“What the hell else is the TNA to do?” On 18 March a penniless government promised to set up a North-East Development “Fund” and undertook for the umpteenth time to look into landgrabs and missing persons. The TNA yet again fell for the bull. ...
It is striking to note how he used Western notation to appeal to the tastes of this class, yet simultaneously refamiliarized them with “songs in their mother tongue” by using the Sinhala script rather than a transliteration.Just as Cumaratunga sought to remove North Indian influence from ...
The corresponding grade in Standard & Poor and Fitch is CCC, CC or C. While rating agencies have responsibility to both lender and debtor the double whammy is harsh; a one tier downgrade was unavoidable since medium-term prospects for the economy are poor. Recent i...
The questionnaire demonstrated high reliability with an internal consistency of 0.80 determined by Kuder–Richardson Formula-20 and an inter-class correlation coefficient of 0.97 for test re-test reliability. Conclusion The DAST-SL questionnaire is a valid and reliable tool to screen for drug use ...
The KR-20 test for the internal consistency of the DAST-SL questionnaire was 0.80 which is considered sufficiently reliable [47]. The test re-test reliability, which measures the stability of the tool over time, was also high [46]. The nine-item DAST-SL demonstrated an inter-class correlati...