Sinner's bid for Australian Open three-peat begins with anticlimactic win

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Two sets and just over an hour of tennis wasn't what Jannik Sinner wanted at Rod Laver Arena for ...

Australian Open storylines: Alcaraz and Sinner’s evolution, WTA stars chasing rivals’ strengths

That group, which includes Sabalenka, Gauff, Świątek, Alcaraz and Sinner, are pushing for three main reforms: for prize money ...
The Island

The Story of Furniture in Sri Lanka

This beautiful coffee table book titled “The Story of Furniture in Sri Lanka,” authored by Ayesha Abdur-Rahman, PhD, and ...
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Writing a Sunday Column for the Island in the Sun

For nearly twenty years I have been writing a column for the Sunday Island. It has been a joyous ride for someone who is not ...
IEEE

Bayesian and Non-Bayesian Inference for the Trigonometric Extended Rayleigh-Weibull Model Under Progressively Censored Data

Abstract: In this paper, a new extension of the Rayleigh-Weibull (RW) model, called the sine Rayleigh-Weibull (SRW) model, is proposed. This model is constructed using the trigonometrically generated ...
IEEE

Lightning Efficient Counterpoise Configurations for Transmission Line Grounding

Abstract: Different configurations of counterpoises are often used to reduce the resistance and impulse impedance of the transmission line grounding. However, there are no general rules for an actual ...