When faced with vaccine hesitancy, public health authorities are looking for effective strategies to address this issue. In this paper, the findings of 15 published literature reviews or meta-analysis that have examined the effectiveness of different interventions to reduce vaccine hesitancy and/or to enhance vaccine acceptance are presented and discussed. From the literature, there is no stron...

The opposition to vaccinations is a well-known phenomenon that dates back to the Victorian age when it was self-limited by the awareness of the importance to be protected against fearsome infectious diseases. In the XX century, the mass use of vaccination has - instead - consented to eradicate or drastically reduce the burden of diseases such as smallpox and polio. These positive effects of the...

Vaccine hesitancy is an emerging term in the socio-medical literature which describes an approach to vaccine decision making. It recognizes that there is a continuum between full acceptance and outright refusal of some or all vaccines and challenges the previous understanding of individuals or groups, as being either anti-vaccine or pro-vaccine. The behaviours responsible for vaccine hesitancy ...

As synthetic voices become more flexible, and conversational systems gain more potential to adapt to the environmental and social situation, the question needs to be examined, how different modifications to the synthetic speech interact with each other and how their specific combinations influence perception. This work investigates how the vocal effort of the synthetic speech together with adde...

Speech by one or more interlocutors may be described as continuous, but a moment's reflection will reveal that it is not really continuous at all. Minimally, speakers must break off their speech to breathe. In extreme cases, their speech may become highly discontinuous, with long breaks, extraneous sounds or words, or reformulations that cause delay in message transfer. These kinds of discontin...

The existing expert weight determination method for multi-attribute decision making based on the Pythagorean fuzzy number approach does not make sufficient use of hesitation involved with information, which may cause biased assignment. Therefore, to address issue unknown weights and attribute evaluation numbers in group decision-making problems, a is proposed that improves treatment sets. First...