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Peter Banda

Postdoc at Luxembourg Centre For Systems Biomedicine, University of Luxembourg
Verified email at uni.lu
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[HTML][HTML] One month of rifapentine plus isoniazid to prevent HIV-related tuberculosis

S Swindells, R Ramchandani, A Gupta… - … England Journal of …, 2019 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Tuberculosis is the leading killer of patients with human immunodeficiency virus
(HIV) infection. Preventive therapy is effective, but current regimens are limited by poor …

Patient outcomes associated with post-tuberculosis lung damage in Malawi: a prospective cohort study

J Meghji, M Lesosky, E Joekes, P Banda, J Rylance… - Thorax, 2020 - thorax.bmj.com
Background Post-tuberculosis lung damage (PTLD) is a recognised consequence of
pulmonary TB (pTB). However, little is known about its prevalence, patterns and associated …

[HTML][HTML] The Luxembourg Parkinson's study: a comprehensive approach for stratification and early diagnosis

G Hipp, M Vaillant, NJ Diederich, K Roomp… - Frontiers in aging …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
While genetic advances have successfully defined part of the complexity in Parkinson's
disease (PD), the clinical characterization of phenotypes remains challenging. Therapeutic …

[HTML][HTML] Early warning scores generated in developed healthcare settings are not sufficient at predicting early mortality in Blantyre, Malawi: a prospective cohort study

I Wheeler, C Price, A Sitch, P Banda, J Kellett… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Aim Early warning scores (EWS) are widely used in well-resourced healthcare settings to
identify patients at risk of mortality. The Modified Early Warning Score (MEWS) is a well …

Feedforward Chemical Neural Network: An In Silico Chemical System That Learns xor

D Blount, P Banda, C Teuscher, D Stefanovic - Artificial life, 2017 - direct.mit.edu
Inspired by natural biochemicals that perform complex information processing within living
cells, we design and simulate a chemically implemented feedforward neural network, which …

[HTML][HTML] Crowdsourcing digital health measures to predict Parkinson's disease severity: the Parkinson's Disease Digital Biomarker DREAM Challenge

SK Sieberts, J Schaff, M Duda, BÁ Pataki, M Sun… - NPJ digital …, 2021 - nature.com
Consumer wearables and sensors are a rich source of data about patients' daily disease
and symptom burden, particularly in the case of movement disorders like Parkinson's …

Risk factors for early mortality on antiretroviral therapy in advanced HIV-infected adults

GP Bisson, R Ramchandani, S Miyahara, R Mngqibisa… - Aids, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Background: Many HIV-infected individuals present with advanced HIV disease. These
patients are at high risk of death after antiretroviral therapy (ART) initiation, but risk factors for …

Grassroot Soccer resiliency pilot program: Building resiliency through sport‐based education in Zambia and South Africa

P Peacock‐Villada, J DeCelles… - New Directions for Youth …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Grassroot Soccer designed a curriculum and sport‐based teaching model to build resiliency,
targeting boys and girls in Lusaka, Zambia, and Johannesburg, South Africa, where most …

A comparative study of reservoir computing for temporal signal processing

A Goudarzi, P Banda, MR Lakin, C Teuscher… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2014 - arxiv.org
Reservoir computing (RC) is a novel approach to time series prediction using recurrent
neural networks. In RC, an input signal perturbs the intrinsic dynamics of a medium called a …

Training an asymmetric signal perceptron through reinforcement in an artificial chemistry

P Banda, C Teuscher… - Journal of The Royal …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
State-of-the-art biochemical systems for medical applications and chemical computing are
application-specific and cannot be reprogrammed or trained once fabricated. The …