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Best articles to read for CAT everyday. 4th August @harlalka2610 (dedicated to u)
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http://chronicle.com/article/Whats-So-Funny-/147575/
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http://rationalist.org.uk/articles/4709/bertrand-russells-lofty-pacifism
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http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/aug/14/hi-tech-mess-higher-education/
5. Personality you must know :Clinical practitioners ________________ integrated mindfulness _____________ treatment of _______________ host of emotional and behavioural disorders, ________________ borderline personality disorder, major depression, chronic pain, or eating disorders. Number of such practitioners ____________________ increased substantially.
The last sentence from the paragraph has been deleted. Choose the option that best completes the paragraph.
While the new exhibition focuses on Gauguin’s prints, ceramics, and woodcuts, his color paintings should not be overlooked, because Gauguin’s use of color is extraordinary. The fantastic, perfervid Upa Upa (The Fire Dance; 1891), along with Words of the Devil (1892), is reminiscent of Henri Rousseau’s vivid jungle surrealism. To gaze into its lurid, fiery display is to feel as if you were wading into a closed cultic rite. Gauguin could paint a still life like Cézanne and a pointillist gouache like Seurat. He is not often thought of as a great colorist, and while he may not have been Matisse, “Metamorphoses” illustrates that he may have been just as talented. ________________.
- This makes the fact that Gauguin lacked formal artistic training, all the more remarkable.
- In Mata Mua, the light and dark greens, squash yellows, bell-pepper oranges, tomato reds, and eggplant purples are a feast for the eyes.
- One can only wonder what one would find when one explores the lesser known aspects of his oeuvre.
- Several of his paintings borrow poses from a sculptured frieze found at the Borobudur Buddhist temple in Indonesia.
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He is older than I or me?? Which one is correct ?
Word List 5th August
1. Clairvoyant:
Having the supposed power to see objects or events that cannot be perceived by the senses.
2. Panache: style
3. Nebulous: hazy
4. Temerity: recklessness
5. reparative: curative
6.Stew: to cook by slow boiling
7. hoi polloi: common people
8. oxymoron: a figure of speech by which a locution produces incongruous effect
9. atavistic: pertaining to a distant relative
10. wharf: dock
11. vestibule: an antechamber
12. recalcitrant: ziddi
13. kowtowing: touch ffet in respect
14. grapple: engage in struggle
15. lugubrious: dismal
The restaurant serves every cuisine but punjabi.
Is it correct?
What does this mean?
Statements: Some papers are pens. All the pencils are pens.
Conclusions:
- Some pens are pencils.
- Some pens are papers.
A.Only (1) conclusion follows B.Only (2) conclusion follows C.Either (1) or (2) follows D.Neither (1) nor (2) follows E.Both (1) and (2) follow
#RC
A class of drugs already approved as cancer treatments might also help to beat alcohol addiction. That's the conclusion of a discovery in flies of a gene, dubbed happyhour, that has an important and previously unknown role in controlling the insects' response to alcohol.
Animals with a mutant version of the gene grow increasingly resistant to alcohol's sedative effects, the research shows. The researchers report further evidence that the gene normally does its work by blocking the so-called Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF) pathway. That EGF pathway is best known for its role in cancer, and drugs designed to inhibit the EGF receptor, including erlotinib (trade name Tarceva) and gefitinib (trade name Iressa), are FDA-approved for the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer.
Now, the researchers show that flies and mice treated with erlotinib also grow more sensitive to alcohol. What's more, rats given the cancer-fighting drug spontaneously consumed less alcohol when it was freely available to them. Their taste for another rewarding beverage - sugar water - was unaffected. "This is a very powerful example of how simple model organisms - and the little fruit fly in particular - can be used to move quickly from an unknown gene to a potential therapy for drug addiction," said Ulrike Heberlein of the University of California, San Francisco, noting that erlotinib and gefitinib, along with other EGFR inhibitors, not only cross the blood-brain barrier in humans, but they are also well-tolerated in general. Alcohol is one of the most popular and abused drugs in the world, the researchers said. Therefore, a better understanding of the genetic and environmental factors that lead to its addiction would have considerable benefit for those who suffer its consequences and for society at large. Despite the well-known effects of alcohol consumption on behavior and cognition, the underlying basis for those effects on the nervous system are still rather incomplete.
Human studies have pointed to a strong genetic component to alcoholism, but identifying the specific genes responsible has proved difficult. Studies have also indicated that an individual's sensitivity to alcohol intoxication acts as a predictor of future alcoholism, with a link between lower initial response and increased risk of addiction. Therefore, Heberlein's team explained, genes and pathways involved in the acute response to alcohol can yield insight into the genetic factors contributing to the more complex process of addiction.
Earlier studies have shown that fruit flies are a useful tool for unraveling the basis for the effects of alcohol. Several genes previously identified as playing a role in fruit flies' alcohol response hold similar roles in mammals.In search of more in the new study, the researchers screened mutant flies for those less sensitive to ethanol. That screen led them to happyhour, a gene closely related to mammalian enzymes known as the Ste20-family kinases of the GCK-1 subfamily.
Heberlein said they still don't know exactly how alcohol exerts its influence on the EGFR pathway or how that leads to the telltale changes in behavior that come with alcohol intoxication. Those questions will be the subject of future investigation. Her team is also exploring other new gene candidates that turned up in the fly screens. She says that several of those appear to be tied to the EGFR pathway in different ways.
"It's not yet clear how it all fits together," she said. "But the fact that we've come, in an unbiased way, to molecules in the same pathway is telling us this is really, really important."
Q1.All of the following are necessary facts or assumptions in the conclusion that the 'class of cancer treatment drugs might help to beat alcohol addiction' except?
a. Low sensitivity to alcohol initially can result in addiction to alcohol later on.
b. The blocking of the EGF pathway can increase the resistance to alcohol's effects.
c. Drugs like Erlotinib activate the EGF Receptor which increase sensitivity to alcohol.
d. It is the mutant version of the gene labeled happy hour that plays an important role in both cancer as well as alcohol sensitivity.
e. None of these
Q2.According to the passage, which of the following statements is true?
a. Fruit flies are a useful tool for unraveling the basis for the effects of alcohol as genes that play a role in fruit flies' alcohol response hold similar roles in mammals.
b. There are several other genes apart from the happyhour gene which are connected to the EGFR pathway and play a role in alcohol addiction.
c. Studying the effect of alcohol on the nervous system especially in fruitflies has led to the isolation of specific genes responsible for influencing alcohol abuse.
d. Both A and B
e. None of the above.
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#RC:
Rich consumers are still voraciously gobbling up the world's resources, despite the worst recession in a generation, with their appetite pushing the planet into "ecological debt" from today , according to a report by think-tank the new economics foundation (nef). This "ecological debt day" marks the point in the year when consumption around the world exceeds the Earth's annual "biocapacity" - so for the remainder of the year, we will be eating into environmental resources that will not be replaced, according to nef's calculations.
Andrew Simms, nef's director, said the deep recession had delayed this "ecological debt day" by only 24 hours compared with last year, when it fell on 24 September. He warned that as G20 leaders gather in Pittsburgh to discuss global finance, there is a risk that the world economy will be kick-started again, without learning the lessons of the "consumption explosion".
"Debt-fuelled over-consumption not only brought the financial system to the edge of collapse, it is pushing many of our natural life support systems toward a precipice. Politicians tell us to get back to business as usual, but if we bankrupt critical ecosystems no amount of government spending will bring them back," he said. In the UK, nef warns of increasing dependence on overseas energy, declining self-sufficiency in food, and the proliferation of "boomerang trade" - sending goods to foreign markets and receiving almost identical items back.
The research also underlines the yawning gap between the energy consumption of the world's poorest people, and the rich. Just 7% of the global population produces 50% of greenhouse gas emissions. A typical American will by 4am on January 2 have produced as many emissions as a Tanzanian generates in a year.
Nef argues that while the arrival of reliable electricity and other energy resources could bring enormous improvements in life expectancy and quality of life in developing countries, when consumption increases above a certain level, it will stop improving people's health or happiness.
Beyond this point, they say, "to increase human well-being, the focus should shift away from a quantitative focus on income and consumption, towards more qualitative improvements in the human environment to do with culture, civic, community and family life, long-term learning and those other dimensions that contribute to relatively long and happy lives."
The analysis suggests many countries have passed far beyond saturation point, into wasteful "over consumption".
In the past 50 years, the report argues, people in the rich world have changed their lifestyles radically, and "in doing so, we have generally assumed that the resources and energy these activities rely on are limitless and cheap." In the 1970s, the average household in the UK had 17 domestic appliances, for example - but that had almost trebled, to 47, by 2006, and is expected to continue rising. Yet in fact, consumption has begun to gnaw away at natural resources at a rate which cannot be sustained.
Q1. Why does the author urge to shift the focus to qualitative improvements?
a. Because it is not impossible to sustain the present lifestyles of human beings.
b. Because it will close the 'yawning gap' between the rich and the poor.
c. Because 'ecological debt' on the planet will reduce to some extent."
d. Because the extent of improvement through consumption is limited.
Q2.Which of the following statements cannot be inferred from the passage?
a. It is quite likely that post financial recession, nations will continue to consume resources at the same or higher rate.
b. Energy consumption per person in developing countries is much lower in comparison to that of developed countries.
c. Finance may fuel economies but it most definitely cannot conserve natural ecosystems.
d. Overconsumption of resources by a very little percentage of the global population is putting the entire world into ecological debt."
Q3.The report refers to 'wasteful over-consumption' in order to show that:
a. certain nations have reached a point of no return.
b. the habit of consuming resources at a high rate is common throughout nations.
c. unrestrained use of natural resources is unsustainable."
d. 'over-consumption' is bound to lead nations to 'wasteful over-consumption.'
-Guardian 2009
170 mins without Peeing.....
P.S: Since, I'll be giving CAT for the first time,I would like to ask repeaters,Do the exam authorities allow u to go to toilet in between.??
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Best articles to read 6th-7th August
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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/5ea6d02e-cfc4-11e3-a2b7-00144feabdc0.html#axzz30lJyD1DU2.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/10877821/Stephen-Greenblatt-on-Shakespeares-debt-to-Montaig...3.
https://nplusonemag.com/issue-20/the-intellectual-situation/the-free-and-the-antifree/4.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/magazine/2014/05/02/alan-guth-what-made-big-bang-bang/RmI4s9yCI56jKF6ddMi...
5. presonality you must know : Edward Said
Words of the day 6th August
1. descry : to catch sight of/ discern
2. prodigious: enormous/wonderful
3. consternation: surprise and fear
4. timorous: fearful
5. unencumbered : easy going
6. irascible : easily angered
Confusing words :
1. abjure vs adjure
Abjure is to renounce or abstainwhereas adjure is to request someone to do something
2. accessory vs accessary
accessory means extra or additional whereas the word accessary is sometimes found in legal
3. banister vs baluster: banister is upright rails supporting handrails on staircase whereas banister is short pillar
4. balmy means pleasant vs barmy means mad
5. broach means to open or introduce whereas brooch is an ornament
CAT 2014: Important dates
MBA aspirants will have to take the Common Admission Test (CAT) for the session 2014 on either of the two days - November 16 and November 22.
The Indian Institute of Management (IIM) - Indore will conduct the exam this year. The registration process will start August 06 onwards.
Important Dates
Date of commencement of online registration: August 6, 2014 (Wednesday)
Last date of registration: September 30, 2014 (Tuesday)
Download of Admit Card: October 16, 2014 (Thursday)
CAT exam dates (forenoon and afternoon sessions): November 16, 2014 (Sunday) and November 22, 2014 (Saturday)
Tentative dates for Results: Third week of December 2014
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during the CAT registration , we wont get to choose our examination centre?