Man is made in the image of his creator, and in his turn
becomes the creator of his immediate environment, again in his own
image. Thus do the Balinese view their own existence and their
role in shaping the tiny morsel ...
Construction is a projectised industry. One of the important resource requirements for
construction projects is the availability of an operational workforce for its physical
production. Hence, the operational workforce ...
A house is a basic and fundamental human need. In a literal sense, a house provides warmth,
shelter and security. Beyond its physical nature, the concept of ‘house5 is deeply ingrained in
human civilisation as the space ...
I had observed that through the years the standards of the University Undergraduates had gone down considerably. there were several reasons for the fall in standards.
The defective system of admission to Universities ...
There is no guidelines available in the Universities to perform the office administration effectively and efficiently. Methodology adopted in the past in a University differs from the other and depends on the administrator ...
This thesis focuses on trajectory planning for industrial robot manipulators. It describes the existing problem of trajectory planning and proposes an appropriate solution. The proposed solution has been devised, implemented ...
The Internet, networks of networks, has revolutionized the way one can access the
information and provide numerous opportunities to the field of library and
information science in providing information services easily, ...
Scientific and technical periodicals are a powerful mean
of disseminating current information on research and
development . As these periodicals published in Sri
Lanka are few nearly ninety five percent of our
requirements ...
Digital Library is a popular concept in the West. It is considered as an efficient tool for
improving access to information. This study has made an attempt to justify the need for a
digital library on Statistical Information ...
The issues associated with an increasing population of the aged have received much
attention in recent years in Sri Lanka as well as in many other countries. The
importance of these issues has been highlighted by setting ...
The ability to take decisions about the expected response of existing projects (i.e. buildings, lifelines, cities) to an earthquake is difficult and complex. The behaviour of a few selected parameters of the main structural ...
Hazard auditing, which is a formal, systematic, critical examination of a situation or set of circumstances to identify hazards, is fundamental to hazard management. Auditing is facilitated by "an audit" that details ...
Optical properties of polyoxymethelene (POM) at room temperature have been measured from the near ultra-violet to infra-red as an initial stage of a line between interstellar dust and organic matter, and we report our ...
The World Wide Web, which is exponentially growing daily, is also known to be the richest source of information. The Web is universally adopted by university academic communities as a part of their information seeking ...
This thesis is concerned with an investigation of some factors influencing the use of coarse colliery discards as a fill material for reinforced earth construction. The work carried out in this study is primarily a ...
Of recent years,hyperbolic paraboloid doubly curved surface, has been used extensively in construction. It makes efficient ur.e of materials by relying on form or shape for strength rather than on mass. The simplicity of ...
Rice hulls, the largest milling byproduct of
rice, constitute one fifth of the paddy by weight. The hulls
which can be obtained at relatively low cost, are in abundant
supply in most developing countries, particularly ...
In the past the main role of the libraries was ownership and storage. But today it has been replaced by accessibility and availability of materials. Developments of these new services mainly depended on the feedback of the ...
is necessary to take these properties into account in order to obtain better predictions from peat consolidation analyses. In the present study, the consolidation behavior of peaty clay found in Sri Lanka is extensively ...
A Transformer representation suitable for switching surge analysis is derived in terms of 'primitive' inductance and capacitance matrices. Connection matrices are used to account for all types of winding connections. ...