National Law School of Indian University (NLSIU) 2007 B.A L.L.B ADMISSION TEST – ., LL.B(HONS.) - Question Paper

Freeplay has now teamed up with a group of doctors at University College, London to create medical equipment that works well in poor parts of the world. The project focuses on neonatal care, and with good cause. Infant death is still a fact of life in much of sub-Saharan African and South Asia; roughly 14% of babies born in Angola, for example die before they reach their 1st birthday, more than 30 times the infant mortality in Britain. The United Nations Millennium Development Goals set a target of reducing child mortality by two-thirds ranging from 1990 and 2015. While much of that can be achieved through vaccines, clean water and better diet, there is a role for new technology as well. As Rory Stear of Freeplay put it, 95% of the world's neonatal medical technology is available to only 5% of infants – those born in the rich world.

Engineers at Freeplay have redesigned 4 pieces of medical equipment, routinely used in developed countries, to better suit developing ones. These are the pulse oximeter, the syringe driver, the microcentrifuge and a hand held toetal ultrasound heart monitor that keeps tab on how babies are doing in the womb. All these devices get around the need for main electricity or batteries by using a handcrank, foot pedal or solar panel to generate energy, which can then power the machines directly or be stored in internal batteries for future use. The machines' software and electronics have been stripped down to bare essentials, not only to decrease power consumption, but also to keep down the cost and make them more robust. Pulse oximeters in the rich world, for example, typically have complex LCD read-outs, while foetal heart monitors usually have to be wheeled around in trolleys. Freeplay's hand-held versions lack fancy features, making them smaller, lighter, cheaper and tougher.

Given beneath is a list of words from the above passage. select the option nearest to the sense in which the word is used above and shade the improper ans.
1. basic
(a) forming a base (b) fundamental
(c) the bare minimum (d) initial

2. rickety
(a) likely to fall apart (b) afflicted with rickets
(c) infirm (d) insecure

3. a far cry from
(a) distantly related to (b) very various from
(c) located at a great distance from (d) causing much grief


4. bleeping
(a) functioning (b) not functional

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