Precision Agriculture is completely new to the Sri Lankan agricultural community. The objective of this paper is to identify the methods and implementations that can be applied to the agricultural sector of Sri Lanka. While composing the framework with identified implementations the cost, scientific and technological knowledge of the farmers were taken into consideration.

The MCM gene from the archaeon Halobacterium, with and without its intein, was cloned into an Escherichia coli expression vector, overexpressed and the protein was purified and antibodies were generated. The antibodies were used to demonstrate that in vivo only the processed enzyme, without the intein, could be detected.

Motivation: A large fraction of Open Reading Frames (ORFs) identified as “hypothetical” proteins correspond to either “conserved hypothetical” proteins, representing sequences homologous to ORFs of unknown function from other organisms or to hypothetical proteins lacking any significant sequence similarity to other ORFs in the databases. Elucidating the functions and 3D structures of such orpha...

Since the Asian economic crisis of the late 1990s, many countries in the region are embarking on programs to develop their financial systems to minimise or prevent such an incident in the future. This paper looks at Sri Lanka as an example of an underdeveloped bond market and its progress to date in reducing the divide. Comparisons and advice can be sought from developed economies, however the ...

Four species representing three genera of halophilic archaebacteria were examined for the presence of genomic sequences that encode proteins of the superoxide dismutase family. Three species, Halobacterium cutirubrum, Halobacterium sp. strain GRB, and Haloferax volcanii, contain duplicated (paralogous) genes of the sod family; a fourth species, Haloarcula marismortui, contains only a single gen...