Two new malachiid beetle species of the genus Kuatunia Evers are described: K. nordica sp. n., from Taimyr peninsula, northeastern Russia, and K. wolongensis sp. n., from China, Wolong Nature Reserve. Figures of male habiti, elytral appendices, genitalia, and a distribution map for newly recorded species are given, and a determination key to all species of the genus is provided.

A. T. Basilevsky, L. Li. School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210023, China ([email protected]), Dept. Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912 USA, Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. Department of Earth Sciences, Indiana University-Purdue Univer...

1 College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China 2Department of Environmental Chemistry, Institute of Analytical and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Copenhagen University, 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark 3 Research Center for Environmental Quality Control, Kyoto University, Otsu, Kyoto 520-0811, Japan 4 Institute of Biology, Irkutsk State University, Irkutsk 664003, ...

Yanming Ma,1,2,* Yanchao Wang,1 and Artem R. Oganov2,3 1National Lab of Superhard Materials, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, People’s Republic of China 2Laboratory of Crystallography, Department of Materials, ETH Zurich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Stress 10, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland 3Geology Department, Moscow State University, 119992 Moscow, Russia Received 22 October 2008; revised manuscript recei...

BACKGROUND The use of self-reported measures of chronic disease may substantially underestimate prevalence in low-income and middle-income country settings, especially in groups with lower socioeconomic status (SES). We sought to determine whether socioeconomic inequalities in the prevalence of non-communicable chronic diseases (NCDs) differ if estimated by using symptom-based or criterion-base...

BACKGROUND The association between obesity and back pain has mainly been studied in high-income settings with inconclusive results, and data from older populations and developing countries are scarce. The aim of this study was to assess this association in nine countries in Asia, Africa, Europe, and Latin America among older adults using nationally-representative data. METHODS Data on 42116 i...

Seventy-eight cases of enterovirus infection, including 25 neuroinfections, occurred in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, during May-June 2013. The outbreak was caused by an enterovirus A type 71 (EV-A71) subgenotype C4 lineage that spread to neighboring countries from China ≈3 years earlier. Enterovirus associated neuroinfection may emerge in areas with a preceding background circulation of EV-A71 with a...

Policymakers increasingly recognize the need for agreements to regulate cyber behaviors at the international level. In 2010, the United Nations Group of Governmental Experts on Developments in the Field of Infor­ mation and Telecommunications in the Context of International Secu­ rity recommended “dialogue among States to discuss norms pertaining to State use of ICTs [information and communicat...

1 SUBATECH, Université de Nantes – IN2P3/CNRS – Ecole des Mines, Nantes, France Institute of Particle Physics , Huazhong Normal University, Wuhan, China 3 Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, JWG Frankfurt Universitaet, Germany 4 Institut für Experimentelle Kernphysik, Univ. of Karlsruhe, 76021 Karlsruhe, Germany 5 Moscow State University, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow, Russia 6 Forschungs...