The aim of the present study was to compare taste responses (intensity and pleasantness/unpleasantness) to sweet, bitter, sour, and salty solutions in sons of male alcoholics (SOMAs) and control subjects with no family history of alcoholism. In addition, responses to Coca-Cola flavour were evaluated in both groups. Unpleasantness of salty solutions was significantly enhanced and intensity of so...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this research was to assess the effect of mouth rinses with and without alcohol on the hardness of dental nano-filled composite. METHODS The micro-hardness of fifty circular disk shaped specimens of 7 mm x 2 mm were measured after 14 days. Specimens were immersed into alcohol containing (Listerine and Colgate Perioguard) and alcohol-free (Prodent and Sensodyne Oral antise...

Alcohol oxidation is an important reaction in organic syntheses. Some of these reactions must beunder difficult conditions in respect of high temperature and pressure. In many cases, reactions areconducted by environmentally in appropriate solutions. In this study, preparing an effectivenanocatalyst and estimating the optimum provisions of its production processes are assessed. Twomajor and cru...

Numerous articles have been written about alcohol and American Indians. These articles have focused primarily on the etiology of drinking, the magnitude of the problem, the drinking patterns of American Indians, and the effects of alcohol consumption on American Indians' health and lifestyle. Few studies have actually addressed possible solutions to the problem. Dr. Phillip May's paper on alcoh...

BACKGROUND Mass media influence public acceptability, and hence feasibility, of public health interventions. This study investigates newsprint constructions of the alcohol problem and minimum unit pricing (MUP). METHODS Quantitative content analysis of 901 articles about MUP published in 10 UK and Scottish newspapers between 2005 and 2012. RESULTS MUP was a high-profile issue, particularly ...

Mass densities of dilute aqueous solutions 1-butanol and 1-pentanol (with alcohol concentrations between 0.07 to 0.7 0.006 0.06 mol·kg–1, respectively) were determined at atmospheric pres...

In this study, we demonstrate how the diffusion of probe particles in aqueous poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) solutions and gels is affected by: (i) the presence of cross-links, (ii) the cross-link density, (iii) the polymer concentration. We apply fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) to measure the diffusion time of a rhodamine-based fluorescent particle (TAMRA) and TAMRA-labeled dextran in P...

That alcohol provides a benefit to creative processes has long been assumed by popular culture, but to date has not been tested. The current experiment tested the effects of moderate alcohol intoxication on a common creative problem solving task, the Remote Associates Test (RAT). Individuals were brought to a blood alcohol content of approximately .075, and, after reaching peak intoxication, co...

We report a mixed intoxication with isopropyl alcohol and propanol-1 in a hospitalized patient who ingested, on two separate days, two 100 ml bottles of a topical antiseptic solution containing isopropyl alcohol and propanol-1. Eight hours after the second ingestion, plasma concentrations of isopropanol, propanol-1 and acetone were 37 mg/dL, <10 mg/dL, and 227 mg/dl, respectively. Despite a lac...