Abstract This article investigates whether sanctions have changed or influenced Iran's trade patterns, focusing on neighboring countries. The study concentrates first the United Arab Emirates (UAE), considered main regional partner. We hypothesize that should had a negative impact with UAE, as latter cooperated US policies toward Islamic Republic. By contrast, were likely to positively influenc...

quorum-based power saving (qps) protocols allow “asynchronous” wireless hosts, operating in a multi-hop ad-hoc network, to tune to the low power mode conceived in ieee 802.11 mac standard. qps schemes guarantee that the wake-up schedule for every two neighboring hosts would ultimately overlap within a bounded latency so as to be able to accomplish their reciprocal “unicast” communications. a ma...

Users in trust based recommender systems seek recommendations from their directly trusted parties known as neighbors or from neighbors of neighbors and so on. This paper proposes an appropriate range ([minrec... maxrec]) providing minimum and maximum number of recommenders that one should have in his close communication. More neighbors than the maximum number of neighbors (maxrec) suggested by ...