High organic strength wastewaters from food industry, distilleries, breweries etc. are conventionally treated by anaerobic digestion due to low sludge production, derivation of biogas and low operating costs. However ...

The need of finding an alternative for river sand arises due to the over exploitation of river sand and its various harmful consequences. The focus of the current study was on offshore sand, which is clearly one of the ...

Time series may contain multiple seasonal cycles of different lengths. There are several notable features in Figure 1, reference to the hourly electricity demand in Sri Lanka, data are given in the Table lFirst, we observe ...

Tsunami is one of the most devastating natural disasters which cannot be prevented or precisely predicted even with the modern advanced technology. One of the best solutions for prediction as well as for the risk ...

BTSentinel is a security system which has advanced authentication capabilities as well as location identification of each user using a Bluetooth [1] enabled mobile phone. User's mobile phone connects to a Bluetooth dongle ...

The emergence of TQM has been one of the major developments in management practice in the last two decades. The recognition of TQM as a source of competitive advantage has been widely promoted around the world, especially ...

The apparel industry of Sri Lanka has survived for along period of time and the industry was successfully catered to the international market especially for US and EU market in the last two decades. Apparel exports still ...

There are several access control systems available in the market, which uses different mechanisms to authenticate the users. Passwords, cards with barcode, card with magnetic systems and signature are the traditional ...

An Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is an integrated computing system designed to automate the flow of material, information, and resources across all functions in an enterprise, with a central database". An ERP ...

More than two thirds of the Sri Lankan coastline got affected from the December 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami. Field surveys conducted clearly indicate that some of the cities in the western coast of Sri Lanka in the shadow ...