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    Mat to Clinic: A Systemati c Review on Role of Therapeuti c Yoga in Clinical Management of Mental Disorders and Wellbeing Promoti on in Integrati ve Health Care
    (Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, SLIIT, 2024-12-04) Perera, R
    Therapeuti c psychology has been directed towards uti lizing a synthesized approach of the Western and Eastern principles of health and healing with the emerging discipline of integrati ve care to adapt the potenti als of holisti c care relapse preventi on, and promoti on of a healthy lifestyle. Integrati ve care has introduced several therapeuti c approaches and one of the prominent mind-body interventi ons was yoga therapy or therapeuti c yoga. Yoga is a practi ce that has developed with the practi ce of physical posture (asana), breathing experience (pranayama), and meditati on (dhyana), which provided the foundati on for contemporary yoga therapy. Globally, both researchers and clinicians in mental health have uti lized this approach to treat common mental health disorders and indicate signifi cant outcomes related to the eff ecti ve management of mental disorders such as depression, bipolar aff ecti ve disorder, anxiety schizophrenia, and so on. In additi on, yoga therapy was eff ecti ve in the management of stress or the causes of mental disorders. Therefore, this study evidenti ally shows the contributi on of yoga in the management of common mental disorders and the tool of preventi on in future mental health care.
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    Approach or Avoid? A Quantitative Study on the Dualistic Nature of Social Media Envy in Undergraduates in a Non-state University in Sri Lanka
    (Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, SLIIT, 2023-11-01) Perera, R; Abeysinghe, N; Galappaththi, K
    Envy is a complex emotion studied recently, especially with the impact of social media. This study explored the dualistic nature of social media envy in Sri Lankan undergraduates from a nonstate university. Using a quantitative design, data from 155 participants were collected via Google Forms and analysed with Spearman’s Rank test. Results indicated statistically significant positive moderate relationships between social media usage and both benign envy and malicious envy. However, social media only accounted for 20% of benign envy and 8.8% of malicious envy, suggesting it’s only one of many contributors. Furthermore, the association between social media usage and benign envy was stronger than that with malicious envy, implying social media envy may be less severe than perceived in Sri Lanka. The study acknowledges limitations, such as sample size and focus on one university. Future research should address these limitations and explore the dualistic nature of social media envy in different populations and contexts. Overall, the study emphasises the need to understand the complexity of envy and how social media can amplify or alleviate it. Findings have implications for social media usage, regulation, and interventions promoting emotional well-being.
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    A Study of the Factors that Cause Lower Performance in Grade 11 Mathematics: A Study Conducted in the Gampaha District
    (Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, SLIIT, 2023-11-01) Perera, R; Rosa, S.R.D.
    This study was done to find the factors that affect the poor mathematics performance of the Grade 11 students in the Gampaha district of Sri Lanka. To do this, the best-performing and the poor-performing zones in the Gampaha district were selected and a school was selected from each zone through simple random sampling. The data was collected through questionnaires and interviews. Thirty grade 11 students were selected at random from each school as the sample. Five students from each school were interviewed and 25 students from each school responded to the questionnaire. The major findings of the study were poor student-teacher interactions, no practice in solving sums, lack of basic knowledge, low motivation in students, and no instructional materials were used by the teachers when teaching. Therefore, the findings suggest that the teachers should be advised and trained on the ways to maintain good interactions with the students and on the ways of using instructional materials to deliver lessons. Moreover, workshops can be held to revise the basic knowledge. The parents and the teachers can be advised through workshops on the ways that they can motivate the students to learn mathematics and the ways that they can make the students practice more.
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    Semi-Automated Spice Packaging Machine for Middle Scale Business in Sri Lanka
    (SLIIT, 2022-02-11) Jayasuriya, A; Perera, R; Thihara, I; De Silva, S
    In Sri Lanka, small scale spice packaging businesses use traditional methods while middle scale spice packaging businesses use separate machineries for each individual tasks such as weighing, filling, and sealing processes. Comparatively, considering the higher demand for large-scale spice products in the market, they use highly expensive, technically improved, automated machinery. According to the researches and the site visits, it is observed that currently, there is no affordable packaging machine available in the local market for middle scale businessmen, which includes all weighing, filling and sealing processes in a single system. Therefore, it limits their profits and production. The current used methods in middle scale businesses cause high wastage of raw materials, less accuracy, less hygienic, higher labor costs, and low efficiency. This project proposes a semi-automated, Arduino based machinery for middle scale spice packaging business where a packet is fed manually to the system, while weighing, filling, and sealing processes are automated and sequentially completed. The operation of this machine can be carried out with an involvement of a single laborer. The designed product is pneumatic based and uses some sensors for position, weighing and level detection, heating element, stepper motors, pneumatic system components for smooth operation and Arduino as the micro controller to make it cost effective. With this innovative structure, three packets can be filled and sealed within fifteen seconds while the current used method takes fifteen seconds to complete this process for a single packet. Cost and time effectiveness, reducing ingredient wastage and labor cost are the main advantages of this project. Due to the COVID-19 health restrictions, the hardware implementation is partially completed but to illustrate the working principle and the design plan, a 3D animated model was implemented using SolidWorks, incorporated with electrical stimulation in the Proteus software package.