The editorial discusses the need to update our knowledge and skills to meet up to the challenges of our evolving role as an anaesthesiologist.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4038/slja.v22i1.6281

Background Every medical practitioner has ethical, professional and legal responsibilities to respect patients’ autonomy with regard to informed consent. Methodology Intern Medical Officers (IMO) in the first 6 months of internship at the National Hospital of Sri Lanka (NHSL) were…

This research aims to study the physico-chemical phenomena occurring during hydration process of binary and ternary cementitious matrices, combining Portland cement (PC), blast furnace slag(BFS) and limestone filler (LF). For this purpose, measurements of the reaction rate and mechanical performances…

Physical properties such as compressive strength and elastic moduli are of the utmost importance for the structural stability and design of cement-based materials. These properties are strictly related to the microstructure of the binder paste, which in turn varies in…

Knowledge management is defined as the process of creating, storing, transferring, applying and saving organizational knowledge. Especially, in an environment of intensive competition increased with globalization; creating knowledge has been a vital factor for organizations, which want to gain advantage…

We analysed knowledge and expectations of pain of labour and knowledge of labour analgesia methods among primigravida women attending an antenatal care clinic in a teaching hospital in a rural part of central India. The results of this study could…

Purpose: Children with cerebral palsy who have associated feeding difficulties are at risk of aspiration and poor nutrition. This study aimed to measure the changes in knowledge, confidence, anxiety and behaviour among 25 Sri Lankan mothers with responsibility for feeding…

The study proposes a way in which the learning and knowledge building (LKB) framework, which is consistent with the knowledge conversion phases proposed by Nonaka and Takeuchi, supports teachers’ informal and self-directed workplace learning. An LKB framework in a socio-technical…

Este artigo descreve o processo de desenvolvimento e avaliação de um interface com o utilizador para um sistema de escalonamento. Pretende-se disponibilizar ao utilizador, além de uma forma gráfica e interativa de definir problemas de escalonamento, uma forma interativa de…

Traditional  structure-oriented analysis of derivatives does not comply with the requirements of the  new cognitive paradigm of linguistic knowledge, which incorporates knowledge gained within different sciences. Word-formation serves the explication of human cognitive potential, which originates from linguistic personality’s individual…