Bulagonda Eswarappa Pradeep,a Niranjana Mahalingam,b Bhavani Manivannan,a Krishnanand Padmanabhan,a,d Pravin Nilawe,e Girija Gurung,c Amit Chhabra,c Valakunja Nagarajaf Department of Biosciences, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, Prasanthi Nilayam, Indiaa; Department of Microbiology, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences, Prasanthi Gram, Indiab; Department of Ophthalmol...

This study tests weak and semi-strong form efficiency of the foreign exchange market in Sri Lanka during the recent float using six bilateral exchange rates. Weak-form efficiency is examined using unit root tests while semi-strong form efficiency is tested using co-integration, Granger causality tests and variance decomposition analysis. Results indicate that the Sri Lankan foreign exchange mar...

Mrigesh Bhatia London School of Economics, London Viroj Tangcharoensathien International Health Policy Programme, Thailand Ravi P. Rannan-Eliya Institute for Health Policy, Sri Lanka Aparnaa Somanathan Institute for Health Policy, Sri Lanka Phusit Prakongsai International Health Policy Programme, Thailand Tharanga Fernando Institute for Health Policy, Sri Lanka Supon Limwatananon International ...

This paper develops and validates a conceptual framework for evaluating the public value of e-government in Sri Lanka. The delivery of public services and the efficiency and effectiveness of public organizations are considered based on a comprehensive literature review. Structural equation modelling is used on the survey data collected in Sri Lanka for testing and validating the proposed framew...

Out of the total population of Sri Lanka, the Muslim community constitutes about 8%, while the Buddhist majority makes up 69,1%. Still, the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress, a Muslim political party, has been a significant player in the Sri Lankan political arena since the early 1990s. This article explores how they managed to gain support as quickly as they did, from the early 1980s to the present, a...

Plant poisoning is not an uncommon problem in Sri Lanka. A hospital based prospective study showed that Jatropha curcas, Ricinus communis, Dieffenbachia, Adenia palmata, Amanita phalloides and Thevetia peruviana are common poisonous plants implicated in poisoning among children in Sri Lanka. [1]. In the past, deliberate ingestion of yellow oleander seeds (Thevetia peruviana) was a common method...

Correspondence to Umesh Jayarajah, MD, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, PO Box 271, Kynsey Road, Colombo 8, Western Province, Sri Lanka Tel: +94-76-680-8625 E-mail: umeshe.jaya@ gmail.com Received: Dec 16, 2016 Accepted: Dec 19, 2016 Online First: Dec 21, 2016 Cite this article as: Jayarajah U, Jayakody AJA, Jayaneth MBJN, Wijeratne S. Prevalence of hypertension and its associated fa...

Peter Szolovits-Massachusetts Institute of Technology Harry Pople-University of Pittsburgh Casimir A. Kulikowski-Rutgers University Sholom M. Weiss-Rutgers University J. C. Kunz-The Institutes of Medical Science, Pacific Medical Center L. M. Fagan-Stanford University R. J. Fallat-The Institutes of Medical Science, Pacific Medical Center D. H. McClung-The Institutes of Medical Science, Pacific M...

Compounds originally designed as putative tubulin inhibitors were tested as antitubercular agents for inhibition of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis analogue of tubulin, FtsZ. Initial screening of 200 2-alkoxycarbonylpyridines found several that inhibited M. tuberculosis growth. Two compounds, SRI-3072 and SRI-7614, inhibited FtsZ polymerization and were equipotent against susceptible and single-...

the impact of meteorological and hydrological drought on groundwater resources in coastal deserts in the south of iran was investigated during 1991-2011, using standardized precipitation index (spi), standardized runoff index (sri), and groundwater resources index (gri). the results indicated that wet and drought spells governed the area in the first and second decades, respectively, which was ...