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Improvement of the Existing Integrated Leachate Treatment System in Gohagoda Dumpsite in Kandy in Sri Lanka

Dissanayake, H.M.K.P.; Gunatilake, S.K.; Basnayake, B.F.A. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)

Kandy is the hill capital of Sri Lanka having nearly 1,375,382 populations. Generated solid waste within the Kandy city is disposed in the Gohagoda dumpsite since 1960. Leachate generating from dumpsite is polluted surrounding ...
Bio fertilizer: microbial inoculant from agricultural waste

Warnakulasooriya, W.M.S.; de Silva, D.A.M.; Yapa, P.I. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)

Due to long lasting exploitation and specially, chemical fertilizer that used to get more yield cause to destroy, all of the beneficial microbes from the soil in cultivated area .Therefore, we couldn’t able to take the ...
Market Landscape of Bio Fertilizer: Opportunities and Challenges

Kularathne, M.G.; de Silva, D.A.M.; Hettiarachchi, I.C. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)

Solid waste management strategies of the developed nations created economic, social and environmental benefits which Sri Lanka is far behind to reach. Our approach was to recognize the opportunities of municipal solid waste ...
Efficiency of biochar in immobilizing lead and cadmium in municipal solid waste compost: will the raw materials and the pyrolysis temperature have an impact on immobilization potential?

Kaushalya, P.M.K.T.; Yapa, P.I.; Weeraratne, W.M.J. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)

The recent upsurge of composting the degradable fractions of municipal solid waste ) MSW( in Sri Lanka has not been built on successful settings, mainly due to lack of technology and investment. There are a number of ...
Gender Based Violence in Post War Situation

Jayathilake, H.D.Y.D.; Edirisinghe, E.A.D.A.; Subramanian, K. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)

The current study was conducted in the districts of Kilinochchi and Mullaitivue’ with the objective of comprehending the current situation relating to Gender Based Violence (GBV) in the aforementioned districts. Data was ...
Post Disaster Recovery Process: Aftermath of Aranayake Landslide

Gunesekara, V. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)

It is customary that the any particular governments take actions to reduce the risk of the victims from the hazardous events and restoring communities. However, the complexity of situations and vulnerability of affected ...
A study of newspaper libraries in Sri Lanka (Specifically Lakehouse library)

Pushapakanthi, K.S. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)

This research is totally dedicated to find out whether the existing media libraries are sufficiently capable of serving this purpose .Throughout the research much effort was taken to study the ways and means by which the ...
Folklore study about the communicative meanings revealed by ten headed (dasis) concept in the legend of rāvana in Sri Lanka

Somarathne, M.P.; Sampath, D. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)

There are many evidences to prove that the number of myths were in rural folklores which are related to a king of Sri Lanka who was known as Rāvana, and the concept of Rāvana or the Ten Headed man (Dasis) is emerged through ...
Public Relations and Communication Management Strategies in Sri Lankan Sinhalese Culture

Nandasiri, A.G.A.U. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)

Public Relations and Communication Management strategies can be identified in any culture. This study explores the features of Public Relations and Communication Management in Sri Lankan culture. This research was conducted ...
Psychology of the Cultural Public Relations in Sri Lanka; Case of the Tsunami in 12/24/2004

Jinadasa, M. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)

Sri Lankan Culture has been fundamentally formed by the Asian religious and cultural foundation.. Yet, Sri Lanka has been colonialized by three European countries in last three hundred and forty three years of period, ...
Heritage tourism and sustainability: surveying the Asian scenario

Dasture, P. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)

Tourism, has been one of the oldest forms of recreation man has ever known; the desire to explore and the longing to know more, has always led man to known and unknown territories. Today tourism is a full-fledged industry, ...
Media Discourses, Hybridity and “Manufacturing Consent” for Women Empowerment

Nawaz, R. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)

The media is associated in critical theory with cultural imperialism. Through discourses (de)legitimated through media, norms of society are molded to construct consent for consumerism; making it a part of modern world ...
Information Technology and Management the Mendeley: an innovative Reference Management Software for Research

Rathnabahu, R.M.N. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)

Technology has now made availableadvanced Bibliographic Management Tools to overcome the said situation .Such kinds of open source andcommercial Bibliographic Management tools are of immense value for resource discovery, ...
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 ...
Reporting foreign information and reader preference for newspapers

Madusanka, N.M.N. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)

Researches show that in the early times more foreign information could be seen on American newspapers . Sri Lankan press too commenced with the aim of reporting foreign information during the time of colonization the ...
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. ...
Electrical Communication Accessories as Barriers to Social and Mental Harmony

Harischandra, M. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)

Access to social media websites is the most common activity among youth at the present. Any website which all sows social interaction such as Face book, Skype, Twitter, Online Sports and Gaming sites, Social Clubs, Imo, ...
Ᾱyurveda therapeutic intervention in the management of chronic plaque psoriasis - a case study

Jayakody, J.A.D.P.P.; Seneviratna, N.A.K.P.J. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)

Psoriasis is a common immune mediated chronic skin disease that comes in different forms and varying levels of sevearity.In general, a condition that is frequently found in the knee, elbow, scalp, and toes. But Psoriasis ...
Transitional Justice in Displacements

Muthukumar, J. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)

The concept of transitional justice emerged in the 1980s, in addressing human rights violations, particularly related to the civil and political rights, post-conflict issues, and political transitions towards democratisation. ...
Poverty and Poverty Correlates of the Marginalised Social Groups in the Rural Belts of Wayanad, Kerala: Role of Policy Aspects for Inclusive Development

Rajasenan, D.; Rajeev, B. (Research Centre for Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2016)

Wayanad in Kerala is the hottest of the hotspots of the Western Ghats ecology. Agro-biodiversity is important in terms of the poor people’s livelihood and agricultural activities. Outside intrusion in the pretext of ...

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