Within South Asia, Sri Lanka represents fastest aging with 13% of the population was aged over 60's in 2011, whereas in India it was 8%. Majority of the Sri Lankan population based genetic studies have confirmed their origin on Indian mainland. As there were inadequate data on aging cytoskeletal pathologies of these two nations with their close genetic affiliations, we performed a comparison on...

1Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia de Ambientes Aquáticos Continentais, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Av. Colombo, 5790, 87020-900 Maringá PR, Brazil. (GC) [email protected] 2Núcleo de Pesquisas em Limnologia, Ictiologia e Aqüicultura, Universidade Estadual de Maringá, Av. Colombo 5790, 87020-900 Maringá, PR, Brazil. Alterations on piscivorous diet following change in abundance of pre...

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2. Submitted by* Dr. Manuj C Weerasinghe, on behalf of the committee on R&D for developing medicines and devices for diabetes mellitus Contact details Dr. Manuj C Weerasinghe, No 25, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Kynsey Road, Colombo 8, Sri Lanka. Email: [email protected] Tele:+94 718021167 (Sri Lanka will be the lead country from the region for this project) 3. Target disease o...

1 Department of Parasitology, University of Kelaniya, Ragama, Sri Lanka, 2 Department of Microbiology, National Institute of Preventive and Social Medicine (NIPSOM), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 3 Asociacion Civil Selva Amazónica, Iquitos, Perú, 4 Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, University of Colombo, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 5 University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana, 6 National Institute for Medical Research, ...

1 Global Health Initiative, MacMillan Center, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, 2 HealthNet TPO, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 3 Sangath, Goa, India, 4 London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, 5 Department of Psychology, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 6 Makerere University School of Public Health, Kampala, Uganda,...

Received 06/08/2010 Accepted 23/02/2012 (004965) 1 Department of Food Engineering and Technology, São Paulo State University – UNESP, Rua Cristóvão Colombo, 2265, CEP 15054-000, São José do Rio Preto, SP, Brazil, e-mail: [email protected] 2 Physics Department, São Paulo State University – UNESP, Rua Cristóvão Colombo, 2265, CEP 15054-000, São José do Rio Preto, SP, Brazil *Corresponding aut...

This paper examines urbanization trends, the growth of Colombo and its present state of development. It looks at the approaches to the planned interventions in the city and demonstrates how a uni-directional urban development has had a detrimental impact upon healthy growth and quality of life in a city where half of the population still live in slums and shanties. It shows that the city has be...