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Nutrient Content of Hermetia illucens (Black Soldier Fly) Larvae: A Potential Candidate as Animal Feed

Thiruchenthooran, V.; Mathyamuthan, J.P.; Senthilnanthanan, M.; Surendran, S.N. (University of Jaffna, 2018)

Hermetia illucens larvae are considered as potentials for animal feed with rich nutrition content. The study analyzed nutrient content of the larvae following established protocols to determine moisture, dry matter, ...

Effect of Water Quality Parameters of the Pond “Ariyakulam”, Jaffna on Avifaunal Diversity

Rajaratnam, A.; Sivaruban, A. (University of Jaffna, 2018)

Ponds are one of the important wetland ecosystems where birds are playing a major role in their stability. As far as avifauna of Jaffna is concerned there are few recent publications related to the bird diversity and ...

Development of A Duplex PCR Assay for the Detection of Adulterations in Chicken and Turkey Meat Products

Ganeshan, L.; Rodrigo, W.W.P.; Withana, W.T.G.S.L.; Kapuruge, T.N. (University of Jaffna, 2018)

Meat adulteration is the process of lowering the quality of meat products by mixing inferior meat or their cheaper counterparts with high value meat or by adding non meat substances into meat products. This can make ...

Detection of Salmonella spp. in Meat Products Using a Commercially Available Kit Based Real Time PCR Method

Silva, F.H.C.; Kapuruge, T.N.; Athapaththu, A.M.M.H.; Rodrigo, W.W.P.; Perera, W.A.J.S. (University of Jaffna, 2018)

Salmonella is a major food borne pathogen and Salmonella detection in food is an essential food safety standard. Conventional methods of Salmonella detection are laborious and require multiple days for confirmation. ...

Detection of Mixing Up of Processed Chicken Products with Rat Contaminants, Found in Sri Lankan Markets by Species Specific Primer PCR Method

Srimurugadas, J.; Kothalawala, Shashika. D. (University of Jaffna, 2018)

The aim of this study is to detect the rat adulteration in chicken sausages in order to protect consumers. Presence of rat meat in chicken sausages is a crucial issue and also is illegal, and raises many health concerns, ...

Detection of Genetically Modified (GM) Food Items in the Market Using Real Time PCR (RT-PCR) Based Assay

Benedict, M.D.; Athapaththu, A.M.M.H.; Withana, W.T.G.S.L. (University of Jaffna, 2018)

The amount of commercially available food items containing genetically modified organisms have increased in recent years. Regulation for the labeling of Genetically Modified food is required in most of the countries. ...

Conventional Triplex Polymerase Chain Reaction: A Reliable Tool for Detection of Species Adulteration in Canned Tuna Products

Rupasinghe, R.A.L.; Withana, W. T. G. S. L.; Rodrigo, W. W. P.; Athapaththu, A. M. M. H. (University of Jaffna, 2018)

Authentication of canned tuna fish product is mandatory due to the growing occurrence of fraud in the processed fish industry. Different values and quality of tuna species can lead to the replacement or mixing of ...

Antioxidant Activity in Selected Fresh Vegetables in Jaffna

Karunasiri, M. G. A. N.; Ravimannan, N.; Sevvel, P. (University of Jaffna, 2018)

Generally, fruits and vegetables are very good source of natural antioxidants which consist of many different antioxidant components. Though there are many vegetables available with high antioxidant values and high ...

Antimicrobial Effect of the Crude Extract of Hermetia illucens Larva (Black Soldier Fly) on Selected Fungi and Bacteria.

Mathyamuthan, J.P.; Thavaranjit, A.C.; Surendran, S.N. (University of Jaffna, 2018)

The larval antimicrobial components of the black soldier fly (BSF) are the key elements allowing these larvae to inhibit bacterial growths in the wastes they are thriving in. To study the antimicrobial effect of locally ...

Twitter and Online News Analytics for Post-Natural Disaster Management

Banujan, K.; Kumara, Banage T. G. S.; Paik, Incheon. (University of Jaffna, 2018)

A natural disaster is a natural event which can cause damage to both lives and properties. Since SM are capable of real-time nature of sharing the information, post-disaster management can be improved to a great extent ...

Some Results Related with Semi Compactness in Bitopological Spaces

Arunmaran, M.; Kannan, K. (University of Jaffna, 2018)

The triple (𝑋, 𝜏1, 𝜏2) is known as a bitopological space, where 𝜏1 and 𝜏2 are two topologies which are defined in a nonempty set 𝑋. The concept ‘bitopological space’ was established from asymmetric metric spaces. ...

Some Results Related with Coarse Space, Coarse Map and Coarse Equivalent

Kajan, N.; Kannan, K. (University of Jaffna, 2018)

Mathematical field of geometry and topology a coarse structure on a set X is the collection of subsets of the Cartesian product X×X with certain properties which allow the large scale structure of metric and topological ...

Sensor Based Irrigation Technology Platform for Sri Lanka

Miller Alexander, R. (University of Jaffna, 2018)

Agriculture can be considered as the most important field for and all living beings. In most of the countries in the world, the staple their population produced through cultivation. There is a new green on the block, ...

Investigation of Thermal Conductivities of Waste Materials for Building Constructions in Destinations with Warm Weather

Subasingha, S.P.T.N; Pathmathas, T.; Thevakaran, A.; Vimoochan, K. (University of Jaffna, 2018)

Investigation of thermal property is an important study in material physics and engineering. In this study, experimental data obtained from Lee’s disk method we investigate thermal conductivities of a few samples ...

Improved Convergence Rates of an Iterative Scheme with Extra Sub-steps for Gauss Method

Kajanthan, S.; Vigneswaran, R. (University of Jaffna, 2018)

Several authors proposed variety of linear iteration schemes to solve non-linear equations arising in the implementation of implicit Runge-Kutta methods. A linear scheme of this type with some additional computation ...

Effect of Sintering on Yttria Distribution and Low Temperature Degradation of 3Y-TZP Ceramics

Thenmolie, G.; Sutharsini, U.; Thanihaichelvan, M. (University of Jaffna, 2018)

In this study, we investigated the effect of sintering atmosphere and temperature on surface yttria concentration of 3 mole % yttria stabilized tetragonal zirconia polycrystalline (3Y- TZP) ceramic. The 3Y-TZP ceramic ...

Compound Mixed Models for Over-dispersed Count Data: An Examination with Insurance Claim Dataset

Tharshan, R. (University of Jaffna, 2018)

In practice, the proportion format data analyzing under the binomial assumption; homogeneous success probability at each trial or count data analyzing under the Poisson assumption; equi-dispersion constraint, the observed ...

Analysis of Voiced to Unvoiced Ratio and Vowel Distribution for Sri Lankan Traditional Buddhist Chants

Gunawardana, C.; Gamage, S. (University of Jaffna, 2018)

Pirith is a special type of chanting; believed to be a protective doctrine preached by the Load Buddh in Pali language. Generally, a voice signal consists of the fundamental frequency, 0 and a series of harmonic frequencies ...

A Software Based Fingerprint Liveness Detection Using Image Quality Assessment (IQA)

Jeyarani, S.; Suthakar, S. (University of Jaffna, 2018)

Fingerprint based authentication systems have developed rapidly in the recent years. Conventional biometric authentication methods use feature extraction methods and pattern matching techniques. However, these systems ...

A Distance Transform Method for Finding Shortest Path in Robot Navigation

Kowsikan, J.; Suthakar, S. (University of Jaffna, 2018)

Finding shortest path for robot navigation is still a hot task in the present era. Among the vast number of path finding algorithms, A* algorithm is one of the best and popular technique. It finds shortest path by ...

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