Unlike today‚ where most scientific communities use the standard unit of measurement called the metric system‚ early measurements were based on human body parts. In time‚ nations developed their own different units of measure. Due to all the different national measurements‚ it was difficult for scientists to understand each other‚ resulting in chaos. For example‚ if the United States conducted an experiment and France wanted to mimic the experiment‚ the different units of measure would make the
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Barter system Barter system is an age-old method that was adopted by people to exchange their services and goods. This system was used for centuries‚ before the invention of money. People used to exchange the goods or services for other goods or services in return. Nowadays‚ barter services has staged a comeback with the advent of more sophisticated techniques that aid trading through the Internet. During ancient times‚ barter system was a local phenomenon‚ which involved people in the same locality
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Reservation System in India The concept of reservation was enshrined in the Constitution to allow the so-called deprived classes to come at par with the so-called privileged ones. The Constitution of India allows this kind of positive discrimination in order to bring about equality of opportunity and status in the society. The founding fathers had never intended Reservation to be a temporary phenomenon. Reservations to the underprivileged were to be extended until they were uplifted socially and
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English play on social evils {dowry} The Demanded Dowry Characters:- Narrator[N] Ghosh Family-Mr. Ghosh [FG]‚ Mrs. Ghosh [MG]‚ Sagar [son] Rai Family-Mr. Rai [FR]‚ Mrs. Rai [MR]‚ Sagarika [daughter] Story N:-Today we‚ the seven members {names} of this play greet you all. Here we have in our play Mr. Rai being played by XYZ…. He is a retired person who had worked in Indian navy before. Now we have Mrs. Rai being played by XYZ…. She is
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History of Operating Systems Early computers lacked any form of operating system. The user had sole use of the machine; he would arrive at the machine armed with his program and data‚ often on punched paper tape. The program would be loaded into the machine‚ and the machine set to work‚ until the program stopped‚ or maybe more likely‚ crashed. Programs could generally be debugged via a front panel using switches and lights; it is said that Alan Turing was a master of this on the early Manchester
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HISTORY OF OPERATIMG SYSTEMS Operating systems (OS) provide a set of functions needed and used by most application programs on a computer‚ and the linkages needed to control and synchronize computer hardware. On the first computers‚ with no operating system‚ every program needed the full hardware specification to run correctly and perform standard tasks‚ and its own drivers for peripheral devices like printers and punched paper card readers. The growing complexity of hardware and application programs
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www.jntuworld.com Dr. P. Sudhakara Rao‚ Dean UNIT1: NUMBER SYSTEMS & CODES • Philosophy of number systems • Complement representation of negative numbers • Binary arithmetic • Binary codes • Error detecting & error correcting codes • Hamming codes Switching Theory and Logic Design HISTORY OF THE NUMERAL SYSTEMS: A numeral system (or system of numeration) is a linguistic system and mathematical notation for representing numbers of a given set by symbols in a consistent manner. For example‚ It
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Name Roll No. Course Subject : Amit Saini :2 : EPGDIB 2010-12 : Assignment – Mergers & Acquisitions (3rd Sem) Regulatory Framework for Mergers & Acquisitions in India Overview M&A transactions are primarily regulated by the Companies Act‚ 1956 (‘Companies Act’). Sections 391 to 396 of the Companies Act govern schemes of arrangement and mergers etc. Section 494 of said Act provides for an alternative form of reconstruction where a liquidator is empowered to receive shares etc. in lieu of cash
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TOPIC HISTORY OF BANKING INDUSTRY IN INDIA SUBMITTED BY MISS ANU LALMANI SHUKLA CLASS: T.Y.B.C.B.I. (Sem V) SUBMITTED TO UNIVERSITY OF MUMBAI * 2010 – 2011 *
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The first chapter of Metcalf and Metcalf’s A Concise History of Modern India‚ addresses the popular assumption that India is a “timeless” country. Because of that misconception‚ people often correlate India’s past directly with the present‚ especially when it comes to the caste and other social organizational systems (Metcalf & Metcalf‚ 3). In reality‚ referring to the Mughal and Sultanate era of India as a stagnant period of time is misleading and incorrect. This underlying theme of the development
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