Problem: Please answer a question about the following article about Renewable energy commercialization:
Lester Brown states that the market "does not incorporate the indirect costs of providing goods or services into prices, it does not value nature's services adequately, and it does not respect the sustainable-yield thresholds of natural systems". It also favors the near term over the long term, thereby showing limited concern for future generations. Tax and subsidy shifting can help overcome these problems, though is also problematic to combine different international normative regimes regulating this issue.
Who believes that the market does not value nature's service adequately?
A: Lester Brown
Problem: Please answer a question about the following article about Buddhism:
According to Jan Nattier, the term Mahayana "Great Vehicle" was originally even an honorary synonym for Bodhisattvayana "Bodhisattva Vehicle." The Astasahasrika Prajnaparamita Sutra, an early and important Mahayana text, contains a simple and brief definition for the term bodhisattva: "Because he has enlightenment as his aim, a bodhisattva-mahasattva is so called."
What is an honorary synonym for Bodhisattvayana?
A: Mahayana
Problem: Please answer a question about the following article about Gramophone record:
Due to recording mastering and manufacturing limitations, both high and low frequencies were removed from the first recorded signals by various formulae. With low frequencies, the stylus must swing a long way from side to side, requiring the groove to be wide, taking up more space and limiting the playing time of the record. At high frequencies, hiss, pops, and ticks are significant. These problems can be reduced by using equalization to an agreed standard. During recording the amplitude of low frequencies is reduced, thus reducing the groove width required, and the amplitude at high frequencies is increased. The playback equipment boosts bass and cuts treble so as to restore the tonal balance in the original signal; this also reduces the high frequency noise. Thus more music will fit on the record, and noise is reduced.
What is a benefit of using equalization devices?
A: problems can be reduced
Problem: Please answer a question about the following article about Asthma:
The prognosis for asthma is generally good, especially for children with mild disease. Mortality has decreased over the last few decades due to better recognition and improvement in care. Globally it causes moderate or severe disability in 19.4 million people as of 2004 (16 million of which are in low and middle income countries). Of asthma diagnosed during childhood, half of cases will no longer carry the diagnosis after a decade. Airway remodeling is observed, but it is unknown whether these represent harmful or beneficial changes. Early treatment with corticosteroids seems to prevent or ameliorates a decline in lung function.
What is the prognosis for asthma?
A:
generally good