Dr. Cyril Fernando, one of Sri Lanka's greatest physicians was born in Colo­ mbo on the 30th April 1900. He was educated at St. Benedict's College and University College Hospital, Lon­ don. He graduated MBBS in 1926 and was elected a member of the Royal College of Physicians the same year; no mean achievement. Three years later he passed the London MD examination securing the gold medal for bei...

In this paper we present Colombo, a framework where web services are characterized in terms of (i) message exchanges, (ii) data flow, and (iii) effects on the real world. While all these aspects have been separately considered in the literature, Colombo is the first attempt to address all of them in a single coherent framework. Dealing with all these aspects together, in fact, is particularly c...

In this paper we present how to model data and processes in Colombo, a conceptual framework for Service Oriented Computing where web services are characterized in terms of (i) message exchanges, (ii) data flow, and (iii) effects on the real world. While all these aspects have been separately considered in the literature, dealing with all of them together is particularly challenging: Colombo, by...

He trained for his MD and Board Certification in Psychiatry from the PGIM (Colombo) at the North Colombo Teaching Hospital, Ragama and the Professorial Psychiatry Unit at University of Oxford, UK. He was a commonwealth scholar at Linacre College and a research fellow with the Oxford Project to Investigate Memory and Ageing (OPTIMA). He has more than 35 publications in peer reviewed journals and...

Endometrial cancer: ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up N. Colombo, E. Preti, F. Landoni, S. Carinelli, A. Colombo, C. Marini & C. Sessa On behalf of the ESMO Guidelines Working Group* Division of Gynecologic Oncology, European Institute of Oncology, Milan; Department of Pathology, European Institute of Oncology, Milan; Department of Radiotherapy, Manzoni Ho...

Based on the authors' fieldwork, this article examined the spatial and demographic growth of a slum community in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in association with the inhabitants' socioeconomic conditions. In this slum community, which is near the industrial and commercial centers and has developed especially since the early 1970s, most dwellers are migrants from other parts of Colombo. The increase of d...