Alphonce Bere

The Response of Juvenile Dichrostachys cinerea and Terminalia sericea Savanna Plants to Cutting Disturbances in the Nylsvley Nature Reserve, South Africa

Bush encroachment by woody species threatens biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and rangeland productivity in savanna ecosystems. Understanding how juvenile woody plants respond to cutting at different times of the year is essential for developing effective management strategie...

A Repeated-Evaluation Comparison of Traditional, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning Survival Models Across Static and Longitudinal Data

Survival analysis plays a central role in medical research. Although the Cox proportional hazards (CoxPH) model remains the standard approach, machine learning and deep learning methods have been increasingly adopted. However, many published comparisons have relied on a single tr...