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  • Comparison of gastric emptying of a solid meal with a semi-solid meal using real-time ultrasonography in a cohort of healthy individuals 
    Amarasiri1, D.L.; Devanarayana, N.M.; de Silva, M.; Amaratunga, C.; Madushanka, K.B.G.; de Silva, H.J. (Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015)
    Aims Routine performance of solid gastric emptying (GE) to assess gastroparesis is not feasible due to prolonged test duration and cumbersome preparation of test meals. Substitution of a commercially prepared semisolid ...
  • Competitive Emergence of China and India and Autonomous Existence of Sri Lanka 
    de Silva, P.P.N. (Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015)
    Paper will discuss the Competitive Emergence of China and India and Autonomous Existence of Sri Lanka. China and India are arising of politics, economics and military sections. It is influencing to autonomous of Sri Lanka ...
  • Conceal Communication via MP3 
    Eranga, D.M.S. (Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015)
    Hiding messages for various security purposes have become highly interesting topic on now a day. Encryption provides the ability of data hiding. With development of the technology, people tend to figure out a technique ...
  • Conceal Communication via MP3 
    Eranga, D.M.S.; Weerasinghe, K.G.H.D. (Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015)
    Hiding messages for various security purposes have become highly interesting topic on now a day. Encryption provides the ability of data hiding. With development of the technology, people tend to figure out a technique ...
  • The concept of “Bhramara” in Hindi and Pali Literature 
    Abeysundara, H.G.A. (Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015)
    The use of the ―Bhramara‖ concept can be seen both in ―Bhramar Geeth‖ in Hindi and in Pali literature. ―Bhramar Geeth‖ refers to a tradition of praise poetry that appears in Hindi poetry. The Hindi word ―Bhramar‖ means ...
  • Conducting Spoken Tests are still a big challenge in most of the ELT scenarios 
    Deveniguru, D.K.L.C. (Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015)
    According to the latest ELT trends, improving communicative skills has become the major concern of most of the English language teaching programmes. Although it has become the major concern, testing oral skills has not yet ...
  • Connecting the Interdisciplinary Dots with Water 
    Hammer, Sam (Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015)
    Water is a global resource issue that requires an interdisciplinary approach. In this presentation I will report on two examples of how I teach about water in undergraduate settings. At Boston University (USA) my students ...
  • Courtship behaviour of Smith’s tiger spider Poecilotheria smithi (Arachnida:Theraphosidae) in the wild 
    Nanayakkara, R.P.; Ganehiarachchi, G.A.S.M.; Vishvanath, N.; Kusuminda, T.G.T. (Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015)
    The reproductive behaviour of Mygalomorph spiders in the wild is scarce, due to their nocturnal and cryptic habits. The current study describes and interprets the courtship behaviour exhibited by Smith‘s tiger spider ...
  • A Critical Evaluation of Pedophilia from a Biopsychosocial Perspective 
    Wimaladhamma Thero, Koonkandawala (Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015)
    Child abuse is one of the most important and crucial topics not only in present Sri Lanka but also in whole world. Among the many forms of child abuse, sexual abuse holds a higher place. Sometimes, the victims of sexual ...
  • Cultural Validation of the Couples Satisfaction Index – 32 among Sri Lankan Adults 
    Siyana, A.; Vithanage, D. (Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015)
    In the field of marital and relationship counselling, the assessment of relationship satisfaction has become a vital component in therapy. In the Sri Lankan context, lack of a culturally validated psychometric tool to ...
  • Cyber-crime and Law (Special Reference to Sri Lanka and India) 
    Jayasekara, A.H.D. (Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015)
    New media is a catch-all term for all forms of electronic communication that have appeared or will appear since the original mainly text-and-static picture forms of online communication. The Internet is based on single ...
  • Cytotoxic effects of α-Eleostearic acid-rich fat extracted from seeds of bitter melon (Momordica charantia) on Vero 76 cells 
    Ranasinghe, K.N.K.; Jayasooriya, A.P.; Premachandra, T.N.; Hilmi, A.J.; Kularatne, S.A.M.; Madhujith, T.; Rajapakse, R.P.V.J. (Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015)
    Some seed fat sources contain conjugated trienoic fatty acids in high proportions (30- 80%). Previous studies have revealed that these fatty acids possess potent anticarcinogenic properties. The bitter melon (Momordica ...
  • Decomposition analysis of poverty in Sri Lanka: 1990-2010 
    Ranathunga, S. (Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015)
    Poverty has always occupied a prominent place in the economic development agenda of successive governments in Sri Lanka since independence. This is evidenced by the fact that Sri Lanka had achieved the 1st Millennium ...
  • Deep Unsupervised Pre-trained Neural Network for Human Gesture Recognition 
    Kumarika, B.M.T.; Dias, N.G.J. (Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015)
    Recognition of visual patterns for real world applications is a complex process that involves many issues. Varying and complex backgrounds, bad lighting environments, person independent gesture recognition and the ...
  • Demarcating Problem of Reference Boundary for Coastal Zone and Shoreline: The Case of Sri Lanka 
    Amarasinghe, A.G. (Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015)
    ―Coastal Zone‖ and ―Shoreline‖ have become popular and widely used terms among environmentalist, policy makers and planners around the world from ancient times. Coastal areas have been identified as one of the geographical ...
  • Detective Deconstructed: Miss Marple as a subversion of the traditional Detective discourse 
    Bandara, K.M.K.S.M. (Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015)
    Detective fiction is a genre that gained critical acclaim at an unprecedented rate over the past few decades. The way in which it engages with the reader intellectually is a significant reason behind the increasing popularity ...
  • Determinants of Capital Structure: Evidence from Listed Manufacturing Companies in Sri Lanka 
    Thusyanthi, R.; Yogendrarajah, R. (Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015)
    Chosen the capital structure is one of the major influencing factors for the development of each company. Researcher choose listed firms in the manufacturing sector as a sample because the sector has grown faster and ...
  • Determinants of Fertilizer Demand: Evidence from Sri Lanka 
    Rodrigo, C.; Abeysekera, L. (Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015)
    Many developing countries are faced with continual challenges in increasing their agricultural production. Concerns over food security have pushed governments to provide input subsidies. Among many input subsidy schemes ...
  • Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in Nigeria (1970-2014) 
    Kumo, A.A. (Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015)
    Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) has been at the center stage as a phenomena of discussion amongst international cum development economists since the breakthrough made by Hymer‘s Thesis in 1960 which serves as a basic ...
  • Determinants on Creativity towards Organizational Innovations: An Exploration on Literature Review 
    Wasantha, N.; Dissanayake, R. (Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, 2015)
    Creativity and implementation are two identical activities of an innovation process which is determined by different antecedents. Both earlier research and more recent efforts have treated creativity and implementation ...

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