Vacation Appendicitis

Vacation Appendicitis

OBJECTIVE When someone plans a vacation, one of the last things taken into consideration is the possibility of contracting an illness while away. Unfortunately, if people develop abdominal pain while planning for a vacation, they usually proceed with the vacation and do not consider getting medical attention for their pain. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of being on vacatio...

'Stump appendicitis': postappendectomy appendicitis.

To cite: Zachariah SK. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2014208544 DESCRIPTION A 58-year-old woman presented with acute abdominal pain and vomiting of 3 days duration. She had undergone laparotomy for appendicular perforation 25 years earlier. She had recurrent episodes of abdominal pain for the past 5 years and was being treated as a case of adhesi...

Motivations for Pleasure Vacation

Crompton, John L., "Motivations for Pleasure Vacations," Annals of Tourism Research, October/December 1979, VI(4):408-424. The study is concerned with identifying those motives of pleasure vacationers which influence the selection of a destination. It also seeks to develop a conceptual framework capable of encompassing such motives. Empirically nine motives were identified. Seven were classifie...

Vacation Scholarship Projects

Improve Your Vacation

We developed a program that automatically creates a crowd sourced tourist guide for a selected city. This tourist guide is to be based on the data of Flickr. To do this, the program analyses the meta data of geotagged photos from the image hosting platform Flickr. These geotagged photos are clustered using DBSCAN to find the places with the highest density of photos. These high density places s...