IPRC - 2017
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Item Health Rights of Estate Workers Provided by Health Policy of Sri Lanka: A Study Conducted in Madampe Estate(In: Proceedings of the International Postgraduate Research Conference 2017 (IPRC – 2017), Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017) Somarathna, D.H.A.S.It has been universally accepted that Health and Human Rights are reinforced and interconnected. If a man is to enjoy Human Rights, he must have a healthy life. Due to this reason, health rights have been given a focal concern in human rights. In contemporary world, all most all governments including Sri Lanka when formulating public policies have given a primary attention to rights of various segments of the society. During the last two decades, successive government of Sri Lanka that was inspired by millennium and sustainable development discourses have contributed to a different extent to promulgate and operationalize health policies to enhance the living condition of estate workers while ensuring their enjoyment of health rights. Despite such a situation, one of the major social criticisms, targeted the state policies was the not ensuring the conducive legal backdrops for these people to enjoy their full right to access to the healthy life in their areas. The aim of this study was to explore these puzzling situation pertaining to the health rights of state workers provided by the health policy in Sri Lanka by paying particular attention to Madampe estate. Hence, the objectives of the study are to examine the legal impediments to protect the health rights of estate labourers, their economic protection. By applying qualitative research methodology, 35 employees from Madampe Estate and 5 health officers were interviewed to collect primary data while referencing letters, reports, documents and e-sources to obtain secondary data. The descriptive method was used to analysis data to come up with explanatory findings for answering the research questions. One of the main findings derived was that health rights of state employees are not adequately secured both by legal provisions as well as operational routines. Some of the notable reasons that were encountered were the lack of sufficient sanitary facilities, lack of modern medical services and hospital facilities, amateur medical officials, lack of health clinics and health education programmes in the areas. For the protection of space for health facilities of estate people, synergic endeavour need to be take by state, private sector and community level actors. Reconsideration of legal provisions and practical actions should be done with comprehensive frame in order to cover up the entire community.Item A Study on Superstition on Black Magic among People in Sri Lanka(In: Proceedings of the International Postgraduate Research Conference 2017 (IPRC – 2017), Faculty of Graduate Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka., 2017) Ranaweera, K. G. N. U.; Gamage, T. C. R.Black Magic (BM) referred to the usage of supernatural powers for evil purposes. There are many myths and believes related to BM all over the world with different names. The origin of the BM goes to the primitive societies in the ancient era. Supernatural powers of the nature and the cosmic were being consider as living things and there was a belief that some people could take this powers to their own hand and control while using them for evil purposes. Although the integration of economic, political and social cultures created globalization with the progressive transition from a 'pre-modern' or 'traditional' to a 'modern' society, the beliefs of BM had been continued up to now as the exact way of they were. In Sri Lankan context, belief of the BM has been existed before the dawn of civilization. Sri Lankan tribes had been used these BM for evil and selfish purposes. After rooting caste system there was a special caste which contained the ability of BM. Rodi was one of them. Although the caste system had fade away from Sri Lanka, there are number of people who are being supplied BM with the business purposes while a group of people are being demanded BM. The main objective of the study was to examine the reasons on Superstition on BM among people in Sri Lanka with special reference to southern province. Purposive sample of 10 BM centers were selected according to paper advertisement from Southern Province Sri Lanka and data were collected by using semi structured interviews and observation from randomly selected 100 clients of the BM centers. An explorative analysis was carried out by using books, e journals and internet as secondary data sources to gain relevant literature on BM. Family conflicts, politics, education and the problems of the work place had made frustrated. People used to get rid of their frustration by doing BM. They believe in revenge from the other party who feel jealous and don‘t want to see them happy. At the same time research revealed that people take salvation from the stress by doing BM. Although the education and wealth considered as the motive power of development and modernization it had not affect in usage of BM. These superstitions revealed that the human has gone back from the mind while going forward in physically. Selfishness and suspicions among people has been increased. Media, newspaper advertisements, Television shows, Dramas and Films plays a vital role in promoting BM. At the same time media could be recognize as a great source to spread awareness about the danger and harm of BM which is has been rooted in our society before becoming very important and obligatory.Item Comparative Study on Decentralized Cloud Collaboration (DCC).(2017) Selvanathan, N.; Poravi, G.Cloud collaboration is a billion-dollar industry, for sharing and co-authoring files, in which the files are uploaded to a remote storage. In the current age of information technology, cloud collaboration expects to see a significant amount of growth, as more organizations look to leverage the benefits of the industry specifically in the areas of flexibility, cost-efficiency and security. However, despite the indisputable benefits provided by collaboration services, there are several inherent weaknesses such as high server costs for service providers, illegal data mining in trust-based architecture, security loopholes, and unethical government surveillance. Thus, decentralization (removal of client-server architecture) will mitigate these traditional server expenses, data failure and outage, as well as the increment of security, and privacy of data. In this paper, we describe about cloud collaboration, their impacts on adaption, existing research background relation to decentralized cloud collaboration, and proposing solutions using decentralized architecture. In particular, we propose an innovative approach, implementing client-side application, distributed storage, blockchain, and peer-to-peer (P2P) protocol. We propose client-side application which standardizes client side encryption (asymmetric encryption), file sharding, block exchange protocol, version control, and multiuser real-time collaboration through P2P communication to allow collaborators to store, share, and coauthor without third party reliance. The distributed storage consists of storage space contributed by volunteer nodes to store collaborators data. As generally data availability is a function of probability in a decentralized network, we propose a novel design using RAID mechanism, and node failure management to improve fault tolerance. The blockchain act as a distributed data management platform to store contracts of volunteers, and generalized Merkle DAG challenges, which data verifiers (miners) can use to ensure data integrity of data in other nodes though challenge-response technique. The P2P protocol maintain consensus in decentralized network between client-side application, distributed storage, and blockchain, by creating a distributed network with efficient message routing and other desirable qualities to improve fault tolerance of the network.