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A Comprehensive Review of Salacia reticulata: Botanical, Ethnomedicinal, Phytochemical, and Pharmacological Insights
(2013-11-01)Salacia reticulata(HIPPOCRATEACEAE) is a large ligneous climber or scandent shrub held by Sri Lanka, the Andaman Islands, and south India. It is known as Kothala himbutu/Himbutu wel in Sinhalese and is ... -
Creating Value for Museums, Academia and Communities: Overview from Sri Lanka
(2015)Digitized museums have overcome the physical barriers and provided a golden opportunity for everyone who wants to access formation about the past. New technologies have changed the traditional ... -
The cross cultural adaptation of Morisky Green Levine Medication Adherence Scale for use with diagnosed patients of Ischemic Heart Disease in Sri Lanka
(2019-10-25)Ischemic Heart Disease (IHD) has been classified as one of the major cardiovascular diseases in the world and it has become the main cause of death in Sri Lanka. Medication adherence is defined as the level to which the ... -
The Cross-cultural Adaptation of the Begley and Glackens's Assertiveness Scale for use with Nursing Students in Sri Lanka
(2021-08-26)Background: Assertiveness is recognized as a crucial skill in the nursing profession since it is capable of reinforcing interprofessional relationships, preventing workplace violence, reducing work stress, improving ... -
The cross-cultural adaptation of the Schutte Self-Report Emotional Intelligence Test (SSEIT) for use among nursing students in Sri Lanka
(2022-03-31)Background: Emotional Intelligence (EI) is defined as the capability to perceive, control, and evaluate emotions. Schutte Self-Report Emotional Intelligence Test (SSEIT) has been identified as a successful tool for measuring ... -
The cross-cultural adaptation of the Toronto Empathy Questionnaire (TEQ) from the English language to the Sinhala language to use with nursing students in Sri Lanka
(2022-06-17)Background: Empathy is defined as understanding another person's experience by imagining oneself in that other person's situation. There is paramount importance to assess empathy at the student level in Nursing. Toronto ... -
Design of an IoT based indoor air quality monitoring system
(2020)Indoor air pollution is receiving widespread attention as it can endanger people's health. The advantage of ending indoor environmental monitoring is the detection and improvement of indoor air quality. However, many ... -
Developing an Academic Institutional Repository: A Case at the General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University
(2019)An institutional repository is defined as an online locus for collecting, preserving, and disseminating the intellectual output of an institution in digital form, particularly a research institution (New World Encyclopedia, ... -
Development and validation of the Electronic Information Resources usage scale
(2015-03)The purpose of the study was to develop and validate the EIR use scale. The research took place in several empirical phases. Fist, a list of 97 items was developed by the researcher and was sent to the panel of experts for ... -
The Effects of Country-level Population Policy for Enhancing Adaptation to Climate Change
(2013-10-02)Abstract. The effectiveness of population policy in reducing the combined impacts of population change and climate change on water resources is explored. One no-policy scenario and two scenarios with population policy ... -
Electronic Information Resources Utilization by Medical Students in General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University
(2016)This study evaluated the utilization of electronic information resources in General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University Library by Medical students by addressing four objectives namely; identifying the awareness of ... -
Evaluating, patterns of research publications in the intangible cultural heritage of Sri Lanka: a Bibliometric study
(2018)This bibliometric study analyses the characteristics of research publications in the field of Intangible cultural heritage of Sri Lanka between the years of 1998 to 2018. The study is limited to investigate the research ... -
Evaluation of in vitro anti-inflammatory and antibacterial properties of tuberous roots of Mirabilis jalapa (Sinhala name: Hendirikka)
(2023-09-07)The Four-o'clock plant, also known as Mirabilis jalapa Linn. (Sinhala name: Hendirikka), is a well-known ornamental plant that is also prized for its folklore remedies all over the world. It has been discovered that this ...