It is well known that the use of prior information in the logistic regression improves the estimates of regression coefficients when multicollinearity presents. This prior information may be in the form of exact or stochastic ...

Lithium antimony oxide, Li3SbO4, is a candidate anode material for rechargeable lithium ion batteries. Static atomistic scale simulations based on the classical pair potentials are employed to provide insights into the ...

The removal of heavy metals from the environment has attracted considerable attention as they are toxic and non-biodegradable or destroyable. To minimize their hazard, they should be removed through either physical or ...

The accuracy of reconstructing missing daily temperature extremes in the Jaffna climatological station, situated in the northern part of the dry zone of Sri Lanka, is presented. The adopted method utilizes standard depar ...

Background & objectives: Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus are major arboviral vectors that are considered to lay eggs, and undergo preimaginal development only in fresh water collections. However, recently they have been ...

In this paper, we propose a new efficient estimator namely Optimal Generalized Logistic Estimator (OGLE) for estimating the parameter in a logistic regression model when there exists multicollinearity among explanatory ...

Anopheles stephensi, the major vector of urban malaria in India, was recently detected for the first time in Sri Lanka in Mannar Island on the northwestern coast. Since there are different biotypes of An. stephensi ...

: Vectors of mosquito-borne diseases in Sri Lanka, except for malaria, belong to the subfamily Culicinae, which includes nearly 84% of the mosquito fauna of the country. Hence, accurate and precise species identification ...

In this paper, we establish results fully addressing two open problems proposed recently by I. Ivanov, see Nonlinear Analysis 69 (2008) 4012–4024, with respect to the convergence of the accelerated Riccati itera tion ...

CXCL8 (interleukin-8, IL-8) is a CXC family chemokine that recruits specific target cells and mediates inflammation and wound healing. This study reports the identification and characterization of two cxcl8 homologs from ...