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Effects of blending manufactured sand and offshore sand on rheological, mechanical and durability characterization of lime-cement masonry mortar

Arulmoly, B; Konthesingha, C; Nanayakkara, A [Article-Full-text]

The environment and ecological systems are suspected of serious drawbacks as a result of the over-extraction of river sand for construction activities. An attempt was made in this research on completely replacing river sand ...
Combining long-term recurrent convolutional and graph convolutional networks to detect phishing sites using URL and HTML

Ariyadasa, S; Fernando, S; Fernando, S [Article-Full-text]

Phishing, a well-known cyber-attack practice has gained signi cant research attention in the cyber-security domain for the last two decades due to its dynamic attacking strategies. Although different solutions have been ...
Adequacy evaluation of composite power systems using an evolutionary swarm algorithm

Amarasinghe, PAGM; Abeygunawardane, SK; Singh, C [Article-Full-text]

The generation and transmission capacities of many power systems in the world are significantly increasing due to the escalating global electricity demand. Therefore, the adequacy evaluation of power systems has become a ...
Developing climate classification for oman using degree-days method

Al-Saadi, S; Al-Rawas, G; Gunawardhana, L; Al-Farsi, N; Al-Kalbani, H [Article-Full-text]

Local climate classification is mandatory for building energy standards and codes. The degree-days method is one of the most widespread methods used for climate classification. Many degree-days models are available for ...
Scalable textile manufacturing methods for fabricating triboelectric nanogenerators with balanced electrical and wearable properties

Gunawardhana, KRS; Wanasekara, ND; Wijayantha, KG; Dharmasena, RD [Article-Full-text]

Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) are foreseen as a leading candidate to harvest mechanical energy from ambient sources such as human body movements. However, wearable TENGs, which are used for this purpose, require ...
A framework for facilities management supply chain performance evaluation: case study of hotel buildings

Abdeen, FN; Sandanayake, YG; Ramachandra, T [Article-Full-text]

Purpose – The performance of the facilities management supply chain (FMSC) in the hotel sector is challenged by the diverse nature of parties involved, their relationships and the flows of services and products. Although ...
A systematic mapping of introductory programming languages for novice learners

Perera, P.; Tennakoon, G; Ahangama, S; Panditharathna, R; Chathuranga, B [Article-Full-text]

Delivery of core programming principles to novices is a challenging task and many introductory programming languages and platforms have been designed to support this process. Educational programming languages generally ...
A systematic review of introductory programming languages for novice learners

Perera, P; Tennakoon, G; Ahangama, S; Panditharathna, R; Chathuranga, B [Article-Full-text]

Delivery of core programming principles to novices is a challenging task and many introductory programming languages and platforms have been designed to support this process. Educational programming languages generally ...
An assessment on the test setups used for energy labeling of ceiling fans

Casseer, DR; Ranasinghe, C [Article-Full-text]

Ceiling fans are used all over the world as a mean of enhancing indoor thermal comfort. A number of grading programs have been initiated for assessing energy performance of ceiling fans, such as ANSI/AMCA 230, Energy Star, ...
An environmentally friendly sound insulation material from post-industrial textile waste and natural rubber

Dissanayake, DGK; Weerasinghe, DU; Thebuwanage, LM; Bandara, UAAN [Article-Full-text]

The global production of textiles is in a steep rise. Consequently, managing subsequent post-industrial textile waste is becoming increasingly challenging. In the absence of proper waste management facilities, post-industrial ...
Modeling seeded suspension polymerization of core-shell polymer particles using computational fluid dynamics

Jayaweera, CD; Wickramasinghe, C; Narayana, M [Article-Full-text]

The current study devises a methodology to illustrate phase separation occurring in core–shell structured polymer particles by comprehensively modeling Case II diffusion and reaction kinetics of seeded suspension polymerization ...
An integrated, probabilistic modeling approach to assess the evolution of barrier-Island systems over the twenty-first century

Bamunawala, J; Spek, AVD; Dastgheib, A; Murray, AB; Ranasinghe, R [Article-Full-text]

Barrier-island systems, spanning ∼7% of the world’s coastlines, are of great importance to society because not only they provide attractive, liveable space for coastal communities but also act as the first line of defense ...
Analysis of issues in sustainable water management of irrigation systems: case of a developing country

Sirimewan, DC; Mendis, APKD; Rajini, D; Samaraweera, A; Manjula, NHC [Article-Full-text]

Purpose Sustaining the irrigated agriculture, while conserving the natural eco-system, are the two main objectives of sustainable water management (SWM) in irrigation. Achieving both the objectives simultaneously is a ...
Anomaly detection in high-dimensional data

Talagala, PD; Hyndman, RJ; Miles, KM [Article-Full-text]

The HDoutliers algorithm is a powerful unsupervised algorithm for detecting anomalies in high-dimensional data, with a strong theoretical foundation. However, it suffers from some limitations that significantly hinder its ...
Attitudes on euthanasia among medical students and doctors in Sri Lanka: a cross sectional study

Herath, HMMTB; Wijayawardhana, KWSM; Wickramarachchi, UI; Rodrigo, C [Article-Full-text]

Background Euthanasia is a topic of intense ethical debate and it is illegal in most countries at present, including Sri Lanka. The aim of this descriptive cross-sectional study of medical students and practicing doctors ...
Solvothermal reaction and piezoelectric response of oriented KNbO3Polycrystals

Yang, D; Wang, Y; Li, L; Yao, M; Zhang, W; Gu, H; Zhang, S; Fan, M; Sewvandi, GA; Hu, D [Article-Full-text]

KNbO3 (KN) piezoelectric polycrystals were prepared by a two-step solvothermal reaction process with the managed organic solvents as reaction mediums at a low temperature for a short time. In the solvothermal reaction ...
Brain-inspired spiking neural networks for decoding and understanding muscle activity and kinematics from electroencephalography signals during hand movements

Kumarasinghe, K.; Kasabov, N; Taylor, D [Article-Full-text]

Compared to the abilities of the animal brain, many Artificial Intelligence systems have limitations which emphasise the need for a Brain-Inspired Artificial Intelligence paradigm. This paper proposes a novel Brain-Inspired ...
Glioma survival analysis empowered with data engineering -A survey

Wijethilake, N; Meedeniya, D; Chitraranjan, C; Perera, I; Islam, M; Ren, H [Article-Full-text]

Survival analysis is a critical task in glioma patient management due to the inter and intra tumor heterogeneity. In clinical practice, clinicians estimate the survival with their experience, which can be biased and ...
Barriers to implementing waste-to-energy projects in Sri Lanka: a PESTEL analysis

Kumarasiri, B; Dissanayake, P [Article-Full-text]

Purpose It is no surprise that garbage is not garbage for some. It is money. This is why garbage has been overestimated to a point that money allocated for waste-to-energy (WtE) projects feed individual pockets. Many ...
A discrete-time markov chain based comparison of the MAC layer performance of C-V2X mode 4 and IEEE 802.11p

Wijesiri, GP; Haapola, J; Samarasinghe, T [Article-Full-text]

Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication plays a pivotal role in intelligent transport systems (ITS) with cellular-vehicle to everything (C-V2X) and IEEE 802.11p being the two competing enabling technologies. This paper ...

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