AIMS To investigate among adolescents whether (i) drinking motives are related to beverage preference; (ii) beverage preference is related to alcohol use (drinking levels and risky drinking occasions); (iii) the association between beverage preference and alcohol use is moderated or mediated by drinking motives. METHOD Data from a national representative sample of 5379 8th-10th graders in Swi...

N one of the historic creeds and confessions and none of today’s theologies stress adequately five critical points concerning the Spirit of God: the Spirit who was “not yet” before the Lord Jesus was glorified (John 7:39); the last Adam (the incarnate Christ) becoming a life-giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45b); the compound Spirit typified by the anointing ointment (Exo. 30:23-25); the Spirit of life...

In the magical art of Steganography, there is nothing frivolous, nor contrary to the Gospels and the Catholic faith; nor have we taught superstitious beliefs. Everything is based on natural, lawful and honest principles; the mystery which veils the precepts of this art and the names of the spirits, requires a cultivated reader; to hide the secrets of this art, which could be harmful if made kno...

Abstract The Chu ghosts and spirits are divided into those “above” “below.” “Above” “below” cannot be understood only as referring to heavenly earthly deities but should include also ancestral spirits. people’s sacrifices prayers “internal” “external.” This distinction is a spatial one that not based on blood relations. complete, well-organized system of spirits, deities, human had fully formed...

mode and two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy allowed us to purify and determine structures of triterpenes 1–4 in pedunculate oak heartwood (8). Our main interests are in the acid triterpene content of oak heartwoods used in cooperage, their astringent properties, and their occurrence in wines and spirits. In this article, we report a highly sensitive and quantitative detecti...

executive system” controlling the telephony network. One concern about the SPIRITS work is that consensus has been hard to reach within the working group and hence progress to date has been slow. At the time of writing, these issues seem to have been dealt with and the pace of work seemed to be accelerating. Whatever the progress of IETF work on SPIRITS, a number of commercial implementations o...