IPRC - 2018
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Item The Role of Youth Participation in Community Development(19th Conference on Postgraduate Research, International Postgraduate Research Conference 2018, Faculty of Graduate Studies,University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) De Thabrew, C.K.; silva, N.Youth participation in community development has been viewed as one of the most effective methods for promoting young people’s active engagement with social services. However, in rural communities of Sri Lanka, young people’s participation is most commonly related to their labour contribution. The core components of participation such as decisions, choices, and management are rarely seen. Addressing these issues this research, from a qualitative research method, aims to contribute to local understandings about youth participation in development. With a focus on Agalawatta rural area, it explores the grounded experiences of two youth groups in order to offer considerations for social practice, programme implementations and further studies. The research involved in-depth interviews, focus group discussions, and participant observations with youth, village heads, NGO staff, religious leader, a school teacher and young people’s parents in Mathugama Grama Niladhari divisions. Both Quantitative and Qualitative data were collected using semi structure questioner, focus group discussions and observations. The respondents considered charitable contributions of youth as their primary form of active participation, including educational awareness and campaigns in the community. There are some positive outcomes from youth engagement; one of the influential aspects is contributed by local partnerships. This substantial contribution stimulates interactions between key local members and youth so they can work together for positive change in the community. This research suggests that young people do need support from key local groups or recognized agents to assist them in initiating participation in terms of forming groups, and providing training and coaching to open new possibilities and strengthen youth’s initiatives. These include religion and development, power relations, and women’s leadership. This research suggests that these factors either motivate youth participation because of social norms and cultural acceptanceItem Implementation of an Online Histopathology Reporting System in the Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya(19th Conference on Postgraduate Research, International Postgraduate Research Conference 2018, Faculty of Graduate Studies,University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2018) Hettiarachchi, W.G.; Ediriweera, E.P.D.S.; Mahendra, B.A.G.G.; Liyanage, S.K.; Hewavinsenthi, S.J.D.S.; Ratnayake, R.M.U.S.The Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya provides histopathology reporting for the Colombo North Teaching Hospital (NCTH) as an honorable service. The department currently uses a standalone Microsoft access database to generate reports and it has limited data retrieval capabilities. A newer system was required to address the issues faced, mainly a prolonged turnaround time caused by lack of clinical data, inability to track delays in sample processing, delays in data entry and report dispatch. More efficient data retrieval for research purposes and monitoring of postgraduate training were also considered important. The aim of the work was to implement anonline histopathology reporting system that has facility to track the reporting stage, postgraduate evaluation and data retrieval for researches. Every report is attached with a diagnostic code that can be used in research purposes. A web-based application was developed that has ability to capture data at each step from specimen receiving from the surgery theatre until dispatch of reports. The system has developed to easily customizable to different settings. Thus, it has facility to add new reporting templates, anatomical sites, surgical specimens or diagnostic codes to system through web forms. Data entry was facilitated by using drop down menus and prompts. Standard templates for reports with option to edit were uploaded enabling quick report generation. It facilitates postgraduate supervision by enabling the trainer to determine the time taken, quality and quantity of work done by the trainees. Mainly open source scripting languages and databases were used to developed the system: PHP, HTML 5, CSS Javascript, Ajax and MySQL. The system hosted on the faculty intranet and available 24/7 from anywhere at the faculty. The system supports both windows and androids operating systems and the system can be accessed in desktop and tablet computers using any commonly used modern web browsers.