E-Repository - South Eastern University of Sri Lanka: Recent submissions

  • The influence of common risk factors for the patient with attempted suicide hospitalized at the teaching hospital, Batticaloa 
    Kisokanth, G; Najeem, M.M; Karunakaran, K.E (South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, University Park, Oluvil #32360, Sri Lanka, 2014-08-02)
    Suicidal behavior has increased since the onset of the global recession, a trend that may have long-term health and social implications. A high suicide rate in any society is an index of social disorganization and the ...
  • Analysing volatility of Colombo consumer price index using GARCH models 
    Alibuhtto, M.C (South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, University Park, Oluvil #32360, Sri Lanka, 2014-08-02)
    The objective of this paper is to analyse and modelling the volatility of Colombo Consumer Price Index (CCPI) in Sri Lanka using monthly data from January 2008 to April 2014. Three types of GARCH models (GARCH, TGARCH and ...
  • Long term solution for flood in Malala Lagoon, Hambantota 
    Banu, M.F.K.F.F; Balasooriya, N.W.B (South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, University Park, Oluvil #32360, Sri Lanka, 2014-08-02)
    The lagoon systems play a major role in maintaining the balance of the organisms as well as the physical environment. The lagoon resources were misused due to unavailability of a proper management plan, environment pollution ...
  • Biology teachers’ beliefs about biotechnology and biotechnology education in the eastern province of Sri Lanka 
    Zakeel, M.C.M; Safeena, M.I.S; Marikar, F. M. M. T (South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, University Park, Oluvil #32360, Sri Lanka, 2014-08-02)
    This study examines teachers‘ understanding of the normative connections between key concepts of biotechnology and underlying biological principles that are critical for an in-depth understanding of teaching biotechnology ...
  • Estimating return values of significant sea wave heights in Colombo, Sri Lanka 
    Shajitha, S.H; Perera, K (South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, University Park, Oluvil #32360, Sri Lanka, 2014-08-02)
    In coastal science and offshore engineering estimating the return values of significant extreme sea wave heights plays a vital role. This paper discusses two methods, Block Maxima (BM) approach and Peak-Over- Threshold ...
  • An application of Fourier series expansion of a function in a non-polar spherical coordinate system 
    Faham, M. A. A. Mohamed (South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, University Park, Oluvil #32360, Sri Lanka, 2014-08-02)
    Cubed sphere is one of the main tools used to avoid pole problems those arise in the selection of spherical polar coordinates. In this respect, earlier we considered a recently developed cubed sphere based on coordinate ...
  • Contribution of organic contaminations and nutrient level on dynamic equilibrium of dissolved oxygen in water bodies of costal belt of Ampara district 
    Haniffa, M.A.C.M; Senthilnity, R; Mahanama3, K.R.R (South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, University Park, Oluvil #32360, Sri Lanka, 2014-08-02)
    The dissolved oxygen (DO) of a water body (WB) is dynamically equilibrated between the two films such as gas and liquid phases. Domestic and other related waste materials may alter this equilibrium as a result aquatic ...
  • A study on electrochemical behavior of Polypyrrole films in differently concentrated Nacl electrolytes 
    Jafeen, M. J. M.; Zainudeen,U. L (South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, University Park, Oluvil #32360, Sri Lanka, 2014-08-02)
    Polypyrrole films doped with large surfactant anion dodecyl benzene sulfonate, PPy (DBS), have been electro polymerized in galvanostatic condition and characterized in highly concentrated NaCl aqueous solution (5 M) using ...
  • Micro finance and poverty alleviation in Sri Lanka 
    Kaluarachchi, D.G.P; Jahfer, A (South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, University Park, Oluvil #32360, Sri Lanka, 2014-08-02)
    Microfinance services in Sri Lanka have a wide geographical outreach but the extent of outreach of private operators including NGOs and commercial banks in rural areas is rather limited although the poor and the poorest ...
  • Factors affecting mobile phone brand preference: empirical study on Sri Lankan university students 
    Riyath, Mohamed Ismail Mohamed; Musthafa, Sulaima Lebbe (South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, University Park, Oluvil #32360, Sri Lanka, 2014-08-02)
    This study gives an insight into the mobile market industry in Sri Lanka. Mobile phone manufactures and marketers are facing hyper competition in Sri Lanka as well as in the world mobile market. Mobile phone marketers ...
  • Center of Mackey functors 
    Elango, P (South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, University Park, Oluvil #32360, Sri Lanka, 2014-08-02)
    This paper studies the center of the category of Mackey functor using the centers defined on monoidal categories. We define the category of Mackey functors in terms of span categories. Mackey functors became importance ...
  • Chemical intercalation of potassium into natural graphite 
    Balasooriya, N.W.B; Bandaranayake, P.W.S.K (South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, University Park, Oluvil #32360, Sri Lanka, 2014-08-02)
    The potassium binary graphite intercalation compound [GIC (K)] was prepared using classical double bulb chemical method and compared with different types of natural vein graphite from Sri Lanka and natural flake graphite ...
  • The effects of salt stress on growth physiology of selected okra (Abelmoschusesculentus L.) cultivars 
    Mahendran, S; Jeyapraba, J (South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, University Park, Oluvil #32360, Sri Lanka, 2014-08-02)
    Salinity due to over-accumulation of NaCl is usually of great concern and it is the most injurious factor in arid and semi arid regions. Considering this feature, an experiment was conducted to evaluate the salinity stress ...
  • Modeling pollutant dispersion from petroleum refining process in Sri Lanka 
    Piyatilake, I.T.S; Perera, S.S.N; Boralugoda, S.K (South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, University Park, Oluvil #32360, Sri Lanka, 2014-08-02)
    Air pollution is a major problem in Sri Lanka due to rapid urbanization and development of industries. In Sri Lanka, the quality of air has a profound impact on the economy. The most obvious of these impacts is related ...
  • Pesticide storage, disposal and protective methods adapted by the vegetable farmers in the Manmunai south and Eruvilpattu divisional secretariat division of Batticaloa district, Sri Lanka 
    Srikrishnah, S; Sivakumar, K; Sutharsan, S (South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, University Park, Oluvil #32360, Sri Lanka, 2014-08-02)
    Batticaloa district is in the Eastern Part of Sri Lanka. Vegetables except up-country vegetables sold in Batticaloa district are mainly grown in villages in the district. Manmunai South and Eruvilpattu divisional secretariat ...
  • The impact of students’ intake quality on the performance of engineering undergraduates 
    Razmy, A. Mohamed; Jazeel, M.I. Ilaham (South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, University Park, Oluvil #32360, Sri Lanka, 2014-08-02)
    The quality of intake of students in terms of Z score to a particular course to different universities differs vastly in Sri Lanka. The students who get higher Z score goes to established universities mostly under merit ...
  • A review on cloud computing adoption: an exploratory analysis 
    Irshad, M. B. Mohamed (South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, University Park, Oluvil #32360, Sri Lanka, 2014-08-02)
    The world has been witnessed with many technological revolutions. One of them is the computing technologies. There have been many revolutions such as mainframe computers, super computers, web technologies, Internet, grid ...
  • Hallucinated 3d face model from a single 2d low-resolution face using machine learning 
    Naleer, H.M.M; Yao, LU (South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, University Park, Oluvil #32360, Sri Lanka, 2014-08-02)
    In this paper, the 3D face hallucination system is proposed on both 2D training face images as well as respective 3D training face models with grey-level. The proposed method hallucinates the 3D high-resolution model patch ...
  • Measuring paddy farmers’vulnerability to climate change in Mahavillachiya: Ds division, Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka 
    Sakeena, M.N.F (South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, University Park, Oluvil #32360, Sri Lanka, 2014-08-02)
    The objective of this study is to measure the paddy farmers‘ vulnerability to climate change. The indicator method was used to analyze the vulnerability of the paddy farmers in the Mahavilachchiya and Thanthrimale GN ...
  • Information flow in the Eastern university, Sri Lanka 
    Raveendra, Viharnaa; Geretharan, Thivahary (South Eastern University of Sri Lanka, University Park, Oluvil #32360, Sri Lanka, 2014-08-02)
    Organizational communication can aid in determining how communication system, flow and practices are contributing to the organizational performances. One should assess the information flows and their needs in order to ...