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Why are some people not socially distancing during COVID-19? A segmentation study

, 2021
Purpose Governments around the world have used social distancing methods to slow the spread of COVID-19. Some people, however, have ignored repeated warnings about the need to maintain social distance. The purpose of this study was to segment individuals
Ang, Tyson, Wei, Shuqin, Arli, Denni
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Impact of Social Distancing to Mitigate the Spread of COVID-19 in a Virtual Environment [PDF]

, 2020
A novel strand of Coronavirus has spread in the past months to the point of becoming a pandemic of massive proportions. In order to mitigate the spread of this disease, many different policies have been adopted, including a strict national lockdown in ...
Kapinaj, M., Diego Marti Mason, Pinel-Martínez, Alejandro, Marti Mason, D., Stella, L.; id_orcid, Leonardo Stella, Pinel Martínez, A., Alejandro Pinel Martínez, Stella, Leonardo, Marti-Mason, Diego, Matej Kapinaj, Kapinaj, Matej   +11 more
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Contagious Health Risk and Precautionary Social Distancing [PDF]

, 2021
Background: Since humans are social animals, social relations are incredibly important. However, in cases of contagious diseases such as the flu, social contacts also pose a health risk.
Stok, F. Marijn, Gaissmaier, Wolfgang, Gamp, Martina, Giese, Helge, Renner, Britta, Schupp, Harald T.   +5 more
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Maintaining Social Distancing during the COVID-19 Outbreak

, 2021
The analyses of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control and an increasing amount of scientific research show that the spread of SARS-CoV-2 may be limited by maintaining social distancing, appropriate hand hygiene, and following the basic ...
Amir Khorram-Manesh, Krzysztof Goniewicz, Khorram-Manesh, Amir,, Goniewicz, Krzysztof   +3 more
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Automated measurement of attitudes towards social distancing using social media: A COVID-19 case study

, 2020
The COVID-19 outbreak has focused attention on the use of social distancing as the primary defence against community infection. Forcing social animals to maintain physical distance has presented significant challenges for health authorities and law ...
Kayesh, Humayun, Islam, Md Saiful, Kayes, ASM, Watters, Paul A, Ng, Alex   +4 more
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Loneliness, Wellbeing, and Social Activity in Scottish Older Adults Resulting from Social Distancing during the COVID-19 Pandemic [PDF]

, 2021
This study examined the impact of social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic on loneliness, wellbeing, and social activity, including social support, in Scottish older adults.
Watchman, Karen, Ryde, Gemma C, Martin, Jack G., Connelly, J., Louise McCabe, Anna C. Whittaker, Swales, Bridgitte, Tomaz, Simone A., Karen Watchman, Kirkland, A., Gemma C. Ryde, Jack G. Martin, Connelly, Jenni, McCabe, Louise, Ryde, G., McCabe, L., Andreis, Federico, Whittaker, Anna C, Ryde, Gemma C., Whittaker, Anna C., Tomaz, Simone A, Ilaria Pina, Bridgitte Swales, Tomaz, S.A., Swales, B., Pina, I., Martin, J.G., Kirkland, Andrew, Coffee, P., Andrew Kirkland, Watchman, K., Whittaker, A.C., Kacey C. Neely, Coffee, Pete; id_orcid, Pete Coffee, Neely, Kacey C., Pina, Ilaria, Simone A. Tomaz, Jenni Connelly, Neely, K., Andreis, F., Federico Andreis, Coffee, Pete   +42 more
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Social distancing using IoT approach

Journal of Electrical Systems and Information Technology, 2021
In the coronavirus outbreak pandemic by COVID-19, the World Health Organization (WHO) has been issuing several guidelines through all government agencies.
Mayuri Diwakar Kulkarni, Khalid Alfatmi, Nikhil Sunil Deshmukh   +2 more
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Exploring the Relationship Between Empathy, Self-Construal Style, and Self-Reported Social Distancing Tendencies During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
Social distancing has become the most prominent measure many countries have implemented to combat the spread of COVID-19. The aim of the current study was to explore the potential role of empathy and self-construal styles, as individual personality ...
Carl Michael Galang, Devin Johnson, Sukhvinder S. Obhi   +2 more
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The Visual Social Distancing Problem

IEEE Access, 2020
One of the main and most effective measures to contain the recent viral outbreak is the maintenance of the so-called Social Distancing (SD). To comply with this constraint, governments are adopting restrictions over the minimum inter-personal distance ...
Marco Cristani, Alessio Del Bue, Vittorio Murino, Francesco Setti, Alessandro Vinciarelli   +4 more
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COVID-19, social distancing and guests' preferences: impact on peer-to-peer accommodation pricing

, 2022
This paper investigates how guests' preferences in peer-to-peer (P2P) accommodations changed during the COVID-19 summer season. Specifically, we test the importance of attributes that better allow for preserving the social distancing.
Rungi, Armando, Velázquez Angona, Francisco Javier, Hidalgo, Alberto, Riccaboni, Massimo   +3 more
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