Optimal (Control of) Intervention Strategies for Malaria Epidemic in Karonga District, Malawi by Peter M. Mwamtobe, Shirley Abelman, J. Michel Tchuenche, Ansley Kasambara

“…Malaria is a public health problem for more than 2 billion people globally. About 219 million cases of malaria occur worldwide and 660,000 people die, mostly (91%) in the African Region despite decades of efforts to control the disease. …”
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Impact of physical vanity, achievement vanity and brand equity on the consumption of luxury skincare products by Showkat Khalil Wani

“… The aim of this study is to evaluate the influence of physical Vanity, achievement vanity, and brand equity on luxury consumption in the skincare industry, considering the promising US$13.9 billion beauty and personal care market in India, as estimated by Euromonitor International. …”
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Analysis of the Influence of Quantile Regression Model on Mainland Tourists’ Service Satisfaction Performance by Wen-Cheng Wang, Wen-Chien Cho, Yin-Jen Chen

“…It is estimated that mainland Chinese tourists travelling to Taiwan can bring annual revenues of 400 billion NTD to the Taiwan economy. Thus, how the Taiwanese Government formulates relevant measures to satisfy both sides is the focus of most concern. …”
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Pulsed vector atomic magnetometer using an alternating fast-rotating field by Tao Wang, Wonjae Lee, Mark Limes, Thomas Kornack, Elizabeth Foley, Michael Romalis

“…Operating in gradiometer mode, the magnetometer achieves a total field gradient sensitivity of 35 $${{{\rm{fT}}}}/\sqrt{{{{\rm{Hz}}}}}$$ fT / Hz (0.7 parts per billion) and angular resolutions of 6 $${{{\rm{nrad}}}}/\sqrt{{{{\rm{Hz}}}}}$$ nrad / Hz at a 50 μT Earth field strength. …”
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Contribuciones de la producción en traspatio a los grupos domésticos campesinos by Floriberto González Ortiz, Andrés Pérez Magaña, Ignacio Ocampo Fletes, Juan Alberto Paredes Sánchez, Patricia de la Rosa Peñaloza

“…Los objetivos fueron: analizar las características de los componentes es - tructurales del traspatio y precisar la contri - bución vegetal y animal a la mejora de la ali - mentación, salud e ingreso. …”
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Foreword by Kammila Naidoo

“…Currently, there are more than 2 billion children in the world, with the highest proportion living in sub-Saharan Africa. …”
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Correlation of Vitamin B12 Levels with Clinical and Laboratory Features in Patients of Dengue Fever by Asma Abdul Razzak

“…Estimates suggest that 40-50% of the world's population is now at risk for dengue in tropical, subtropical, and, especially recently, higher temperate regions due to the rapid rise in dengue prevalence in recent decades.2 There are around 100 million new cases of dengue each year worldwide, affecting about 2.5 billion individuals who reside in dengue-risk areas.3 The global spread of dengue infection is increasing. …”
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Technology license agreements as public–private partnerships for economic development: evaluations using surveys, input–output modeling, and regression analysis by Eric D. Raile, Eric K. Austin, Michael P. Wallner, Jeffrey Peterson, Brian Lewandowski, Derek Kapps, Bridger Sellegren, Joe Hutton

“…We tallied approximately $32 billion in direct sales across 590 license agreements. …”
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The Natural Science Underlying Big History by Eric J. Chaisson

“…These are global history greatly extended, big history with a scientific basis, and natural history broadly portrayed across ∼14 billion years of time. Human beings and our cultural inventions are not special, unique, or apart from Nature; rather, we are an integral part of a universal evolutionary process connecting all such complex systems throughout space and time. …”
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Survey on Data Analysis in Social Media: A Practical Application Aspect by Qixuan Hou, Meng Han, Zhipeng Cai

“…Social media has more than three billion users sharing events, comments, and feelings throughout the world. …”
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Extracting the femtometer structure of strange baryons using the vacuum polarization effect by The BESIII Collaboration

“…We present a method useful for hyperon-antihyperon pairs of different types which exploits the cross section enhancement due to the effect of vacuum polarization at the J/ψ resonance. Using the 10 billion J/ψ events collected with the BESIII detector, this allows a precise determination of the hyperon structure function. …”
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THE EUROPEAN UNION NORTH–SOUTH DIVIDE AND THE FUTURE OF THE EURO by M. M. Khmelnitskiy

“…The «troika» of lenders saved the eurozone on account of multi-billion aid but it is still nothing done to cope with existing political and economic contradictions such as: trade deficit between «North» and «South», dependence on exports, specific international specialization of Greece, Spain and other countries. …”
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Stubble Management Plays a Greater Role than Tillage Practice in Shaping Soil Microbiome Structure and Function by Chang Xu, Ruey Toh, Jishun Li, Yi Zhou, Matthew D. Denton

“…Metagenomic sequencing facilitated the assembly of a gene catalog comprising 4.36 billion non-redundant genes. Stubble management markedly altered both the taxonomic and functional composition of the prokaryotic community, the addition of stubble caused a significant increase in Proteobacteria, but a decrease in Chloroflexi compared with no stubble. …”
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Paste Pipeline Transportation of Pumping Backfill Technology with Long Distance and High Stowing Gradient in Cold and High-Altitude Areas by Wei-jun Liu, Min Chen, Fei-fei Wang, Ren-ze Ou, Qi Liu

“…On this condition, the technology is capable of obvious economic benefits with the backfill cost of only 25.56 yuan/t, remnant ore recovery rate of 80%, and new output value of 1.28 billion. It creates a precedent for the paste pumping backfill technology with long distance and high stowing gradient in cold and high-altitude areas. …”
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An Automated Clinical Laboratory Decision Support System for Test Utilization, Medical Necessity Verification, and Payment Processing by Safedin Beqaj, Rojeet Shrestha, Tim Hamill

“…It has been well established and widely recognized that (1) laboratory testing provides 70%-85% of the objective data that physicians use in the diagnosis and treatment of their patients; (2) orders for laboratory tests in the United States have increased, with an estimated volume of 4-5 billion tests per year; (3) there is a lack of user-friendly tools to guide physicians in their test selection and ordering; and (4) laboratory test overutilization and underutilization continue to represent a pervasive source of inefficiency in the health care system. …”
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Companies adjust tax payments to offset changes in publicly perceived impact on environment, social, and governance factors by Akihiro Okuyama, Shuichi Tsugawa, Chiaki Matsunaga, Shunsuke Managi

“…Abstract Corporate tax avoidance is a significant international issue, resulting in annual losses of USD 100–240 billion for governments globally. Understanding the relationship between firms’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) and tax avoidance activities is crucial to uncovering their motivations for tax avoidance. …”
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Simulation of water resources in ungauged region- case study in Nam Ou River Basin, Laos by Wenmei Cai, Li Ren, Li Zhang, Yutong Liu, Wenjiao Yang

“…From 1980 to 2010, the average water resources for the basin were estimated at 16.4 billion m3, with a rainy period from May to September. …”
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Edible Insects as an Alternative Source of Nutrients: Benefits, Risks, and the Future of Entomophagy in Europe—A Narrative Review by Wojciech Michał Jankowski, Dominik Przychodniak, Weronika Gromek, Emilia Majsiak, Marcin Kurowski

“…According to projections by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the global population will reach 9 billion by 2050. This raises concerns about the ability to feed such a population. …”
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Sustainable production through biostimulants under fruit orchards by Vishal Singh Rana, Sunny Sharma, Neerja Rana, Umesh Sharma

“…Abstract The world population is expected to be around 9 billion by 2050 which would be 34 per cent greater than the today’s population. …”
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Public Preferences and Willingness to Pay for Bay Ecological Restoration by LI Jingmei, HAO Yanan, SHAN Jingzhu, ZHANG Xiaofan

“…Based on this, the total willingness to pay of Qingdao residents for Jiaozhou Bay ecological restoration is estimated to be 1.449 billion CNY per year. The research conclusions can provide data support for formulating policies for bay ecological restoration and governance and shaping people-oriented high-quality bay ecological restoration.…”
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