Growing number of evidence indicates that individuals' motivational structure - the patterning of an individual's way of relating to goals - plays an important role in increasing the risk of alcohol use. Adaptive motivational structure which includes pursuit of important, subjectively attainable, alcohol-unrelated goals is inversely related to substance use. The strength of this relationship in...

Background: Among all types of cancers, pancreatic cancer has poor prognosis with 5-year survival below 10%. In theory, alcohol intake may be a modifiable risk factor for pancreatic cancer due to its role in multiple carcinogenic and metabolic signaling pathways. In addition, alcohol consumption may lead to chronic pancreatitis which is underlying cause of pancreatic cancer. However, little is ...

background: toxic alcohol poisonings are responsible for high mortality and morbidity in russia. this study was aimed to evaluate the trends of harmful ethanol (etoh) drinking as well as methanol (meoh), isopropanol (ipa) and ethylene glycol (eg) poisonings in the middle urals region of russia. methods: in this retrospective study, the medical records of patients poisoned with meoh, ipa and eg ...

conclusions surveys and opinion polls are valuable research tools and feedback mechanisms for administrative decisions; they should not be discredited by obtrusive questioning or asking for private information, with commercial or other purposes. context many studies on alcohol misuse and related topics such as the use of condoms are based on surveys. however, some surveys are not free from bias...

to clarify fermentative alterations in the large intestine (hindgut) during grazing, fecal alcohol and volatile fatty acids (vfas) concentrations were evaluated in 30 dairy heifers. the heifers were kept in pasture growing mixed grass herbage from spring (mid may) until october, and their rectal feces were collected periodically. concentrations of ethanol, methanol and isopropanol were increase...

Background: Various medical, psychiatric and social problems affecting alcohol abuser tend to overshadow their oral health. From an epidemiologic viewpoint, chronic consumption of alcoholic beverages is associated with an increased risk for the upper gastrointestinal tract cancer, and tobacco and alcohol are regarded as the major risk factors for oral cancer. The objective of this presentation ...

poly(vinyl acetate) is synthesized via solution polymerization, and then it is converted to poly(vinyl alcohol) by alkaline alcoholysis. the aim of the work study was to investigate statistically the  influence of reaction variables in vinyl acetate polymerization, the conversion of this monomer to polymer, degree of branching of acetyl group in poly(vinyl acetate), as well as the molecular wei...

This study analyzed the fatty acids composition and their profile qualitatively quantitatively of nine abundant macroalgal specimens collecting from Egyptian coasts. GC mass analysis identified 23 types, including 13 saturated (SFA) 10 monounsaturated (MUSFA). SFA dominated with 78%, while MUFAs had 22%, UFAs were negligible at 0.01%. MUSFA oleic acid (omega-9) was present in all species except...