“BRICS Plus”: A New Global Economic Paradigm in the Making?

The BRICS countries: a new force in global health?

BRICS and global health.

Editorials 386 The influence of the BRICS countries – Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa – in the international arena has risen enormously in recent decades. These five countries represent around 25% of the world's gross national income, more than 40% of the world's population and about 40% of the global burden of disease. Although great attention has been paid to the...

BRICS' contributions to the global health agenda.

We are currently witnessing a seminal shift in power between the world’s countries. Pascal Lamy, former head of the World Trade Organization (WTO), recently drew attention to the fact that, as Brazil, the Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa – the so-called BRICS group of countries – gain in economic and political influence, they will no longer remain policy takers but will shape t...

A New Paradigm in Biology – The Effect of Localization of a Protein on its Anti-genicity

Structure formation with strings plus inflation: a new paradigm

Recent developments in inflation model building, based on supersymmetry, have produced compelling models in which strings are produced at the end of inflation. In such models the cosmological perturbations are seeded both by the defects and by the quantum fluctuations. We show that such models produce qualitatively new and desirable predictions for CMB anisotropies and the CDM power spectrum. T...