The present study examined the impact of socially based descriptive norms on willingness to drink alcohol, drinker prototype favorability, affective alcohol attitudes, and perceived vulnerability for alcohol-related consequences within the Prototype Willingness model. Descriptive norms were manipulated by having 189 young adolescents view experimenter-created profile pages from the social netwo...

Communities Mobilizing for Change on Alcohol (CMCA) is a 15-community randomized trial designed to develop, implement, and evaluate a 21⁄2 year community organizing intervention to change policies and practices of major community institutions. Preand post-data were collected via: surveys of high school students, surveys of youth age 18–20, surveys of alcohol retailers, alcohol purchase attempts...

The role of aliphatic alcohols on the temperatures of the helix-coil (Trr) and of the melting transformation (Tr) for collagen in water solutions was investigated. Alcohols used were CH,OH, C2H50H, and C3H70H and the role of chloroethanol was also investigated. The results indicate that on increasing alcohol concentration both Tr and Trr are initially depressed (i.e. the random coil form is fav...

We studied the effect of administering glycine, a non-essential amino acid, on liver collagen content and its characteristics in experimental hepatotoxic Wistar rats. All the rats were fed standard pellet diet. Hepatotoxicity was induced by orally administering ethanol (7.9 g kg(-1)) for 30 days. Control rats were given isocaloric glucose solution. Glycine was administered subsequently at a dos...

This paper describes a blood alcohol content estimation method for car driver, based on a comportment analysis performed within a realistic simulation. An artificial neural network learns how to estimate the subject’s blood alcohol content. Low-level recording of user actions on the steering wheel and pedals are used to feed a multilayer perceptron, and a breathalyzer is used to build the learn...

Draksarista was prepared on experimental scale and the progress of fermentation was studied with reference to the conversion of sugars into alcohol and the attended variations in physico-chemical constants in the medium. It has been observed that a species of Saccharomyces isolated from Madhuka flowers was capable of causing fermentation in the Draksarista medium. However, its performance was l...

Topical microemulsion of capsaicin without surfactant was developed in this study. In these systems, the oil phase was benzyl alcohol, and the cosurfactant was propylene glycol and ethanol. The drop-size of the systems was measured by dynamic light scattering method in order to distinguish true solution from microemulsion. The transdermal performance of the microemulsions was evaluated in vitro...

ABSTACT Objective: to describe the process of translation and cultural adaptation of the scale of attitudes towards alcohol, alcoholism and alcoholics into the Spanish language. METHODS this was a methodological study, which followed the international guidelines for translation and adaptation of measurement scales. RESULTS During the process of translation and cultural adaptation of scale o...

The aim of the study was to determine the content of particular elements Ca, Mg, P, Na, K, Zn, Cu, Fe, Mo, Cr, Ni, Ba, Sr, and Pb in the proximal femur bone tissue (cancellous and cortical bone) of 96 patients undergoing total hip replacement for osteoarthritis using ICP-AES and FAAS analytical techniques. The interdependencies among these elements and their correlations depended on factors inc...

Involvement in creating antialcohol advertisements generates enthusiasm among adolescents; however, little is known about the messages adolescents develop for these activities. In this article, we present a content analysis of 72 print alcohol counteradvertisements created by high school (age 14-17 years old) and college (18-25 years old) students. The posters were content analyzed for poster m...