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  • Assessment of Awareness and Socio – Economic Status on Edible Oil Consumption among Housewives in Dehiwala Divisional Secretariat Area 
    Manori, H.A.C.; Jayasekara, K.G.T. (International Postgraduate Research Conference 2019, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019)
    Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) prevail in the present-day society due to unhealthy food habits and inactive lifestyle of the people. Excessive consumption of edible oil is a cause for obesity which is a contributory ...
  • Assessment of Possible Risk Factors Affecting Transmission of Dengue in the District of Gampaha Based on Reported Dengue Cases 
    Perera, E.H.L.; Viswakula, S.; Gunawardene, Y.I.N.S.; Subasinghe, U.; Hapugoda, M.D. (International Postgraduate Research Conference 2019, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019)
    Dengue is a fast spreading arboviral infection transmitted by the bite of infected females of Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus) and Ae. albopictus (Skuse). According to the Epidemiology Unit, the second highest number of dengue ...
  • Assessment of Proximate and Mineral Element Content of Crude Methanolic Extract of Clausena indica (Dals) Oliver Leaves in Sri Lanka 
    Abeysinghe, D.T; Kumara, K.A.H.; Alwis, D.D.D.H.; Chandrika, U.G. (International Postgraduate Research Conference 2019, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019)
    Clausena indica (Dals.) Oliver commonly known as “mee-gon-karapincha” plant in Sinhala, belongs to family Rutaceae. In comparison to the other members of Rutaceae family in Sri Lanka, C. indica is a less common plant which ...
  • Assessment of Real Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Assay for the Early Diagnosis of Leptospirosis in Humans 
    Uduwawala, U.M.H.U.; Manamperi, A.; Gunaratna, G.P.S.; Karunanayake, L.; Chandani, W.L.; Hapugoda, M. (International Postgraduate Research Conference 2019, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019)
    Leptospirosis is the most widespread zoonotic disease worldwide having a great impact on health issues in developing countries. It is caused by a pathogenic spirochete of the genus Leptospira where humans become infected ...
  • Assessment of the Heavy Metals in Rice Grains Grown in Paddy Soil in CKDu Endemic Area in Eppawala, Anuradhapura 
    Perera, W.P.R.T.; Dissanayake, D.M.U.C.; Kannangara, A.T.; Liyanage, J.A. (International Postgraduate Research Conference 2019, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019)
    Global public health attention is being focused on Chronic kidney disease due to significant prevalence and the enormous cost of the treatment process. It was revealed that longterm consumption of bioavailable metals in ...
  • Attitude of Officer Cadets at SLMA towards English Language Acquisition 
    Bandara, N.G.J.P. (International Postgraduate Research Conference 2019, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019)
    Second Language Acquisition (SLA) of the trainee Officer Cadets at Sri Lanka Military Academy (SLMA) has become rather a challenging task as they are expected to involve in language learning process while undergoing their ...
  • Awareness of Rickettsial Infections (Typhus Fever) in a High Endemic Community in Hambantota District, Sri Lanka 
    Ashani, M.L.S.; Chandrasena, T.G.A.N.; Gunathilaka, P.A.G.N.; Premaratna, B.A.H.R. (International Postgraduate Research Conference 2019, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019)
    Rickettsial infections are re-emerging in Sri Lanka with an average annual incidence of 1500 patients. Low awareness and the scarcity of proper diagnostic tools has resulted in delayed disease diagnosis and negligence ...
  • Bacterial Diversity in the Midgut of Field Caught Culex tritaeniorhynchus 
    Ranasinghe, H.A.K.; Gunathilaka, P.A.D.H.N.; Amarasinghe, L.D.; Rodrigo, W.W.P. (International Postgraduate Research Conference 2019, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019)
    Ingestion of blood meal by female mosquitoes triggers a series of physiological processes in midgut where symbiotic microbes also exist. These symbiotic microbes can be engineered to produce molecules that inhibit pathogens; ...
  • The Bacteriological Profile of Ear Infections: An Analysis from a Secondary Health Care Center of Sri Lanka 
    Wijesooriya, L.I.; Jayawardana, G.P.C.; de Silva, S.H.N.A.; Karunasekara, H.C.I. (International Postgraduate Research Conference 2019, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019)
    Introduction: Bacteria responsible for ear infections are diverse. Therefore, the treatment of such infections needs to be guided by the antibiotic sensitivity data. To prevent shift into the chronic form which leads the ...
  • A Behavioural Model to Assess the Risk Perception and Behaviour of Individuals in Investment Decisions 
    Mendis, M.N.M.Y.; Peter, S.; Niwunhella, H. (International Postgraduate Research Conference 2019, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019)
    Risk behaviour is the controlled conduct of people in contexts with uncertainty, where there is a possibility of the outcome received deviating from the outcome expected. As any kind of investment bears a certain proportion ...
  • Buddhist Philosophy for Business Management 
    Dissanayake, D. (International Postgraduate Research Conference 2019, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019)
    In 2500 years ago Buddhism was founded by Siddhārtha Gautama in India and concentrates on the essentials of spiritual development of humans and deep insight to enhance the ethics and moral for better life. According to the ...
  • Business Failure of Small and Medium Enterprises - A Review 
    Jayasekara, B.E.A.; Fernando, P.N.D.; Ranjani, R.P.C. (International Postgraduate Research Conference 2019, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019)
    Small and Medium enterprises are back born of developed and developing economies around the world. However the sector has not provided desired level of contribution and suffers from high failure rate in worldwide. The main ...
  • Calcium ion Adsorption Capacities of Potential Water Purifying Materials- Red Brick and Biochar of Glyricidia (Glyricidia sepium), Gadumba (Trema orientalis), Ipil Ipil (Leucaena leucocephala) 
    Malka, U.K.M.; Suriyaarachchi, S.A.A.K.; S.A.A.K., D.S.M.; De Silva, R.C.L. (International Postgraduate Research Conference 2019, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019)
    This is a preliminary study on several locally available potential water purifying materials for their Ca2+ adsorption capacity. According to literature, researchers have found a number of locally available clay and biochar ...
  • Code Vulnerability Identification and Code Improvement Methods using Advanced Machine Learning 
    Ruggahakotuwa, L.O.; Liyanage, S.R. (International Postgraduate Research Conference 2019, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019)
    Dealing with cyber-attacks has become a routine task of modern information systems. The misconfigurations of source code can result in security vulnerabilities that potentially encourage attackers to exploit them and ...
  • Comparative study on Proximate and Mineral composition in Vernonia cinerea 
    Weerasinghe, P.; Abeysinghe, T.; Paranagama, P.A. (International Postgraduate Research Conference 2019, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019)
    Vernonia cinerea is a herb having several medicinal properties such as antidiabetic, antioxidant, antimicrobial, antiinflammatory and anticarcenogenic. This work investigated the proximate and mineral composition in different ...
  • A Comparative Study on Technical Translation Output and Literary Translation Output of Google Translate 
    Athapattu, S. (International Postgraduate Research Conference 2019, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019)
    Machine Translation, with the advance of technology and the growing need for translation, has become very popular all over the world. Google Translate (GT) is an online neural machine translation service, which supports ...
  • Computational Investigation of Antioxidant Activity of Dietary Vitamins; DFT Study 
    Jayawardana, S.B.; Pandithavidana, D.R. (International Postgraduate Research Conference 2019, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019)
    Among numerous types of antioxidant compounds, dietary vitamins form an important class of chain-breaking compounds which have a potential to quench reactive radical intermediates produced during the oxidative processes ...
  • The Conceptive of Risk of Outdoor Adventure Activities Influence on an Individual’s Self-Confidence 
    Abeykoon, A.M.S.J.P.; Rajapaksha, R.P.D.D. (International Postgraduate Research Conference 2019, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019)
    The risk when engaging with adventure activities could affect differently on the physical and mental wellbeing of a person. There are two types of adventure ‘soft adventure and hard adventure (Hudson, 2003) so it includes ...
  • Contemporary Situation of Film Marketing Practice in Sri Lanka 
    Ruwanpathirana, I. (International Postgraduate Research Conference 2019, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019)
    Film is an art form which is basically to entertain people through visual storytelling. On the other hand it’s a business which has been a huge revenue driver in the entertainment industry. However, not all films succeed ...
  • Culture-Dependent Characterization of Marine Bacteria from Ussangoda Coast, Sri Lanka 
    Hettiarachchi, H.H.; Wanigatunge, R.P.; Magana-Arachchi, D.N. (International Postgraduate Research Conference 2019, Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2019)
    Marine bacteria play a vital role in marine ecosystem structure and ocean biogeochemistry. Ussangoda has identified as a serpentinite site, situated along the Southern coastal zone of Sri Lanka. In the past, few studies ...

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