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Game theory of social distancing in response to an epidemic. [PDF]

PLoS Computational Biology, 2010
Social distancing practices are changes in behavior that prevent disease transmission by reducing contact rates between susceptible individuals and infected individuals who may transmit the disease.
Timothy C Reluga
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Knowledge of Fatwa, Coronavirus, and Family Factors towards Policies of Social Distancing [PDF]

, 2023
This study aims to determine the effect of knowledge of fatwa, the knowledge of coronavirus disease, and family factors on student compliance with social distancing policies to prevent the spread of Covid-19 in Indonesia.
Fanani, Ahmad, Hakim, Rahmad, Mahdi, Fadilla Muhammad, Mawardi, Subhan, Susilo, Adib, Tamrin, M. Husni   +5 more
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A Pragmatic Analysis of Proxemics as A Nonverbal Communicator with Reference to The Concept of Social Distancing During Covid-19 Pandemic

Zanco Journal of Humanity Sciences, 2021
The term ‘social distancing’ has been widely used recently in various means of mass communication to encourage people to keep it as a way of preventing the spread of Covid-19 Coronavirus.
Himdad Abdullqahar Muhammad, Rauf Kareem Mahmood   +1 more
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“Stay home so this can be over:” A national study of youth perspectives on social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic

Preventive Medicine Reports, 2021
Social distancing is an important public health recommendation that has been implemented to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Infections are rising among younger populations, but relatively little is known about youth social distancing behavior.
Matthew R. Dunn, Melissa DeJonckheere, Sam Schuiteman, Arianna Strome, Kelsey Herbert, Marika Waselewski, Tammy Chang   +6 more
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From social distancing to social containment

Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2020
This essay develops an anthropological critique of ‘social distancing’. While the 2020 coronavirus pandemic requires us to reconfigure established forms of sociality, distancing regimes such as ‘lockdowns’ can profoundly disrupt the provision of care and
Nicholas Long
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Social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic: quantifying the practice in Michigan – a “hotspot state” early in the pandemic – using a volunteer-based online survey

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background Public Health policies related to social distancing efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic helped slow the infection rate. However, individual-level factors associated with social distancing are largely unknown.
Andrea E. Cassidy-Bushrow, Mohammed Baseer, Karen Kippen, Albert M. Levin, Jia Li, Ian Loveless, Laila M. Poisson, Lonni Schultz, Ganesa Wegienka, Yueren Zhou, Christine Cole Johnson   +10 more
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ANALYSIS OF SEMANTIC PROSODY IN THE COLLOCATION WORDS OF "SOCIAL DISTANCING" AND "PHYSICAL DISTANCING"

Lire Journal, 2020
This study discusses the collocation of the words 'social distancing' and 'physical distancing'. Both of these phrases are new words that emerge during the current condition of COVID-19, which has a general definition of interference to prevent ...
Audina Oktaviana
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The Disparity and Dynamics of Social Distancing Behaviors in Japan: Investigation of Mobile Phone Mobility Data

JMIR Medical Informatics, 2022
BackgroundThe availability of large-scale and fine-grained aggregated mobility data has allowed researchers to observe the dynamics of social distancing behaviors at high spatial and temporal resolutions.
Zeyu Lyu, Hiroki Takikawa
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Social distancing is a social dilemma game played by every individual against his/her population

PLoS ONE, 2021
Since the outbreak of the global COVID-19 pandemic, social distancing has been known to everyone and recommended almost everywhere everyday. Social distancing has been and will be one of the most effective measures and sometimes, the only available one ...
Zhijun Wu
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The Effect of Social Distancing on the Reach of an Epidemic in Social Networks

, 2021
How does social distancing affect the reach of an epidemic in social networks? We present Monte Carlo simulation results of a capacity constrained Susceptible-Infected-Removed (SIR) model.
Gutin, Gregory, Hirano, Tomohiro, Hwang, Sung-Ha, Neary, Philip R., Toda, Alexis Akira   +4 more
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