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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Drunkenness"”.
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The diagnosis of drunkenness from excretion of alcohol and the general distribution of alcohol in tissues
… •authorities that the ordinary tests for drunkenness are very unsatisfactory. No two men behave in the same way under the influence of alcohol, and the result often is, that many cases charged with drunkenness, where motor accidents have occurred, are dismissed for want of convincing …
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The drunken self : the five-factor model as an organizational framework for charcterizing one's own drunkenness
… framework for understanding self-perceptions of drunkenness (i.e. individual changes in mood, affect, and behavior associated with intoxication). Existing literature supports the use of the FFM personality dimensions (i.e. Neuroticism, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Intellect, and …
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Relationships among adolescent substance use, leisure boredom, and physical activity
… marijuana, and alcohol use, binge drinking, and drunkenness were used as dependent variables. The results for this study indicated that frequency of physical activity intensity was a consistent, positive predictor of alcohol use and binge drinking, but not tobacco use, marijuana use, or …
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Developing intelligence to understand and prevent violence and alcohol-related harms in nightlife settings
… aggression, sexual molestation and excessive drunkenness. Both individual and environmental (i.e. venue) factors can increase the risks of nightlife patron involvement in alcohol-related harms.In the UK, the prevention of harms in nightlife settings has primarily focused on developing safe …
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A Mixed Methods Study Exploring Brazilian and United Kingdom University Students’ Pre-Drinking Behaviour and Alcohol Use During Nights out
… have more positive outcome expectations towards drunkenness. Brazilian participants’ views also iii suggested that the acceptance of drunkenness amongst students is higher in the UK, with an emphasis on British students intentionally getting extremely drunk for entertainment. For Brazilian …
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Paddy and the Public: Irish Immigrants, New York City, and Mass Culture, 1830-1860
… massive immigration, crowding, disease, poverty, drunkenness, violence, public women, labor competition, and political corruption. In addition to visual analysis, gender, environmental, and discourse analysis are applied to representations of Irish immigrants. Taking the study of antebellum …
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Context Aware Drivers' Behaviour Detection System for VANET
… abnormal behaviours exhibited by drivers (i.e. drunkenness and fatigue) and alert them may have an impact on the prevention of road accidents. Moreover, using Context-aware systems in vehicles can improve the driving by collecting and analysing contextual information about the driving …
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Pathologizing and Criminalizing Intoxication: Addiction, Psychoactive Drugs, and the Ideological Underpinnings of the War on Drugs
… known as the Gin Craze, rising levels of urban drunkenness in England came under the sustained gaze of temperance-minded doctors and churchmen, who used a shared language of contagion, disease, and slavery to problematize intoxication simultaneously as a medical and criminal condition. Building …
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Inked in Narrative: Body Diversity, Tattooing, and its Representation in Young Adult Literature
… been associated with negative behaviours such as drunkenness, irresponsible behaviour, and prostitution. Individuals who do not fit into Western cultural ideas of beauty have faced discrimination and marginalisation. In particularly heavily tattooed women have received negative criticism relating …
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Assessing the impact of the duration of pre-service training on teachers work performance and teaching competences in Tanzania: The case of Nyamagana Municipality
… in misconduct and misdemeanour acts such as drunkenness and sexual relations with their students. It was recommended the government should avoid being inconsistent on the duration used to train pre-service teachers in order not to compromise quality; the government should introduce frequent …
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Assessing the impact of the duration of pre-service training on teachers work performance and teaching competences in Tanzania: The case of Nyamagana Municipality
… in misconduct and misdemeanour acts such as drunkenness and sexual relations with their students. It was recommended the government should avoid being inconsistent on the duration used to train pre-service teachers in order not to compromise quality; the government should introduce frequent …
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Ecologies of addiction in nineteenth-century American literature and culture
… racialized formations of addiction by depicting drunkenness and white supremacy as conjoined pathologies. The ongoing opioid crisis in the U.S. underscores the importance of not just engaging these early histories to better understand the construction of addiction, but the necessity of balancing …
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The Russian revolution and the factories of Petrograd, February 1917 to June 1918
… labour discipline and the campaign against drunkenness. Chapters 5 and 6 examine the political coloration of the trade unions, and the extent to which the two organisations were genuinely democratic. Chapters 7 and 8 analyse the battle by the factory committees for workers' control of …
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A force to be reckoned with? the temperance movement and the "drink question", 1895-1933
… fell dramatically as did reported cases of drunkenness. Despite these changes drink remained on the political and social agenda, but with many temperance reformers disillusioned and dispirited the Movement failed to present a comprehensive and coherent abolition strategy.
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The effects of teacher absenteeism in KwaZulu Natal Secondary schools
… work programmes and poor performance • drunkenness and other forms of substance abuse by pupils • failure to do homework and assignments an increase in the drop-out rate • cheating in the examination The recommendations flowing from the research included, inter alia, that the Department …
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Love the ads - love the beer: young people's responses to televised alcohol advertising
… their friends were of drinking and occasional drunkenness. Other survey responses were also indicative of an influence of alcohol advertising on young people. Alcohol advertising was an important source of information about drinking, particularly for the 10 to 13 year old males. Almost half of …
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Effects of acute alcohol intoxication on human sensory orientation and postural control
… around the knee level. One’s own perception of drunkenness matches slow eye movements as well as upper body movement. In summary, alcohol intoxication at levels common in society, has a widespread disturbing effect on the components of the human balance system, from each sensory system to the …
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‘A Proper Night Out' : Alcohol and risk among young people in deprived areas in North West England
… people’s very visible and public performances of drunkenness have become a matter of popular and political concern. English alcohol policy, frames this type of harmful alcohol consumption as a problem of individual behaviour, which is underpinned by conceptualisations of risk and rationality. Thus …
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Grappling with grapes : wine tourism of the Western Cape
… of an avid temperance movement concerned with drunkenness and alcoholism. Over time these obstacles heeded to the power of the wine industry so that increasing emphasis was placed on the role of publicity and marketing of wine. It was perhaps a natural development that wine tourism came to hold …
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Understanding the role of parents’ attitudes in children’s alcohol use: Evaluation of a universal parent-oriented alcohol consumption prevention programme
… alcohol use initiation, past year use or drunkenness, the parents in the intervention group had double the odds (OR=1.92, 95% CI=1.31–2.83) of having restrictive attitudes by the end of the programme than the parents in the control group. A qualitative study at the end of the programme …
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