It is imperative that Sri Lanka grasps the concepts of green jobs to meet the most vital but intricate challenge of the 21st Century, which is the transformation to a sustainable and a low-carbon economy. Such a transformation ...

The article explores the use of advanced passive cooling in the context of complex non-domestic buildings. Passive cooling involves a number of strategies and when one or more of these strategies are combined they create ...

Ensuring the safety of our dams in a changing global climate is of paramount importance to Sri Lanka. The devastating floods of January – February 2011 caused an enormous Rs. 66 billion in damages which included a massive ...

The objective of the study was to explore the use of different periodical materials recommended by academic members of the University of Moratuwa against the subscription cost per use for each periodical title. The ...

Several types of cyanotoxins found in surface water bodies are recognized as having human health effects, whereas taste and odor affect the palatability of water and give rise to public complaints. Conventional water ...

Humanitarian demining is a calamity of war affecting many third world countries. Mines are cheap weapons, built to sustain horrible injuries that target active people with a knock‐on effect upon economic growth. The clearing ...

A small scale, forced convection, solar-biomass hybrid dryer for drying copra has been designed, fabricated and tested for drying copra. The dryer is consisted with a solar air heater, a biomass-stove heat exchanger and ...

The main purpose of this paper is an assessment of economic feasibility in reducing carbon dioxide emission of electricity generation in Sri Lanka. The paper shows that the present annual green house gas (GHG) emission ...

Blends of ground tyre rubber and waste polypropylene with a maleimide curing system (50: 50blends of ground tyre rubber/waste polypropylene) were prepared in a Haake Rheocord Polylab System, at 180°C and 90 rev min-1 for ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the moderating effect of perceived organizational support (POS) on the relationship between participation in decision making (PDM) and effective commitment, and PDM and job ...