Volume 13 ~ Issue 5

Plywood turns into very important material for various structural purposes in Sri Lanka and used as a substitute of solid wood. Therefore, the objective of this study was to determine and compare the strength variation of plywood of different thickness produced with Teak (Tectona grandis), Ginisappu (Michelia champaca), Mahogany (Swietenia microphyla), Neem (Azadirachita indica) and Jac (Artocarpus heterophyllys). The commercial wood glue was used for fabricating the panels. Bending strength and glue-bond strength by shear strength test was assessed for plywood of different thicknesses was determined and the values of properties were statistically tested...........
Keywords:- Plywood, bending strength, shear strength, wood glue, layer thickness.

Parking is an essential component of the transportation system of busy towns like Kampala. Since cars are a critical factor in urban mobility, city managers and planners must aim to meet the needs of the motorists including adequate and safe parking. This paper analysed the parking characteristics on selected on street and off-street parking lots and as well the parking policies, practices and management mechanism in Kampala City, in view of the region's urbanisation trends and development. The study employed a mixed research design that included the use of both qualitative and quantitative methods..........
Keywords:- On street and Off-street parking, Parking Management, Parking Characteristics, Parking Policies and Practices, Public parking.

At present, there is a massive usage of internet sources with the implication of distributed system architectures. Information exchange with several web applications requires security methods. In particular, sensitive data faces the risk of security threats. Cryptography combined with a biometric feature is an enhanced security mechanism developed to resolve it. When much loads of data are in a communication network causes the overhead of adaptability, accessibility, and imbalance in load distribution. Traditional load balancing in clustered web servers are limited in faster response times, and greater performance.
Keywords:- Load Balancing, Cluster server, Information exchange.

The profession of project management has evolved over the years to disseminate new frameworks, tools, and approaches as a means to improve the rate, productivity, and success of projects. The purpose of this research is to explore many aspects of project management methodologies and graphic displays from one or more of the following perspectives: use, advantage and disadvantage. The paper is aimed at comparing the benefits of licensed and open-source visualization technologies to show how these technologies have an impact on the development and planning of projects and project management. In conducting this study, this paper aims to highlight the importance of choosing adequate PM and data visualization methods to be relevant to the needs of a particular project as well as the norms of a given field of study...........
Keywords:- Project management strategies, Visualization methods, agile methodologies, Waterfall approaches, Building Information Modeling (BIM), Three-dimensional (3D) visual representation.

In this paper we study the performance of color and grayscale image input for CNN architecture for head detection. We study five architecture models, in varies of feature extraction stages and the number of neural network layers. In training phase, all models have good validation accuracy, i.e. above 90%. However, in implementation for head detection, they have low precision value, due to the large number of false positive. The high performance of head detection is achieved by grayscale processing and image size of 30×20 pixels for training datasets.
Keywords:- Head detection; Convolutional Neural Network; optimizer; performance evaluation.

En este trabajo se llevó a cabo la implementación de la metodología MEPPS para la generación de un programa de cómputo que permita minimizar el funcional de la energía libre de Helmholtz para caracterizar el comportamiento experimental en la transición de fase Isotrópico-Nemático de esferocilindros, a través del programa Visual Studio 2005. Se encontró que dicho programa generaba el comportamiento presión – fracción de empaquetamiento (densidad) característico de los Cristales Líquidos
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In this research, we study and evaluate the performance of CNN based head detection with various input image size. We evaluate grayscale and saliency map format as inputs to our CNN model. We use INRIA dataset for training and testing data. For training data, we use image size of 30×20 pixels, 60×40 pixels and 90×60 pixels. We evaluate the performance of head detection using quantity accuracy, precision, recall and F1-score. The experimental result shows grayscale image with size of 30×20 pixels and adam optimizer has high F1-score. However, the F1-score of the test model did not show a significant difference. The experiment is conducted using programming language python and openCV library.
Keywords:- Saliency map, CNN, head detection, optimizer, input image size, F1-score.

Integration of AI in diagnostic medicine is the major development that allows way earlier and far more exact detection of the disease than ever. In this paper, the discussion will ensue on the shifting diagnosis across medical specialties by AI through data-driven algorithms, ML, and DL models. A look at some of the most key applications in radiology, pathology, cardiology, and genomics will be done to show with examples just how AI enhances diagnostic speed, accuracy, and access. But data bias, regulatory hurdles, and concerns about privacy would have to be overcome. This paper is a review of the current capability, challenges, and future directions of AI in diagnostics to draw on its potential in improving patient outcomes with more accurate, timely, and accessible diagnostic abilities.
Keywords:- Diagnosing Diseases; Artificial Intelligence; Machine Learning; Deep Learning; Convolutional Neural Networks, AI Applications.

Burnishing is a mechanical surface enhancement process widely employed in various manufacturing industries to improve the surface characteristics of metallic and non-metallic materials. It involves the plastic deformation of a workpiece surface using a hard tool or roller, resulting in refined surface texture, increased hardness, improved fatigue resistance, and enhanced tribological properties. This review paper provides a comprehensive overview of burnishing, encompassing its principles, techniques, applications across different industries, recent advancements, and prospects.........
Keywords:- Burnishing; Surface roughness; Surface Finish; Surface Hardness; Plastic Deformation.

Por lo tanto, la dinámica cambiante que es sinónimo de la pandemia de COVID-19 para la humanidad se ha trasladado a todas las actividades que se realizan, por ejemplo, en el mercado y la economía, lo que llevó a la adopción de prácticas de las nuevas tecnologías como el comercio electrónico para ser competitivos y mantenerse a flote. El enfoque de este trabajo serán los cambios y oportunidades que traerá el uso del comercio electrónico para los innumerables empresarios en todo el mundo y América Latina. Eso permitirá la adaptación al uso de estas nuevas tecnologías, trayendo consigo múltiples ventajas y desafíos para las nuevas generaciones........

The global temperature has risen by 1.1°C according to a UN report (2023),causing an acceleration in the melting of glaciers, thus, an increase in sea level and a change in its temperature, whichsea level rise and a change in its temperature, which puts life on earth at risk, since thelife on earth, since 70% of our livelihood comes from this.from this. The impacts of climate changeclimate change impacts also include floods and droughts, displacing millions of people, plunging thempeople, plunging them into poverty and hunger, denying them access to basic services such as healthservices such as health and education, increasing inequalities, stifling economic.........
Keywords:- Air quality, climate change, temperature, floods, health, drought.

The purpose of this article is to characterize the educational institution from the perspective of reading and writing difficulties. The process was carried out with a participant research design (PAR), with an interpretative hermeneutic approach. The methodology is given through the description that arises from the prospective structural analysis, exploring the plans of areas if they are in accordance with the mission and vision of the educational institution, in such a way that it supplies the learning needs and the guidelines of the Ministry of National Education. Therefore, the structural analysis allows the use of the Cross Impacts Multiplication Matrix Applied to a Classification, hereinafter MICMAC as a prospective tool. Among the findings, the difficulties in reading and writing in the primary school grades stand out.
Keywords:- Reading; writing; structural analysis; prospective.

Teachers' communicative competencies play a fundamental role in their teaching practices, since they enable good communication and interaction with their students. In addition to this, current education requires that teachers have communication skills based on a foundation to promote relevant learning experiences in their students. Therefore, the objective was defined as to generate a model of communicative competencies to strengthen the teaching practices of elementary school teachers at the La Inmaculada de Monteria Educational Institution in order to respond to the challenges of today's education........
Keywords:- Communicative competence, teaching practice, elementary school, learning.