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The Post Deployment Reintegration and mental health issues of the Sri Lankan army soldiers; a situational analysis in the post conflict context of Sri Lanka.
(2017)This study examines the phenomenon of mental health status of the Sri Lankan Army Soldiers in the Post Deployment Reintegration stage and how their mental health status affects the self-development, professional life, fa ... -
Big Data and Predictive Analytics: Time Series Forecasting for Improved Decision Making in Business Applications
(2017)Predictive analytics is a significant aspect of big data analysis where large data sets are analyzed in order to give future predictions. Reliability and accuracy of the information generated through the use of predictive ... -
Internally Generated Revenue and School Plant Maintenance in Kwara State Pubic Secondary Schools, Nigeria
(2017)This study investigated the internally generated revenue and school plant maintenance in Kwara State public secondary schools, Nigeria. The research adopted descriptive research design of survey type. The population of the ... -
Derivatives: Are They Weapons of Mass Destruction?
(2017)The growth of the amount of financial derivatives during the last fifteen years has been phenomenal. With the total notional amounts outstanding on over-the-counter derivative contracts amounting to around nine times global ... -
Perceived Level of Clinical Competency Among Graduate Nursing Students in Eastern University, Sri Lanka: A Comparative Study Between Male and Female Students
(2017)Background: The contemporary health professional education greatly emphasizes on competency based education. Clinical skill is an essential competency of Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Nursing programme. Clinical competencies ... -
Exploratory Survey of Human Factors on Offshore Patrol Vessels
(2017)Spending up to six months or more aboard a ship, occasionally subject to harsh weather, the life of a seafarer is heavily dependent on the design of the ship. A good ship design, thus, has to take account of socio-technical ... -
Knowledge and Attitudes Among Sri Lankan Pre-intern Doctors on Nutritional Assessment and Counseling
(2017)Nutritional assessment and counselling are core clinical skills of a doctor. Our objective was to describe the knowledge and attitudes on nutritional assessment and counselling among pre-intern doctors of Sri Lanka. A ... -
Primary School Teachers’ Knowledge of Learning Disabilities in Ilorin-West Local Government, Kwara State
(2017)This study examined the primary school teachers’ knowledge of learning disabilities in Ilorin West Local Government, Kwara State. The study was a descriptive design of survey, and a sample of 150 primary school teachers ... -
Experience as a Factor Influencing Upper Basic School Teachers’ Perception of Social Studies Orientations in South-West, Nigeria
(2017)This study investigated the Upper Basic School Teachers’ perception of three social studies orientations in South –West of Nigeria. Survey type of research design using questionnaire was adopted for the study. The population ... -
Removal of Microcystin-Lr using Cellular Extracts of Bacillus Cereus
(2017)Microcystin –LR (MC-LR) is considered to be the most dominant type of cyanobacterial toxins present in water bodies. The present study focuses on using cellular extracts of Bacillus cereus in removal of MC-LR in water. ... -
Recent Changes in Population and its Impact on Usage of Drinking Water Sources in Households: A Case Study of Kalutara District, Sri Lanka
(2017)The major problem that arises with the rapid growth of population is whether it is possible to fulfil basic requirements of human beings such as food, water, shelter and air (De Silva, 2007). Especially, drinking water is ... -
Escalation of Tensions Between China and Japan: Should There Be a Paradigm Shift in Japanese Foreign Policy?
(2018)The dispute between China and Japan is a manifestation of the growing Chinese influence in the region. China has been making steady progress on the economic and military front and the recent advances in military technology ... -
Naipaul, Postcolonial Identity Politics and Totalitarianism: Zizekian Re-reading of the Novel, a Bend in the River
(2018)Based on the fictional evidence in the novel A Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul, this essay examines how the ‘totalitarian symptoms’ are sustained within the identity politics in the postcolonial world. This interpretation ... -
Investigating the Possibility of Mixing Food and Yard Waste for an Effective Compost Product at an Existing Pilot-scale Composting Plant
(2018)Composting is a natural biological process that reduces the waste stream into a product that can be used as a conditioner. The existing Pilot-Scale composting plant at General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University (KDU) ... -
Chemical Evaluation of Some Selected Metal Composition in Edible Salt
(2018)It is important to assess the quality of salt as salt is the most used food additive worldwide. Determination of metallic elements of salt samples which were purchased from retail outlets of Ambalangoda were done by ... -
Social and Economic Factors Affecting Ethnic Fertility Differentials in Sri Lanka
(2018)In the Sri Lankan context, society consists of different ethnic groups with distinctive languages, cultures, values and norms, and the behavior of people in many ethnic groups is attached to their ethnicity. Further at ... -
Identification Parades: the Evidentiary Value & the Credibility of the Witness in Identifying Suspects for Criminal Investigations in Sri Lanka
(2021)The term Identification does not only refer to Fingerprint Identification but also to voice identification, footprint identification and identification parades (Rajamanickam and Kung, 2017). However, the present paper ... -
Redefining the Role of Airpower for Nation Building in Peacetime
(2021)Airpower is offensive by nature. In the post conflict situation after the defeat of brutal terrorism in 2009, airpower was performing its traditional role of preserving the peace for almost a decade. However, economy and ... -
Analysis of Land Surface Temperature Variability Over the Industrial Zone During the Lockdown Period of Covid-19 Pandemics by Using Satellite Remote Sensing and GIS
(2021)Rapid industrialization one of the concerns that lead to climate change in the current world. With the advancement of industrialization declining vegetation cover inversely proportional to the raise of built-up areas. ...