Maruca vitrata is an important pantropical and polyphagous insect pest of grain legumes. The adult emergence pattern and temporal variations in the calling and mating behaviour of M. vitrata across ages were studied. ...

Ragging is a form of Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV). Sri Lanka has taken legislative, administrative and institutional measures to prevent ragging and to protect victims of ragging. Adversely, ragging continues ...

Emotional intelligence has developed gradually popular as a measure for discovering possibly effective leaders, and as an instrument for developing effective leadership skills. Regardless of this popularity, however, ...

Purpose Developing countries’ economic growth very much depend on the successful performance of entrepreneurial-oriented firms. Entrepreneurial orientation (EO) is a valuable conjecturer of firm success. This study ...

In this digital age, all organizational environments force businesses to adopt Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) since these technologies have immense impact on such businesses' competitiveness and productivity. ...

Our study focused on quantifying the alterations of streamflow at a weir site due to the construction of a mini‑hydropower plant in the Gurugoda Oya (Sri Lanka), and evaluating the spatial responses of benthic ...

The land-sea interface is considered as a threatening environment due to anthropogenicdevelopment activities. Unplanned developments can cause effects on important ecosystems, wa-ter and human health as well. In this ...

The present study attempts to investigate the response of the hotel industry during COVID-19 outbreak and the perceptions of hoteliers on reactions would be carried out at the end of the crisis. Further, the faced challenges ...

The scarcity of drinking water creates major impacts on the rural community, in particular. The people living in Aligambai have been facing numerous problems in getting a safe drinking water supply, even for their daily ...

Most of the Countriesmaintaingood relations between themselves by the globalization. In that kindSri Lankaalso engaged with various countries for the international transactions. In 1977, as a result ofthe ...