2014 IRC Articles: Recent submissions
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Perceived Stress and Associated Factors among BSc Nursing Undergraduates in University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka
(2014)Nursing education has shifted to the conventional universities in Sri Lanka during the past two decades. Since there is a significant difference between school education and university education, new nurse undergraduate ... -
Promoting Entrepreneurship and Protecting Copyright of Authors: Revisiting to the Traditional Meanings of Originality and Authorship of Copyright Law
(2014)In this paper, it is argued that even today's changing face of objectives of copyright protection and its underlying rationale have a direct bearing on some issues of copyright law. For example, from the very inception of ... -
Threats to On-line Privacy
(2014)The further development of the World Wide Web is threatened by the lack of online privacy and efforts to destroy net neutrality, says the father of the Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee. He believed the world had to think about ... -
Cultural Sensitivity and the Negative Impacts of Non-Education of Sexuality among Teenagers in Sri Lanka
(2014)This paper intends to discuss on the problem that whether being extremely culturally sensitive have barred elders from educating on sex to the children and whether having a proper knowledge on sexuality at the proper age ... -
The Substantial Requisite of Stabilizing Rights for Academic Works; Intellectual Property Law Reflections
(2014)Intellectual Property (IP) rights are recognized as a regime which had been established by law to safeguard the creativity of mankind, in the atmosphere of fast moving global economy. In the present context, all most all ... -
Need or Greed? An Analysis of White Collar Crime in the Sri Lankan Context
(2014)White Collar Crimes are a significant type of criminal behaviour which renders the traditional notions of criminal justice inadequate to define the causes of this crime. This paper seeks to analyse the areas in which the ... -
Assessment of Evidence Based Practice (EBP) among graduate Radiographers
(2014)Evidence-based practice (EBP) offers the integration of the best research evidence with clinical knowledge and expertise and patient values. EBP is considered to be an essential component of clinical service delivery in ... -
The Crisis of Low Conviction rate in Sri Lankan Criminal Justice System, A Critical Analysis of the Root-causes
(2014)The function of the "Criminal Justice System" is to deliver justice for all, by prosecuting suspects before the competent courts based on evidence and convicting them if they proved to be guilty while protecting the innocent. ... -
The Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) Concept and the Sri Lankan University System: The Way Forward
(2014)Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is a concept which presents a new vision for education for the achievement of development that includes economic growth, social development and environmental protection, with ... -
Protection of the Rights of Sri Lankan Migrant Women Workers: Critical Analysis of the Domestic and International Legal Regime.
(2014)Sri Lanka is a third world country in which foreign employment plays a major role in directing foreign currency towards the country. The rate of migrant women workers in Sri Lanka is very high and they are highly vulnerable ... -
Right to intervene or not to be intervened:The Impact of International Humanitarian Interventions on State Sovereignty from an International Law Perspective
(2014)Despite the clear ban stipulated in the United Nations Charter on the use of force against territorial integrity and political independence against sovereign states international interventions based on humanitarian purposes ... -
Testicular Radiation Dose during KUB Radiography
(2014)Radiographic imaging plays a major role in diagnosing various kinds of diseases and in detecting unknown medical conditions. Ionizing radiation can cause tissue changes starting from cellular level. Genital organs are ... -
Health Care Seeking Behaviours among Students of University of Sri Jayewardenepura
(2014)Identifying common health care services used by the students and factors affecting health care seeking behaviours will be of benefit to improve the university health care system. This study focused on describing the health ... -
Awareness, Associated Factors, Practices and Myths Regarding Acne among the Students of University of Sri Jayewardenepura
(2014)Background- Acne is one of the most common multifactorial skin conditions beginning in adolescence and often resolving spontaneously but remains as a significant problem in discuss within the society. Methodology - This ... -
Knowledge and Attitudes on Food and Drug Allergies among Hospitalized Adult Patients in Teaching Hospital Karapitiya
(2014)Prevalence of drug and food allergies is increasing and no known cure, so community awareness of signs, symptoms and treatments of allergic reactions is vital. General public has to play a big role in taking care of children ... -
Protection of the Female Domestic Migrant Workers: Role of the Law
(2014)Female Population as a percentage of the total in Sri Lanka was last reported at 50.66 in 2011.With the introduction of the open economy concept to the country in 1977, new means of earning were integrated into the ... -
The Possibility of Adopting the Proportionality Test as a Balancing Tool between Development Needs and Individual Rights: A Critical Review in respect of Recent Development Projects in Sri Lanka
(2014)In 2014, Sri Lanka has closely marked five years since the conclusion of the armed conflict. During the same period, considerable economic and social progress was hindered because Sri Lanka is assertively reshaping its ... -
A Meta-Analysis on Public Sector E-Health Practices to Suggest Emerging Areas of E-Health Services Within Sri Lanka
(2014)E-Health is directly intertwined with Information Technology. It is a key e-Governance domain which has a high tendency of growing rapidly to serve the society's health needs. In general, it is obvious that e-Health concept ... -
Enhancement of Hardness of Aluminum 6063-T6 alloy by Applying Two Step Age Hardening Process
(2014)Aluminum 6063 T6 is an alloy that is mainly used for structural applications such as window and door frames, partitioning, L bars, U bars, and ladders. It contains magnesium (0.45-0.9%) and silicon (0.2-0.6%) as the main ... -
Interaction of EM Radiation Emitted From Mobile Phones and the Human Brain Tissues
(2014)In this paper, we describe the interaction of electromagnetic waves with human brain. In particular, power dissipation mainly in human brain parts such as white matter, Gray matter, Cerebellum, muzzles, Skin eyes and bones ...