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Water is purified on large scale for supply to a city or a town. It is also purified on small scale for domestic use. image source: groksurf.files.wordpress.comIn the purification of water on large scale following methods are used: ADVERTISEMENTS: l. Slow sand filtration (biological filtration).2. Rapid sand filtration (mechanical filtration). 1. Slow Sand Filtration: This system was first introduced in England about more than a century ago and still commonly used. Hence it is also known as English system. In slow sand filtration following stages are involved:(a) Storage ADVERTISEMENTS: (b) Filtration(c) Chlorination(a) Storage:The raw water from the source, usually a river, canal or a stream is collected in natural or artificial large open reservoirs known as settling tanks. The water is allowed to remain there for 1 to 2 days.…

38 Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) with Answers on “Organic Mental Disorders” for Psychiatry Post Graduate Students: image source: mortylefkoe.com1. The psychological disorder most commonly associated with myxoedema is: A. Mania ADVERTISEMENTS: B. DepressionC. PhobiaD. Paranoid feeling ADVERTISEMENTS: Others includeApathy, lethargy, memory impairment, slows tuning, poor attention span, paranoid ideations, dementia (myxoedema madness).2. Disorientation occurs in: A. Organic brain syndrome ADVERTISEMENTS: B. SchizophreniaC. DepressionD. ManiaDisorientation is common in delirium.3. All the following are true about dementia, except: A. Clouding of the consciousness is commonB. Is often irreversibleC. Hallucinations are not commonD. Nootropics play a limited role4. A reversible cause of dementia is: A. Multi-infarctB. Senile dementiaC. PostencephalitisD. Huntington’s choreaReversible causes of dementia are: Drug induced toxinEndocrine causesMetabolic causesEpilepsiesNutritional causes/neoplasmTrauma inducedInfectionsArterial malformations5. The best test for organic brain syndrome is: A. Rorschach…

The decision regarding capital expenditures have far reaching effects on the success or failure of the enterprise. Once acquired, capital assets cannot be disposed off except at a substantial loss. The capital budgeting decisions pertain to fixed assets or long term assets and yield a return, over a period of time, usually exceeding one year. image source: i.ytimg.comAccording to G.D. Quirin, the capital budgeting decisions involve a current outlay for an anticipated flow of future benefits. In other words, the system of capital budgeting is employed to evaluate expenditure decisions which involve current outlays but are likely to produce benefits over a period of time longer than one year. ADVERTISEMENTS: Each year business firms commit huge sums of money for capital expenditures. Within each firm different projects or proposals compete…

Short Essay on the Ill Effects of Pollutions on the Environment for school students: Image Source: siddequi.jagranjunction.com (a) Eutrophication: It is the natural aging of lakes due to nutrient enrichment of its water. It takes thousands of years for this process. ADVERTISEMENTS: The young lake is cold and clear supporting little life. As the time passes by it becomes warmer and encourages the growth of aquatic organisms as the nutrient gets introduced.The fertility increases, debris pile up, the lake grows shallower and warmer. Marsh plants start growing and fill the original basin. Eventually it converts into a land. (b) Biological magnification: It is increase in the concentration of the toxic substance of successive trophic levels. A few toxic substances present in industrial waste waters accumulate in organisms.Such as DDT and…

Section 15 of the Specific Relief Act, 1963 Provides that: 1. Abatement of: It was a suit for dissolution of partnership. One of the respondent’s sharers died during the pendency of the appeal. His legal representatives were not brought on record. While holding that the appeal abated as a whole their Lordships observed in para 16 as follows: Image Source: alleyglenn.tripod.com ADVERTISEMENTS: “Under Rule 4 (3) read with Rule 11 of Order XXII, C.P.C. the appeal abates as against the deceased respondent where within the time limited by law no application is made to bring his heirs or legal representatives on record. As pointed out by this Court in the State of Punjab v. Nathu Ram, AIR 1962 SC 89, it is not correct to say that the appeal abates…

Bhutan, traditionally known as Druk Yul, meaning ‘land of the thunder dragon’, is a small kingdom in the eastern Himalayas. Image Source: cdn.narendramodi.inIt shares borders with China in the north and west and with India in the east, south and south-west. Bhutan has had close relations with India since ancient times. ADVERTISEMENTS: A treaty of friendship and cooperation signed in 1949 ensures complete freedom of trade between India and Bhutan. The treaty also ensures equal treatment for Indian and Bhutanese citizens in each other’s country.India has provided financial and technical aid to Bhutan in various fields, including telecommunication, rural electrification, power generation, construction of airports, hospitals, roads, bridges, etc., and renovation of places of cultural importance.India and Bhutan cooperate in matters of mutual security. In 2003, the governments of Bhutan…

For the interpretation of a will the intention of the testator has to be seen and the words used in the will are to be analysed so as to infer the object of the testator. For the ascertainment of the object of the will following points are to be kept in mind:— Image Source: legalhelpinghand.com(1) State of the testator; ADVERTISEMENTS: (2) His family relations;(3) Probability of using the words with a particular intention;(4) His caste and religious faith;(5) Common desire and sentiments of the Hindus in the devolution of property e.g., a female did not acquire the property absolutely in succession etc. ADVERTISEMENTS: (6) English rules of construction ordinarily do not apply.In Arunachala v. Murugantha the Supreme Court reiterating its earlier view given in Ram Gopal v. Nandlal, has held…