University of Ruhuna

Transforming diet in the workplace: effectiveness of a stage of change–based dietary intervention for sedentary office workers in Southern Sri Lanka – a cluster randomised trial

Abstract Background An unhealthy diet is a key risk factor for increasing non-communicable diseases (NCDs) among office workers and causes a significant health and economic burden. Interventions based on the stage of change theory are becoming more effective, and the effectivenes...

Sri Lankan ethnic cuisine on YouTube: a computational netnographic study of food-neophobic and food-neophilic audience reactions and the digital transmission of culinary heritage

Abstract Sri Lankan cuisine is a layered ethnic food heritage shaped by tropical agriculture and by centuries of Arab, Portuguese, Dutch, and British contact atop a South Indian rice-and-curry foundation, and it is increasingly encountered by global audiences not at the destinati...

Balanced Animal Nutrition for Better Feeds, Healthy Animals, Safe Food, and a Healthy Planet: A One Health Perspective—An Invited Review

Livestock production is increasingly expected to deliver not only higher output, but also better animal health and welfare, safer and more nutritious food, viable livelihoods, and lower environmental pressure. This invited review examines balanced animal nutrition within a One He...

Integrating menopausal neurocognitive and psychosocial dynamics into economic behavior: the Behavioral Finance–Menopausal Cognition (BF-MC) Model (MARiE WP2A study)

Objective: Traditional behavioral finance—which examines how cognitive biases, emotions, and context shape economic decision-making— often assumes cognitive stability, rationality, and consistent risk evaluation, based largely on male-dominated samples. Emerging evidence from the...

Nutrient–Microbiota Co-Regulation of Protein Conversion in Black Soldier Fly Larvae: The Role of Alkali-Soluble Protein and Gut Microbial Communities

Insect protein farming provides sustainable advantages in land efficiency, emission reduction, and bioconversion. A major challenge is optimizing nutrient composition to achieve cost-effective protein production. This study investigates the co-regulatory mechanism between alkali-...

A Hybrid Grey Verhulst Modeling framework for accurate tea yield forecasting in variable environmental conditions

Purpose Due to the Ceylon tea industry having faced a range of economic, structural and climate conditions over the past few decades, a robust statistical approach is essential for short-term forecasting of tea yield and tea income. However, the existing literature indicates that...