VRC

03/02/2022

25/07/2018

11/07/2018

02/07/2018

Keynote address:
"Future of work and how do we prepare ourselves for it"

The talk would cover both a Scientific and Strategic analysis of the future of work. This is in the context of the expected future growth in Technology including Machine Learning, artificial intelligence, etc and how it would impact us in the next 40 years. The talk would include recommendations on how we could best prepare ourselves for it, not just to survive but prosper in the context of the future challenges and opportunities.

Mr. Balathasan Sayanthan MR. BALATHASAN SAYANTHANDIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS AT APPTIZER. INCColomboSri Lanka Biography Sayanthan is the Director of Operations at Apptizer. Inc, CBDO at hSenid Mobile and Founding member of Yarl IT Hub. He did his Bachelor of Science specialising in Computer Science at th...

02/07/2018

VIRC-2018

29/05/2018

VIRC-2018 Conference Registration Still Open!
Last date of registration: 30-05-2018

For more information: www.conf.jfn.ac.lk/virc/?page_id=215

Registration Guidelines All presenters and participants should register to attend the conference through the online registration form. If you are an author, please note that your article would NOT be included in the VIRC2018 conference proceeding if at least one of the authors is not registered by t...

07/04/2018

The deadline to submit abstracts for consideration to be a presenter at VIRC2018 has been extended to April 15, 2018.

Abstracts and extended abstracts reporting original research and innovative applications from all parts of the world are welcome. All your manuscripts and any supplemental digital contents should be submitted via our online submission system only.

For more information, please visit the VIRC2018 website:
www.conf.jfn.ac.lk/virc/

25/03/2018

Don't miss the "Popular Talk" by Prof. S. Sotheeswaran, (Visiting Senior Professor, College of Chemical Sciences, Institute of Chemistry Ceylon, and Emeritus Professor, The University of the South Pacific, Fiji)

Title: "Anti-diabetic Medications from Tropical Plants."

Abstract: Diabetes results from a lack or shortage of insulin, a hormone necessary to metabolise carbohydrates. Consequently, sugar accumulates in the blood. Diabetes cannot be cured but can be controlled. Today, there are medications to induce the pancreas to produce more insulin. If the pancreas does not respond to this inducement, the patient can be given insulin injection. Patients are also advised to adopt a diet low in carbohydrates.

Indigenous physicians in India, Fiji and Sri Lanka have used herbal treatments for diabetes for centuries. It is interesting that most of these treatments are foodstuffs that are taken by everyone. Animal trials have proved that herbal medication is indeed effective against diabetes. Some of the traditional herbal remedies for diabetes, their common and/or local names and their Botanical names (in parenthesis) are :
(1) Bitter Gourd/Bitter Melon/Pavatkai – (Momordica charantia),
(2) Fenugreek/Venthayam ( Trigonella foenum-graecum) ,
(3) Kurincha (Gymnema species),
(4) Cinnamon/Karuva (Cinnamomum species),
(5) Tebu (Costus speciosus), and
(6) Kothala Himbutu (Salacia reticulata).

Of these, plants 1, 2 and 4 are incorporated in a herbal anti-diabetic pharmaceutical called Glucobetic. This lecture discuses some herbal anti-diabetic remedies, and questions the dosages and effectiveness (or otherwise) of these plant medications in Glucobetic. Even though there are no clinical trial data published for herbal anti-diabetic medications, preliminary clinical trial data on the use of cinnamon bark in reducing the blood sugar levels of diabetic patients are currently available and will be presented at this lecture.

Conference website: www.conf.jfn.ac.lk/virc/

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