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  • Population and provisioning of civic amenities in urban local bodies of West Bengal, India 
    Kanjilal, M. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    In the face of increasing urban population ULBs are facing the challenge to provide necessary civic amenities to them. In this paper our objective is to examine the relationship between municipal population and municipal ...
  • Negative Environmental Impacts of Beach Tourism: With special reference to Unawatuna coastal area 
    Rathnayake, S. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Beach tourism is one of the main environmental based tourism product since tourism started as an industry in Sri Lanka. There is a non-breakable bond between environment and tourism. Therefore it is important to identify ...
  • A Historical Study of the Sri Lankan Economy During the Colonial Era 
    Ranasignhe, S. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    The purpose of this study is to examine the exact nature of the economic forces that have been developing and affecting the country’s economy during the colonial era. In a study like this, it is important to pay attention ...
  • Effectiveness of Service Delivery Systems of Local Government Authorities to Enhance the Growth Potentials of Regional Businesses 
    Dissanayake, D.M.R.; Norsanina, H. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    This paper reveals how the service quality-related improvements could enhance the productivity of local authorities as an alternative mechanism to motivate regional investors to broaden business growth opportunities. ...
  • Impact of Transnational Politics of the Tamil Diaspora on the Peace Building Process in Sri Lanka 
    Rathnayake, R.M.S.S. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    In today’s globalized world, a diaspora, a community of people living outside of their motherland, has become a salient actor or a force determining the internal as well as external policies of the home country through its ...
  • A case study of the Kithulgala adventure base camp whitewater rafting: standards and risk management 
    Dissanayake, A.; VArachchige, O.; Ramanaka, A.R.N.D.; Dissanayake, N.B.; Dissanayake, N.B.; Kumari, H.V.M.; Pitigala, P.K.G.C. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Risk is an inherent part of adventure recreation and is often a main reason for participation in activities such as whitewater rafting. The particular study titled “The kithulgala adventure base camp whitewater rafting: ...
  • Community Participation for Disaster Risk Reduction 
    Hemathilaka, J. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Floods and landslides caused by torrential rains in Sri Lanka in May 2016 have left 71 people dead, 127 missing, and over 319,000 displaced from homes while over a 427,000 people are affected by the adverse weather. This ...
  • Impact of Chinese soft power strategies in determining the triangular relationship among China, India and Sri Lanka 
    Gunasena, J.T. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    The Chinese soft power usage in South Asia has strategic influence over the triangular relationship among China, India and Sri Lanka. India’s nostalgia for its dominance over the South Asian region in the past is still ...
  • The Comparative Study of the Influences of International labour Migration in Sri Lanka 
    Amaratunga, G.; Wickramarachchi, W. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    The purpose of this paper is to discuss the influences caused by the International labour migration imposed on the institution of the family. After introducing the open economy in 1977 in Sri Lanka a large number consisting ...
  • Global Justice: A Conceptual Framework 
    Kothari, R.K. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Global justice has entered the mainframe of global intellectual discourse. In fact, the intellectual stage for theories of imperialist exploitation was set forth early in the twentieth century by Rosa Luxemburg and Lenin. ...
  • Teaching Research- project-based teaching as ‘win-win’ 
    Hoppe, A. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Being part of a project encourages students to be interested and engaged. Can teaching aiming on projects linked to research at universities be catalysing? In the last years, it has become more important to enhance ...
  • Learning Disabilities Affected Among the Primary School Children 
    Jayawarna, A.; Thabrew, C.; Madushani, N. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    The aim of this study was to investigate the learning disabilities of primary school children. The study sample consisted of 10 teachers and 50 primary school children from five governmental schools at Western Province. ...
  • A study on the psychological roots in Early Buddhist psychology with reference to the abnormal behaviors of modern society 
    Wijayawialma, S. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Buddhism in its efforts to analyse the worldly phenomenon have worked on the issues of mind both from the philosophical and ethical point of view. In line of its acceptance of mind –body relationship, Early Buddhism has ...
  • Impact of “People Factor” in Sri Lankan ERP implementations 
    Rajakaruna, R.J.P.K.; Herath, H.M.P.S. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    An enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is a configurable information system that integrates information and information-based processes within and across functional areas in an organization (Kumar et ...
  • Influence of corporate social responsibility on firms’ profitability: evidence from banking sector in Sri Lanka 
    Harshana, S.D.; Kumara, I.M.N.S.; Dissanayake, B.M.N.B. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    According to one of the most frequently cited definitions, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a concept whereby companies integrate social and environmental concerns in their business operations and in their interaction ...
  • The Social Trends of the Crimes Ending with the Capital Punishment (A Research carried out among the condemned prisoners of the Welikada prison – Sri Lanka) 
    Kumara, W. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Although the capital punishment is given by the judiciary in exceptional cases and most cases not implemented in Sri Lanka, the restraint that it is expected to wor on eole does not deter them from committing serious crime. ...
  • A Study on the use of Digital Libraries for Searching Academic Information, by Lectures and Students of Sri Lankan Universities 
    Somananda, B. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    The main purpose of this research is to find out the problems and issues that university lecturers and undergraduates face when they are searching information by using digital libraries. All the lecturers & undergraduates ...
  • Strategies of Reconciliation through Education and Research 
    Vitharana, S.; Sumedha, K.; Jayaweera, S.; Manuratne, P. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Postwar Sri Lanka has explored several modes and models of reconciliation as part of its effort to address the deep ethnic divide that still affects the country. Ultra-nationalist groups continue to create discourses and ...
  • Prevalence and risk factors of overweight and obesity among adults in urban areas in Batticaloa district 
    Laavanya, M.; Sadeera, S.D.H.; Premachandra, W.M.C.M.; Priyangani, T.R.A.; Dahanaka, D.R.N.S.; Josepha, J.; Karthijekan, K.; Kartheepan, K. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    Obesity is a chronic condition and the prevalence of adult obesity is increasing rapidly worldwide due to environmental and behavioral changes such as urbanization and modernization. Data on prevalence and determinants of ...
  • A study based on Cane Indusrial Indigenous Knowledge: special reference in Wewaldeniya village 
    Jayawardana, M.C.N. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)
    In Sri Lankan indigenous knowledge is acutely vivid and productive. Much of this knowledge existing orally since ancient times. Hence there is no preservation system to protect cane industrial knowledge in Wewaldeniya ...

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