Combating the rising caesarean section (CS) rates in Sri Lanka using new technology

The e-tuktuk is a mobile information and communication centre located within a three-wheeled auto rickshaw. It operates out of the Kothmale Community Multimedia Centre in Central Province, Sri Lanka. In this paper, we examine this innovative use of new technology through drawing an analogy between the technology of irrigation and the technologies of information and communication. We argue that it is the particular context of Sri Lanka, and the culturally significant notion of reaching out to villages, that makes the e-tuktuk meaningful in this place at this time. We describe how a particularly Sri Lankan form of community media began in Sri Lanka in the early 1980s, and how it has since developed. The e-tuktuk is presented as a recent and interesting example of participatory community media that uses radio and mobile technologies to reach out to villages. It is, in this context, a highly meaningful set of social, cultural, political and symbolic behaviours that have clear modern and ancient precedents.

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The Case of the E-Tuktuk

Media International Australia ◽

10.1177/1329878x0812500109 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 125 (1) ◽

pp. 71-82

Author(s):

Jo Tacchi ◽

Ben Grubb

Keyword(s):

Sri Lanka ◽

New Technology ◽

Mobile Technologies ◽

Sri Lankan ◽

Central Province ◽

Community Media ◽

Mobile Information ◽

Information And Communication

The e-tuktuk is a mobile information and communication centre located within a three-wheeled auto rickshaw. It operates out of the Kothmale Community Multimedia Centre in Central Province, Sri Lanka. In this paper, we examine this innovative use of new technology through drawing an analogy between the technology of irrigation and the technologies of information and communication. We argue that it is the particular context of Sri Lanka, and the culturally significant notion of reaching out to villages, that makes the e-tuktuk meaningful in this place at this time. We describe how a particularly Sri Lankan form of community media began in Sri Lanka in the early 1980s, and how it has since developed. The e-tuktuk is presented as a recent and interesting example of participatory community media that uses radio and mobile technologies to reach out to villages. It is, in this context, a highly meaningful set of social, cultural, political and symbolic behaviours that have clear modern and ancient precedents.

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Globalization as a Trigger for Emerging New Diseases? Contestations on Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Etiology in Sri Lanka

Current Research Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities ◽

10.12944/crjssh.3.1.06 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

pp. 61-70

Author(s):

Kalinga Tudor Silva

Keyword(s):

Sri Lanka ◽

Kidney Disease ◽

Social Relations ◽

New Technology ◽

Industrial Applications ◽

Unknown Etiology ◽

New Disease ◽

Dry Zone ◽

Media Reports ◽

External Causes

A new kidney disease began to emerge in some farming populations in Dry Zone Sri Lanka since 1990s. This could not be attributed to diabetes, hypertension or any other known causes of renal damage. Over the past thirty years many studies have been conducted in order to isolate the causes of this new disease now reported from a number of dry zone areas in the country but so far no single or multiple disease causing agents have been established in Sri Lanka or any other countries where the disease has been reported even though there are many rival hypotheses contesting with each other. This paper examines the debates and contestations between science, understood as a body of knowledge guided by the scientific method and its outputs in the form of new technology with industrial applications, and the nationalist critique of science postulating on nativist grounds a globalization, including increased use of agro- chemicals as an outcome of globalization, as a trigger for the emergence of this new disease. As for the methodology used, the paper sketches the natural history of the epidemic using available evidence in media reports, scientific writings and a few creative writings about the epidemic. While a broad-based appraisal of globalization processes as to their wide-ranging impact on environment, health, social relations and consumerism is certainly warranted, a narrow nationalist reading, attributing the disease to purely external causes to the neglect of local circumstances and potential role of human behavior as factors contributing to the etiology of the disease is untenable.

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Clinical trials landscape in Sri Lanka

International Journal of Molecular and Immuno Oncology ◽

10.25259/ijmio_29_2020 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 0 ◽

pp. 1-4

Author(s):

Namal Wijesinghe ◽

Anuradha Dahanayaka ◽

Thanush Jeevaraja ◽

Shalomi Weerawardena ◽

Saumiyah Ajanthan ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Clinical Trials ◽

Sri Lanka ◽

Communicable Disease ◽

New Technology ◽

Standard Of Care ◽

Well Being ◽

Global Market ◽

Medical Practitioners ◽

Comprehensive Primary Health Care ◽

Growing Economy

Sri Lanka is an ideal destination for the global clinical trial industry due to its favorable national policies, growing economy, and rapid digitalization directly influencing the increasing global market size of clinical trials. Its comprehensive primary health care coverage, educated population, free standard of care, non-communicable disease burden equals to western countries, qualified medical practitioners, and a core of competent and committed clinical researchers combined with its population’s proficiency in English also make this South Asian nation a potentially excellent regional clinical trials destination. Making an environment favorable to research partnership while guaranteeing the safe and ethical conduct of clinical trials has been a repetitive subject for conversation and discussion in the nation. A robust regulatory framework and ethical reviewing process have minimized legal loopholes ensuring the rights, safety, and well-being of trial participants that are protected. The Sri Lanka Clinical Trials Registry is a non-revenue driven registry and it can be considered a key stimulus to the ongoing discussions on clinical trials in Sri Lanka. Moreover, the adoption of new technology in clinical research and the rise of the pharmaceutical industry encourages and creates opportunities for more clinical trials to be conducted in Sri Lanka which, in turn, influences the growth of the industry.

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New technology of analysis of monitoring data cardiorespiratory system using cluster for caesarean section with opiate analgesia

Journal of obstetrics and women s diseases ◽

10.17816/jowd64242-52 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 64 (2) ◽

pp. 42-52

Author(s):

Andrey Gennad’yevich Kiselev ◽

Yuriy Mikhaylovich Korostelev ◽

Ol’ga Nikolaevna Arzhanova ◽

Roman Viktorovich Kapustin ◽

Polina Alekseevna Rybal’chenko ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Cluster Analysis ◽

Caesarean Section ◽

Correlation Analysis ◽

New Technology ◽

Analysis Data ◽

Data Monitoring ◽

Cardiorespiratory System ◽

Multivariate Correlation ◽

Modern Methods ◽

Multivariate Correlation Analysis

The research of the regulation of respiratory and hemodynamic systems, conducted by modern methods of multivariate correlation analysis (cluster analysis) data monitoring cardiorespiratory system, showed a change of adaptation and regulation after cesarean section with opiate analgesia.

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FARMERS’ PERCEPTIONS ON EXPANSION OF A NEW TECHNOLOGY: THE CASE OF COCONUT-BASED INTERCROPPING IN SRI LANKA

CORD ◽

10.37833/cord.v19i01.367 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 19 (01) ◽

pp. 34

Author(s):

M.T.N. Fernando ◽

M.E. Daw ◽

I.E. Edwards

Keyword(s):

Sri Lanka ◽

Field Survey ◽

New Technology ◽

Cultivation System ◽

Single Visit ◽

Physical Resources ◽

Structured Questionnaire

Monocropping, the widely practiced traditional coconut cultivation system in Sri Lanka, utilizes bio-physical resources sub optimally, generating low returns to growers than its potential under an intensive cultivation alternative, coconut-based intercropping (CBI). Despite concerted efforts of successive governments, the adoption of CBI systems by farmers is low. This study investigates the farmers' perceptions of CBI on the premise that the understanding of farmers’ perceptions of a new technology is important to identify the causes for the low adoption of that technology. Data were gathered by a field survey of 113 and 37 intercroppers and monocroppers respectively, in three main coconut-growing districts, namely Kurunegala, Gampaha and Puttalam, using a structured questionnaire supplemented with open-ended questions, through a single visit. Percentage analysis supplemented with a simple scoring device was employed to analyze the farmer's perceptions of CBI. Intercroppers objectives of intercropping, the constraints they face in expanding intercropping, reasons for non-adoption of CBI by present monocroppers and the suggestions of present intercroppers to further expand the CBI, all in the order of importance, are presented.

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Microfabrication research at the National Submicron Facility

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100074331 ◽

1983 ◽

Vol 41 ◽

pp. 86-89

Author(s):

E.D. Wolf

Keyword(s):

Integrated Circuits ◽

Particle Physics ◽

High Speed ◽

New Technology ◽

High Energy ◽

High Energy Particle ◽

New Science ◽

Wide Range ◽

Intermediate Domain ◽

Circuit Function

Most microelectronics devices and circuits operate faster, consume less power, execute more functions and cost less per circuit function when the feature-sizes internal to the devices and circuits are made smaller. This is part of the stimulus for the Very High-Speed Integrated Circuits (VHSIC) program. There is also a need for smaller, more sensitive sensors in a wide range of disciplines that includes electrochemistry, neurophysiology and ultra-high pressure solid state research. There is often fundamental new science (and sometimes new technology) to be revealed (and used) when a basic parameter such as size is extended to new dimensions, as is evident at the two extremes of smallness and largeness, high energy particle physics and cosmology, respectively. However, there is also a very important intermediate domain of size that spans from the diameter of a small cluster of atoms up to near one micrometer which may also have just as profound effects on society as “big” physics.

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Characterization of RF Sputtered ZnO Piezoelectric Films Using Transmission Electron Microscope

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100114050 ◽

1975 ◽

Vol 33 ◽

pp. 86-87

Author(s):

Kemining W. Yeh ◽

Richard S. Muller ◽

Wei-Kuo Wu ◽

Jack Washburn

Keyword(s):

Integrated Circuit ◽

Acoustic Waves ◽

New Technology ◽

Surface Acoustic Waves ◽

Electromechanical Properties ◽

Leading Role ◽

Saw Devices ◽

Transmission Electron ◽

High Degree

Considerable and continuing interest has been shown in the thin film transducer fabrication for surface acoustic waves (SAW) in the past few years. Due to the high degree of miniaturization, compatibility with silicon integrated circuit technology, simplicity and ease of design, this new technology has played an important role in the design of new devices for communications and signal processing. Among the commonly used piezoelectric thin films, ZnO generally yields superior electromechanical properties and is expected to play a leading role in the development of SAW devices.

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