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Awareness of Information Retrieval in Online Environment: A Study on Newcomers to the Faculty of Engineering of General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University
(2017-06)Undergraduates, in their first year, usually perform poorly in their studies and it has been attributed to the inability of students to effectively retrieve information for academic work. At present, there are many problems ... -
Awareness on legal aspect of physical restraining among psychiatric nurses working in National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), Sri Lanka.
(2018-06-10)Background: Physical restrain was one of the ancient interventions used to control psychiatric patients and it is used as an injury preventing measure now. Physical restrain should be used for a short period, not as a ... -
A Bibliometric Analysis of Scholarly Publications on Dengue in PubMed Database
(2018-09)Dengue is a re-emerging mosquito-borne infectious disease that seriously affects the population all over the world. However, there is no sufficient information on the bibliometric direction of dengue research output globally. ... -
A Case Study to Identify Factors Affected the Optimal Utilization of Library at the Naval and Maritime Academy, Sri Lanka
(2015)This study focuses on investigatingfactors which affect optimal utilization of library facilities by the under-trainees of the Navel and MaritimeAcademy (NMA), Sri Lanka and it proposes suitable recommendations to Commandant ... -
Challenges Faced in Formulating a New Faculty Library: With Special Reference to Allied Health Sciences Library, General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University
(2016)The aim of this paper is to discuss and bring out challenges faced in formulating a faculty library with special reference to Allied Health Sciences Library, Kotelawala Defence University. Issues occurred in collection ... -
'Checkpoint'- poem
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Citation Analysis of Undergraduate Dissertations: an Assessment of the Utilization of Information Sources as a Collection Development Tool
(2018)ABSTRACT This study examines bibliographic references of undergraduates’ dissertations accepted by the faculty of Allied Health Sciences, General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University, Sri Lanka in the year 2017. The ... -
Clinicoepidemiological Characteristics of Vitiligo: A Descriptive Cross- Sectional Study
(2021-12-31)Vitiligo is a common dermatological disorder characterized by white patches of the skin.The main reason for this disease is the loss of functioning melanin and melanocytes. The objective of the study was to investigate ... -
Clitoria ternatea-Shifting Paradigms: From Laboratory to Industry
(2021-12-03)Clitoria ternateacommonly known as Butterfly pea is a standard Ayurvedic medicinal plant used in many parts of south Asian countries. Traditional medicinal plants are a great alternative to find new treatments and for the ... -
Comparative Study of Prevalence of Migraine among Defence and Non- Defence Undergraduate Students in General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University (KDU), Sri Lanka
(2018-04-07)Introduction: Epidemiological studies have revealed its high prevalence, high socio-economic and personal impacts of migraine; it was ranked as the third most prevalent disorder and the seventh-highest specific cause of ... -
A Comparative Study on In Vitro Antibacterial Activity of Different Leaf Extracts of Medicinal Plant Talinum paniculatum
(2017)There is an urgent need for the development of novel affordable plant based natural antibacterial agents in order to combat against the emergence of antibiotic resistance, resulting from the indiscriminate use of currently ... -
A Comparison of Classical Time Series Models and Machine Learning LSTM Model to Forecast Paddy Production in Sri Lanka
(2022-09)The most common & effective traditional methods of univariate time series forecasting are Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) family models and Exponential Smoothing family models. With the recent advancement ...