China and Brazil are two countries with continental dimensions, with differences in availability of natural resources, population sizes, and which have adopted different strategies of economic growth in the past. China has been following consistently a strategy of Export Led Growth (ELG), while...

In order to investigate the influence of minor Ru on electrochemical behavior and structural characteristics of passive film on the surface of Ti-6Al-4V alloy in various oil & gas exploration conditions, electrochemical techniques, XPS, SEM and corrosion simulation tests were carried out, and...

Greenhouse gas reduction and energy consumption are becoming two important issues in both industrialized and developing countries, and policy makers are developing means to reduce total domestic energy use. We evaluate and compare the direct and the indirect energy consumption both in the...