The minimum legal drinking age 21 (MLDA 21) legislation in the United States (U.S.) has been documented as one of the most effective public health measures adopted in recent times. This study reports on an effort to evaluate and interrelate a basic set of 16 laws directed at younger than age 21 youth that are designed to (a) control the sales of alcohol to youth, (b) prevent possession and cons...

This paper presents the hypothesis that concept possession is sufficient and necessary for self-consciousness. If this is true it provides a yardstick for gauging the validity of different research paradigms in which claims for self-consciousness in animals or human infants are made: a convincing demonstration of concept possession in a research subject, such as a display of inferential reasoni...

As in many cultures, also in Uganda spirit possession is a common idiom of distress associated with traumatic experiences. In the DSM-IV and -5, possession trance disorders can be classified as dissociative disorders. Dissociation in Western countries is associated with complicated, time-consuming and costly therapies. Patients with spirit possession in SW Uganda, however, often report partial ...

BACKGROUND The distribution of take-home naloxone (THN) kits has been an important strategy in reducing overdose fatalities among people who use drugs. However, little is known about the use of THN among youth who are street-involved. The present study explores knowledge and possession of THN among street-involved youth in a Canadian setting. METHODS Data were derived from the At-Risk Youth S...

Basketball leagues track basic statistics for many decades and the number of metrics expand quickly. However, “pass that leads to an assist”, which is frequently – according most successful coach Phil Jackson important pass possession, remained mainly overlooked by experts analysts alike. With help NBA’s SportVU positional data we analyse characteristics effects this event through more than 500...

Two distant black holes can be connected in the interior through a wormhole. Such wormhole has been interpreted as an entangled state shared between two exterior regions. If Alice and Bob send signals into each of holes, they meet interior. In this letter, we interpret meeting terms quantum circuit that prepares state: sending creates growing perturbations circuit, whose overlap represents thei...

This paper highlights the analogy of definiteness and possession by utilising the distinction between semantic and pragmatic as outlined in Löbners (2011) Concept Type and Determination approach. Assuming, on the basis of the features [± unique] and [± relational], a classification into the four logical types sortal, relational, individual, and functional concept, nouns will be used either in c...

Quantitative analysis of soccer players’ passing ability focuses on descriptive statistics without considering the players’ real contribution to the passing and ball possession strategy of their team. Which player is able to help the build-up of an attack, or to maintain the possession of the ball? We introduce a novel methodology called QPass to answer questions like these quantitatively. Base...

maharlou-bakhtegan catchment in the southern part of iran is faced with water scarcity.this problem is exacerbated by environmental degradation, climate change effects, mismanagementof water resources, along with a major dependence of water demand supplies on the limitedgroundwater resources. in this study, a combined approach of dpsir model along with the scenarioanalysis was employed to deriv...