Progress in delivering SDG6: Safe water and sanitation by Jay Rajapakse, Miriam Otoo, George Danso

“…To achieve universal safely managed services, rates would need to quadruple. To achieve universal access to safely managed drinking water by 2030 in low- and middle-income countries, the current rates would need to increase ten-fold. …”
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The Influence of a Selected External Carbon Source on the Share of COD Fractions and the Speed of Denitrification Processes by Katarzyna Ignatowicz, Joanna Smyk

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Establishing Sustainable Development Goal Baselines for Household Drinking Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Services by Robert Bain, Richard Johnston, Francesco Mitis, Christie Chatterley, Tom Slaymaker

“…The SDG baselines for household WASH reveal the scale of the challenge associated with achieving universal safely managed services and the substantial acceleration needed in many countries to achieve even basic services for everyone by 2030. …”
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The predicting factors of Malaysian state sports council’s internal service quality by Mohamad Nizam Nazarudin, Phylicia Phoa Siew Ching, Abu Yazid Abu Bakar, Mohd Firdaus Abdullah

“…This study also could make an important contribution to extant research in sports management and organizational behaviour to improve how staff committed to their organizations. Well managed services quality is one of the competitive tactics that can increase organization’s income and performance.…”
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Neo-Hippocratic healthcare policies: professional or industrial healthcare delivery? A choice for doctors, patients, and their organisations by Jean-Pierre Unger, Ingrid Morales, Pierre De Paepe, Michel Roland

“…Commercially financed and industrially managed services strain the physicians’ clinical autonomy and ethics because the industry’s profitability depends on commercial, clinical standardisation. …”
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Addressing tobacco in Australian alcohol and other drug treatment settings: a cross-sectional survey of staff attitudes and perceived barriers by Eliza Skelton, Flora Tzelepis, Anthony Shakeshaft, Ashleigh Guillaumier, Adrian Dunlop, Sam McCrabb, Kerrin Palazzi, Billie Bonevski

“…Respondents from non-government managed services, current tobacco smokers (compared to ex-smokers) and those with less AOD experience had higher odds of agreeing with unsupportive smoking cessation care statements. …”
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Accelerating genomic workflows using NVIDIA Parabricks by Kyle A. O’Connell, Zelaikha B. Yosufzai, Ross A. Campbell, Collin J. Lobb, Haley T. Engelken, Laura M. Gorrell, Thad B. Carlson, Josh J. Catana, Dina Mikdadi, Vivien R. Bonazzi, Juergen A. Klenk

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Enhancing the customer service experience in call centers using preemptive solutions and queuing theory by Chu, Qiao, M. Eng. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Palvia, Nisha

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‘WaSH Futurism’: exploring post-SDG6 targets using the Nominal Group Technique for more equitable global agenda setting by Georgia Hales, Bushra S. F. Hasan, Oscar Balongo, Jay Meshvania, Reychel Sanchez-Martinez, Charles Shachinda, Paul Hutchings, James Bartram

“…The results also provide an early assessment of future priorities that could inform post-SDG target setting including: inclusivity among populations and settings, hygiene, menstrual health, sustainability, circular economy, climate resilience, preventing infectious disease transmission, and universal ‘safely managed services’. These are compared with themes highlighted in Joint Monitoring Programme reports, SDG6 indicators and General Comment 15: The Human Right to Water. …”
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Water, sanitation, and hygiene access in Senegal and its impact on the occurrence of diarrhea in children under 5 years old by Mouhamadou Lamine Daffe, Cheikh Diop, Bonheur Dounebaine, Samba Sagor Diop, Jessica Carmelia Mbemba Peleka, Fatoumata Bah, Salimata Thiam, Awa Ndong, Mathilde Cabral, Aminata Toure, Absa Lam, Mamadou Fall

“…Our results showed that access to safely managed services increased by 18.1 and 19.1%, respectively, for water and sanitation. …”
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Establish a customer property service strategy framework by Hsu-Ming Shen, Kung-Jen Tu, Ting-Yi Chiang

“…The property management services sector in China is developing rapidly, contributing significantly to employment and income. …”
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Service level agreements: governance in outsourcing facility management by Mohamed, Armai, Mohammed, Abdul Hakim, Asmoni, Mat Naim Abdullah

“…Service level agreement is a governance mechanism to facilitate the performance management of the facility management services outsourced. Service level agreement is indispensable document to be referred to ensure that the facility management services delivery comply the quality standard stipulated in the agreement. …”
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Incentive-Based Optimal Nodes Selection Mechanism for Threshold Key Management in MANETs with Selfish Nodes by Yuanbo Guo, Jianfeng Ma, Chao Wang, Kuiwu Yang

“…This paper focuses on developing a selection mechanism in MANETs with selfish nodes, to dynamically select a coalition of nodes carrying out the threshold key management service optimally during system operation. First, we formulate the dynamic nodes selection problem as a combinatorial optimization problem, with the objectives of maximizing the success ratio of key management service and minimizing the nodes' cost of security and energy. …”
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Clearing settlements as instrument of development of economy of Russia

“…Banks themselves have long been seeking to get away from the concept of indirect cash management services to the settlement services.…”
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Determining the Effective Components on Allocation of Funds from Donors’ Participation in the Health System: A Qualitative Study by Narges Asadi-Janati, Khalil Alimohammadzade, Seyed Mojtaba Hosseini, Ali Maher, Mohammadkarim Bahadori

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Development of a Quantitative Method for Detection of Multiclass Veterinary Drugs in Feed Using Modified QuPPe Extraction and LC–MS/MS by Sunyeong Jang, Hyungju Seo, Hojin Kim, Hyoyoung Kim, Jongsung Ahn, Hyunjeong Cho, Sunghie Hong, Seunghwa Lee, Taewoong Na

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Implementation of a Digital Health Tool for Patients Awaiting Input From a Specialist Weight Management Team: Observational Study by Petra Hanson, Charlotte Summers, Arjun Panesar, Alexandros Leonidas Liarakos, Dominic Oduro-Donkor, Danniella Whyte Oshodi, Luke Hailston, Harpal Randeva, Vinod Menon, Michaela de la Fosse, Amit Kaura, Emma Shuttlewood, Mark Loveder, Donna Poole, Thomas M Barber

“…Evidence supports the feasibility of digital tools for the management of obesity in a community setting, but there is only emerging evidence for the feasibility of such tools in specialist weight management services. No study has assessed the uptake of digital tools among patients awaiting their first appointment with a specialist weight management service. …”
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Evidence for an expanded hypertension care cascade in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review by Michael A. Peters, Caitlin M. Noonan, Krishna D. Rao, Anbrasi Edward, Olakunle O. Alonge

“…Conclusion There is little consensus on the definition of effective coverage of hypertension management services, and most studies do not describe the quality of hypertension management services provided to populations. …”
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Shale gas development in the Central Karoo: A scientific assessment of the opportunities and risks by B. Scholes, P. Lochner, G. Schreiner, Luanita Snyman-an der Walt, M. de Jager

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First Report of <i>Enterocytozoon hepatopenaei</i> Infection in Pacific Whiteleg Shrimp (<i>Litopenaeus vannamei</i>) Cultured in Korea by Bo-Seong Kim, Gwang-Il Jang, Su-Mi Kim, Young-Sook Kim, Yu-Gyeong Jeon, Yun-Kyeong Oh, Jee-Youn Hwang, Mun-Gyeong Kwon

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