abstract government size plays a vital role in the economic development process. therefore, in this study, the existence of a non-linear relationship between government size and economic growth was investigated using the two-sector production function developed by ram (1986). the data, covering 44 years (1961-2005), were collected from the iranian economic information center. two classification...

rainfall is recognized as one of the main triggering factors of landslides. researchers have long attempted to determine the amount of precipitation required to trigger slope failures. one of the landslide zones in iran is chaharmahal & bakhtiari province where many landslides cause high casualties in recent decades. it is significant that most of these landslides occur after a rainy period...