Democracy is the best form of government and it society in which citizens are sovereign control government. Election plays an important role to make democracy strong free fair key Democracy. process fundamental characteristic democratic society, as ensures participation development nation. We know India, Elections held generally every year some States, due this slowed down code conduct. The ide...

One-to-one promotions are possible when consumers are individually addressable and firms know something about each customer’s preferences. We explore the competitive effects of one-to-one promotions in a model with two competing firms where the firms differ in size and consumers have heterogeneous brand loyalty. We find that one-to-one promotions always lead to an increase in price competition ...

To the Editor: The emergence and spread of infl uenza A pandemic (H1N1) 2009 virus from the animal reservoir to humans raise questions about the future approach to infl uenza virus infections. The scientifi c community has evidence demonstrating that infl uenza virus genes migrate across continents and animal species and assemble themselves in combinations that are a threat to animal and human ...

Citygram is a multidisciplinary project that seeks to measure, stream, archive, analyze, and visualize spatiotemporal soundscapes. The infrastructure is built on a cyber-physical system that captures spatio-acoustic data via deployment of a flexible and scalable sensor network. This paper outlines recent project developments which includes updates on our sensor network comprised of crowd-source...

In this paper we consider a system consisting of a supplier with a single processing unit, a repair center, and a retailer with Poisson demand. We assume that the retailer applies one-for-one ordering policy with backorders for his inventory control. The retailer’s orders form a queue in the supplier processing unit. We also assume that a certain fraction of the products produced by the supplie...