Social networking: For years‚ social networking sites didn’t exist‚ but yet people kept in touch. These days‚ with social networking sites becoming a part and parcel of our daily lives‚ there are advantages and disadvantages that come along with them. For example‚ you can make a friend from Timbuktu and on the flip side your account can get hacked and you can find yourself in a big mess. A recent research revealed that teenagers tend to hide the real stuff by using code language you may never understand
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creatures.. But in today’s fast & hectic lifestyle where we hardly get any time to spend with our family ‚ Do we really have the time & energy to socialize? Thus the emergence of popular SNS like LinkedIn‚ Facebook ‚ Myspace ‚ Twitter came almost as a boon to the society & have taken the world by a storm leading to nothing less than a revolution. Just imagine‚ After a busy & tiresome day‚ its a great relaxation for us to sit in front of our pc & with a few strokes on the keyboard & a few clicks on
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Baba Gyani Triviani said: "Good were the days when people played Duke Nukem‚ Now people just say Dude Nuke ’em" Nuclear energy has been a controversial topic and a topic of debate from ages ago. In this post‚ I would like to analyse this from a layman’s perspective. Countries are growing rapidly‚ both economically and by population. And a commodity that seems to be needed more than ever‚ and the need for which will continue to grow unabated is energy. Energy is needed to do anything - Whether
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Replication fork Scheme of the replication fork. a: template‚ b: leading strand‚ c: lagging strand‚ d: replication fork‚ e: primer‚ f: Okazaki fragments Many enzymes are involved in the DNA replication fork. The replication fork is a structure that forms within the nucleus during DNA replication. It is created by helicases‚ which break the hydrogen bonds holding the two DNA strands together. The resulting structure has two branching "prongs"‚ each one made up of a single strand of DNA. These two
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Health Tourism (Also known as Medical tourism) refers to the act of traveling to a foreign country in order to receive medical care. Varying reports based on the US alone put the number of American patients seeking healthcare abroad between 500‚000 to 750‚000 in 2007. This is a steady increase from 2006 in which medical experts believed as many as 200‚000 to 1/2 a million Americans traveled out of the country for medical procedures. These figures indicate a significant growth in the industry‚ currently
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Should girls and boys be given exactly the same type of education? In Singapore‚ girls and boys are entitling the same type of education. Gender equality is ensure by our government. This was done so to make sure there wasn’t any discrimination among each gender‚ and there was equal opportunities given to the citizens‚ to voice out their discontented. However‚ this was not implemented throughout the world. To begin with‚ girls should be entitled the equal right as boys to receive education. It is
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Education is very important for every child whether boy or girl. It is sad that some communities still discriminate against the education of the girl child. About 57million children around the world are not going to school. The report‚ Children Still Battling to go to School‚ finds that 95% of the 28.5 million children not getting a primary school education live in low and lower-middle income countries – 44% in sub-Saharan Africa‚ 19% in south and west Asia and 14% in the Arab states‚ UNESCO said
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Workshop on Multimedia and Internet Technologies 26th to 28th February‚ 2001 DRTC‚ Bangalore Paper: BC Multimedia Database: Content and Structure Samir Kumar Jalal Documentation Research and Training Center‚ Bangalore-59 Abstract Multimedia is a combination of text‚ graphics‚ animations‚ audio and video converted from different formats into digital media. The extension of database application to handle multimedia objects requires synchronization of multiple media data streams. Time-related
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What do you think of the use and abuse of private tuition? Private tuition as against what is being done in regular school is resorted to‚ in certain cases where the pupil is not able to follow his lessons well and wants to improve his performance. In some cases the parents want to make their child sit at his studies and in others it is a matter of prestige. Whatever the reasons may be for private tuition‚ it can certainly complement and supplement the class work provided the teacher and his
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Social Media: A boon or a bane Malcolm X‚ the famous civil rights activist‚ once notably said‚ “The media is the most powerful entity on Earth.” To a large extent‚ his words hold true even today‚ as mass media virtually puts all the world’s information at the general populations’ fingertips. However‚ even in an age where life revolves around technology‚ some people hold the view that media (especially Social Media) is harmful to society. Accordingly‚ these people believe that traditional
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