Urbanisation and population movement to larger cities is seen to be an inevitable phenomenon in most developing countries. The trends associated with urbanization in developing countries show that the result for some ...

This paper proposes a new product concept of an electronic travelling aid with haptic perception for the visually impaired people. The device is much similar to the conventional white cane in appearance and it is fabricated ...

Minimally Invasive Surgeries (MIS) such as laparoscopic procedures are increasingly preferred over conventional surgeries due to many different advantages. Laparoscopic surgical procedures are very complex compared to open ...

The current dominant social paradigm cannot address the environmental crisis forecast by climate science and a new approach is needed. The requ irement for buildings that can operate in energy - poor conditions with ...

The study was focused on estimation of nitrate-N in groundwater and soil in intensive agricultural areas mainly on Valikamam East, Jaffna, Sri Lanka. Groundwater samples from sixty eight wells were collected from the ...

Knowledge of heat and gas transport properties of the peat soils is important to simulate greenhouse gas behaviour and changes of soil-temperature in the wetlands. In this study, the heat and gas transport properties for ...

The inverse transform function of the HEVC Decoder has grown greatly in complexity with the addition of larger transform sizes and recent works have focused on efficient architectures that can achieve the required throughput. ...

The use of HSC for construction, especially for multi-story buildings, has become very common in industrialized and developing countries. In view of gaining popularity as a construction material, high strength concrete ...

Prefabricated Modular Structures are increasingly becoming popular as a strategy that can be used to achieve cost effective and speedy construction. However, there is an absence of detailed engineering research or case ...

With the introduction of IPV6, the address space has increased. Thus in the future, every electronic device can have a unique address. These devices would generate data every day. We can use this data to generate information ...