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Prevalence of metabolic syndrome in Extremadura, Spain.

We read with interest the article by León et al1 who studied a sample of workers aged 25 to 64 years recruited during their routine medical checkup exams undertaken by the prevention services of FREMAP during 2003 and estimated an overall prevalence of the metabolic syndrome (MS) of 13.4%, higher in men (15.9%) than in women (5.2%). What really caught our attention, though, was that the greates...

Motivation and Involvement In International Tourism

One of the main aspects in the consumer behavior is the concept of involvement because it influences the decision rules used by tourists to reach the final decision. An empirical study of 600 international tourists reveals that motivation to relax, influences tourists’ involvement with the trip. A structural model shows that when tourists are motivated to relax they get directly more involved w...

Breakfast, plasma glucose and -hydroxybutyrate, body mass index and academic performance in children from Extremadura, Spain

Non-profit academic project, developed under the open access initiative

Tourist Spending Patterns in Utah

Machine learning and spending patterns

The aim of this study is to research the possibility of using customer transactional data to identify spending patterns among individuals, that in turn can be used to assess creditworthiness. Two different approaches to unsupervised clustering are used and compared in the study, one being K-means and the other an hierarchical approach. The features used in both clustering techniques are extract...