Assessment of Neuropharmacological Profile of Ethanolic Extract of Lawsonia Inermis Flowers

On preliminary basis neuropharmacological profile of ethanolic extract of flowers of Lawsonia inermis was carried out. For assessing the activity of flowers on central nervous system locomotor activity using actophotometer, muscle relaxant activity using rotarod apparatus, pentobarbital-induced hypnosis and anticonvulsant activity by maximal electroshock test was performed.  Ethanolic extract of flowers of Lawsonia inermis decreased the motor activity by 48.63 % and showed 49.03% noteworthy muscle relaxation along with 127.73% potentiation of pentobarbital-induced sleeping time and 66.67% decreased the duration of tonic hind leg extension of seizures activity.  The results conclude that the extract of flowers of Lawsonia inermis has significant central nervous system depressant activity. Further investigations are, however, necessary to explore mechanism(s) of action involved in these pharmacological activities

Women representation of local governments in Sri Lanka: a case study of kalmunai municipal council

Local government plays an important role in building up the democracy of a country. There are three kinds of local governments in Sri Lanka namely Municipal Council, Urban Council and Pradeshiya Sabha.This study examines the women representation in Kalmunai Municipal Council. Although, in Sri Lanka, many opportunities are available to enroll the women representation in local government bodies, women representation is still very poor. Kalmunai Municipal Council, which is established in 2001, has not got any women representation yet. The objective of this study is to find out the reasons for no women representation and identify the opportunities to generate the women representation in Kalmunai Municipal Council. This research is built on qualitative research methodology by using primary and secondary data. In the primary source, qualitative interviews and limited observation are used as well as books, magazines and internet articles are used as secondary data. According to this research, the reasons for no women representation are women’s lack of interest in politics, lack of support from family, women do not come forward to vote for women, effort of culture and women’s tendency of getting scared to violence. Political parties, society and each person should take efforts to solve these challenges to make women take part in politics

Issues in public service delivery : a case study of Addalaichenai divisional secretariat in the Eastern Sri Lanka

This study examines the major issues in public service delivery in the Addalaichenai divisional secretariat area of Eastern Sri Lanka. The government has the obligation to deliver the services to its citizens. Normally, the action of government which provides the services to the citizens is called as public service delivery. The objective of this study is to identify the empirical major issues in public service delivery in Addalaichenai divisional secretariat. This research is built on qualitative research methodology and it is explored by using both primary and secondary materials. In the primary source, the qualitative interviews and focus group discussion are used where necessary. In the secondary source such as books, magazines, internet articles are used. This paper finds out that two types of issues are in service delivery in Addalaichenai divisional secretariat faced by people and administrators such as unawareness of people, discrimination, delay, lack of modern facilities, political influence. These issues are the challenges to the day to day life of the people and they have to be solved to achieve the enhancement of the citizens

Integration of Ayurveda and Physiotherapy in the management of Sciatica: A Case Report

Ayurveda and Physiotherapy were found highly efficacious in the management of Sciatica. But the integration of these two systems yields better outcomes; there is a lack of more evidence-based study that offers a deeper understanding. The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of an interdisciplinary treatment approach of Ayurveda and physiotherapy in sciatica. This is a case report of a 36-year-old sciatica patient, who was suffering from a lower back ache with pain radiating to the right lower extremity up to the two outer toes. The study lasted for four weeks. An Interdisciplinary team was formed. The Ayurveda treatments included: Shodhana Chikitsa and Shamana Chikitsa including Panchakarma treatments. The physiotherapy treatments included: manual therapy, McKenzie’s exercises, muscle strengthening and stretching and balance/proprioception exercises. The patient reported positive outcomes after 4 weeks of treatment. There was a decrease in pain scores from 8 to 0 in the NPRS scale rating of pain (during rest) and 8 to 1-2 (during activity). Along with this, changes were noted in the p4 questionnaire indicating reduction in symptoms. The scores were decreased on the sensory and effective dimensions of pain in the short form McGill pain questionnaire. Present pain intensity (PPI) changed to mild. The onset of symptoms changed from 2 minutes to 8 minutes. The interdisciplinary approach of Ayurveda and physiotherapy resulted in a reduction of pain in sciatica patients

A STUDY ON CUSTOMER SATISFACTION TOWARDS HERBAL PRODUCTS

Herbal products plays an important role in people’s life to protect them against various health issues. The study aims to identify the satisfaction of the customers towards herbal products in Erode district. The study was based on questionnaire with a sample of 100 respondents. The findings were analyzed using simple percentage analysis, chi-square test and friedman ranking test. Findings reveal that age, gender, educational qualification and type of family have significant association with customers level of satisfaction towards herbal products

Predicting Solar Irradiance in Singapore

Solar irradiance is the primary input for all solar energy generation systems. The amount of available solar radiation over time under the local weather conditions helps to decide the optimal location, technology and size of a solar energy project. We study the behaviour of incident solar irradiance on the earth's surface using weather sensors. In this paper, we propose a time-series based technique to forecast the solar irradiance values for shorter lead times of upto 15 minutes. Our experiments are conducted in the tropical region viz. Singapore, which receives a large amount of solar irradiance throughout the year. We benchmark our method with two common forecasting techniques, namely persistence model and average model, and we obtain good prediction performance. We report a root mean square of 147 W/m^2 for a lead time of 15 minutes.Comment: Published in Proc. Progress In Electromagnetics Research Symposium (PIERS), 201