Social norms campaigns have been a popular means to attempt to combat college student alcohol abuse. The strategy of social norms campaigns to correct misperceived, descriptive norms, however, has been controversial in reducing college student (binge) drinking. This study asserts that social norms marketing messages would have small effects on changing binge drinking college student’s drinking ...

The stability of a continuous-time linear time-invariant system with an uncertain characteristic polynomial has been analyzed by Kharitonov and other researchers. An interesting proof of Khari-tonov's continuous-time stability theorem, based on reactance functions , has recently been advanced. Some of Kharitonov's results have been partially extended to discrete-time systems recently. On the ot...

The paper presents a novel secondary reactance control technique in the rotor circuit of a three phase wound rotor induction motor (WRIM). The problem associated with the conventional rotor capacitive reactance control is the demand of exceptionally large capacitance requirement for enhancing the performance of the motor in wide operating range. In the proposed technique, a three phase bridge r...

Knowledge of patient fluid distribution would be useful clinically. Both single-frequency (SF) and impedance modeling approaches are proposed. The high intercorrelation between body water compartments makes determining the best approach difficult. This study was conducted to evaluate the merits of an SF approach. Mathematical simulation was performed to determine the effect of tissue change on ...

Psychological reactance theory posits that when people are faced with threats to, or elimination of, behavioral freedom, they experience an aversive motivational state (i.e., psychological reactance). Recent research indicates people’s of mind affects arousal processes. We hypothesized being in a threatening uncertainty would cause to less freedom-threatening communication than those certainty....

BACKGROUND Some patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) show increased airway inflammation and bacterial colonization during stable phase. The aim of this study was to follow COPD patients and investigate chronic colonization with pathogenic bacteria during stable disease phase, and relate these findings to clinical parameters, inflammatory pattern, lung function, and exacerb...

OBJECTIVES Non-compliance with neuroleptic medication in schizophrenia is a major cause of relapse. A number of sociodemographic variables, and illness, attitudinal and treatment variables, have been demonstrated to be associated with non-compliance. The present study examined a range of these variables and their predictive value in determining past and current compliance. METHODS Thirty-nine...

This paper presents a new method of substantially improving frequency pullability and linearity using reactance in series with an AT fundamental crystal operated with a series load capacitance in the range of 3 to 50 pF and frequencies in the range of 3.5 to 21 MHz. The research describes high quartz pullability and linearity by varying the load capacitance. The paper also gives impedance circu...