4 papers
PoPStat-COVID19: Leveraging Population Pyramids to Quantify Demographic Vulnerability to COVID-19
Buddhi Wijenayake, Athulya Ratnayake, Lelumi Edirisinghe +8
Understanding how population age structure shapes COVID-19 burden is crucial for pandemic preparedness, yet common summary measures such as median age ignore key distributional fea…
Performance Benchmarking of Psychomotor Skills Using Wearable Devices: An Application in Sport
Mahela Pandukabhaya, Tharaka Fonseka, Madhumini Kulathunge +4
Mastering psychomotor skills, such as those essential in sports, rehabilitation, and professional training, often requires a precise understanding of motion patterns and performanc…
Devising PoPStat: A Metric Bridging Population Pyramids with Global Disease Mortality
Tharaka Fonseka, Buddhi Wijenayake, Athulya Ratnayake +7
Understanding the relationship between population dynamics and disease-specific mortality is central to evidence-based health policy. This study introduces two novel metrics, PoPDi…
The Role of Social Interactions in Mitigating Psychological Distress During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Study in Sri Lanka
Isuru Thilakasiri, Tharaka Fonseka, Isuri Mapa +6
Massive changes in many aspects related to social groups of different socioeconomic backgrounds were caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and as a result, the overall state of mental he…