ISS (Statistical Services) General Studies: Questions 96 - 103 of 157

The Nobel Prize for Economics has been awarded to American game theorists Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley.

• The prize concerned a central economic problem how to match different agents as well as possible.

  • For e. g. Students have to be matched with Schools.

  • The donors of human organs with patients in need of a transp

• Urbanisation has resulted in excessive population in the metro cities leading to following disadvantages:

  • Large masses are accommodating in smaller areas and people are bound to live under congested situations.

  • The Cities have turned over-polluted and people ought to reside near the areas where factories dump their wastes.

  • Traditional lifestyle and cu

• A qubit is a two-state quantum mechanical system.

  • One of the simplest quantum systems displaying the peculiarity of quantum mechanics.

  • Mostly silicon-based qubits have been made from the electron or the nucleus of a single phosphorus atom.

  • A qubit is the basic unit of information in a quantum computer.

  • In a quantum computer, a number of elemental parti

To oppose a demand in the Financial Bill discussed by the government. Cut motion is a power given to the members of the Lok Sabha.

• The Cut motions provide the members maximum opportunity to examine every part of the budget and criticize the Government.

• The government is obliged to resign as per the rules of Lok Sabha incise a cut motion is adopted by

• The Groups believing in armed revolution against the ruling British fall into this category.

  • Revolutionaries’ objective was Complete Swaraj (different from Congress’ ideas).

  • The revolutionary groups were mainly concentrated in Bengal, Maharashtra, Bihar, United Provinces and Punjab.

  • Bengal was comprised of Anushilan samiti, Sandhya, Yugantar Maharasht

• Phytoremediation is a technique of employing green plants and their associated microorganisms, soil amendments and agronomic practices to remove, inhibit or neutralize hazardous environmental contaminants. Phytoremediation can be applied wherever the soil or static water environment has become polluted.

• Phytoremediation can be used to control proble

The Gandhi-Irwin Pact was signed between Mahatma Gandhi and the then Viceroy of India Lord Irwin on 5^th March 1931. It was a Political Agreement.

• Features:

  • This pact ensured the participation of the Congress in the Round Table Conference.

  • The Civil Disobedience Movement would be discontinued by the Congress.

  • Withdraw

a. Lagoon

• A lagoon is a shallow body of water separated from a larger body of water by barrier islands or reefs.

• Lagoons are commonly divided into coastal lagoons and atoll lagoons.

• A shallow artificial pond used for treating or storing liquid waste material or for collecting flood waters.

• Lagoons provide habitat