Asia is the biggest rice (Oryza sativa) producers and consumers among the global population. Arsenic, Lead and Cadmium are some toxic heavy metals mostly reported in the Asian rice. Heavy metals can affect human health and ...

In the present study, silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) were successfully synthesized through a green route using an aqueous extract of Garcinia gummi-gutta L. in which aqueous extract acts as a capping, stabilizing and reducing ...

Due to the growing population and respective use of vehicles on the road, traffic congestions have become a major problem in the cities and the transport systems today. The factors that lead to road traffic accidents are ...

The algae species inhabiting the geothermal springs must tolerate extreme temperature and saline conditions present in geothermal springs compared to their counterparts living under normal environmental conditions. This ...

Bacterial Leaf Blight (BLB) is one of the most devastating diseases in rice caused by Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae. This is a growing and challenging concern in South Asian countries including Sri Lanka. BLB reduces grain ...

Speech recognition for Sinhala, which is a less-resourced language, has seen only a few pieces of research for Automatic Speech Recognition. Identifying the performance of the Sinhala speech in the modern approaches and ...

Sound absorption properties of one of the commonly used short-lived decorative perennial plant types in Sri Lanka, Coleus forskohlii (Plectranthus scutellarioides), is studied. The variation of reverberation time (RT60) ...

The majority of Sri Lankan population rely on herbal medicine. Hence, standardization of raw materials is required in Ayurveda preparations. Plectranthus amboinicus (Lour.) Spreng (Kapparawalliya) is a herb having morphological ...

Recommendation Systems (RS) support users to find items that are interesting and more aligned with their tastes. RS are used in diverse application areas to recommend movies, music, books, etc. The current generation of ...

Sand fly (Order Diptera, Family Psychodidae, Subfamily Phlebotominae) is the known biological vector responsible for transmitting the disease Leishmaniasis caused by the haemoparasite, Leishmania sp. Leishmaniasis is one ...