T cell activation is a stochastic process occurring over a finite time interaction with an anti-gen presenting cell (APC). The T cell commits to activation based on a finite number of T cell receptor phosphorylation events; ...

From an economic and ecological point of view, Rekawa lagoon is one of the most important brackish water bodies on the southern coast of Sri Lanka. The change of its floristically rich mangrove belt, over a 38-year ...

A rainfall forecasting model for Sri Lanka is constructed using artificial feed-forward back-propagation neural network. The data obtained from meteorological station in Colombo is used. The rainfall data with the ...

Chilli (Capsicum annuum L.) is an important crop in Sri Lanka. However, chilli cultivation is severely affected in many areas due to several soil-borne pathogens. Sclerotium rolfsii Sacc. has been identified as one of ...

Mangrove plants Avicennia marina, Bruguiera sexangula, Derris trifoliata, Excoecaria agallocha, Lumnitzera racemosa and Rhizophora apiculata were used to obtain plant extracts by grinding and sequential Soxhlet extraction ...

Other than using traditional methods, Meta-heuristics are very popular in solving complex and intricate problems. Among the meta-heuristics, Bacterial Foraging Optimization is a newly introduced nature inspired algorithm ...

Cancer is worldwide recognized as an uncontrollable, incurable and fatal disease, caused by the spread of abnormal cells. The main objective of this study which has been conducted as a collaborative research with ...

A simple automated device has been constructed to feed grains into a regular manually fed grinding mill. It is capable of feeding grains with desirable constant rates according to the size and type of grains as well as ...