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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 ... -
Comparative Study of the Factors Associated With Wages and Wage Differentials of Graduate Employees Between Public and Private Sectors in Sri Lanka
(2021)The main objective of this study is to analyze the differences in earnings between the Public and Private sector graduate employees in Sri Lanka using a sample of 1,421 graduate employees derived from the secondary data ... -
Assessment of Groundwater Quality Using Multivariate Statistical Analysis in the Medawachchiya Area and the Huruluwewwa Areas in Anuradhapura District
(2021)Water is a scarce commodity in North Central Province (NCP) of Sri Lanka and people use groundwater for consumptive purposes. 85% of the rural population in the NCP obtains water from shallow and deep wells. However, human ... -
Redefining the Role of Airpower for Nation Building in Peacetime
(2021)Airpower is offensive by nature. In the post conflict situation after the defeat of brutal terrorism in 2009, airpower was performing its traditional role of preserving the peace for almost a decade. However, economy and ... -
An Analysis of Causes of Coastal Erosion in Calido Beach, Kalutara, West Coast of Sri Lanka
(2021)The coastal zone is key to sustainable development of a country. However, coastal erosion has been identified as a major natural hazard in the world for a long time. Coastal erosion is mainly affected to damage or destroy ... -
Caging Chat Room Predators: the Legislative Address of ‘online Child Grooming’, a Comparative Analysis of Sri Lanka and the United Kingdom
(2021)The most vulnerable sector of people are the minors, and that is a statement which can be pronounced with great confidence. Hence the duty of society to safeguard the offspring of its future cannot be renounced. With the ... -
Flood Hazard Assessment Using Gis-based Multicriteria Analysis: a Case Study From Downstream of Kelani River Basin, Sri Lanka
(2021)Increasing the occurrence of extreme rainfalls due to climate change has become a common feature of the climate in Sri Lanka during the past decades. According to the study on national climate change adaptation strategy ... -
Identification Parades: the Evidentiary Value & the Credibility of the Witness in Identifying Suspects for Criminal Investigations in Sri Lanka
(2021)The term Identification does not only refer to Fingerprint Identification but also to voice identification, footprint identification and identification parades (Rajamanickam and Kung, 2017). However, the present paper ... -
Identification Parades: an Interrogation of Identity and History in the Postcolonial Novels Ice Candy Man by Bapsi Sidhwa and Anil’s Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
(2021)Postcolonial literature becomes a source through which dominant ideologies can be challenged and deconstructed. It is a potential site of resistance that reveals the way in which imperialist power structures strive to ... -
Analysis of Land Surface Temperature Variability Over the Industrial Zone During the Lockdown Period of Covid-19 Pandemics by Using Satellite Remote Sensing and GIS
(2021)Rapid industrialization one of the concerns that lead to climate change in the current world. With the advancement of industrialization declining vegetation cover inversely proportional to the raise of built-up areas. ... -
Fall of the Water Falls: a Legal Analysis on Impacts of Mini-hydro Power Projects on Natural Springs in Sri Lanka
(2021)Mini-hydro power plants are becoming a popular method of generating power using natural streams and waterfalls. Mini-hydro power plants are targeting the areas which are high in ecological sensitivity and biodiversity. Sri ... -
Time Scale Variation of Some Selected General Water Quality Parameters of Batticaloa Lagoon, Sri Lanka
(2021)The present study was conducted to find out the time scale variation of some water quality parameters of the Batticaloa Lagoon in Sri Lanka from January 2019 to April 2019. Ten sampling locations in the middle part of the ... -
Investigating the Possibility of Mixing Food and Yard Waste for an Effective Compost Product at an Existing Pilot-scale Composting Plant
(2018)Composting is a natural biological process that reduces the waste stream into a product that can be used as a conditioner. The existing Pilot-Scale composting plant at General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University (KDU) ...