Browsing 2015 IRC Articles by Title
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Assessment of Consumer Awareness on Food Labels and the Effect of the Level of Awareness on Buying Behaviour of Consumers in Jaffna District
(2015)Food labels present a set of vital information such as date of expiry, nutritional data to the consumers which influence their purchasing. The present study was conducted to assess the awareness on food labels and the ... -
Assessment of Parental Involvement in Addressing Sexual and Reproductive Health Problems among Adolescents an a Rural Village in Anuradhapura District, Sri Lanka
(2015)Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive health (ASRH) is an integral part of wellbeing. The extent and manner of parental involvement in ASRH determine the prevention of adolescents high-risk sexual behaviours. Objective of the ... -
Can Taguchi Method be applied to Improve Software Quality ? A Case Study
(2015)Taguchi method was formulated by Dr. Genichi Taguchi for the purpose of improving quality and hence the productivity of industrial products, ref. Burgam (1965), Moen et al. (1992), Peace (1992), Roy (2010). Since then ... -
Cassandra Complex: Analysis on Law Relating to Climatic Change in Sri Lanka
(2015)According to the strategic report of Ministry of Disaster Management in Sri Lanka, a sever landslide occurred in Meeriyabedda area in Kotabatha Grama Niladari Division in Haldemulla Divisional Secretariant Division in ... -
The changing face of the LTTE: Ascertaining the threat of the Tamil diaspora’s use of public diplomacy on Sri Lanka.
(2015)Tamil diaspora has been part and parcel of the Eelam struggle of the LTTE from its inception. After the decisive military defeat of the LTTE in 2009, the Tamil diaspora became the only functioning organ of the extended ... -
Characteristics of Motorcycle Crashes
(2015)Motorcycles are popular in Asian countries including Sri Lanka and it is becoming an important part of transportation in the country. Despite its popularity, little research has been conducted to study the impact of ... -
Characterization of Montmorillonite Clay from Naturally Occurring Clay Deposits in Murunkan Area
(2015)Engineering fields widely use montmorillonite(MMT) nano clay for wide range of applications. Identify the presence of MMT and other minerals in naturally occurred clay deposits in Murunkan region and discussing the ... -
Characterization of Novel Mini STR Loci to Aid the Analysis of Degraded DNA Evidence in Sri Lankan Forensic Casework
(2015)Miniaturized Short Tandem Repeat (miniSTR) markers have become increasingly useful in the analysis of degraded DNA specimens from mass disaster or forensic evidence during the past few years. Improved success of these ... -
China-Africa Political and Security Relations: An Analysis of Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) Documents
(2015)There has been a tremendous growth in China-Africa relations in the last twenty years. As part of this growth political and security links between them have also grown. In the security sphere statements issued by FOCAC ... -
Combined Effect of Citric Acid and Ascorbic Acid as Chemical PreTreatments to Prevent Enzymatic Browning in Fresh Cut Ambul Banana (Musa spp.)
(2015)Minimally processed products give several health benefits to consumer such as reducing meal preparation time, less storage space and reduced waste disposal. Texture and colour are the two of the most noticeable quality of ... -
A Comparative Analysis of Directors` Duty of Care, Skill and Diligence in Sri Lanka, Australia and UK
(2015)The Companies Act No. 07 of 2007 made considerable changes to numerous areas of corporate law in Sri Lanka including the codification of the common law duties of directors which are set forth in the Sections 187 - 200. ... -
A Comparative Analysis of Various String Matching Algorithms
(2015)String-matching is a very important subject in the wider domain of text processing. It is used in almost all the software applications starting from text editors to the complex Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) ... -
A Comparative Evaluation of Existing Mppt Algorithms and Development of a Hybrid Algorithm for Photovoltaic Systems
(2015)This Research paper is about a comparative evaluation of different existing algorithms for Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) of photovoltaic (PV) systems, and developing of a new hybrid-algorithm. Solar panel is a non ... -
Comparative Study of Tragia involucrata L. and Tragia Spp. by Using Preliminary Standardization Techniques
(2015)Since ancient times humans have been using plants as medicine in different formulations to treat various ailments. Tragiainvolucrata L. [TI] commonly known as Welkahambiliya (Sinhala) andIndian stinging nettle (English) ... -
A Comparative Study on Web Scraping
(2015)The World Wide Web contains all kinds of information of different origins; some of those are social, financial, security and academic. Most people access information through internet for educational purposes. Information ... -
A Comparison of the Efficiency of Using HTML over XML and JSON for the Asynchronous Communication in Rich Internet Applications
(2015)— Rich Internet Applications use XML or JSON to format the data in asynchronous communication, which engaged a serialization process in the server and a deserialization process in the client. If we use HTML to format the ... -
Complex Valued Independent Component Analysis for Image Enhancement
(2015)Independent Component Analysis (ICA), a category of blind source separation, can be effectively used for extraction of unknown independent source signals from signal mixtures in a wide range of signal processing applications. ... -
Complexity Science and Knowledge Technology for Defence Industry and Military Forces in the 21st Century
(2015)Complexity of the Internet-based global economy and geo-political/military constellations is growing relentlessly increasing their dynamics and uncertainty. We are engaged in building a global digital network, which connects ... -
Computational Model for Sri Lankan Board Game Nerenchi
(2015)People play games for entertainment or to show the superiority of strength and which was co-existed with humans since the start of mankind. A board game is a game that involves counters or pieces moved or placed on a ...