2020 IRC Articles: Recent submissions
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Prevalence of Unintentional Home Injuries and Awareness of Child Safety among the Parents of Inpatient Children at Sirimavo Bandaranayake Specialized Children’s Hospital Peradeniya
(2020)Abstract: Unintentional injuries are estimated to cause 389,000 annual child deaths in Southern Asia resulting in an annual loss of 74 healthy lives per 1000 population. In Sri Lanka, childhood injuries have been ... -
Way towards Re-Introducing Criminal Defamation in Digital Diplomacy Affecting National Security: A Comparative Analysis with India
(2020)At present, defamation in Digital Diplomacy which is also known as cyber diplomacy or E-Diplomacy has become a significant issue due to its liberty and speedy dissemination of expressions in real time regardless of their ... -
Knowledge And Practices Regarding Open-System Endotracheal Suctioning Among Intensive Care Unit Nurses At The National Hospital Of Sri Lanka
(2020)Abstracts: Open-system endotracheal suctioning (OS-ETS) is performed on critically ill requiring mechanical ventilation to keep the airway patent. Intensive care unit (ICU) nurses need to perform this procedure ... -
Conceptualizing Local Governance in the Context of Citizen Participation: Towards a Participatory Approach of Local Government Institutions in Sri Lanka
(2020)This paper, provides a conceptual basis for institutionalizing citizen participation in the local government system under the existing constitutional structure. To achieve this objective, the study employs the assumption ... -
A software based solution to estimate the angles of incidence of AK bullets using bullet hole features on 1mm sheet metal
(2020)Abstract: Bullet holes and their characteristics are considered important evidence in shooting incidents and can play a major role in the determination of a fired bullet’s trajectory. This research aimed to design a ... -
Definitional and Interpretational Approach towards Economic Development on the Word ‘Income’ under Current Laws of Income Tax: A Comparison of Sri Lanka and India
(2020)The research paper looks at the vital role of income tax as a major income of the country and impact to the economic development, through the lens of interpretation. Hence, the primary aim of this paper is to set out the ... -
Health Related Quality of Life among Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease in Sri Lanka; a Review
(2020)Abstract: Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) gives a considerable burden to the Sri Lankan health care delivery system. Prevalence of CKD rise due to the high prevalence of noncommunicable diseases and unknown aetiologies. ... -
Automated Generation of Sinhala Lyrics using Recurrent Neural Networks
(2020)Abstract: This paper discusses the approaches involved in implementing automated song lyrics system in the Sinhala language. Which includes an overview of the complexity of writing song lyrics and develop an automated ... -
Evaluation of Physicochemical Properties of Starch from Two Modified Sri Lankan Rice Varieties to Be Used as Excipients in the Pharmaceutical Industry
(2020)Abstracts: Starches are the main excipients used in the formulation of solid oral dosage forms and the majority of the excipients are imported to Sri Lanka for the country’s pharmaceutical manufacturing industry. Therefore, ... -
Regulating Food Advertisement in Sri Lanka and Curbing Childhood Obesity: The Way Forward
(2020)Advertising and marketing of unhealthy foods and beverages to children has affected the dietary preferences, food choices of children. Both foreign and local studies have also proved a positive relationship between the ... -
National Security and Freedom of Expression in Sri Lanka: Friends or Foes
(2020)— Freedom of expression is a corner post of democracy. Article 19 (2) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights provides the international norm. Second Republican Constitution of Sri Lanka guarantees the ... -
Finger spelled Sign Language Translator for Deaf and Speech Impaired People in Srilanka using Convolutional Neural Network
(2020)Abstract: Sign language is a visual language used by people with speech and hearing disabilities for communication in their daily conversation activities. It is completely an optical communication language through ... -
Health Promoting Lifestyle and Its Associated Factors Among Undergraduate Students in Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka
(2020)Abstract: Health promoting life style is the main strategy to improve health status of an individual .The objective of this study was to assess the health promoting lifestyle and its determinants among undergraduate ... -
Evaluating Driver Speeding at Traffic Signal Lights During the Amber Time: With and Without Countdown Timers
(2020)At the onset of amber color indication, drivers must decide whether to stop or cross a signalized intersection. In literature, there is enough evidence indicating that a significantly high number of crashes that occur at ... -
Impact of Covid-19 to the National Economy of Sri Lanka: A Comparative Analysis with the United Kingdom on Employees’ Rights
(2020)Impact of Covid-19 on labour rights and national economy has become a prominent issue at present. Therefore, this research aims at finding out whether there are sufficient laws to secure labour rights in such unforeseeable ... -
Diabetes Prediction System using Machine Learning
(2020)Abstract: Diabetes is a deadly chronic disease which affects entire body system harmfully. Millions of people are affected by this disease and a considerable number of patients die every year because of its side effects. ... -
Effect of Lidocaine Spray in the Enhancement of the Quality of IntraOral Periapical Radiograph when Imaging Lower Third Molar Teeth
(2020)Abstract: Dental radiography is one of the best diagnostic methods used to identify dental diseases and several dental radiographic methods are practised in order to achieve quality images of the specific dental region. ... -
Energy Absorption Capacity and Impact Energy of Rubberized Concrete
(2020)Disposal of used tires is a critical environmental issue in Sri Lanka. Rubberized concrete is one of the solutions introduced by the researchers to minimize the quantity of waste rubber. These studies discovered that ... -
Correlation between Hemoglobin Concentration and Absolute Reticulocyte count of adolescent female iron deficient patients at Colombo north teaching hospital.
(2020)Abstract:-Iron deficiency can be identified as the most common micro-nutrient disorder and cause of anemia. Most frequently occurred in children under the age of 5 years, females of childbearing age and pregnant women. ... -
Real-time Animal Detection and Prevention System for Crop Fields
(2020)Abstract: Every year, crop damaged by wild animals is dramatically increasing in Sri Lanka. It often poses risks to humans and animals. Since more and more wild animals are causing damage to their cultivation; humans ...