ABSTRACT
Exposure of broad bean (Victa faba L.) plants to 270 +/- 32 and 670 +/- 45 micrograms m 3SO2 for 1.5 hr daily between 40 and 85 days of their ages resulted in an increase in their transpiration rate, water saturation deficit, phenol content, and peroxidase activity and a decrease in protein content. With the increase in number of exposures of plants to SO2, chlorotic and brown, necrotic visible injury signs were also developed in leaves. It was further noted that the magnitude of undesirable biochemical changes, which possibly helped in the formation of new pigment characteristic of necrotic tissue of SO2-exposed plants, was not totally dependent on the pollutant concentration.
Subject(s)
Air Pollutants/toxicity , Fabaceae/drug effects , Plants, Medicinal , Sulfur Dioxide/toxicity , Aging/metabolism , Analysis of Variance , Fabaceae/metabolism , Oxygen Consumption/drug effects , Peroxidases/metabolism , Phenols/metabolism , Plant Proteins/metabolism , Water/analysisABSTRACT
PIP: The development of professionalsim among any group of persons depends on the organization's success in insulating itself from or relating itself to its social context in order to retain a free hand in setting standards and policies. Both structural (i.e., training and professional organization aspects) and attitudinal (i.e., attitudes of the practitioners toward their work and attitudes of the community toward the work of the practitioners) attributes are important in the professionalization of any group. Nursing personnel have not succeeded in professionalization due to a number of cultural constraints. Planners for health services in India have been hindered in their attempts to professionalize medical personnel because the supply of trained personnel is so limited and because these trained personnel are largely concentrated in urban areas, leaving the rural areas to the care of traditional health personnel. Traditional midwives are included in this number. Nursing personnel suffer from inadequate autonomy due to the socialization of girls within the community; they are encouraged to be dependent. The most serious obstacle to professionalization of nursing in India is the low status, low pay, and poor working conditions, offered. All these conditions are culturally determined.^ieng