Browsing by Subject "Alcohol"
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(2011-02-22)The current study was designed to examine the influence of cultural orientation on alcohol involvement among Mexican-American adolescents. Also, this study assessed whether cultural orientation predicted positive and ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1979)This study was designed: (1) to determine if the Texas Department of Public Safety trainee-trooper program had significant impact on trainee-troopers' knowledge about alcohol and attitude toward drinking drivers; and (2) ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1986)The left ventricular adenyl cyclase - cyclic AMP system was examined in 20-week-old/male Sprague Dawley (SD) and spontaneously hypertensive (SHR) rats treated with ethanol. Treatment consisted of intraperitoneal injections ...
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The catalytic behaviors of lanthanum and neodymium oxides for dehydrogenation/dehydration of ethanol (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1985)The ethanol dehydrogenation and dehydration reactions have been employed to investigate the nature and behavior of catalytically active sites on lanthanum and neodymium sesquioxides. In support of this objective, x-ray ...
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(2012-11-30)Because of the limited supply of imported crude oil and environmental degradation, renewable energy is becoming commercially feasible and environmentally desirable. In this research, biological and thermal (pyrolysis) ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1983)The effects of fetal exposure to ethanol (EtOH) on luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) and luteinizing hormone (LH) were investigated. Thirty-six, one-hundred-day-old female rats were bred and exposed to EtOH. ...
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(2009-09-30)ABSTRACT The Effects of Alcohol, and Age on Astrocytes in Female Rats Following an Inflammatory Stimulus (May 2006) Ashley N. Simpson Department of Biology Texas A&M University Research Advisor: Dr. Farida ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1982)Effects of acute and chronic ethanol (ETOH) administration on hypothalamic LHRH and plasma LH levels were examined in castrate and intact male rats. Two acute studies utilizing I.P. injections of ETOH (1.0-1.5 g/kg) or ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)Forty adult male rats received one of the following diet (25 g/day) and weekly gastric intubation (2 ml) treatments over a 70 day period: Group Con--control diet and 10 intubations of distilled water; Group CPb--lead diet ...
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Effects of Maternal L-glutamine Supplementation on Fetus to Mitigate Teratogenic Effects of Alcohol (2013-12-05)Women who drink alcohol during pregnancy are at high risk of giving birth to children with physical, behavioral or cognitive developmental problems called Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD). Prenatal alcohol exposure ...
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(2009-05-15)This dissertation presents three separate studies designed to provide structure and evidence-based insight into the characteristics associated with responsible drinking. First, a primer on the responsible drinking message ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2007-09-17)Expectancies about the effects of alcohol predict alcohol consumption among adolescent children. Although alcohol-expectancy measures have been validated to use with English speaking populations, there is currently no ...
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(Avens Publishing Group, 2013-11-22)Flexibility in study designs, definitions, outcomes and analytic models increases the chance that the results reported in an empirical study are untrue. Such flexibility in methodological and analytic practices has been ...
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Generalized kinetics of ethanol fermentation and ethanol production in a Ca-alginate plate reactor (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1989)Ethanol from renewable sources has great potential for the alternatives of fossil fuels and commodity chemicals. Increasing the efficiency of ethanol fermentation processes and using low cost and stable feedstocks can make ...
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(2022-03-24)This thesis analyzes the historical, pictorial, and archaeological evidence for genever (Dutch gin) and gin consumption among sailors in the Dutch Republic and the United Kingdom during the Age of Sail (1550-1850). While ...
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(2018-07-31)Binge drinking is one of the most dangerous types of alcohol consumption; over 38% of young adults and 24% of adults 26 years of age and older report binge drinking. Motivation to binge drink may come from comorbidity with ...
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(2009-05-15)Maternal alcohol abuse during pregnancy can result in a range of structural and functional abnormalities that include lifelong physical, mental, behavioral and learning disabilities, now collectively termed as Fetal Alcohol ...
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(2019-10-30)Prenatal alcohol exposure can contribute to fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD), characterized by a myriad of developmental impairments affecting behavior and cognition. Studies show many of these functional impairments ...
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(2009-05-15)Females are known to be more susceptible to alcoholic liver disease (ALD), but the precise mechanism behind this increased susceptibility is not well understood. The objective of this study was to identify the molecular ...
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(2015-06-01)The present study sought to identify predictors of alcohol misuse in an active-duty sample of United States Air Force (USAF) Security Forces Airmen using a longitudinal design targeting concurrent and prospective factors ...