Strategies for Transition to Third Generation Cellular Communication in Sri Lanka

Intelligent Paging Strategies for Third Generation Personal Communication Services Networks

We consider the problem of minimizing the paging cost subject to the delay constraint in Personal Communication Services Network (PCSN). Here, we present two intelligent paging strategies for third generation PCSN. They are termed as sequential intelligent paging (SIP) and parallel-o-sequential intelligent paging (PSIP). Both are intelligent in the sense that cell(s) to be paged in a cycle are ...

Health care systems in transition III. Sri Lanka, Part II. The current status of HIV-AIDS in Sri Lanka.

In South Asia, Sri Lanka is considered to be a country with a low prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). However, most of the behaviours that facilitate the spread of HIV exist within the country. A large sexually active and potentially susceptible population aged between 15 and 49 years accounts for almost 55 per cent of the total Sri Lankan population of 18.7 million. The continuin...

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka is a country with an approximate area of 66 thousand square kilometers (UNO, 2008). The population is 20,409,946 and the sex ratio (men per hundred women) is 98 (UNO, 2009). The proportion of the population under the age of 18 years is 28% and the proportion above age 60 is 8% (UNO, 2009). The literacy rate is 97% for men and 99% for women (UN Statistics, 2008). The life expectancy at...

Women in Sri Lanka

Bioethics in Sri Lanka.

Bioethics took off slowly in Sri Lanka, but now there are ethics review committees in many medical schools and national organizations. All medical schools teach some medical ethics but there are not enough trained teachers. There are no national guidelines on research ethics. The Forum for Research and Development was formed with the aim of building a new ethical research culture. The bioethics...