(Study Notes) Current Affairs: Other Issues: 16 - 23 Jan 2010 By Dialogue India

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(Study Notes) Current Affairs: Other Issues: 16 - 23 Jan 2010 By Dialogue India

CAG Weekly
(Current Affairs & GK)
By Om Prakash (goldy sir)

Others

BASIC countries to establish a fund to help LDCs

• The BASIC countries now want to cozy up to the Least Developed Countries to retain their negotiating strength. As it is making common cause with the rest of the developing bloc that would give it better negotiating strength.
• The proposed fund will be bilateral in nature and not under the auspices of the United Nations Framework Convention for Climate Change. The fund is unlikely to be a formal set up as that would require setting up of structures. Instead, each of the four BASIC countries will co-ordinate their climate-related aid to vulnerable countries.

Scada (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems

• that use computers to monitor and control industrial operations, the nation can be brought to a halt by terrorists or hostile powers taking control of computers in what are normally considered civilian installations.

New technology for studying arterial blocks

• The latest technique for analysing coronary blocks is almost as good as a second opinion.
• Fractional Flow Reserve (FFR), a procedure by which a catheter is inserted to analyse pressure differences in coronary blocks, can tell patients whether they need an angioplasty.
• It is designed to determine the extent of the block in terms of the oxygen flow being impeded. The result is an absolute number which tells doctors by how much the blood pressure will drop in a given coronary block. Priced at Rs.40,000, the five-minute- long procedure, saves patients the cost and trouble of undergoing an angioplasty.
• Currently, all blocks are treated by an angioplasty. But given the accuracy of FFR, we can tell if the block is serious or not.

Mumbai Marathon

• Denis Ndiso of Kenya clinched his first marathon title with an impressive timing of 2:12:34 .
• Bizunesh Mohammed led an Ethiopian clean sweep of top three slots among women in the $310,000 Standard Chartered Mumbai Marathon.

Courtesy:- Dialogue India and Career Plus

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