Volume 15 No. 01 & 02 2010: Recent submissions

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Potential of Olax zeylanica (Olacaeceae) as a Botanical Insecticide for the Control of the Maize Weevil Sitophilus zeamais Motschulsky

Perera, M.T.H.P.; Karunaratne, M.M.S.C. (2010)

The possible use of leaf powder of Olax zeylanica in managing the maize weevil, Sitophilus zeamais was investigated in the present study. Mortality of one week old adults was obtained for five different doses each for ...
Aedes Mosquito Survey within the Premises of University Sri Jayewardenepura to Determine Its Population Density and of Seasonal Shift in Relative Abundance

Gunathilake, K.V.K.; De Silva, B.G.D.N.K. (2010)

The Premises of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura was surveyed in the month of May for possible breeding habitats of mosquitoes which were mapped out and the immature stages of collected were identified. Subsequently ...
A Simplified Non Radioactive DNA Probe Technique for the Field Detection of Sibling Species A of the Anopheles culicifacies (Diptera: Culicidae) Complex

De Silva, B.G.D.N.K.; Hapugoda, G.P.G.M.D.; Karunanayake, E.H. (2010)

Three cloned highly repetitive DNA sequences Rp36, Rp2l7 and Rp234 isolated from An. culicifacies Giles, sensu lato were developed as non radioactive DNA probes by using a biotinylated labeling and colorimetric detection ...
Trends in the Incidence of Filariasis in Rapidly Urbanizing Areas

Ganegoda, N.C. (2010)

Incidence of Lymphatic Filariasis by microfilaraemic prevalence in a study area of Kalutara district, Sri Lanka has been analysed here. Trends of annual prevalence data are parsimoniously identified by least square method. ...
Nutritional Evaluation in Five Species of Tuna

Karunarathna, K.A.A.U.; Attygalle, M.V.E. (2010)

Proximate composition was determined in different body parts (skin, white muscle, red muscle, head muscle and belly flap) of five species of tuna; Katsuwonus pelamis (skipjack, balaya,) , Thunnus albacares (yellow fin ...
Monitoring Aflatoxin Contamination Risks in Red Pepper Spice Produced in Turke

Basaran, P.; Bektes, A. (2010)

Even though Turkey is the third leading producer of fresh pepper, currently it only supplies 3-5% of processed red pepper spice in the international trade market because of high aflatoxin contamination. This study was ...
Hypercarotenaemia in Wistar Rats and ICR Mice and Correlation to Humans

Wageesha, N.D.A.; Ekanayake, S.; Jansz, E.R.; Lamabadusuriya, S.P. (2010)

Hypercarotenaemia can occur at any age but it is more commonly seen in infants and young children due to the excessive intake of carotenoid bearing food. The objective of this study was to induce hypercarotenaemia and ...
Effects of Gymnema lactiferum Leaf on Serum Glucose and Cholesterol Levels of Normo-glycaemic Wistar Rats

Bandara, W.V.R.T.D.G.; Ekanayake, S.; Jansz, E.R.; Balasubramanium, K. (2010)

Gymnema lactiferum var. lactiferum is a twining plant which belongs to the family Asclepiadaceae (milk weed family). This plant is distributed in many South Asian countries including, Assam, Malay Peninsula, Malaysia and ...
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Confidence Intervals for the Median of a Gamma Distribution

Banneheka, B.M.S.G. (2010)

The gamma distribution is often used as a model for positively skewed distributions. The median is better than the mean as the representative of the 'average' in such situations. Literature is available for inference ...

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