Browsing 2017 IRC Articles by Title
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Purpose Driven Education
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Reconciling Breeder’s Rights and Farmer’s Rights for Food Security in Sri Lankan Context: A Comparison with India
(2017)Sri Lanka owns a noticeable history of agricultural sector that has been flourishing since ancient times, where food security had been ensured for decades. The advancement of technology unwrapped new capacities in science ... -
Reforms to the International Trade Regime for the Protection of Marine Living Resources
(2017)The World Trade Organization (WTO) was established, as the successor to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), through Marrakesh Agreement giving birth to new arenas of international trade. Though the main ... -
Regional hegemony and small state survival: Re – examining Ceylon’s foreign policy under premier D.S Senanayake
(2017)Literature that deals with Ceylon's foreign policy during the D.S Senanayake administration (19481952) evinces a general hypothesis regarding the close relationship between the Ceylonese administration and the British go ... -
Research Directions for Network Based Video Streaming with Emphasis for Live Screen Mirroring
(2017)Recent advancements in the field of embedded systems and network speeds in general – particularly the realization of concepts of image processing, live video streaming and Internet of Things have redefined the technology ... -
A Review Paper on Home Automation with Human Behaviour
(2017)Smart homes have been viewed with increasing interest by both home owners and the research community in the past few years. One reason for this development is by using modern automation technology such as Arduino in the ... -
A Review of Literature on the Community of Inquiry Framework
(2017)The purpose of the current study was to critically analyze the learning in community of inquiry (CoI) framework. In the year 2000 Garrison, Anderson and Archer introduced CoI framework in order to find solutions to reduce ... -
Safe Operation of Tugs within Close Proximity to the Forward and Aft Regions of Ships
(2017)When tugs are used for ship assist manoeuvers, hydrodynamic interaction effects between them can adversely affect the safety and handling of the tug. During such manoeuvers, tugs need to frequently change their location ... -
Sea Level Variability in the West Coast of Sri Lanka
(2017)Sea level variability in west cost of Sri Lankan waters was investigated by means of insitu (Tide gauge) and satellite altimetry data over a period spanning two decades from 1993 to 2014. This paper describes the sea lev ... -
Securitization of National Borders: A Case Study of Sri Lankan Border Control Measures
(2017)National border is vital for survival of a state and protecting it is important for National security. Paying lip service to security of National borders will maintain the threat level to the National borders which in tu ... -
Silent threat to Sri Lanka’s biodiversity: laws relating to Invasive Alien Species
(2017)Incidents such as reduction of forge grasses that can be used by elephants due to rapid spreading of Lantana in Udawalawe National Park and growth of common gorse in Horton National Park indicate that there is a silent ... -
Single Carrier Communication System on Open Source Embedded Platform
(2017)Modern open source embedded platforms are very cost effective while providing enormous computing power. Open source embedded platforms with processor clock frequency exceeding 1GHz speed are common and ideal for implemen ... -
Sinhala Speech to Text Library using Sphinx
(2017)Speech-to-text has generated a tremendous interest in the field of Natural Language Processing where the ultimate goal is to build applications and systems that has the capability to respond to the natural languages that ... -
Sinhala and Tamil influence on Sri Lankan English particle use: A corpus-based study on the case of ‘for
(2017)Colonial expansion brought English into contact with different languages. In Sri Lanka, English has been in contact with Sinhala and Tamil for over 200 years. Today, all users of Sri Lankan English (SLE) are either bilingual ... -
Slippage of Tradition and Conversion into New Technology in the Paddy Cultivation In MuthukandiyaArea
(2017)Rice consumption has become the no one food around the globe. In Sri Lanka, the paddy supply changes in different provinces and the districts. Presently, a competition in the paddy cultivation can be identified due to th ... -
A Small-Scale Genre Analysis Study of the Introductions of a Corpus of Postgraduate Essays in the Field of Applied Linguistics
(2017)Most English for Academic Purposes (EAP) courses focus on developing general academic writing skills. Swales (1990) argues that prominence should be given not only to the general writing skills but also to discipline related ... -
Smart Cane for Staircase and Water Detection
(2017)The World Health Organization (WHO) reported that there are 285 million visually-impaired people worldwide. Among these individuals, there are 39 million who are totally blind. Blind people need some help in interacting ... -
Smart Hospital Ward Management System with mobile robot WARDBOT: An efficient management solution for hospital ward
(2017)The hospital ward system is one of the major section of the hospital. Various ward management systems are used by hospital staff in order to maintain the system. This paper presents a novel concept of, Smart Hospital War ... -
Sri Lanka between Geopolitical Interests of China and India
(2017)Sri Lanka has become a point of interest in the Indian Ocean in the 21st century due to her geostrategically attractive position. Precisely, the pearl of the Indian Ocean is now in dilemma due to the conflicting interest ...