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S. Punya Sheela Devi , B. Sujatha

Abstract

Water deficit induced by polyethylene glycol (PEG) affect physiological and biochemical changes in pigeon pea. Stress was applied with polyethylene glycol (PEG) 6000 and water potentials were: zero (control), -0.3Mpa (PEG50mM), -1.1Mpa (PEG100mM) and -2.3Mpa (150mM).ICPL 85063(lakshmi) and ICPL 87119 (Asha) cultivars of pigeon pea were used in this study. In our experiments, increase in the free proline content during water stress condition suggests that proline is one of the common compatible osmolytes under water stress condition. A higher amount of soluble sugars and a lower amount of starch were found under stress. The maximum amount of proline in ICPL 85063var where as ICPL87119var depicted an opposite trend in accumulation of proline. There is an increase in ischolar_main proline content than shoot in ICPL 85063. The accumulation of soluble sugars in ischolar_main and shoot in ICPL 85063 is high when compared to ischolar_mains and shoots in ICPL 87119var. Starch content decreased in ischolar_main and shoot of lakshmi var. than asha var.    

Keywords

Drought stress, Pigeon pea, Polyethylene glycol 6000, Proline, Soluble sugars, Starch

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B. Sujatha ¹, P. Sirisha ², Y. V. Bharathi ³

Affiliations
1 Department of Botany, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam (A.P.), IN
2 Department of Botany, Govt. Junior College, Gurla, Vizianagaram (A.P.), IN
3 Department of Botany, Government Degree College, Saluru, Vizianagaram (A.P.), IN

Abstract

For present population ragi is the major food as it is considered as the power house of health benefits. The production of ragi is coming down slowly due to the climatic factors like temperature and drought. Breeding of selected genotypes with increased thermotolerance is therefore, one of the most vital objective in crop improvement programme. Temperature induction response (TIR) technique has been developed to identify thermotolerant lines. 24 ragi genotypes has been tested using temperature induction response (TIR) technique. Ragi seedlings were exposed to gradual increase in temperature range of 32-48°C for 5hrs and later subjected to the lethal temperature of 54°C for 2 hrs. These treated seedlings were allowed to recover at 30°C and 60% relative humidity for 2 days. After recovery per cent survival, per cent reduction of ischolar_main growth and per cent reduction of shoot growth was calculated. Among 24 ragi genotypes VR900, Indaf 8 and Udurumalliga were found resistant with low per cent reduction of ischolar_main and shoot growth and the genotypes VR 1138, CO-7 and OUAT-2 were found susceptible with high per cent reduction of ischolar_main and shoot growth. By using this TIR technique it is easy to identify thermotolerant lines from a large range of population at the seedling level itself.

Keywords

Acquired Thermotolerance, Temperature Induction Response, Lethal Temperature.

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V. Chakravarthi ¹, R. Meera ¹, R. Arunachalam ², B. Sujatha ¹, M. Manoj Abraham ¹

Affiliations
1 Saveetha College of Physiotherapy, Saveetha University, Chennai, IN
2 Madhav College of Physiotherapy, Madhav University, IN

Abstract

Aim of the study is to find the effectiveness of Modified Trunk Dissociation Retrainer in improving trunk control in infantile hemiplegic subjects and objective is to determine trunk control following trunk dissociation retraining in infantile hemiplegic subjects. Sample size is 10 selected based on inclusion and exclusion criteria with convenient sampling method from out-patient department of SMCH, Chennai. Study design: Quasi experimental study. Materials required: Modified Trunk Dissociation Retrainer. Outcome measures: trunk control measurement scale. A baseline measurement of trunk control is taken before intervention. Intervention was given by researcher for a duration of 3 weeks as 5 days/week. After the 3^rd week of intervention first post-test was taken and second post-test in the 6^th week. Analysis of post-test values showed that there was significant difference between pre-test and post-test values and also the results sustained from post-test I and post-test II values. Hence the conclusion the study was that the Modified Trunk Dissociation Retrainer is an effective tool to improve trunk control in subjects with infantile hemiplegia.

Keywords

Modified Trunk Dissociation Retrainer, Infantile Hemiplegia, Trunk Control Measurement.

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B. Sujatha ¹, A. Brite Saghaya Rayna ¹, Annie Sunil George ²

Affiliations
1 Saveetha College of Physiotherapy, Saveetha University, Chennai, IN
2 MPT Saveetha College of Physiotherapy, Saveetha University, Chennai, IN

Abstract

The cardiovascular system and the thermoregulatory system are strongly coupled, hence changes in the thermal environment can affect the human thermoregulatory system. This study is aimed to find out the effects of active and passive warm –up to the Heart rate. Knowing about the effect of active and passive warm-up will gives the knowledge of need for caution when active warm-up or passive warm-up is included in treatment program of patients with cardiovascular problems. The aim is to find the efficacy of heart rate and oral temperature to active and passive warm – up in healthy female subjects. An observational study design was set up in Saveetha College of Physiotherapy. 40femaleSubjects were asked to ride an unloaded lower extremity bicycle ergometer set at a speed of 60meters/second for 15 minutes. Pre-& Post warm- up heart rate was recorded. Passive warm- up was done using infrared light to the lumbar area for 15 minutes. Post warm-up readings were also recorded. The interval between the two warm-ups were kept at a one-week interval. The standard mean for heart rate in active warm-up is 4.4595 when compared to the passive warm-up mean which is 2.083. The standard error for active warm-up is 0.2499 which is lower when compared to standard error of passive warm-up which is 0.4389. This shows that active warm-up causes a greater rise in heart rate. By using independent sample t- test, it shows a p value of 0.05 level of significance. The standard means of oral temperature arm-up is 0.2 499 when compared to the standard error of passive warm-up which is 0.4389. There is a p value of 0.05 level of significance which indicates that both groups cause only a slight rise in body temperature.

Keywords

Heart Rate, Oral Temperature.

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R. Tamilkodi ¹, K. Valli Madhavi ², Shrija Madhu ², B. Sujatha ²

Affiliations
1 Professor, Department of CSE (AIML&CS), Godavari Institute of Engineering and Technology, Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh, IN
2 Professor, Department of CSE, Godavari Institute of Engineering and Technology, Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh, IN

Abstract

For the educational improvements every college will require a student feedback system to assess the quality of the faculty members performance. This work focus on online feedback system to rate and analyse the faculty’s concert. This online feedback system reduces the arduous work of physially examining the feddback pages of each and very student. The system also reduces the lumber of efforts and encumber of observance and maintaining the records on maual basis, which occupies more place in the room to keep those records as well as difficult in maintaining those records. Drawback of the manual feedback system is the students will get fear if the faculty came to know about the report given by the students. To overcome these sort of issues this online system will provide safety and privacy for the students to give thier feedback and is not mandatory to give the feedback by showing his physical presence to the faculty of the admin instead they can directly access the online feedback link directly from their mobile or Laptop to enter the feedback for the faculty members. Experimental results shows that the online system developed for educational system provides easy way to assess the faculty members as well as other activities which have been taken inside the campus through the feedback received from the students on time to time basis without delay. Instead of spending so much paper based materials and setting the questions to be asked in the for of queires and collecting it from the students and doing analysis from that which leads to a tedious process. Keeping all these drawbacks this online feedback system has been developed to acccess this system anywhere and the report has been generated immediately based on the faculty name wise as well as the system will be used for taking feedback from the participants for the various events happening within the campus such as workshop, FDP, Conference etc..

Keywords

Faculty Performance, Online Feedback System, Students Feedback, Educational System, Less Paper Work.

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