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What is time-stamping?

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It is a technique proposed by Lamport, used to order events in a distributed system without the use of clocks. This scheme is intended to order events consisting of the transmission of messages. Each system 'i' in the network maintains a counter Ci. Every time a system transmits a message, it increments its counter by 1 and attaches the time-stamp Ti to the message. When a message is received, the receiving system 'j' sets its counter Cj to 1 more than the maximum of its current value and the incoming time-stamp Ti. At each site, the ordering of messages is determined by the following rules: For messages x from site i and y from site j, x precedes y if one of the following conditions holds....(a) if Ti

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The bankruptcy of which company initiated the Panic of 1873?

A) Republic Steel Company B) Jay Cooke & Company
C) Standard Oil Company D) Century Building Society
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Jay Cooke & Company

Explanation:

Jay Cooke & Company, a major component of the United States banking establishment, found itself unable to market several million dollars in Northern Pacific Railway bonds in september 1873. Cooke's firm, like many others, had invested heavily in the railroads.

 

Hence, the bankruptcy of Jay Cooke & company initiated the Panic of 1873.

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Final goods and services refer to

A) goods and services purchased by ultimate users, rather than for resale or further processing B) goods and services whose value has been adjusted for changes in the price level
C) the excess of U.S. exports over U.S. imports D) goods and services that are unsold and therefore added to inventories
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) goods and services purchased by ultimate users, rather than for resale or further processing

Explanation:

Final goods and services refer to goods and services that have been purchased for final use and that cannot be resaled.

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The chemical name of common salt is

A) Sodium Chloride B) Potassium Nitrate
C) Sodium Nitrate D) Potassium Chloride
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Sodium Chloride

Explanation:

The chemical name of common salt is Sodium Chloride with a chemical formula NaCl.

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The main cause of rancidity in foods is the ____ of fats and oils.

A) hydrolysis B) clarification
C) reduction D) oxidation
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: D) oxidation

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Bright light is found to emit from photographer’s flashgun. This brightness is due to the presence of which one of the following noble gases?

A) Argon B) Xenon
C) Neon D) Helium
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Xenon

Explanation:

Electronic Flash differs from the consumable bulb flash in important aspects. Instead of creating light by burning up in an atmosphere containing oxygen, a consumable material (each bulb being used therefore only once), it produces a brilliant incandescent by discharging a current for a brief instant through a rarified gas, usually xenon. The gas glows every time the discharge is made through it but it is not consumed, so that many thousands of flashes are obtainable from a single tube, which helps to offset the much higher cost of the initial apparatus.

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Which Indian personality received Carnot Prize for Power Reforms, Rural Electrification?

A) Piyush Goyal B) Arun Jaitley
C) Amit Khare D) Ravi Shankar Prasad
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Piyush Goyal

Explanation:

Piyush Vedprakash Goyal is the Indian personality received Carnot Prize for Power Reforms, Rural Electrification. He is an Indian politician and the current minister of Railways, Coal in the Government of India.

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Rear view mirror of car is convex or concave?

A) Convex B) Concave
C) Both A & B D) Can't be determined
 
Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Convex

Explanation:

The side view mirror, in all the vehicles we use only convex mirror. This mirror makes the objects and small to show them in the mirror. That's why in all such mirrors, "Ojects in the mirror are closer than they appear."

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