Hypothesis: The multi-faceted components of the metabolic syndrome now include markers of inflammation and endothelial activation. Despite this growing body of epidemiological data, standard ...

Latent factors are variables that cannot be observed directly but can be inferred from a set of observable variables. For example, in psychology, bad conduct (latent factor) can be measured by how ...

Although it is widely acknowledged that the Web as a marketing tool or medium offers great potentials and advantages (Cook and Coupey 1998), less is known about the motivations for using the Web and ...