Description : For short-term climatic predictions, which one of the following events, detected in the last decade, is associated with occasional weak monsoon rains in the Indian subcontinent? [IAS 2002] (a) La Nina ( ... of jet streams (c) El Nino and southern oscillations (d) Green-house effect on global level
Last Answer : Ans: (c)
Description : The 'EL Nino' phenomena which sparks climatic extreme around the globe, originates in the – (1) Sea of China (2) Pacific Ocean (3) Indian Ocean (4) Atlantic Ocean
Last Answer : (2) Pacific Ocean Explanation: El Nino (Little Boy, or Christ Child in Spanish) refers to the large-scale oceanatmosphere climate interaction linked to a periodic warming in sea surface temperatures ... South America in the 1600s, with the appearance of unusually warm water in the Pacific Ocean.
Description : The ‘EL Nino’ phenomena which sparks climatic extreme around the globe, originates in the (1) Sea of China (2) Pacific Ocean (3) Indian Ocean (4) Atlantic Ocean
Last Answer : Pacific Ocean
Description : The main cause of global climatic change is – (1) increase in the content of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere (2) emissions of industrial gases (3) adding of dust (4) changes in plant cover
Last Answer : (1) increase in the content of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere Explanation: Our ever increasing addiction to electricity from coal burning power plants eleases enormous amounts of carbon dioxide ... sources, we are highly dependent on burning coal for our personal and commercial electrical supply.
Description : The main cause of global climatic change is (1) increase in the content of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere (2) emissions of industrial gases (3) adding of dust (4) changes in plant cover
Last Answer : increase in the content of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
Description : Pick out the wrong statement (A) Low ozone layer thickness in polar regions is due to cold climatic conditions (B) Amount of unburnt hydrocarbons emitted by two stroke petrol engine is more ... can enter the blood stream & the digestive system/ lungs and is responsible for causing Minamata disease
Last Answer : (D) Mercury as a pollutant can enter the blood stream & the digestive system/ lungs and is responsible for causing Minamata disease
Description : Briefly discuss the role of El Nino in Indian climate. -Geography
Last Answer : El Nino is a narrow warm current which sometimes appear off the Coast of Peru in South America during December. It increases the surface water temperature of the sea by 10°C. This warming ... pressure and wind system including the Monsoon winds in the Indian Ocean causing severe drought and flood.
Description : (i) What is the El Nino? (ii) How does it affect the climate of India ? -Geography
Last Answer : (i) El Nino is a narrow warm current which sometimes appears off the coast of Peru in South America during December. It is a temporary replacement of the cold Peru current which normally ... affects the global pattern of pressure and wind system including the monsoon winds in the Indian Ocean.
Description : What is unusual pattern occurs during el nino?
Last Answer : Need answer
Description : Is El Nino man made or a natural cycle?
Last Answer : It's a natural event.
Description : El Nino is – (1) a warm ocean current (2) sea storm (3) tropical disturbance (4) another name of typhoon
Last Answer : (1) a warm ocean current Explanation: El Nino (Spanish name for the male child), initially referred to a weak, warm current appearing annually around Christmas time along the coast of ... an El Nino event may last for many months, having significant economic and atmospheric consequences worldwide.
Description : 'El Nino' that affects our Monsoons, has its origins in – (1) The Indian Ocean (2) The Himalayan Plateau (3) The Pacific Ocean (4) The Arabian Peninsula
Last Answer : (3) The Pacific Ocean Explanation: El Nino is a climate cycle in the Pacific Ocean that causes global changes of both temperatures and rainfall. It is characterized by unusually warm ocean ... opposed to La Nina, which is characterized by unusually cold ocean temperatures in the Equatorial Pacific.
Description : Which of the following phenomena is supposedly associated with global warming? (1) Southern Oscillations (2) El Nino (3) La Nino (4) El Nino Modiki
Last Answer : (4) El Nino Modiki Explanation: El Nino Modiki is associated with global warming.
Description : Which of the following phenomena is supposedly associated with global warming? (1) El Nino (2) La Nina (3) El Nino Modoki (4) Southern Oscillation
Last Answer : (1) El Nino Explanation: El Nino is an irregularly periodical variation in winds and sea surface temperatures over the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean. Scientists have found association with El ... and magnitude of El Nino events have triggered warmer than usual temperatures over the Indian Ocean.
Description : El Nino occurs over – (1) Atlantic Ocean (2) Indian Ocean (3) Pacific Ocean (4) Mediterranean Sea
Last Answer : (3) Pacific Ocean Explanation: El Nino occurs over Pacific Ocean. El Nino is a southerly, warm ocean current.
Description : El Nino is a?
Last Answer : An abnormally warm current
Description : Which of the following phenomena is supposedly associated with global warming ? (1) El Nino (2) La Nina (3) El Nino Modoki (4) Southern Oscillation
Last Answer : El Nino
Description : Which of the following phenomena is supposedly associated with global warming ? (1) Southern Oscillations (2) El Nino (3) La Nino (4) El Nino Modiki
Last Answer : El Nino Modiki
Description : ‘El Nino’ that affects our Monsoons, has its origins in (1) The Indian Ocean (2) The Himalayan Plateau (3) The Pacific Ocean (4) The Arabian Peninsula
Last Answer : The Pacific Ocean
Description : El Nino occurs over (1) Atlantic Ocean (2) Indian Ocean (3) Pacific Ocean (4) Mediterranean Sea
Description : El Nino is (1) a warm ocean current (2) sea storm (3) tropical disturbance (4) another name of typhoon
Last Answer : a warm ocean current
Description : Increasing evidence has implicated gram-negative bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS endotoxin) as the portion of the gram-negative bacterial cell membrane responsible for many, if not all the ... host, exerting deleterious effects on the host when excessive amounts reach the systemic circulation
Last Answer : Answer: a, b, d The LPS molecule exerts diverse effects on the mammalian host. Immunologic responses to LPS include nonspecific polyclonal B-cell proliferation, macrophage activation and ... deleterious effects on the host only after large amounts are secreted and reach the systemic circulation
Description : The deleterious materials present in the aggregate (a) Prevent normal hydration of cement (b) Reduce the strength and durability of concrete. (c) Modify the setting action and cause efloresecence. (d) All of the above
Last Answer : (d) All of the above
Description : Name the condition which influences the development of plants into distinctive forms. (1) Climatic conditions (2) Soil conditions (3) Environmental conditions (4) Social conditions
Last Answer : (1) Climatic conditions Explanation: The development of plants into diverse and distinctive forms is mainly due to climatic fact ors such as temperature, precipitation, etc, which arc in turn ... Koeppen's classification, we can identify different climates by the types of plants that grow there.
Last Answer : Climatic conditions
Description : Assertion (A): UV radiation causes photodissociation of ozone into `O_(2)` and O, thus causing damage to the stratospheric change. Reason (R): Ozone h
Last Answer : Assertion (A): UV radiation causes photodissociation of ozone into `O_(2)` and O, thus causing damage ... true but reason is wrong D. Both are wrong
Description : The maximum deflection due to a load W at the free end of a cantilever of length L and having flexural rigidity EI, is (A) WL²/2EI (B) WL²/3EI (C) WL3 /2EI (D) WL3 /3EI
Last Answer : (D) WL3 /3EI
Description : The maximum deflection due to a uniformly distributed load w/unit length over entire span of a cantilever of length l and of flexural rigidly EI, is (A) wl3 /3EI (B) wl4 /3EI (C) wl4 /8EI (D) wl4 /12E
Last Answer : (C) wl4 /8EI
Description : The deflection due to couple M at the free end of a cantilever length L is (A) ML/EI (B) 2ML/EI (C) ML²/2E (D) M²L/2EI
Last Answer : (C) ML²/2EI
Description : What is one drawback of increasing automation? a. The product requires increased time/expense for subsequent short-move repositioning. b. Operating second shift becomes more expensive. c. ... d. Automation slows production capability. e. It requires more employees for the production line.
Last Answer : a. The product requires increased time/expense for subsequent short-move repositioning.
Description : Which of the following statements about respiratory acidosis are true? A. Compensation occurs by a shift of chloride out of the red blood cells. B. Renal compensation occurs rapidly. C. Retention of ... of respiratory acidosis. E. The ratio of bicarbonate to carbonic acid is less than 20:1.
Last Answer : Answer: CE DISCUSSION: Renal compensation for acute hypoventilation is relatively slow. Depression of the respiratory center by morphine can lead to respiratory acidosis. Renal retention of bicarbonate, ... into red cells combine to increase the ratio of bicarbonate to carbonic acid to 20:1
Description : What types of climatic changes can appear by deforestation?
Last Answer : I. Due to deforestation, the rate of evaporation is reduced which results in less rain. II. Greenhouse effect is increased which results in global warming.
Description : The complement system consists of a series of serum proteins that exist in a quiescent or very low-level state of activation in the uninfected host. Which of the following ... certain complement components serve as chemoattractants to additional cellular components of the host defense mechanism
Last Answer : Answer: a, c, d Complement activation can occur through either classic or alternate (properdin) pathways, both of which eventuate in deposition of terminal complement pathway components on the ... and release of lysosomal enzymes that can directly damage certain target tissues, such as the lung
Description : Cytokines are low-molecular-weight polypeptides exerting a wide variety of biologic effects at both local and systemic levels. Which of the following statement(s) is/are true concerning the production and ... effects on the host d. Each specific cytokine is produced by a single cell type
Last Answer : Answer: c Macrophages, endothelial cells, lymphocytes, and other cells secrete a large number of different compounds, termed cytokines, that are most probably evolved for the purpose of ... host defenses, exerting both salutatory and deleterious effects on the host, has become increasingly evident
Description : Which of the following statements are true of oxidants? A. In addition to their pathophysiologic roles in inflammation, injury, and infection, oxidants also have physiologic roles. B. Oxidants may ... involved the catalytic production of superoxide anion (O 2 ) by the enzyme xanthine oxidase.
Last Answer : Answer: ABCD DISCUSSION: Oxidants are reactive oxygen metabolites that have both physiologic and pathophysiologic roles. As potent oxidizing agents, oxidants are involved in cytochrome P ... leukocyte infiltration and activation, causing further tissue damage by the release of cytotoxic proteases
Description : Whoever places in or against any letter box provided by the post office for the reception of postal articles any fire, match or light, any explosive, dangerous, filthy, noxious or deleterious substance a ... with both. c) Punishable with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees d) None of these
Last Answer : c) Punishable with fine which may extend to two hundred rupees
Description : Presence of __________ in water stream are deleterious to aquatic life. (A) Soluble and toxic organics (B) Suspended solids (C) Heavy metals and cyanides (D) All (A), (B) & (C)
Last Answer : (D) All (A), (B) & (C)
Description : The basis for use of β-adrenergic blockers in congestive heart failure (CHF) is: A. They exert positive inotropic effect in CHF B. They counteract deleterious effect of sympathetic overactivity on the myocardium C. They exert antiischaemic effect on the heart D. They prevent cardiac arrhythmias
Last Answer : B. They counteract deleterious effect of sympathetic overactivity on the myocardium
Description : The basis for use of β -adrenergic blockers in congestive heart failure (CHF) is: A. They exert positive inotropic effect in CHF B. They counteract deleterious effect of sympathetic overactivity on the myocardium C. They exert antiischaemic effect on the heart D. They prevent cardiac arrhythmias
Description : List four substances in water having deleterious effects. State their effects on concrete.
Last Answer : Substances in water: 1. Suspended particles 2. Inorganic salts 3. Acids and Alkalis 4. Algae 5. Sugar content 6. Mineral oil Effects of deleterious materials on concrete: ... reduces strength of concrete and vegetable oil shows detrimental effects on concrete strength at its later stages.
Description : A drug ‘R’ producing no response by itself causes the log dose-response curve of another drug ‘S’ to shift to the right in a parallel manner without decreasing the maximal response: Drug ‘R’ is a: A. Partial agonist B. Inverse agonist C. Competitive antagonist D. Noncompetitive antagonist
Last Answer : C. Competitive antagonist
Description : Which climatic type suffers change due to shifting of the World’s Pressure Belts? -General Knowledge
Last Answer : The answer is 'Monsoon'
Last Answer : answer:
Description : Which climatic type suffers change due to shifting of the World’s Pressure Belts?
Last Answer : Monsoon
Description : A demand curve will not shift: (1) When only income changes (2) When only prices of substitute products change (3) When there is a change in advertisement expenditure (4) When only price of the commodity changes
Last Answer : (4) When only price of the commodity changes Explanation: In economics, the demand curve is the graph depicting the relationship between the price of a certain commodity and the amount of it that ... only when there is a change in other determinants of demand, other than price of the commodity.
Last Answer : When only price of the commodity changes
Description : Organisational change is necessitated by– (A) External environmental pressure (B) Internal strengths and weaknesses (C) Sequential changes (D) All the above
Last Answer : Answer: All the above
Description : Which financial obligation is best satisfied with Bond Issues? a. Accounts Payable b. Increased production capacity c. Changes in A/R policy d. Salary increases e. All of the above
Last Answer : b. Increased production capacity
Description : I Nino current appears along the coast of which country?
Last Answer : Peru