Browsing ARS - 2006 by Title

Achieving Millennium Development Goals and statistical barriers in Sri Lanka

Yatigammana, M.R.K.N. (University of Kelaniya, 2006)

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are now being a popular topic which gathered every nation towards a common set of goals. MDGs have been declared by UN as a benchmark and with a view to establish peace, security, ...

Adopting e-commerce based technologies in SMEs of developing countries

Wickramarachchi, R.; Pathirana, B.S.V. (University of Kelaniya, 2006)

Adopting e-commerce technologies would promise several benefits to small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs) such as, access to wider range of markets, greater potential for partnerships and low cost etc. Also the ...

Anomalous Absorption of Deuteron Partial Waves by Nuclear Optical Potential

Piyadasa, R.A.D.; Kawai, M.; Munasinghe, J. (University of Kelaniya, 2006)

M.Kawai and Y. Iseri (2), (3) found an interesting phenomenon in nuclear physics, motivated by the work of (1), in case of nucleon-nucleus elastic scattering. In the following this phenomenon is discussed in case of ...

Ants as Biological Indicators of Human Disturbance – evidence from Sinharaja forest and tea and rubber fields in Ratnapura district

Dias, R.K.S.; Perera, K.A.M. (University of Kelaniya, 2006)

Ants are a major group of insects in the forests as well as in agricultural fields in Sri Lanka. If the presence or absence of some ant taxa in disturbed areas differs from that of a forest reserve was investigated by ...

Archaeological Heritage in Biyagama Division

Gunawardhana, P.; Namalgamuwa, H.; Bandara, N.; Wijesuriya, D.; Saldin, M.; Mahoney, T. (University of Kelaniya, 2006)

Archaeological heritage of the Kelaniya region goes back to the Proto-historic times. The transitional phase from the Mesolithic culture of the Pre-historic period to the Protohistoric or Early Iron Age is revealed in ...

Association between changes of lumbar spine and age, physical activity and body mass index in a sample of Sri Lankan population: A descriptive study

Karunanayake, A.L.; Pathmeswaran, A. (University of Kelaniya, 2006)

Introduction: Disc space narrowing, vertebral osteophytes, spondylolisthesis are features of degeneration of the spine and are recognized causes of low back pain and sciatica. However on some occasions they can be present ...

Avoidance of errors as a strategy to create speech in the class room

Suwandarathna, D. (University of Kelaniya, 2006)

A Comparative Study on Leadership and Collaborative Role of National Libraries, with Special reference to the National Library of Sri Lanka and the National Libraries of Europe

Weerasinghe, M.K. (University of Kelaniya, 2006)

The library is a social institution as it is essentially responding to the total communication pattern of modern society. The renaissance and reformation in Europe witnessed the growth of various types of libraries such ...

Comparison of undergraduate student performance in Anatomy practical examination after studying prosected anatomy specimens and after doing anatomy dissections

Karunanayake, A.L.; Salgado, L.S.S.; Pathmeswaran, A. (University of Kelaniya, 2006)

Introduction: In the subject of Anatomy, students are expected to identify parts of the human body and their relationships to each other. This could be studied by dissecting human cadavers by students themselves according ...

Convergence of multivariate isotonic regression

Fernando, W.T.P.S.; Kulatunga, D.D.S. (University of Kelaniya, 2006)

Statistical inference in the presence of order restrictions is an important area of statistical analysis. Isotonic regression theory plays a key role in this field. Let K= {1,…,k} be a finite set on which a partial order ...

Creating Innovative Culture in Sri Lanka through ICT; Learning from Sirasa Super Star

Wickramasinghe, C.N. (University of Kelaniya, 2006)

Utilization ICT and Knowledge in economic applications are becoming the most important assets by outperforming traditional capital intensive, technology intensive or labor intensive comparative advantages of any country. ...

Design and Implementation of a Web-Based Faculty Information System

Kumara, K.H.; Munasinghe, L.; Jayasuriya, K.D.; Dias, N.G.J.; de Silva, C.H.; Kalingamudali, S.R.D. (University of Kelaniya, 2006)

Although Information Systems (IS) are valuable elements for organizations, the private and public sectors in Sri Lanka are reluctant to use IS for decision making, organizing and classifying data, processing transactions, ...

Developing SMEs in Sri Lanka through horizontal business linkages: Nature of existing business linkages among SMEs in Sri Lanka

Thrikawala, S.S. (University of Kelaniya, 2006)

In a developing country economic growth can be sustained by the expansion of private sector, as they are the engines of growth. Majority of Private sector in developing countries consists of Small and Medium Enterprises ...

Does the Colombo Stock Exchange Overreact?

Pathirawasam, C. (University of Kelaniya, 2006)

The efficient markets hypothesis has been the central theme in finance for nearly 35 years. Fama (1970) defined an efficient financial market as one in which security prices fully reflect the available information. However ...

Downward Transitional Areas of Rapidly Changing Regions: The Development of Backwardness in the Rural Peripheries of the Gampaha District a case study

Sakalasooriya, N. (University of Kelaniya, 2006)

Regional disparity of development has been the focus of many discussions on development issues in the developing world during the past four decades. The economic growth and modernization are skewed in favour of the ...

Effect of perceived risk and context on consumer inferencing about missing information

Weerasiri, R.A.S.; Dissanayake, D.M.R. (University of Kelaniya, 2006)

Consumers adopt different strategies for evaluation of a brand when information regarding an attribute is not available. One of those inferencing strategies is consumers’ inference or ‘Construct’ the values for missing ...

An Empirical Study on Day of the Week Effect; Evidence from Colombo Stock Exchange

Fernando, P.N.D.; Pathirawasam, C. (University of Kelaniya, 2006)

Seasonalities in security market returns have been extensively documented. Among the different seasonal effects observed in stock markets, an interesting one is the seasonality across days of the week. Fields (1991) ...

The establishment of National Sports Information Center in Sri Lanka: A feasibility study

Suraweera, S.A.D.H.N. (University of Kelaniya, 2006)

People in all the fields of study need information for their studies as well as for day-today activities. Libraries and information centers are required to provide information snob people. Information center is an office ...

An Evaluation on Post Tsunami Psychological Counseling Process in Kalutara District

Samaratunga, I.L.A. (University of Kelaniya, 2006)

The intention of this study is to evaluate post Tsunami Psychological Counseling Process in Kalutara District. Tsunami was the worst natural disaster in the history of Sri Lanka. Which caused more than 31000 deaths & ...

Fabrication of an electrodeposited p-n junction photoelectrode for solar energy applications

Jayathilaka, K.M.D.C.; Siripala, W.; Jayanetti, J.K.D.S. (University of Kelaniya, 2006)

Solar energy is a promising alternative energy source that can be used to replace the environmentally hazardous and expensive fossil fuel. Among the various solar energy converting devices solar cells are very important ...

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