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Enhancing Health System Resilience: Practical and Cost-effective Approaches to Face the COVID-19 Pandemic by Base Hospital UdugamaSri Lanka

Tharanga, K.J.M.D.; Fernando, G.H.S. (International Journal of Community Resilience, 2021-01-31)

COVID-19 is a pandemic from pneumonia of unknown origin, first reported in Wuhan city China as information extracted from the World Health Organization. It was first reported in Sri Lanka on 27 January 2020 by a Chinese ...
Patients’ perceived responsiveness in a selected tertiary care hospital, Sri Lanka

Tharanga, K.J.M.D.; Meegoda, M.K.D.L. (Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, 2019-11-18)

Background: At present in Sri Lanka, both patients and health care providers focus more attention on the quality of care than in the past. Responsiveness, which is a quality of care indicator, needs to be frequently ...
Psychological experiences of healthcare professionals in Sri Lanka during COVID-19

Perera, Bilesha; Wickramarachchi, Bimba I.; Samanmalie, Champika; Hettiarachchi, Manjula (BMC, 2021-03-24)

Background: The upsurge of COVID-19 has caused numerous psycho-social challenges for healthcare professionals because of its ability to spread rapidly in the community and high mortality rate. The seriousness of the ...
Sinhalese Version of the Global Physical Activity Questionnaire for Community-Dwelling Older Adults: Reliability and Validity

Wickramarachchi, Bimba I.; Siop, Sidiah J.; Perera, Bilesha (2021-05-21)

Background: A reliable and valid measurement of physical activity (PA) is vital for PA surveillance activities in community settings and for evaluating PA intervention programs targeted at older adults. This study assessed ...
Effects of Physical Activity on Physical Fitness and Functional Ability in Older Adults

Wickramarachchi, Bimba I.; Torabi, Mohammad R.; Perera, Bilesha (SAGE, 2023-02-02)

A cross-sectional survey was done to investigate the pathways the physical activity acts in improving physical fitness and functional outcomes of older adults (60 years and above) using 880 community-dwelling older adults ...
Associated Factors of Doctor Visits made by Urban-dwelling Older Adults in Sri Lanka: an Application of Anderson’s Model of Health Service Utilization

Wickramarachchi, B.I.; Siop, Sidiah J.; Perera, B. (BMC, 2022-07-11)

Background: Although universal free healthcare is available for all Sri Lankan citizens, older adults face somewhat unique obstacles when utilizing available healthcare services. The aim of this study was to examine some ...
Personal Determinants for Physical Activity Behavior of Urban-Dwelling Older Adults in Sri Lanka

Wickramarachchi, Bimba I.; Siop, Sidiah J.; Perera, Bilesha (SAGE, 2021-05-17)

Physical inactivity is a vital risk factor for the development and maintenance of chronic ill-health conditions among older adults. This study examined personal factors associated with physical activity (PA) behavior of ...
In vitro anti dengue viral activity of Aegle marmelos (Beal) dried flower aqueous extract

Jayasekara, K.G.; Soysa, S.S.S.B.D.P.; Suresh, T.S.; Goonasekara, C.L.; Gunasekera, K.M. (National dengue control unit, 2022)

Introduction and Objectives Dengue is an arboviral disease of global concern. No specific anti-dengue viral agent exists. We investigated the in-vitro anti-dengue viral activity of Aegle marmelos (AM; Common name: ...
Preliminary results of anti-dengue viral activity of five plants used in Sri Lankan traditional medicine

Jayasekara, K.G.; Soysa, P.; Suresh, T.S.; Goonasekara, C.L.; Gunasekera, K.M. (Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Science (SLAAS), 2019)

Dengue viral infection is one of the most important mosquito borne viral infections in the world. Nonetheless, there are no effective antiviral agents for treatment at present. For centuries plants and plant extracts ...
A Preliminary Study on the Anti-dengue Viral Activity of Munronia pinnata

Jayasekara, K.G.; Soysa, S.S.S.B.D.P.; Suresh, T.S.; Goonasekara, C.L.; Gunasekera, K.M. (University of Sri Jayewardenepura, 2022-08-18)

Dengue infection is a major health care problem in tropical and subtropical countries. The recently approved dengue vaccine has limitations, and there is no antiviral drug for treatment at present. For centuries plants ...
In Vitro Dengue Virus Inhibition by Aqueous Extracts of Aegle marmelos, Munronia pinnata and Psidium guajava

Jayasekara, Kalani Gayathri; Soysa, Preethi; Suresh, Thusharie Sugandhika; Goonasekara, Charitha Lakshini; Gunasekera, Kamani Mangalika (SAGE, 2023-02-15)

Dengue is an arboviral (insect-transmitted) infection of global concern. Currently, there are still no specific dengue antiviral agents to treat the disease. Plant extracts have been used in traditional medicine for ...
Use of Crop Plants for Removal of Toxic Metals.

Arunakumara, K.K.I.U. (Springer, 2011)

Phytoextraction is an environmentally sound and cost-effective technology for cleaning up soils contaminated with toxic metals. The success of phytoextrac tion depends on the ability of plants to produce large amounts ...
Identification of joint efficiencies in 13 mm finger jointed timber species used in Sri Lanka.

Muthumala, C.K.; De Silva, S.; Arunakumara, K.K.I.U.; Alwis, P.L.A.G. (Springer, 2018)

When using timber in construction and the furniture manufacturing industry, waste timber materials and short length sections of timbers which are dumped by sawmills are considered to be matter of concern. ‘Finger joint’ ...
Investigation of the Relationship Between Densities Versus Mechanical Properties of Sri Lankan Timber Species.

Muthumala, C.K.; De Silva, S.; Arunakumara, K.K.I.U.; Alwis, P.L.A.G. (Springer, 2020)

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships among wood density, modulus of rupture (MOR), modulus of elasticity (MOE), compression parallel to grain (CNP) and compression perpendicular to grain (CPG) in ...
Investigation of the Best Joint Type for Combining of the Finger-Jointed Timber Panels in Board Production.

Muthumala, C.K.; De Silva, S.; Arunakumara, K.K.I.U.; Alwis, P.L.A.G. (Springer, 2020)

Waste sawn timber material in furniture factories and short length of sawn timber are serious problems in timber industry. To further suggest ways to minimize the waste, by applying a jointing system, this paper utilizes ...
Seed germination dynamics of Gymnema sylvestre as influenced by sowing media and storage period.

Arunakumara, K.K.I.U.; Subasinghe, S. (Postgraduate Institute of Agriculture, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka, 2004)

Most medicinal plant species have become rare due to over exploitation from natural habitats. In general, a little emphasis has been placed on production of planting material for commercial cultivation of medicinal ...
Anti-hypercalcemic effect of orally administered recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae expressing salmon calcitonin on hypercalcemic rats.

Sun, P.; Zhang, X.; Zang, X.; Zhou, X.; Chen, Y.; Arunakumara, K.K.I.U.; Liang, B. (Springer, 2007)

Oral delivery of salmon calcitonin (sCT) to rats via a recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae was assessed. A synthetic sCT gene was cloned and expressed in S. cerevisiae yAGA2- sCT. Recombinant salmon calcitonin ...
Effect of growth hormone transgenic Synechocystis on growth, feed efficiency, muscle composition, haematology and histology of turbot (Scophthalmus maximus L.).

Liu, S.; Zang, X.; Liu, B.; Zhang, X.; Arunakumara, K.K.I.U.; Zhang, Xiaoqing; Liang, B. (Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2007)

The present study investigated the e¡ect of supple menting feed with transgenic Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 containing the Paralichthys olivaceus growth hormone (GH) gene on growth, feed intake and feed e⁄ciency ratio, ...
How does lead (Pb2+) at low concentrations affect on Spirulina (Arthrospira) platensis.

Arunakumara, K.K.I.U.; Xuecheng, Z. (University of Ruhuna, Sri Lanka, 2007)

Spirulina (Arthrospira) platensis, a blue-green photoautotrophic alga has widely been used for the production of high valued protein for human and animal feeding as well. The present study focused on bioaccumulation ...
Prevalence of anaemia in CKD-u patients in Girandurukotte and Wilgamuwa

Fernando, W.B.N.T.; Rathnayake, R.M.P.M.; Abeysundara, H.T.K.; Badurdeen, Z.; Hettiarachchi, T.W.; Sudeshika, S.H.T.; Ranasinghe, J.G.S.; Nanayakkara, N. (2017)

Anaemia is a major complication of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) once the glomerular filtration rate (GFR) drops below 60 mL/min. Chronic kidney disease of uncertain etiology (CKD-u) has become a serious public health ...

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