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  • Shear Strength of Precast Prestressed Concrete Hollow Core Slabs 
    Wijesundara, KK; Bolognini, D; Nascimbene, R [Conference-Full-text]
    Since early eighties, the precast prestressed concrete hollow core slab cross sections with non-circular voids became gradually popular, first in 400 mm thick slabs, then in 500 mm thick slabs. However, it is evidenced ...
  • Shelf life extension of cavendish banana fruit using cold plasma treatment 
    Sandanuwan, T; Attygalle, D; Amarasinghe, S; Weragoda, SC; Ranaweera, B; Rathnayake, K; Alankara, W [Conference-Full-text]
    Access to bio-safe food being a worldwide concern in recent years, a significant interest has emerged towards research on organic farming and innovative food processing technologies. Cold plasma technology-based treatments ...
  • A Shift from polluting economics to enlightenment : acting on CODE red for humanity 
    De Alwis, A [Article-Abstract]
    The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released its report on climate change, and they have taken the message under the title ‘Code RED for Humanity' Whether we are in a pandemic or not we are in ...
  • Shifting qualitative approach in condition monitoring of bridge assets toward a quantitative approach 
    Sagar, A; De Silva, S; Setunge, S [Conference-Full-text]
    Many existing transportation infrastructure assets such as bridges, overpasses, underpasses, causeways and culverts in developed metropolises are aging and health monitoring data is now becoming a critical aspect when it ...
  • Ship breaking industry - open doors to new business opportunity 
    Kulasekara, GK; Fernando, MARV [Conference-Extended-Abstract]
    Government of Sri Lanka desperately needs more and more economical, feasible and fruit full investment projects to enhance the economy of the country. Present growth rate of economy is nearly 8 per cent and to achieve ...
  • Shopguru 
    Bandara, UKJW [Conference-Full-text]
    This research paper describes ShopGuru, a Short Message Service (SMS)-based service developed as an attempt of solving some of the issues faced by customers in discovering the locations, details and availability statuses ...
  • A short survey on adaptive algorithms in identifying wiener models 
    Yang, CY; Yang, JS; Yu, L [Conference-Full-text]
    Wiener model with its corresponding excellence were often adopted to identify varieties of nonlinear systems. The short paper is aimed to explore the rationale to establish the model from its very theoretical beginning. ...
  • Short Tamil sentence similarity calculation using knowledge-based and corpus-based similarity measures 
    Selvarasa, A; Thirunavukkarasu, N; Rajendran, N; Yogalingam, C; Ranathunga, S; Dias, G [Conference-Abstract]
    Sentence similarity calculation plays an important role in text processing-related research. Many unsupervised techniques such as knowledge-based techniques, corpus-based techniques, string similarity based techniques, and ...
  • Short term dispatch model for Sri Lanka hydrothermal power system 
    Thimothies, HDS [Thesis-Abstract]
    As a short-term dispatch guide, presently manual methods are used by CEB with experience gathered for years and with the directions given by a computer model named Medium Term Reservoir Optimization (METRO) model, which ...
  • Short term forecasting of dry spells in dry zone of Sri Lanka 
    Mathugama, SC [Thesis-Abstract]
    Droughts and dry spells are a recurrent feature of the natural climate in the dry zone of Sri Lanka. The unpredictable pattern of dry spells cause significant damages to the agricultural system, livelihood of people and ...
  • Short term solar irradiance prediction model using ground based sky imaging 
    Samarakoon, KS [Thesis-Full-text]
    With the growing energy demands and depleting fossil fuel deposits world is moving towards renewable energy. Solar energy has become a focus on this transition, especially in tropical countries where solar power harvesting ...
  • Short-Term Electricity Demand Forecasting Method for Smart Meters 
    Weranga, KSK; Chandima, DP; Munasinghe, SR; Kumarawadu, SP; Abeykoon, AMHS [Conference-Abstract]
    The short-term electricity demand forecasting has become one of the major research area in power system engineering. By combining the smart metering to the short term demand forecasting techniques, new features can ...
  • Short-Term Traffic Forecasting using LSTM-based Deep Learning Models 
    Haputhanthri, D; Wijayasiri, A [Conference-Full-text]
    Accurate short-term traffic volume forecasting has become a component with growing importance in traffic management in intelligent transportation systems (ITS). A significant amount of related works on short-term traffic ...
  • Short-term traffic prediction with visitor location registry data 
    Dilhasha, F; Fernando, K; Godahewa, R; Ossen, S; Perara, AS; Walpola, M [Conference-Abstract]
    Increasing road traffic is a major issue in current world. In this paper, we propose a set of prediction models that can perform short term traffic prediction for a given road segment. These prediction models have been ...
  • Short-term wind power forecasting using a Markov model 
    Jeyakumar, P; Kolambage, N; Geeganage, N; Amarasinghe, G; Abeygunawardane, SK [Conference-Full-text]
    Large-scale wind power integration to power systems has been significantly increasing since the last decade. However, the reliability of power systems tends to degrade due to the intermittency and uncontrollability of wind ...
  • Shortcomings in the UK's current 'fabric' first approach towards building energy targets 
    Futcher, JA [Article-Full-text]
    Buildings consume between 40 - 50% of the world's energy, and as a result have become a prime focus towards achieving net-target energy and greenhouse gas reductions. Within the UK, building policy sets minimum standards for ...
  • Shortcomings in the UK's Current 'Fabric' First Approach towards Building Energy Targets 
    Futcher, JA [Article-Full-text]
    buildings consume between 40 - 50% of the world's energy, and as a result bare become a prime focus towards achieving net-target energy and greenhouse gas reductions. Within the UK building policy sets minimum standards ...
  • Should We Care about how Birds Fly? 
    De Silva, L; Samaraweera, N; Jayaweera, N; Sugathapala, T [Article-Full-text]
    Bird flight has intrigued human minds ever since the Stone Age. Paintings in Lascaux cave in France are considered the oldest representation of birds in flight made by early ancestors of humans. The ability to fly has been ...
  • The Shrinkage behaviour of the interlock fabrics before and after washing 
    Somapala, HR [Thesis-Abstract]
    This is a study of the shrinkage behavior of the interlock fabrics before and after washing,, The study is Limited to inter1ock knitted goods made from two varieties of yarns , namely 100% cotton and 65/35 polyester cotton ...
  • Shrinkage Characteristics of Cement Stabilized Rammed Earth 
    Jayasinghe, C [Conference-Full-text]
    The introduction of stabilization techniques to earth construction has seen its immergence as a good alternative walling material in the recent times. Further popularisation of earth construction has resulted due to the ...