Paper cups are usually coated with PE, which provides stability and heat resistance. However, these PE-coated paper cups are hard to recycle and do not decompose easily, which results in large amounts of paper cups piling up in landfills.

Fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG), home appliances, consumer electronics, apparel, grocery, food and beverages, and beauty products have considerable growth potential globally. The demand for these products is expected to increase with the growing disposable income of consumers and the rising millennial population, an attractive target group for these products. A key growth factor over the forecast period will be the compatibility of consumers with social and digital platforms. In addition, services such as free shipping and product returns that enhance consumer experience will also play a key role.

The global employment to population ratio was registered at 59.74%, in 2009. The ratio declined during the global recession of 2008 (in 2008, the employment to population ratio was 60.36%), but since 2010, the number has been improving steadily. Between 2011 and 2014, the employment to population ratio remained largely unchanged. These numbers are indicative of the positive economic development across countries.

Broadly, the retail industry can be divided into the brick-and-mortar retail and online retail segments. While the brick-and-mortar retail format is also known as physical store-based retail or offline retail, the online retail segment is a part of business to consumer (B2C) e-commerce and refers to commerce activities over the internet.

Pet food refers to edible products specially developed for consumption by domesticated animals such as cats, dogs, birds, fish, and mammals. It is developed from either plant or animal extracts and is formulated according to the nutritional needs of the pets. Pet food is specifically developed to suit the needs of the type and age of the animal being fed. The key ingredients in pet food are byproducts of meat, poultry, seafood, feed grains, enzymes, amino acids, preservatives, stabilizers, and gelling agents.

Online surveys are gaining popularity in enterprises across various industries. The collection of data through the Internet is taking over traditional methodologies due to the rise in the number of respondents who are inclined toward web-based questionnaires. The emergence of advanced tools, such as analytics, has made the global online survey software market dynamic in nature. There is a high demand for online survey software that is powered by analytical tools to conduct data analysis.

The global nitric acid market is expected to be primarily driven by increasing use of fertilizers. The maximum amount of nitric acid is consumed in producing ammonium nitrate and calcium ammonium nitrate (CAN). However, use of ammonium nitrate is declining in Europe as well as other parts of the world because of concerns relating to nitrate groundwater contamination and changes in agricultural subsidy policies. Urea is emerging as one of the main nitrogen fertilizers, which is less costly, contains more nitrogen, and does not have many safety issues.

Neuropathic pain is a complex, chronic pain condition that is accompanied by tissue injury. In neuropathic pain, the nerve fibers may be damaged, dysfunctional, or injured. These nerve fibers send incorrect signals to other pain centers. The impact of nerve fiber injury creates a change in nerve function at the site of injury and areas surrounding the injury.

A neurovascular stent is a small, flexible, tube-like device made of fabric supported by a metal mesh. It is used to treat several conditions in the brain such as stenosis formation in blood vessels such as carotid arteries, ischemic stroke, and aneurysm. It is also used to re-establish the blood flow through a stenosis vessel. Brain aneurysm stenting is performed when a wide-neck aneurysm is treated with neurovascular stents. A wide-necked aneurysm is prone to coil herniation, which may cause several complications. Neurovascular stenting is performed to treat the aneurysm by placing the stents within an aneurysm to restore blood flow in the affected intracranial nerves. The two most common types of cerebrovascular disease are an ischemic stroke (87%) caused by a blocked or narrowed intracranial blood vessel and haemorrhagic stroke (10%) often caused by a ruptured aneurysm.

The global NTA market will experience a CAGR of 9.2% during the forecast period, which can be attributed to a growing number of NTA applications in several fields, including drug delivery, nanoparticle toxicology, microvesicles, exosomes, small biological particles, virology and vaccine production, ecotoxicology, and nanobubbles. Also, there is an increase in investments in R&D and fast expansion of research facilities in sectors such as life sciences and biomedical research, which use nanoparticle tracking analysis to study particle samples in detail for several purposes.