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    Digital library with multi access approach of periodicals with intellighent system with non-duplication precdiction
    (Department of Library and Information Science, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 2021) Napoleon, D.; Gopal, R.
    Imagine a library for the future, an inspiration an opportunity a place of linking us together to the community of the world, a hub of lifelong learning. A knowledge center providing a diverse set of multimedia materials like digital paper, video, audio and human books. A portal with the most number of periodicals available anywhere anytime with 24/7 check-out and id return. Meeting the needs of a diverse society the elderly children youths immigrants. In the upcoming technical era authors' publications are imposed initially on the online namely with the terms of EISSN so we need to digitize a worldwide portal for the old treasure articles from the each and every library. For that, we can use the library technicians, and also as a fundraiser, we can allow the digital advertisements in our proposed portals. Once the books get digitized we can offer the portal jobs like animating a book for kids and differently-abled society, sounds useful to both the user and creator with the fund. When this process gets implemented then a single most demanded book can be quoted under the share study module to save time. As privacy and digital security, without the permission of the portal - user can’t able to take print or screenshot of an article. This is a huge step when we see it as a whole, but a single torchlight doesn’t show the whole forest once, but it makes the next step to be safe. Like that, we are in a pandemic situation and hope it ends for a while but if it comes again we need to aware and be prepared to gain our knowledge from our house using this portal. Take a single step then our future will be in our hands with swiping fingers.
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    Seroepidemiological study of herpes simplex virus type 1 and 2 in Brazil, Estonia, India, Morocco and Sri Lanka
    (BMJ Publishing Group, 2003) Cowan, F.M.; French, R.S.; Mayaud, P.; Gopal, R.; Robinson, N.J.; de Oliveira, S.A.; Faillace, T.; Uuskula, A.; Nygard-Kibur, M.; Ramalingam, S.; Sridharan, G.; El Aouad, R.; Alami, K.; Rabi, M.; Sunil-Chandra, N.P.
    BACKGROUND: The association between herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and the development of HSV vaccines have increased interest in the study of HSV epidemiology. OBJECTIVES: To estimate the age and sex specific seroprevalence of HSV-1 and HSV-2 infections in selected populations in Brazil, Estonia, India,Morocco, and Sri Lanka. METHODS: Serum samples were collected from various populations including children, antenatal clinic attenders, blood donors, hospital inpatients, and HIV sentinel surveillance groups. STD clinic attenders were enrolled in Sri Lanka, male military personnel in Morocco. Sera were tested using a common algorithm by type specific HSV-1 and HSV-2 antibody assay. RESULTS: 13,986 samples were tested, 45.0% from adult females, 32.7% from adult males, and 22.3% from children. The prevalence of HSV-1 varied by site ranging from 78.5%-93.6% in adult males and from 75.5%-97.8% in adult females. In all countries HSV-1 seroprevalence increased significantly with age (p<0.001) in both men and women. The prevalence of HSV-2 infection varied between sites. Brazil had the highest age specific rates of infection for both men and women, followed by Sri Lanka for men and Estonia for women, the lowest rates being found in Estonia for men andIndia for women. In all countries, HSV-2 seroprevalence increased significantly with age (p<0.01) and adult females had higher rates of infection than adult males by age of infection. CONCLUSIONS: HSV-1 and HSV-2 seroprevalence was consistently higher in women than men, particularly for HSV-2. Population based data on HSV-1 and HSV-2 will be useful for designing potential HSV-2 vaccination strategies and for focusing prevention efforts for HSV-1 and HSV-2 infection