PurposeOne of the most substantial factors for Tourism Industry is Hotel Industry while it could provide the necessary substructures for Tourism. Growth in Hotel industry will lead to the growth in Tourism industry. Considering a major growth in Hotel industry in recent years in Iran, in this research, numerous objectives had been pursued. The first purpose of this study is to explore four diff...

A method for customer churn characterization based on LightBGM (Light Gradient Boosting Machine) is proposed. Additionally, experimental approaches mitigation of are conducted through prediction. The experiments reveal several characteristics such as age dependency, gender dependency (with a high divorce rate among female customers), number visits higher customers with fewer visits), unit price...

in today's competitiveenvironment, customers are the most important asset to any company. therefore,in order to retain customers, it is essential to understandtheirbehaviour for developing effective strategies. one of the most commonmethods for customer analysis is market segmentation that helps companies todevelop marketing technique by dividing market into several smaller homogeneousgrou...

classifying customers using data mining algorithms, enables banks to keep old customers loyality while attracting new ones. using decision tree as a data mining technique, we can optimize customer classification provided that the appropriate decision tree is selected. in this article we have presented an appropriate model to classify customers who use internet banking service. the model is deve...

The everyday lives of contemporary youths are awash with drugs to boost pleasure, moods, sexual performance, vitality, appearance and health. This paper examines pervasive practices of chemical 'self-maximization' from the perspectives of youths themselves. The research for this paper was conducted among male, female and transgender (male to female, so-called waria) sex workers in Makassar, Ind...

BACKGROUND Barber's disease is an acquired occupational disease produced by short customers' hairs that penetrate the interdigital spaces of the hands. The lesion has been reported to occur mostly on the hands of male hairdressers. The purpose of this article is to report a rare case of a female hairdresser who developed a pilonidal sinus in the interdigital web of her non-dominant hand and rev...

BACKGROUND In 2010, Philadelphia enacted a menu-labeling law requiring full-service restaurant chains to list values for calories, sodium, fat, and carbohydrates for each item on all printed menus. PURPOSE The goal of the study was to determine whether purchase decisions at full-service restaurants varied depending on the presence of labeling. METHODS In August 2011, this cross-sectional st...

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