was going to vomit and turned him on his side. Instead of vomit, however, froth, reddish in colour, began to pour from his mouth and nostrils, and he became cyanosed. The froth was cleared out of his mouth, but it refilled again immediately. We then drew him up the table and allowed his head to hangover the end, in order that the froth might run out, and his mouth was wiped out again and again....

AIM To investigate the effects of students' usual levels of alcohol consumption on aspects of mood and anxiety the following morning. METHODS Students were recruited who consumed their usual quantity of any type of alcoholic beverage in their chosen company and then completed assessments of the effects the following day. The timing of drinking was restricted to the period between 22:00 and 02...

Metaphysics is supposed to answer the question “What is the nature of things?”, or something like that. Before trying to answer this question we should ask a counterquestion: “What is meant by the nature in this context?” Indeed, we want to understand clearly the meaning of the question before getting involved in answering. In this paper we interpret the metaphysical quest from the vantage poin...

APPROXIMATION OF THE KEYNESIAN MULTIPLIER EMBEDDED IN GHH PREFERENCES. — In a model with GHH preferences, the labor wedge determines the local output multiplier with respect to demand shocks. This result was obtained by Auclert and Rognlie (2017), and in this appendix it is restated in the context of the current paper. To see why the labor wedge is important, note that holding rt+1 (controlled ...

Alcohol's positive and negative motivational effects are believed to be important influences on alcohol-seeking behavior and, therefore, key factors among the many and varied causes of alcohol abuse and dependence. Alcohol's positive effects, such as enhanced mood, and negative effects, such as hangover, are considered important factors in motivating drinkers to increase or decrease their drink...

Alcohol hangover is characterized by adverse physical and mental effects that occur the next morning after the intake of toxic doses of alcohol. One of the more relevant functional consequences of hangover is the cognitive and subjective impairment, which could be related to the high socioeconomic costs of alcohol consumption. Nevertheless, few studies have addressed the study of neurocognitive...

OBJECTIVE To test the effectiveness of a programme aimed at reducing the risky use of alcohol and alcohol-related HIV risk and increase help-seeking behaviour among a sample of municipal employees in the Western Cape Province, South Africa. METHODS A clustered randomised controlled trial was conducted in 2011-2012 among 325 employees. The eight hour intervention, Team Awareness (TA), addressi...

either evenly-balanced sex ratios or sex ratios in favour of females, as in states like Kerala and Manipur. In the Northwest sex ratios have been far more imbalanced against females among specific land-owning communities (such as Rajputs, Jats, Gujjars) and relatively more balanced among almost all have shifted to a deficit of females and are slowly moving towards the all-India pattern. Lower s...

AIMS Alcohol misuse is a prime social and health problem in the UK. This paper presents a critical review of literature on the performance effects in the morning after binge drinking - during the alcohol hangover. Several pathophysiological changes that both follow and outlast acute intoxication may give rise to alcohol hangover effects. We have identified 27 English language peer-reviewed stud...

OBJECTIVE Individual differences in subjective response to alcohol and the occurrence of blackouts and hangover are associated with the development of alcohol-use disorders. As such, subjective responses to alcohol, blackouts, and hangover may share a biological vulnerability to excessive alcohol consumption. The purpose of the current study was to examine subjective responses to alcohol as pre...