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Showing 1 to 20 of 128 for “"intoxication"”.
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Assessing levels of intoxication through behavioral observation
… of this research were: 1) to develop an alcohol intoxication detection aid (IDA) that can be used to estimate reliably and accurately another person's level of alcohol impairment; 2) to evaluate the effect of alcohol on a computer-controlled critical tracking task (CTT), which assesses skills …
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The Effect of Gender, Jury Instructions, Victim Intoxication, and Perpetrator Intoxication on Individual and Jury Perceptions of Sexual Harassment
… the impact of gender, jury instructions, victim intoxication status, and perpetrator intoxication status on perceptions of sexual harassment of participants role-playing individual jurors and juries. Gender, victim intoxication status, and perpetrator intoxication status affected the sexual …
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The study of tetanus intoxication and its treatment
I. The object of these experiments was primarily to find the influence of the central nervous system on the development of tetanus rigidity and to locate which centres take part in the pathogenesis of the characteristic symptoms.
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The Effects of Cigarette Smoking During Acute Alcohol Intoxication
<p>The consumption, and often abuse, of alcohol is frequently accompanied by cigarette smoking. Between eighty and ninety-five percent of alcoholics also smoke cigarettes, a rate more than four times higher than in the general population. The mechanisms underlying this association remain poorly …
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Gender Differences in Prose Memory After Acute Intoxication with Ethanol
… present study investigated the effects of acute intoxication with ethanol on prose processing. Three groups of subjects were studied: males, females taking oral contraceptives, and females not taking oral contraceptives. Subjects were administered either 0.0 or 1.0 milliliter per kilogram of body …
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Effects of acute alcohol intoxication on human sensory orientation and postural control
… to balance contributes during acute alcohol intoxication. The purpose was to investigate parallel effects of acute alcohol intoxication on balance (postural control), balance efficiency (adaptation) and its supporting senses. We included 25 healthy subjects on three different test occasions …
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The effect of alcohol intoxication on haemodynamic physiology of acute cardiac tamponade
… which were compatible with moderate to severe intoxication. Cardiac tamponade was then induced by instilling warmed plasmalyte-8 into the pericardia! sac using a pressure-cycled system. Despite the fact that animals in the tamponade/alcohol group were more hypotensive, and reflex increase in …
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Determinants of alcohol intoxication and social responsibility for DUI-risk at university parties
… research was not successful in reducing overall intoxication rates at the fraternity parties studied. Students' intentions to consume alcohol, however, was a significant predictor of intoxication rates, accounting for 28 percent of the variance of exit BAC across all parties. Implications of this …
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Intoxication and self-defence : a comparative study of principles of English law and Shari'ah
… and III while dealing with the problem of intoxication and private defence in society. It suggests that Shari'ah provides a framework in which the complex and sometimes competing needs of an individual and society can be fairly apportioned. The research will demonstrate that there is a well …
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The Influence of Victim and Perpetrator Intoxication on Juror Perceptions of Hostile Environment Sexual Harassment
… examined the impact of perpetrator and victim intoxication on perceptions of sexual harassment. Results indicated that female participants were no more likely than male participants to label behaviors as sexual harassment when provided information on intoxication. However, when no information …
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Looking at dirty pictures : sur(sous)realism, fascism, and reproducing intoxication in the 1930’s
… ideals mingled with symbolic expressions of intoxication and sexuality embedded in a new concept of the body itself. As a student of art history, my goal in this thesis has been to set Surrealism's aesthetic production of revolutionary convulsion (embodied in the concept of 'Convulsive …
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The effect of the victim-offender relationship and pre-assault intoxication on PTSD symptom severity
… Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Intoxication by drugs and/or alcohol during an assault is linked to victims experiencing less severe PTSD symptoms; however, little is known about how the victim-offender relationship relates to PTSD symptom severity. The current study sampled 125 …
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The Effect of Acute Alcohol Intoxication on Memory Scan and Memory Span in Working Memory
… studied by many researchers. Verbal ability and intoxication with ethanol are two hypothesized influences on the efficiency of working memory processes. This study looked at these factors across two measures, memory span tasks and memory scan tasks. This study also examined the extent to which …
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Levels of alcohol intoxication : an assessment of perceptions, knowledge, attitudes, practices and breath alcohol levels
… perceptions and cognisance of their degree of intoxication, and to assess their knowledge, attitudes and practices, survey data and measures of breath alcohol concentration (BrAC) were collected from 229 young adults over nine evenings at a single pub frequented by students and their peers in a …
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Pathologizing and Criminalizing Intoxication: Addiction, Psychoactive Drugs, and the Ideological Underpinnings of the War on Drugs
… physicians—have expressed broader concerns about intoxication and addiction with rhetoric that simultaneously pathologized and criminalized the unsanctioned use of psychoactive substances. During the first half of the eighteenth century, a period known as the Gin Craze, rising levels of urban …
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Naogaon and the world: Intoxication, commoditisation, and imperialism in South Asia and the Indian Ocean, 1840-1940
Beginning in the early nineteenth century, the British Empire began extracting regular revenues from the production and trade of cannabis goods in its South Asian territories. The agrarian production of cannabis was scattered across the subcontinent and subject to local market dynamics. With the …
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