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Benchmarking is the process of comparing one's business proceses and performance metrics to industry bests or best practices from other industries. Dimensions typically measured are quality, time and cost.

1. Mutual exclusion (where at least one resource is non-sharable)

2. Hold and wait (where a process holds one resource and waits for other resource)

3. No preemption (where the resources can’t be preempted)

4. Circular wait (where p[i] is waiting for p[j] to release a resource. i= 1,2,…n

j=if (i!=n) then i+1

else 1 )

A team of researchers at IBM has created the world’s smallest magnet using a single atom which can store one bit of data on it.

There are six permanent members: China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan. Soon India and Pakistan will also join it.

Bachendri Pal, an employee of Tata Iron and Steel Co. Ltd at Jamshedpur, became the first Indian and the fifth woman in the world to reach the summit of Mt. Everest on May 23, 1984.

Sigmoid colon or pelvic colon is a curved, S-shaped portion of the large intestine which is closest to the rectum and anus.

* It helps to transports fecal matter from the descending colon to the rectum and anus.

* It is the final segment of the colon.