Mobile phones have become a basic commodity and smartphone devices claim a continuously increasing market share. Modern smartphone devices are equipped with powerful processing units and high speed mobile internet capabilities. Mobile operators in turn are offering a wide variety of data plans. These developments will lead to an increase of internet access from mobile devices. At the same time ...

The Sri Lankan Journal of Infectious Diseases (SLJID) is an open access, peer-reviewed, biannual journal published by the Society for Microbiology (SSM). considers articles from all professional disciplines involved in field infectious diseases. has been publication since 2011, included DOAJ 2018 and a member COPE 2021. SLJID practices double-blind peer review policy. From 2022, publishes accep...

Existing Peer to Peer (P2P) collaborative editing systems do not allow any user to undo any modification. However, in such systems, users are not aware of others’ modifications, hence, they could obtain duplicate work, conflicting modifications or malicious contents. In this paper, we propose a new undo framework called “UNO: Undo as a New Operation” in the Operational Transformation approach w...

Critics of the journal system, for various reasons, suggest that peer review is merely one value-add in the publishing process, and that it might be provided by others or in other ways, thus not necessarily requiring a publisher. In contrast, I am going to argue that peer review in journal publishing is essential to the scientific system, and also connects it to the wider knowledge economy. Mor...

Most current methods to identify cell-specific RNA binding protein (RBP) targets require analyzing an extract, a strategy that is problematic with small amounts of material. To address this issue, we developed TRIBE, a genetic method that expresses an RBP of interest fused to the catalytic domain of the RNA editing enzyme ADAR. TRIBE therefore performs Adenosine-to-Inosine editing on candidate ...