Feature selection is an important pre-processing technique in the pattern recognition domain. This article proposes a hybridization between Genetic Algorithm (GA) and the Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) for solving the feature selection problem in Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) applied...

One way to enhance the likelihood that more university students will graduate within the specific major that they begin with is to attract the type of students who have typically (historically) done well in that field of study. This paper expands upon a study that utilizes data mining...

Nailfold capillaroscopy is a simple, non-invasive clinical aid used for the diagnosis of vascular dysfunction. The method proposed emphasizes on the USB Digital Microscope which is a cheaper and useful alternative to commercially available expensive videocapillaroscopes which produces high...

The purpose of this article is to investigate and model retail consumer purchase behavior and determine factors affecting the purchasing decision. The following hypotheses were verified: H1 tests the influence of “Decision-making Time” over “Final Purchase”. H2 tests “Promotion” over...

This article identifies consumers' impulse purchasing behavior in supermarkets. The study includes an interpretation of the impulse decision relationship with the final purchase and an analysis of the distribution of impulse purchasers' demographic characteristics (age and shoppers' company)....

In this paper, the authors propose a new parallel implemented approach on Graphics Processing Units (GPU) for training logistic regression model. Logistic regression has been applied in many machine learning applications to build building predictive models. However, logistic training regularly...

This article describes how anticipating unforeseen road events reveal a serious problem in intelligent transportation systems. Due to the diversity of causes, road incidents do not require regular traffic conditions and accurate prediction of these incidents in real-time becomes a complicated...

This study aims to determine food security on upland agriculture households in rural area. Food security is concerned with the first two main goals of Sustainable Development Goals, No Poverty and Zero Hunger. Myanmar is Food Insecure State that showing 14.2% that is 7.7 million of 51 million...

When an individual is seen or treated by a healthcare professional, a series of alphanumeric codes are used to describe the medical diagnoses and services provided. This designated classification structure, the ninth iteration of ICD (International Classification of Diseases), implements the use...

Researches over the years have posited that most of the purchasing decisions made by shoppers are unplanned and mostly made inside the store. Every year retailers spend huge amount on in-store promotion and store environment to gain consumers' attention and stimulate them for such impulsive...