Erectile dysfunction is a strong predictor of poor quality of life in men with Type 2 diabetes mellitus. by Malavige, L, Jayaratne, S, Kathriarachchi, S, Sivayogan, S, Ranasinghe, P, Levy, J

“…METHODS: This was a cross-sectional observational-study of 253 men with Type 2 diabetes, randomly selected from a clinic in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Erectile dysfunction was assessed using the five-item International Index of Erectile Function and quality of life was assessed using the Sri Lankan version of the 36-item short form health survey questionnaire and the disease-specific Psychological Impact of Erectile Dysfunction scale. …”

Simplified prognostic model for critically ill patients in resource limited settings in South Asia. by Haniffa, R, Mukaka, M, Munasinghe, S, De Silva, A, Jayasinghe, K, Beane, A, de Keizer, N, Dondorp, A

“…</p> <h4>Methods</h4> <p>This was a prospective study of 3855 patients admitted to 21 ICUs from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka who were aged 16 years and over and followed to ICU discharge. …”

High prevalence of antimicrobial resistance among clinical Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates in Asia (an ANSORP study) by Song, J.H., Jung, S.I., Ko, K.S., Kim, N.Y., Son, J.S., Chang, H.H., Ki, H.K., Oh, W.S., Suh, J.Y., Peck, K.R., Lee, N.Y., Yang, Y.H., Lu, Q., Chongthaleong, A., Chiu, C.H., Lalitha, M.K., Perera, J., Yee, T.T., Kumarasinghe, G., Jamal, F., Kamarulzaman, Adeeba, Parasakthi, N., Van, P.H., Carlos, C., So, T., Ng, T.K., Shibl, A.

“…Isolates from Hong Kong showed the highest rate of ciprofloxacin resistance (11.8), followed by isolates from Sri Lanka (9.5), the Philippines (9.1), and Korea (6.5). …”
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Seroepidemiological studies on Japanese Encephalitis: a systematic review by Nur Suhada Ramli, Norayuni Mohd Ismail, Na’eemah Zaini, Mohd Firdaus Mohd Hayati, Mohammad Saffree Jeffree, Syed Sharizman Syed Abdul Rahim, Mohd Rohaizat Hassan

“…Results: Four studies from four countries (Taiwan, Sri Lanka, South Korea, and India) met the eligibility criteria. …”
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Adherence, invasion and intracellular survival between Pasteurella multocida B:2 and its derivatives towards bovine aortic endothelial cell by Mohd Kamal, Nur Iqmaliza Akmal

“…The parent strain and another mutant strain from Sri Lanka, P. multocida B:2 JRMT12 were used as control. …”
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Memperkukuh ketahanan nasional dalam era globalisasi dengan cara studi banding ke negara sejiran Indonesia-Malaysia by Harahap, Rosmawati

“…Sivitas Pascasarjana (S2) Pendidikan Bahasa Indonesia UMN Al Washliyah ditubuhkan tahun 2008 namun sudah tiap tahun melakukan studi banding.Kajian keilmuannya yang diprogramkan dalam silabusnya telah mengambil bahasa Indonesia dan sastera-sastera dari Nusantara sebagai materi keilmuan yang harus berkembang menurut perkembangan bahasa dan sastera Melayu di Nusantara terutama di Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia dan Singapura dan ditambah oleh kelompok-kelompok berbahasa Melayu di Thailand, Filipina, Burma dan Sri Lanka serta bagi para pendatang asing yang telah menjadi warga-warga negara-negara Melayu seperti Arab, Cina, dan Tamil. …”
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ASIRI: An Ocean–Atmosphere Initiative for Bay of Bengal by Wijesekera, Hemantha W., Shroyer, Emily, Tandon, Amit, Ravichandran, M., Sengupta, Debasis, Jinadasa, S. U. P., Fernando, Harindra J. S., Agrawal, Neeraj, Arulananthan, K., Bhat, G. S., Baumgartner, Mark, Buckley, Jared, Centurioni, Luca, Conry, Patrick, Gordon, Arnold L., Hormann, Verena, Jarosz, Ewa, Jensen, Tommy G., Johnston, Shaun, Lankhorst, Matthias, Lee, Craig M., Leo, Laura S., Lozovatsky, Iossif, Lucas, Andrew J., Mackinnon, Jennifer, Nash, Jonathan, Omand, Melissa M., Pham, Hieu, Pinkel, Robert, Rainville, Luc, Ramachandran, Sanjiv, Rudnick, Daniel L., Sarkar, Sutanu, Send, Uwe, Sharma, Rashmi, Simmons, Harper, Stafford, Kathleen M., St. Laurent, Louis, Venayagamoorthy, Karan, Venkatesan, Ramasamy, Teague, William J., Wang, David W., Waterhouse, Amy F., Weller, Robert, Whalen, Caitlin B., Farrar, John Thomas, Mahadevan, Amala

“…Observed physical features include energetic high-frequency internal waves in the southern BoB, energetic mesoscale and submesoscale features including an intrathermocline eddy in the central BoB, and a high-resolution view of the exchange along the periphery of Sri Lanka, which includes the 100-km-wide East India Coastal Current (EICC) carrying low-salinity water out of the BoB and an adjacent, broad northward flow (∼300 km wide) that carries high-salinity water into BoB during the northeast monsoon. …”
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Serum chymase levels correlate with severe dengue warning signs and clinical fluid accumulation in hospitalized pediatric patients by Rathore, Abhay P. S., Senanayake, Manouri, Athapathu, Arjuna Salinda, Gunasena, Sunethra, Karunaratna, Irantha, Leong, Wei Yee, Lim, Ting, Mantri, Chinmay Kumar, Wilder-Smith, Annelies, St. John, Ashley L.

“…Serum chymase levels were quantified prospectively and longitudinally in hospitalized pediatric dengue patients in Sri Lanka. Warning signs were determined based on daily clinical assessments, laboratory tests and ultrasound findings. …”
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Grid optimization and demand side mangement for electric vehicles penetration in remote area by Zhang, Yixiao, Ng, Eddie Yin Kwee, Li, Ning

“…Power grid model simulation: use government data to predict that Trincomalee's electricity demand will increase from the current 40MW to 640MW in five years and build a grid simulation model for Sri Lanka's national high-voltage transmission lines. …”
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Mesoscale circulation of the bay of Bengal and its influence on marine productivity by Rayaroth, Mridula Kuttyattu

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Elucidating the biogeographical variation of the venom of Naja naja (spectacled cobra) from Pakistan through a venom-decomplexing proteomic study by Wong, Kin Ying, Tan, Choo Hock, Tan, Kae Yi, Quraishi, Naeem H., Tan, Nget Hong

“…In contrast, previous reports showed that the N. naja venoms of India and Sri Lanka had a lower content of neurotoxins and a relatively higher value of LD50. …”

Development and characterization of roselle (Hibiscus sabdariffa L.) nanocellulose-reinforced polylactic acid nanocomposite for water filtration by Lau, Kia Kian

“…Roselle is abundantly cultivated in tropical areas, such as Malaysia, Borneo, Indonesia, India, Tanzania, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo and Guyana. Roselle fiber is a potential bio-filler for composites reinforcement. …”
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Food environments and obesity: a geospatial analysis of the South Asia Biobank, income and sex inequalities by Atanasova, Petya, Kusuma, Dian, Pineda, Elisa, Anjana, Ranjit Mohan, De Silva, Laksara, Hanif, Abu A. M., Hasan, Mehedi, Hossain, Md Mokbul, Indrawansa, Susantha, Jayamanne, Deepal, Jha, Sujeet, Kasturiratne, Anuradhani, Katulanda, Prasad, Khawaja, Khadija I., Kumarendran, Balachandran, Mrida, Malay K., Rajakaruna, Vindya, Chambers, John Campbell, Frost, Gary, Sassi, Franco, Miraldo, Marisa

“…Methods: This cross-sectional study analysed South Asia Biobank surveillance and environment mapping data for 12,167 adults collected between 2018 and 2020 from 33 surveillance sites in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Individual-level data (demographic, socio-economic, and health characteristics) were combined with exposure to healthy and unhealthy food environments measured with geolocations of food outlets (obtained through ground-truth surveys) within 300 m buffer zones around participants' homes. …”
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Understanding digitally mediated civic engagement for infectious disease preparedness by Panchapakesan Kumari Chitra

“…Dengue has been selected for studying the effect of DMCE, as it is a major health problem, especially in tropical countries such as Singapore, India and Sri Lanka (MOH, 2013, 2014a; Halasa, 2011; Epidemiology Unit, 2017). …”
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Spatial, temporal, and demographic patterns in prevalence of chewing tobacco use in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis from the Global Burden of Diseas...

“…Among the 12 highest prevalence countries (Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, India, Madagascar, Marshall Islands, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Palau, Sri Lanka, and Yemen), only Yemen had a significant decrease in the prevalence of chewing tobacco use, which was among males between 1990 and 2019 (−0·94% [–1·72 to –0·14]), compared with nine of 12 countries that had significant decreases in the prevalence of smoking tobacco. …”

High prevalence of antimicrobial resistance among clinical Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates in Asia (an ANSORP study) by Song, Jae Hoon, Jung, Sook In, Ko, Kwan Soo, Kim, Na Young, Son, Jun Seong, Chang, Hyun Ha, Ki, Hyun Kyun, Oh, Won Sup, Suh, Ji Yoeun, Peck, Kyong Ran, Lee, Nam Yong, Yang, Yonghong, Lu, Quan, Chongthaleong, Anan, Chiu, Cheng Hsun, Lalitha, Mukkai Kesavan, Perera, Jennifer A., Yee, Ti Teow, Kumarasinghe, Gamini, Jamal, Farida, Kamarulzaman, Adeeba, Parasakthi, Navaratnam, Van Hung, Pham, Carlos, Celia Carpio, So, Thomas Man-Kit, Ng, Tak Keung, Shibl, Atef M.

“…Isolates from Hong Kong showed the highest rate of ciprofloxacin resistance (11.8%), followed by isolates from Sri Lanka (9.5%), the Philippines (9.1%), and Korea (6.5%). …”
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Effect of South Asian Free Trade Area agreement on trade and macroeconomics of the region by Peiris, Thelge Ushan Indika

“…The desirability of SAFTA is measured over the period 2003 to 2013 considering only seven (07) South Asian countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka). Bhutan is not taken to the sample due to data constraint. …”
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Eight Annual AACR International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research Houston, Texas, U.S.A. 06-09 Disember 2009 by Md. Azman PKM Seeni, Mohamed

“…Streblus asper rs well known as an expensrve bon~11 plant whrch rs rndrgenous to tropccal countnes such as Malaysia. Thailand. Srr Lanka and lndra It rs used tradiuonally rn leprosy. pries. drarrhea. dysentery. …”
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Morphological and molecular characteristics of Malayfilaria sofiani Uni, Mat Udin & Takaoka n. g., n. sp. (Nematoda: Filarioidea) from the common treeshrew Tupaia glis Diard & Duva... by Uni, Shigehiko, Mat Udin, Ahmad Syihan, Agatsuma, Takeshi, Saijuntha, Weerachai, Junker, Kerstin, Ramli, Rosli, Omar, Hasmahzaiti, Lim, Yvonne Ai Lian, Sivanandam, Sinnadurai, Lefoulon, Emilie, Martin, Coralie, Belabut, Daicus Martin, Kasim, Saharul, Abdullah Halim, Muhammad Rasul, Zainuri, Nur Afiqah, Bhassu, Subha, Fukuda, Masako, Matsubayashi, Makoto, Harada, Masashi, Low, Van Lun, Chen, Chee Dhang, Suganuma, Narifumi, Hashim, Rosli, Takaoka, Hiroyuki, Sofian-Azirun, Mohd

“…Wuchereria bancrofti, W. kalimantani Palmieri, Pulnomo, Dennis and Marwoto, 1980 and six out of ten Brugia spp. have been described from Australia, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka and India. However, the origin and evolution of the species in the Wuchereria-Brugia clade remain unclear. …”

Do Similar Trade Partners Increase Trade Flow? An Empirical Analysis on Indonesia�s Bilateral Trade by , Gangsar Kurniawan, , Associate Professor Daisaku GOTO

“…Indonesia also has other trade cooperation with developing countries such as Iran, South Africa, Belarus, Sri Lanka, and many others. However, this trade cooperation is not well-explored and still has much room to improve. …”