Browsing 2015 IRC Articles by Issue Date
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Sri Lankan Children in Immigration Detention in Australia: Human Rights and State Responsibility
(2015)There are many families in immigration detention in Australia. People who are fleeing Sri Lanka devastated by the ethnic conflict between Tamil Tigers & Sri Lankan government have the same basic needs as decent living ... -
Corresponding Trade Union Laws in Sri Lanka with that of International Standards to Enable Professional Recognition
(2015)As a facet of professional recognition, identifying trade union rights in a country indeed is of immense importance. A 'trade union' can be defined as a combination of people who are in the same or identical profession ... -
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 ... -
Radioactivity Levels in Beach Sand from Hambantota to Dondra, Sri Lanka
(2015)This study aims to evaluate the activity concentrations of 232Th, 238U and 40K in beach sand along the southern coastal strip from Hambantota to Dondra, Sri Lanka. The results of this study serve as a database for radioactivity ... -
Right to Access to Information, is an Avenue for Strengthening the Sovereignty of People in Sri Lanka?
(2015)As per the constitution of Sri Lanka, sovereignty which includes powers of government, franchise and fundamental rights, is in the people and is inalienable. Further it elaborates the way in which the sovereignty exercised. ... -
An Evaluation of Teaching Styles of Advanced Level Science Stream Teachers in Colombo District Schools
(2015)Teaching styles are different approaches of teaching. Student-centered approach to teaching increase student-teacher interaction, student motivation and prepare the students for adult learning in universities. To promote ... -
Abduction of Infants and Illegal Adoption of Abducted Infants and Its Legal Situation on Adoption Laws in Sri Lanka
(2015)Rights of the child has become more irrefutable moral phenomenon of out of the human rights system. Orphans or children, whose parents cannot support them, can be adopted under procedure laid down by the Adoption Ordinance ... -
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 ... -
Validation of OpenFOAM as Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Software
(2015)Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) software is doing a critical role in the modern era of engineering. It is very important especially to the aeronautical and aerospace engineering fields. New CFD software comes in to the ... -
Foreign Involvement of Terrorism in Sri Lanka during Conflict Era - An Appraisal
(2015)This paper discusses more than 25 years long period of terrorism in Sri Lanka and influence of foreign elements. It further elaborates how an organization formed by handful of youths became one of the most ruthless terrorist ... -
A Review of Research on Green Logistics Distribution Practices
(2015)Due to increased focus on environmental pollution through transport activities, organizations, transport providers and governments have taken various initiatives towards reducing the environmental impact of transport and ... -
Time Series Approaches to Forecast Air Freight Imports and Exports: Empirical from Sri Lanka.
(2015)This paper establishes an approach to forecast Air freight exports and imports volumes in Sri Lanka for the period of 2008-2013. Further the paper also applies Granger Causality to test the causality between air cargo ... -
Voluntary Repatriation as a Durable Solution to Sri Lankan Refugees in India: A Critical Analysis with Legal Perspective
(2015)Assimilation, voluntary repatriation and third country resettlement are generally accepted as durable solutions for refugees. Among these, voluntary repatriation is considered to be the most welcome. Sri Lankan refugees ... -
Assessing Customer Relationship Management Strategies for Creating Customer Loyalty in Insurance Industry
(2015)In a strongly competitive and rapidly changing business environment, the need to be market focused and forming strong relationships with customers is more critical than any other time in the past. Today, organizations have ... -
Strengthening ICT Law Regime to facilitate E-Commerce and M-Commerce Transactions: A Sri Lankan Perspective
(2015)Information and Communication Technology (ICT) plays a vital role in our everyday lives. Particularly, it makes regular business transactions easy and fast in globalized information society. Accordingly, traditional commerce ... -
Impacts of Mini Hydropower Plants: A research design through preliminary studies
(2015)Hydropower is the number one renewable clean source of energy used for power generation in Sri Lanka when compared with solar, wind and bio mass sources. Despite being identified as a clean source of power generation, the ... -
Determinants of job satisfaction of Sri Lankan seafarers and tendency of selecting shore based jobs
(2015)Shipping as an integrated component in larger goods movement system and is a major traditional industry which has been changed rapidly with globalisation. So job satisfaction of seafarers is considered as an important ... -
Octopus: A Multi Agent Chatbot
(2015)A Chatbot is a type of conversational agent or a computer program which has been designed to simulate an intelligent conversation with one or more human users via auditory or textual methods. Chatbots can be used as an ...