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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"blood alcohol"”.
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The Effects of a Moderate Blood Alcohol Concentration on Driving
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An Incentive/Reward Intervention to Decrease Alcohol Abuse at Fraternity Parties: Differential Reinforcement of Blood Alcohol Concentration
… the efficacy of an intervention to decrease alcohol abuse by college students. The harm reduction approach states that the ultimate goal when dealing with an unsafe behavior should be abstinence, but any change in behavior in the direction of less harm is supported. This approach was used as …
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The effect of blood alcohol concentration on performance in a game of risk involving industrial tasks and accidents
The reported study measured the effects of alcohol on risk-taking 511 a penalty/incentive system. Subjects read scenarios involving industrial tasks and accidents from a video screen. Each scenario had a point value associated with it. Subjects had to decide whether they were willing to perform the …
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Investigating blood alcohol concentrations in injury-related deaths before and during the covid-19 national lockdown in Western Cape, South Africa: a cross-sectional retrospective review
In South Africa, alcohol is a significant contributor to the burden of injury-related morbidity and mortality. Our understanding of its impact in injury-related mortality in the country is limited. The COVID-19 lockdown period in South Africa introduced restrictions that limited the legal access to …
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The Effect of a Moderate Dose of Alcohol, With and Without Fructose, on Motorcycle Riding Skills
… concerns the effect of a moderate dose of alcohol on motorcycle riding skills. A secondary aspect was the effect of orally ingested fructose on blood alcohol concentration (BAC), motorcycle skills, and self-perceptions of the effects of alcohol.
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Modeling of Ethanol Metabolism and Transdermal Transport
… have shown to be moderately successful, alcohol has remained a factor in 40% of all traffic deaths over the past decade. Transdermal ethanol detection is a promising method that could prevent drunk driving if integrated into an ignition interlock system; potentially preventing 90 million …
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Evaluation of a server intervention program for preventing drunk driving
… effort to reduce drunk driving, servers of alcohol are being held liable for their alcohol-serving behavior with increasing frequency. In response to these drunk driving prevention efforts, the Training for Intervention' Procedures by Servers of Alcohol (TIPS) program was developed to teach …
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An Examination of Hangover Effects on Pilot Performance
… drinking. The results of past studies concerning alcohol hangover effects are conflicting. Some studies have shown that alcohol hangovers affect complex cognitive performance, while other studies have not found effects.</p> <p>One aim of the present study was to observe hangover effects after …
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Investigating the role of commonly misused drugs in suspected unnatural and/or unexplained deaths in Cape Town in 2022
… drugs analysis of 31 analytes using LC-MS/MS. Blood alcohol and toxicology results from the National Forensic Chemistry Laboratory were also compared within the cohort. Results: The Forensic Toxicology Unit analysis was requested in 735 cases, with qualitative (n=723, 98.4%) and quantitative …
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A Simulation Study of Pilots' Ability to Perceive Angular Motion under the Influence of Alcohol
… experimental research to determine the effect of alcohol on the pilots’ ability to perceive angular motion. It was hypothesized that in the absence of visual cues, pilots’ thresholds of perceiving a change in angular motion is adversely affected by alcohol in the blood, thereby increasing the …
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Effects of Burn Injury on Biological Ethanol and Ethyl Glucuronide Concentrations
<p>Alcohol is the most abused drug in the United States and most frequently performed assay in forensic laboratories. Alcohol is routinely present in biological specimens from fatal residential fires and forensic toxicologists must interpret if these individuals are impaired by determination of …
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Assessing the Effects of the Ignition-Interlock Device on Recidivism
… in the U.S. involving at least one driver with a blood-alcohol concentration (BAC) of .08 or higher. This was approximately 31% of all traffic fatalities that year (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 2013a). The ignition-interlock device is one intervention method to reduce driving …
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Describing the Roadway and Driver Characteristics of Fatality Motor Vehicle Crashes in Travis County Texas in 2008
… of 12 thru 45 years of age, and drivers with blood alcohol concentrations of 0.08 g/dL or more.
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Angel’s Tears – multimedia work project
… into eight chapters that explore the stages of alcohol intoxication, each corresponding to the levels of blood alcohol content (BAC). Inspired by the cocktail "Angel's Tears," the piece evokes the imagery of angelic blood tears falling from the clouds, using sound and visuals to symbolize a …
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Alcohol Expectancies and Self-Efficacy as Moderators of Social Anxiety and Alcohol Use Among College Students
… widely thought to be positively associated with alcohol use. However, these studies rely primarily on self-report of drinking behavior. This research aimed to further explore this research by assessing blood alcohol concentration (BAC), a physiological measure of alcohol intoxication, as the …
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Low Level Alcohol and its Residual Effect on a Pilot's Threshold for Detecting Angular Motion
… sensitivity to a change in angular motion after alcohol ingestion and determine the duration of effect after the time the blood alcohol content (BAC) reached zero. An earlier study determined that a pilot's threshold for detecting angular motion was affected by 30% with low doses of alcohol …
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Effects of alcohol and error criticality on alphanumeric target acquisition
… a touch-input equipped CRT under four levels of blood alcohol concentration (BAC), 0.0, 0.05, 0.07, and 0.09 percent. Participants visually searched randomly generated 108-character arrays for imbedded target characters, touching the CRT surface at target locations when located. Half of the …
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The Differential Effects of Mental Fatigue and Alcohol on Selective Attention
… causes of such deficits are mental fatigue and alcohol intoxication, which impair selective attention by decreasing the efficiency of inhibitory processes. The present research examined the effects of these two factors on the selective attention subtest of the Useful Field of View test in both a …
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On second thought: Low-effort thought promotes hierarchy values
… studies. In Study 1, bar patrons with higher blood alcohol levels rated hierarchy values as more important and egalitarian values as less important. In Study 2, participants asked to evaluate values superficially rated hierarchy values as more important and egalitarian values as less important …
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Alcohol, task difficulty, and incentives in drill press operation
The effects of alcohol, task difficulty, and incentives on a drill press simulation were examined. On four nonconsecutive days the subject received four alcohol levels, one level per day. The levels were: 0.00%, 0.03%, 0.06%, and 0.09% blood alcohol concentration (BAC). The drill press simulation …
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