The Bellanvila-Attidiya Sanctuary is listed in the directory of Asian Wetlands by the IUCN in 1989 and situated within the upper catchments of the Bolgoda River basin covering an area of 372ha. This study was conducted ...

Soils in untouched forest regions are considered less-polluted from anthropogenic activities. Hence, they can be considered as a soil environment that represents natural background element levels. Exploring the distribution ...

Adulteration of tea is becoming a severe issue in the Sri Lankan tea industry. Black tea is adulterated with sugar, glucose, sodium bicarbonate and ferrous sulphate to improve its colour and sand, iron fillings and leather ...

Solanum trilobatum which is known as Toothuvilai in Tamil has been widely used to treat respiratory disorders, especially bronchial asthma. Therefore this study was designed to test the antibacterial activity and phytochemical ...

Many researchers around the world have investigated short term load forecasting (STLF) models based on various forecasting techniques to prepare a better generation plan. They inves tigated traditional techniques and then ...

Agricultural productions are actively practiced in Vavuniya district. Variations in the land surface temperature (LST) and soil moisture index (SMI) can impact on agricultural production. After the civil war land use and ...

Assessment of the heterogeneity of soil and water quality characteristics from river mouth to river fall of Kala Oya estuary on North-Western coast of Sri Lanka for a period of four months from March to June 2017 was carried ...

Peraru, Nochchimoddai and Mamaduwa are the three village tanks lying in a cascade line in Vavuniya district. The water resource of Peraru village reservoir was treated by National Water Supply and Drainage Board of Vavuniya, ...

Flower classification is an important task in many applications. Although, many flower classification frameworks have been proposed in the past, their accuracies are considerably low since intra-class variations of flowers ...

A goal of a text classifier is to classify text documents into defined categories automatically. Classification belongs to supervised learning, where the targets are also provided with the input data. Traditional classification ...