The Alcohol Expectancy Challenge (EC) is a promising program for changing alcohol expectancies and reducing alcohol consumption in "heavy drinking" young men in a bar-lab setting. In this study the EC was adapted for use in mixed-gender groups in a holiday setting and its feasibility tested in camping resorts in the Netherlands where a lot of binge drinking takes place (summer 2002). Male and f...

and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Objective To explore the relationship between influenza-like illness observed by influenza outpatient network and winter holiday breaks in US. Introduction Decreasing contact between infectious and susceptible people in community settings may reduce influenza transmission. Examining the temporal relationship between t...

Holiday travelers will soon clog the nation's highways and inundate its airports in numbers not seen in recent years. The number of travelers over the four-day Thanksgiving holiday is expected to surpass the 31 million Americans who traveled more than 50 miles by car and the 5 million who went by plane in 2003, according to AAA spokesman Lon Anderson. "This is the first year we've seen travel r...

In this work we propose a multiple linear regression model to describe the relationship between traffic volume in Minneapolis-St Paul metropolitan area as function of several variables, which include weather conditions and holiday occurrences. Additionally, present an analysis for queue with general arrival process, denoted by (G/M/1) : (∞/FIFO). Our results indicate that uniform distribution i...