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Assessing the inherent atmospheric environmental friendliness of chemical process routes: An unsteady state distribution approach for a catastrophic release

Gunasekera, MY; Edwards, DW [Article-Full-text]

The inherent environmental friendliness of a chemical process plant is assessed quantitatively based on its short-term atmospheric impacts due to a catastrophic release of the entire inventory of chemicals. In a catastrophic ...
Heidegger’s resonance with engineering: The primacy of practice

Dias, WPS [Article-Full-text]

This paper describes how some aspects of Martin Heidegger’s philosophy resonate strongly with an engineering outlook. He argued that practice was more “primordial” than theory, though preserving an important role for ...
The influence of urban design on outdoor thermal comfort in the hot, humid city of Colombo, Sri Lanka

Johansson, E; Emmanuel, R [Article-Full-text]

The outdoor environment is deteriorating in many tropical cities due to rapid urbanization. This leads to a number of problems related to health and well-being of humans and also negatively affects social and commercial ...
JavaScript tools for online information retrieval

Gamage, R; Dong, H [Article-Full-text]

Purpose – Efficiency of server side search engines is very low in cases of slow internet connections. Therefore, this study aims to examine use of client side search tools. Design/methodology/approach – A previously ...
Modeling of reflection-transmission grating based 2DIO wavelength router

Thilakumara, RP; Penty, RV [Article-Full-text]

This paper presents an analytic study of a singlemode linear reflection-transmission-grating (RTG)-based twodimensional- integrated-optic (2DIO) N × N wavelength router. To determine its performance, the optical field ...
Post-december 2004 tsunami reconstruction in Sri Lanka and its potential impacts on future vulnerability

Khazai, B; Franco, G; Ingram, JC; del Rio, CR; Dias, P; Dissanayake, P; Chandratilake, R; Kanna, SJ

The 26 December 2004 tsunami displaced more than 500,000 people and killed an estimated 31,000 in Sri Lanka. Damage was not uniform, often reflecting distinct patterns of social, infrastructural, and ecological ...
Provision of facilities management services in Sri Lankan commercial organisations: Is in-house involvement necessary?

Perera, BAKS; Ahamed, MHS [Article-Full-text]

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore sourcing strategies for facilities management services using core-competency theory of outsourcing. The aim is to develop a screening framework for deciding the suitability ...
Semantic event detection via multimodal data mining

Chen, M; Shen, S-C; Shyu, M-L; Wickramaratna, K [Article-Full-text]

Anovel framework is presented for video event detection. The core of the framework is an advanced temporal analysis and multimodal data mining method that consists of three major components: low-level feature extraction, ...
The spacing calculator software - A Visual Basic program to calculate spatial properties of lineaments

Ekneligoda, TC; Henkel, H [Article-Full-text]

A software tool is presented which calculates the spatial properties azimuth, length, spacing, and frequency of lineaments that are defined by their starting and ending co-ordinates in a two-dimensional (2-D) planar ...
The tsunami hazard in Sri Lanka strategic approach for the protection of lives, ecosystems and infrastructure

Hettiarachchi, S; Samarawickrama, S [Article-Full-text]

The Indian Ocean Tsunami devastated the coastline of Sri Lanka. This paper summarizes the initial efforts in understanding the tsunami wave and its hydraulic impact on the Sri Lankan coastline. It focuses attention on the ...
Verification of the destruction mechanism of structures in Sri Lanka and Thailand due to the Indian ocean tsunami

Yamamoto, Y; Takanashi, H [Article-Full-text]

We surveyed disaster situations in the west coast of Thailand and the south coast of Sri Lanka where damage due to the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 2004 was severe, and investigated the destructive mechanism of structures ...

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