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    IJERPH, Vol. 15, Pages 1044: The Social Basis of Vaccine Questioning and Refusal: A Qualitative Study Employing Bourdieu’s Concepts of ‘Capitals’ and ‘Habitus’ (2018)
    MDPI Publishing
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    Publication Date: 2018-05-23
    Description: IJERPH, Vol. 15, Pages 1044: The Social Basis of Vaccine Questioning and Refusal: A Qualitative Study Employing Bourdieu’s Concepts of ‘Capitals’ and ‘Habitus’ International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health doi: 10.3390/ijerph15051044 Authors: Katie Attwell Samantha Meyer Paul Ward This article is an in-depth analysis of the social nature of vaccine decision-making. It employs the sociological theory of Bourdieu and Ingram to consider how parents experience non-vaccination as a valued form of capital in specific communities, and how this can affect their decision-making. Drawing on research conducted in two Australian cities, our qualitative analysis of new interview data shows that parents experience disjuncture and tugs towards ‘appropriate’ forms of vaccination behavior in their social networks, as these link to broader behaviors around food, school choices and birth practices. We show how differences emerge between the two cities based on study designs, such that we are able to see some parents at the center of groups valorizing their decisions, whilst others feel marginalized within their communities for their decisions to vaccinate. We draw on the work of philosopher Mark Navin to consider how all parents join epistemic communities that reward compliance and conformity with the status quo and consider what this means for interventions that seek to influence the flow of pro-vaccine information through vaccine-critical social groups.
    Print ISSN: 1661-7827
    Electronic ISSN: 1660-4601
    Topics: Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering , Medicine
    Published by MDPI Publishing
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    Percolation in suspensions of polydisperse hard rods: Quasi universality and finite-size effects (2015)
    American Institute of Physics (AIP)
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    Publication Date: 2015-07-23
    Description: We present a study of connectivity percolation in suspensions of hard spherocylinders by means of Monte Carlo simulation and connectedness percolation theory. We focus attention on polydispersity in the length, the diameter, and the connectedness criterion, and we invoke bimodal, Gaussian, and Weibull distributions for these. The main finding from our simulations is that the percolation threshold shows quasi universal behaviour, i.e., to a good approximation, it depends only on certain cumulants of the full size and connectivity distribution. Our connectedness percolation theory hinges on a Lee-Parsons type of closure recently put forward that improves upon the often-used second virial approximation [T. Schilling, M. Miller, and P. van der Schoot, e-print arXiv:1505.07660 (2015)]. The theory predicts exact universality. Theory and simulation agree quantitatively for aspect ratios in excess of 20, if we include the connectivity range in our definition of the aspect ratio of the particles. We further discuss the mechanism of cluster growth that, remarkably, differs between systems that are polydisperse in length and in width, and exhibits non-universal aspects.
    Print ISSN: 0021-9606
    Electronic ISSN: 1089-7690
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology , Physics
    Published by American Institute of Physics (AIP)
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    Boundaries in digital planes (1990)
    Hindawi
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    Publication Date: 1990-01-01
    Description: The importance of topological connectedness properties in processing digital pictures is well known. A natural way to begin a theory for this is to give a definition of connectedness for subsets of a digital plane which allows one to prove a Jordan curve theorem. The generally accepted approach to this has been a non-topological Jordan curve theorem which requires two different definitions, 4-connectedness, and 8-connectedness, one for the curve and the other for its complement.In [KKM] we introduced a purely topological context for a digital plane and proved a Jordan curve theorem. The present paper gives a topological proof of the non-topological Jordan curve theorem mentioned above and extends our previous work by considering some questions associated with image processing:How do more complicated curves separate the digital plane into connected sets? Conversely given a partition of the digital plane into connected sets, what are the boundaries like and how can we recover them? Our construction gives a unified answer to these questions.The crucial step in making our approach topological is to utilize a natural connected topology on a finite, totally ordered set; the topologies on the digital spaces are then just the associated product topologies. Furthermore, this permits us to define path, arc, and curve as certain continuous functions on such a parameter interval.
    Print ISSN: 1048-9533
    Electronic ISSN: 1687-2177
    Topics: Mathematics
    Published by Hindawi
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