As Sri Lanka achieved malaria pre-elimination status in 2008, understanding popuiation genetic structure of current and previous local Plasmodium vivax isolates is important to (i) examine the degree of genetic isolation ...

Dengue is an arboviral disease transmitted principally by two vectors Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus. In the absence of a successful prophylaxis or treatment, the disease control relies solely on vector control. ...

Background: Sulfonamides are an important class of drugs and possess various biological properties. Tertiary sulfonamides with di-(2-picolyl)amine have been proposed as a new way to conjugate biological targets of ...

Between 1993 and 1996, a total of 452 patients were entered into a randomized trial evaluating eliprodil (a non-competitive NMDA receptor antagonist) in patients suffering from severe head injury. The primary efficacy ...

Background: Non-Steroidal Anti-Infammatory Drugs (NSAIDs) are the most commonly prescribed group of drugs with the highest market share. These drugs are used for pain relief and to reduce inflammation. Long-term therapy ...

Background. Genetic modification offers opportunities to introduce artificially created molecular defence mechanisms to vector mosquitoes to counter diseases causing pathogens such as the dengue virus, malaria parasite, ...

Deep learning has shown to achieve dramatic results in image classification tasks. However, deep learning models require large amounts of data to train. Most of the real-world datasets, generally insect classification data ...

It is crucial to plan the electricity supply to match the future demand since electricity has become a dominant utility. Sri Lanka as a developing country, has over 98% of households electrified, which sometimes suffer ...

Studies on Harmful Algae (HA) are rare in the Indian Ocean around Sri Lanka. The current study investigated diatoms and dinoflagellates in five Sri Lankan Southern coast locations, focusing on potentially harmful species. ...

We studied garbage consumption by Asian elephants at the Uddakandara garbage dump in southern Sri Lanka. Garbage at the dump was classified under six categories and quantified using a grid overlay. Elephants visiting the ...