PhD
EVALUATION OF TECHNIQUES TO DEVELOP A PACKAGE OF PRACTICES TO ENHANCE THE YIELD OF FINGER MILLET CULTIVATION IN RAIN FED FARMING SYSTEMS - CASE STUDY IN MONARAGALA AND HAMBANTOTA DISTRICTS OF SRI LANKA
The farmers in Sri Lanka are cultivating finger millet under rainfed condition and majority of the farmers practice seed broadc...
PhD
A STUDY ON THE PREVALENCE OF CUTANEOUS LEISHMANIASIS: CAUSATIVE SPECIES, SAND FLY VECTORS AND ANIMAL RESERVOIRS IN HAMBANTOTA DISTRICT, SRI LANKA
Cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) is an established disease in the country. Present study was designed to investigate distribution,...
PhD
Investigation of land-use changes in Western and Southern coasts of Sri Lanka in the past two decades (1996-2016): A field based geo-informatics approach
Coastal region of Sri Lanka abounds with invaluable resources and provides varying ecological services bringing economic benefi...
PhD
ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY, PHYTOCHEMICAL AND PROXIMATE ANALYSIS OF LEAVES OF Psidium guajava, Garcinia quaesita, AND Eryngium foetidum.
Sri Lanka is home to a diverse range of plant species, including endemic species that have long been used in herbal medicine. ...
PhD
Impact of gene introgression and de domestication processes on the origin of weedy rice (Oryza sativa f. spontanea) populations in Sri Lanka
Majority of genetic studies of Domesticated Wild-Weedy Complexes (DWWC) have examined only a portion of the natural ecosystem, ...
PhD
IN-VIVO GLYCEMIC INDEX (GI) AND HERITABILITY OF SELECTED, IMPROVED AND TRADITIONAL RICE VARIETIES CULTIVATED IN SRI LANKA AND THEIR CORRELATION WITH IN-VITRO MODEL
Sri Lanka’s rice productivity, crucial for food security, faces scrutiny over cultivation trends. While traditional rice varie...
PhD
BIOMARKER-BASED SCREENING FOR EARLY DETECTION OF ADOLESCENT RENAL INJURY IN DRY CLIMATIC ZONE COMMUNITIES IN SRI LANKA IN RELATION TO ENVIRONMENTAL HEAT, FLUORIDE, AND BODY WEIGHT STATUS
Kidney diseases resemble a wide spectrum of pathophysiological conditions that compromise the performance of kidneys via undesi...
PhD
PERFORMANCE OF TRIPLE-GEM DETECTORS OF THE CMS EXPERIMENT AT THE LHC AND A SEARCH FOR HIGH-MASS RESONANCES DECAYING TO MUON PAIRS IN √s = 13 TeV pp COLLISIONS
This Ph.D. dissertation involves a search for new physics that took place at CERN’s (European Organization for Nuclear Research...
PhD
IDENTIFICATION OF POTENTIAL PLANT SPECIES FOR TRAFFIC NOISE ATTENUATION
Rapid urbanization in Sri Lanka has led to increased vehicle density and traffic noise, posing health risks to humans and anima...
PhD
DELUSIONAL AND ABNORMAL JEALOUSY IN INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS: PRESENTATIONS AND PSYCHOSOCIAL CORRELATES
Introduction Abnormal jealousy, notably delusional jealousy, poses extensive psychosocial challenges across cultures, significa...
PhD
IMPACT OF DEREGULATION OF ELECTRONIC MEDIA ON SOCIETY AND MEDIA FUNCTION IN SRI LANKA: A Case Study with Special Reference to the Rathupaswala Incident – 2013
The purpose of this study is to explore impact of deregulation of electronic media on society and media function in Sri Lanka. ...
PhD
SMALL SCALE DYNAMICS OF OCEAN BOUNDARY LAYER IN SHALLOW WATERS IN EAST CHINA SEA AND BAY OF BENGAL
The small-scale dynamical processes such as internal waves and turbulence play a key role in understanding and quantifying ocea...