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Subterranean environments contribute to three‐quarters of classified ecosystem services

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Beneath the Earth's surface lies a network of interconnected caves, voids, and systems of fissures forming in rocks of sedimentary, igneous, or metamorphic origin. Although largely inaccessible to humans, this hidden realm supports and regulates services critical to ecological health and human well‐being.
Stefano Mammola, David Brankovits, Tiziana Di Lorenzo, Isabel R. Amorim, Raluca Ioana Bancila, Adrià Bellvert, Enrico Bernard, Anna Blomberg, Paulo A.V. Borges, Martina Cappelletti, Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira, Rosalina Gabriel, Diana M. P. Galassi, Laura Garzoli, Vasilis Gerovasileiou, Grant C. Hose, Kathryn L. Korbel, Simone Martino, Ana Z Miller, Nataša Mori, Veronica Nanni, Giuseppe Nicolosi, Mattia Saccò, Troy S. Sakihara, Marconi Souza Silva, Anne E. Tamalavage, Maja Zagmajster, Efraín Chávez, Christian Griebler, Pedro Cardoso, Alejandro Martínez   +30 more
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Canadian medical tourism companies that have exited the marketplace: Content analysis of websites used to market transnational medical travel

Globalization and Health, 2011
Background Medical tourism companies play an important role in promoting transnational medical travel for elective, out-of-pocket medical procedures. Though researchers are paying increasing attention to the global phenomenon of medical tourism, to date ...
Turner Leigh
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Culturally competent communication in Malaysia medical tourism [PDF]

, 2012
Culturally competent communication has become increasingly important due to the growing demand for the health services in medical tourism. In Asia, the medical tourism sector is expanding rapidly.Moreover, with a steady rise in the number of tourists ...
Abu Bakar, Hassan, Ahmad, Mohd Khairie, Aridass, Pavithra   +2 more
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Host, vector, and parasite dynamics: exploring intrinsic and extrinsic factors shaping tick‐borne filarial nematode transmission

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tick‐borne filarial nematodes are a complex and understudied group of parasites that rely on ticks for transmission in vertebrates. This review examines how intrinsic and extrinsic factors may influence the successful transmission of filarial nematodes in tick vectors, drawing insights from extensively studied haematophagous dipteran vector ...
Oluwaseun D. Ajileye, Gabriel L. Hamer, Sarah A. Hamer, Guilherme G. Verocai, Jessica E. Light   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Features requirement elicitation process for designing a chatbot application

IET Networks, EarlyView., 2022
This article seeks to assist the chatbot community by outlining the characteristics that a chatbot needs to possess and explaining how to create a chatbot for a bank. In order to determine which capabilities are most crucial to ending users, a study of a small sample of chatbot users was conducted.
Nurul Muizzah Johari, Puteri N. E. Nohuddin, Ahmad Hanif Ahmad Baharin, Noor Azuddin Yakob, Mohammad Javad Ebadi   +4 more
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Guidelines for the Formation of the Value Proposition of Inbound Medical Tourism: The Case of Lithuania

Organizacijų Vadyba: Sisteminiai Tyrimai, 2023
In order to attract more medical tourists to Lithuania and to provide them with more value, it is necessary to update the current medical tourism value proposition presented in 2012.
Matulevičiūtė Ieva, Kyguolienė Asta
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Service quality, value, satisfaction and future intention in medical tourism / Noor Hazilah Abd Manaf…[et al.] [PDF]

, 2017
Medical tourism is a new and exciting industry due to its rapid growth and huge economic potential. Malaysia is joining the bandwagon with Thailand, Singapore, and India in being the main medical tourist destination countries in Asia.
Abd Manaf, Noor Hazilah, Alavi, Rokiah, Dahar, iZainurin, Hussin, Husnayati, Jahn Kassim, Puteri Nemie, Maulan, Suharni   +5 more
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Can Hybrid Organisations Solve the Paradox of the Triple Bottom Line, and Does It Need Solving?

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how B Corp certification enables hybrid organisations to integrate competing institutional logics of market and social purpose. Through a two‐stage qualitative design combining cross‐sector interviews with B Corps and an in‐depth case study, with a total of 30 participants, we analyse how certification supports hybrid ...
Ruth Cherrington, Amanda Ayliffe, Danielle Farrow, Constantine Manolchev   +3 more
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Intelligent design of network multimedia using big data and virtual Artificial Intelligence technology

IET Networks, EarlyView., 2023
The topic discussed was the intelligent design of network multimedia using BD and virtual AI technology. First of all, the authors gave a brief overview of its relevant research background, and then comprehensively analysed the advantages and disadvantages of previous scholars' research on network multimedia.
Xin Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

MEDICAL TOURISM INDUSTRY CHALLENGES IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBALIZATION [PDF]

Strategii Manageriale, 2014
Medical tourism is not a new concept, even though there is still no international consensus on the name of this phenomenon that is manifesting itself for thousands of years. It is defined by moving patients in various countries to obtain medical care and
Carmen, IORDACHE, Iuliana, CIOCHINA
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