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{"title":"Critics on Feminist Influence for the New Bhikkhunī Revival Debate in Sri Lanka: Ethnographical Inquiry","authors":"G. D. Silva","doi":"10.4038/SUSLJ.V15I1.7706","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/SUSLJ.V15I1.7706","url":null,"abstract":"Feminist academia and activists are the pioneers of revival of bhikkhunī order in Sri Lanka. These International and local proponents are being criticized for their very attempt. Thus, the main objective of this study is to recognize dasasilmātās ’ responses towards this intermediation of feminist activism, as dasasilmātās are the oldest alternative form of female renunciant group, who highly affected by the new status of bhikkhunī -hood. This ethnographical study has conducted using observation and interview methods, employing ten executive members of Silmata Jathika Mandalaya (SMJMEC), five dasasilmātās in western province, four bhikkhunīs and one government officer under purposive sampling method. According to ethnographical findings, most of dasasilmātās do not accept International bhikkhunī higher ordination ceremonies and contribution made to them by local and international feminist (female) activists. But, they do not mention about bhikkhu activists as feminist activists. However while criticizing, they highlight the Western feminist influence. Therefore, they hardly identify the high profile of Asian feminist involvement in revival of bhikkhunī order in Sri Lanka. For instances, in reality there were multiple transnational bhikkhunī advocacy projects. Dasasilmātās not only equates feminism with the West, but also with elite class status. Further, inner disagreements or fractions among local feminists and activists in the early period of the bhikkhunī revival movement are important concerns.","PeriodicalId":363402,"journal":{"name":"Sabaragamuwa University Journal","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114356466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Tourism Under Military: A Critique on Land Utilization and Tourism in Postwar Sri Lanka","authors":"Iraj Ratnayake, M. Hapugoda","doi":"10.4038/SUSLJ.V15I1.7705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/SUSLJ.V15I1.7705","url":null,"abstract":"This critique argues that the intervention of military in land utilization and recreational tourism in the Northern and Eastern provinces of Sri Lanka was instigated by marker-driven geo-political negligence. It discovers that the nature of the introduction of  post-catastrophic tourism (Zizek, 2014) has been affected by profound non-articulation of political significance to the traumatic historical memory of the inhabitants who were affected, which has resulted in generating a degree of dark tourism in the area concerned. The southern invasions in the form of usual pilgrims which ‘combined battlefield and leisure tourism practices’ (Pieris, 2014: 266) has characterized ‘the presentation and the consumption of real and commoditized death and disaster area’ (Foley and Lennon, 1996: 198) which has originated in consequences of a long term conflict. Correspondingly, the apparent mass tourism promotion by the government between 2009 and 2014 too has significantly disregarded the definitive symbolic principle of ‘the visitation to places where tragedies or historically noteworthy death has occurred and that continue to impact our lives’ (Tarlow, 2005: 48) before obvious profit motives. The study observes that serious memories and sensitivities of the thirty years of the war-affected community have not been paid attention to and has caused dangerous humanitarian negligence in a wider political sense. While the function of tourism at present as an agent of development in improving the living condition of the community seems evidently true in this context, the trivialization of the symbolic significance of a historical memory and ownership of a community, which has turned ‘the suffering into a leisure experience for contemporary tourists’ (Smith et al., 2010: 38) cannot also be easily overlooked.","PeriodicalId":363402,"journal":{"name":"Sabaragamuwa University Journal","volume":"21 11","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131574193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Balancing the Conflict between Right to Information and Right to Privacy under Sri Lankan Fundamental Rights Perspective","authors":"Vishaka Sooriyabandara","doi":"10.4038/SUSLJ.V15I1.7709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/SUSLJ.V15I1.7709","url":null,"abstract":"Protecting the peace and human wellbeing of a particular society is the main purpose of existing a law. However, it is problematic to say exactly whether the real purpose of law can be achieved through the established law enforcement approaches like legislations, judgments, standing orders, circulars, regulations etc. Thus, to create a most effective legal system, finding an answer to that issue is very essential, because if the real purpose of law cannot be achieved properly from these approaches, other solutions should be found out to protect peace and human wellbeing of society. Human rights are the universally accepted rights which should be granted to each and every person to color-up their public and private lives. Right to information and right to privacy takes a vast attention nowadays though they make a continuous conflict with the development of the modern communication technology, because when right to information attempts to provide maximum public information to get an extensive knowledge on the public sphere, right to privacy attempts to conceal one’s personal information like family life, relationships, physical and mental integrity, etc. from others. It points out that both rights are very essential to properly arrange people’s public and private lives. Although Sri Lankan current legal system shows a satisfactory movement in protecting right to information, such a movement cannot be seen to protect people’s privacy rights. Sure enough, in spite of having vast numbers of black and white written laws, an effective practical enforcement of those laws also cannot be seen. Thus, enforcing the protection of both right to information and right to privacy effectively and striking a balance between these two conflicting rights to prevent overlapping is essential to establish the real purpose of existing a law in Sri Lanka.","PeriodicalId":363402,"journal":{"name":"Sabaragamuwa University Journal","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127246452","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An Investigation into the Efficacy of Applying the Principle of Rasa in Formulating Television Advertisements","authors":"R. Rathnayake","doi":"10.4038/SUSLJ.V14I1.7690","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/SUSLJ.V14I1.7690","url":null,"abstract":"Rasa element in turn consists of ten parts, namely, Srungaaro, Karuna, Wiiro, Biibathso, Shaantho, Haasyo, Raudro, Bhayanako, Athbhutho and vatsalyo . Objectives were to find whether or not ‘Rasa’ in Indian poetics can be used as an effective audio visual tool in the selected advertisement samples from Sri Lankan television and to make commercials more interesting by mixing existing Indian poetic theory with better understanding of the aesthetic sentiment known as ‘Rasa’. For the purpose of this research, specific advertisements have been selected from Sri Lankan television with special attention given to the ten elements of ‘Rasa’. Out of the ten elements of ‘Rasa’ Karuna and Shaantho have not been found. There yet remains scope for improvement in the field of audio visuals with a better knowledge of Indian poetics and in conclusion it can be stated that any future studies done in relation to aesthetic sentiment or ‘Rasa’ will not be limited to benefitting the field of advertizing but would additionally benefit film making and the creation of videos for social awareness as well.","PeriodicalId":363402,"journal":{"name":"Sabaragamuwa University Journal","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131337320","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Failures in Decolonization and ‘the Return to the Past’: Reading V.S. Naipaul","authors":"M. Hapugoda","doi":"10.4038/SUSLJ.V14I1.7692","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/SUSLJ.V14I1.7692","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the failures in decolonization and its political outcomes leading to a phenomenon called ‘totalitarianism’ in a transitional post-colonial context, as characterized in the works of V.S. Naipaul. It attempts to articulate how the post-colonial nations, once ‘abandoned’ by their Colonial Masters and then taken over by unsuccessful indigenous rulers, have encountered symptomatic political development within themselves ‘as finite limitations of their existence’ as they have emerged and are ideologically embedded in a historically affected consciousness (Gadamer 2006). To escape from the humiliation, dislocation, anxiety, jealousies and alienation generated by modern secularism and rationalism transmitted through colonialism itself, they seem to ‘return’ (Amin 2014: 81) to an ideology largely borrowed from history and tradition as ‘retrogressive nostalgia’ for today’s and tomorrow’s problems, which ultimately results in nothing but violent totalitarianism. In such transitional contexts where societies still struggle to come to terms with modernity, though the material conditions of life improved, the shift in mentality (Miao 2000) from one condition to a completely unprepared and unexpected phase remains crucial. The destructive energy that is often used against the universal civilizing force is seen here as a ‘compensation for the pain suffered through the disintegration of traditional forms of live’ (Habermas 2007: 102). This study, with the support of contemporary philosophical, political, literary and psychoanalytical interventions, dialectically examines how such symptomatic developments are empirically explored in the fictional and biographical works by V.S. Naipaul.","PeriodicalId":363402,"journal":{"name":"Sabaragamuwa University Journal","volume":" 35","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113949935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Performance of A Sodium Thiocyanate Based Gel Polymer Electrolyte In Redox Capacitors","authors":"C. Bandaranayake, Y. Jayathilake, K. Vidanapathirana, K. Perera","doi":"10.4038/SUSLJ.V14I2.7702","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/SUSLJ.V14I2.7702","url":null,"abstract":"Solid state redox capacitors have received a tremendous interest in terms of several characteristics such as their fast energy delivery, short charging time, high power density and extended durability. Due to the absence of a liquid electrolyte, they are free from drawbacks of leakage and unsafe. In this study, preparation and characterization of a redox capacitor consisting with two identical polypyrrole (PPy): dodecylbenzenesulfonate (DBS) electrodes and a gel polymer electrolyte (GPE) based on polyvinylidene fluoride (PVdF), ethylene carbonate (EC), propylene carbonate (PC) and sodium thiocyanate (NaSCN) is reported. The GPE having the composition, 0.4 PVdF: 1 EC: 1 PC: 0.075 NaSCN (by weight) showed the maximum conductivity of 2.25× 10 -3 S cm -1 . Redox capacitors were characterized using Cyclic Voltammetry, Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy and Galvanostatic Charge Discharge test. They exhibited an energy density about 0.25 W h kg -1 and an average power density of 4 kW kg -1 .","PeriodicalId":363402,"journal":{"name":"Sabaragamuwa University Journal","volume":"110 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122623863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"External Insights to Boost Internal R&D Efforts of the Fish and Seafood Export Processing Industry in Sri Lanka","authors":"Dam de Silva, T. Bjørndal","doi":"10.4038/SUSLJ.V14I2.7701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/SUSLJ.V14I2.7701","url":null,"abstract":"This research is focused on the fish and seafood export industry of Sri Lanka, considering its importance to the country’s economy. The objectives of the study are to investigate the nature of open innovation practices among fish and seafood exporters in Sri Lanka and to find out the role of open innovation on product and process development, market identification, market expansion, brand image, quality control, labelling and certification, sales promotion and advertising, and the sustainability of the resource base. The empirical study is based on the data obtained from 26 EU approved fish and seafood processing establishments. A structured questionnaire followed by interviews with CEOs, RD idea-rich/poor, conversion rich/poor and diffusion rich/poor. Hypothesis testing proved the positive relationship between firm performance and open innovation practices of the firms. Results reveal that firms are idea rich, conversion and diffusion moderate. Moreover, the study has identified open innovation partners, the nature of their support and the open innovation process of the fish and seafood export processors.","PeriodicalId":363402,"journal":{"name":"Sabaragamuwa University Journal","volume":"110 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126024965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“Should ‘Paraviwella Beach’ in Sri Lanka be Preserved for ‘Sea Bathing’?”: A ZTCM Approach","authors":"W. Rathnayake","doi":"10.4038/SUSLJ.V14I2.7697","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/SUSLJ.V14I2.7697","url":null,"abstract":"‘Sea bathing’ is the main recreational activity at the Paraviwella Beach Park in Sri Lanka. However, there is a proposal by the Government of Sri Lanka to convert the Beach Park into an area that could be used for the expansion of the fisheries harbour. Our study examines the possibility of the proposal against maintaining the Park by using the Zonal Travel Cost Method to estimate the welfare benefits (in terms of Consumer Surplus). The study shows that the welfare benefits of Paraviwella Beach Park to be LKR 6.39 million per year for local visitors. Our results suggest that for maximum revenue from the park to be derived, the fresh water bathing fee should be raised to LKR 100.45 from the present fee of LKR 20 since those who sea-bathe requires a fresh water bath thereafter. Though it would reduce the visitor numbers to the Park by 34%, it would increase the total revenue of the Park by 231.18%. These values demonstrate that the Park can be preserved for sea-bathing while making the site more financially viable.","PeriodicalId":363402,"journal":{"name":"Sabaragamuwa University Journal","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124601041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Adsorptive Behavior of Arsenic(III) Ions from Aqueous Solution onto Forestry and Agricultural Waste Biochar Pyrolyzed at 400°C","authors":"S. K. Gunatilake","doi":"10.4038/SUSLJ.V14I2.7699","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/SUSLJ.V14I2.7699","url":null,"abstract":"Sorption capacity of two different biochar (saw dust and rice straw) was evaluated in the recovery of arsenic from aqueous solutions. Biochar from rice straw and saw dust were obtained from pyrolysis of biomass at 400°C. The optimum sorption conditions were studied for different concentrated monometallic system. Sorption studies were performed at different pH, contracting time and different initial metal ion concentration in the batch mode. The optimum pH was 3 for recovery of As(III) and kinetic studies yielded an optimum equilibrium time of 50-60 minutes with an adsorbent dose of 1 g/L and initial concentration ∼20 mg/L for As(III) ions. As(III) ions in aqueous solution were transported to biochar surface through adsorption and intra-particle diffusion process. Experimental data for As(III) ions was fitted a Langmuir model with R 2 value for As(III) 0.969, 0.879 for saw dust and rice straw respectively. The Freundlich constant, KF values for removal of As(III) ions by saw dust and rice straw were 0.9127, 0.8951 respectively. The 1/n value for arsenic ions obtained from saw dust and rice straw were 0.209, 028 and indicate the normal sorption of As(III). The values indicated the affinity of the sorbent towards the uptake of As(III) ions were favorable and rice straw and saw dust biomass can be used to remove Arsenic(III) ions from aqueous phase.","PeriodicalId":363402,"journal":{"name":"Sabaragamuwa University Journal","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134101687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Effect of pre-harvest Potassium Treatment on Stem-end Rot Disease Development of Mango (Mangifera indica L.)cv. TomEJC during Fruit Ripening","authors":"Y. Nisansala, L. Jayakody, H. Sarananda, S. Somaratne","doi":"10.4038/SUSLJ.V14I2.7700","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/SUSLJ.V14I2.7700","url":null,"abstract":"Mango ( Mangifera indica L.) cv. TomEJC has utmost potential in export market due to its unique quality. Post-harvest disease of mango such as stem-end rot can cause considerable losses of fruits and could therefore be considered as a great threat to local and export market. This disease is controlled by application of fungicides from the time of flowering in cultivations where this disease is severe. However, the use of fungicides could lead to hazardous effects such as oncogenic risks on the consumers. Therefore, search for alternative measures for the management of stem-end rot disease is essential. In this study, an attempt was made to find out the effect of pre-harvest application of KCl on controlling stem-end rot disease development of ripe fruit. KCl at concentrations of 1 gl -1 , 2 gl -1 and 4 gl -1 were sprayed on fruit when fruits were immature. All fruits were bagged with paper bags and fruits were harvested at the correct maturity stage. Then all fruits were inoculated with Botryodiplodia theobromae mycelial plug and allowed for natural ripening. A significant difference was observed in fruit length, fruit width and fruit volume in KCl- treated fruits when compared to controls. Highest fruit volume was observed in 1 gl -1 KCl- treated fruits and the lowest amount of total soluble solids was observed in 2 gl -1 KCl- treated fruits. An increase in lightness and yellowness of peel color in KCl- treated fruits when compared to control II (non-inoculated, non-treated) was evident, indicated by increasing L*, b* and chroma values. However, no significant difference in hue values of peel color was observed among treatments. Flesh color showed a different response to treatments and no difference in chroma value was observed among treatments. The highest L* value and hue value was observed in 2 gl -1 KCl- treated fruits. Incidence and severity of stem-end rot was significantly decreased by 2 gl -1 KCl treatment without drastically affecting the physico-chemical properties of fruits. Vast research has shown that potassium and chloride fertility have been effective in reducing crop injury from diseases. Different mechanisms such as nutritional effects, changes of the host-pathogen environment and production of disease inhibitory compounds could be some possible ways of action of both K and Cl in modifying disease resistance or susceptibility. Since 2 gl -1 KCl was able to suppress stem-end rot disease development in inoculated fruits, this concentration can be recommended as a field application to control this disease in mango variety tested after repeating the same experiment at different locations.","PeriodicalId":363402,"journal":{"name":"Sabaragamuwa University Journal","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127969543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}