Browsing 2021 IRC Articles by Title
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On Scene Crime Reporting System for Law Enforcement in Sri Lanka
(2021)Police may offer crime reporting also as a service. The number of reported criminal cases has increased over time. Law enforcement discovers a distinction between reported and unreported offenses, and a variety of ... -
An Operational Model of Managing Vocational Training for Persons with Visual Impairment and Blindness
(2021-12-20)Vocational training is a key means of strengthening employability of all including those with visual impairment and blindness. Although Sri Lanka too invests significantly on providing vocational training for people with ... -
Optimization of Industrial Manipulation Tasks Using Parallel Manipulators
(2021)Small-scale product handling industries are at the cusp of increasing their efficiency and effectiveness, where optimization is a considerable factor. Though regular pick and place tasks are nonvalue added steps, it can ... -
An Optimum Train Selection and Management Platform
(2021)Sri Lanka, as a developing country faces rapid urbanization, which leads to high mobility requirements. Due to increased traffic congestions during peak hours, people tend to select the railway system as their mode ... -
Optimum Waste Collection System with Smart Mobile Application
(2021)Irregular disposal and collection of wastage is a huge problem in cities. Due to rapid population growth and manipulation of urbanization, huge garbage emissions and environmental pollution may occur. It is effective and ... -
An Overview of Various Techniques and Approaches of Concurrent Delay Analysis in the Sri Lankan Construction Industry
(2021)Concurrent delay is a very complex and controversial topic in the construction industry. Analysis of the concurrent delays became challenging due to the absence of clear provisions in the standard form of contracts. ... -
An Overview on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) as an Elearning Platform: A Review
(2021)Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) have peaked in popularity with the vast improvement in technology with minimum infrastructure to connect to the Internet, thereby allowing learners to access the massive number of ... -
A Participatory Survey on Effective Utilization of Teacher-Student and Student-Peer Interaction on Online Platforms in Second Language Teaching Pedagogy
(2021-12-20)Education today has moved from direct interaction with students to distant learning as a means of adapting to the restrictions caused by the pandemic. The traditional classroom has been replaced by synchronous e-learning ... -
Perception of Teacher Trainees Regarding the Implementation of Continuous Assessment in National Colleges of Education in Sri Lanka
(2021-12-17)Assessment is considered the process of making judgments about a student's performance on a particular task. It consists of a wide range of methods for evaluating student’s performances and attainments including ... -
Perceptions of Civil Engineering Undergraduates on Using Learning Management System (LMS) and Zoom Platform for Online Design Studio Teaching
(2021)As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, ‘online teaching and learning’ became the only possible solution to continue the education programmes at universities. Though there are multiple solutions presented in the educational ... -
Personal Data Protection in the Context of Employment: A Discussion of Law in Sri Lanka in the Light of the GDPR
(2021)The right to privacy is recognized as a fundamental right in various legal instruments including international conventions. Personal data consists of a major part of privacy. Employees are a vulnerable category whose ... -
A Personalized Food Recommendation Application using a Hybrid Collaborative Filtering Approach
(2021)With the increase of workloads, the usage of recommendation platforms for purchasing meals has increased. The diet patterns of individuals are influenced by a multitude of factors including age, health conditions, ... -
The Port Policy of Small Island Powers: Sri Lankan Perspective
(2021)This paper discusses the requirement of reorienting the port policy of Sri Lanka. The port policy directly concerns national interest and the fundamental values of the state that are strategically significant for ... -
Pragmatic Response for Maritime-Air Security, a Way Forward: A Conceptual Framework from a Strategic Aerial Perspective
(2021)The underlying concept of airpower is an ability of a nation to achieve its objectives and secure its interests through the means of air and associated capabilities. The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a weak economy ... -
Preliminary Findings of an Analysis of the COVID-19 English Terminology Used in Electronic News Media in Sri Lanka
(2021-12-17)COVID-19 outbreak has brought several language changes mainly in terminology. Some existing analyses on English lexicon usage during the pandemic highlight the frequent use of words which were infrequent before the ... -
Prevalence of Home Accidents among Children Aged 1-4 and Its Association of Knowledge, Attitude and First Aid Practices of Mothers in Sri Lanka
(2021)Injuries are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality among children worldwide and in Sri Lanka. The objective of this study was to assess the prevalence of home accidents among children aged 1-4 years and its association ... -
Prevention of Cyber Bullying using Machine Learning Techniques
(2021)Cyber bullying has rapidly increased in the past few years with the growth of social media usage and the COVID-19 pandemic. This study uses a dataset of 65000 tweets , splitting them into training and testing sets. ... -
Puzzling out the Issue of Obesity under the Human Rights-Based Approach
(2021)The COVID-19 pandemic has been the most devastating health catastrophe that humanity has faced recently, and recent research from several nations have clearly shown obesity as a prevalent attribute among ... -
Relationship between Craniovertebral Angle with the Long-Term Usage of Electronic Devices among Undergraduates of General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University
(2021)Long term usage of electronic devices among undergraduates have become a growing problem all around the world. Prolong usage of these devices can result in malalignment of the normal posture. Forward head posture (FHP) ...