There are not many researches undertaken in the area of digital synthesizing of Sri Lankan personal names. The authors could only find a small number of comprehensive works, which includes Sri Lankan personal name translation ...

Electricity is very important in uplifting rural socio-economic conditions from poverty lines. Its application in rural projects aimed at integrated infrastructure development and poverty alleviation. Well planned, carefully ...

Variations of the urban heat island effect is different from city to city. To understand the variations in the heat island effect, in the center of the Colombo City the capital of Sri Lanka, with the locations of buildings ...

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 paper presents the combined application of Geographical Information Systems (GIS), the Global Positioning System (GPS), the General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) and the Internet for tracking of vehicle fleets. It is one ...

Performance factors are important in today's* competitive telecommunications market where price differentials have been minimized. An important aspect of service performance is speech quality. This paper illustrates the ...

Low quality natural rubber latex, matured with different levels of well known long chain fatty acid salt showed variations in properties. Mechanical stability time.foaming height and viscosity were significantly altered ...

Pollution of water due to oil contamination is a major environmental problem. This study focuses on the removal of emulsified oil from oily wastewater. Generally emulsified oil is treated using chemicals and therefore it ...

With ever increasing land prices, design and construction of high-rise buildings are becoming very common. There is a trend among design Engineers to resort to 3D Finite Element Analysis (FEA) during the design of such ...

Pompeii, the bestselling novel by Robert Harris, is a rich source of ideas regarding engineering attitude and outlook. Its main protagonist is a young Roman hydraulics engineer in charge of the Roman aqueduct that served ...