CORRECTION EXPERIENCES ON SOCIAL MEDIA DURING COVID-19

Correction Experiences on Social Media During COVID-19

Despite a wealth of research examining the effectiveness of correction of misinformation, not enough is known about how people experience such correction when it occurs on social media.Using a study of US adults in late March 2020, we measure how often people witness correction, correct others, or Health are corrected themselves, using the case of

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Fragility Curves of Storage Tanks Impacted by Strong Winds

Industrial infrastructures may be subjected to severe damage by strong winds, storms, tornadoes, and hurricanes.For instance, the two hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, in the Gulf of Mexico (United States) resulted in multiple damages to approximately 611 industrial equipment such as offshore platforms, oil pipelines, and storage tanks.This type

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An Optimal Family of Block Techniques to Solve Models of Infectious Diseases: Fixed and Adaptive Stepsize Strategies

The contemporary scientific community is very familiar with implicit block techniques for solving initial value problems in ordinary differential equations.This is due to the fact that these techniques are cost effective, consistent and stable, and they typically converge quickly when applied to solve particularly stiff models.These aspects of bloc

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