China, Russia, and India are playing an increasingly important role in global nanotechnology research and development (R&D). This paper comparatively inspects the paper and patent publications by these three countries in the Thomson Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI) database and United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) database (1976-2007). Bibliographic, content map, and citation ...

This study reexamines the causal link between electricity consumption, economic growth and CO2 emissions in the BRICS countries (i.e., Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) for the period 1990– 2010, using panel causality analysis, accounting for dependency and heterogeneity across countries. Regarding the electricity–GDP nexus, the empirical results support evidence on the feedback h...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether clinical trials originating in certain countries always have positive results. DATA SOURCES Abstracts of trials from Medline (January 1966-June 1995). STUDY SELECTION Two separate studies were conducted. The first included trials in which the clinical outcome of a group of subjects receiving acupuncture was compared to that of a group receiving placebo, no tre...

New data on Chinese Tersilochinae are provided: one species, Tersilochus scutatus sp. n., is described from Liaoning province of China and the Russian Far East, and two species, Barycnemis bellator (Müller) and Tersilochus curvator Horstmann, are new records from China. Thus, this work raises the total number of known Chinese species to 31. Two close species, Diaparsis pulchra Khalaim and D. ra...

BACKGROUND Few studies have used the same references across countries to examine the trends of over- and underweight in older children and adolescents. OBJECTIVE Using international references, we examined the trends of overweight and underweight in young persons aged 6-18 y from 4 countries. DESIGN Nationally representative data from Brazil (1975 and 1997), Russia (1992 and 1998), and the ...

BACKGROUND We aimed to assess alcohol consumption and alcohol-attributed disease burden by DALYs (disability adjusted life years) in the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) between 1990 and 2013, and explore to what extent these countries have implemented evidence-based alcohol policies during the same time period. METHODS A comparative risk assessment approach and...

Juan Du, I.M. Navon2,∗,†, J.L. Steward, A.K. Alekseev, Zhendong Luo 1 School of Science, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing 100044, China. 2 Department of Scientific Computing, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4120, USA. 3 Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Moscow 141700, Russia. 4 School of Mathematics and Physics, North China Electric Power University, Beijing 102206...