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Army Recruitment and Patron - Client Relationship in Colonial Punjab: A Grassroots Perspective

The Role of Civil Society and Patron-client Networks in the Analysis of Corruption

The endemic nature of corruption in developing countries and the potential damage this can cause if it remains entrenched is not in question. In the search for policy responses attention has increasingly turned to the possible role of civil society in controlling corruption. The argument is that if civil society can be strengthened and its efforts at monitoring the state encouraged, this would ...

Washington's unsung patron

No visitor to the US capital, Washington DC, can fail to notice the dominance downtown of the Smithsonian Institution. Redstone building after redstone building comprise a series of museums and facilities across the centre of town, which show off American history, natural history and science and attract millions of visitors each year. But what is much less known is that the Smithsonian Institut...

Client Client Client Client

With the advances in multimedia databases and the popularization of the Internet, it is now possible to access large multimedia data repositories distributed throughout the world. One of the challenging problems in such an access is how the information in the respective databases can be summarized to enable an intelligent selection of relevant database sites based on visual queries. This paper ...

Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication in the Nurse/Client Relationships

Non-verbal communication is the way through which we express ourselves without necessarily using words. It involves sending messages through various expressions or signs on our body parts such as changing our facial expressions or varying our tones as we speak. Many people tend to overlook various body signs and may end up not understanding or even ignoring the intended message. However this is...