Browsing 2013 IRC Articles by Title
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Application of derived models for the prediction of municipal solid waste generation rates in developing countries
(2013)Municipal Solid Waste Management (MSWM) is a complex process that requires a lot of information from various sources such as factors on waste generation and waste quantity forecasts. Waste generation rates are affected by ... -
Assessment of aerodynamic behaviour of the NACA 64A212 airfoil on the context of computational fluid dynamics
(2013)A comprehensive understanding of an aircraft�s fluid and flight dynamics cannot be understated from both an engineering and aircraft handling perspective. In this context, availability of such descriptive information, ... -
Association of Glutathione peroxidase 1 (GPX-1) activity with severity of coronary artery diseases
(2013)Glutathione Peroxidase 1 (GPX-1) is a seleniumdependent enzyme with antioxidant properties. Studies have shown that the GPX-1 isoenzyme of Glutathione Peroxidase (GPX) appear to be a more sensitive indicator of oxidative ... -
Barodontalgia among SLAF air crew
(2013)Barodontalgia, a dental pain evoked by a change in barometric pressure in an otherwise asymptomatic tooth, may be severe enough to cause inflight vertigo, incapacitation, and premature cessation of flights and altitude-chamber ... -
Challenges & opportunities for Sri Lankan engineering professionals in the emerging maritime hub:a case presentation from the shipbuilding industry
(2013)While the demand for Asian shipbuilders prevail over the demand for European shipbuilders, Sri Lanka is in a relatively advantageous position to take the advantage of becoming a Regional Maritime Hub.With the end of the ... -
Challenges in maintaining and extending Sri Lanka's record on health - with special reference to international trade in services
(2013)Sri Lanka is looking to the future and planning for economic growth and development. As much as it is important to innovate and introduce new and more effective policies, it is equally important to identify, maintain and ... -
Challenges to property rights of women under the Sri Lankan legal perspective
(2013)According to the prevailing patriarchal system in Sri Lanka, traditionally the male is designed as the head of the household regardless of whether he is the primary source of economic support or not. Females in families ... -
Children in criminal justice: a critical review of the contemporary penal laws in Sri Lanka
(2013)Today's children are the future of any society. If there is no proper protection and guidance for children today, the future of the country will be in dark. Therefore, it is the obligation of every generation to bring up ... -
A comparative analysis on protecting women's rights in conflict situations: Sri Lanka and Rwanda
(2013)Rwandese experience on mass-scale violations of women's human rights in the conflict shook world'ss conscience. The final outcome of the grave violations of women's human rights resulted in the development of international ... -
Constraints into IS strategic planning and IS development in the banking sector
(2013)The term Information System Strategy (ISS) encompasses a wide array of information and it brings together the business aims of a company, an understanding of the information needed to support those aims, and the implementation ... -
Converting Sri Lanka into a commercial hub in Asia:an assessment of postwar progress with insights to the way forward
(2013)The Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) has embarked on a development agenda based on the Mahinda Chintanaya with the objective of converting the country to a Naval, Aviation, Commercial, Energy and Knowledge hub in Asia. In ... -
Crossing over to the other side:attitudes held by Sinhala medium Humanities and Social Sciences undergraduates of Sri Lankan universities towards English
(2013)In Sri Lanka, the necessity of a lingua franca like English is highly felt, specially in view of the country's vision to become a knowledge hub in Asia. Consequently English is taught to the youth at secondary and tertiary ... -
Design an infrared radar training module
(2013)In this project, we designed a type of close proximity infrared radar training module that can be used to detect any object close to the device by scanning with an angle of 180 degrees and from a distance from 20cm to ... -
Design and construction of high spreed ,hard chine planning hull
(2013)With the development of the tourism in the country, there will be potential demand for water sports and leisure boating industry as in Maldives Island and other developed countries. Export development board and other related ... -
Development of electrical energy saving assistant
(2013)The main objective of the device introduced in this paper is to help reducing the peaks of daily demand curve of national power grid, with the introduction of an automatic power disconnection function. The device simultaneously ... -
Distribution reliability improvement through optimal location of load break switches in 33 kV network
(2013)Distribution network is responsible for many of the interruptions in an electricity supply system. This is internationally the case due to the more exposed nature of the distribution lines which are mostly of overhead type ... -
Effective use of tour guiding in countering Tamil Diaspora: an open source response to LTTE sympathizers
(2013)Nations in the modernity are more towards the use of the efficacious tool of ‘strategic communication’ on achieving their propaganda goals. ‘Public diplomacy’ is a part of strategic communication which is an alternative ... -
Eliminating disability digital divide in Sri Lanka
(2013)Differently-abled People are not having equal opportunities to access information technology and systems compared to the normal population in Sri Lanka. The purpose of this research is to find reasons behind the digital ... -
End of an armed conflict with the death of a terrorist leader:Analysing the absence of terrorist attacks in the post-war context
(2013)The military defeat of the Liberation Tigers of the Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in May 2009 is significant not only as it marks the end of the prolonged armed struggle. More importantly, the island nation has not witnessed a single ...