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Job Satisfaction of Sewing Machine Operators in Sri Lanka: a Case Study
(2016-09)Apparel industry is one of the largest foreign exchange earners of Sri Lanka. Sewing Machine Operators (SMOs) can be considered as the key personnel in the apparel industry. One of the major challenges faced by the ... -
Promoting Peer Interaction in Preschool Children Through Play
(2016-09)According to Vygotsky's theory children develop in social matrix that is formed by their relationships and their interactions with other children. Peer interactions are important in preschool years because they lead ... -
The Impact of Human Capital on Employee Productivity of Medium Scale Apparel Industry in Sri Lanka
(2016-09)Human capital refers to the stock of knowledge, habits, social and personality attributes including creativity, embodied in the ability to perform labour so as to produce economic value. Further, several studies have ... -
Application of Queuing Theory to Enhance the Operational Efficiency of the Bank
(2016-09)This study is to ascertain the contributions and applications of queuing theory in the field of Banking queue management problems. This review proposes a system of classification of queues in the Banking sectors. The ... -
The Study of Investing in SMEs by Women in Sri Lanka
(2016-09)In Sri Lanka, many women are running successful small businesses and some of them are very successful with entrepreneurial skills. Now they have a chance to participate in a cash economy being able to send children ... -
Determinants of Life Satisfaction of Women:reference to Balangoda Divisional Secretariat Division
(2016-09)In this era, since the role of women has expanded throughout the past, every country in the world demonstrates a greater interest to discover the social and economic position of women. Though much progress has been ... -
What Matters Between the Boardroom Communication and Corporate Performance: Examining the Roles of CEO's Power and Board Monitoring
(2016-09)This paper examines the moderating effects of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) leadership and board monitoring on the relationship between board activities and firm performance. Results based on a sample collected from ... -
The Post Deployment Reintegration and mental health issues of the Sri Lankan army soldiers; a situational analysis in the post conflict context of Sri Lanka.
(2017)This study examines the phenomenon of mental health status of the Sri Lankan Army Soldiers in the Post Deployment Reintegration stage and how their mental health status affects the self-development, professional life, fa ... -
Big Data and Predictive Analytics: Time Series Forecasting for Improved Decision Making in Business Applications
(2017)Predictive analytics is a significant aspect of big data analysis where large data sets are analyzed in order to give future predictions. Reliability and accuracy of the information generated through the use of predictive ... -
Internally Generated Revenue and School Plant Maintenance in Kwara State Pubic Secondary Schools, Nigeria
(2017)This study investigated the internally generated revenue and school plant maintenance in Kwara State public secondary schools, Nigeria. The research adopted descriptive research design of survey type. The population of the ... -
Derivatives: Are They Weapons of Mass Destruction?
(2017)The growth of the amount of financial derivatives during the last fifteen years has been phenomenal. With the total notional amounts outstanding on over-the-counter derivative contracts amounting to around nine times global ... -
Perceived Level of Clinical Competency Among Graduate Nursing Students in Eastern University, Sri Lanka: A Comparative Study Between Male and Female Students
(2017)Background: The contemporary health professional education greatly emphasizes on competency based education. Clinical skill is an essential competency of Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Nursing programme. Clinical competencies ... -
Exploratory Survey of Human Factors on Offshore Patrol Vessels
(2017)Spending up to six months or more aboard a ship, occasionally subject to harsh weather, the life of a seafarer is heavily dependent on the design of the ship. A good ship design, thus, has to take account of socio-technical ... -
Knowledge and Attitudes Among Sri Lankan Pre-intern Doctors on Nutritional Assessment and Counseling
(2017)Nutritional assessment and counselling are core clinical skills of a doctor. Our objective was to describe the knowledge and attitudes on nutritional assessment and counselling among pre-intern doctors of Sri Lanka. A ... -
Primary School Teachers’ Knowledge of Learning Disabilities in Ilorin-West Local Government, Kwara State
(2017)This study examined the primary school teachers’ knowledge of learning disabilities in Ilorin West Local Government, Kwara State. The study was a descriptive design of survey, and a sample of 150 primary school teachers ... -
Experience as a Factor Influencing Upper Basic School Teachers’ Perception of Social Studies Orientations in South-West, Nigeria
(2017)This study investigated the Upper Basic School Teachers’ perception of three social studies orientations in South –West of Nigeria. Survey type of research design using questionnaire was adopted for the study. The population ... -
Removal of Microcystin-Lr using Cellular Extracts of Bacillus Cereus
(2017)Microcystin –LR (MC-LR) is considered to be the most dominant type of cyanobacterial toxins present in water bodies. The present study focuses on using cellular extracts of Bacillus cereus in removal of MC-LR in water. ... -
Recent Changes in Population and its Impact on Usage of Drinking Water Sources in Households: A Case Study of Kalutara District, Sri Lanka
(2017)The major problem that arises with the rapid growth of population is whether it is possible to fulfil basic requirements of human beings such as food, water, shelter and air (De Silva, 2007). Especially, drinking water is ... -
A Study on the Factors Influencing the Use of E-commerce by Customers in Colombo With Respect to B2C Market
(2017-06)This study explores the factors influencing the use of e-commerce by the customers in Colombo district with regard to the B2C market. The conceptual framework was designed based on the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) and ... -
The Contact Between Sinhala and English Orthography in Online Text Messages
(2017-06)At present, using English characters to represent Sinhala words appears to be a common feature in online texting among Sinhala-English bilinguals. This study examines the contact between Sinhala and English orthography in ...