Speciesists believe that membership in a particular species is morally relevant. Morally relevant properties entitle their possessors to have their interests considered preferentially relative to those individuals who lack that property. Those dispensing consideration incur obligations or, minimally, options, to act with bias. As a matter of fact, all known speciesists are human speciesists, no...

In 1927, Orson Welles directed Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus for the Federal Theatre Project, in an original interpretation of Hallie Flanagan’s dream a “people’s theatre.” While available archives allow examination Welles’s experiment popular classicism and invite comparisons with work French theatre-makers, they also call awareness part played by our imagination such retrospective research.

The structure and psychometric characteristics of the NEO Personality Inventory-3 (NEO-PI-3), a more readable version of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R), are examined and compared with NEO-PI-R characteristics using data from college student observer ratings of 5,109 adolescents aged 12 to 17 years from 24 cultures. Replacement items in the PI-3 showed on average stronger item-...

STUDY AIMS 2(S)-neopincirin (NEO) is a constituent from of Clinopodium mexicanum, which is used in traditional Mexican herbal medicine for its tranquilizing and analgesic properties. This study investigated the anxiolytic-like, sedative and antinociceptive effects of NEO in several mice models. MATERIAL AND METHODS The anxiolytic-like effect was evaluated in the hole-board (HBT) and Open Fiel...

The conformations of eight neo-confused porphyrin (neo-CP) structures and seven related benzo-neo-confused porphyrins (B-neo-CPs) were minimized using DFT-B3LYP/6-311++G(d,p). In addition, in order to provide contrasts to the B-neo-CP tautomers, a series of twelve benzoporphyrin (BP) tautomers and twelve benzocarbaporphyrins (BCPs) were also analyzed, and two N-confused porphyrin (NCP) tautomer...