The transitions from high to low levels of both mortality and fertility rates, migration and war have induced a significant increase of the proportion of elders in Sri Lanka. Clear understanding of risk and protective ...

Vernonia cinerea (L.) Less. belongs to the family Asteraceae and has medicinal properties. It is commonly known as ‘little ironweed’, ‘ash coloured Fleabane’ in English, ‘Neichette’, ‘Mukuthipundu’ in Tamil and ...

The aim of the present study was to understand some aspects of epidemiology and clinical features of dengue fever (DF) and dengue haemorrhagic fever (DHF) cases admitted to Teaching Hospital (TH), Jaffna and to assess ...

The micro credit programmes serve as a vital role for women empowerment and entrepreneurship development in the developing countries as well as in Sri Lanka. As a result of 30 years of an internal armed conflict, women ...

: This study investigated the perception of the visiting academics on contact sessions in an Open and Distance Learning (ODL) system. Questionnaires and interviews were used to collect information from the twenty-five ...

I Shall Not Hate is the ultimate thesis on hope, narrating the story of a father who clings tenaciously to the hope of a better tomorrow for a flock of people. It is a memoir by Izzeldin Abuelaish, a Gazan doctor who ...

Local government is the third and lowest level of government in Sri Lanka - after the central government and provincial councils. The words “local government” imply a political and administrative structure (or organization) ...

This paper has the objective of studying the novel Kanthapura in the light of bilingualism of the society in which Raja Rao, the author, lived and (re)presented it. Though the author was an individual, he was a representative ...

This study attempts to identify the professional development needs and aspirations of graduate teachers and assess their problems and issues to fulfil such needs and aspirations under the post-war context in three Vanni ...

Since the changes in technology are intense and unprecedented in contemporary human history with its impact on almost all aspects of human life, organizations have invariably adopted training as a tool to fill the ...