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(A) Study on the role of tax amnesties in personal income tax compliance in Sri Lanka
No full textThesis(Master) --KDI School:Master of Public Policy,2010masterpublishedby R. M. Jayasinghe
Sri Lankan dental students’ perspective on the effectiveness of e learning
No full textGeneral objective of the study was to assess the undergraduate dental students’ perspectives on the effectiveness of e learning involved in Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) program. Specific objectives were to identify the most efficient method for e learning for different components, to assess the students’ opinion and awareness on effectiveness of using different platforms and social media for e learning, to assess undergraduate students’ opinion and effectiveness of online teaching considering the barriers imposed and to identify areas and modes of improvement of e learning in BDS study program.
The study was carried out as a prospective, cross sectional descriptive type of study. Study sample was undergraduate dental students of the Faculty of Dental Sciences, University of Peradeniya. Undergraduate students who have completed all online lectures and assignments based on content taught online in 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th semester. A self-administered pretested questionnaire administered via a Google form which is a web based survey tool provided by Google Inc was used as the study instrument with a covering letter, information sheet and consent form annexed to the form. Survey link was disseminated as a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) or web address among dental students. Questionnaire was prepared for them to proceed once the informed written consent was obtained.
The questionnaire used in this study comprised of close-ended questions. The questionnaire consisted of demographic data and specific questions on awareness, attitude and practice of e-learning
The Public Sector Accounting, Accountability and Auditing in Emerging Economies: Insights, Gaps and Some New Ways Forward
No full textThe purpose of this paper is to introduce and synthesise insights from the papers contained in this special issue on accounting, accountability and auditing in emerging economies. This paper draws upon general desk research and the papers in this special edition. This paper shows that the rapid development of public sector accounting, accountability and auditing in emerging economies presents theoretical and empirical challenges because of the different ways in which public sector reforms and changes are understood and enacted within institutions. This paper provides academics, regulators and reporting organisations with robust evidence to help inform improvements in policy and practice. It is concluded that public sector accounting, accountability and auditing reforms in emerging economies are more likely to achieve set objectives if there is a high degree of local-level involvement in their implementation. Drawing together a collection of papers in this emerging research field, this paper highlights many areas where further academic research is needed as well as indicating some new ways forward
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Marijuana-induced recurrent acute coronary syndrome with normal coronary angiograms
No full textWe report a case of a man in his 40s presented to the emergency department twice, 1 month apart, with severe ischaemic sounding chest pain within 1 h of smoking marijuana on both occasions. He had elevated serial biomarkers and ischaemic electrocardiogram changes. His coronary angiograms on both episodes were entirely normal along with normal echocardiogram. This potentially suggests a coronary vasospasm as an underlying mechanism for these non-ST elevation myocardial infarctions. This should alert clinicians and the public alike to this potential risk of cannabis use.[Safaa AM, Markham R, Jayasinghe R. Marijuana-induced recurrent acute coronary syndrome with normal coronary angiograms.No Full Tex
DS_10.1177_0149206318776772 – Supplemental material for Perceived Workplace Gender Discrimination and Employee Consequences: A Meta-Analysis and Complementary Studies Considering Country Context
No full textSupplemental material, DS_10.1177_0149206318776772 for Perceived Workplace Gender Discrimination and Employee Consequences: A Meta-Analysis and Complementary Studies Considering Country Context by María del Carmen Triana, Mevan Jayasinghe, Jenna R. Pieper, Dora María Delgado and Mingxiang Li in Journal of Management</p
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
No full textBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
sj-docx-1-npx-10.1177_1934578X221114227 - Supplemental material for (<i>R</i>)-13a<i>α</i>-Densiindolizidine, A New Phenanthroindolizidine Alkaloid From <i>Cryptocarya densiflora</i> Blume (Lauraceae) and Molecular Docking Against SARS-CoV-2
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-npx-10.1177_1934578X221114227 for (R)-13aα-Densiindolizidine, A New Phenanthroindolizidine Alkaloid From Cryptocarya densiflora Blume (Lauraceae) and Molecular Docking Against SARS-CoV-2 by Wan N Nazneem Wan Othman, Fatimah Salim, Nor N Abdullah, Syahrul I Abu Bakar, Khalijah Awang, Lalith Jayasinghe and Nor H Ismail in Natural Product Communications</p
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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