The role of climate change on global malaria is often highlighted in World Health Organisation re... more The role of climate change on global malaria is often highlighted in World Health Organisation reports. We modelled a Zambian socio-environmental dataset from 2000 to 2016, against malaria trends and investigated the relationship of near-term environmental change with malaria incidence using Bayesian spatio-temporal, and negative binomial mixed regression models. We introduced the diurnal temperature range (DTR) as an alternative environmental measure to the widely used mean temperature. We found substantial sub-national near-term variations and significant associations with malaria incidence-trends. Significant spatio-temporal shifts in DTR/environmental predictors influenced malaria incidence-rates, even in areas with declining trends. We highlight the impact of seasonally sensitive DTR, especially in the first two quarters of the year and demonstrate how substantial investment in intervention programmes is negatively impacted by near-term climate change, most notably since 2010. ...
International Journal of Knowledge-Based Organizations, 2019
There is a need to automatically classify information from online reviews. Customers want to know... more There is a need to automatically classify information from online reviews. Customers want to know useful information about different aspects of a product or service and also the sentiment expressed towards each aspect. This article proposes an Enhanced Twofold-LDA model (Latent Dirichlet Allocation), in which one LDA is used for aspect assignment and another is used for sentiment classification, aiming to automatically determine aspect and sentiment. The enhanced model incorporates domain knowledge (i.e., seed words) to produce more focused topics and has the ability to handle two aspects in at the sentence level simultaneously. The experiment results show that the Enhanced Twofold-LDA model is able to produce topics more related to aspects in comparison to the state of arts method ASUM (Aspect and Sentiment Unification Model), whereas comparable with ASUM on sentiment classification performance.
The next-generation network provides state-of-the-art access-independent services over converged ... more The next-generation network provides state-of-the-art access-independent services over converged mobile and fixed networks. Security in the converged network environment is a major challenge. Traditional packet and protocol-based intrusion detection techniques cannot be used in next-generation networks due to slow throughput, low accuracy and their inability to inspect encrypted payload. An alternative solution for protection of next-generation networks is to use network flow records for detection of malicious activity in the network traffic. The network flow records are independent of access networks and user applications. In this paper, we propose a two-stage flow-based intrusion detection system for next-generation networks. The first stage uses an enhanced unsupervised one-class support vector machine which separates malicious flows from normal network traffic. The second stage uses a self-organizing map which automatically groups malicious flows into different alert clusters. W...
The role of climate change on global malaria is often highlighted in World Health Organisation re... more The role of climate change on global malaria is often highlighted in World Health Organisation reports. We modelled a Zambian socio-environmental dataset from 2000 to 2016, against malaria trends and investigated the relationship of near-term environmental change with malaria incidence using Bayesian spatio-temporal, and negative binomial mixed regression models. We introduced the diurnal temperature range (DTR) as an alternative environmental measure to the widely used mean temperature. We found substantial sub-national near-term variations and significant associations with malaria incidence-trends. Significant spatio-temporal shifts in DTR/environmental predictors influenced malaria incidence-rates, even in areas with declining trends. We highlight the impact of seasonally sensitive DTR, especially in the first two quarters of the year and demonstrate how substantial investment in intervention programmes is negatively impacted by near-term climate change, most notably since 2010. ...
International Journal of Knowledge-Based Organizations, 2019
There is a need to automatically classify information from online reviews. Customers want to know... more There is a need to automatically classify information from online reviews. Customers want to know useful information about different aspects of a product or service and also the sentiment expressed towards each aspect. This article proposes an Enhanced Twofold-LDA model (Latent Dirichlet Allocation), in which one LDA is used for aspect assignment and another is used for sentiment classification, aiming to automatically determine aspect and sentiment. The enhanced model incorporates domain knowledge (i.e., seed words) to produce more focused topics and has the ability to handle two aspects in at the sentence level simultaneously. The experiment results show that the Enhanced Twofold-LDA model is able to produce topics more related to aspects in comparison to the state of arts method ASUM (Aspect and Sentiment Unification Model), whereas comparable with ASUM on sentiment classification performance.
The next-generation network provides state-of-the-art access-independent services over converged ... more The next-generation network provides state-of-the-art access-independent services over converged mobile and fixed networks. Security in the converged network environment is a major challenge. Traditional packet and protocol-based intrusion detection techniques cannot be used in next-generation networks due to slow throughput, low accuracy and their inability to inspect encrypted payload. An alternative solution for protection of next-generation networks is to use network flow records for detection of malicious activity in the network traffic. The network flow records are independent of access networks and user applications. In this paper, we propose a two-stage flow-based intrusion detection system for next-generation networks. The first stage uses an enhanced unsupervised one-class support vector machine which separates malicious flows from normal network traffic. The second stage uses a self-organizing map which automatically groups malicious flows into different alert clusters. W...
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