A number of reasons have motivated our choice of oil, along with its past and expected future price evolution, as the subject in focus for the present book. A fi rst reason is the importance of oil in the world economy. In the early 2010s, the annual production value of this commodity, when measured at international prices, could be assessed at between $3500 and $4000 billion. World oil exports...

Coconut oil has recently attracted considerable attention as a potential Alzheimer's disease therapy because it contains large amounts of medium-chain fatty acids (MCFAs) and its consumption is thought to stimulate hepatic ketogenesis, supplying an alternative energy source for brains with impaired glucose metabolism. In this study, we first reevaluated the responses of plasma ketone bodies to ...

this study aims to estimate the function of copper consumption using the johansen approach in time series data, between 1991-2011 in iran. the literature review of specialized consumption and demand functions shows factors influencing the consumption of copper including copper price variables, aluminum price as a substitute commodity, oil price as a complementary commodity, and industrializatio...

nowadays, non-oil exports growth and increase of share in the world trade with the aim of stopping the dependence of irans economy on oil are considered an important responsibility for the decision-makers in the state and a crucial economic goal as well. thus from among the factors influencing non-oil exports, the exchange rate policies have always played a very important role. this paper tries...

Crude oil plays an important role in providing the energy supply of the world, and pipelines have long been recognized as the safest and most efficient means of transporting oil and its products. However, the transportation process also faces the challenges of asphaltene-paraffin structural interactions, pipeline pressure losses and energy consumption. In order to determine the role of drag-red...

in order to evaluate the effects of drought stress and methanol foliar application on some quantitative and qualitative traits of soybean (cv. viliamz), a split plot experiment was conducted based on randomized complete block design at the faculty of moghan research farm in 2011. treatments were three levels of drought stress based on irrigation at depletion of 40, 55 and 70 percent of availabl...