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Mosquito vectors developing in atypical anthropogenic habitats: Global overview of recent observations, mechanisms and impact on disease transmission

Ramasamy, R.; Surendran, S.N. (J Vector Borne, 2016)

The major mosquito vectors of human diseases have co-evolved with humans over a long period of time. However, the rapid growth in human population and the associated expansion in agricultural activity and greater ...

Molecular forms of Anopheles subpictus and Anopheles sundaicus in the Indian subcontinent

Sindhania, A.; Das, M.K.; Sharma, G.; Surendran, S.N.; Kaushal, B.R.; Lohani, H.P.; Singh, O.P. (BMC, 2020)

Background: Anopheles subpictus and Anopheles sundaicus are closely related species, each comprising several sibling species. Ambiguities exist in the classification of these two nominal species and the specific status ...

Detection of Aedes albopictus pre-imaginal stages in brackish water habitats in Brunei Darussalam

Fakhriedzwan Hj, I.; Usman, A.; Surendran, S.N.; Ramasamy, R. (2013)

The mosquitoes Aedes (Stegomyia) albopictus Skuse and Aedes (Stegomyia) aegypti (Linnaeus) are vectors of dengue, chikungunya, and other arboviruses and are widely regarded to undergo pre-imaginal development only in ...

Molecular characterization of the malaria vector Anopheles barbirostris van der Wulp in Sri Lanka

Gajapathy, K.; Jude, P.J.; Goodacre, S.L.; Peiris, L.B.S.; Ramasamy, R.; Surendran, S.N. (Bio Med Central, 2014)

Background: Anopheles barbirostris is a vector of malaria in Sri Lanka. The taxon exists as a species complex in the Southeast Asian region. Previous studies using molecular markers suggest that there are more than 4 ...

Molecular characterization of Anopheline (Diptera: Culicidae) mosquitoes from eight geographical locations of Sri Lanka

Weeraratne, T.C.; Surendran, S.N.; Reimer, L.J.; Wondji, C.S.; Perera, M.D.B.; Walton, C.; Karunaratne, P. (Bio Med Central, 2017)

Background: Genus Anopheles is a major mosquito group of interest in Sri Lanka as it includes vectors of malaria and its members exist as species complexes. Taxonomy of the group is mainly based on morphological features, ...

Bionomic aspects of the Anopheles subpictus species complex in Sri Lanka

Pavillupillai, J.J.; Ramasamy, R.; Surendran, S.N. (2014)

Anopheles subpictus Grassi s.l. (Diptera: Culicidae) functions as a secondary malaria vector to Anopheles culicifacies Giles s.l. (Diptera: Culicidae) in Sri Lanka. The taxon A. subpictus is reported to exist as a species ...

Biological Differences between Brackish and Fresh Water-Derived Aedes aegypti from Two Locations in the Jaffna Peninsula of Sri Lanka and the Implications for Arboviral Disease Transmission

Ramasamy, R.; Jude, P.J.; Veluppillai, T.; Eswaramohan, T.; Surendran, S.N. (PLOS ONE, 2014)

The mainly fresh water arboviral vector Aedes aegypti L. (Diptera: Culicidae) can also undergo pre-imaginal development in brackish water of up to 15 ppt (parts per thousand) salt in coastal areas. We investigated differences ...

Comparison of antifungal activity of rhizomes of Zingiber officinale from different zones in Sri Lanka against selected fungi

Lakshani, B.H.M.H.; Ravimannan, N.; Sevvel, P. (University of Jaffna, 2022)

Plants have been the source of food, medicine and several other day-to-day life products since ancient times. Many plants have been proven to have medicinal value due to the presence of antimicrobial compounds. Nowadays, ...

The Boost of Deep Learning: Why Now and Not Earlier?

Manivannan, S. (2022)

Shallow Learning Vs Deep Learning

Ramanan, A. (Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, 2022)

Semi-Supervised Deep Learning Approaches for Classifying Surface Defects

Mayuravaani, M. (Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, 2022)

Generative Adversarial Networks: The Most Interesting Idea in the Last Ten Years of Machine Learning

Manivannan, S. (Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, 2022)

Diabetic Retinopathy Fundus Image Grading Using Deep Learning: Research Directions

Nirthika, R. (Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, 2022)

Towards Building a Modern Written Tamil Treebank

Parameswari, K.; Sarveswaran, K. (TLT, SyntaxFest, 2022)

In this paper, we describe the creation of a morphosyntactically annotated treebank for modern written Tamil following the Universal Dependencies (UD) framework to support the implementation and evaluation of Tamil ...

A Dual CNN Architecture for Single Image Raindrop and Rain Streak Removal

Anparasy, S.; Kokul, T. (Researchgate, 2022)

Visual quality of rainy images are considerably poor due to the raindrops in camera lens and the rain streaks in the background scenes. Although the raindrops and rain streaks are appeared together in real-world rainy ...

Variation of freshwater fish diversity in Podi wewa and Maunawa wewa in the Kurunegala district in Sri Lanka

Wanasinghe, W.M.Y.D.; Piratheepa, S.; Niranjan, K. (University of Ruhuna Sri Lanka, 2022)

Anthropogenic activities may impact ichthyofauna in freshwater bodies, and therefore, baseline information on fish diversity is needed to monitor the trends in abundance. The present study was undertaken to identify ...

Preliminary analysis of phytochemicals in different parts of Jack fruit tree (Artocarpus heterophyllus Lam) in Sri Lanka

Serasinghe, S. M.D.N.; Rajkumar, G.; Sanmugarajah, V. (University of Kelaniya, 2022)

Jackfruit is the world’s largest tree-borne fruit which is one of the greatest ancient fruits indigenous to Sri Lanka. The different parts of Jack fruit tree (Artocarpus heterophyllus Lam.) are associated with numerous ...

Natural dyes extracted from Catharanthus flower petals for dye-sensitized solar cells application

Senevirathna, H.M.C.U.; Rajaramanan, T.; Velauthapillai, D.; Ravirajan, P. (University of Jaffna, 2022)

Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSCs) are one of the most studied cost-efficient solar cells with commercially available Ru-based dyes as the photosensitizer[1]. There has been a considerable interest to utilise natural ...

First Report of Leaf Spot Disease of Philodendron hastatum, an Ornamental Plant in SriLanka

Nawananda, P.H.R.S.; Mahendranathan, C.; Emmanuel, C. J. (University of Jeyewardenepura, 2022)

Comparing antioxidant activities in leaf and unripen fruit of hybrid and generic papaya

Chelliah, D.; Senthilnanthanan, M.; Srikokulan, S. (International Research Conference in Health Sciences 2022-FAHS, USJ, 2022)

Background: Oxidative stress seems to be the fundamental process causing several human diseases such as arthritis and cancer. Antioxidants are substances which significantly delays or inhibits oxidation of substrates ...

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