Every year newspapers and television screens are dominated at some point by a natural disaster of international concern. In a disaster, generation of waste is unavoidable. This causes serious environmental and economic ...

The Coconut Palm (Cocos nucifera), a member of the family Arecaceae (palm family), is a large palm, that can grow up to 30 m height, with pinnate leaves 4-6 m long and pinnae 60-90 em long. The term coconut refers to the ...

This paper presents a non linear automatic UAV simulation testbed and an autonomous control implementation with way point navigation. The UAV simulator is an integrated product that combines a vehicle operator station with ...

Adsorption of textile dyes onto rice husk based adsorbents was studied. Batch experiments were conducted to determine the effect of method of treatment of rice' husk on adsorption of Basic Green 4 and Acid Blue 80 from ...

Employee participation in decision making (PDM) is central to lean manufacturing. However, there is surprisingly little research directly addressing the relationship between PDM and organizational performance in Sri Lanka. ...

A single-chip FPGA implementation of a vision core is an efficient way to design fast and compact embedded vision systems from the PCB design level. The scope of the research is to design a novel FPGA-based parallel ...

Laboratory investigations had been conducted at University of Moratuwa over last six years to study the possibility of the use of Electro-osmotic consolidation process to improve the soft peaty clays. The use of perforated ...

Knowledge Management (KM) has become a widely addressed topic in the high tech industries even though it has not got much interest in low tech labor intensive industries. This paper studies how knowledge management is used ...

According to statistics more than 40% of vegetables and fruits get wasted in Sri Lanka due to poor packing, handling, transport, storage and the high prices of vegetables and fruits, leading to reduced demands and longer ...

This paper proposes a novel method for a dynamic ridesharing mechanism using the combination of several modern information and communication technologies. The increased personal usage of automobiles has caused several ...