Vivan Parasher has waited patiently for revenge. But when he gets it he feels the Dewan family still owe him more. Then the beautiful sister of his nemesis walks into his office, willing to do anything to save her brother from Vivan's vengeance... A notorious playboy, Vivan could certainly benefit from a wife on his arm, and Pari is the perfect candidate. If he didn't have proof that she's as bad as the rest of her family Vivan might even feel a twinge of guilt at his shocking proposal! But it's only when he slips his ring on Pari's finger that he realises the extent of his mistake...
The first thorough study of the co-existence of crime and democratic processes in Indian politics In India, the world's largest democracy, the symbiotic relationship between crime and politics raises complex questions. For instance, how can free and fair democratic processes exist alongside rampant criminality? Why do political parties recruit candidates with reputations for wrongdoing? Why are one-third of state and national legislators elected--and often re-elected--in spite of criminal charges pending against them? In this eye-opening study, political scientist Milan Vaishnav mines a rich array of sources, including fieldwork on political campaigns and interviews with candidates, party workers, and voters, large surveys, and an original database on politicians' backgrounds to offer the first comprehensive study of an issue that has implications for the study of democracy both within and beyond India's borders.
Contests are prevalent in many areas, including sports, rent seeking, patent races, innovation inducement, labor markets, scientific projects, crowdsourcing and other online services, and allocation of computer system resources. This book provides unified, comprehensive coverage of contest theory as developed in economics, computer science, and statistics, with a focus on online services applications, allowing professionals, researchers and students to learn about the underlying theoretical principles and to test them in practice. The book sets contest design in a game-theoretic framework that can be used to model a wide-range of problems and efficiency measures such as total and individual output and social welfare, and offers insight into how the structure of prizes relates to desired contest design objectives. Methods for rating the skills and ranking of players are presented, as are proportional allocation and similar allocation mechanisms, simultaneous contests, sharing utility of productive activities, sequential contests, and tournaments.
Salient Features: - User-friendly monograph, dedicated to obstetricians to update, refresh, and increase their knowledge and competence at the time of fetal heart examination according to clinical standard with evidence-based standard practice. - Complex aspects of complete care for the patients with heart disease are clearly described. - Provides practical information about how to perform prenatal fetal heart screening systematically. - Enriched with advanced ultrasound images, clinical pictures, diagrams, tables and flowcharts for easy comprehension. - Written by experts with enormous clinical experience from across the globe. - References for further reading have been provided at the end of each chapter.
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