OBJECTIVE Little is known about risk factors in early adolescence that lead to driving under the influence (DUI) and riding with a drinking driver (RWDD). In a diverse group of adolescents, we longitudinally explored the influence of alcohol and marijuana (AM) use, AM beliefs, and peer and family factors (including familism) on DUI/RWDD in high school. METHODS We conducted 3 surveys 2 years a...

The average interval between convictions of driving under the influence decreases from 2 years between first and second convictions to 17, 11 and 8 months, respectively, between the second and third, the third and fourth and the fourth and fifth convictions.

Since their introduction more than four decades ago, invariant assertions have, justifiably, dominated the analysis of while loops, and have been the focus of sustained research interest in the seventies and eighties, and renewed interest in the last decade. In this paper, we tentatively submit an alternative concept for the analysis of while loops, explore its attributes, its applications, and...