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  • Landscape as a metaphor 
    Krishantha, DKN [Thesis-Abstract]
    “Dreaming is an act of imagination, attesting in al/ men a creative power, which, if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or, Shakespear" HF.Hedge The saying confirms that the dreaming is the way of ...
  • Landscape as depicted in Sri Lankan traditional paintings with special reference to Kandyan period paintings 
    Bandara RDSM [Thesis-Abstract]
    Sri Lanka inherits a rich vibrant history of traditional arts. History of Sri Lanka is divided in to two different categories, pre historic and historic. In historic .era Illustrations, Literature used to depict the Buddhist ...
  • Landscape character of Sri Lanka capital cities with special reference to the city of Sri Jayawardanapura Kotte 
    Wijesundara, WMIR [Thesis-Abstract]
    thousand years, in response to various influences, natural and geographic reasons and colonial influences. Today most of these capitals survive as historic artifacts while remaining in their original landscape character. ...
  • Landscape landmarks special references to Kandy city 
    Wijerathna, DMWB [Thesis-Abstract]
    The topic of this dissertation concerns landscape landmarks with special consideration of those of city of Kandy, which is a living historical city of Sri Lanka still functioning with its special characteristic features. ...
  • Landscaping in ancient Anuradhapura : is there any alien influence? 
    Peiris, MCJM [Thesis-Abstract]
    At school I was a science student. At University I started as a student of Medicine. But I switched over to Architecture in the middle of the course. After finishing my University education, I was involved with a career ...
  • Landslide prediction using artificial neural networks 
    Subhashini, LDCS; Premaratne, HL [Conference-Full-text]
    Landslides are the most recurrent and prominent disaster in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka has been subjected to a number of extreme landslide disasters that resulted in a significant loss of life, material damage, and distress. It ...
  • Landslides predictIon based on neural network and remote sensing data 
    Kalpana, LDCHN; Subhashini, LDCS [Conference-Full-text]
    Landslide is one of the main natural disaster that Sri Lankan intermediate zone faced. In most of the cases, property damage and vulnerability of people significantly high compared to the other natural disasters. This ...
  • Language model-based spell-checker for Sri Lankan names and addresses 
    Udagedara, Y; Elikewela, B; Thayasivam, U [Conference-Full-text]
    Names are used abundantly in various applications, but traditional spell-checkers are not adapted to correcting errors in names. In this research, we suggest a spell-checker for Sri Lankan names and addresses. The main ...
  • Language of architecture: an examination of the principle of contrast 
    Perera, S [Thesis-Abstract]
    Human beings are a kind of sensitive 'living beings'. It is an obvious fact that monotony weakens sensitivity. Hence contrast can be regarded as a stimulant of sensitivity which is inductive to the well-being of the society. ...
  • A large scale test system to investigate mse soil reinforcement- backfill interaction 
    Jayawickrama, PW; Lawson, WD; Wood, TA [Conference-Abstract]
    Mechanically Stabilized Earth (MSE) retaining wall systems represent by far the most widely used type of retaining wall used by the transportation industry in the United States. These retaining walls have three primary ...
  • Late colonial period merchant houses at Birulia: a study on architectural features 
    Enam Rabbi, A; Islam, T [Conference-Full-text]
    Bangladesh is rich in its unique culture and heritage, latent in its architecture and settlements. Facing challenges and struggles to be a global capital, the 400-year-old city - Dhaka seeks its historical identity amongst ...
  • Latency-Aware Secure Elastic Stream Processing with Homomorphic Encryption 
    Rodrigo, A; Dayarathna, M; Jayasena, S [Article-Full-text]
    Increasingly organizations are elastically scaling their stream processing applications into the infrastructure as a service clouds. However, state-of-the-art approaches for elastic stream processing do not consider the ...
  • Lateral deformation characteristics of coir geomat reinforced vertical embankments 
    Kurukulasuriya, C; Mahinthakumar, N; Theenathayarl, T; Krishanthan, T [Conference-Full-text]
    For the design of internally stabilised reinforced earth walls, the lateral deformation is not considered as a design criterion and therefore, the designer would not know the performance of the wall with regard to its ...
  • Lateral displacements of commonly found gravity retaining walls in Sri Lanka due to seismic action 
    Kathiravelu, G; Bavendan, P; Warnapura, SP; De Silva, LIN [Conference-Full-text]
    Gravity type retaining walls have been widely used to retain soil in Sri Lanka. However, it was reported that the performance of gravity type retaining walls during earthquake is poor. In view of the above, it was attempted ...
  • Latex blends of natural rubber and nitrile rubber with chloroprene rubber: improvement in compatibility and properties 
    De Silva, WNL [Thesis-Abstract]
    Latex is a colloidal dispersion of a polymer substance in an aqueous medium. Latex blends of natural rubber (NR) and several synthetic rubber latices (e.g. chloroprene rubber (CR), nitrile rubber (NBR), styrene butadiene ...
  • A layered beam model to analyse composite truss girders 
    Weerasinghe, MD [Conference-Extended-Abstract]
    In non-steel manufacturing countries like Sri Lanka, where the cost of heavy rolled steel sections are very high, composite floor trusses tend to provide an economical solution in achieving moderate spans in the range of ...
  • Layered depth image based HEVC multi-view codec 
    Kirshanthan, S; Lajanugen, L; Panagoda, PND; Wijesinghe, LP; De Silva, DVSX; Pasqual, AA [Conference-Abstract]
    Multi-view video has gained widespread popularity in the recent years. 3DTV, surveillance, immersive teleconferencing and free view-point television are few notable applications of multi-view video. Excessive storage and ...
  • Layout aware resume parsing using nlp and rule-based techniques 
    Warusawithana, SP; Perera, NN; Weerasinghe, RL; Hindakaraldeniya, TM; Ganegoda, GU [Conference-Full-text]
    As a result of the rapid development seen in the field of IT, there has been a surge in the number of students choosing IT field related degrees in recent years When those students try to secure job a better fob position ...
  • A Layout plannings framework for food processing industry 
    Wanniarachchi, WNC [Thesis-Abstract]
    Food processing factories face unique problems compared to other manufacturing organisations. Hence the facility layout problem (FLP) of food processing has to be treated in a separate context. This research is an attempt ...
  • Lbnest - layout based news extraction and syndication 
    Fernando, S; Perera, AS; Wimalawame, K; Buddhika, T; Kahawala, V; Fonseka, P; Karunanayake, T [Conference-Full-text]
    Layout Based News Extraction and are Syndication is an attempt to implement a mechanism for extracting information from the news web sites. This research and development is carried out around some of the identified ...