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s tructural change is defined as a change in the relative weight of the important constituents of the macro-economic indicator such as production, taxes, imports and exports, workforce etc. since the structure change is one of the main reasons for the growth and economic development of countries, the investigation of the trend of changes in economic important constituents is important. tax as a...

In this chapter, we discuss the transport layer design issues in a mobile wireless networks. The focus will be put on two transport protocols: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP). TCP is the dominant transport protocol currently used for most Internet services such as Web browsing, file transfer, remote login etc. SCTP is a recently developed prot...

Sudden death is a major health problem all over the world. The most common causes of sudden death are cardiac but there are also other causes such as neurological conditions (stroke, epileptic attacks and brain trauma), drugs, catecholamine toxicity, etc. A common feature of all these diverse pathologies underlying sudden death is the imbalance of the autonomic nervous system control of the car...

agricultural sector will be most affected by climate change due to its extensive interaction with the environment. and as a result of changing production conditions, community welfare is changed. this study attempted at understanding the welfare effects of changes in climate parameters on the wheat product. therefore, the yield functions were initially estimated. supply, demand and import funct...