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Development of Urban Green Spaces for Achieving Ecological and Social Benefits of Urban Areas in Sri Lanka 发展城市绿地以实现斯里兰卡城市地区的生态和社会效益

Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Pub Date : 2021-08-01 DOI: 10.4038/sljssh.v1i2.47

A. M. C. Wijewardhana, E. Senevirathna

{"title":"Development of Urban Green Spaces for Achieving Ecological and Social Benefits of Urban Areas in Sri Lanka","authors":"A. M. C. Wijewardhana, E. Senevirathna","doi":"10.4038/sljssh.v1i2.47","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/sljssh.v1i2.47","url":null,"abstract":"Green spaces create a link between human beings and the environment around them to enhance the quality of human life and benefits for both. But the reductions of green spaces in urban areas lead to several environmental and social problems world-wide. This study focused to find the required sites for Urban Green Space (UGS) development to gain ecological and social benefits in Rathnapura Municipal Council. Six Grama Niladhari Divisions were selected for the study. Accordingly, digitized Google Earth Pro satellite images in 2019 and population data in 2018 were used for analysing existing UGS. According to that geometric calculation, buffer, near, and weighted sum tools in ArcMap 10.4 were used to analyses data. Green Space Per Capita Index (GSPCI) was calculated to find whether the existing UGS is enough or not for the healthy living of the residents based on recommendation scales of World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations (UN) as 9m2 and 30m2 green spaces per person respectively. It has been found the study area is exceeding both recommended levels. Whatever the GSPCI, the study has found Mihindugama, Rathnapura Town North and West have required approximately 114624, 8474, and 38617 square meters of additional UGS respectively according to buffer analysis based on GSPCI regard to UN recommendations. Weighted sum analysis has found that approximately 18% of land highly required UGS. Meanwhile, the study has revealed Mihindugama, Kospelawinna, and New Town have a shortage of UGS near the residential areas. Moreover, the study shows there is a potential to develop UGS in the area by approaching existing re-sources. As consequences of this study will provide ideas for mitigating urban issues and guide to fulfil the additionally required UGS to better development.by the above findings for the benefit of future online learning and to carry out such educational activities without interruption.","PeriodicalId":437005,"journal":{"name":"Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125008605","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}

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Factors Influencing Social Media Addiction among G.C.E. Advanced Level Students in Sri Lanka: A Case Study in Colombo District, Sri Lanka 影响斯里兰卡gce高级阶段学生社交媒体成瘾的因素:斯里兰卡科伦坡地区的个案研究

Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Pub Date : 2021-08-01 DOI: 10.4038/sljssh.v1i2.33

J. M. Wickramasurendra, D. J. Jagoda, R.M.M.I. Rathnayake

{"title":"Factors Influencing Social Media Addiction among G.C.E. Advanced Level Students in Sri Lanka: A Case Study in Colombo District, Sri Lanka","authors":"J. M. Wickramasurendra, D. J. Jagoda, R.M.M.I. Rathnayake","doi":"10.4038/sljssh.v1i2.33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/sljssh.v1i2.33","url":null,"abstract":"Social Media Addiction is regarded as a form of psychological or behavioral dependence on social media platforms driven by an obsessive, uncontrollable urge to use social media. Typically, young people addicted to social media are more likely to report poor mental health including psychological distress. Bergen Social Media Addiction Scale (BSMAS) is a distinct measurement used to evaluate the addiction level of a particular individual. According to Data Reportal (2020), social media penetration in Sri Lanka stands at 30 percent including a majority of youngsters. Since G.C.E. Advanced Level examination is a critical examination instrumental in pursuing higher education, it is of great importance to identify significant factors affecting social media addiction among Advanced Level students. A sample of 250 students was drawn using multi-stage clustering from Colombo district which recorded the highest internet usage in 2018. The primary data were collected through online and questionnaire surveys. To achieve the main objective, factor analysis and binary logistic regression were used. It was revealed that peer influence, entertainment, and owning a smartphone positively affected the total students' social media addiction. When it comes to female students, parent and peer utilization of social media and online interpersonal relationships were identified as important factors. Similarly, peer influence, subject stream, and owning a smartphone were identified as influential factors for male students' addiction. It was further revealed that male students who were studying in the art stream and technology stream had a higher possibility of addiction compared to that of the physical science stream. The overall research provides important recommendations on possible actions to prevent addiction.","PeriodicalId":437005,"journal":{"name":"Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129801352","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}

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Factors Affecting the Prevalence of Chronic Kidney Disease among Adult Population in Sri Lanka: With Special Reference to Badulla District 斯里兰卡成人慢性肾病流行的影响因素:以巴杜拉地区为例

Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Pub Date : 2021-08-01 DOI: 10.4038/sljssh.v1i2.41

M. Vithanage, R.M.M.I. Rathnayake, D. J. Jagoda

{"title":"Factors Affecting the Prevalence of Chronic Kidney Disease among Adult Population in Sri Lanka: With Special Reference to Badulla District","authors":"M. Vithanage, R.M.M.I. Rathnayake, D. J. Jagoda","doi":"10.4038/sljssh.v1i2.41","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/sljssh.v1i2.41","url":null,"abstract":"Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) is one of the non-communicable diseases. According to records, kidney disease affects millions of people worldwide including Sri Lanka every year. The number of kidney patients rapidly increased in the last three decades in Sri Lanka and it has been blowout to Badulla District during the previous years. Therefore, this study is mainly focused to investigate the factors that affect the prevalence of CKD in Badulla district in Sri Lanka. A sample was drawn using the multi-stage cluster sampling method. The study was conducted using a quantitative approach and a questionnaire survey. Descriptive statistics and binary logistic regression were used to achieve the objectives. According to the descriptive statistics, 35.73% of the sample are recorded for having kidney disease and 64.27% are recorded for not having kidney disease. The majority of kidney patients are male. Binary logistic regression has found that amount of drinking water per day and the duration of using alcohol are significant factors for having kidney disease. Further, it reveals that people who drink less amount of water were more likely to develop kidney disease than people who drink more amount of water and long duration of alcohol intake is more evident to have kidney disease than those who have not used alcohol. Further, the study suggested increasing the amount of drinking water per day, and to reduce the alcohol intake as a solution for getting rid of kidney disease.","PeriodicalId":437005,"journal":{"name":"Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities","volume":"726 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130507078","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}

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Contribution of Export Processing Zone for Regional Development: With Special Reference to Biyagama Export Processing Zone 出口加工区对区域发展的贡献——以碧羽ama出口加工区为例

Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Pub Date : 2021-08-01 DOI: 10.4038/sljssh.v1i2.34

K. Wijerathna, L. Arachchi

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Factors Influencing Sri Lankan Family Size: With Special Reference to Colombo District 斯里兰卡家庭规模的影响因素:以科伦坡地区为例

Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Pub Date : 2021-08-01 DOI: 10.4038/sljssh.v1i2.42

R. G. D. Prasangi, D. J. Jagoda, R.M.M.I. Rathnayake

{"title":"Factors Influencing Sri Lankan Family Size: With Special Reference to Colombo District","authors":"R. G. D. Prasangi, D. J. Jagoda, R.M.M.I. Rathnayake","doi":"10.4038/sljssh.v1i2.42","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/sljssh.v1i2.42","url":null,"abstract":"Family is the most basic unit of human society which is a collection of people bound together by relations. The fertility rate refers to the average number of children a woman can have during her child-bearing period. According to United Nations World Population Prospects statistics, the Sri Lankan fertility rate was 2.177, and the fertility growth rate was -0.77 percent in 2020. Therefore, the main objective of this study was to examine factors that affect Sri Lankan family size. Using the multi-stage cluster sampling method, 350 families were selected for the survey of which 272 from those residing in the Colombo district were gathered via structured questionnaires and telephone conversation. The gathered data was analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) soft-ware along with the Binary Logistic Regression model to achieve the main objective. A woman's age of marriage, inclinations to use contraceptive methods, and the increase in natural abortions were identified as the main factors determining the number of children in a Sri Lankan family. The number of children in the household decreases as a woman's age of marriage is postponed. Similarly, women who use contraceptive methods have fewer children than those who don’t. The serious problem of increasing natural abortions also influences the number of children in a household on the fact that the number of children of a woman who faced at least one abortion shows a significant decrease compared to women who hadn't faced any at all.","PeriodicalId":437005,"journal":{"name":"Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115152560","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}

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Socio-economic Factors Affecting Monthly Household Expenditure on Tuition for Advanced Level Students in Embilipitiya Educational Zone in Sri Lanka 影响斯里兰卡embilpitiya教育区的高级学生每月家庭学费支出的社会经济因素

Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Pub Date : 2021-08-01 DOI: 10.4038/sljssh.v1i2.40

A. S. Thilakasingha, M. Fernando

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Professional development and ESL teacher quality: An empirical study 专业发展与英语教师素质的实证研究

Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Pub Date : 2021-08-01 DOI: 10.4038/sljssh.v1i2.37

K. Abeywickrama

{"title":"Professional development and ESL teacher quality: An empirical study","authors":"K. Abeywickrama","doi":"10.4038/sljssh.v1i2.37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/sljssh.v1i2.37","url":null,"abstract":"A broader awareness of ESL teachers’ conceptions for engaging in PD is vital for them to gain productive outcomes from prevailing Professional Development (PD) opportunities. The qualitative case study reported here investigated the implications of PD initiatives to heighten ESL teachers’ quality in their professional practice. The study used semi-structured interviews to gather data from ten in-service ESL teachers of a government university in Sri Lanka and, Thematic Analysis for recognizing, arranging and interpreting data. The results demonstrated four key implications of PD that empowered teachers to enhance the quality in their practice: (a) refinement of teachers’ character and behaviour (b) sustaining teachers’ currency of knowledge in terms of qualifications, content and overall knowledge and experience, thereby growing into quality practitioners with certificates and credentials, (c) enriching teachers’ quality of delivery via improved skills and expertise, and (d) maintaining teachers’ professional standards. These out-comes could be achieved through both independent and sponsored PD activities regulated by democratic and managerialist principles respectively. The study has valuable implications for PD providers and policy makers, and points to the need of considering them in designing, delivering and framing PD activities in ESL in order to achieve optimum learner outcomes via meaningful PD initiatives.","PeriodicalId":437005,"journal":{"name":"Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130582155","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}

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Economic Growth and Environmental degradation nexus in Sri Lanka 斯里兰卡的经济增长与环境退化关系

Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Pub Date : 2021-08-01 DOI: 10.4038/sljssh.v1i2.45

M. Alabi, M. Ojuolape, J. Yaqoob

{"title":"Economic Growth and Environmental degradation nexus in Sri Lanka","authors":"M. Alabi, M. Ojuolape, J. Yaqoob","doi":"10.4038/sljssh.v1i2.45","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/sljssh.v1i2.45","url":null,"abstract":"The environmental Kuznet curve (EKC) hypothesis suggests that at the initial stage of development, as the economy grows, environ-mental degradation rises until a turning point is reached whereby the pollution and degradation begins to decline while the economy continues to grow (it follows an inverted U curve). Is the environmental Kuznet curve (EKC) hypothesis applicable to Sri Lanka? What factors are responsible for environmental degradation in Sri Lanka? This study seeks to provide answers to these fundamental questions. Sri Lanka is one of the emerging economies in South Asia with an average annual growth rate of 4.16% in the last five years and the industrial sector contributing 25% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This hypothesis is tested for Sri Lanka. This study also investigated the major factors behind environmental pollution and degradation in Sri Lanka. Annual data from 1971-2014 was used in estimating the relationship between economic growth and environmental degradation. Carbon (CO2) emission was used as a proxy for environmental degradation while real per capita income was used as a proxy for growth along with other explanatory variables. An autoregressive distributed lag model was used. Results showed that neither the EKC hypothesis nor the pollution haven hypothesis are applicable to Sri Lanka. Long term estimates revealed that increasing energy consumption leads to increasing CO2 emissions. Secondly, it was observed that energy consumption, urbanization, trade openness, tourism and financial development are among the key factors responsible for the quality of the environment. The policy implication is that the Sri Lankan Government, in conjunction with the private sector must adopt energy saving and environmental friendly technologies and production processes in order to save the environment.","PeriodicalId":437005,"journal":{"name":"Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities","volume":"112 41","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120823356","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}

引用次数: 4

A Survey of Finding Trends in Data Mining Techniques for Social Media Analysis 社交媒体分析的数据挖掘技术趋势调查

Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Pub Date : 2021-08-01 DOI: 10.4038/sljssh.v1i2.36

A. C. Nanayakkara, B. Kumara, R. Rathnayaka

{"title":"A Survey of Finding Trends in Data Mining Techniques for Social Media Analysis","authors":"A. C. Nanayakkara, B. Kumara, R. Rathnayaka","doi":"10.4038/sljssh.v1i2.36","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4038/sljssh.v1i2.36","url":null,"abstract":"Social media have become very popular in the last few decades. Users rely on social network sites like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and LinkedIn for both information and entertainment needs. Social media analytics with data mining technology could be an analysis axis centered on extracting trends, patterns, and rules from the social media pool, to serve the people and organizations to have optimum choices concerning many disciplines. The traditional media analytical techniques appear obsolete and inadequate to gratify this immense array of unstructured social media knowledge characterized by three key problems namely; size, noise, and dynamism, predominantly shifting from the batch scale to the streaming one. The objective of this study is to investigate the data mining techniques that were used by social media networks during the years 2010 and 2020. The effort is a systematic review of content analysis in studies within the field of social media analytics that was published in principal databases. 125 articles were reviewed in this paper. Content analysis was implemented based on their approach, tools utilized, language, the dataset used, country, year, and nature of the experiment. The review discovered that 22 data mining techniques were employed with social media data while frequently used in Artificial Neural Network (ANN), Bayesian networks (BN) and Support Vector Machine (SVM), K-means Clustering, and Neuro-Fuzzy Logic Approach. The study has focused to assist the involved analyzers and educators to capture the research trends and problems associated with the Social media analytics process with future research initiatives.","PeriodicalId":437005,"journal":{"name":"Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126347230","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}

引用次数: 4

Climate-Smart Agriculture in Cascade Minor Irrigation System: Status, Scope and Challenges in Sri Lanka: A Case from Puttlam District 梯级小灌溉系统中的气候智能型农业:斯里兰卡的现状、范围和挑战:以普特拉姆地区为例

Sri Lanka Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities Pub Date : 2021-08-01 DOI: 10.4038/sljssh.v1i2.43

N. Sakalasooriya

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