Disaster Preparedness and First Aid Response: The Role of Emergency Nurses by Olaolorunpo Olorunfemi, Olufunke Beatrice Adesunloye

“…Natural catastrophes harmed about 2 billion people worldwide between 2008 and 2018. According to the World Health Organization, countries and governments must always have catastrophe preparations and emergency health experts on hand. …”
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EOSINOPHILIA AS A PREDICTOR MORBIDITY OF SOIL- TRANSMITTED HELMINTHIASES AMONG WIDODAREN PLANTATION WORKERS IN JEMBER by Aditya Primadana, Yudha Nurdian, Dini Agustina, Bagus Hermansyah, Yunita Armiyanti

“…According to WHO, approximately 1,5 billion people or 24% of the world’s population, are infected with Soil-Transmitted Helminth (STH). …”
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Photocatalytic Enhancement for Solar Disinfection of Water: A Review by J. Anthony Byrne, Pilar A. Fernandez-Ibañez, Patrick S. M. Dunlop, Dheaya M. A. Alrousan, Jeremy W. J. Hamilton

“…Due to poor sanitation and lack of clean drinking water, there are around 4 billion cases of diarrhea each year resulting in 2.2 million deaths, most of these are children under five. …”
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Oil palm in the 2020s and beyond: challenges and solutions by Denis J. Murphy, Kirstie Goggin, R. Russell M. Paterson

“…Palm oils are key dietary components consumed daily by over three billion people, mostly in Asia, and also have a wide range of important non-food uses including in cleansing and sanitizing products. …”
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From Policy to Practice: Assessing Carbon Storage in Fujian Province Using Patch-Generating Land Use Simulation and Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Tradeoffs Models by Qin Nie, Wang Man, Zongmei Li, Xuewen Wu

“…The ecological protection scenario demonstrated the highest potential for carbon storage recovery, projecting an increase to 2.02 billion tons by 2030, driven by afforestation and conservation initiatives. …”
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Microbial and Inflammatory Salivary Biomarkers of Periodontal Diseases by Aram Mohammed Sha, Hayder Raad Abdulbaqi, Syed Saad Bin Qasim

“… Recent data reveals that severe periodontal diseases affect approximately 19% of global adult populations, impacting more than 1 billion individuals universally, ranking it as the sixth most predominant human disease. …”
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Leveraging Global Fund’s investments to expand innovative public-private provider engagement in TB by M.A. Yassin, L. Kimbo, E. Wandwalo, A. Rashid, A. Dzokoto, U. Weber, G. Stallworthy

“…During 2021–2023, US$1.4 billion was allocated for TB and US$155 million (11%) for PPM, while PPM contributed to 35% of national TB notification targets. …”
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Key health impacts and support systems for informal carers in the UK: A thematic review by Susanna A Cottagiri, Peter Sykes

“…Introduction: The economic contributions made by informal carers in the UK per year mount up to £132 billion. This is equivalent to the total amount of the health care costs, yet the health and wellbeing of carers are often not prioritised. …”
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Thrombosis with thrombocytopenia after first dose of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine: a case report by K. Kolodynskaja, S. Stankevičiūtė, A. Krikščionaitienė, N. Balčiūnienė

“… More than 5 billion vaccine doses against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) have been administered worldwide. …”
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Data-driven modeling of the aggregator-based price-maker virtual power plant (VPP) in the day-ahead wholesale electricity markets; evidence from the Japan Electric power Exchange (... by Mohamed Saad Suliman, Hooman Farzaneh

“…Comparing the fixed electricity pricing mechanism in regulated markets with dynamic VPP prices shows a 49% superiority of VPP, generating a consolidated annual profit of 142.3 billion Japanese yen.…”
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Mechanisms for dysregulation of excitatory-inhibitory balance underlying allodynia in dorsal horn neural subcircuits. by Alexander G Ginsberg, Scott F Lempka, Bo Duan, Victoria Booth, Jennifer Crodelle

“…Chronic pain is a wide-spread condition that is debilitating and expensive to manage, costing the United States alone around $600 billion in 2010. In a common symptom of chronic pain called allodynia, non-painful stimuli produce painful responses with highly variable presentations across individuals. …”
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Internet of things enabled smart agriculture: Current status, latest advancements, challenges and countermeasures by Navod Neranjan Thilakarathne, Muhammad Saifullah Abu Bakar, Pg Emeroylariffion Abas, Hayati Yassin

“…Owing to the ever-increasing world population, estimated at 7.9 billion in 2022, feeding this number of people has become a concern due to the current rate of agricultural food production subjected to various reasons. …”
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Mechanistic relationship between obesity-induced inflammation triggering endothelial dysfunction and the initiation of atherosclerosis development by Richard L. Jayaraj, Elhadi H Aburawi

“…Globally, more than 1.9 billion adults are overweight or obese, and the number of people affected by obesity is increasing. …”
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Household Food Insecurity in Southeastern Iran: Severity and Related Factors by Zinat Mortazavi, Ahmad Reza Dorosty, Mohammad Reza Eshraghian, Mohtasham Ghaffari, Alireza Ansari-Moghaddam, Mahdi Mohammadi

“…Today, more than one billion people globally suffer from poverty and food insecurity. …”
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Assessment of the Quality of Life in Patients with Migraine by S. Pociūtė, A. Jakavonytė-Akstinienė

“…Migraine is one of the most common neurological disorders in the world, affecting around 1.1 billion people worldwide. The disease impacts on both physical and mental health, while also reducing the quality of life. …”
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DRIVERS OF ECONOMIC DEPENDENCE ON WOOD FUEL IN RURAL SOUTHERN ETHIOPIA: A CASE IN ABELA ABAYA DISTRICT. by Deginet Berhanu, Biruk Birhan, Gemedo Furo, Gezahegn Seyoum

“…In many parts of the world, firewood and charcoal are used as wood fuel by approximately 2 billion people. Wood fuel consumption in Africa, specifically in Ethiopia is quite high. …”
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Lessons Learned from Experimental Human Model of Zinc Deficiency by Ananda S. Prasad

“…Nutritional zinc deficiency is now known to affect over two billion subjects in the developing world. Conditioned deficiency of zinc in many diseases has also been observed. …”
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Study on Recovery Strategy of Hearing Loss & SGN Regeneration Under Physical Regulation by Zhe Li, Yijia Gao, Xingyu Chen, Lei Xu, Zhou Li, Renjie Chai

“…Abstract The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that by 2050, nearly 2.5 billion people are expected to have some degree of hearing loss (HL) and at least 700 million will need hearing rehabilitation. …”
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The Centrifugal Differential Mobility Analyser – concept and initial validation of a new device for measuring 2D property distributions by T. N. Rüther, D. B. Rasche, D. B. Rasche, H.-J. Schmid

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Fishing Industry in Eighteenth-Century Astrakhan Governorate: Eyewitness Accounts of Travelers and St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences Expeditionists by Andrey A. Kurapov

“…The article analyzes some characteristics of eighteenth-century fish production, processing, and ichthyofauna of the Lower Volga traced in notes and reports of travelers (Cornelis de Bruijn, John Bell) and St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences expeditionists (P. …”
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