BACKGROUND Malaria transmission intensity is heterogeneous, complicating the implementation of malaria control interventions. We provide a description of the spatial micro-epidemiology of symptomatic malaria and asymptomatic parasitaemia in multiple sites. METHODS We assembled data from 19 studies conducted between 1996 and 2015 in seven countries of sub-Saharan Africa with homestead-level ge...

Discrete autocorrelation wavelets have recently been applied in the statistical analysis of locally stationary time series. This form of time series analysis also requires the construction of the inner product matrix of such wavelets. To date, both discrete autocorrelation wavelets and the inner product matrix have been constructed via a brute force technique which proves to be computationally ...

We present two heuristic optimisation methods for generating N -variable boolean functions which exhibit particular cryptographic properties. Each method targets one or more properties and consistently produces a large number of N -variable boolean functions with those properties. The first method presented is shown to outperform any other heuristic technique previously reported, in terms of ge...

In the General Linear Model (GLM) framework for the statistical analysis of fMRI data, the problem of temporal autocorrelations in the residual signal (after regression) has been frequently addressed in the open literature. There exist various methods for correcting the ensuing bias in the statistical testing, among which the prewhitening strategy, which uses a prewhitening matrix for rendering...