the increasing consumption of electricity in iran is one of the greatest concerns of the government. using the subsidy-based pricing system is one of the main reasons of improper pattern of residential electricity consumption that has imposed great cost over the government due to the increased number of consumers and their improper way of consuming electricity. in this paper, we analyze the fac...

South Asia is one of the fastest growing regions in the world. Home to approximately 1.3 billion of the world's population, the region's GDP growth rate of 5.6 per cent in 1990-2000 surpassed the world average of 2.6 per cent, second only to East and Southeast Asia at 7.0 per cent (The World Bank, 2004). During 1980-2000, the GDP per capita in South Asia grew at a rate of 3.3 per cent per annum...

objective: to modify yeild of milk fat and to improve fatty acids profile of milk fat with supplementation of the diet with fish oil enrich in omega-3 fatty acids, especially, eicosapentaenoic acid (epa) and docosahexaenoic acid (dha). design: clinical trial. animals: ten dairy cows (treatment group, n=5 and control group, n=5). procedure: different amounts of fish oil were fed to the treatment...

This paper projects the consequences of modifying or eliminating the current national alcohol retail monopolies in Sweden, Norway and Finland as a possible result of those countries' membership in the European Union (EU). First, the authors project absolute alcohol consumption in each country based on different possible changes in alcohol price and availability. Then they predict the future lev...

this paper investigates the possibility of both linear and nonlinear effects of energy consumption on economic growth in iran, using data for the period of 1959–2007 based on threshold regression. some previous studies support the view that energy consumption may promote economic growth. however, the conclusion drawn from this study suggests that such relationship exists only where there is a l...

This study seeks to provide recent, i.e., updated, and new evidence on the impact of public policy on cigarette consumption using panel data. In particular, this exploratory study uses a state-level panel data-set to investigate the impact on per capita cigarette consumption in the U.S. of public policies not only in the form of cigarette excise taxes but also in the form of heretofore largely ...