this survey is carried out with the aim of investigating iran’s export potentials of agricultural products to member countries of the organization of islamic conference (oic) through use of such appropriate methods as: rca, hs and cosine index. the dates are computed be means of hs data codes in the range of 010000-240000 during 2002-2006. the islamic countries are divided into 3 groups as base...

The main result of this paper is the determination of all pairwise nonisomorphic trade sets of volume at most 10 which can appear in Steiner triple systems. We also enumerate partial Steiner triple systems having at most 10 blocks as well as configurations with no points of degree 1 and tradeable configurations having at most 12 blocks.

national currency depreciation or appreciation has always been argued seriously among policymakers since changing in exchange rate could cause improvement or deficit in trade balance. these changes affect the trade volume of a country in both short-run and long-run. long-run effects are recognized as the marshall-lerner condition, while short-run effects are analyzed by two concepts: j-curve an...

Background Negotiations surrounding the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade and investment agreement have recently concluded. Although trade and investment agreements, part of a broader shift to global economic integration, have been argued to be vital to improved economic growth, health, and general welfare, these agreements have increasingly come under scrutiny for their direct and indirect...

the main purpose of this paper is to present methods and recent development in the literature of intra industry trade (iit) measuring. the case study also is carried out for iranian manufacturing industries during time period 1997-2003. for this, iran's foreign trade data was collected, processed, and then used to estimate iit indices with respect to recent literature developments in iit m...

Ordered weighted averaging (OWA) operators have been widely used in decision making these past few years. An important issue facing the OWA operators’ users is the determination of the OWA weights. This paper introduces an OWA determination method based on truncated distributions that enables intuitive generation of OWA weights according to a certain level of risk and trade-off. These two dimen...

The attack on the World Trade Center had the potential to overwhelm New York's health services. Sadly, however, the predicted thousands of treatable patients failed to materialize. Horror and sadness has now been replaced by anger, fear, and the determination to be better prepared next time. This determination not only exists in politics but also in health care, and as with all attempts to enfo...

A quantitative method was developed for the determination of proteins in aqueous solution. Under optimal conditions, the linear ranges of calibration curves for the determination of bovine serum albumin (BSA), human serum albumin (HSA) and egg albumin (Alb) were 01.13 μg ml-1, 0-1.17μg ml-1 and 0-1.13μg ml-1, respectively. The detection limits were 15.74 ng ml-1 for BSA, 23.34 ng ml-1 for HSA a...

afghanistan as the largest producer of drug in the world, after the events of september 11, 2001, and attack of international forces following the resolution of the un, has been increasingly important in international politics. the range of effects from illigal drug trade in afghanistan and the countries on the way of transition and trafficking target market, has caused special attention paid t...