BACKGROUND Psychiatric research in the 1950s and 1960s showed potential for psychedelic medications to markedly alleviate depression and suffering associated with terminal illness. More recent published studies have demonstrated the safety and efficacy of psilocybin, MDMA, and ketamine when administered in a medically supervised and monitored approach. A single or brief series of sessions often...

T he peer-review system for validating and judging the quality of scientific discoveries has come under attack during the past years. Daniel Fisher and Nikolaos Parisis reckoned that “publishing has become the most discouraging and frustrating part of research” [1] because the amount of data needed to write a publishable paper has drastically increased “during the past decades” owing to increas...

I discuss a special class of singularities obtained as a natural 4-dimensional generalization of the conical singularity. Such singularities (called quasiregular) are ruinous for the predictive force of general relativity, so one often assumes (implicitly as a rule) that they can be somehow excluded from the theory. In fact, however, attempts to do so (without forbidding the singularities by fi...

The study focused on constraints affecting the adoption of innovative agricultural technologies disseminated by the Women-in-Agriculture (WIA) unit of the Akwa Ibom Agricultural Development Programme (AKADEP) to its women clientele. The study also ascertained the awareness and adoption levels of such introduced technologies. Findings revealed that respondents were aware of 61.9% of introduced t...

Foot and mouth disease (FMD) is one of the most economically and socially devastating disease affecting animal agriculture throughout the world. This review describes economic impact of disease outbreaks, an update of recent findings in epidemiology of FMD both at International and national level and control of this disease. The etiological agent (FMD virus) is examined in detail at genetic and...

J. Anim. Sci. Vol. 88, E-Suppl. 2/J. Dairy Sci. Vol. 93, E-Suppl. 1/Poult. Sci. Vol. 89, E-Suppl. 1 1029 Characterization of physical factors affecting ruminal lipolytic activity in vitro. H. D. Edwards*1, M. D. Hardin1, R. K. Miller1, N. A. Krueger2, R. C. Anderson2, and D. J. Nisbet2, 1Texas A&M University, College Station, 2USDA/ARS, Southern Plains Agriculture Research Center, Food and Feed...