Jin Zhang,1,* Artem R. Oganov,2,1,3,4,† Xinfeng Li,5 Kan-Hao Xue,6 Zhenhai Wang,7 and Huafeng Dong8 1Department of Geosciences, Center for Materials by Design, and Institute for Advanced Computational Science, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York 11794-2100, USA 2Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Skolkovo Innovation Center, 5 Nobel Street, Moscow 143026, Russia 3Scien...

Abteilung Isotopengeologie, Geowissenschaftliches Zentrum, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 37073 Göttingen, Germany; Institute of Precambrian Geology and Geochronology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 199034 St. Petersburg, Russia; CAS Key Laboratory of Crustal-Mantle Materials and Environments, School of Earth and Space Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, Ch...

1Shaanxi Key Lab of Speech & Image Information Processing (SAIIP), School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an 710072, China 2School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China 3Faculty of Computational Mathematics & Cybernetics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia 4Berkeley Biomedical Data S...

Blat and guanxi are terms describing personal networks in Russia and China respectively. They have existed and been practiced for centuries and remain highly relevant today. By employing a social network perspective, we analyze the architecture of blat and guanxi and some of the similarities between them. We also argue that personal networks in Russia and China are products of specific cultural...

This paper presents a set of theoretical propositions regarding knowledge sharing in China and Russia. We argue that there are important national cultural similarities and differences between the two countries that result in certain similarities and differences in individual knowledge-sharing behaviour in Chinese and Russian organizations. We claim that vertical collectivism and particularistic...

Background/Aim: To investigate the geographic occurrence of mucosa-invading Fusobacteria in acute appendicitis. Patients and Methods: Carnoyand formalin-fixated appendices from Germany, Russia, and China were comparatively investigated. Bacteria were detected using fluorescent in situ hybridization. Cecal biopsies from patients with inflammatory bowel disease and other conditions were used as d...

This paper discusses the key hypotheses which Joseph Stiglitz proposed, in his wideranging critique of the ‘Washington Consensus’, with regard to transition reforms and economic policies in China and Russia. The primary purpose is to evaluate the Stiglitz perspective in the light of empirical evidence, including the experience of countries outside China and Russia. Although some of the points S...

HE Chinese winter of 1910-1911 was one of death and discontent: an epidemic of pneumonic plague—the greatest since the Black Death of the fourteenth century—scourged China's three Eastern Provinces (Manchuria), and famine afflicted the Central Provinces. The Manchurian plague claimed some fifty thousand lives in four months, and the famine took thousands more. Not all the hungry died, but no on...

This article makes what Western scholars call a “leap in the dark” by suggesting that, instead of comparing the “West” with the “Rest”, we should compare the “East” with the “East”in this case the media in China with the media in Russia. We have identified three blind spots in previous comparative media research that have resulted in turning attention away from comparative study of China and Ru...