Rukshan, A.; Baravalle, A.(University of East London, UK, 2011-01-01)
Web usability arose as research field at the very beginning of the Internet era. The term "Internet" was formally defined in October 1995; nevertheless Nielsen wrote his first article on web usability in May 1995, and ...
Rukshan, A.; Baravalle, A.(University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2012-11-30)
Web usability is continuing to be a pressing problem. For number of years researchers have been developed tools for doing automatic web usability testing. This study uses our own PHP, and MySQL based tool AWebHUT: Automated ...
It is a long term desire of the computer users to minimize the communication gap between the computer and a human. On the other hand, almost all ICT applications store information in to databases and retrieve from them. ...
Rukshan, A.; Miroshan, A.(Faculty of Management Studies and Commerce, University of Jaffna, 2014-05-16)
Dengue is a notifiable communicable disease in Sri Lanka since 1996. Dengue fever spread rapidly among people living in most of the districts of Sri Lanka. The present notification system of dengue communicable diseases ...
Adapting web pages to cultural preferences has been shown to improve communication effectiveness. However, the lack of a set of research-based web design guidelines or best practices renders the creation of culturally ...
Research shows that different user interfaces are needed for successful communication with different cultural groups, yet studies on cross-cultural website usability are limited. This research works towards creating a ...
The internationalization of websites should lead to highly usable web pages with excellent user experience. As a result, the understanding and implementation of users’ preferences for functionality, look, feel, and aesthetics ...
Noufa, S.S.; Rukshan, A.; Shanmuganathan, K.(Department of Business Management, Wayamba University of Sri Lanka, 2022-12-30)
Nowadays, Social Media Marketing (SMM) is a powerful promotional tool for influencing consumers’ purchase intention. The aim of this study is to explore the impact of SMM activities such as entertainment, customization, ...
Mathushan, P.; Pushpanathan, A.(Sri Lanka Forum of Entrepreneurship, 2022-03-25)
Entrepreneurial activities are regularly started and completed by people inside the firms. Firms by themselves sit idle. Most aggregate activities that occur inside organizations combine their exercises. During the last ...
This study develops a new conceptual model through an extensive review of previous literature and explains how gamification artifacts such as points rewarding is inducing intrinsic motivation and how those motivational ...
Lashanda, M.; Prasheenaa, J.; Nanthagopan, Y.(Chartered Institute of Personnel Management Sri Lanka (Inc.), 2023-06-25)
Both as power and as a resource knowledge is strategically important for individuals and enterprises. The third industrial revolution is based on knowledge which changes the way an individual, an enterprise or even a nation ...
Prasheenaa, J.; Harikaran, S.(Faculty of Commerce and Management Eastern University, Sri Lanka, 2021-11-24)
In today's competitive banking industry scenario, the ability to work with emotions is an
essential part of any individual's skills. The excellence of work is achieved at the expense
of personal life. Everyone expects ...
Prasheenaa, J.; Thavakurnar, D.(Facuty of Commerce and Management, EUSL, 2019-11-29)
In present times the concept of dynamic capabilities has gained center of debate as it has been considered one of the ways to deal with the changing environmental turbulence which eventually lead to decline of organizational ...
In Sri Lanka especially in Batticaloa, the studies related to dynamic capabilities, organizational inertia and organizational performance are rare and there is need to fill this empirical gap by investigating the influence ...
Perera, M.I.D.; Thayaparan, A.(Faculty of Management and Finance, University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka, 2023-08-30)
While acknowledging that Sri Lanka's agriculture industry substantially contributes to the country's total agricultural output, experts have found that spices are not produced at total capacity. Turmeric, for example, is ...
Ishara, I.D.C.; Thayaparan, A.; Gunathilaka, G.Y.N.(Department of Business Economics, University of Sri jayewardenepura, 2023-05-13)
Fertilizer, whether inorganic or organic is one of the most essential inputs for increasing productivity which leads to increase the agricultural production and the income of the farming community. Therefore, understanding ...
Rajapaksha, E.P.G.S.R.; Thayaparan, A.(University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka, 2023-06-06)
This study investigates the determinants of smoking prevalence and examines the impact of socio-economic status and smoking related factors on smoking behavior among male adolescents in Anuradhapura district of Sri Lanka. ...
Thayaparan, A.; Ushadhani, R.; Gunathilaka, G.Y.N.(Journal of Management, Social Sciences and Humanities, 2023-05-09)
A sound understanding of the demographic and farming characteristics of smallholder farmers and how they stimulate their crop diversification decisions would help policymakers make appropriate measures for encouraging crop ...
Yogendrarajah, R.; Mithila, G.; Dilaxshana, S.(Faculty of Business studies, University of Vavuniya, 2022-07-04)
The dividend policy is one of the essential areas in corporate finance, and this study focuses on analyzing the impact of firms’ dividend policy on shareholders' wealth. The companies listed on Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE), ...
Yapa, Y.M.D.J.; Ranasinghe, V.R.(Faculty of Business studies, University of Vavuniya, 2022-07-04)
Students and teachers universally acknowledge the advantages of adopting e-books in education. Learning becomes more interactive and interesting with the use of digital books. Students can now actively participate in the ...