DIscoveries of the decade.

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Div-A (MBA 1st yr 2 Sem)
Pooja S. Sawant
Shweta G. Bhalekar
Ankita V. Bhalekar
Riya G. Bhambre
GREATEST DISCOVERIES
OF THE DECADE
By-
Pooja Sawant
Shweta Bhalekar

2. INDEX
1) Disarming HIV (Medical Field)
2) Breakthrough of Technologies
3) Wildest Science

3. Disarming HIV
1. A recent study in journal Blood presents a
potentially new way to combat the disease:
instead of killing the virus, make the body
resistant to it.
When a person is infected, the body’s innate
immune system provides an immediate but
flawed defense; HIV takes its membrane or
“skin” from the cell that it infects.
2. Researchers led by scientists at Imperial College
London and Johns Hopkins University exposed
HIV by removing cholesterol from this cellular
wall, producing a large hole in the virus’s
membrane and making it permeable, which in
turn led to a stronger adaptive response,
orchestrated by immune cells

4. • CURRENT SCENARIO AND ISSUES
OVERVIEW OF TAXI AGGREGATION
INDUSTRY
•Taxi transportation industry in India is quite unique and diverse
when compared to the other countries.
• It is the growing industry attracting many start-ups to join with
its huge potential. Broadly this business historically can be divided
into pre-aggregator era and post-aggregator era.
•The Cab Aggregators mainly addressed all the major open
problems say like the availability of the cabs at right time, behavior
of the drivers, security with the tracking the vehicles using the
technology.
•Cab Aggregators basically do not own the vehicles, the only thing
they do is the coordination between the customers and the
drivers using the technology like GPS / GPRS (Global Positioning
System / General Packet radio service).
Breakthrough Technologies
1. Sensing City:
 At Toronto’s Waterfront district, Google’s
parent company, Alphabet, are
implementing sensors and analytics
in order to rethink how cities are built,
run, and lived in.
 In order to make “smart cities” more affordable, liveable
and environmentally sustainable.

5. 2. Cloud-based AI services:
 Key players here include Amazon, Google, IBM and
Microsoft, which are all working artificial neural
network technology.
 The availability of artificial intelligence tools in the
cloud will mean that advanced machine learning is
widely accessible to many different businesses.
 That will change everything from manufacturing to
logistics, making AI far cheaper and easier for
businesses to deploy.”

6. Current Scenario
• The cab services are competitively priced and it is projected in a way that
nearly equal to autos.
• From security perspective, as the
complete ride is traceable.
• All the booking process is through mobile
application and the information is passed
seamless from request to ride.
• As the estimated time of arrival is shown in
the application, usually few minutes from the
time of booking , punctuality is maintained.
• Feedback mechanism is in place and strictly
acted on complaints, the behavior of the
driver, cleanliness of the vehicle
etc are highly improved.
• From operator perspective, the highly growing interests from the angel
investors are taking the business to next level.
Wildest Science
1. First-ever glimpse of two neutron stars colliding
 The Swope telescope at Las Campanas Observatory to discover
the light produced by the merger, pinpointing the origin of a
gravitational wave signal less than 11 hours after it was
detected. They also obtained the earliest spectra of the collision,
which may allow them to explain how many of the universe’s
heavy elements were created—a decades old question for
astrophysicists.
1. Zealandia: Sunken 8th Continent
 Zealandia, a sunken continent long lost beneath the oceans , is
giving up its 60 million-year-old secrets through scientific ocean
drilling.
 Explore the seafloor off New Zealand and Australia.