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    Essential Factors for the Advancement of the Yarn Manufacturing Sector in Sri Lanka: Implications of the Socio- Economic Environment
    (SLIIT Business School, 2023-12-14) De Silva, M; Withanaarachchi, A
    The textile and apparel sector are well-represented in the industrial sector of the Sri Lankan economy. It has become Sri Lanka’s largest export industry since 1986. Enhancing quality and decreasing expenses are the main priorities for the Sri Lankan apparel sector, highlighting the necessity for deliberate growth. More significant export revenue and considerable import expenditure on raw materials like yarn, fabric, etc., for apparel manufacturing, is a common phenomenon in the Sri Lankan apparel sector leading to less economic value generation. Thus, this paper studies the key factors affecting the advancement of the yarn manufacturing sector in Sri Lanka and the implications of the turbulent socio-economic environment. To address the identified research problem, this study proposes a conceptual framework through a systematic literature review, which identifies the essential factors for the advancement of the yarn manufacturing sector in Sri Lanka under the current socio-economic environment. The Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) method was used to capture the interactive relationships among the key factors and the advancement of the yarn manufacturing sector in Sri Lanka. Data was gathered using questionnaires from employees in the yarn manufacturing industry, textile industry, and textile engineering students in Sri Lanka. The results show that the quality of raw materials, machines and technology and better investors have a positive relationship with the advancement of the yarn manufacturing sector in Sri Lanka.
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    Impact of Terminal Handling Charges on the Performance of Non Vessel Operating Common Carriers with Special Reference to the 2013 Government Regulation
    (Emerald Publishing, 2022-12-01) De Silva, M; Vilasa, S; Bandara, A; Weerasekara, H; Karunarathne, N; Galappaththi, K
    : Before the imposition of the regulation, terminal handling charges for containerized cargo were included in the all-inclusive freight listed in the bill of lading and were recovered from consumers at discharging ports. Since the regulation's implementation in 2013, terminal handling charges for containerized cargo can only be recovered from the contractually obligated party to pay them, not from the consumers. In this study, the researchers argue that the former is easier to execute because even though the government has implemented these regulations to secure the consignees and shippers, there are many negative impacts of the regulations on the non-Vessel operating common carriers, as well as indirect impact on the whole shipping industry and the economy of the country. Thematic analysis was used to analyze the data gathered through semi-structured interviews, and thirteen initial codes were identified under three themes during the analysis. Through the findings, the researchers have examined the impact of terminal handling charges in the Colombo port on the non-Vessel operating common carriers after enforcing the 2013 government regulations, analyzed the functions of non-Vessel operating common carriers and their relationship with the major shipping lines, and last suggested the strategies to overcome the negative impact on nonVessel operating common carriers after enforcing 2013 government regulations. This study can guide future researchers and business sectors to construct their plans and processes to ensure that organizations run smoothly and consistently.
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    TrendiTex: An Intelligent Fashion Designer
    (IEEE, 2019-12-05) Wickramarathne, P; De Silva, M; Weerasinghe, C; Nanayakkara, H; Abeygunawardhana, P. K. W; Silva, S
    In a highly changing technical era, Intelligent Fashion Designing systems play a key role to bridge the gap between fashion designers and the customers. Most of the people specially females, are fond of fashion. Currently, fashion has become a way of defining a person's preferences and personality. Analyzing through a large number of fashion trends and selecting a one among them will be a highly time-consuming task. Even though most of the people are keen on fashion, with their busy schedules, spending time on selecting a cloth for an occasion among numerous numbers of designs available is a hard task. Therefore, it would be exhausting to select a proper design for an occasion for them. Prevailing the difficulty in finding the clothes up to the user's expectation, we propose a user-friendly fashion designing mobile application and a web application called "TrendiTex". Extracting user preference details, user's body shape predicting and recommending trending fashion designs according to their shape, generating the unique 2D new fashionable design for a specific event and the augmented fit-on facility are implemented in TrendiTex. This system represents an efficient approach to design new unique products according to user's preferences and gives augmented fit-on facility.