In this study natural biopolymer "chitosan" was synthesized using locally available shrimp type of Penaeus monodon. Synthesis of chitosan involved four main stages: preconditioning, demineralization, deprotenisalion and ...

Purpose – The Facilities Management (FM) profession is now established in most developed countries and infew developing countries such as Singapore and Hong Kong. However, with rapid mushrooming of high rise buildings, ...

The esterification of acetic acid with ethanol has been investigated in the presence of a low cost ion exchange resin mainly used in the water treatment industry namely Trilite SCR-B as a heterogeneous catalyst. Internal ...

Minimally invasive surgeries (MIS) such as laparoscopic procedures are widely used for many types of abdomen surgeries because of its numerous advantages over open surgeries. They require very high level of skills of ...

The concept of construction productivity began in the early 20th century with a series of time and motion studies to improve bricklaying operations. However, it remains an interesting and a dominant issue in the construction ...

One of the most important problems in the construction industry is variations. They occur in every construction project and the magnitude of these variations varies considerably from project to project. Hence, the variations ...

Multi-agent System gives high quality solutions through communication, negotiation and coordination among agents. Agents are small self-contained computational objects capable of exchanging messages among themselves. Number ...

Machine translation turns out to be an inherently complex process requiring serious attention to morphological, syntactic and semantic complexity within both the source and the target languages. Most of the existing ...

Learning is the act of acquiring new knowledge or updating the existing knowledge about different types of information. Human being starts the learning process with a minimal knowledge and then expands the knowledge by ...

As a developing country, public transport is a vital part of the National transport system. In Sri Lanka, Buses, Trains, Vans, and Three wheelers are widely used as public transport modes. Even though Sri Lanka has almost ...