Recently added

User satisfaction of library service quality amongst students and staff of the Buddhist and Pali University of Sri Lanka

Samarakoon, M. (University of Kelaniya, 2011)

The academic library has been described as the “heart” of the learning community as it provides a place for the students and university staff to do their research and advance their knowledge. The librarians and library ...

Chinese resurgence in world politics and its implications on South Asian region with special reference to Sino-Sri Lanka relations since the year 2000

Samarakoon, A.K. (University of Kelaniya, 2011)

This paper explores China‟s external policy toward South Asia and its implications on the regional affairs using Sino-Sri Lanka relations as a case study. During the last two decades there has been a power transition in ...

Integration of technology with face to face mode of ESL learning

Ravindran, S. (University of Kelaniya, 2011)

Technology plays an important role in education. The national and state standards require teachers to integrate technology into their teaching. But in countries such as Sri Lanka the face to face ESL programs still lack ...

Group dynamics as stimuli to motivate and sustain the autonomy of the learners in English: An experimental design of an ELT module to challenge the challenges: motivation, learner autonomy, and their sustenance

Rathnayake, W.M.P.Y.B. (University of Kelaniya, 2011)

This study endeavours to investigate the precision and potential of group dynamics to motivate and to establish learner autonomy in adult L2 learners, undertaken in 2010 among 491 undergraduate students of the Faculty of ...

Analysis of common English errors found in the writing of the first year students at Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology

Rathnasena, U.; Senevirathne, C. (University of Kelaniya, 2011)

Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology is a degree awarding institute. The majority of the first year undergraduates are Sinhalese, reading for degrees in Information Technology/Information Systems and Business ...

A study of trends of eco-tourism in Sri Lanka: In association with Kanneliya & Sinharaja tourism centers

Rathnasekara, S.R.L.S.; Senarathna, S.P.D.R. (University of Kelaniya, 2011)

Eco-Tourism is defined as protecting the environment with a view to relishing its elegance and enjoying the environment. Sri Lanka is highly enriched with various locations of environmental diversities suitable for eco-tourism ...

Comparative study on availability of digital libraries in universities and special libraries in Sri Lanka

Rathnabahu, N.; Hettiarachchi, N. (University of Kelaniya, 2011)

The three main objectives of this research are: 1) Availability of digital library in universities and special libraries in Sri Lanka, 2) Difficulties encountered in the initial phase, 3). Suggestions to surmount those ...

Early public libraries in Sri Lanka during the British period

Ranaweera, R.A.A.S. (University of Kelaniya, 2011)

Although Sri Lanka has a tradition of libraries from ancient times, with temple libraries, during the Anuradhapura period to the Kotte period, the modern development of the public library system in Sri Lanka started with ...

A critical reading of the novel, Mama Raththriya Wemi (I am the night): A blend of Tolstoyan and Dosteovskian identities of the novel

Ranasinha, C. (University of Kelaniya, 2011)

The novel as a literacy genre mainly splits its identity into two, namely Tolstoyan and Dosteovskian identities. Tolstoyan identity refers to story–telling, explicating of incidents, events, setting, etc. with rich textual ...

Use of Internet for academic purposes by university teachers: A study as per University of Kelaniya

Ranasinghe, W.M.T.D. (University of Kelaniya, 2011)

The Internet plays a vital role in the teaching, research and learning process in the present day academic environment. Various Internet services such as e-mail, World Wide Web, online journals and databases have added ...

Application of Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) in prequalifying contractors in decision making

Ranasinghe, G.; Warusavitharana, E. (University of Kelaniya, 2011)

Planners and project managers are decision makers who carry out planning, developing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating the project in a systematic way. These decision makers will face multi faceted problems in ...

Incidence of pyramidalis muscle

Rajawasam, P.P.; Prabodha, L.B.L.; Gamage, U.; Nanayakkara, B.G.; Ilayperuma, I.; Hasan, R. (University of Kelaniya, 2011)

Pyramidalis is a triangular muscle that lies in front of the lower part of rectus abdominis muscle within the rectus sheath. This muscle is known to vary considerably in size and present either unilaterally or bilaterally. ...

Tamlish in popular tamil media

Rajaratnam, K. (University of Kelaniya, 2011)

In the last few decades Tamlish -switching of code from Tamil to English- has been becoming an attractive phenomenon among the Tamil native speakers of Sri Lanka. Code mixing takes place especially among the younger ...

Bioactivities of ethyl acetate extracts isolated from endolichenic fungi Daldinia eschscholzii and Nigrospora sphaerica

Rajapaksha, R.S.C.G.; Paranagama, P.A.; Kannangara, B.T.S.D.P. (University of Kelaniya, 2011)

Although numerous bioactive natural products occur in endolichenic fungi, only a limited number of secondary metabolites with a variety of bio-activities have been isolated during the past few years. The objective of this ...

A study on the use of internet by academic staff of the Uva Wellassa University

Rajapaksha, M.P. (University of Kelaniya, 2011)

The progressive increase in the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in education has drastically changed the teaching/learning process. A great deal of research has proven its benefits in educational ...

Integer roots of two polynomial equations and a simple proof of Fermat‟s last theorem

Piyadasa, R.A.D.; Perera, B.B.U.P. (University of Kelaniya, 2011)

Fermat‟s last theorem (FLT),possibly written in 1637,despite its rather simple statement, is very difficult to prove for general exponent n [1]. In fact, formal complete proof of FLT remained illusive until 1995 when ...

Gender equality and the role of female journalists in Sri Lanka

Priyadarshani, S.H.S. (University of Kelaniya, 2011)

Though traditionally journalism was a “male field," today, most of the professional journalists are women. Irrespective of this quantitative increase, still an equal representation of female values and ideas in the media ...

Genetic algorithm approach for sinhala speech recognition

Priyadarshani, P.G.N.; Dias, N.G.J. (University of Kelaniya, 2011)

Speech recognition is the ability to understand the spoken words and convert them into text. Nowadays there is a considerable tendency of developing ASR systems which are capable of tracking the human speech done in local ...

Transformation in teaching: A comparative analysis of online and face-to-face teaching

Premarathne, K.; Gamage, S. (University of Kelaniya, 2011)

This study is an attempt to investigate whether the transformation of a face to face classroom into an online (virtual) classroom brings better learning outcomes. Greenberg (1998)* defines contemporary distance learning ...

Valuation of options in Black-Scholes Model using finite difference methods

Premarathna, L.P.N.D.; Karunathilaka, N.G.A. (University of Kelaniya, 2011)

A benchmark mathematical model for the description of financial derivatives was introduced by Fischer Black and Myron Scholes in (1973, [1]) and equation was simplified further by introducing (Brennan and Swartz, 1978, ...

Recently added

ARS - 2011: Recent submissions

Search Digital Repository

Browse

All of DSpace

This Collection

My Account