To avoid the damages from horizontal forces such as seismic forces and wind forces, the provision of a lateral force resisting system in the structure is essential. Lateral forces develop high stresses, produce sway ...

The construction wastage is one of the greatest barriers for the sustainable development of any country. This topic has gained wide attention in many developed countries. Further, in a developing country like Sri Lanka, ...

A field experiment was conducted during the season of Maha 2017 at the AgroTech Park, South Eastern University of Sri Lanka which is located in Malwatha, Ampara district of Sri Lanka to evaluate the leaf stomatal ...

Dress fashion may be treated as being in some way analogous to spoken or written language. When Eco claimed to speak through clothes, he presumably meant that he was using clothes as spoken words. Dress transmits a variety ...

Kings of the Kandyan Kingdom of Sri Lanka had along acquaintance with foreign luxury goods. Certain objects that were exemplified royal magnificence and grandeur of the King. Textiles fell within this group and for the ...

A collection of concepts, principles, methods and tools which are used in software engineering (SE) industry is known as the SE practices and they are important to work with the software development life cycle (SDLC). ...

Goat farming is one of the main sectors that contribute to the economy of Kalmunai area of the Ampara district. This study was conducted to determine the occurrence of gastrointestinal parasitism in goats from four ...

Present world is heading towards a serious energy crisis due to the mismatch between the supply and the demand which is increasing at an alarming rate. Main energy supply is from fossil fuels and the endangering state ...

This paper analyzes the masses of the light baryons in the ground state [56,0+] and excited [56,2+] state in the framework of the 1/Nc expansion using the available physical masses on Particle Data Group. All the ...

The symbiosis between Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) and mangrove plant species was investigated in five mangrove swamps in Sri Lanka. Soil samples were collected from rhizosphere areas of dominant mangrove plants ...