Fires in informal settlements are devastating to residents of these precarious urban environments. This paper highlights the use spatial metrics and wind speed direction for fire spread risk identification settlement fires Cape Town. Data on: incidents, dwelling footprints, conditions during a fire, analysed both together separately. Fire incidence data with reveals that majority occur December...

BACKGROUND After 4 years a coronary heart disease risk factor intervention programme produced equally large and significantly reduced risk profiles in two intervention towns compared with a control town. Intervention effects through community participation were assessed after cessation of the active intervention programme. The impact of secular trends was assessed in the control town and in two...

1Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa 2Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa 3Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand 4Centre for Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Churchill Hospital, University of Oxford, ...

Imagine a town where wealthy residents live in strong, well-built homes in the center of town, and poorer residents live in rather shabby shacks around the edge of the town. Every few nights, without warning, some sort of monster or group of terrorists from the surrounding countryside carries off one of the residents from the homes around the edge of town. The hapless resident is never heard fr...

1 Genital Mucosal HIV and STI Research Group, Division of Medical Virology, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Medical Virology Laboratory, Cape Town, South Africa, 2 Genital Mucosal HIV and STI Research Group, Department of Pathology, Division of Medical Virology, NRF-DST CAPRISA CENTRE OF EXCELENCE, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, 3...

Nearest Neighbor (NN) searching is a challenging problem in data management and has been widely studied in data mining, pattern recognition and computational geometry. The goal of NN searching is efficiently reporting the nearest data to a given object as a query. In most of the studies both the data and query are assumed to be precise, however, due to the real applications of NN searching, suc...