Background: The world is experiencing a pandemic of chikungunya which has swept across Indian Ocean and the Indian subcontinent.Kerala the southernmost state of India was affected by the chikungunya Sleds epidemic twice, first in 2006 and then in 2007.Kerala has got geography and climate which are highly favorable for the breeding of Aedes albopict
Bayesian Multi-View Clustering given complex inter-view structure [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]
Multi-view datasets are becoming increasingly prevalent.These datasets consist of different modalities that provide complementary characterizations of the same underlying system.They can include heterogeneous types of information with complex relationships, varying degrees of missingness, and assorted sample sizes, as is often the case in multi-omi
Volcanic hazard assessment for the Canary Islands (Spain) using extreme value theory
The Canary Islands are an active volcanic region densely populated and visited by several millions of tourists every year.Nearly twenty eruptions have been reported through written chronicles in the last 600 yr, suggesting that the probability of a new eruption in the near future is far from zero.This shows the importance of assessing and monitorin