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Showing 1 to 20 of 345 for “"SRI"”.
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Mysticism in Indian English Poetry (Sri Aurobindo, Puran Singh, Sri Ananda Acharya, Krishnamurti, India)
… a chapter each to mysticism in the poetry of Sri Ananda Acharya, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Puran Singh, and two chapters to Sri Aurobindo, the former on his mystical poetry, except Savitri, and the latter on the epic. A long chapter examines the minor mystical poets, Swami Rama Tirtha, Swami …
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Integrated reporting in Sri Lankan PLCs
… Integrated Reporting (IR) adoption decision by Sri Lankan Public Listed Companies (PLCs) from different perspectives. The thesis adopts an institutional theory with special reference to institutional isomorphism and institutional entrepreneurs as a theoretical framework for describing and …
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Sri Lanka's power sector : privatization issues
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1996.
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Insecticidal Natural Products From Sri Lankan Plants
… of the insecticidal compounds of three Sri Lankan plants, <i>Pleurostylia opposita</i> (Wall) Alston (Celastraceae), <i>Aegle marmelos</i> Correa (Rutaceae) and <i>Excoecaria agallocha</i> Linn. (Euphorbiaceae). After establishing the insecticidal activity of the extracts of three …
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The Sri Lankan Tamils - a comparative analysis of the experiences of the second generation in the UK and Sri Lanka
… that explore the experiences of the middle class Sri Lankan Tamil second generation in the UK. This study looks to remedy this by comparing the experiences of the educated middle class second generation in the UK with their contemporaries in Sri Lanka. By focusing on two complimentary research …
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Folk music of Sri Lanka : ten piano pieces
The purpose of the present research was to provide ideas for positive stress management in the orchestra world to help achieve high-level performances. The author developed the Orchestral Performance and Stress Survey and distributed it to 230 musicians of three orchestras that comprised full-time …
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Environmental assessment for wetland management in Sri Lanka
… framework for the management of wetlands in Sri Lanka and todetermine its practicability under the prevailing conditions of data availabilityand expertise.Eight functions and values are used to characterize wetland environments and thebaseline conditions are evaluated by the capacity to …
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The molecular basis of thalassaemia in Sri Lanka
… but very rarely on the Indian subcontinent. In Sri Lanka it is associated with a different 3' haplotype, suggesting a multicentric origin. Three new mutations were found; a frameshift codon 6-10 IVSI-129 (A--7C) in the consensus splice site and a second frame shift, CD55 (-A). Four a-gene …
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ESL teacher motivation in Sri Lankan public schools
… of motivation and demotivation reflected in Sri Lankan ESL (English as a Second Language) teachers. The participants were a convenience sample of English teachers currently employed in Sri Lankan public schools. The results of the study revealed that students themselves, the act of teaching …
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Entrepreneurial Action: Community and Buddhism contexts in Sri Lanka
… were conducted with 24 Buddhist entrepreneurs in Sri Lanka. Findings revealed that the actions of an emergent venture flow through two discrete phases: pre-launch and post-launch. The entrepreneurial action themes that emerged in the pre-launch phase were entrepreneurial intention and resourcing, …
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The Jungle Tide: “Collapse” in Early Mediaeval Sri Lanka
… the Early Mediaeval “collapse” of Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka, through explicit reference to the archaeological record. The study of Anuradhapura’s terminal period has been dominated by a reliance upon textual sources, resulting in a monocausal and politically charged narrative depicting an eleventh …
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Sri Lankans in Melbourne: factors influencing patterns of ethnicity
This study examines ethnic relations among Sri Lankan immigrants in Melbourne. It argues that though ethnicity is an ideology, the relationship between ethnic phenomena and social structural relations is not a deterministic one. There is an interdependency between the two so ethnic phenomena must …
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Sri Lankans in Melbourne: factors influencing patterns of ethnicity
This study examines ethnic relations among Sri Lankan immigrants in Melbourne. It argues that though ethnicity is an ideology, the relationship between ethnic phenomena and social structural relations is not a deterministic one. There is an interdependency between the two so ethnic phenomena must …
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The System of Rice Intensification (SRI): Complicating the global narrative
The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) developed in Madagascar by French Jesuit and agricultural scientist Fr. Henri de Laulanie in the 1980s has since been propagated to over 50 countries worldwide. By transplanting younger seedlings, increasing the spacing between individual plants, irrigating …
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The influence of Tamil diaspora on stability in Sri Lanka
… defeat of the LTTE in 2009 did not end the Sri Lankan ethnic problem. Pro-LTTE Tamils, who have migrated and settled in many parts of the world, have created many diasporic Tamil organizations to continue their fight for a separate state. The LTTE uses the actions of the Transnational …
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Corporate social responsibility and company performance : evidence from Sri Lanka
The concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) developed in the Western world since the 1950s, is novel to developing countries. Various CSR principles, standards, frameworks and indices have grown significantly as researchers to expand the concept in business and academic worlds. The …
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Strange(r) Maps: The cosmopolitan geopolitics of Sri Lankan tourism
… geopolitics. Specifically, I investigate Sri Lankan tourist maps as subversive examples of the politics of vision implicated within the historical formation of island-space under colonial mapping practices (i.e. Portuguese, Dutch, and British), and the contemporary political implications …
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