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Adjudication practice and Its enforceability in the Sri Lankan construction industry

Jayasinghe, HM; Ramachandra, T [Article-Abstract]

Construction activities involve many temporarily assembled multiple stakeholders with multiple interests, which make the process complex. This results in numerous disputes on construction projects. Although various forms ...
After-sales services of home appliances: Evidence from Sri Lanka

Wickramasinghe, V; Mathusinghe, K [Article-Full-text]

The provision of after-sales services is considered as a source of product differentiation leading to competitive advantage of a firm. As a consequence, there is a need of monitoring and measuring the activities of ...
Analysis of strategic pricing in the port sector: The network approach

Nguyen, H-O; Chin, A; Tongzon, J; Banda r a, M [Article-Full-text]

This article demonstrates how interaction between ports in a network can be analysed in two stages. The first stage is the analysis of the price response functions and it examines how a port sets its prices for infrastructure ...
An Analysis of the Level of Knowledge on Prevention and Control of Breast Cancer among Female Undergraduates of University of Moratuwa

Perera, S; Seneviratne, SA; Seneviratne, TM [Article-Full-text]

Breast Cancer is the most common form of cancer in Sri Lanka. Cancer is often curable if detected early. This study was conducted to investigate the level of knowledge of female undergraduates on prevention and control ...
Analytical evaluation of aircraft operational risks from runway rutting

Pasindu, HR; Fwa, TF; Ong, GP [Article-Full-text]

Runway surface distortions such as rutting allow water to accumulate on the runway surface which may cause aircraft operational risks related to hydroplaning and loss of friction. This may increase the runway excursion ...
Antiferroelectric Nature of CH3NH3PbI3-xClx Perovskite and Its Implication for Charge Separation in Perovskite Solar Cells

Sewvandi, GA; Kodera, K; Ma, H; Nakanishi, S; Feng, Qi [Article-Full-text]

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have been attracted scientific interest due to high performance. Some researchers have suggested anomalous behavior of PSCs to the polarizations due to the ion migration or ferroelectric ...
Antiferroelectric-to-Ferroelectric Switching in CH3NH3PbI3 Perovskite and Its Potential Role in Effective Charge Separation in Perovskite Solar Cells

Sewvandi, GA; Hu, D; Chen, C; Ma, H; Kusunose, T; Tanaka, Y; Nakanishi, S; Feng, Q [Article-Full-text]

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) often suffer from large performance variations which impede to define a clear charge-transfer mechanism. Ferroelectric polarization is measured numerically using CH3NH3PbI3 (MAPbI3) pellets ...
An Approach to assess the urban management performance of Municipalities in Sri Lanka

Ranasinghe, TKGP; Amarawickrama, S; Warusavitharane, E [Article-Abstract]

Urbanization tends bring out a number of problems, such as inadequate housing and urban services, increase land prices and construction costs, propagation of slums, pollution and; deterioration of the urban environment. ...
An approach to delineate groundwater recharge potential sites in Ambalantota, Sri Lanka using GIS techniques

Senanayake, IP; Dissanayake, DMDOK; Mayadunna, BB; Weerasekera, WL [Article-Full-text]

The demand for fresh water in Hambantota District, Sri Lanka is rapidly increasing with the enormous amount of ongoing development projects in the region. Nevertheless, the district experiences periodic water stress ...
Appropriate delay analysis techniques to analyse delays in road construction projects in Sri Lanka

Ekanayake, EMK; Perera, BAKS [Article-Full-text]

Purpose Delays represent one of the most critical factors that affect the cost of a construction project. They have to be therefore analysed comprehensively using appropriate techniques. The purpose of this paper is to ...
Automated Assessment of Multi-Step Answers for Mathematical Word Problems

Dias, G; Ranathunga, S; Kadupitiya, JCS [Article-Abstract]

We present a system to automatically grade the mathematical word questions. The questions that we currently consider are at the level of GCE (General Certificate of Education) Ordinary Level (O/L) Mathematics paper standard ...
Automatic Creation of a Sentence Aligned Sinhala-Tamil Parallel Corpus

Hameed, RA; Pathirennehelage, N; Ihalapathirana, A; Mohamed, MZ; Ranathunga, VSD; Jayasena, S; Dias, G; Fernando, S [Article-Abstract]

A sentence aligned parallel corpus is an important prerequisite in statistical machine translation. However, manual creation of such a parallel corpus is time consuming, and requires experts fluent in both languages. ...
Building management system for sustainable built environment in Sri Lanka

Kumara, WHCD; Waidyasekara, A; Weerasinghe, RPNP [Article-Full-text]

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the contribution of building management system (BMS) towards a sustainable built environment. Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on the findings of a ...
Burial and thermal history modelling of the mannar basin, offshore sri lanka

Premarathne, U; Suzuki, N; Ratnayake, N; Kularathne, C [Article-Full-text]

The Mannar Basin is a Late Jurassic – Neogene rift basin located in the Gulf of Mannar between India and Sri Lanka which developed during the break-up of Gondwana. Water depths in the Gulf of Mannar are up to about 3000 ...
Cement stabilized rammed earth as a sustainable construction material

Kariyawasam, KKGKD; Jayasinghe, C [Article-Full-text]

In a world where the exploitation of natural resources by the construction industry has become a severe problem, earth can represent an ideal building material that has the potential to reduce the carbon footprint when ...
Change management framework to enable sustainable outsourcing of facilities management services

Sridarran, P; Fernando, NG [Article-Full-text]

Purpose – In this present globalised era, outsourcing has become a very popular and much sought after procurement strategy for facilities management (FM). Generally, a sustainable procurement system should be capable ...
Communication in construction: a management perspective through case studies in Sri Lanka

Senaratne, S; Ruwanpura, M [Article-Full-text]

Effective communication process is essential for the success of construction projects. Previous research shows that construction project teams spend majority of their time communicating with other parties and stakeholders. ...
Comparative durability study of CFRP strengthened tubular steel members under cold weather

Kabir, MH; Fawzia, S; Chan, THT; Gamage, JCPH [Article-Full-text]

In strengthening systems, the carbon fibre reinforced polymer (CFRP) materials typically have excellent resistance against environmental conditions; however, the performance of adhesives between CFRP and steel is ...
Comprehensive Part-Of-Speech Tag Set and SVM Based POS Tagger for Sinhala

Fernando, S; Ranathunga, S; Jayasena, S; Dias, G

This paper presents a new comprehensive multi-level Part-Of-Speech tag set and a Support Vector Machine based Part-Of-Speech tagger for the Sinhala language. The currently available tag set for Sinhala has two limitations: ...
A comprehensive two dimensional Computational Fluid Dynamics model for an updraft biomass gasifier

Fernando, N; Narayana, M [Article-Full-text]

This study focuses on developing a dynamic two dimensional Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) model of a moving bed updraft biomass gasifier. The model uses inlet air at room temperature as the gasifying medium and a ...

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