This paper presents a short-term analysis of recent timber trends in China, focusing on timber markets and trade, and on forest-related policies. Firstly, trends in China’s timber supply and demand are described highlighting the sharp increase in log imports, especially from Russia. Secondly, the key policy trends that have a#ected China’s domestic timber market, including trade policy, forest ...

This paper is an empirical attempt to investigate bilateral trade flow between Iran and Russia. To this end, we used statistical analyses on macroeconomic series over the period of 1991-2017. Results revealed that there is a significant statistical difference in terms of exports between Iran and Russia, and that there has always been a buyer-seller dialogue between the two countries. According ...

Based on a review of troodontid specimens from the territories of the former Soviet Union, including new discoveries from Uzbekistan, two dental morphotypes can be distinguished among Troodontidae from the Cretaceous of Asia: (1) unserrated teeth, present in Mei from Lujiatun (China; Early Cretaceous: Hauterivian-Barremian), an unnamed taxon from Hövöör (Mongolia; Early Cretaceous: Aptian-Albia...

BRIC nations – Brazil, Russia, India, and China – represent 40% of the world’s population, including a growing aging population and middle class with an increasing prevalence of chronic disease. Their healthcare systems increasingly rely on prescription drugs, but they differ from most other healthcare systems because healthcare expenditures in BRIC nations have exhibited the highest revenue gr...

BACKGROUND Obesity has become a worldwide epidemic. Recently WHO acknowledged an urgent need to examine child obesity across countries using a standardized international standard. Studies in adults find obesity and socioeconomic factors (SES) factors are correlated, but results are inconsistent for children. Using an international standard, we examined the prevalence of obesity and compared the...

Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskii pr. 47, 119991 Moscow, Russia; fax: (499) 137-6148; E-mail: [email protected] TEDA School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Nankai University, 23 HongDa Street, TEDA, Tianjin 300457, P. R. China Tianjin Key Laboratory for Microbial Functional Genomics, TEDA College, Nankai University, 23 HongDa Street, TEDA,...

1Department of Physics, King’s College London, Strand, LondonWC2R 1LS, UK 2Mathematical Sciences, Brunel University, Uxbridge UB8 3PH, UK 3Physics Department, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA 4Helmholtz-Center Dresden-Rossendorf, PO Box 51 01 19, 01314 Dresden, Germany 5Department of Physics, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, People’s Republic of China 6Tomsk State Univer...

after the collapse of the soviet :union: and the formation of a new world order, the nature of power changed from exclusively military to a combination of military, economic and political one; and consequently the new discourse of geo-economics emerged alongside the geo-politics. since then, most countries have tried to maximize their relative power positions in the international system by emph...