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(a) m-sti-tu-tion

Correct answer is (b) in-grat-i-tude

Correct answer is (a) aircrafts

Correct answer is (d) teeth

The features are : 

1. Retail billing deals with end customers and billing an individual customer. 

2. Retail billing always need to be 100% accurate. 

3. It can be handled by specialized billing systems like Convergys and Amdocs billing systems. 

4. It meets customer satisfaction and regulatory obligations. 

5. A billing is assumed to be successful as long as it is fulfilling the criteria of Timely billing and Billing accuracy.

Correct answer is (b) feet

‘To the Foot from its Child’ narrates the journey of a child’s foot until it becomes an adult foot and beyond until it dies. In the first stanza there are only two lines which express the innocence of the child and its wishes. The child wants to be a butterfly or an apple, but society is harsh and forces the child to become a responsible adult doing responsible adult things.

In the next stanza, the child’s foot walks in the real world and experiences the harsh realities of life. The words, ‘StOneS, bits of glass, streets, ladders, paths in the rough surface of the earth’ symbolize the forces in society. When the child’s foot encounters them in a battle, it learns that its role is that of a foot only and it cannot become a butterfly or an apple. The foot is now imprisoned in a shoe, where it grows into an adult. It gets exposed to reality as filtered through the shoe. It suffers loneliness and gradually learns the realities of life groping in the dark like a blind man.

During this life inside the shoe, it loses all the beauty of a child’s foot. Its soft, nice, petal-like toes lose their beauty become hard, callused and look like eyeless reptiles. The ‘foot’, now having grown into an adult foot, keeps on walking, works without respite in fields, markets, mines and ministries. It toils hard giving up all its worldly pleasures and finally dies. It is then buried. But, as it descends into the ground, it loses its human awareness and does not know that it is not even a foot. So, in its spirit it is like the child’s foot and dreams of becoming a butterfly or an apple.

Thus, the poet depicts his view of life in the metaphor of a foot, with clear progression from infancy, to maturity, to adulthood, old age and finally death.

YYY 

15 March 2017 

The Manager 

Personnel Department, 

Apollo Hospitals No. 29, 

Ganapathi Street

Bangalore – 560 003.

Dear Sir,

In response to your advertisement in Deccan Herald dated 10 March, 2017, I apply for the post of Staff Nurse. Nursing is a noble profession and it has always been a passion with me to follow the footsteps of Florence Nightingale. Now that I have completed my degree in Nursing I am all set to follow the call of my inner voice.

I hope you will consider my application favourably and give me the opportunity of serving a premier hospital like Apollo Hospital. I’ve furnished more details in my resume which is on a separate sheet. I thank you in anticipation of being called for an interview. 

Yours faithfully

Sd.

xxx

Encl: Resume.

                         RESUME

Name : xxx

Address : yyy

Contact No. : xxxxxxxxx

Educational Qualification : B.Sc. in General Nursing from ABC College of Nursing in the year 2016 with a first class.

Additional Qualification : MS Word. 

Hobbies : Painting and Reading 

Languages Known :

English : Written and spoken

Kannada : Written and spoken

Hindi : Written and spoken

Malayalam : Spoken.

SWOT’Analysis:

Strength : Hardworking

Weakness : Perfectionist who gets caught in minute details.

Opportunity : Serving people with human touch 

Threat : Being superceded by better qualified nurses.

References: 

1. The HOD 

Department of Psychology 

ABC College of Nursing

Bangalore

 2. Mr.J.M. Cutinho 

Lecturer, Child Health Nursing 

ABC College of Nursing

Bangalore.

1. Authority to women

2. Self-reliance

3. Make choices

4. Home

5. Public places

6. Legal

7. Social

8. Economic.

In the beginning, there appeared to beahe;lthy competitio; between Tammanna and Basavaiah. Tammanna did not take Basavaiah as his riva) at all. Therefore, when Basavaiah acquired fifteen admirers to outdo Tammanna’s ten friends, it did not come to Tammanna’s notice at all. Tammanna did whatever he wanted without bothering about Basavaiah. But Basavaiah did not keep quiet. When he came to know that Tammanna possessed one thousand acres of land, and he had only eight hundred, he could not tolerate this. He sent word to Tammanna asking him to sell two hundred acres to him.

Tammanna did not agree. On the contrary, he offered to buy all the land that belonged to Basavaiah. Therefore, Basavaiah went along with his people and acquired two hundred acres of Tammanna’s land forcibly and got a fence built around it. Tammanna could not tolerate this invasion. Later, when his supporters suggested to him that he could go to the court of law or the police or use his own people to attack him and forcibly wrest his land from him, Tammanna did not accept their suggestion. Tammanna probably thought that competing with Basavaiah by physical means has no end to it because it depends on who is able to muster more muscle power. Muscle power has its own limitations. Secondly, muscle power needs the involvement of many more people apart from Tammanna.

Moreover, as long as both of them were fighting by visible means people will not know who was trying to compete with whom. Until then, Basavaiah was the first one to show to the people he had more land, more friends, more wealth, etc. Tam manna never did anything to spite Basavaiah. Whatever Tammanna did, was on his natural Inclination and not to spite Basavaiah. Therefore, Tammanna realized the limitations of competing with Basavaiah by physical means. That is why he thought of putting an end to the unhealthy rivalry of Basavaiah by taking recourse to something invisible. He took recourse to singing ballads and telling the people through them about the cruelty and the meanness of Basavaiah.

She would then be an old woman with grey hair and sleepy eyes. When she is in such a state, he wants her to read a book of memories from her youth. As the woman sits beside the fire, nodding her head and leaves through her memories, she would recollect the ‘soft looks’ she once had and the sorrows she had suffered until then. When she recalls her faded beauty she would also recall how she was admired by many suitors who were infatuated with her physical charms. At the same time, she would also recall how there was one man who loved her unique soul which was in search of true love. She would also realize that her true love has lingered on for a while, disappeared from the earth and hid amidst a crowd of stars in heaven.

i. Trophies

ii. winners

iii. Sahu’s

iv. Bhubaneswar.

Touring basically is full of adventures and unexpected happenings and surprises. Writer George Mikes has travelled all over the world and written down his experiences. He is especially fascinated by the exquisitely well mannered Japanese, their quaint practice of bowing, their interpretation of privacy in the overly populated Japan. He is also amused by the laid back Brazilians who turn into devils when behind a steering wheel and their devil may care driving and the brazilian crazy traffic.

‘When You are Old’ highlights the writer’s true and unforgettable love fora lady. It presents the concern of a sincere lover for the future predicament of his lady love. Instead of focusing upon the present or the past, the poet looks to the future, a future in which the two people in the poem are destined to be for ever apart. The poet imagines that the woman he loved has become old and regrets her refusing his true love.

The poem begins with the presumption that an old and graylady is sitting beside the fire nodding her head. When she recalls her memories, she remembers the soft look that her eyes had once, and the number of suitors who tried to court her, being charmed by her elegance and beauty; While admitting that many suitors were attracted by her youthful beauty; the speaker tries to tell her that he was the only lover who loved the pilgrim soul in her. He wants her to know that unlike others he was attracted by the beauty of her inner self and his love would remain constant even in her old age. He assures her that he loves even the sorrows of her changing face.

He wants her to understand that over a period of time her beauty will have faded away and she will have grown old, with her face having shrunk and her skin having been wrinkled, indicating that she has passed through many difficulties and sorrows. The speaker concludes visualizing that she is now bending down beside the dying fire, and she tells herself in a whisper, in a regretful tone that her true love has fled and is hiding his face amidst a crowd of stars. Thus, the whole poem is the delineation of the intense feelings of a true lover.

Vandana Shiva says that she learned her first lesson in ecology and eco-system in the Himalayan forests which she later put to practice in her farms. Her ideas about blo-diversity and biodiversity based living economies prompted her to begin the Navdanya movement for biodiversity conservation and organic farming which she started in 1987. Later, in 1994, she set up the Navdanya farm in the Doon Valley where she claims to have conserved and grown 630 varieties of rice, 150 varieties of wheat and hundreds of other species. Based on these practices she tells the reader that the forests teach us union and compassion, principle of equity, and how to enjoy the gifts of nature without exploitation and accumulation and mutual co-operation.

Qualitative or Selective Methods of monetary policy :

• Selective Credit control 

• Rationing of credit 

• Moral Persuasion 

• Direct action

Mobile banking is a system that allows customers of a financial institution to conduct a number of financial transactions through a mobile device such as a mobile phone or personal digital assistant.

Advantages to Banks:

• Control costs, removal of cost duplication 

• Cater to increasing online channel customers 

• Personalize customer interactions 

• Unparalleled convenience and proactive customer service 

• Cross selling

Monaco was a peace loving kingdom.

SEBI(Securities and Exchange Board of India)

1. Primary Market 

2. Secondary Market

Demutualization: NSE set up with a pure demutualised governance structure, having ownership, management and trading with three different sets of people.

To calculate the mean of grouped data, the first step is to determine the midpoint (also called a class mark) of each interval, or class.

Primary Market and Secondary Market

Juliet Wants Romeo to be set up in heaven with the stars after her death.

To a young lady with whom the speaker is deeply in love.

The Mediterranean Sea.

The correct answer is "option 3".

• "Wear out" means when something is no longer of any use then it reaches into a wear out state.
• In other words, it cannot effectively perform what it is built for.
• Hardware can wear out due to some environmental issues like dust, excessive temperature, etc.
• But software cannot wear out because according to user demands, software needs to be updated & demands may increase one after another.
• Hence, any alternative software can replace previous software due to having the implementation of the user's recent demands.
• So, not having a recent feature is not a defect but if considered as a failure then no. of failures increases with time & software gets deteriorated.
• But still, the software can perform its operation what it was performing in the beginning so that's why software cannot wear out.

Hence, Software can deteriorate due to multiple change requests that may introduce errors in component interactions.

(b) thoughts

His handkerchief.

Rabindranath Tagore.

b) Nifty 50

Nifty 50 is the Blue-Chip Index of NSE.

SRD stands for Structured requirements Definition or Software Requirements Definition

Both options is/are correct and marks are given to all

Important Points

• Structured requirements Definition, a data-driven, output-oriented, bottom-up methodology.
• This methodology focuses on designing a system to provide the right outputs to satisfy the user’s needs.
• The objective is to provide the users with exact data they need to perform their jobs.
• The bottom-up approach tends to reinforce the output orientation because the methodology starts by investigating the necessary outputs, uses those outputs to determine the data and data structures, and then uses the data structures to suggest the necessary functions and/or modules.

The functions are :

1. Recording of information. 

2. Classification of data. 

3. Making summaries 

4. Dealing with financial transactions 

5. Interpreting financial Information 

6. Communicating results 

7. Providing reliable information.

Correct option: a) Both the statements (A) and (R) are correct and (R)is the right explanation of (A) 

You can change the row height in a Calc worksheet in any of the following ways:

• Drag the divider below the row.

• To fit the row height to the cell contents, double-click the divider.

• Select Format

• Row

• Height.

The Row Height dialog box appears. Enter the value for row height in the Height spin box. Click Ok button.

Changing Column Width

You can change the column width in a Calc worksheet in any of the following ways: 

• Drag the divider to the right of the column header (Fig 11). 2

• To fit the column width to the cell contents, double-click the divider.

• To change the column width, select Format

• Column

• Width.

The Column Width dialog box appears. Enter the value for column width in the Width spin box. Click Ok button.

The dairy supply chain is unique. The raw milk needs to be collected at the village pooling points. This complex supply chain requiring multiple transportation legs and make the scope of work very wide. 

It includes:

1. Transportation: identifying the special requirement of vehicles, vendors, payment and billing, vehicle operations and placement. 

2. Warehousing: identifying locations of warehouses, setting up of warehouses, ensuring stock accuracy. 

3. Processing plants: operating filling machines, coding, carton sealing/taping, material handling activities. 

4. Distribution: invoicing, accounting, MIS reporting, empty crates management etc.

Extraversion: Gregarious, assertive and sociable.(Opposite reserved, timid, quiet.) 

• Agreeableness : Cooperative, warm and agreeable. (Opposite cold, disagreeable and antagonistic) 

• Conscientiousness : Hardworking, organized and dependable (lazy, disorganized and unreliable) 

• Emotional stability : Calm, self-confident and cool (insecure, anxious and depressed) 

• Openness to experience : Creative, curious and cultured (narrow interests).

Trade Day in the Exchange.

It is a unique identifier for each distinct product and service that can be purchased. 

For example: if a particular product has a MRP of Rs 10 and there is a revision in price, say the price now becomes Rs15, then Rs10 and Rs15 will have to be stocked separately and billed separately so they become two different SKUs.

SKUs can then be printed into a barcode and placed on the product. When scanning SKUs, the system recognizes the price and prepares the sale for that price.

a) Stock out

Running out of the inventory of an SKU means Stock out.

The letter ‘S’ in SKU stands for Stock.

Active listening requires four discrete steps.

CONTACT—connect with the participant who is contributing; eye contact, open posture, and nonverbal responses. 

ABSORB—take in all aspects of the spoken message, implicit and explicit and nonverbal clues. Do not judge or evaluate. 

REFLECTIVE FEEDBACK—mirror, reflect, or feedback what you have heard and why the contributor claims to be valid. 

CONFIRM—receive confirmation from the speaker that you heard the participant’s message accurately. If not, start the method over again at the beginning by having the speaker restate their.

Correct option: c. Self-Clearing Member

Correct option: d. The net worth of the entity having controlling stake in the applicant company or the promoting foreign entity varies country to country.

The Day to deliver the securities or transfer the funds to Clearing Corporation.

A trading day typically consists of a number of discrete stages as below:

(i) Opening: The trading member can carry out the following activities after login to the NEAT system and before the market opens for trading:

(a) Set up Market Watch (the securities which the user would like to view on the screen) .

(ii) Pre-open: The pre-open session is for a duration of 15 minutes i.e. from 9:00 am to 9:15 am. The pre-open session is comprised of Order collection period and order matching period. The order collection period of 8* minutes shall be provided for order entry, modification and cancellation. (* - System driven random closure between 7th and 8th minute). During this period orders can be entered, modified and cancelled.

(iii) Normal Market Open Phase: The open period indicates the commencement of trading activity. To signify the start of trading, a message is sent to all the trader workstations. The market open time for different markets is notified by the Exchange to all the trading members. Order entry is allowed when all the securities have been opened. During this phase, orders are matched on a continuous basis. Trading in all the instruments is allowed unless they are specifically prohibited by the Exchange. The activities that are allowed at this stage are Inquiry, Order Entry, Order Modification, Order Cancellation (including quick order cancellation), Order Matching and Trade Cancellation.

(iv) 

(a) Market Close: When the market closes, trading in all instruments for that market comes to an end. A message to this effect is sent to all trading members. No further orders are accepted, but the user is permitted to perform activities like inquiries and trade cancellation.

(b) Post-Close Market: This closing session is available only in Normal Market Segment. Its timings are from 3.40 PM to 4.00 PM. Only market price orders are allowed. Special Terms, Stop Loss and Disclosed Quantity Orders, Index Orders are not allowed. The trades are considered as Normal Market trades. Securities not traded in the normal market session are not allowed to participate in the Closing Session.

(v) Surcon: Surveillance and Control (SURCON) is that period after market close during which, the users have inquiry access only. After the end of SURCON period, the system processes the data for making the system available for the next trading day. When the system starts processing data, the interactive connection with the NEAT system is lost and the message to that effect is displayed at the trader workstation.

Correct option: a. After 5 minutes.

Professional Clearing Member who clear the trades of other but does not trade.

• Shareholders’ Fund (also known as Net Worth) is the fund coming from the owners of the company 
• Loan Fund is the fund borrowed from outsiders

Client receives the pay out of securities directly to their accounts on the pay-out day. The client receives payout to the extent of instructions received from the respective clearing members.