aLaboratório de Biologia Celular, Departamento de Biologia, Instituto de Biociências, Letras e Ciências Exatas – IBILCE, Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” – UNESP, Rua Cristóvão Colombo, 2265, Jardim Nazareth, CEP 15054-000, São José do Rio Preto, SP, Brazil bLaboratório de Parasitologia, Departamento de Ciências Biológicas, Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas – FCFAR, Un...

Molecular identification, antifungal susceptibility profile and biofilm 1 formation of clinical and environmental Rhodotorula spp. isolates 2 3 Jorge Meneses Nunes, Fernando César Bizerra, Renata Carmona e Ferreira and 4 Arnaldo Lopes Colombo. 5 6 Laboratório Especial de Micologia, Disciplina de Infectologia, Universidade Federal 7 de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil; 8 9 * JM Nunes and FC Bize...

We continue the study undertaken in Efroimsky (2005a) where we explored the influence of spin-axis variations of an oblate planet on satellite orbits. Near-equatorial satellites had long been believed to keep up with the oblate primary’s equator in the cause of its spin-axis variations. As demonstrated by Efroimsky & Goldreich (2004), this opinion had stemmed from an inexact interpretation of a...

We continue the study undertaken in Efroimsky (2005a) where we explored the influence of spin-axis variations of an oblate planet on satellite orbits. Near-equatorial satellites had long been believed to keep up with the oblate primary’s equator in the cause of its spin-axis variations. As demonstrated by Efroimsky & Goldreich (2004), this opinion had stemmed from an inexact interpretation of a...

The University of Colombo, Sri Lanka has been in the forefront of the “Computer Revolution” in Sri Lanka. It has introduced the teaching of computer programming and applications as early as in 1967, more than a decade before other educational institutions, thereby producing, over the years, a large number of pioneer computer scientists and IT graduates out of students entering the university fr...

A coherent architectural framework is needed to be able to cope with the imposed requirements and realize the vision for the industrial automation domain. Future factories will rely on multi-system interactions and collaborative crosslayer management and automation approaches. The Service-Oriented Architecture paradigm empowered by virtualisation of resources acts as a lighthouse. More specific...

Objectives: To assess the prevalence of different degrees of depression, age and gender specific prevalence of depression and factors which are associated with depression among elderly residing in elderly homes in the district of Colombo. Method: A descriptive cross sectional study involving 100 senior citizens aged 60 years and above institutionalized in five randomly selected “Homes for the E...

Mobile learning is one of the major developing areas in recent years in educational field. Power of computers and laptops has changed the way learning happen and made ease of access to all materials and resources. Growing amount of literature in the area of mobile learning depicts the increasing use of mobile technologies for learning. This study is a part of the ongoing research in University ...

Colombo is a city surrounded by a large and interconnected system of natural wetlands. These wetlands which have historically provided a range of water services to the city are now believed to be threatened by degradation due to the recent changes in the urbanization patterns and urban lifestyle in Colombo. This paper presents a study on the current state and recent trends in surface water qual...

Traffic signal control (TSC) with vehicle-to everything (V2X) communication can be a very efficient solution to traffic congestion problem. Ratio of vehicles equipped with V2X communication capability in the traffic to the total number of vehicles (called penetration rate PR) is still low, thus V2X based TSC systems need to be supported by some other mechanisms. PR is the major factor that affe...