may be because cases of gul dependence are usually not brought for consultation to the psychiatrists. It has been our experience that there is usually an increase in the symptomatic abuse of this product in psychotic disorders and episodes of depressive illness. This report is an effort to bring to the notice of researchers in the field of psychiatry and related fields, the endemic abuse of thi...

This study examines the role of observation during the formation of triads in female domestic hens. Results indicate that during hierarchy formation, a hen observing agonistic interactions and conflict settlement between its former dominant and a stranger uses this information when in turn confronted by the latter. Under a first condition (E, N=15 triads), bystanders witnessed their prior domin...

We examined the effect of prior victory or defeat in the same site as that of a subsequent encounter on the outcome of dyadic encounter of domestic hens by placing them in two situations: In the first set of dyads, two unacquainted hens having experienced prior victory were introduced in the site where one had experienced victory. In the second set, two unacquainted hens having experienced defe...

Chong et al., Nishio et al., and Suri et al. (Reports, 24 March 2006, pp. 1774, 1775, and 1778) confirmed that treating nonobese diabetic (NOD) mice with an immune adjuvant and semisyngenic spleen cells can reverse the disease but found that spleen cells did not contribute to the observed recovery of pancreatic islets. We show that islet regeneration predominately originates from endogenous cel...

of the Past: A Mixed Spatially Correlated Multinomial Logit Model Approach for the Analysis of the Public Land Survey Data Eun-Hye Yoo, Bruce W. Hoagland, Guofeng Cao, Todd Fagin Department of Geography, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA, Oklahoma Natural Heritage Inventory and Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA, Department of...