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Assessing the Potential Rapid and Long Travelling Landslides in Sri Lanka: A Case Study of Athwelthota Landslide
Landslides are a significant natural hazard in Sri Lanka, causing colossal damage to infrastructure, property, and loss of life. The country is highly susceptible to landslides due to its mountainous terrain, ...
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Plant Disease Identification and Recommendation of Organic Pesticides Using Machine Learning Techniques
Plant ailment identification is the biggest job for farmers in recent times. Over the years, plant and leaf diseases have caused an overall yield loss of 14% globally. Misdiagnosis of plant leaf diseases can l...
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Recyclable Composite, Polypropylene Reinforced Coconut Coir by Using Hot Press Molding
A growing trend in composite material today is the usage of recyclable composite to address ecological and environmental issues. The requirement to appropriately fabricate recyclable composite is growing along...
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Parametric Comparison of Deep Learning Models for Musculoskeletal Abnormality Detection
Musculoskeletal disorders are conditions that affect joints, bones, muscles, and the spine. The authors of this paper aim to investigate the use of artificial intelligence (AI), particularly deep learning, to ...
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Flood Inundation Map** of Krishnaraja Nagar, Mysore Using Sentinel-1 Sar Images
Floods cause physical damage and impact the availability of food, water, and crops. Effective disaster management and disaster risk reduction strategies require a quick and accurate map** of these phenomena....
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Assessment of the Carbon Footprint of Green Concrete Liners in Landfill Construction—A Critical Review
This paper presents a critical review of the existing research on the assessment of the carbon footprint of green concrete liners used in landfill construction. The review assesses the current understanding of...
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Microphysicaltherapy as a Novel Adjunctive Nonpharmacological Treatment for Refractory Temporal Lobe Epilepsy: A Prospective Observational Study
The microphysiotherapy is a manual technique that treats by small movements, stimulates the selfregulation of the organism. Epilepsy is a clinical condition produced by a sudden, abnormal and disordered electr...
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A Tablet-Based Lexicon Application for Robot-Aided Educational Interaction of Children with Dyslexia
Dyslexia is a neurodevelopmental disorder that has the highest prevalence among different types of learning disorders. Dyslexic children usually have difficulty in reading and as a result, they face different ...
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Grain Structure Evolution Ahead of the Die During Friction Extrusion of AA2024
Friction extrusion (FE) is a thermo-mechanical process using a rotating die or feedstock to produce fully consolidated extrudates in different shapes, e.g. wires, rods and tubes. FE utilizes a non-consumable d...
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Virtual Reality Serious Game with the TABAN Robot Avatar for Educational Rehabilitation of Dyslexic Children
Emerging technologies such as social robotics and virtual reality have found a wide application in the field of education and tutoring particularly for children with special needs. Taban is a novel social robo...
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BGKnow-Medical Chatbot: A Hybrid Approach Based on Knowledge Graph and GPT-2
Accurate and timely diagnosis is critical in ensuring patients receive care and treatment for their medical conditions. Traditional symptom checkers often lack accuracy and efficiency in diagnosing diseases, a...
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Experimental Study on Residual Shear Strength of Soil Using Undrained Ring Shear Apparatus
In general, studies of residual shear strength are minimal for soils on landslide-prone slopes in Sri Lanka. This study focuses on determining the residual shear strength of the soil samples taken from the Ath...
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Paraphrase Generation and Deep Learning Models for Paraphrase Detection in a Low-Resourced Language: Kannada
Kannada is a South-Indian Dravidian language that has quite a complex vocabulary and grammar. This urges researchers in the NLP domain to broaden the research horizons for these low-resourced languages in the ...
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Detection of Food Freshness
Our daily lives depend greatly on the food we eat. Globalization is causing a daily decline in food quality. To store food fresh, diverse food processing is often done. Food is given a variety of substances or...
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Hazard Operability Evaluation Study for High Capacity Mixers Used in Solid Propellant Processing
Solid propellant motors are used as stage/booster motors in all the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) launch vehicles. The quantities of solid propellant used ranges from 100 to 400 t for Small Satelli...
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Impact of Artificial Intelligence Tools and Text-to-3D Model Generators on Interior Design
The advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools in the present world is significantly impacting the field of interior design and architecture. This is due to the use of AI tools in 3D modelling and design, th...
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A Comprehensive Review of Car-Following Models: Heterogeneous Non-lane-based Traffic Viewpoint
Car-Following Models (CFMs) are the mathematical representations of interaction between two sequential vehicles, leader and follower, in the same lane. Most studies on car-following have been conducted on lane...
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Erosion and Accretion in the Netravati River Stretch: Spatiotemporal Analysis Using Geospatial Approach
Understanding erosion and accretion, which are critical geomorphic processes, is essential for effective river management and conservation. Erosion by removing soil and rock changes the river's shape, depth, a...
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Artificial Intelligence Tools and Chatbots for Design Education
Rapid advancements in computing power and artificial intelligence (AI) have propelled the development of advanced tools and chatbots for design education. These generative AI tools can provide inspiration to s...
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As Good as New: A Study on Sri Lanka Consumers’ Secondhand Fashion Consumption
One of the worst pollutants in the world is the fashion industry. Landfills receive enormous amounts of post-consumer trash each year. However, as current customers’ awareness of environmental issues grows, th...
