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A Government Company is established under the Indian Companies Act, 1956. According to the Indian. Companies Act 1956, a government company means any company in which not less than 51percent of the paid up capital is held by the central government, or by any state government or partly by central government and partly by one or more state governments.

Features: 

• It is registered under the Companies Act, 1956. 
• It has a separate legal entity. It can sue and be sued, and can acquire property in its own name. 
• The management of the company is regulated by the provisions of the Companies Act. 
• Employees are recruited and appointed as per the rules and regulations contained in Memorandum and Articles of association. 
• These companies are exempted from the accounting and audit rules and procedures. 
• The government company obtains its funds from government shareholdings and other private shareholders.

Merits 

• It has a separate legal entity, apart from the Govt. 
• It enjoys flexibility and autonomy in all management decisions 
• These companies by providing goods and services at reasonable prices are able to control the market. 
• The formation of a Government company is easy as compared to other forms of Government enterprises. 
• It can appoint professional managers on high salaries.

Limitations

• It evades constitutional responsibility as it is not directly answerable to parliament. 
• They are autonomous only in name. Company is operated by the controlling ministry. 
• The law relating to the companies, in general is meaningless for the government companies, as it requires fulfillment of various formalities.

Organisms deriving their nutrient from another organism (host) and causing disease to the host are called parasites.

a. Obligate or Total parasite – Completely depends on host for their survival and produces haustoria.

(I) Total stem parasite: The leafless stem twine around the host and produce haustoria. 

Example: Cuscuta (Dodder), a rootless plant growing on Zizyphns, Citrus and so on.

(II) Total root parasite: They do not have stem axis and grow in the roots of host plants produce haustoria. 

Example: Rajflesia, Orobanche and Balanophora.

b. Partial parasite – Plants of this group contain chlorophyll and synthesize carbohydrates. Water and mineral requirements are dependent on host plant.

(I) Partial Stem Parasite: 

Example: Loranthus and Viscum (Mistletoe) Loranthus grows on fig and mango trees and absorb water and minerals from xylem.

(II) Partial root parasite: 

Example: Santalum album (Sandal wood tree) in its juvenile stage produces haustoria which grows on roots of many plants.

Majority of angiosperm possess upright, vertically growing erect stem. 

They are

1. Excurrent 

2. Decurrent 

3. Caudex and 

4. Culm.

An inflorescence is a group of flowers arising from a branched or unbranched axis with a definite pattern.

Correct Answer is : (a) Corymb

(c) Monocarpic geophytes

Correct answer is (d) None of the above

A Planogram allows visual merchandisers to plan the arrangement of merchandise by style, type, size, price or some other category.

1. Personal Security Guards: They are appointed for the purpose of providing physical security to their employers. They are also known as black cats or bouncers and accompany their employers everywhere. 

2. Residential Security Guards: They are employed in residential colonies, apartments, aged homes, and other residential areas for providing security to their clients. 

3. Corporate Security Guards: They are employed for internal and external security of the business assets. Corporate security includes protection of corporate buildings, shopping malls, private organization, hospitals, etc.

Correct answer is (d) All of the above

1. Maintaining supply chain efficiency in face of increasing risk and unpredictability. 

2. Infrastructure congestion exacerbated by unforeseen or uncontrollable events. 

(a) Natural disasters 

(b) Labour strike and shortages 

(c) Terrorism 

3. Heightened supply chain security. 

4. Increasing costs 

(a) Inventory just-in-time to just-in-case. 

(b) Congestion e.g. demurrage, fuel, traffic, mitigation fees, container fees. 

(c) Security. 

5. Using retail transport for cross border is very complex, time consuming and costly, for example, retail companies needs at least 12 different permissions issued by different authorities.

6. For import and export of goods needed customer clearances before sending to distribution centers.

The success of a retail store is influenced by its layout design and the ambience created by the retailers. You never get a second chance to make a first impression .The first impression given to the potential customer determines whether the retail store has gained or lost a buyer.

Straight Floor 

Plan The straight floor plan makes optimumuse of the walls, and utilizes the space in the most judicious manner. The straight floor plan creates spaces within the retailstore for the customers to move and shop freely. It is one of the commonlyimplemented store designs. This type of design you find in Reebok and Nike. 

Advantages 

1. Motivates shoppers to spend time and explore the merchandise. 

2. Maximizes sale through impulsive buying. 

Diagonal Floor Plan 

According to the diagonal floor plan, theshelves or racks are kept diagonal to eachother for the owner or the store manager tohave a watch on the customers.Diagonal floor plan works well in storeswhere customers have the liberty to walkin and pick up merchandise on their own. 

Advantages 

1. Loops facilitate impulsive buying. The latest or fashion merchandise is prominently displayed on the main aisles. 

2. Overhead directional signs and departmental graphics provide visual cues to the location of other departments helping shoppers while they shop. 

Angular Floor Plan 

The fixtures and walls are given a curved lookto add to the style of the store. Angular floor plan gives a more sophisticated look to thestore. Advantages 

1. Methodological, efficient and convenient. 

2. Visibility of merchandise is better

Oriental prints take their inspiration from Asian countries like China, Japan, Indonesia, Thailand, Tibat, Bhutan and Mongolia. The motifs, designs and layouts are specific to each region. Motifs like clouds, Buddha, dragons, cherry blossoms, pagodas, regional scripts, bamboo etc. are used. The uniqueness of these prints is that they are so intricate and detailed that they look like paintings. Colours used in these prints are usually specific to each region. These prints were traditionally seen on kimonos, Chinese jackets, skirts and wall panels.

x – 2y = 0 ⇒ x = 2y.    … (1) 

3x + 4y = 20.    … (2) 

Now putting x = 2y from equation (1) into equation (2), we get 

3 (2y) + 4Y = 20 

⇒ 6y + 4Y = 20 

⇒ 10y = 20 

⇒ y = \(\frac{20}{10}\) = 2. 

Now, putting y = 2 in equation (1), we get x = 2y = 2× 2 = 4. 

Hence, the solution of given system of equations is x = 4 & y = 2.

Explanation:

CRAFT algorithm was originally developed by Armour and Buffa. It is an improvement algorithm.

• It starts with an initial layout and improves the layout by interchanging the departments pairwise so that the transport cost is minimized.
• The algorithm continues until not further interchanges are possible to reduce the transportation cost.
• The result given by CRAFT is not optimum in terms of minimum cost of transportation.
• But the result will be good and close to optimum in the majority of applications. Hence, CRAFT is mainly a heuristic algorithm.

CRAFT requirements :
1. Initial layout
2. Flow data or Load summary
3. Cost per unit distance
4. Total number of departments
5. Fixed departments, Number of such departments Location of those departments.
6. Area of departments.

Layout is the process of planning the repeats to create continuous flow in all directions. Student should select the layout depending on the design requirement, e.g. for home furnishing, a large repeat size needs to be planned for an effective layout.

Layout is the process of planning the repeats to create continuous flow in all directions. Students should select the layout depending on the design requirement, e.g. for home furnishings, a large repeat size needs to be planned for an effective layout. Through experience, students can learn to put design in interesting layouts to convert a good idea into a good design. The design can be put in All-over, Tossed, Free Flowing, Stripes, Border, Set, Scenic and Patchwork layouts.

In a ∆ABC, 

∠C = 3∠B = 2(∠A + ∠B). 

∴ 3∠B = 2(∠A + ∠B) 

⇒ 3∠B = 2∠A + 2∠B 

⇒ 3∠B – 2∠B = 2∠A 

⇒ ∠B = 2∠A. 

And ∠C = 3∠B = 6∠A. (∵∠B = 2∠A) 

We know that sum of angles in a triangle is 180°. 

∴ ∠A + ∠B +∠C = 180° 

⇒ ∠A + 2∠A + 6∠A = 180° 

⇒ 9∠A = 180° 

⇒ ∠A = \(\frac{180°}{9}\)= 20°. 

Now, ∠B = 2∠A = 2× 20° = 40°. 

And ∠C = 6∠A = 6 ×20° = 120°. 

Hence, ∠A = 20°, ∠B = 40° and ∠C = 120°.

(A) plane

Consider a situation in which a liquid is kept in a solid container. The liquid surface normally gets curved at the point of contact with the container.
The diagram shows a liquid which gets lifted upwards at the point of contact. If viewed from above it is concave.
A tangent is drawn at the point of contact. It is a tangent to the liquid surface and it makes an angle θ with the wall of the container. The angle is measured within the side of the liquid.
This angle is known as angle of contact. Since the angle is acute, the surface is concave.
If the angle were obtuse the surface would have been convex. This happens in the case of mercury kept in a glass vessel.
If the angle is zero, it means the tangent is along the surface of the solid. Obviously the surface will be plane in such a case. This happens when water is kept in glass vessel.

(d) Mongoloids

Air contains a large amount of nitrogen and the solubility of gases in liquids increases with increase in pressure. When sea divers dive deep into the sea, large amount of nitrogen dissolves in their blood. When they come back to the surface, solubility of nitrogen decreases and it separates from the blood and forms small air bubbles. This leads to a dangerous medical condition called bends. Therefore, air in oxygen cylinders used for diving is diluted with helium gas. This is done as He is sparingly less soluble in blood.

[Hint : Because noble gases are stabilized by weak van der Waal’s forces.]

[Hint : In XeF_2, 2 bond pairs and 3 lone pairs are present hence linear structure.]

[Hint : Due to fully filled octet of Xe.]

The story starts with a gentleman name Neil Bartlett, in 1962 he tried to oxidize molecular oxygen with platinumhexa flouride and observed following result

O2 + PtF6   = O2PtF6

Thus molecular oxygen converts to O2+ 

Ionisation Energy of  molecular oxygen is 1165 kj/mole whereas ionisation Energy of Xe was observed as 1170 kj/mole 

Due to nearly same ionisation energies of O2 and Xe , he thought that similar compound can be given with Xe and prepared first compound of Noble gas XePtF6

Now answer of your question

Some Noble gases (Xe and Kr)  form compounds because of their comparatively lower ionisation energies....

Convex mirrors are used for cars because they give an upright image and provide a wider field of view as they are curved outwards. Convex mirrors are also often found in the hallway of various buildings including hospitals, hotels, schools, stores and apartment building.

M¹ L² T^-2

The dimensional formula of Rotational Kinetic Energy is given by,

M¹ L² T^-2

Where,

• M = Mass
• L = Length
• T = Time