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Early Warning System for Landslides Using Wireless Sensor Networks
(2018)Landslides occur in many areas in Sri Lanka, and they cause considerable damage to natural habitat, environment, economy and other resources. Monitoring, predicting and controlling are the three major challenges associated ... -
Eigenfaces Based Face Recognition Device for Visually Impaired Persons
(2018)This paper proposes to develop an embedded system based instrument for visually impaired, it is a wearable device in the form of badge holder of the patent which is designed using Raspberry Pi in addition with visual and ... -
Factors Affecting Pedestrian Visibility At Night Time for Motor Cyclists
(2018)In Sri Lanka, most of the motorbike-pedestrian accidents happening in the night time are due to the insufficient visibility of pedestrians. Even though number of researches has been carried out globally regarding improving ... -
Impact of Human Factors on Airline Overall Maintenance Effectiveness: an Analysis of Major Aircraft Operators in Sri Lanka
(2018)Skill based error and mistakes form a significant part of the effect of aviation human factors as far as maintenance is concerned. Many air and ground incidents have been traced back to have occurred due to lapses that ... -
Influence of Vertical Greeneries to Score Points in Green Rating Systems for Multistoried Buildings in Sri Lankan Context
(2018)Green rating systems have become more significant factor to enhance green construction practice and saving energy of a building. Vertical greens and its influence on green rating systems to score more points, is the key ... -
Introducing a New Traffic Operational Strategy to Minimize Congestion on Galle Road; Dehiwala – Wellawatta
(2018)The increase in private traffic demand coupled with a number of issues such as reduced utilization of high occupancy vehicles, lack of capacity of public modes of transportation, inefficient road capacity leads to highly ... -
Investigate the Necessity of Use of Nuclear Power As an Energy Source in Sri Lanka with Special Concern on Present Nuclear Trend
(2018)The escalation of electricity demand in a country has become an unavoidable factor. Technological development and raising people’s living standards are the main reasons for increasing electricity demand. Electricity demand ... -
Light Interface of 3D Hand Motional Gesture Recognition in Human Computer Interaction
(2018)Hand gestures play a significant role in HumanComputer Interaction(HCI) where traditional interaction method like Keyboard, Mouse or Joystick induce stress and fatigue to the user when interacting with computing environments. ... -
Low Cost Real Time Temperature Monitoring System for Concrete Using Wireless Sensors
(2018)Structural health monitoring (SHM) has become an inevitable part in a life span of a structure due to its potential to ensure the public safety and to increase the life span of the structure. Monitoring any kind of structures ... -
Optimal Crew Planning Through Variable Capacity Assignment for Commercial Aircraft Flight Line Maintenance
(2018)Crew planning and scheduling is researched intensively as it affects the aviation operational costs substantially. Maintenance crew planning is an integral part of the same where less emphasis paid compared to flying crew ... -
A Review on Ultrasound Image Pre-Processing, Segmentation and Compression for Enhanced Image Storage and Transmission
(2018)Imaging is one of the key medical diagnostic tools to observe internal organs and soft tissues. One such tool is ultrasound scanning, which is highly utilized in gynecology and echo cardiogram. This is due to the number ... -
Seeking Professional Excellence in Water Management: Case Study on Trincomalee Water Supply Scheme
(2018)The Naval Dockyard Trincomalee is considered as the most strategic and important Naval Establishment of the Sri Lankan Navy. Naval Dockyard Trincomalee was established by the British, during the colonial era. Trincomalee ... -
Smart Device for Close-Monitoring in Elder Care
(2018)Elder care is an area in modern society where a series of issues are encountered. There is a feasibility to find solutions pertaining to the issues of elder care by using wearable sensors and telemonitoring devices. This ... -
Sustainable Water Supply Management System for Panagoda Army Cantonment
(2018)Sustainable water management is identified as an important strategic approach to minimize unnecessary costs and for proper utilization of water resources. The Panagoda army cantonment was established five decades ago and ... -
Time-Series Analysis of Monthly Rainfall Data for the Nuwara Eliya District, Sri Lanka
(2018)One of the most important climatic element is Rainfall, that directly influences on the agriculture. As a real world practice, the rainfall data has a seasonal trend with short term and long term oscillations; especially, ... -
A Unit Cell Approach to Reduce Computational Time of Meshfree Based Plant Tissue Models
(2018)Plant tissue modelling and simulation has become one of the popular research topics in the field of computational mechanics. In this regard, numerous numerical modelling techniques are being researched to study real tissue ... -
Upper Limb Motion Recognition Based on Electromyography Signals and Support Vector Machine
(2018)The increasing requirements of the society to help physically disabilities, the old and the injured individuals to avoid many difficulties to do their dayto-day activities and increase their living condition. The upper ... -
Urbanization and Solid Waste Management Challenges: a Review of Literature
(2018)The aim of this study is to find out the Challenges of urbanization and Solid Waste Management urbanized city areas in developing countries most of these urbanizing cities and also a commercial hub, providing employment ...