Paying for crime: frauds in DPVAT insurance and their impacts on society by Beatriz Peres Lopes, João Vinícius França Carvalho

“…Finally, the estimates suggest that society could have saved over BRL 15 billion in 14 years.…”
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Quick Overview of Extension Programs to Educate Homeowners about Environmentally-Friendly Landscape Practices in Florida, South Carolina, and Tennessee by Tatiana Borisova, Katie Giacalone, Ruth Anne Hanahan, Esen Momol

“…Nationwide, landscape irrigation accounts for more than 7 billion gallons of water per day. But up to 50 percent of this water is wasted due to overwatering, poor irrigation system design, evaporation, or other factors. …”
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Processing Agroindustry By-Products for Obtaining Value-Added Products and Reducing Environmental Impact by Iván Almaraz-Sánchez, Aldo Amaro-Reyes, Jorge Alberto Acosta-Gallegos, Magdalena Mendoza-Sánchez

“…Over four billion tons of foods are produced annually on the planet, and about a third is wasted. …”
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Coral Reef Conservation Strategies for Everyone by Kathryn E. Lohr, Joshua T. Patterson

“…About 400 million people rely on coral reef fish as a source of protein; about 6 million people make a living by catching and selling coral reef fish and invertebrates; tourism activities like SCUBA diving and snorkeling provide revenue of US $9.6 billion per year; and reefs reduce wave energy by 97%, helping to protect 197 million people in coastal areas from beach erosion, wave energy, and flooding. …”
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Insect and Mite Pest Management in Florida Peanut by Isaac L. Esquivel, Xavier Martini, Ethan Carter, Silvana V. Paula-Moraes

“… Peanut is one of the most important cash crops grown in the United States, with an estimated production value of over $1 billion. The southeastern coastal plains harbor most of the US peanut acreage, and Florida is ranked among the top five major peanut producers in the US, with 160 thousand acres planted in 2022 and an annual production value of $130 million in 2021. …”
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The Evaluation of Groundwater Resources Value of Beijing Based on Emergy Theory by Ling Wang, Qing He

“…Taking Beijing in 2012 as an example, the values of groundwater for residents life subsystem, the industrial subsystem, and the agricultural subsystem are 7.64, 6.00, and 3.25 billion Yuan, accounting for 45.24, 35.5, and 19.24% of the total value, respectively. …”
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SCondi: A Smart Context Distribution Framework Based on a Messaging Service for the Internet of Things by Jongmoon Park, Myung-Joon Lee

“…With the advent of the IoT era, multiple billion devices can generate huge amounts of data that might be used in IoT applications. …”
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Coral Reef Conservation Strategies for Everyone by Kathryn E. Lohr, Joshua T. Patterson

“…About 400 million people rely on coral reef fish as a source of protein; about 6 million people make a living by catching and selling coral reef fish and invertebrates; tourism activities like SCUBA diving and snorkeling provide revenue of US $9.6 billion per year; and reefs reduce wave energy by 97%, helping to protect 197 million people in coastal areas from beach erosion, wave energy, and flooding. …”
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A GenEO Domain Decomposition method for Saddle Point problems by Nataf, Frédéric, Tournier, Pierre-Henri

“…Numerical results on three dimensional elasticity problems for steel-rubber structures discretized by a finite element with continuous pressure are shown for up to one billion degrees of freedom.…”
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Implementation of lightweight intrusion detection model for security of smart green house and vertical farm by Jun-Ho Huh

“…With the current global food production capability, it is not difficult to anticipate that there will be a global food shortage when the world population grows beyond 10 billion by the end of the 21st century. Many projects are in motion to deal with this problem and some of them are considered to be quite feasible. …”
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Le Musée imaginaire de Jean Dubuffet ? Réflexions sur la documentation photographique dans les archives de la Collection de l’Art Brut by Baptiste Brun

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An innovative approach to prioritizing soil conservation areas under diverse scenarios by leveraging the complementary roles of soil retention services and soil erosion indicators by Eshetu Shifaw, Jinming Sha, Xiaomei Li, Peng Zhao, Jianwan Ji, Hao Zhang, Ashenafi Yimam Kassaye, Shuhui Lai, Zhonglin Ji, Yusheng Yang

“…The total values of AE, ST, SL, and SE ranged from 11.98 to 12.49 billion, 2.07–2.15 billion, 660.41–684.06 million, and 102.35–105.75 million tons/year, respectively. …”
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Hemp Fertilization: Current Knowledge, Gaps and Efforts in Florida: A 2020 Report by Rao S. Mylavarapu, Zachary Brym, Luis Monserrate, Michael J. Mulvaney

“…Starting in April 2020, the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services began accepting applications for cultivation of hemp in Florida, with the potential for building a $20–$30 billion industry in the state. The statewide UF/IFAS Industrial Hemp Pilot Project is researching aspects of agronomic production for hemp cultivation. …”
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Circulating Tumor Cells Measurements in Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Franck Chiappini

“…Another technical challenge consists of finding few CTC mixed with million leukocytes and billion erythrocytes. CTC detection and identification can be used to estimate prognosis and may serve as an early marker to assess antitumor activity of treatment. …”
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Parallel Calculation of Random Vibration for Reentry Vehicles in Fluctuating Pressure Environment by Xuanhua Fan, Jun Liang, Keying Wang, Huan Zhou

“…The novel algorithm based on the modal superposition method reduces the computational complexity, realizes the parallel calculation, and achieves the maximum numerical simulation calculation capacity of 1.045 billion degrees of freedom (DOFs) while improving the calculation efficiency and the accuracy of the results. …”
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THE INFLUENCE OF THE RENAISSANCE’S ART OF MEMORY ON DESCARTES’ PHILOSOPHY by Gintautas Mažeikis

“…Main attention is paid to the cabbalistic principles of Ramon Lull’s "Short Art" and Brunian and Ramist art of memory. Descartes knew Lull’s art to which he reffered to in very derogatory terms. …”
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Top Challenges Facing the Florida Strawberry Industry: Insights from a Comprehensive Industry Survey by Zhengfei Guan, Feng Wu, Alicia Whidden

“…The farm-gate value of Florida strawberries is approximately US$400 million and the total economic contribution of the industry is estimated at about US$1 billion. Even so, over the last few years, the Florida strawberry industry has faced many challenges. …”
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A Hybrid Machine Learning Framework for Soccer Match Outcome Prediction: Incorporating Bivariate Poisson Distribution by Chen Zhong An

“…The 2022 FIFA World Cup final attracted 1.5 billion viewers, while billions of dollars are wagered on soccer matches every year. …”
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Top Challenges Facing the Florida Strawberry Industry: Insights from a Comprehensive Industry Survey by Zhengfei Guan, Feng Wu, Alicia Whidden

“…The farm-gate value of Florida strawberries is approximately US$400 million and the total economic contribution of the industry is estimated at about US$1 billion. Even so, over the last few years, the Florida strawberry industry has faced many challenges. …”
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CPEC and Inclusive Development of Balochistan: A Holistic Approach to Human Security and Sustainable Development by Sayyeda Aqsa Sajjad, Dr Raza Muhammad

“… The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is considered as a game changer in the global arena impacting the regional trade and infrastructural development with the cost of US$ 62 billion. The project seeks to establish a transportation and trade network which will connect the China’s Xinjiang province with Gwadar Port of Pakistan, situated in the southwestern province of Balochistan. …”
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