This paper describes a new model of predicting prosodic phrase breaks in Sinhala language in order to improve the quality of the existing ITS Sinhala voices. In a Text To Speech (TTS) system, quality of the synthetic ...

Corrugated Soil-Steel Bridges have been used as underpass and drainage structures in the Southern Highway Project. This design and construction process is novel to the Sri Lankan context. The Ring Compression theory, ...

Snyder's Method was applied to the catchment of Welipenna Ganga, in order to study the variation of the results with the changes of the parameters used. Three vale of Cp were considered for the study while Ct was calculated ...

Utilization of available water resources in needed to be optimized to meet the necessary capacity enhancements for future demands. In this context, water research plays a vital role, enabling rational decision making at ...

Use of Geographic information System (GIS) to determine the spatial availability of environmental resources is a very versatile method in any present level of practice. In this context, identification of environmental ...

Asphalt hinders are typically categorized according to the physical characteristic Traditional grading systems such as penetration and viscosity grading system and the new method. Super pave grading system are available ...

In emerging Long Term Evolution (LTE) systems, it is expected to reuse the same set of frequency subchannels in each and every cell as much as possible. This will result in high co-channel interference (CI), which degrades ...

In order to obtain depth perception in computer vision, one needs to process pairs of stereo images. This process is computationally challenging to be carried out in real-time, because it requires the search for matches ...

Stream hydrology is highly affected by the dynamic behavior of the urban terrain due to urbanization In a pre-developed setting, much of the rainfall is absorbed by the surrounding vegetation, soil and ground cover. In ...

Cardiac murmurs are the sounds produced by the abnormal passage of the blood flow inside the heart due to the diseased value of tissues. Identifying the type of the murmur can diagnose the cardiac pathology related to that ...