Recently, meshfree-based computational modelling approaches have become popular in modelling biological phenomena due to their superior ability to simulate large deforma- tions, multiphase phenomena and complex physics ...

Sri Lanka's dry zone is studded with nearly 12,500 small tanks built by ancient kings to store rain water for irrigation purposes. Most of them are called minor tanks which cater to land extents less than 80 ha.. Farmers--^nder ...

Since partonomy knowledge is an important component of human cognition, we propose a point-set-based region (PSBR) model to approximate areal objects, especially vague areal objects. Two major properties of this model are ...

Techniques for modelling urban microclimates and urban block surfaces temperatures are desired by urban planners and architects for strategic urban designs at the early design stages. This paper introduces a simplified ...

Purpose – Knowledge-based economies are popular in the present world. Simultaneously, universities are becoming more responsible for leading economic development through research. As a key contributor to the national ...

Substation insulators near coastal areas rapidly become polluted due to the salty wind blowing in from the sea. Hazardous levels of pollution deposit cause higher leakage currents under damp conditions, resulting in system ...

"Planners, designers and architects are not paying attention in knowing how things work in cities. On the contrary, they havegone togreat pains to learn how cities have to Ivork and what have to begoodfor people " (Jacobs, ...

Code-mixing and code-switching are frequent features in online conversations. Classification of such text is challenging if one of the languages is low-resourced. Fine-tuning pre-trained multilingual language models is a ...

Human communication is multimodal in nature. In a normal environment, people use to interact with other humans and with the environment using more than one modality or medium of communication. They speak, use gestures and ...

Plastic materials have been widely used to replace metals in functional parts due to their lower cost and comparable technical properties. However, the increasing use of virgin plastic material in consumer and industrial ...