The Russian wheat aphid, Diuraphis noxia (Mordvilko) (Homoptera: Aphididae), has been a major economic pest of small grains in the western United States since its introduction in 1986. Recently, a new Russian wheat aphid biotype was discovered in southeastern Colorado that damaged previously resistant wheat, Triticum aestivum L. Biotype development jeopardizes the durability of plant resistance...

The first example for an endohedral transition-metal atom (Ru) sequestered in a seven-coordinate surrounding of rare-earth metal atoms (Pr) has been found for {RuPr3}Cl3. The monocapped trigonal prisms of Pr atoms share two rectangular faces, forming a zigzag chain with Ru-Ru distances of 308 pm. Intracluster bonding is dominated by Ru-Pr bonding with very little Ru-Ru bonding.

A previously unknown radiation among flightless spring katydids (Tettigoniidae: Phaneropterinae: Brinckiella) in Western and Northern Cape provinces of South Africa is described. Seven species are described as new (B. aptera n. sp., B. arboricola n. sp., B. elegans n. sp., B. karooensis n. sp., B. mauerbergerorum n. sp., B. serricauda n. sp., and B. wilsoni n. sp.) and one species (B. viridis C...

ConFarm is a web service dedicated to extraction of surface representations of verb and noun constructions from dependency annotated corpora of Russian texts. Currently, the extraction of constructions with a specific lemma from SynTagRus and Russian National Corpus is available. The system provides flexible interface that allows users to finetune the output. Extracted constructions are grouped...

Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa--the countries known as BRICS--represent some of the world's fastest growing large economies and nearly 40% of the world's population. Over the last two decades, BRICS have undertaken health-system reforms to make progress towards universal health coverage. This paper discusses three key aspects of these reforms: the role of governme...

BACKGROUND Cochrane collaboration has made a huge contribution to the development of evidence-based medicine; Cochrane work is the international gold standard of independent, credible and reliable high-quality information in medicine. Over the past 20 years the Cochrane Collaboration helped transforming decision-making in health and reforming it significantly, saving lives and contributing to l...

This study investigated the attitudes and beliefs of pig farmers and hunters in Germany, Bulgaria and the western part of the Russian Federation towards reporting suspected cases of African swine fever (ASF). Data were collected using a web-based questionnaire survey targeting pig farmers and hunters in these three study areas. Separate multivariable logistic regression models identified key va...

alexander sergeyevich griboyedov was a russian diplomat, playwright, and composer. he is recognized in russian literature as a dramatist and writer of a book, whose fame rests on the brilliant verse comedy woe from wit (the woes of wit), a satire on russian aristocratic society which continus to be one of the most often staged plays in russia. however, in iran he is known as the great russian a...

By Gennady A. El†, Anatoly M. Kamchatnov‡, Maxim V. Pavlov z and Sergey A. Zykov § † Department of Mathematical Sciences, Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK ‡Institute of Spectroscopy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Troitsk, Moscow Region, Russia z Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow § SISSA, Trieste, Italy, and Institute of Metal Physics, Urals Division of Russ...

IVAN BOLOTOV , YULIA BESPALAYA, OLGA AKSENOVA, ANDREY AKSENOV , NIKITA BOLOTOV , MIKHAIL GOFAROV , ALEXANDER KONDAKOV, INGA PALTSER & ILYA VIKHREV 1Institute of Ecological Problems of the North, the Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Severnaya Dvina Emb. 23, 163000 Arkhangelsk, Russian Federation 2Northern (Arctic) Federal University, Severnaya Dvina Emb. 17, 163002 Arkhangelsk, Russia...