The SRI funds performances remain inconclusive. Hence, more studies need to be conducted to determine if SRI funds systematically underperform or outperform conventional funds. This paper has employed dynamic mean-variance model using shortage function approach to evaluate the performance of SRI and Environmentally friendly funds. Unlike the traditional methods, this approach estimate fund perf...

OBJECTIVE To review the number of research publications in the field of mental health in Sri Lanka from 1900 to 2009. METHODS A search of all publications in psychiatry and mental health from Sri Lanka was conducted using Pubmed, all medical journals published in Sri Lanka and researchers. The identified papers were reviewed for their content and categorised as research in psychiatry and ment...

Atul Anand Bajoria1, M L Asha2, Medha Babshet3, Preeti Patil3, Piyush Sukhija1 1Post-graduate, Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Sri Hasanamba Dental College and Hospital, Hassan, Karnataka, India, 2Professor and Head, Department of Oral Medicine and Radiology, Sri Hasanamba Dental College and Hospital, Hassan, Karnataka, India, 3Assistant Professor, Department of Oral Medicine and Rad...

BACKGROUND Leishmania donovani is the etiological agent of visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in the Indian subcontinent. However, it is also known to cause cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) in Sri Lanka. Sri Lankan L. donovani differs from other L. donovani strains, both at the molecular and biochemical level. To investigate the different species or strain-specific differences of L. donovani in Sri Lanka ...

OBJECTIVE To test the interrater and intrarater reliability of the Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Disease Activity Index 2000 (SLEDAI-2K) Responder Index (SRI-50), an index designed to measure ≥ 50% improvement in disease activity between visits in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus. METHODS This was a multicenter, cross-sectional study with raters from Canada, the United Kingdom, and A...

Within South Asia, Sri Lanka represents fastest aging with 13% of the population was aged over 60's in 2011, whereas in India it was 8%. Majority of the Sri Lankan population based genetic studies have confirmed their origin on Indian mainland. As there were inadequate data on aging cytoskeletal pathologies of these two nations with their close genetic affiliations, we performed a comparison on...

~ S ocially responsible investing (SRI) is moving into the mainstream of institutional investment management, but not uniformly and not without doubt. A 2004 Mercer survey reveals that 89% of investment managers in Asia and 69% of investment managers in Europe believe that SRI would be in the investment mainstream in the coming ten years, but only 36% of investment managers in the U.S. share th...

BACKGROUND South Asians living in western countries are known to have unfavourable cardiovascular risk profiles. Studies indicate migrants are worse off when compared to those living in country of origin. The purpose of this study was to compare selected cardiovascular risk factors between migrant Sri Lankans living in Oslo, Norway and Urban dwellers from Kandy, Sri Lanka. METHODS Data on non...