CULTURAL QA 09-2022-04 BEING ACOMPILATION THERE MAY BE ERRORS
Q1 Does a ceiling fan have an effect onair temperature? A1 Subbanna Vadlamudy, Former AssistantProfessor, Research Associate, Teacher 6m Sure! It mixes the top hot air,including the heat generated by the fan motor, and cool air on the floor level. Q2 What does a cauliflower taste like? A2 Lucia Garcia, Worked at Hospitals10h Cauliflower is acruciferous vegetable native to the eastern Mediterranean coast and is nowgrown all over the world. Most cauliflower is white, but orange, green, and purplevarieties are also available. The cauliflower has a very crunchy texture and a mildflavor With a Slightly Nutty and Sweet Taste. Cauliflower is richin protein, carbohydrates, dietary fiber, vitamins A, B, C, E, P, and mineralssuch as calcium, phosphorus, and iron. Compared with other vegetables, cauliflower is relativelylow in calories. 100 grams of cauliflower containsonly 25 calories, and cauliflower contains almost no fat. A French researchteam and the US National Cancer Institute discoveredthat PEITC, a cancer-fighting plant compound, is present in cauliflower. Additionally, cauliflower contains highconcentrations of carotenoids and glucosinolates, both compounds that haveanti-cancer properties. Many nutritionistsbelieve that eating some cauliflower regularly can reduce the risk of variouscancers. Q3 What is the largest private railwayoperator in Europe? A3 Nicholas Stone, Life long interest intrains. Aug 6 One of the largest private railway operators in Europe isNuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori (NTV). This is a privatecompany without any government ownership, control or contractual arrangements.The company operates trains on a commercial basis without subsidies. Annually,NTV carry 11 million passengers on domestic train services across Italy. Itemploys nearly 2,000 people with around 90 daily departures, connecting 51cities and 58 railway stations. As well as Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori, the Italian stateowned and operated TrenItalia operates a national rail network across Italywith a nationwide timetable of regular departuresconnecting most towns and cities. TheMilan-Florence-Rome-Naples high speed rail line is used by both TrenItalia andNTV passenger services. Betweenthe two operators, there are departures every 15–30 minutes during workinghours. My note- I recollect now the Trivandrum- Nagerkovil busswevice. Once a Tamilnadu bus was operated,after about 10 minutes a Kerala bus was operated. Later it became in batches.After 10 Kerala buses ten Tamilnadu buses operated Q4 Is type 2 diabetes reversible? A4 Dr Maluk Mohamed,Co-Founder, VicePresident (Research) &Head -India at Twin Health (2018–present)Aug 17 Of course yes. With the advent of technology which has aided inoffering precision treatment through precisioned treatment factors have madereversal a truth. Type 2 diabeteswhich accounts for 90–95% of all diabetes encompasses individuals who have relative (rather than absolute)insulin deficiency and have peripheral insulin resistance. Studies haveindicated that through a low calorie diet and various dietary programmesnormalizing sugars can be achieved. But however canwe classify those outcomes as reversal is a debate among professionals. According to a newconsensus statement from the American Diabetes Association® (ADA), theEndocrine Society, the European Association for the Study of Diabetes andDiabetes UK jointly published in Diabetes Care, the Journal of ClinicalEndocrinology & Metabolism, Diabetologia, and Diabetic Medicine,respectively, for the first time came out stating that type 2 diabetes should be considered in remissionafter sustaining normal blood glucose (sugar) levels for three months or more,without any medications. Diabetes is seen asa lifelong progressive disease and most physicians and commoners believe thesame. In 2016, the World Health Organization global report on diabetesacknowledged that diabetes reversal is possible through weight loss and reducedcalorie intake. Most agree that a hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) under thediabetes threshold of 6.5% for an extended period of time without use ofglycemic control medications would qualify. Excluding metformin from the glycemiccontrol medications list, as it has indications beyond diabetes, may also be aconsideration. International consensus statement outlined diabetes remissiondiagnosis criteria as a return of the HbA1c to <6.5 that occursspontaneously or following an intervention and that persists for at least 3months in the absence of usual glucose-lowering pharmacotherapy. However, anumber of factors can affect HbA1c measurements, including a varianthemoglobin, differing rates of glycation, or alterations of erythrocytesurvival that can occur in a variety of disease states. Thus, insome people a normal HbA1c value may be present when glucose is actuallyelevated, or HbA1c may be high when mean glucose is normal. In settingswhere HbA1c may be unreliable, measurement of 24-h mean glucose concentrationsby CGM has been proposed as an alternative. My note- I recollect once my nephrologist told me HB1Acis not very reliable on certain grounds - Q5 Is China poor and super poor in therice-farming villages? Why are villages so poor? A5 Steven Haddock, B.A. in PoliticalScience21h China could easilyproduce all the food it needs (mostly rice and wheat) if there were about 250million people living in rural China. That’s because in the last 50 years orso, there have been massive improvements in biological technology, such aswheat that only grows half as tall as normal wheat. This accounts for the factthat China doesn’t have and probably couldn’t afford all the technology usedfor producing food in a place like the United States. This means that China could have a sustainable rural agriculturesystem where 250 million rural dwellers could have a decent living,. Butthat’s not the case. Rural China has about 750 million inhabitants. There justisn’t enough money in food production to support that many people to a decentstandard of living. For nearly 2000 years, China wasstrong because it needed a huge population to grow food to sustain itself andcreate wealth out of the surplus. That’s no longer the case - food is cheap andChina’s wealth is now largely dependent on its manufacturing expertise. To paythe farmers more would pretty much be subsidization.As such, there’s a massive flow of people from rural China to urban China,looking for factory work. There’s also one major demographics problem. Becauseof China’s one child policy, which only applied to urban areas, and due tourban Chinese preferring boys, almost all unmarried females live in ruralChina. The same thing happened in India although it was small families and notofficial government policy that drove the urban disparities. Q6 What fruit has the most vitamin C? A6 Narayana Health, Health for all. Allfor health. Aug 29 Vitamin C has a very important role in protecting yourhealth. It is essential to the smooth functioningof body and mind. Vitamin C is found in abundance in nature in the form offruits and vegetables: Papaya. Many people think that citrus fruits are theonly source of vitamin C. Papaya is a very good source of vitamin C, and alsocontains many other essential nutrients such as vitamin A, magnesium, potassium,etc. Bell Pepper. Yet another not so familiar source ofvitamin C, bell peppers are native to America and the Caribbean islands.Besides vitamin C, bell peppers are also an abundant source of vitamin B1,magnesium and phosphorous. Broccoli. A favourite vegetable worldwide, broccoliis a good source of vitamin C. It also contains other nutrients such asmagnesium, calcium, omega 3 fatty acids, iron and more. Orange and allother fruits belong to the citrus family are rich sources of vitamin C. Other major sources of vitamin C include pineapple,strawberries, kiwi fruit, cauliflower, etc. Include the abovein your diet and live a happy and healthy life. Source: NarayanaHealth[1] How vital Vitamin C is to your Body?[2] Q7 What does the fouling mark in railwaytracks signify? A7 Prashant Tiwari, Indian RailwaysEnthusiast3y If you are a frequent traveller or a good observer then Ism sure you have seen “ Fouling Mark” sign at the both ends of the railwaystation. Everwondered about the significance of this mark? This mark is used near the points (i.e., where two tracksmerge ) to avoid collision. It is strictlyinstructed to the locopilots and guards to stop their train beyond this foulingmark and it is the duty of the guard to check whether the train standing onloop line or main line has crossed this mark or not . In case if thetrain is not beyond the fouling mark ,it may result into collision. Q8 Will a vulture eat a dead vulture? A8 M Tufail, Graduation in zoology fromUniversity of the Punjab (Graduated 2018)Tue vultureswill often bypass carcasses of cats, dogs, and coyotes.They will, however, eat such carcasses in the absence of more desirable food.Therefore, since vultures are not herbivores, they'llonly eat a dead vulture if they're really hungry. They will eat dead vulture ifwill not find any other food. Q9 How can we make our house morecomfortable without using an air conditioner or a humidifier? A9 Gopala Krishnan,Former AssistantGeneral Manager 1996-2004 at Department of Telecom (1966–2004)Just now There was a periodsay about 8 decades back, in India, there was no electric power connection tomost homes. In summerwe used hand fans. We grew trees around homes, many used to sleep on terrace ofhomes in summer enjoying somewhat cool air. Before airconditioner units became affordable we used fans. So growing more trees around, opening windows with properinsect screening, and using fans we can have some sort of comfort in placeswith high temperature. Hill stations,do not use air conditioner units. Even places like Bangalore air conditioner israrely used because of the climate. Q10 Before passports were invented,could you go to any country without a problem? A10 Balaji Viswanathan student of worldhistory. Updated 6y Passports actually made it much easier to travel betweencountries. It just replaced a variety of ad hoc stuff.People moving with power have often used seals, tablets and symbols like thePaiza. The people movingwithout power [the refugees] were fucked anyway whether in the past or in thepresent. The middle category[the vacationing one] didn’t exist for most of history. Vacations of masses area recent invention and for most of history, people traveled with a purpose [forreligious or business reasons or as refugees escaping disaster]. Human beings like many other animals have always beenterritorial and many of our ancient ancestors didn’t take too kindly whenstrangers invaded their land. So, you could notwaltz your way into random territory and make it your home. When you migratedto a new territory, you had to be really prepared if it is populated. If it isnot populated, it could be because the land was not really fit or you justturned lucky [for some unforeseen events the previous occupants left this greatland]. Migrations often were accompanied by wars. When themigrants from central Asia were flooding all thecivilizations [bring a fall of Rome, Gupta empire, Sassanids] their migrationwas not smooth. They either had to kill or get killed. Violence against thesenew strangers was not always treated as a crime. Unless you had the protectionof something really powerful [a king, priest etc] your life didn’t have muchvalue. What the 20thcentury passport did was to enable everyone in the society get the same movingprivileges as the aristocrats. Passports were standardized, leading to easierborder controls, and these passports also were available to everyone. Thevarious international conventions also made it hard to attack the migratingstrangers/outsiders with impunity. All the above QA are from Quora website on 03-09- 2022. Quora answers need not be 100% correct answers . Compiled andposted by R. 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