Forming trust with vaccine fence-sitters

Forming trust with vaccine fence-sitters.

Vaccination programs and providers should not expect to convert people from a strong antivaccination stance, according to some experts. When it comes to promoting vaccine acceptance, they argue it may be a better investment to focus on winning the trust of the “vaccine-hesitant.” There’s a tendency in public health to see people as either proor antivaccine, but many people stand somewhere betwe...

Fence-sitters Protect Cooperation in Complex Networks

Evolutionary game theory is one of the key paradigms behind many scientific disciplines from science to engineering. In complex networks, because of the difficulty of formulating the replicator dynamics, most of the previous studies are confined to a numerical level. In this paper, we introduce a vectorial formulation to derive three classes of individuals' payoff analytically. The three classe...

Don't try to convert the antivaccinators, instead target the fence-sitters.

Fence Patrolling with Two-speed Robots

A fence, represented by a unit interval is to be patrolled collectively by n robots. At any moment a robot may move in one of the two possible states: walking or patrolling. Each state is associated with a maximal moving speed which cannot be exceeded. A robot may have a unique pair of speeds, but its patrolling speed is always smaller than its walking speed. Each robot is allowed to patrol whi...

Forming social capital--does participatory planning foster trust in institutions?

Participatory planning that includes interest groups and municipal representatives has been presented as a means to deal with the increasing difficulty to reach arrangements due to progressively scarce land resources. Under dispute is whether collaborative forms of planning augment social capital or whether they might actually cause the destruction of such a valuable social commodity. In this p...