Globally, water usage has been increasing by about 1%, per year, since the 1980s, driven by a combination of population growth, socio-economic development, and changing consumption patterns. The global water demand is expected to continue increasing at a parallel rate until 2050, accounting for an increase of 20%- 30% above the current level of water use, mainly due to the rising demand in the industrial and domestic sectors. Over 2 billion people live in countries experiencing high water stress, and about 4 billion people experience severe water scarcity during at least one month of the year. Stress levels may continue to increase, as the demand for water grows and the effects of climate change intensify. According to the United Nations, at least one billion people around the world lack access to safe drinking water and 2.6 billion do not have adequate sanitation. Global warming and population growth may intensify these scarcities in the years to come, unless water conservation and management practices around the world advance.

Antioxidants are very important for immune defense and health of animals. In order to improve the oxidative stability, and thus, increase the shelf-life of meat, antioxidants are being added to animal feeds. Vitamin E is an essential component of livestock diets. Vitamin E cannot be synthesized by animals, which is why the use of tocopherol is increasing in animal diets. An adequate amount of tocopherol is essential in animal nutrition to protect them from malnutrition and the pathogen. It helps to improve the quality of meat and eggs. In addition, it controls the oxidative stability in the animal's body, and therefore, reduces the unpleasant smell and taste, especially in beef and pork. Moreover, vitamin E is fat-soluble and is incorporated into the lipid fraction of cell membranes as an effective antioxidant defense mechanism. There is also an increase in demand for tocopherols in livestock, more so in the developing regions of Asia, Africa, and Latin America.

Automation is the major trend that is driving the software development in the freight and logistics space, and transportation management systems are rapidly adopting this approach. Automation, coupled with artificial intelligence, has made it easy to build a routing guide that ensures the freight moves with the best, and not just the cheapest, carrier for the job. TMS adoption rate is comparatively on the higher side with the large enterprises, owing to the sheer volume of product variety and services offered. However, the increasing adoption of cloud (SaaS) across various industries is reducing the high initial cost, in turn, providing an opportunity for adoption of TMS by small enterprises as well.

With the increasing internet services penetration, improving communication infrastructure, and data speed improvements, the growing number of internet and mobile users is influencing various business, across the world, to adopt internet to offer their services and products, driving the need for creation of different profiles by the end-users. Along with this, enterprises are increasingly adopting security measures to increase accountability by adopting user accounts. Such developments are, in turn, augmenting the demand for password management software. Owing to the increase in the number of profiles operated by a single entity, the management of password becomes vital, especially in enterprises, thus, creating a requirement for authenticating the right user. Password management is one of the frequent types of services which IT helpdesks have to deal on an everyday basis, consuming a significant share of their time. The sheer volume of requests for password resets received by the IT helpdesks makes it an extremely time-consuming task. For instance, META Group data suggests that a helpdesk receives an average of 21 calls per user per year asking for a password reset. Moreover, such requests can be easily avoided by the adoption of self-service password management and automating the process cutting IT service desk's time consumed in resolving such Level-1 issues and increasing their time and efforts on pressing on core issues.

The major factors attributing to the growth of the market are the increasing number of disabling hearing loss cases, rising geriatric population indirectly contributing to increased awareness of these devices, and increasing technological advancements by the companies. As per the revised World Population Prospects, by the United Nations, the number of people aged 60 or above is expected to grow greater than double by 2050, i.e. from 962 million in 2017 to 2.1 billion in 2050, worldwide. This age group is much more vulnerable to hearing loss, which boosts the demand for these devices in the market. According to “The Global Burden of Disease Study 2017” Disease and Injury Incidence and Prevalence Collaborators report, the estimated population with hearing loss rose from 1.2 billion (17.2%) in 2008 to 1.4 billion (18.7%) in 2017, for whom proper well-coordinated global action is needed.

Food safety has become a paramount issue for many governments around the world, especially in North America and Europe. Animals often stand in their own waste and are under constant duress, which affects their immune system, making them prone to infections. Rising awareness, increasing demand for animal nutrition, and the ban of antibiotics in many regions are prompting the livestock industry and meat manufacturers to use added nutrition in feed, which is anticipated to drive the global feed enzymes market. The poultry industry is readily using enzymes as standard dietary components, especially in wheat and barley-based feed. The poultry industry is consistently looking for exogenous enzymes, such as β-glucanase, xylanase, and phytase, to aid digestion, as they fail to produce enzymes that are required to break down the fiber completely. Some sectors produce their own enzymes, which, in turn, has created an opportunity for the enzyme manufacturers to explore the market, by launching enzymes that can overcome the prevailing problems in the poultry feed industry.

In the current market scenario, the rising need for synchronization with e-commerce, fierce competition, and real-time price changes require maximum reliability and responsiveness and represent strategic advantage from the retail store chains. This competitive strategy for gaining more market share has been driving the adoption of an electronic shelf label (ESL). ESLs are gaining prominence as a means of displaying and managing product pricing and information. One of the advantages of ESLs is the ability for staff and shop managers to use the technology to help manage and control stock levels. In the ESL system, commodity and product information are electronically displayed and updated. It is essentially a digital tag, deployed by the retailers in stores to present information of the product on the store shelf directly to the customers. It is integrated into the communication network with the functionality to edit prices and information on the tag instantaneously, by operating wirelessly. It also provides operational flexibility for the end users to change the prices in real-time without needing additional resources.

The global electric vehicle market is expected to register a CAGR of around 20% over the next five years. The electric vehicles (EV) market has witnessed significant growth due to the need for addressing future energy requirements. The need to attain sustainable transportation plays a significant role in driving the electric vehicles’ demand. The EV market is coming up as an integral part of the automotive industry and represents a pathway toward achieving energy efficiency, along with reduced emission of pollutants and other greenhouse gasses. Increasing environmental concerns, coupled with favorable government initiatives, are some of the major factors driving the market growth. Rising energy cost and competition among emerging energy efficiency technologies are also expected to fuel the market growth.

The factors driving the overall market growth include increasing number of cancer patients, reduction in the cost of radiotherapy, and rising government and non-government investments in research and development of cancer treatment. Increasing number of cancer reported cases have been the primary factor for the demand for radiotherapy. According to World Health Organization (WHO) 2018 data on cancer, the global cancer burden is estimated to have risen to 18.1 million new cases and 9.6 million deaths in 2018. Moreover, Cancer Research UK suggests that the population suffering from cancer is expected to increase in the future. The report suggests that there may be 27.5 million new cancer cases worldwide each year by 2040. As a result of rising cancer cases, government and non-government organizations have been investing in cancer research. Organizations, like Cancer Research UK (CRUK), has been actively involved in this pursuit for finding effective therapies, spending more than GBP 400 million a year on cancer research. Economies worldwide have also developed strategies to reduce the cost of radiotherapy, especially in middle-income and low-income economies. These strategies have helped the economies to save up to 50% cost for radiotherapy. These factors have positively affected and helped the growth of the market.

HnB device is a battery-powered inhaler that simulates tobacco smoking. A heated tobacco vapor product device is also known as a tobacco heating product or, most commonly, an HnB device. It contains tobacco in either leaf or granular form. The device heats the tobacco, directly or indirectly, instead of burning it to form tobacco- enriched inhalable vapors.