Building on the literature on inclusive innovation, we identify shop-floor employees, who are at the basc-of-thepyramid of the organisational hierarchy in industrial firms as the target of concern for inclusive innovation. ...

Increase in global competition led Sri Lankan textile and apparel export manufacturing firms to rethink their manufacturing management strategies for survival and growth. One of the strategies adopted to achieve operational ...

The Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004 resulted in over 35,000 deaths and damage to almost 100,000 houses in coastal Sri Lanka. In the aftermath a significant program of international aid resulted in the reconstruction ...

Urbanisation and population movement to larger cities is seen to be an inevitable phenomenon in most developing countries. The trends associated with urbanization in developing countries show that the result for some ...

Construction projects represent unique and immensely complex array of interdependent activities that take place to accomplish project goals. Thus, the nature of construction projects reasoned to complications and ambiguities ...

The Bill of Quantities (BOQ) is a vital document in bothpre contract stage and post contract stage of any construction project. The BOQ impacts three important aspects of a project namely time, cost and quality. Therefore, ...

Ethics is a vital constituent for any profession. Therefore, professions are governed via codes of necessary reflect social interest. Recognized professional organization with regards to Quantity Surveying profession ...

/« construction projects the Bill of Quantities (BOQ) has become a vital document m post contract stage as well as in pre contract stage, since the BOQ address the important three aspects of a project, that are lime, ...

Identification of system parameters of a small DC motor is a complex and challenging task. This research proposes a disturbance observer (DOB) based novel Change of Inertia Observer (CIOB) to estimate the moment of ...

Scaling is a technique used to transfer the dynamic motion properties of a remote device (slave robot) to the operator (master robot) or vice versa. This is a challenging task in terms of force, position, power, and ...