The potency of different venoms varies ; lethal venoms are often characterised by the median lethal dose ( LD < sub > 50 </ sub >) which will kill 50 % of victims, typically laboratory mice, expressed in milligrams of venom per kilogram of body weight.

Although powerful, this mutation varies in potency.

Dosage of mushrooms containing psilocybin depends on the potency of the mushroom ( the total psilocybin and psilocin content of the mushrooms ), which varies significantly both between species and within the same species, but is typically around 0. 5 – 2 % of the dried weight of the mushroom.

Glucocorticoid potency, duration of effect, and overlapping mineralocorticoid potency varies.

The display of potency from Aaron's rod had already been demonstrated in the presence of Pharaoh's magicians ; when Aaron's rod was thrown down to the ground it had turned into a snake, so Pharaoh's magicians performed the same act with their own rods.

Withdrawal effects may also occur when switching a person from one antipsychotic to another, ( presumably due to variations of potency and receptor activity ).

Digoxin from the foxglove plant is used clinically, whereas ouabain is used only experimentally due to its extremely high potency.

" The semantics of this Chinese word resemble English virtue, which developed from a ( now archaic ) sense of " inner potency " or " divine power " ( as in " healing virtue of a drug ") to the modern meaning of " moral excellence " or " goodness.

< p > In winter, the material has yang potency within it, so it remains active even after being kept from thirty to forty days.

This view does not deny that matter also has causal potency — it does not deny that there is causal power from elementary particles upward, so there is upward causation — but in addition it insists that there is also downward causation.

If the law comes into effect, it would prohibit " coffee shops " from selling cannabis of that potency.

" Lovejoy concludes that Rousseau's doctrine, as expressed in his Discourse on Inequality: declares that there is a dual process going on through history ; on the one hand, an indefinte progress in all those powers and achievements which express merely the potency of man's intellect ; on the other hand, an increasing estrangement of men from one another, an intensification of ill-will and mutual fear, cuminating in a monstrous epoch of universal conflict and mutual destruction fourth stage in which we now find ourselves.

The potency of these tales can be gauged from the following statement by the poet Robert Burns, writing some three centuries after they were first related.

Deep-seated cultural beliefs in the potency of tiger parts are so prevalent across China and other east Asian countries that laws protecting even critically endangered species such as the Sumatran tiger fail to stop the display and sale of these items in open markets, according to a 2008 report from TRAFFIC.

In the nineteenth century much aconite was imported from China, Japan, Fiji, and Tonga, with a number of species used to manufacture alkaloids of varying potency but generally similar effect, most often used externally and rarely internally.

Incantations form an important part of this literary heritage, covering a range of rituals from the sacred, Maqlû, " burning " to counter witchcraft, Šurpu, “ incineration ” to counter curses, Namburbi, to preempt inauspicious omens, Utukkū Lemnūtu ( actually bilingual ), to exorcise “ Evil Demons ,” and Bīt rimki, or “ bath house ,” the purification and substitution ceremony, to the mundane, Šà. zi. ga, “ the rising of the heart ,” potency spells, and Zu-buru-dabbeda, “ to seize the ‘ locust tooth ’,” a compendium of incantations against field pests.

It also represented the phallus, with the fingers next to the middle finger representing testicles ; from its close association, the gesture may have assumed apotropaic potency.

Like most unrefined drugs from plant or animal origin, the constituent base for echinacea is complex, consisting of a wide variety of chemicals of variable effect and potency.

Here he builds accumulators of it, which are rented out to patients, who presumably derive ' orgastic potency ' from it.

The potency of the image of the black swan as a signifier of Westralian nationalism can be seen in this passage from Randolph Stow's Merry-go-Round in the Sea, published in 1965:

… the mystic potency emanating from the person or thing that is sacred.

Opposed to this holy " virtue " was also a " false " mystic potency that emanated from inhabiting daemons who were conceived of as alien and hostile.

... so that far from having lost his strength, Ahab, to that one end, did now possess a thousand-fold more potency than ever he had sanely brought to bear upon any reasonable object.

* Environmental-Some people even believe that someone who is morbidly jealous might suspect that he or she is being drugged or given some kind of substance that might decrease their sexual potency, or they might even be under the impression that their significant other has somehow received a sexually transmitted disease from another person while the subject is unaware.

The usage of oil-rich seeds allows THC, the fat-soluble psychoactive chemical from the cannabis, to be extracted into the poppy oil so that potency can be retained in a water-based mixture.

Nevertheless, the therapeutic index emphasizes the importance of the margin of safety, as distinct from the potency, in determining the usefulness of a drug.

Oral potency may be less than parenteral potency because significant amounts ( up to 50 % in some cases ) may not be absorbed from the intestine.

* An irrigation canal approximately one hundred miles long is built across the current-day province of Shaanxi in China, greatly adding to the agricultural productivity of the area and to the military potency of the Qin dynasty.

Another variant of this game is that the pawns will be killed by an explosion, but will not set off one, which drastically decreases the potency of pawn killers.

* An Elementalist harnesses the potency of one or more of the four classical elements, Fire, Earth, Water, and Wind, to gather information, communicate with magical beings called elementals, or attack foes.

Once a lead compound series has been established with sufficient target potency and selectivity and favourable drug-like properties, one or two compounds will then be proposed for drug development.

LogP is one criterion used in medicinal chemistry to assess the druglikeness of a given molecule, and used to calculate lipophilic efficiency, a function of potency and LogP that evaluate the quality of research compounds.

The Ideon's overall performance increases to incredible heights of speed, durability, and power ; even its most basic weapons increase their potency dramatically such as the cinematic " All Missiles " attack where all of the Ideon's now Ide-powered missiles are launched simultaneously at great speeds destroying literally fleets of ships in one attack.

To verify the capsules ' potency, Hitler ordered Dr. Werner Haase to test one on his dog, Blondi, and the animal died as a result.

The British actress Sarah Siddons, one of the leading tragic actresses of the 18th century, wrote that in her interpretation, Lady Macbeth has at once subjugated all her femininity to ambition, and at the same time maintained her feminine attractiveness to Macbeth: " Such a combination only, respectable in energy and strength of mind, and captivating in feminine loveliness, could have composed a charm of such potency as to fascinate the mind of a hero so dauntless, a character so amiable, so honourable as Macbeth.

The myriad of studies exploring the potency of neurotherapy as a treatment for ASD have primarily involved EEG and QEEG, but one recent study investigated the efficacy of both NIR and PIR training against a QEEG only control group and found that, according to parental reports, those in both HEG groups experienced a more than 50 % decrease in symptoms.

The shinai allowed striking with quickness, fluidity and potency without causing serious or disabling wounds as one would with the wooden sword, and without having to stop the attacks.

Crano posits that one ’ s direct experience with an issue or attitude object increases the salience and consequently the potency of that attitude, and the level of consistency between attitude and behavior.

" Niall Stokes of Hot Press gave an enthusiastic review of the song, calling it one of the album's tracks " whose potency defies equivocations ".

Items such as codpieces may suggest the assumed superiority of one gender-role over another: or symbolic leadership ( implied by implied potency ) within patriarchal structures.

In vitro, methylone has one third the potency of MDMA at inhibiting platelet serotonin accumulation and about the same in its inhibiting effects on the dopamine and noradrenaline transporters .< ref > NV Cozzi, AT Shulgin, AE Ruoho.