In its most general sense sustainability is the capacity to endure. Sustainability has emerged as a result of significant concerns about the unintended social, environmental, and economic consequences of rapid population growth, ...

Web crawlers are software programs that automatically traverse the hyperlink structure of the world-wide web in order to locate and retrieve information. In addition to crawlers from search engines, we observed many other ...

When trees are planted too close to a building, the roots of them are causing damages to that building in both direct and indirect ways. In many cases, these subterranean problems go unnoticed, until cracks appear on ...

‘Colombo Port City Development Project’ aims at reclaiming a minimum of 269 hectares of waterfront sheltered by Colombo South Harbour Breakwater for mixed development activities. It has been estimated that a total ...

Garnet has huge demand in worldwide at present. In Sri Lanka, there are few garnet mineral deposits, as beach and river sand. But rocks having considerable amount of garnet as a minor mineral are common in metamorphic terrain ...

Increasing population and rapid economic and technical developments are threatening water resources all over the world. Careful management of natural resources has become one of the major concerns of watershed managers to ...

Popularity of internet use is rapidly increasing. Hence, the demand is high for Web based GIS tools. The need to handle heavy maps and attribute datasets, often increase issues especially with respect to the time taken ...

Tourism has been identified as a major growth area in post-conflict development in Sri Lanka and it was aimed to attract 2.5 million tourists by 2016. Consumer perceived value is a complex theoretical construct that can ...

Achieving thermal comfort by active means has become one of the largest energy intensive activities in factory environments, which directly influence the manufacturing cost. As a result searching for new methodologies that ...

With the Colonization of Asia, the Christian Church introduced a new form of religious architecture which was much in contrast to the prevailing religious architecture of the era. But during the period of post-independence, ...