Iran’s environmental condition is critical, since it is experiencing desertification, unsustainable development and overpopulation. The objective of this study is power source replacement in natural gas stations that operate with natural gas compressors, through using electrical motors, which can be fed by a 160 MW geothermal power plant, as an alternative to gas turbines. Application of such a...

r 'j ,, The United Stltes is under siege. The country had a 3175 billion trade dericit in 1986; the accumulated federal government debt is 52.3 trillion. Since 1979, annual productivity in the service sector has increased only O.'5percent, according to an article by Patricia Galagan (Training & Development journal, July 1987). Eighty percent of American corporations face competition from abroad...

Globalization has affected business cycle developments in OECD countries and has increased activities of firms across national borders. This paper analyzes whether these two developments are linked. We use a new firm-level dataset on the foreign activities of German firms to test whether foreign activities are affected by business cycle developments. We aggregate the data by the sector of the r...

BACKGROUND Government- and charity-funded medical research and private sector research and development (R&D) are widely held to be complements. The only attempts to measure this complementarity so far have used data from the United States of America and are inevitably increasingly out of date. This study estimates the magnitude of the effect of government and charity biomedical and health resea...

Russia’s agri-food sector demonstrates a growth the forth year starting with 1998. In 1999-2001 an average annual rate makes 106.2 per cent, in comparison with 100.1 per cent in five years prior reforms (Figure 1). Provisional estimates for 2002 shows growth at the level of 4 per cent. If the first two years the growth in the primary sector could be attributed mainly to the weather conditions i...