Being closer to the equator, the most important climatic element for agricultural production in Sri Lanka is rainfall which is erratic and highly unpredictable in nature, especially in the dry zone. This study attempts to ...

A simulation model to produce and manipulate computer representations of plant root microbial ecosystems is presented. The root system is described as a collection of nodes. A node records a position in three dimensional ...

A stochastic model for generating daily sunshine hours and solar radiation that reaches the earth's surface in dry zone of Sri Lanka has been developed. Historical sunshine data which represent a Weibull probability density ...

The Walkway Management System (WMS) uses geographic information system (GIS) software to calculate an estimate for the level of maintenance required for walkway segments. It then assists the user in prioritising the ...

One of the problems which often arises in climatology is either data at a given site is missing or the site is ungauged. In this study, a spatial interpolation model was developed to estimate the weekly rainfall of the Dry ...

Increasingly end users in organisations are having to become more responsible for their own computing. Many of their applications are developed using standard business packages, especially spreadsheets and database managers, ...

For a number of reasons many users are responsible for the implementation and maintenance of their own databases. While they may have the technical skills to set up data repositories, many end users lack the analysis skills ...

In recent years, the demand for colour in newspaper production has increased considerably as newspaper readers and advertisers expect more extensive use of colour in the illustration of papers. A newspaper printing press ...