Vacation Interruptus

Anticoagulation interruptus: not without risk.

The need to withhold anticoagulation in patients requiring elective surgery poses a particularly important challenge when the risk of thrombosis and thromboembolism is high. In spite of the increasing use of prosthetic heart valves and the increasing prevalence of atrial fibrillation in the aging population, Kovacs et al1 make the important point in this issue of Circulation that there is a pau...

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...

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...