Dengue, chikungunya, malaria, filariasis and Japanese encephalitis are common mosquito-borne diseases endemic to Sri Lanka. <em>Aedes aegypti</em> and <em>Aedes albopictus</em>, the major vectors of dengue, were recently ...

Unprecedented incidences of dengue have been reported in Sri Lanka in recent years. The district of Batticaloa which was devastated by the 2004 Asian tsunami is one of the districts affected by dengue. One option to curtail ...

6Li(n, T)4He fusion reactions occur readily at room temperature and liberate 4.8 MeV per reaction. It is shown that this energy can be utilised to ignite thermonuclear fusion fuels. The main fuel considered is a mixture ...

Minimum thermal and cold neutron source strength necessary for the thermonuclear ignition of D-T fuel using the energy released in exothermic 3He(n, p)T reaction is determined for representative tokamak parameters, when ...

Certain unexpected effects observed during developments and reductions of pressures of hydrogen gas inside tubular membranes of palladium alloys now seem to be self-consistently interpretable in terms of lattice-strain-induced ...

Permeation rate observations are reported which demonstrate the influence of lattice expansive strain gradients in producing nonlinear hydrogen concentration profiles through cross-sections of hydrogen diffusion membranes ...

Increasingly detailed findings of hydrogen pressure-hydrogen content-temperature [p-c(n)-T] relationships of the palladium-hydrogen system have continued to be reported and there have also been very substantial increases ...

Among transition metals forming hydrides of a metallic type, palladium and certain palladium alloys have been preferentially utilised as membranes for hydrogen purification - in view of their relative resistances to ...

The magnetic anomaly due to a uniformaly magnetized vertical rectangular prism and that due to an arbitrary structure which can be divided into a number of such prisms are expressed in forms suitable for rapid computation. ...

We report studies of the dependence of the open-circuit voltage (VOC) of polymer/titanium dioxide hybrid devices on the ionization potential of the polymer (IP). Once corrected for differences in photocarrier generation ...