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Showing 1 to 20 of 1945 for “"Drinking"”.
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The student drinking experience : expectations, friendship and drinking practices
… at university, is participating in a university drinking cultures (UDC). This raises a number of issues in relation to risk, harm reduction, gender, inclusivity and reputation. There is a plethora of data and literature that proposes methods and interventions to decrease both young people’s …
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Determinants of adolescent drinking
Drinking in Namibia became so pronounced that it has been addressed as a national concern in multimedia campaigns. This study assessed the utility of Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to predict and explain alcohol intentions amongst selected adolescents in Namibia, and in particular to assess the …
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Twelve Rules for Drinking
<p>Prohibition had an unexpected side effect: writers who wanted to see themselves as creative nonconformists began to flaunt their relationship with alcohol, adopting the persona of the charmingly and recklessly defiant individualist. Alcohol has been imagined as the writer’s muse and has assumed …
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Drinking Water Quality Monitoring
… detection of microbial contamination in drinking water using intrinsic fluorescence of the microorganisms. The prototype, “Blinky”, uses LEDs that emit light at 365nm, 590nm, and 635nm for ultraviolet, amber, and red light, respectively. At 365 nm, the cellular components excited include …
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Drinking up the desert
As one of the fastest-growing cities in America, Tucson, Arizona suffers from a classic case of urban sprawl. Fueled by the prevalence of lot splits and cheap suburban land, little was done to curb the city's unsustainable growth until 1998, when the discovery of endangered pygmy owls in Tucson …
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Do drinking consequences predict sexual revictimization in a college sample of binge-drinking women?
… to understand some potential mechanisms by which drinking confers risk for revictimization. We hypothesized specific drinking consequences would predict risk for revictimization above and beyond the quantity of alcohol consumed. A randomly selected sample of binge drinking female college students …
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Student culture and binge drinking
… relationship between student culture and binge drinking behaviour within the University of Waikato's halls of residence student population. It combines qualitative and quantitative methods encompassing focus groups, individual face-to-face interviews, and a survey questionnaire completed by …
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Drinking Water Out of Streams
Drinking Water Out of Streams is a collection of poetry that plays with lyric and narrative form. The collection is arranged with lyric poems surrounding a series of linked narrative poems in the voice of a suburban high school French teacher. These are poems with a subject: both poetic forms weave …
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Strontium in Drinking Water: Assessing Strontium as a Drinking Water Contaminant in Virginia Private Wells
Approximately 80% of Virginians with private drinking water (PDW) sources are unaware of the quality of their drinking water. Strontium is a water quality contaminant gaining recognition at the federal level. At concentrations >1.5 mg/L, strontium substitutes calcium in the bones leading to bone …
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The Influence of Acculturative Discrepancies on Negative Affect, Drinking to Cope, and Drinking Behavior in Latinas
… Latinx men, at an increased risk for maladaptive drinking behaviors, such as increased drinking frequency, binge drinking, and more frequent episodes of intoxication. While several etiological explanations have been put forward, the relation between acculturation and drinking behaviors in Latinas …
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MIB Adsorption in Drinking Water Treatment
It was observed that chlorine had a deleterious effect on the ability of both PAC and GAC to adsorb MIB. From this, it was encouraged to avoid contacting activated carbon with chlorine.
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The Matching Law and Schedule: Induced Drinking
… to different categories of schedule-induced drinking. Procedure. Rats were taught to press a lever for food. Food was made available by a concurrent variable-interval variable-interval reinforcement schedule. One schedule alternative provided one pellet of food every 90 seconds on the …
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Media use and perceptions of binge drinking
… campus alcohol use; literature review of binge drinking rates and studies, media use studies, and perceptions of alcohol use studies; overview of research methods and findings; analysis of data obtained through questionnaires distributed to undergraduates; conclusions.
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Arsenic Removal From Drinking Water By Electrocoagulation
Exposure to arsenic through drinking water poses a threat to human health. Electrocoagulation is an emerging water treatment technology that involves electrolytic oxidation of anode materials and in-situ generation of coagulant. Electrocoagulation is an alternative to using chemical coagulants for …
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Temperature Effects on Drinking Water Odor Perception
… did not follow Henry's Law. Odor response to drinking water containing isobutanal was affected by concentration but not water temperature.
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Drinking motives and influences among college students
… and are a major influence in college students drinking behaviors. Twenty-eight undergraduate students from various universities completed the Psycho-social Drinking Inventory. This is a scale from the College Drinking Influences Survey. Descriptive statistics were run on the scores reported on …
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Effects of Different Types of Drinking and Driving PSAs on Persons with Varying Levels of Drinking and Driving Experience
… 2006 Psychology Effects of Different Types of Drinking and Driving PSAs on Persons with Varying Levels of Drinking and Driving Experience Chairperson: Bryan N. Cochran The potential effectiveness of different types of anti-driving under the influence (DUI) Public Service Announcements (PSAs) …
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