Sri Lanka's dry zone is studded with nearly 12,500 small tanks built by ancient kings to store rain water for irrigation purposes. Most of them are called minor tanks which cater to land extents less than 80 ha.. Farmers--^nder ...

Online learning is commonly accepted as a support tool for educators as well as a medium of delivery of any-time, any-where content of a wide range of study programs to a widely dispersed learner community. Web-based ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is explore career management strategies used by information technology (IT) professionals full-time employed in offshore outsourced IT firms in Sri Lanka; and to evaluate those against ...

Colombo is a city surrounded by a large and interconnected system of natural wetlands. These wetlands which have historically provided a range of water services to the city are now believed to be threatened by degradation ...

Managing resources in a major irrigation scheme needs more attention on system performance in order to get optimum production out of available resources. In Sri Lanka most major irrigation schemes are managed using ...

The primary objective of this research is to identify the proper design guidelines in terms of structural capacity, which enables to last longer life span without-any major failure. Inducing very high stress on pavement ...

Odorous gas treatment is a challenging task due to the difficulties in identifying odor specific gases and their varied characteristics. A bio filter was designed for the treatment of waste gas stream from a tobacco leaf ...

Rolling oil is used in packaging industry for cooling and lubricating rolling sheets during production process. However, the properties of the rolling oil changes with time and that becomes unsuitable for the use. This ...

Rigid pavement construction has a long history. Readymixed or site mixed concrete is used for rigid pavement construction. However, conventional concrete mixtures require more than 7 days to gain adequate strength to allow ...