BACKGROUND Conventional screening for hypothyroidism is controversial. Although hypothyroidism is underdiagnosed, many organizations do not recommend screening, citing low disease prevalence in unselected populations. We studied attendees at a thyroid health fair, hypothesizing that certain patient characteristics would enhance the yield of testing. METHODS We carried out an observational stu...

BACKGROUND Despite an increased need, residents of rural communities have decreased access to healthcare and oftenpresentuniquehealthcare challenges associated with their rurality. Ensuring medical students receive adequate exposure to these issues is complicated by the urban location of most medical schools. Health fairs (fairs) conducted in rural communities can provide students exposure to r...

Nowadays, face to face contact with the client is fundamental to the development of marketing acts. In this sense trade fairs are a basic instrument in company marketing policies, especially in Industrial Marketing. In this paper, we study the use of Soft Computing methodologies, specifically Fuzzy Logic and Genetic Algorithms, in the design of the Data Mining algorithms most proper to this pro...

In this paper an interactive game is described, that has been developed for a company using new technologies for raising awareness at job fairs. An already existing framework of a game terminal for job fairs is used. The corporate identity, the content of the advertised job, but also the attraction of a young and technologically interested audience is combined in a game in order to develop an i...

Information visualization is a process that transforms information into a visual form, thus enabling the user to observe it. By graphically presenting data, the user may discover new and useful properties, their correlations, and also detect possible deviations from the expected values. In this paper, after discussing some ideas about possible fruitful use of visualization for data mining, we p...

BACKGROUND Several studies have explored motivating factors for sports participation for youth, but limited data is available regarding factors motivating inner-city children to participate in sports. METHODS A consecutive sample of parents (n=100 parents) and children (n=138 children) attending a health fair in an inner-city community were surveyed regarding motivating factors for enrolling ...

background : despite an increased need, residents of rural communities have decreased access to healthcare and often present unique healthcare challenges associated with their rurality. ensuring medical students receive adequate exposure to these issues is complicated by the urban location of most medical schools. health fairs (fairs) conducted in rural communities can provide students exposure...