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Destination Satisfaction and Behavioral Intentions of the Tourists: A Study on Sri Lanka

Gnanapala, W.K. Athula (Belihuloya, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, 2013-11)

Customer satisfaction is an important concept in tourism marketing and it helps to create, to develop, and to maintain a favorable publicity and goodwill of a tourist destination. Satisfaction is a measure of how ...
Effects of land use change and forest fragmentation on the biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in the lowlands of Sri Lanka

Kudavidanage, E. P; Collier, Neil; Webb, E. W; Sodhi (deceased), Navjot S; Kotagama, S. W (Belihuloya, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, 2013-12)

Habitat disturbance caused by the rapid expansion of agriculture and anthropogenic land use severely impact native forest biota. Resulting changes in the environment include altered biotic community composition and ...
The euler–maruyama approximation for the asset price in the mean-reverting-theta stochastic volatility model

Baduraliya, Chaminda H; Mao, Xuerong (Belihuloya, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, 2013-12)

The trading of financial derivatives and products in financial markets has influenced the development of the world economy. Over the last few decades, a rapid growth in complex financial systems, which can generate unstable ...
In-situ trace element and bulk-mineral rb-sr and sm-nd isotope ratios of peridotites from horoman massif, japan: implications for isotopic evolution of mantle rocks

Ranaweera, L.V (Belihuloya, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, 2013-12)

Peridotite is the major rock type of which Earth’s upper mantle consists and exposed at the Earth surface due to volcanic and orogenic processes. Such exposed peridotites provide access to study geodynamic processes of ...
Re-contextualization of the Paradigm Shift in the Postglobalized Cinema in Sri Lanka: A Study of Cinema Works of PrasannaVithanage and Asoka Handagama

Senevirathne, S.S.A (Belihuloya, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, 2013-12)

While Sri Lankan cinema had originated in 1925, Sri Lankan token cinema which had commenced in 1947 completed its first paradigm in 1977. The era from 1978 to the present (2012) can be considered as its second paradigm. ...
Flood Vulnerability of the Ratnapura District: Application of Geographical Information Systems for flood Management

Edirisooriya, K.V.D (Belihuloya, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, 2013-12)

Sri Lanka has 65,000 sq.km of land area with many areas prone to manmade and natural disasters. The last few decades has witnessed the occurrence of an increased number of natural disasters in Sri Lanka. The Ratnapura District ...
The Entrepreneurial Little Tradition: Bottom Line Business of Sri Lanka

Ananda, A.S (Belihuloya, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, 2013-12)

The main purpose of this article is declaring the specific identity of business pattern of the bottom line and showings distinguish between upper strata. The study argues that stratified identification is common in the ...
Cascaded Subband Energy-Based Emotion Classification

Amarakeerthi, Senaka; Morikawa, Chamin; New, Ma Tin Lay; De Silva, Liyanage C; Cohen, Michael (Belihuloya, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, 2013-12)

Since the earliest studies of human behavior, emotions have attracted attention of researchers in many disciplines, including psychology, neuroscience, and lately computer science. Speech is considered a salient conveyor ...
Joint estimation of disease-specific specificities and sensitivities in reader-based multi-disease diagnostic studies of paired organs

Withanage, N.N.P (Belihuloya, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, 2013-12)

Binocular data typically arise in ophthalmology where pairs of eyes are evaluated, through some diagnostic procedure, for the presence of certain diseases or pathologies. Treating eyes as independent and adopting the ...
Market orientation and Business Performances of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) in Sri Lanka

Sajeewani, L.A.C (Belihuloya, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, 2013-12)

This study evaluates “Market orientation and Business Performances of Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) in Sri Lanka. According to previous studies market orientation is the prerequisite for a successful business ...
Rationale for Adoption of Joint Consultative Council / Employees’ Council by Sri Lankan Organizations: A Qualitative Research

Priyankara, H.P.R; Adikaram, A.S (Belihuloya, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, 2013-12)

Joint Consultative Council (JCC)/ Employees’ Council (EC) is a widely employed, but less studied employee voice representation mechanism in many Sri Lankan enterprises, including the Board of Investment (BOI) enterprises. ...
Alternative Methods for Geoid Determination and Its Geophysical Implications for Data Sparse Regions

Prasanna, H.M.I (Belihuloya, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, 2013-12)

Gravity information is vital for many geodetic and geophysical studies. One of the fundamental geodetic applications of gravity data is geoid determination. GPS-leveling data is also an important source of information for ...
Impact of refreancegroup influnce on customer switching propensity: retail banking industry of Sri Lanka

Kapuge, K.D.L.R (Belihuloya, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, 2013-12)

This paper aims to examine the role of reference group influence in determining switching behavior of retail banking customers. Data gathered through a survey questionnaire from a random sample of 300 retail banking customers ...
Fast Tidal Modelling Application Development for the Straits of Malacca

Gunathilaka, M.D.E.K; Razali, M.M (Belihuloya, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, 2013-12)

Conventional tidal computation techniques used many number of parameters like tidal constituents, datum, residuals in the modeling process. Because of this reason, they are inappropriate in real time onboard applications. ...
An Impact of Perceived Organizational Support and Personality on Employees’ Commitment to Change

Naotunna, N.P.G.S.I; Arachchige, B (Belihuloya, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, 2013-12)

The successful implementation of planned change efforts are still challenging. Many planned change efforts fall short without achieving intended results due to lack of employee commitment. Following this problem, the ...
Climate change impact on rice farming systems in Sri Lanka

Karunaratne, A. S; Nissanka, S.P; Weerakoon, W.M.W; Zubair, L; Ruane, A; McDermid, S (Belihuloya, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, 2013-12)

The Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP) is a major international effort linking the climate, crop, and economic modeling communities with cutting-edge information technology to produce improved ...
Developing a Coastal Vulnerability Index (CVI) for the North Western Coastal Belt of Sri Lanka

Pussella, PGRNI; Gunatilake, Jagath; Bandara, KRMU; Jayakody, JAS; Dammalage, TL (Belihuloya, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, 2013-12)

The climatic conditions in the world have been changed dramatically and it has resulted some unsuitable conditions for the well existence of the human life and the properties. These climatic changes have been badly ...
Role of gender in global fishery value chains: A feminist perspective on activity, access and control profile

De Silva, D.A.M; Bjorndal, Trond; Lem, Audun (Belihuloya, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, 2013-12)

Women in fishing communities play multidimensional roles. Women pervade fisheries and their roles were identified as workers in both fisheries, markets, processing plants and non-fishery, mothers who give birth to successors, ...
Deep ploughing adversely affects on soil water conservation in light soils

Vidhana Arachchi, Lal P (Belihuloya, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, 2013-12)

Deep ploughing is the one of options to alleviate soil compaction and upgrade low productive lands for better crop production. However, deep ploughing should be implemented with the knowledge of land characters. Field ...
Visitor Satisfaction in Agri-tourism and Its Implications for the Agri-tourism Farmers in Sri Lanka

Malkanthi, S. H. P (Belihuloya, Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, 2013-12)

The aim of this paper is to evaluate visitor satisfaction in agri-tourism and to understand the implications for agri-tourism farmers in Sri Lanka. This has been done following the Expectancy Disconfirmation Theory. There ...

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