When comparing the EU to the U.S. in health literacy research productivity our results show that the EU falls considerably behind the U.S. in this academic field compared to the total research productivity [17], except to research production in some fields such as Microbiology and Parasitology where Western Europe ranked highest [18], [19].
This is considerably behind the top two issues: immigration/immigrants (46%) and the NHS/hospitals/healthcare (38%).
However, this is still considerably behind the US (12.8%), Germany (10.6%) and the Netherlands (7.9%).
As most of the tools available in this area are in English, Arab countries are lagging considerably behind in this domain, not only in the development of tools, but also in terms of translation of existing material [ 12][ 17][ 32].
Unfortunately, optogenetic tools for inhibition have lagged considerably behind those for excitation.
While the Nordic region, the Netherlands and Britain generally performed well, southern European countries lagged considerably behind the average.
At least as far as foreign languages are concerned, Beijing has fallen considerably behind the more cosmopolitan Shanghai.
The development of assisted reproductive technologies such as embryo transfer (ET), artificial insemination (AI) and in vitro fertilization (IVF) in South American camelids is considerably behind that of other livestock species.
Like central and northern Europe, although to a lesser degree, the western Mediterranean was considerably behind the eastern Mediterranean, where civilization, the arts, and writing were born much earlier.
A mere six years after the Wright brothers' inaugural flight from Kitty Hawk, China accomplished its first flight, yet the country's aviation record has lagged considerably behind those of America and Europe.
"Actual and projected advertising revenues for De Pers have fallen considerably behind the previous expectations of Wegener management, with the result that the group now expects to incur a loss over the life of the arrangement," the company said.
