There is not as much resistance to COVID-19 mitigation there seems, but are structural features that make seem worse than it is. Here, we describe two ways the problem seeming be can worse. First, visible hesitation implement responses signals wider society measures may succeed, which undermines people’s conditional willingness join in on those efforts. Second, our evaluations of others’ these ...

The tremendous advancement in technology has given rise to an increasing requirement for the storage of data in files, databases and other data repositories. As a result, decision-makers are required to use new and powerful automated tools for the purpose of the analysis and interpretation of the stored data, as well as for the extraction of interesting patterns in data. Since the stored data i...

Conversational spoken dialogue systems that interact with the user rather than merely 1 reading text can be equipped with hesitations to manage the dialogue flow and the users’ attention. 2 Based on a series of empirical studies, we built an elaborated hesitation synthesis strategy for 3 dialogue systems that inserts hesitations of scalable extent wherever needed in the ongoing 4 utterance. So ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Open access is one method of improving the quality of clinical practice. Leaving the majority of appointments open to be scheduled the same day allows patients to have control of their access to care. These appointments can be used for all visit types, including physical exams. Our objective was to implement this system to improve efficiency, and patient/provider satis...

The aim of this paper is to present texture features for images embedded in the neutrosophic domain with Hesitancy degree. Hesitancy degree is the fourth component of Neutrosophic set. The goal is to extract a set of features to represent the content of each image in the training database to be used for the purpose of retrieving images from the database similar to the image under consideration.

Vaccines are one of the greatest public health achievements, preventing both mortality and morbidity. However, overall immunization rates are still below the 90% target for Healthy People 2020. There remain significant disparities in immunization rates between children of different racial/ethnic groups, as well as among economically disadvantaged populations. There are systemic issues and chall...

In March 2012, the SAGE Working Group on Vaccine Hesitancy was convened to define the term "vaccine hesitancy", as well as to map the determinants of vaccine hesitancy and develop tools to measure and address the nature and scale of hesitancy in settings where it is becoming more evident. The definition of vaccine hesitancy and a matrix of determinants guided the development of a survey tool to...