The genus Stantonia Ashmead, 1904 (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Orgilinae) is reviewed for Vietnam, China, Japan, and Russia. Six new species of the genus Stantonia are described and illustrated: Stantonia brevicaudata van Achterberg, sp. n., S. dickyyui van Achterberg & Long, sp. n., S. granulata Long & van Achterberg, sp. n., S. robustifemur van Achterberg & Long, sp. n., S. stilpnosoma Long & va...

Jin Zhang,1,* Artem R. Oganov,1,2,3,4,† Xinfeng Li,5 and Haiyang Niu1 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 3International Center for Materials ...

YAROSLAV V. KARTASHOV,* CHAO HANG, GUOXIANG HUANG, AND LLUIS TORNER ICFO-Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, 08860 Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain Institute of Spectroscopy, Russian Academy of Sciences, Troitsk, Moscow Region 142190, Russia State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy and Department of Physics, East China Normal University, and...

The unprecedented escalation in the number of organisations that have decided to internationalise their operations in the last two decades, and the international movement of labour that has accompanied such expansion, has meant that understanding the process of knowledge sharing within subsidiary operations has become an issue of increasing importance. Where the cultural distance between home a...

Evidence is presented that raises questions about the Clinton administration's policy of promoting peace by promoting democratization. The expectation that the spread of democracy will probably contribute to peace in the long run, once new democracies mature, provides little comfort to those who might face a heightened risk of war in the short run. Pushing nuclear-armed great powers like Russia...

CREOL and Department of Physics, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, USA, Department of Physics, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, Hunan 410073, China, Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA, Department of Applied Physics, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shanxi 710049, China, Department of Physics, St. Petersburg State Universit...

Konstantin V. Zhukovsky 1,* and Hari M. Srivastava 2,3 1 Faculty of Physics, Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, Moscow 119991, Russia 2 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC V8W 3R4, Canada; [email protected] 3 Department of Medical Research, China Medical University Hospital, China Medical University, Taichung 40402, Taiwan * Correspondence: z...

1 CISTER Research Unit, ISEP/IPP, Rua Dr. Antonio Bernardino de Almeida 431, 4200-072 Porto, Portugal 2 Instituto de Telecomunicações, University of Beira Interior, 6201-001 Covilhã, Portugal 3 University ITMO, Saint-Petersburg 197101, Russia 4National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, A. K. Brohi Road H-11/4, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan 5 Telecommunications Technological Centre of Ca...

The northern Asia, including the southern territories of Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Mongolia and the northern China is known as an important distribution region of uranium deposits and occurrences. Since the 60s of 20th century, after the successful development of in-situ leach technology for sandstone-hosted uranium deposits, numerous uranium deposits previously discovered in Kazakhstan a...

BACKGROUND In many developing countries, the threat of nascent HIV epidemics expanding rapidly requires immediate and appropriate HIV prevention activities. Inexpensive and sustainable interventions are especially relevant in resource-constrained environments. In 2001, we assessed the prevalence and behavioral risk of sexually transmitted disease (STD) and HIV among at-risk populations in five ...