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Anban W. Pillay

School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Verified email at ukzn.ac.za
Cited by 286

COVID-19: lessons and experiences from South Africa's first surge

D Moonasar, A Pillay, E Leonard, R Naidoo… - BMJ Global …, 2021 - gh.bmj.com
On 5 March 2020, South Africa recorded its first case of imported COVID-19. Since then,
cases in South Africa have increased exponentially with significant community transmission …

A comparison of various classical optimizers for a variational quantum linear solver

A Pellow-Jarman, I Sinayskiy, A Pillay… - Quantum Information …, 2021 - Springer
Variational hybrid quantum classical algorithms are a class of quantum algorithms intended
to run on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices. These algorithms employ a …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of pharmaceutical tendering on prices and market concentration in South Africa over a 14-year period

OJ Wouters, DM Sandberg, A Pillay… - Social Science & Medicine, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Objective We investigated the South African tendering system for medicines to (a)
evaluate its impact on prices and market concentration over a 14-year period and (b) …

An ontology for factors affecting tuberculosis treatment adherence behavior in sub-Saharan Africa

OA Ogundele, D Moodley, AW Pillay… - Patient preference and …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose Adherence behavior is a complex phenomenon influenced by diverse personal,
cultural, and socioeconomic factors that may vary between communities in different regions …

Architectural frameworks for developing national health information systems in low and middle income countries

T Mudaly, D Moodley, A Pillay… - Proceedings of the First …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Consolidating currently fragmented health information systems in low and middle-income
countries (LMIC) into a coherent national information system will increase operational …

An architecture and reference implementation of an open health information mediator: Enabling interoperability in the Rwandan health information exchange

R Crichton, D Moodley, A Pillay, R Gakuba… - Foundations of Health …, 2013 - Springer
Rwanda, one of the smallest and most densely populated countries in Africa, has made
rapid and substantial progress towards designing and deploying a national health …

Evaluating pharmaceuticals for health policy in low and middle income country settings

A Creese, A Kotwani, J Kutzin… - … for health policy and …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Some key characteristics of the experiences of high income countries with pharmaceutical
evaluation (USA, Australia, Canada, UK) discussed in Chapters 4 and 5 can readily be …

Features of speech audio for accent recognition

Y Singh, A Pillay, E Jembere - 2020 International Conference …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An accent is the distinctive way words are pronounced. Every speaker has an accent, which
varies by gender, age, formality, social class, geographical region, and native language …

QAOA Performance in noisy devices: the effect of classical optimizers and ansatz depth

A Pellow-Jarman, S McFarthing, I Sinayskiy… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm (QAOA) is a variational quantum
algorithm for Near-term Intermediate-Scale Quantum computers (NISQ) providing …

An improved generalized regression neural network for type II diabetes classification

M Ndaba, AW Pillay, AE Ezugwu - … and Its Applications–ICCSA 2018: 18th …, 2018 - Springer
This paper proposes an improved Generalized Regression Neural Network (KGRNN) for the
diagnosis of type II diabetes. Diabetes, a widespread chronic disease, is a metabolic …