conscious thought with its mental factors. Hatred, ...
Troubleshooting in Software as a Service (SaaS) environment is inherently complex due'to involvement of multiple subsystems, which operate under lots of uncertainty. A research has been conducted to develop a Multi Agent ...
Modem aerospace industry is continuously seeking new technologies due to potential increase in demand for new aircrafts which are to be produced on a single production line while reducing model changeover time and improving ...
Aircraft industry is continuously seeking new technologies due to the competitive market and high demand. During maintenance and manufacturing practices, dedicated supporting structures are used to handle large parts of ...
Pollution by heavy metals is a serious threat to aquatic ecosystems because some of
these metals are potentially toxic even at very low concentrations. Chitosan, a biopolymer produced from crustacean shells, has applications ...
Development of a ceramic based cookware body with adequate thermal shock resistance was successfully developed using low cost raw materials. The objective of this work was to develop a ceramic body composition suitable for ...
In this study natural biopolymer "chitosan" was synthesized using locally available shrimp type of Penaeus monodon. Synthesis of chitosan involved four main stages: preconditioning, demineralization, deprotenisalion and ...
The purpose of this study was twofold: (1) Identifying the risks that are critical for risk management of road construction projects in Sri Lanka on a life cycle basis and (2) defining the shares of the parties involved ...
Purpose – The Facilities Management (FM) profession is now established in most developed countries and infew developing countries such as Singapore and Hong Kong. However, with rapid mushrooming of high rise buildings, ...
Esterification reactions are limited by chemical equilibrium and therefore they are
carried out commercially using either a large excess of one of the reactants or by removing one of the products continuously. The removal ...
De Silva, ECL; Bamunusingha, BANN; Gunasekera, MY[Article-Abstract]
The esterification of acetic acid with ethanol has been investigated in the presence of a
low cost ion exchange resin mainly used in the water treatment industry namely Trilite SCR-B as a heterogeneous catalyst. Internal ...
The quality of the neighboring environment plays a major role in encouraging people to walk when attending their daily needs. Although past studies have identified a relationship between neighborhood design factors and the ...
Minimally invasive surgeries (MIS) such as laparoscopic procedures are widely used for many types of abdomen surgeries because of its numerous advantages over open surgeries. They require very high level of skills of ...
Kumarawadu, SP; Nanayakkara, ND; Thavaneswaran, B; Tharmakulsingam, M; Paramanathan, N; Perera, L; Mohamed, S
Remote medical monitoring and consultation has become indispensable in order to
enhance the availability of better health-care services to the patients in remote rural areas
in the country. This paper proposes an ...
The concept of construction productivity began in the early 20th century with a series of time and motion studies to improve bricklaying operations. However, it remains an interesting and a dominant issue in the construction ...