Phytochemical Pharmacological Morphological and Molecular Studies on the Poisonous Plant Thevetia Peruviana (Pers).
Abstract
ABSTRACT: Thevetia peruviana is an evergreen shrub in the family Apocynanceae.
It is extremely poisonous in nature, with the kernels being the most dangerous part.
The shrub or small tree is with yellow or orange-yellow trumpet-like flowers and deep
red/black fruit that resembles a Chinese lucky nut. The cardiac glycosides in yellow
oleander are the active ingredients. The milky sap of T. peruviana includes a substance
called thevetin. Thevetin is a potent toxin for the heart. Thevotoxin is similar to the
glycosides of digitalis in action and is less poisonous than thevetin. Strychnine-like
effects are shared by cerberin. Several child deaths have been reported by this species.
Burning and tingling in the mouth and tongue, dryness of the throat, vomiting,
diarrhoea, headache, dizziness, dilated pupils, irregular heartbeat that resembles the
symptoms of digitalis. Sleepiness, collapse, coma, and death are the possible indicators.
Tetanic convulsions are occasionally observed. The entire plant is poisonous, and
ingestion of its kernels and leaves commonly occurs in suicidal and homicidal
poisoning. Women in certain parts of India use the root and seeds of yellow oleander
to commit suicide and induce abortion. Cattle poisoning occurs when crushed seeds
are mixed with fodder and fed to the animal. Yellow Oleander poisoning cases are
referred to FSLs for identification and analysis. Phytochemical, Pharmacological,
Morphological and Molecular studies on this plant have been reviewed to prepare a
comprehensive reference document for forensic scientists.
Keywords: Digitalis, Glycosides, Homicide, Kernels, Suicide.
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Numerous instruments have been created to measure the construct, organizational commitment, ever since its conceptualization, as scope, specificity and possibility of its empirical measurement has also been a subject of various theoretical examinations. A literature review of research articles, accessed from EBSCOHOST, J-GATE and Google Scholar databases, measuring, Organizational Commitment have been undertaken, with an established reliability and validity. After identifying 195 relevant studies, 37 were short listed based on inclusion criteria. Empirical articles in English, having keywords in the 'Title/Keywords' and measuring instruments used in minimum two studies, have been included. Final scrutiny led to identification of seven instruments and analysis of three different & extensively used measuring instruments. Literature review highlighted, need for scholars to acquaint themselves about inadequacies of these instruments as it aids their refinement and study of commitment. Future research on the subject needs to focus on integration of organizational and personal characteristics affecting Organizational Commitment, develop a model concerning these relationships and their implications.
Organizational commitment is a psychological construction of responsibility that an employee has towards the mission and direction of an organization. This study is to identify the Malaysian private organizations employees' perception of their jobs and how to improve their work commitment towards their organizations. The problem of many organizations today is not just to have more skillful and intellectual employees in each and every department, but also to find the right talented employees with positive attitude and commitment to their work. The employees of private organizations today, in Malaysia, are not fully satisfied with their jobs. If employees do not sense engaged they can spiral down into distrustful which could bring down their work involvement. This observation has brought about the purpose and need for this study, which is to find the factors, job satisfaction, job involvement and perceived organizational support influence, and organizational commitment of their employees through affective, continuance and normative types of commitments. This study also researches the relationship between organizational commitments of employees influenced by Job satisfaction, Job involvement, and perceived organizational support and affective or continuance or normative type commitments. The findings from the study confirms that job satisfaction, job involvement, and perceived organizational support influencing organizational commitment of employees by affective, continuance and normative type commitment are significantly positive and accepted. Normative and affective types of commitments have high influence in getting the employee's job involvement, job satisfaction and perceived organizations support.
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Background
Job satisfaction in health care has a great impact as it affects quality, productivity, effectiveness, and healthcare costs. In fact, it is an indicator of the well-being and quality of life of the organization’s employees, as it has been variously linked with increased performance and negatively to absenteeism and turnover. Better knowledge of healthcare employees’ job satisfaction and performance can directly contribute to the quality of the services provided to patients and is critical for the success of organizations.
Methods
The Cronbach’s alpha coefficient, split-half reliability, exploratory factor and confirmatory factor analysis were employed to assess the reliability and validity of JSS.
Results
Six underlying dimensions were extracted (benefits and salary, management’s attitude, supervision, communication, nature of work, and colleagues’ support). Internal consistency reliability was satisfactory since Cronbach’s alpha for the overall scale was 0.81 and for the various dimensions ranged from 0.61 to 0.81, respectively. Exploratory factor analysis showed a KMO value of 0.912. The confirmatory factor analysis indicated good fit: SRMR = 0.050, RMSEA = 0.055, IFI = 0.906 and CFI = 0.906.
Conclusion
Job satisfaction is a multidimensional construct that encompasses different facets of satisfaction. There is a lack of consensus as to which factors are more important and a researcher may find satisfaction with some factors while at the same time dissatisfaction with others. Our findings are significant for improving our understanding of the nature and assessment of job satisfaction in the Greek healthcare context, providing a more stable ground in a rapidly changing environment. A short JSS developed that could be much more widely used in the future.
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