IUCN Category: Vulnerable, A2cd CITES Listing: Appendix I Scientific Names: Melursus ursinus (occasionally Ursus ursinus); Melursus ursinus ursinus in India, Nepal, Bhutan, and Bangladesh; Melursus ursinus inornatus in Sri Lanka Common Names: sloth bear; Northern India and Nepal: bhalu; India: rinch, reech, richwa, asval, karadi, puni karadi, elugu bunti; Sri Lanka: walaha (male), waelahinna (f...

Department of Chemistry, University of Kelaniya, Kelaniya, Sri Lanka Z. Naturforsch. 43c, 790-792 (1988); received May 6/July 1, 1988 Leucinodis orbonalis, Lepidoptera, Pyralidae, Sex Pheromone, (£)-l 1-Hexadecenyl acetate (F)-ll-Hexadecenyl acetate is the major volatile component of the sex pheromone gland of female Leucinodis orbonalis collected from Sri Lanka. (-E')-ll-hexadecen-l-ol was als...

Rabies virus exists in dogs on Sri Lanka as a single, minimally divergent lineage only distantly related to other rabies virus lineages in Asia. Stable, geographically isolated virus populations are susceptible to local extinction. A fully implemented rabies-control campaign could make Sri Lanka the first Asian country in >30 years to become free of rabies virus.

To investigate the relationship of cutaneous leishmaniasis isolates from Sri Lanka to known species, we performed DNA sequencing and microsatellite analyses. We identified Leishmania donovani as the agent of Sri Lanka cutaneous leishmaniasis and showed that these parasites are closely related to those causing visceral leishmaniasis in the Indian subcontinent.

Information is scarce about sylvatic rabies virus in Asia and about rabies in palm civets. We report a novel sylvatic rabies virus variant detected in a golden palm civet in Sri Lanka. Evolutionary analysis suggests the virus diverged from canine rabies viruses in Sri Lanka in ≈1933 (range 1886-1963).

This paper presents the findings from the first stage of a preliminary study which assessed the potential for an electronic commerce portal in Sri Lanka’s Central Province. Sri Lanka is an island state of contrasts in terms of its electronic commerce and overall ICT capability. In the Capital of Colombo, ICT and electronic commerce capability are relatively sophisticated while in regional Sri L...

the study is focused on the public-private partnership in health sector in sri lanka. as a developing country, sri lanka faces a challenging task in order to improve the infrastructure facilities of the country after ending the thirty years of war. there is a requirement to develop the country as a whole along with all the industries such as education, health, transport, agriculture, etc. to me...

We examined genetic variation in black rats (the Rattus rattus complex) from Kandy District, Sri Lanka using mitochondrial cytochrome b (cytb, 1140 bp) and nuclear melanocortin 1 receptor (Mc1r, 954 bp) gene sequences together with database sequences. We confirmed the existence of two divergent mitochondrial lineages in Sri Lankan black rats, with genetic distance of 2.2% and estimated divergen...

Hump-nosed pit viper (Genus Hypnale) is a medically important venomous snake in Sri Lanka and Southwestern India which causes significant morbidity and mortality. Envenoming of this snake results in hemostastic dysfunction, thrombotic microangiopathy, acute kidney injury and death. This case describes an authenticated first case of ischemic stroke in a 65 year old male following envenoming by H...

Semi‐automated methods for mapping wetlands using Landsat ETM+ and SRTM data Md. A. Islam a , P. S. Thenkabail a , R. W. Kulawardhana a , R. Alankara a , S. Gunasinghe a , C. Edussriya b & A. Gunawardana b a International Water Management Institute , P.O. Box 2075, Colombo, Sri Lanka b Central Environmental Authority , No. 104, Denzil Kobbekaduwa, Mawatha, Battaramulla, Sri Lanka Published onli...