High organic strength wastewaters from food industry, distilleries, breweries etc. are conventionally treated by anaerobic digestion due to low sludge production, derivation of biogas and low operating costs. However ...

The need of finding an alternative for river sand arises due to the over exploitation of river sand and its various harmful consequences. The focus of the current study was on offshore sand, which is clearly one of the ...

Time series may contain multiple seasonal cycles of different lengths. There are several notable features in Figure 1, reference to the hourly electricity demand in Sri Lanka, data are given in the Table lFirst, we observe ...

Tsunami is one of the most devastating natural disasters which cannot be prevented or precisely predicted even with the modern advanced technology. One of the best solutions for prediction as well as for the risk ...

BTSentinel is a security system which has advanced authentication capabilities as well as location identification of each user using a Bluetooth [1] enabled mobile phone. User's mobile phone connects to a Bluetooth dongle ...

Coastal region is a very valuable area for developing countries like Sri Lanka, since a good protected coastal region will facilitate the tourism as well as fishing Industry. But the coastal erosion, especially in South ...

Most of the new coming highways in Sri Lanka are run through low-lying areas mainly to minimize the damages to the existing structures and to the livelihood of the people living in the buildup areas. The shallow subsurface ...

More than 70 quarry operations are conducted under the IML/A Category licence all over the country. The high demand of metal aggregates for the construction industry (road and buildings constructions) has made industrial ...

Motion Control is one of the most important research topics in computer vision. It is the base for many other problems such as visual tracking, structure from motion. A major interests of motion analysis is to estimate ...

Yarn trimming is' carried out by using a pair of scissors in conventional lock stitch machines. Three steps should be followed to trim the yarn. First, the presser foot is lifted by using the knee lifter (hand lifter in ...