IDENTIFICATION AND ASSESSMENT OF THE DRIVING FORCES FOR THE USE OF URBAN GREEN PARKS AND THEIR ACCESSIBILITY IN COLOMBO, SRI LANKA, THROUGH ANALYTICAL HIERARCHICAL PROCESSING

Urban green parks perform a remarkable role for the physical, social and psychological wellbeing of the urban public by providing space for relaxation and recreation, directly influencing public health through mitigation of the urban heat impact, noise reduction and moderation of air and water pollution.An indicator-based approach on analytical hie

Road information has a key role in many applications such as transportation, automatic navigation, traffic management, crisis management, and also to facilitate and accelerate updating databases in a GIS.Therefore in the past two decades, automatic road extraction has become an important issue in remote sensing, photogrammetry and computer vision.A

Reinforced concrete structures under cyclic exposure to the corrosive environment such as the tidal zone as a part of marine structure entail the higher risk of steel corrosion.In this paper, chloride penetration in concrete exposed to the tidal zone sonics empire was predicted using a combined moisture and chloride transport model.For the analysis

ObjectivesThe preliminary research device of magnetic confinement deuterium-deuterium fusion neutron source is a novel neutron source preliminary research device based on field-reversed configuration (FRC) cascade magnetic compression.It aims to leverage the experiences from the first-phase construction to enhance system design, significantly impro

In the study reported on here we employed the interpretivist qualitative approach to explore the recruitment and retention of male educators in preschool centres.Purposive sampling was used to select 2 preschool owners, 2 principals, 4 preschool educators and 2 male educators in the Foundation Phase.Data were obtained by in-depth interviewing and w