Despite a wide array of safe and effective vaccines in use globally, with major impacts on health worldwide, the WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization has been repeatedly confronted with reports of hesitancy towards accepting specific vaccines or vaccination programmes. This paper summarizes the rationale for a SAGE review of the issue of vaccine hesitancy, its impact a...

Intuitionistic fuzzy PROMETHEE is a method that provides us numerous advantages thanks to its benefits such as allowing the researcher observe positive and negative rankings simultaneously, expressing degree of hesitation, changing significance weights criteria using different methods when identifying levels for each criterion, putting hesitation into action, enabling decision makers, who are g...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com us call them collectively the “liberty and equality paradigm1”are incapable of this, and the postcolonialist bellyaching that has accompanied them in recent decades do not allow such steps to be taken proudly and resolutely. The hesitancy, reluctance, and contrition that characterize the actions of Europeans are largely rooted in these approaches. W...

An outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) occurred in Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan, in 2010. This epidemic was controlled with culling and vaccination, and resulted in the death of nearly 290,000 animals. This paper describes the factors associated with hesitation to restart farming after the epidemic. A questionnaire survey was conducted to assess the mental health of farmers one year after th...

Clicks are usually described as phoneme realisations in some African languages or as paralinguistic vocalisations, e.g. to signal disapproval or as sound imitation. A more recent discovery is that clicks are, presumably unintentionally, used as discourse markers indexing a new sequence in a conversation or before a word search. In this single-case study, we investigated more than 300 apical cli...

Software-as-a-Service is a delivery model whose basic idea is to provide applications to the customer on demand over the Internet. SaaS thereby promotes multi-tenancy as a tool to exploit economies of scale. This means that a single application instance serves multiple customers. However, a major drawback of SaaS is the customers’ hesitation of sharing infrastructure, application code, or data ...