Publications by authors named "S D Jayasena"
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- Pyruvate carboxylase deficiency is a rare genetic condition affecting the enzyme that converts pyruvate to oxaloacetate, leading to three clinical phenotypes: neonatal type A, infantile type B, and a benign type C.
- This case series documents three Sri Lankan neonates, including two siblings, who exhibited respiratory distress at birth, with one sibling showing typical signs of type B and the other exhibiting unique characteristics of type A.
- The study emphasizes the importance of quick lab tests in newborns with breathing difficulties and metabolic issues for better management and family support, urging for more research on the overlapping symptoms of the different phenotypes.
Students' perceptions of online education: A session at the FAOBMB-IUBMB-CBSL virtual education symposium 2021.
Biochem Mol Biol Educ
April 2024
The Federation of Asian and Oceanian Biochemists and Molecular Biologists (FAOBMB) and the College of Biochemists of Sri Lanka (CBSL) organized a virtual education symposium in 2021 funded by the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB). The parallel session named "Students' Perception" was attended by 188 participants from 11 countries. The main objectives of this session were to aggregate participants' viewpoints on aspects of virtual education, including innovative strategies to enhance motivation and engagement of students, improving teacher-student and student-student interactions, managing stress, and virtual learning platforms.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn language emergence, neural agents acquire communication skills by interacting with one another and the environment. Through these interactions, agents learn to connect or ground their observations to the messages they utter, forming a shared consensus about the meaning of the messages. Such connections form what we refer to as a grounding map.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: We conducted a nationwide cross-sectional study to estimate pretreatment drug resistance (PDR) prevalence in adults initiating ART in Sri Lanka following the WHO's recommendations.
Methods: HIV drug resistance was determined on dried blood spots (DBSs) using population-based sequencing of the protease and reverse transcriptase genes and interpretation was based on Stanford HIVdb v9.0.