A Study of Dance Usage in Kusa Paba Movie

A dance technique used to supplement the acting can be identified in modern Sinhala films that have taken Indian historical stories as a source. The Sinhala film Kusa Paba, directed by Sunil Ariyaratne, is based on the Kusa Jãtaka in the book Pansiya Panas Jathaka Potha, and it is set in North Indian social culture. The research problem of this study is to investigate how the proposed social culture is revealed through the use of dance in the Kusa Paba film. The central assumption of this study is to identify the use of dance in this film and, secondarily, to recognize the proposed social culture. This study is based primarily on qualitative data and inductive reasoning. The data gathered through the methods of watching the film, library research, and interviews has been presented as a contextual analysis. For those dance scenes, costumes and composition, background decoration, and music styles were well used to represent North Indian culture. The study revealed that South Indian culture is highlighted through the use of dances such as Kudirai Attam, Kathakali and the constant use of basic postures, foot movements and hasta mudras in Bharata Nãtyam. The study concluded that other dance-related features are more indicative of the projected social culture than the dance style and motions employed in the Kusa Paba movie. Accordingly, the research recommends that these negative impacts can be reduced through proper source analysis and through an optimal interrelationship with the film squad to choreograph the cinema dance. DOI: http://doi.org/10.31357/fhss/vjhss.v08i02.0

Knowledge, attitude and practices related to leishmaniasis among healthcare workers in an endemic area in southern Sri Lanka

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Development of a decision support system for landfilling applications in Sri Lanka

With increasing awareness of the harmful effects of solid waste mismanagement such as wild dumping, open burning and uncontrolled landfilling, many local authorities in Sri Lanka are now willing to invest in Engineered Sanitary Landfills. However, the lack of know-how and expertise is a general barrier for the rapid implementation of this approach in Sri Lanka. In addition, the expertise is not cheap when it comes to a narrow domain such as engineered sanitary landfilling and in most cases, local, authorities cannot afford to employ such experts, within their budgets The aim of this research is to develop a decision support system that will help local authorities in Sri Lanka to better manage and implement the landfilling projects. A decision support system is computer program that provide expert advice as if a real person had been consul led. These systems capture and deliver knowledge that is not easily represented using traditional computing approaches. It could be used by Local Authorities in planning and implementing landfill facilities. It can training tool for the staff while avoiding the cost of living a human expert. The central core of the knowledge base of BESTFill was acquired from the published text books and manuals. This knowledge consists of well established facts, rules, theory and guidelines that had been practiced over many years. The knowledge base was divided into four categories as site, technology, safety and post closure. The production rules were applied for the site related questions (site selection etc..) and objects or frames were used for other divisions namely technology, safely and post-closure. A unique feature of BESTFill is that it contains several sub modules by while the user can obtain a comprehensive background knowledge on landfilling and integrated solid waste management. The sub modules were named as literature, info desk, training tool, photo gallery, landfill rapid assessment tool, economics & costing, regulations and reports. As effort was made to make the system more user friendly, by using several user interfaces. The user not require process advantaged background in mathematical programming and computing methods. The BESTFill decision support system was validated in two steps. The first step involved the internal validation of the system through program debugging, error analysis, input acceptance and output generations. The second step involved in validating the system under real application situation. The landfill site at Nuwara Eliya was considered as the most appropriate site for the field validation of the since it comprises the basic essential criteria of an engineered sanitary landfill. BESTFill will serve as a guidance tool for landfilling applications in Sri Lanka. It is useful in planning, implementing, and trouble shooting at various stages of landfilling for the designers and operators. It helps the user to obtain every single aspects of the landfilling from the planning stage to the closure and post closure maintenance. The main beneficiary of the system will be the local authorities in Sri Lanka, which amounts 311. In the developing process it has been specially taken into consideration by analyzing the requirements, capabilities, weakness of the local authorities as the main largest group of the syste

Sensorial Quality and Physicochemical Properties of Newly Developed Ice-Cream, with Plant Originated Stabilizer; Modified Kithul (Caryota urens) Flour

Aims: Replacement of existing stabilizer in ice cream industry by using modified Kithul (Caryota urens) flour which helps to reduce usage of other ingredients which are used for improve the texture and creaminess of the product was examined. Kithul (Caryota urens) flour has better stabilizing ability than other flour and it can be used in product diversification in the food industry. The objective of this study was to use modified Kithul (Caryota urens) flour as a new plant origin stabilizer for the production of ice cream which can be easily applied for ice cream machines. Study Design: Three treatments were prepared as commercial stabilizer based (industrial mixture) as the control (A), and two samples with modified Kithul flour under two condition as without refrigerated (B) and 24 hours refrigerated (C) the modified Kithul flour with milk before preparing ice cream. Place and Duration of Study: Department of Biosystems Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture and Plantation Management, Wayamba University of Sri Lanka, between June 2019 and January 2020. Methodology: Three samples were evaluated for its sensory properties and selected ice cream sample from the sensory evaluation (Treatment B) was evaluated for proximate composition and evaluated for physicochemical properties vs industrial ice cream as a control. Results: The comparison revealed that modified Kithul flour-based ice cream (Treatment B) was better in terms of low cost of production, high overrun and high overall acceptability in the sensory analysis vs industrial ice cream (Treatment A). Conclusion: According to the results of the evaluation of quality attributes, without refrigerated milk-modified Kithul flour mixture before making ice cream is better than the industrial ice cream due to their low cost of production, high overrun and high overall acceptability in sensory analysis

Sri Lankan Journal of Anaesthesiology 17(1) : 42 – 44 (2009) AUDIT AUDIT ON ORGANOPHOSPHATE POISONING REQUIRING INTENSIVE CARE UNIT ADMISSION

Organophosphates (OP) inhibits both cholinesterase and pseudo cholinesterase activities. The inhibition of acetyl cholinesterase causes accumulation of acetyl choline at synapses and over stimulation of muscarinic and cholinergic activities. The mortality rate is 3-25 % (2). Early diagnosis and appropriate treatment is life saving. The clinical course of OP is very severe and may require intensive care management. Materials and methods: A retrospective audit was performed of Intensive Care Unit (ICU) admissions at General Hospital Nuwara Eliya for a period of six months from 01 st of October 2007 to 31 st of March 2008. 31 patients were included. The diagnosis was made from th