OBJECTIVE Two polymorphisms in the promoter region of the gene encoding cytosolic aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH1A1), ALDH1A1*2 and ALDH1A1*3, have recently been identified. The present study sought to determine whether an association exists between ALDH1A1 genotypes, alcohol dependence, drinking history, and liver function tests in the two major ethnic groups of Trinidad and Tobago (TT). METHO...

Information from the national drug abuse monitoring system was analysed to determine the trends in extent and pattern of drug dependence in Malaysia over the period 1970 to 1986. The annual incidence and prevalence rates of reported drug dependents increased by many folds when compared to the early seventies. Generally, the profile of drug dependents identified has remained relatively stable th...

Based on a random, representative sample of 2,733 officer and 7,938 enlisted Army enrollees in the Active Duty Dependent's Dental Insurance Plan (ADDDIP), we found that soldiers turned to many sources to learn about the plan and that oral sources were consulted more commonly than written sources. More than 40% of Army enrollees have never used the plan. Officer dependents have used the ADDDIP t...

We examine the effects of population aging due to declining fertility and rising elderly life expectancy on consumption possibilities in the presence of intergenerational transfers. Our analysis is based on a highly tractable continuous-time overlapping generations model in which the population is divided into three groups (youth dependents, workers, and elderly dependents) and lifecourse trans...

Free-floating car sharing (FFCS) offers greater flexibility than station-based but seems to affect ownership less. This study looks into characteristics of people who changed or did not change over time and how an increase decrease relates FFCS membership, demographic attitudinal factors. The is based on users (n = 776) non-users 720) in Copenhagen surveyed two times within a 2.5-year period. F...

This task consists of recognizing words and phrases that evoke semantic frames as defined in the FrameNet project (http: //framenet.icsi.berkeley.edu), and their semantic dependents, which are usually, but not always, their syntactic dependents (including subjects). The training data was FN annotated sentences. In testing, participants automatically annotated three previously unseen texts to ma...